From this brief report in the morning papers, it appears
that Sir Robert Peel has not quite averted the light of his countenance from everything like agricultural meetings this year ; though he beams inward, that is, at home, and performs his didactics by deputy-
" The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., gave an entertainment at Drayton Manor, on Monday last, to a party of above forty of his principal tenants, mostly in the occupation of large farms on his estate. Dr. Buckland, Dr. Playfair, and Mr. Smith, the well-known Scotch agriculturist, who were on a visit to the Right Honourable Baronet, after dinner addressed the com- pany. Dr. Playfair delivered an eloquent discourse on the different descrip- tions of manure, and the most approved systems of manuring land ; to which the assembled farmers seemed to devote the greatest attention. It was after eleven when the circle broke up ; the tenants retiring frith expressions of their high sense of their esteemed landlord's hospitality."
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