20 DECEMBER 1879, Page 3

On Thursday week, Mr. Hunter Rodwell, M.P. for Cambridge- shire,

addressing a farmers' meeting at Wisbeach on the sub- ject of agriculture, made some rather curious remarks on the law of entail :—" So far from the law of the land being favourable to entail, he said laws had been passed against it, and the time had been limited over which a person could entail his property." This is like saying that, so far from the laws of the land being favourable to the private ownership of land, laws have been passed limiting the rights of such ownership, and defining the limits within which only it would be recognised. Both propositions would be equally true, but if Mr. Rodwell were to assert that the laws of England do not favour the private ownership of land, he would be laughed out of court. •