The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

Smithfield Club Show in the Agricultural Hall. A nation that, in addition to all its textile, mine ral, r:nd other indnstrie3, employs other £200,000,000 sterling of tenants' capital in the production of corn and cneat, and many millions more in the manufac ture of machined and manures which entice mother earth to bestow good gifts upon her hungry child ren, may well be proud and conservative of its agri culture. Euglish husbandry has its colleges, its huge societies, its fine implement factories, its model drainage wotks, its scientific farmsteads, and its last great achievement is tillage by steam power — m any hundreds of ploughs and cultivators now followin- , the wire rope along the deep furrow or through the rapidly-riven staple either of clay or lighter soil while Egypt, the West Indies, France, and other countries have successfully adopted these inventions. Bait a bounteous harvest, with its concomitants of a bad market, has confirmed the fallacy of John Bull's farming mainly for bread-corn ; and when he has got his malt tax reduced and all his other grievances righted, it will still be in the fat-stock show that the true exponent of his progress must be found. It is the British farmer's especial business to supply joints and steaks and chops and rashers to an im mense shopkeeping and manufacturing nation; and consumers as well as producers are directly inte rested in such wonderful displays as that now col lected in Islington Agricultural-hall. Let our citizens cultivate an acquaintance with the men who feed them, and good must result, should it be only a mutual combination against those ignominious purveyors to metropolitan appetite who poison us with fleshmeat unslaughtered or diseased. If the large number of visitors in the Hall yester day afternoon is any index of the gathering that may be expected to-day, and for three following days, at an admission fee of ls., the attendance will be exceedingly large. In the morning the show was honoured with a visit by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Duke of Brabant, who were duly received by the President, Lord Walsingham; the Vice-Pre sident, the Duke of Richmond; the President elect, Lord Tredegar ; Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the hono rary Secretary ; Mr. Sidney, the Secretary to the o e i Hall Company; and b y the stewards and judges As a whole, the Sh ow is fully equal. to any f s ts predecessors; in number of entries, superior to any yet seen at Baker-street or Islington, the cattl e classes alone comprising 240 animals, or more than 60 in excess of last year. The Devons have come up with about their usual ex cellence. Mr. Robert Wortley' s pr i ze steer is a good beast, with some weight as welt as quality about him ; Mr. Heath's prize ox, a rare specimen of meat, well developed in all its best parts, cover ing an expanded frame upon fine bone. General Hood's second prize ox, from the Royal farms, though splendidly fed, is too narrow in the hind quarters of roasting beef, and some critics will pre fer the Earl of Leicester's third prize ox. Mr. John Overman's first-prize cow, "Fanny," is more like a model of what a Devon should be; Mr. Heath's second-prize co w , t oo l umpy w ith f a t ; an d G enera l Hood's third-prize cow, " Hyacinth," heavy, with splendidly firm ripe meat. The Herefords made a grand show, and seem de termined to tread very closely upon the heels of the shorthorns. Last year was the glorification of the cross-breeds ; this time both the chief honours have been won by pure breeds—the silver cup for the best ox or steer in the Hall being won by a Here ford, and the silver cup for the best cow or heifer by a shorthorn. Mr. Heath's ox, which was not shown at Birmingham, is extraordinarily:full of good points, and one of the best animals exhibited of late years. Mr. Aldworth, Mr. Symonds,-and Mr. Phil lips also exhibit animals of considerable merit. The younger, or steer class, is not so commendable, the three prizes going to specimens of only moderate quality. General Hood's, here, first, was not even noticed by the judges at Birmingham, and Mr. Shieley's second prize beast won the first prize in Bingley-hall; but no good critic can disagree with the present award of merit. Owing to illness the gem of this breed, Mr. Groves's heifer, which took the Birmingham prize as the best Hereford, has so fallen off that she has gained here only a second prize ; the first place being taken by Mr. Bettridge's heifer, " Young Beauty," which was second at Bir mingham. General Hood's cow, from the Royal farm, is of beautiful quality, but not of any great weight or dimensions. Shot thorns make a great feature in the hall. Mr. Baker's Birmingham gold medal ox is here again the best male animal of his breed, though yielding the championship of the hall to the Hereford. Mr. Thompsou's first prize steer was only highly com mended at Birmingham; and the Duke of Beau fort's steer, which won the third prize there, is here placed so low in the scale as to get no honour at all. Exceedingly good shorthorns are shown by Lord Radnor, Mr. Hulbert, Mr. Sisman, and Me. Thompson. Mr. Swinnerton's second prize ox has many deficiencies in spite of its great fame and weight of flesh; and why is a " commendation" given away to a somewhat narrow, flat-sided, and hollow-backed white steer from the Royal farm P Mr. Swaisland's very perfectly finished heifer, Oekbud," which gained the gold medal as best female and the Innk eepers' plate as best animal