In a subsequent column will be found a sketch of
the proceed- ings at an agricultural dinner at Sherbourne in Somersetshire. It was attended by Mr. BERKELEY PORTMAN, Sir THOMAS LETH- BRIDGE, and Mr. S ANFORD, M.P.; all of whom spoke like intelli- gent gentlemen, who disdained to practice deception on the farmer by holding out hopes of relief from legislation, which were sure to be disappointed. It would have been well for Mr.Bleitnam Escorr, the Tory candidate for West Somerset at the last election, if he had followed the example set him ; but he thought it becoming in a speech from the chair, to pretend that he had a remedy for agri- cultural distress. He was immediately called upon to say what it was ; but he refused—it would not be prudent. As he pro- ceeded in his oration he was repeatedly assailed by cries of "Name your remedy!' but he was not so imprudent as to name it : so the Somersetshire farmers departed with the notion, that after all, this crack man of the Tory party had no remedy, but was merely en- deavouring to gull them, after the fashion of his shallow set.
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