Lord Hartiugton on Friday se'nnight took advantage of a meeting
of the Radnorshire Agricultural Society, to bid farewell to the Radnor Burghs, and define his relation towards the Land Laws. Ho had not, he said, been so presumptuous as to propose- that the existing land-tenure in this country should be altered, or that any other tenure should be forcibly encouraged. " I want to be done, all I want to be inquired into even, is that if there are any laws which produce among us a condition of things which is not natural, which tend to produce among us an arti- ficial state of things, which tend artificially to aggregate vast properties in the hands of a few persons who, perhaps, have not cipitel enough to manage them,—I say that if laws exist among us which have this effect, they are, at all events, as well worthy to be inquired into as any subject which this Commis- sion can undertake." That is all that Liberals are now asking, —namely, the extinction of all laws which artificially aggregate property—including the law of primogeniture—and all laws which tend to render land less freely saleable than Consols- Lord Hartington's practical advice to farmers was,—If they found themselves over-weighted, to take farms better suited to their capital, under leases less antiquated in their conditions -than at present.
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