The farmers of East Cornwall at least do not appear
to have a supine trust in the Government. On Wednesday afternoon a crowded meeting of those of the Callington district took place in the great room of Goulding's Hotel, at Plymouth, to discuss the -possibility of getting the freedom of agriculture properly represented in the next Parliament, and very strong resolutions were passed in favour of setting the land free from the present harassing and fettering restrictions imposed in leases and by the game laws, and for securing to the farmer the full enjoyment of his own improvements and a more safe tenure. The speaking was extraordinarily shrewd and vigorous. The bias of the meeting was Liberal, but it was much more interested in agricultural reform than in party politics, and expressed the strongest determination not to trust implicitly to either party.
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