That Central Chamber of Agriculture will have to be dissolved
as a revolutionary body. Just before last Session, it told Mr. Disraeli that the farmers were dissatisfied with his treatment of local taxation, and now it not only repeats that expression of want of confidence, but accepts a paper from Captain Craigie demanding a representative Council in every county. What could Liberals ask worse than that ? The members of the Chamber are evidently not aware that the Government represents the Country-Gentlemanly Interest, that the country gentlemen want to govern and not to be governed by farmers, and that representative councils are Radical devices fit only for townsfolk. If the Chamber goes on in its present ways, we shall have it de- manding stipendiary magistrates in place of landowner magistrates, and objecting to farmers sitting below the salt at county dinners, or some such dreadful thing. We wait with interest the point of development at which Mr. Clare Read will resign, and that other and much further point at which that political Mr. Crummles, Lord Hampton, will not say, "Bless ye, my children." He has blessed County Councils, and may be ex- pected now to bless anything, say "A Bill for the extirpation of foxes, and other vermin."
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