n 33 ingley-salt, here stands again without a ri val, winning the silver cup as best female in the shoe. She has both Bates and Booth blood, with , an intertninolinr , of Macon and Cartwrig ht —out cumai:,nit:siiitohfstandin; her .' wonderfully even ac nes, yet ash, possessing that precise firm tuleity of touch which a judge likes to feel, w e a iss in her the rare charm of cha racter, the hal l ome head and fine docile eye, and sup er i or Tern rst's p each ple, so noted in Sir Charles Colonel l'ownel&y's " Vic tor:a" and " Beeet3,,aand butterfly," of a few years back. Mr. Stratton's strawber ry ti heifer is very pretty, and Mr. Fauikner's third prize heifer also, of great m erit. Thr ee rar e c 0 ,,, ria task for th e j ud g es in their cia e s a somewhat difficult 8 . Mr. Lynn's very handsome but loosely-hamii in at B irm in g l eam ; g i 4ov? is here second, though first b third; and both ec lipsed M e . Is , r. Abbott's fairly leitthew's level, handsome, fine-boned " Beauty: , There is an extensive and capit al allow of he ful red Sussex catt le. Norfolk anti tr oi t k use about an average in qua lit y' . Lot tiiorn classesolls we have a considerable improvement ha merit, though the number of entries is small. The fine . "'` Mr . h • cattle classes era exceed in g l y . West Highland (the Birmingham " M rS ne ' :1 best a n) 1 „ ) , with red-brown shaggy coat, a nd spreading horn , is one of the most extraordinary animals this breed has produced—one square, thick, wonderfully deep framed carcass, all prime beef, as it were , almost to the hoofs. The Scotch polls are also exceedingly go od, Mr. M'Combie's great Aberdeen b e ing fir st, and Mr. Heath's rare Galloway second—both placed as at Birmingham. Mr. Sowell Read shows a good Irish ox, and Mr. Bennett a very good Welsh runt. Among the cross breeds, the best are Mr. John Over man's large Devon and shorthorn, partaking of the latter character; and Mr. Allan Pol:ok's admirable cross between a shorthorn and Galloway. The classes of Extra Stock are very large, and so are some of the animals exhibited ; but quality, rather than mere bulk, wins the palm, Mr. Birkbeck's Devon and Mr. Paeke's white heifer taking the ' two prizes. 1 Giblett b s ows a good Alderney, and Mr. - Whitby a greater curiosity in the shape of a pretty red and white Brittany milker. • . 4 vlewing all the cattle classes, we may charac terise th em as presenting few animals of the highest order of merit, and, while di s ti ngu i s h e d f or genera l excellence, not out ; that is, she classes this superiority through fortunately, several sses are good, but there are, instancesun fortunately, of plain and very ordi nary butchers' beast s . to remember that we Wantet every exhibitor seems best-grained roasting parts economy in flesh, the 41 we igh,"—that we like our stewiaksth .a minimum of juicy and tender, and not like pieces out of a portmanteau,"warranted solid leather." One feature observable in these yearly exhibiti ons of live stock is the fluctuating, rather t gold-m ehan steadily advancing merit of th You cannot e dal be ast , , and the best sheep and swin e. go year after year to the Smithfield Club marvels, and pronoun ce each to be better and more valuable than its predec essor of 12 months before, nor is the prize-winner of to, day always a striking improvement upon the winner of several years ago. Now, it may not be true that our nearly perfected breeds are restorations of arche types which existed in Paradise; we cannot infer that Adam's noblQst oxen were short-horns, that luscious Highland beef was chosen f,ir 1 is own eat- ing, while Eve, in pastoral innocence, milked an Alderney; neither can we conclude that the rarest mutton and veal in that age of blissful perfection appeared in the form, say, of an Oxford Down. But from the slight apparent improvability in our best specimens it is evident that future achievements must consist in'raising the general character of our stock rather than in heightening individual excel lencies. Every beast of the herd and each sheep of the flock must approach the highest standard of early maturity, of propensity to develops the best parts, and proportion of profit for the food consumed. A still more difficult task will then remain—namely, the preserving of r3bustness of constitution and im munity from disease in animals forced and pam pered in unnatural conditions for the supply of an importunate market. Coming now to the sheep, we find that the Lei cesters ars by no means numerous, although Lord Berners, Col, Lowther, and Mr. Foljambe show pens of unusual character and quality. Never before in the history of the club have the Cotswolds cut so sorry a figure as on the present occasion; only two entries are made in the appointed class, and from these the prizes are very properly withheld. Mr. Porter partially saves the credit of the breed with a most noble and beautiful broad-back ewe in the class of Extra Stock. Mr. Cranfield, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Codling exhibit some pretty good Lincolns ; and the Romney Marsh sheep exhibit signs of con siderable improvement. again Lord Walsingham i s • conqueror among the South Downs, carrying off the silver cup for the best Down sheep. Those three s h ear li ngs we i g h 49et. 121 b. (imperial) live 46. w :l i 51b. With iv ; withhilaebutuhet equal rize pen last year weighed st quality the Merton sheep combine greater sub stance. Lord Walsingham is also first in the class of sheep under 2001 b. in weight, second in the class of old sheep, and wins the silver