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A meeting of the Agricultural Association of East Suffolk was held at Framlingham on Tuesday, and was very numerously attended. The object sves to consider the propriety of joining the Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland, established in London, under the auspices of Lord Kerry, 'Lord Sandon, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir George Cayley, Mr. Halyburton, Mr. J. Benett, Mr. W. B. Baring, and other gentlemen of property and distinction. Mr. R. Brown, from the London Society, attended the meeting ; and deputations from Cambridgeshire were also present. N1r. John Moseley was Chair- man ; and among the Suffolk gentlemen were Sir C. B. Vcre, Mr. Shawe, Sir E. Kerrison, and several clergymen. Resolutions de- claring the necessity of Parliamentary interposition for the relief of the farmer, and approving of a Central Association, were agreed to without opposition. It was then proposed that a deputation should be sent up to London to the Central Society. On this Mr. Shawe ex- pressed his fears, that the main, if not the sole object of the gentlemen who had formed the Central Society, was the depreciation of the cur- rency; and he entered into an argument to prove that agricultural distress was not owing to the alteration in the value of the circulating medium. At the conclusion of Mr. Shawe's speech, the resolution was carried.
Mr. Lillingstone then moved a vote of thanks to the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers, for their exertions in behalf of the agriculturists, and " particularly for their continual expositions of the injurious effects of the present currency system." Sir Charles Vere, Mr. Moseley, and Mr. Shawe, objected to pledging the Association by a side-wind to an approval of a depreciated currency; but the mo- tion was carried, by a small majority.
Mr. Twiss moved a resolution,
" That the change in the currency bad been the primary cause of agricul- tural distress, and that a return to a sound paper currency afforded the only prospect of an effectual remedy; and that no Government which would not entertain that question deserved the confidence of the farmers."
He said that this was the opinion of the Yorkshire, Kent, Cam- bridgeshire, and Worcestershire Agricultural Societies. Mr. Lillingstone seconded the motion. Sir Charles Vere moved an amendment, to the effect that it would be injudicious to hamper their deputation by such a resolution. But the original motion was carried by a considerable majority.
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