After reading this I feel that the question of agricultural distress is settled. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN must, indeed, be a proud man at having obtained so much valuable information in answer to a question which, as reported, sounds familiar almost to the verge of rashness. * * * * * Can pigs be kept at a profit? This was the question which confronted the Devonport Guardians only the other day. The following extract from their proceedings will be read with breathless interest:-- Mr. H. W. BRYANT moved "That the Guardians give up pig keeping, either at the house or otherwise." Mr. HEALY seconded.--Mr. OLIVER supported, and said they could buy the pork cheaper than keep pigs, and that every pig they had kept cost them 1_s._ per lb. Mr. J. GOODMAN said he was a "piggery man." (_Laughter._) He liked the pig, he liked the pork, and he liked the profit that the pig brought. He was surprised to hear Mr. OLIVER say that the pigs cost 1_s._ per lb. He said it did not cost them 2-1/2_d._ per lb. Mr. CHEW pointed out that the profit on pig keeping last year in the house was £39. Mr. PENBERTHY said the master entered in his books that it cost them 6_d._ per lb., and Mr. J. MOORE maintained that they could buy pork at 4-1/2_d._ per lb. The motion was lost, 8 voting for, and 18 against. "I'm a piggery man," said GOODMAN, J., "though pigs are a wee bit squealy; But I won't sit still to hear pigs denounced by BRYANT and scorned by HEALY. Let those who prefer it till the fields, and see what a year's hard dig brings; _I_ like the pig, and I like the pork, and I like the profit the pig brings." Then CHEW, he chawed Mr. BRYANT up, Mr. HEALY to dust he ground, Sir; And MOORE maintained you could purchase pork at fourpence halfpenny a pound, Sir. But the piggery men prevailed by ten, a majority quite on the big side, Since eighteen voted for pigs that day, and eight on the anti-pig side. * * * * * BROWN AND ME.