medal in the Extra Stock Class of Ewes. Both the Duke of Richmond's Isecond prize sheep and the Earl of Radnor's third prize sheep in the two young wether classes show very good breeding and high character of their re spective flocks; the Goodwood first prize older wethers are especially fine and well covered with mutton. Mr. Rigden, of olden renown, is not a competitor, owing to his official position in the club this year. Among the Hampshire and Wiltshire Downs, noted for their large proportion of lean meat, Mr. Canning's magnificent prize pen is by far the most meritorious. Some excellent sheep in this class might have been very well passed over, instead of honoured by the judges, if clipping animals into shape is to be discountenanced. The Shropshires are particularly good, but here some of the Birmingham decisions have been com pletely reversed. Mr. Henry Smith's splendid first prize shearlings, with rare backs and legs of mutton, were only commended at Birmingham; while Lord Wenlock's second prize sheep were first at Birming ham ; and again, neither Mr. Thorley's first prize old wethers nor the Earl of Aylesford's second prize sheep were even commended at Bingley-hall, while Mr. Foster's and Mr. Holland's are not noticed at all at Islington. The Shropshires also win the day in the Extra-stock class. The new Oxford breed is in small force, but the specimens are very fine, carrying great weights of good mutton and wool. Among the cross-breeds, so valued in a show of animals for the butcher, Mr. John Overman's Lei cester-and-Down and several pens of Cotswold-and- Down are the most meritorious. In some cases the sheep are most unfairly trimmed, the fleece mani festing an extraordinary power of accommodating the length of staple to undue prominences and de• pressions in the contour of the carcases clothed. It appears very desirable that the shepherds, and indeed the herdsmen in general, whose animals win priz:s should share with their masters in the emoluments and honours of the day. It is stated that Lord Walsingham, conscious of his dependence upon the faithful care and skill of his shepherd, has handed to him a very handsome check, and the Smithfield Club might perhaps adopt with benefit the French custom of ►ewarding servant and exhi bitor together—say with a bronze medal and a sove reign to the actual feeder of each prize anima. The show of pigs is not more extraordinary than usual. Gen. Hood's three white pigs, bred at the Royal Shaw-farm, which take the gold medal against ail comers, are certainly extraordinary for syme try in their fatness ; Mr. Morland and Sir Thomas Lennard's whites and Mr. Da la Rue's blacks are of very great merit, and Mr. Stearn, Mr. Druce, the Countess of Chesterfield, Mr. Crisp, and other cele brated breeders exhibit pigs fairly representing the wonderful precocity and perfection which hare been attained of late years. Of the great collection of machinery, roots, seeds, specimens, and so on, we must speak in another paper, - Those progres3fst members of our agricultural societies who are fond of battling with grievances and anomalies would do well io agitate fora uniform reckoning of the age of the animals. Cattle ought to compete with cattle on something like an equa lity of age—the measure of their respective opportu nities for feeding; but all sorts of difficulties and disadvantages arise from different societies adopting different natal dates in arranging the several classes. The calving day of the Highland Society is the Ist of January; of the Bath and West of England Society, the Ist of June; of the itlyal Agricultural Society, the fst July; of the Birmingham and Midland Coun ties Society, the Ist of September; of the Smithfield Club, the let of D -comber. To place all breeds on an equal footing is impossible, because the great breed ing season or one may either follow or precede that of another; but all might compete upon the same terms if the several societies adopted one fixed date —say the Ist of January, as in the Herd Books and in the Pacing Calendar. In these days of adjust ment of perplexing weights and measures to an im perial standard the rectification proposed can hardly be delayed much longer. Another point also asks attention. We have ob tained the boon of a five-shilling first day—no, only half a day, for the doors were jealously guarded until "after two o'clock," when the judges had' finished their awards." Unless the Smith field Club has too much dignity to follow after pro vincial societies, we may in the course of a lew;years actually witness public judging here as we now "ioy it everywhere else. Does some peculiar at m"lzthere render perception of good points more diffiault at judges m lslington than at Birmingham ; or are t ore corruptible, or metropolitan visitors and the Admission estate gentlemen of signs and types more meddling :Zg and obnoxious here than elsewhere P o'clock instead of eight at night is certai n l y ::") 4 : r mprovement ; but if early pub licity would the interests of the show, reporters, at any : a e t a cat a ! ogue, and a iit e t . o in f ight be allowed an entrance, the th ir e . ludges at the time those genmen commence Contry parties" inspection. will h ay on their hand s duri ng toe e plenty of business v v w—• be sides visit anthae id Club meet- ng the Coleman's night;luhd inner t n . At a t M t hre:x Farmers' A gr icultural Hall. day ; a i C n l g ub an le d e F tu a r r e m la e s r t s , c d to-morrow at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural s the Smithfield Club dinner, the Steam Culti ocie ati ty, Company's public me etin g in Sr. Sameva naivion and and Mr. Morton's lect ure at the Soci ety of Arts agricultural interest loses no time in strengthening and enlightening itself on the occasion o f its gre a t annual rendezvous. The following are some of the principal prize s awarded : CATTLE. DEVON BREED. CLASS I,—DEVON STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3 YEARS . OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. Robert Wortley, of Sufielal hall, Aylsham, Norfolk—second prize of £2O, to the Earl of Leicester, of Holkham, Wells, Norfolk—and third prize of £lO, to Mr John Overman, of Burnham, Sutton, Norfolk. CLASS 2.