A great meeting of farmers was held on Thursday at
Aberdeen. It was attended by delegates from 40,000 farmers of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine, and the proceedings were most enthusiastic. The general drift of the resolutions was that agriculture was now in a position in which rent must be reduced, and greater security given to the tenant by the land- lords ; and if they would not do it, "this meeting earnestly ap- peals to the Government to introduce next Session, as a measure of the first importance, a Bill giving effect to the recent declara- tion of the Prime Minister, that it is essential to secure to the tenant, not a part, but the whole of his interest in the land, his interest in his improvements, and his interest, as the law may define it, in his tenure. Further, this meeting is of opinion that any Bill to be effectual must be made applicable to existing leases during the currency thereof, except in those cases where improvements have been made the subject of express bargain between landlords and tenants."
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