During the discussion which followed, one of the delegates!, Mr.
Neil, complained that the landlords asked too high rents, and ought to reduce them. Lord Winchilsea replied that on his estate he was getting no rent at all, and not even interest on the money he had invested in improvements. If Mr. Neil wanted to get land at less rent he might point out that there were within thirty miles of St. Pau.% Cathedral twenty thousand acres of land which could be had for nothing. This, he ventured to say, was something which could be said of no other capital in Europe. We wish one of the larger co- operative societies would buy an Essex farm at 210 an acre and produce some of the things they now buy from abroad. We say " buy " because we believe they would find it cheaper to do so, and because, also, they would get the full benefit of their improvements.
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