— DEVON STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. Wm. Heath, of Ludham hall, Norwich—second prize of £2O, to Major-General the ii?n. A. N. H oo d, o f C um b erland-lodge, Windsor — an d third prize of £lO, to the Earl of Leicester, of Holkham, Wells, Norfolk. CLASS 3.— DEVON HEIFERS, XOT EXCEEDING 4 YEARS THE SUN, LONWN, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1863. OLD—First, prize of £25, to Mr. John Ford, jun., of Rush ton, Blandford, Dorset--second prize of £l5, to Mr. Walter Farthing, of Stowey-court, Bridgewater, Somerset—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. William Smith, of Exeter. CLASS 4,—DEVON Cows, Arum 4 YEARS OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham, Sutton, Norfolk—second prize of £l6, to Mr. William Heath, of Ludham-hall, Norwich—and third prize of £lO, to Major- Gen. the Hon. A. N. Hood, Cumberland-lodge, Windsor, second prize of £5 to Lord Wenlock, of Much Wenlock, Shropshire. CLASS 41.—FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE SHROPSHIRE BREED, Two YEA.I.:S OLD (ABCVE 23 AND UNDER 35 MONTHS)—First prize of £l5 to Mr. Thomas llorley, jun., of The Fosse, near Leamington, Warwick— and second prize of £5 to the Earl cf Aylesford, of Packington-hall, Coventry. papers supply, and which has a most baneful effect on the whole North Americancharacter , Newspapers will always be a great portion of the intellectual food of a psople,ancl our own are conducted in a verydifferoat spirit. False and wrong their views may often be, but in general they are advocated failly and temperately; the arguments are addressed to the judg ment of the people, or to the best and noblest, and not to the base and vulgar passions of humanity. (Cheers.) I trust that popular education will soon be far more universal than it is. I believe it to be as much a necessity of our age as air, water, or the fbod we eat. If in America education has not had all the good effects which it ought to have had, I say when the air we breathe is impure, or the water we drink is foul, we take measures to purify and to cleanse ; we do not dream of cutting off the supplies, and what wo have to consider is not whether the people shall be educated or not, but how tho fullest and purest education shall be afforded. (Cheers.) I believe institutions such as this may do much good I am glad to see by the subjects of examination that nothing very high is aimed at. What is principally insisted on is a sound structure of knowledge of your own English lan guage. If you can thus induce young persons leaving school, who have a natural taste for the acquisition of knowledge, to study some of the masterpieces of our language, either in poetry or in prose, you will have fortified in the most effec tual manner their minds against the reception of anything which is base, ignoble, or injurious. (Applause:) lam not going to imitate the Americans by exaggerating. I know we cannot by societies such as this reach the great masses of the people. It is only a very little way we can go, but our direction is good, and ae do get hold of those young per sons leaving school who have a natural inclination to study, and whose minds, if not directed by such institutions as this in the right way might, on the contrary, be perverted to the wrong way. (Cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, I am reminded by that part of the resolution which refers to the distress that in former years there were some grounds on which a comparison might be drawn between Lance- Aire and the Northern States of America. Both coun tries excelled beyond any other in energy—both were making money faster—in both the manufacturers and capitalists were richer, and, I believe, the labouring population were better off than in any other part of the globe. In both the science of the application of ma chinery to the wants of mankind had reached a higher per fection than anywhere else; and in both that extension of the powers and use of machinery had exercised a marked and decided influence upon the public mind. May I be for given if I say that in both the subject of my comparison, perhaps, an impartial observer might have detected some of kite same faults and weaknesses ? • Perhaps in Lancashire, as in America, we have in former years been, if it is a fault; ahrsost too self-reliant. Perhaps we have trusted too much to ourselves for the continuance of the prosperity which we so long enjoyed. Perhaps we have been a little wanting in sympathy with the feelings of the rest of England. Perhaps we thought that not only were we stronger and richer than the inhabitants of the rest of our country, but wiser, and that the time would never come when we should need .their assistance. To continue the parallel, I am sorry to say that to both at the same moment and from the same cause a heavy blow and great misfortune have occurred. But here the