AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND. Lord Salisbury's Sympathy.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 1

AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND. Lord Salisbury's Sympathy.

The Marquis of .Salisbury lias written the following 1 letter to the Marquis of Bristol in reply to a memorial from the owners and occupiers of land in Suffolk on the subject of agricultural depression : - 20, Arlington-street, S.W., Feb. 11, 1887. My dear Lord Bristol, I have to thank you for forwarding me the very important and grave representations contained in the memorial which has been so numerously and influentially signed in the county of Suffolk. I fear it is impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of the agricultural situation in respect to certain parts of England. 1 need not assure you of the deep interest and sympathy with which this state of things is regarded by the Government. We will take into our earnest consideration your prayer for measures of relief; but I should be misleading you if I used any language to indicate that I entertained any hope of being able to cope with an evil of this kind by any sort of legislative action. I heartily wish it were otherwise, but it would not be justifiable to hold •out hopes for which no trustworthy ground exists. — Yours very truly, The Marquis of Bristol. Salisbuky.