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1847. in England, addressed the meeting, pretty much in the
HA. 48. style of some of my old Chbartist opponents in England
which afforded me an opportunity of replying to him,
greatly to the satisfaction of the meeting. I was struck
with the freedom of speech and absence of restraint which
pervaded the meeting, and which contrasted with the
timidity I had sometimes seen in Italy and Austria. The
meeting went off well, and everybody seemed well satisfied
Such a numerous party had never assembled at a publi
dinner in St. Petersburgh.”
“ Lubeck, Sept. 29th—1Left Cronstadt at two o%clock
on Sunday morning, 26th, by the ‘Nicolai’ steamer, and
after a favourable passave without adventures of any kind
reached Travenmunde at eight o'clock this morning. My
head was too much disturbed by the sea voyage to be fis
for numerous introductions, so after breakfasting and rest:
ing a few hours, I proceeded in company with our Consul
who had been so good as to come down to meet me. £0
Lubeck, a pleasant drive of nine miles”
“ Lubeck, Sept. 30th—Captain Stanley Carr called; be
has a large estate about four miles distant, which he has
occupied for twenty years, and cultivates with great succes?
upon the English system. He has a thousand acres under
the plough, a small steam-engine for thrashing, and all the
vest implements. He says he employs three times as many
people as were at work upon the land before he bought ifs
he raises four times as much produce; has drained and
subsoiled the farm; sells his butter and cattle at twenty"
five per cent. higher prices than his neighbours, Speaking
of his visit to Bohemia, where he spent three months of last
year, he said the agriculture was in a very wretched state:
The peasants were without: capital, and the corvde system
prevailed, by which the landlord’s land was cultivated 8°