parallel comes to an end. While in America every day the war continues each side only learns to hate the other with still more bitter hatred, while the Northern States sewn not content with the war they are waging at home, but look with distrust and suspicion on all countries abroad —countries which I do believe from the bottom of my heart do not swish or intend any evil to them—in Lancashire, on the other hand, it was only when we knew adversity that we found out that the people of the rest of England were our friends and brothers. (Cheers.) Lancashire will not soon for get the heartine:s, the generosity, the spontaneity of the movement with which all England castle to her assistance, (Cheers.) And England will not soon forge: the heroism and fortitude with which Lancashire has borne her troubles. We know England better,and England knows us better, than any time the last 20 years; and if we have suffered it is worth something to feel we, are heart and soul and hand in held with all our brothers in this great nation. (Cheers.) While in America the prospect grows darker and darker, and every day of war seems only to push further onward in the future the final result, whatever it may be, here I trust we may say without boasting that we have passed through the blackest darkness of the night, and that calculations as rea sonable as can be made prove to us that after another win tes• of less severe hardship we shall at last emerge again into sossething like our former state of prosperity, (Cheers.) One more point of interest, I think, there is. It was our good fortune to know at once, or very soon after this cala mity fell upon us, what was to be its extent, and to be able to take measures to meet it. Lancashire was a strong man beaten down, almost paralysed for a time ; but life is slowly, though painfully, returning. But the other subject of my comparison does not know, even yet, what is the extent of her calamity. At this moment, I believe, nine-tenths of the people of the Northern States are enjoying a greater amount of apparent prosperity than ever they enjoyed before. I was astonished the other day to read in the speech —I forget whether of Mr. Cobden or Mr. Bright at Roch dale; I think it was Mr. Cobden's—that not a citizen of the United States was the poorer for the war. I will not believe that either of those distinguished men could be so false to all the long-cherished doctrines and theories of their lives as to suppose there can be anything sound or real in the prosperity which that people are now enjoying. Do either of them doubt for a moment that for every hour of this false and inflated prosperity a dreadful reckoning must surely come ? No, ladies and gentlemen, I say that the utter pro stration which fell upon us was infinitely better—and we ought to thank Providence for it—when compared with the fatal prosperity with which the United States of America are now cursed. It was far better for us to know at once and take measures to meet the calamity, and slowly and feebly to recover from it, than to go on recklessly, as those States are doing now, into a course which all thinking men must know can lead them to nothing but utter and complete national ruin. How long that day may be averted it is impossible to say—but if there is any truth in history, and if we can derive any information from its les sons, I think we cannot doubt, however much we may de plore, that a catastrophe such as the world has never seen muot overtake that once flourishing and prosperous country. After some concluding remarks his lordship sat down amid much cheering, and the resolution was unanimously passed Subsequent resolutions recognised the success of the in stitution and of the science and art classes. HEREFORD BREED. CLASS S.—HEREFORD STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £3O, to Major- General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Cumberland-lodge, Windsor —second prize of £2O, to Mr. Richd. Shirley, of Baneott Munslow, Church Stretton, Shropshire—and third prize of £lO, to Mr, Henry Bet tridge, of East Hanney, Wantage, Berks. CLASS 6—HEREFORD STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. Wm. Heath, of Ludham hall, Norwich—second prize of £2O, to Mr. Wm. Symonds ; of Lambourne, Rcmford, Essex—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. William Aldworth, of Frilford, Abingdon. CLASS 7.--HEREFORD HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING 4 YEARS OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. Henry Bettridge, of East Hannay, Wantage, Berks—second prizo of £l5, to Mr. Wm. Grows, of Walk-mills, Shrewsbury—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. Chas. Hunt, of Widemarsh, Hereford. CLASS B —HEREFORD COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD — First prize of £2O, to Mr. George Pitt, of Chadnor• court, Dilwyn, Leominster—second prize of £l5, to Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, of Cumberland-lodge, Windsor—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. Joseph S. Draper, of Thingehill grange, Hereford. SHORTHORNED BREED. CLASS 9.—SHORTHORNEIi STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £3O, to Mr. John Thompson, Badminton, Chippenham, Wilts—second prize of £2O, to the Earl of Radnor, of Coleshill, Highworth—and third prize of £lO, to Sir A. de Rothschild, of Aston Clinton, Tring, Bucks. CLASS 10.—SHORTHORNED STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of go, to Mr. William H. Baker, of Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland—second prize of £2O, to Mr. Robert Swinnerton, of Weddington-grove, Nuneaton, Warwick—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. John B. Thomp son, of Anlaby, Hull. CLASS 11.—SHORTHORNED HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING 4 YEARS OLD—First prize of £25, to Mr. Charles Swais land, of Crayford, Kent—second prize of £l5, to Mr. Richard Stratton, of Stapelton. Bristol—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. John Faulkner, of Burton-on-Trent, Stafford. CLASS 12.—SHORTHORNED COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD —First prize of £25. to Mr. Thomas Matthews, of Merton, Thetford, Norfolk —second prize of £l5, to Mr. John Lynn, Stroaton, Grantham, Lincoln—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. Charles H. Abbott, of Long Ashton, Bristol. SUSSEX BREED. CLASS 13.--SUSSEX STEERS OR OXEN, NOT EXCEED ING 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £2O, to Mr. John Shoo smith, of Berwick, Lewes, and a second prize of £6 to Mr. William Wood, of Crawley, Sussex. CLASS 14.— SUSSEX STEERS OR OXEN ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of 125, Mr. J. M. Montefiore, Worth park, Crawley, Sussex-.second prize of £l5, to Mr. William Botting, of Hurspierpoint, Sussex—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. Edward Cane, of Berwick -court. Lewes. CLASS 15.— SUSSEX HEIFERS OR COWS, OF ANY AGE — First prize of £2O, to Messrs. John and Alfred Heasman, of Angmering, Arundel, Sussex —second prize of £l5 to Mr. John Shoosmith, of Berwick, Lewes—and third prize of £lO, to Mr. Pennington Gorringe, of Battle, Sussex. NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED BREED. CLASS 16.— NORFOLK. OR SUFFOLK POLLED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY AGE.—First prize of £l5, to Mr. R. J. Oliver, of Docking, Norfolk —and second prize of £lO, to Mr. Robert Wortley, of Suffield Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk. CLASS 17.— NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED HEIFERS OR Cows, OF ANY AGE—First prize of £l5, to Mr. Wm. Mullen, of Knapton, near North Walaham, Norfolk; and second prize of £lO, to Mr. B. Collins, of Hunston, Is worth, Suffolk. LONG-HORNED BREED. CLASS 18 ..—LONG-HORNED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY AGE.—First prize of £lO, to Mr. R. H. Chapman, of - Upton Nuneaton, Warwickshire—and second prize of £5, to Mr. Wm. T. Cox, of Spondon, Derby. CLASS 19 . — LONG -HORNED HEIFERS OR COWS, OF ANY AGE—First prize of £lO, to Mr. Joseph H. Burbery, of Kenilworth, Warwick—and second prize of £5, to Mr. W. T. Cox, of Spondon, Derby. SCOTCH HORNED BREED. CLASS 20.--SCOTCH HORNED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY AGE.—First prize of £3O, to Mr. Ralph Sneyd, of Keele hall, Staffordshire—and second prize of £l5, to Mr. Allan Pollok, of Lismany, Blllinasloe, Galway. CLASS 21.--SCOTCH HORNED HEIFERS OR COWS, OF ANY AGE—First prize of £l5, to Mr. Richd. Eastwood, of Clitheroe, Lancaster. SCOTCH POLLED BREED. CLASS 22.—SCOTCH POLLED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY AGE. —First prize of £3O, to Mr. William M'eombie, of Tillyfour, Aberdeen—and second prize of £l5, to Mr. Wm. Heath, of Ludham Hall, Norwich. CLASS 23.--SCOTCH POLLED HEIFERS OR COWS,OF ANY AGE—First prize, of £l5, to the Earl of 3outhesk, of Kin naird Castle, Brechin, Forfarshire--and second prize ot £lO, to Mr. James Stewart, of New-market, Aberdeen. IRISH BREED. CLASS 24.—Inisx STEERS OR OXEN, or ANY AGE— First prize of £lO, to Mr. Ciare S. Read, of Plumstead house, Norwich. CLASS 2 5.—1R1511 HEIFERS OR COWS, OF ANY AGE— First prize of £lO, to the Earl of Darnley, of Cobham-hall, Gravesend, Kent. WELSH BREED. CLASS 26—WELSH STEERS OR OXEN (RUNTS), OF ANY AGE—First prize of £2O, to Mr. Barwell E. Bennett, of Rugby, Northampton —and second prize of £lO to Mr. 11. Platt, of Bryn-y-newadd, Bangor, Carnarvon. CLASS 27—WELSH HEIFERS OR COIVS, OF ANY AGE— First prize of £lO, to Mr. Clare S. Read, of Plumstead house, Norwich. CROSS OR MIXED-BRED CATTLE. CLASS 28—CROSS OR MIXED•BRED STEERS, NOT EX CEEDING 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £2O, to Mr. John Wortley, of North Walsham, Norfolk—and second prize of £l5, to Mr. James Stewart, of New-market, Aberdeen. CLASS 29—CROSS OR MIXED•BRED STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD—First prize of £2O, to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham, Sutton, Norfolk—second prize of £l5, to Mr. John Tingey, of Little Ellingham, near Attie borough, Norfolk—and third prize of £lO, to Messrs. J. and W. Martin, Aberdeen. CLASS 30—CROSS OR MIXED BRED HEIFERS, NOT EX CEEDING 4 YEARS OLD—First prize of £l5 to Mr. Allan Pollok, of Lismany, Ballinaslow, Galway —and second prize of £lO to Mr. Rebart Farthing, of North Petherton, Bridg water, Somerset. EXTRA STOCK CATTLE. STEERS on OXEN —Silver Medal and £5 prize to Mr. R. Birkbeck, of Gatton, Reigate, Surrey. HEIFERS on Cows—Silver Mtdal and £5 prize to Mr, C. W. Fade, M.P , of Loughborough, Leicestershire. LEICESTER SHEEP. CLASS 31 —FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE LEICESTER BREED, ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS)—First prize of £2O to Mr. G. S. Fo'jambe, of Osberton-hall, Worksop, Notts —second prize of £l5 to the Hon. Colonel Lowther, of Barleythorpe-hall, Oakham, Rutland—and third prize of £5 to Mr. Richard Lovell, of Knapton, Mahon, Yorkshire. CLASS 32.--FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE LEICESTER BREED, ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS). EACH SHEEP NOT TO EXCEED 220 LE. LIVE wmawr.—First prize of £2O to Lord Berners, of Keythorpe-hall, Leicester— second prize of £l5 to the Hon. Colonel Lowther, of Barle)- thorpe•hall, Oakhaw, Rutland—and third prize of £5 to Mr. Lawrence Willmore, of the Newarke, Leicester. LINCOLNS. CLASS 34.--FAT WETHERSHEEF OF THE LINCOLN BREED, ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS)— First prize of £2O to Mr. Wm. Cranfield, of Buckden, Huntingdon shire—second prize of £1.5 to Mr. Thos. B. Marshall, of Branston, Lincolnshire—and third prize of £5 to Mr. Joseph Wyles, of Welby Warren, Grantham, Lincolnshire. CLASS 35.—FAT `NETHER SHEEP OF THE KENTISH OR ROHINEY•MARSH, OR ANY OTHER DISTINCT LONG: WOOLLED BREED (NOT LEICESTERS, COTSWOLDS, OR LINCOLNS), ONE TEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS)— First prize of £l5 to Mr. Frederick Murton, of Smeeth, Ashford, Kent—and second prize of 110 to Mr. J ames Newport, of Elmeted Court, Ashford, Kent. EXTRA STOCK. LEICESTER WETHERS.—SiIver Medal to the Hcn. Col. Lowther, of Barleythorpe-hall, Oakham, Rutland. LEICESTER EWES.—Silver Medal to Mr. John Lynn, of Stroxton, Grantham, Lincolnshire. LONG •WOOLLED SHEEP (NOT LEICESTERS) -SiIVOP Medal to Mr. Thos. Porter, of Baunton, Cirencester. SOUTH-DO WNS. CLASS 36.—FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE SOUTH .DOWN BREED, 1 YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MoNTlTs).—First prize of £2O to Lord Walsingham, of Morton-hall, Thetford—second prize of £lO to the Duke of Richmond, of Goodwood, Chi chester—and third prize of £.5 to the Earl of Radnor, of Coleshill, Highworth. CLASS 37.—FAT WETHER SHEEP OP THE SOUTH DOWN BREED. ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS). EACH SHEEP NOT TO EXCEED 2001 b. LIVE WEIGHT— First priza of £l5 to Lord Walsinghann, of Merton-hall, Thetford—second prize of £lO to the Duke of Richmond, of Goodwood, Chichester—and third prize of £5 to the Eari of Radnor, of Coleshill, Highworth. CLASS 38.—FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE SOUTH DOWN BREED, Two YEARS OLD (ABOVE 23 AND UNDER 35 MONTHS).—First prize of £2O t o th e D u k e o f Ri c h mon d of Goodwood, Chichester—second prize of £lO to Lord ' Walaingharn, Merton-hall, Thetford, Norfolk—and third Prize of L 5 to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham Sutton, Norfolk. 1141%1IPSIIIRE OR WILTSHIRE DOWNS. _piretwx BREED, CLASS AT WETHER SHEEP OF THE HAMPSHIRE OR WILTSHIRE Do 23 Moryrus) ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER prize of £2O to Mr. William B. Can- W. ning, of Elston-hill , of chuenlviazraa—second prize of £l5 to Mr. F. Bennett, SHROP Su i t- I lu it nrforsl, Berks. King, o k f c,Salisbury—and third prize of SHEEP OF £5 to Mr. William OP O THE SHROPSHIRE CLASS 40.—FAT WETHER of 3M l`lTHS)—First prize BREED, ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER - ol £l5 to Mr, Henry Smith, Shoal, Shropshire —and OXFORDSHIRE BREED. CLASS 42.—FAT WETHER SHEEP OF THE OXFORDSHIRE BREED, ONE YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS)-First prize of £l5 to Mr. Arthur Overman, of Egmere, Brandon, Nor folk—silver medal to breeder, Mr. Leary, Bridgnorth— second prize of £lO, Mr. Z. W. Stilgoe, Banbury—and third prize of £5 to Mr. Samuel Druce, of Eyneham, near Ox ford. MOUNTAIN BREED. CLASS 48.—FAT WETHER SHEEP, OP ANY WHITE PACED MOUNTAIN BREED, OF ANY AGE—First prize of to Mr, J. B. Downing, of Holm Lacey, Hereford—and second prize of £lO to Mr. William Smith, of 85, Southern hay, Exeter. CLASS 44.—FAT WETHER SHEEP, OF ANY BLACK FACED OH SPECKLED-FACED MOUNTAIN BREED, OP ANY AGE—First prize of £l5 to Mr. Richard Eastwood, of Whitewell, near Clitheroe, Lancashire—and second prize of £lO to Mr. Jonathan Peel, of Clitheroe, Yorkshiro. EXTRA STOCK. SOUTH-DOWN WETHERS —Silver medal to Mr, Jonathan Peal, of Clitheroe, Yorkshire. SOUTH-Dovix EwEs.—Silver medal to Lord Walsing ham, of Merton-hall, Thetford, Norfolk. SNORT WOOLS (NOT SOUTII-DOWNS).—Silver medal to Mr. Henry Smith, of Shiffnal, Shropshire. CROSS-BRED SHEEP. CLASS 45.—LONG AND SHORT-WOOLLED CROSS-BRED FAT WETHER SHEEP, 1 YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS) — First prize of £2O to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham Sut ton, Norfolk—second prize of £lO to Mr. Thomas James, of Cople, Bedford—and third prize of £5 to Sir Thomas B. Lennai d, of Romford, Essex. CLASS 46.—LONG AND S HORT-WOOLLED CROSS• BRED FAT WETHER SHEEP, 1 YEAR OLD (UNDER 23 MONTHS.) EACH SHEEP NOT TO EXCEED 220L8. LIVE WEIGHT—First prize of £lO to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham Sutton, Norfolk—and second prize of £5 to Mr, John Hatcher, of Bristol. EXTRA STOCK.-CROSS -BRED SHEEP. Silver medal to Mr. John Overman, of Burnha m Sutton, Norfolk. PIGS. CLASS 47.--F/GS, OF ANY MIRED, NOT EXCEEDING 4 MONTHS OLD—First prize of £l5 to Mr. Thomas De la Rue, of Sandy, Beds—second prize of £lO to Mr. William Albert Barber, of Sunning-hill, Berkshire —and third prize of £5 to Mr. William Mills Barber, of Sunning-hill, Berk shire. CLASS 48..--PIGS, OF ANY BREED, ABOVE 4 AND NOT EXCEEDING 8 MONTHS OLD—First prize of £l5 to Sir T. B. Lennard, Romford, Essex—second prize of £lO to the Countess of Chesterfield, of Bretby-hall, Burton-on -Trent, Staffordshire—and third prize of £5 to Mr. Samuel Geater Stearn, of Brandeston, Suffolk. CLASS 49.—PIGS OF ANY BREED, ABOVE 8 AND NOT EX CEEDING 12 MONTHS OLD—First prize of £l5 to Mr. G. B. Morland, of Abingdon, Berks—second prize of £lO to Mr. John Biggs, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedford —and third prize of £5 to Mr. Adolphus F. Slade, of Chislehurst, Rent. CLASS 50.—PIGS, OF ANY BREED, ABOVE 12 AND UNDER 18 MONTHS OLD—First prize of £l 5 to Major-General th e Hon. A. N. Hood, of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor—second prize of £lO to Mr. Thomas Crisp, of Buttley Abbey, Suf folk—and third prize of £5 to Mr. J. B. Morland, of Abing don, Berks. EXTRA STOCK. --- - ---- - _ _ BEST PlG.—Silver medal to Mr. Samuel G. Stearn, of Braudiaton, Suffolk. SILVER CUPS. A silver cup, value £4O, to the exhibitor for the best steer or ox in any of the classes, to Mr. William Heath, Lind ham-ball, Norwich. A silver cup, value £4O, to the exhi bitor for the best heifer or cow in any of the classes, to Mr. Charles Swaisland, of Crayford, Kent. A silver cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of Leicesters, Cots wolds, Lincolns, Kentish or other long-woolled breed, in any of the classes, to Mr. G. S. Foijambe, of Worksop. A silver cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the bast pen of one .year old South-Downs, Hampshire, or Wiltshire downs, to Lord Walsingham, Merton-hall, Thetford, Norfolk. A silver cup, value £2O, to the exhibitor, for the best pen of Shropshire, Oxfordshire, cross-bred, or any other breed of sheep (not specified in prize list) in any of the classes, to Mr. John Overman, of Burnham Sutton, Norfolk. GOLD MEDAL. • A gold medal to the exhibitor, for the best pen of pigs in any of the classes, to Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. JUDGES OF SHORTHORNS, SCOTCH, WELSH, AND EXTRA STOCK CATTLE.—Messrs William Sanday, John Brown, and Thomas Parkinson. JUDGES OF DEVONS, HEREFORDS, SUSSEX, NORFOLK, LONGHORN, IRISH, AND CROSSBRED CATTLE.—Messrs. Robert Smith, John Buckley, and John Coleman. JUDGES OF LEICESTEItS, COTSWOLD, LINCOLN, Rom• NEY Matsu, CROSSBRED, OXFORD, AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP.—Messrs. Marshall Hanley, John H. Phillips, and Francis Spencer. JUDGES OF SOUTH-DOWN, HAMPSHIRE, AND SHROP SHIRE SHEEP.--Messrs. Henry Webb, J. S. Turner, and C. Randall. JUDGES OF PlGS.—Messrs. George Mann, John Moon, and John Waters. Extra Parliamentary Utterances. LORD HARTINGTON. On Saturday evening the annual meeting of the East Lan. , cashire Union of Mechanics and Literary Institutions and Evening Schools was held at the Town-hall of Haslingden —Col. Patten, M.P., presiding. There were present Lord Harlington, M.P., Sir J. Ka y - Shuttleworth, and a large assemblage of perrons of influence in the district. More than 1,000 people attended. Prizes were distributed to about a score of young women and girls and about 100 young men and boys belonging to the institutions of the union. It was stated by the chairman that the books awarded as prizes were selected by the recipients, and that'the choice was most creditable to their intelligence. After an opening speech from the chairman, Lord HARTINOTON, M.P., was called upon to move the following resolution : - - " That the number of scholars attending the evening classes throughout the union, notwithstanding the unpre cedented distress which has prevailed during the years 1862- 3, affords abundant proof of the permanent attraction which a well organised and efficient system of instruction has for the young men supported by manual labour in this district." In the course of his speech he said it would not be more idle and Quixotic to clothe oneself in an old suit of armour, and ride about in search of adventures, as used to do the knights of old, than to look within the limits of this country for that person who would seriously contest the proposition that education should be as widely diffused as possible. (Applause.) But it has happened to me to travel in a country where I have heard clever and educated men throw grave doubts en the benefit which is conferred upon a country by an extended system of education. In no country is a good popular education more widely diffused than. it is in the New England States; but I have heard men—their enemies, certainly—clever leaders of the Confederacy, gravely argue that a great many of what they consider the faults and vices of the Northern population have arisen from this so widely spread system of superficial education. I hope it is needless for me to say that I utterly disagree with those persons, or with any who can argue that popular education, if not productive of all that was hoped from it, can have been productive of evil. Still, the fact remains that popular education is more com pletely diffused in the N ew England States than i n an y o th er country; and y e t, without saying or wishing to say any thing hostile or whi c h could be taken am i ss, I t hi n k th ere are very few English men w h ose o pi n i o n is that the national character o f N ew E ng l an d is exactly what a pat r i o t would wish the nat i ona l c h arac t er o f his own cou n t r y t o b e. The people are extremely clever and energetic; b u t with the rapi d an d w id e - s p rea d civiliza tion of those St a t es all travellers t h ere w h o h ave taken the trouble to make themselves acquainted with the condition of society, have found that, while there is much to praise, there is also much to regret and to blame. I do not wish to bring a bill of indictment against the people of the Northern States. Nothing could exceed their kindness and hospitality to me, as I believe to all strangers, and I ac • knowledge that there is much to admire and praise in that people. But there is no doubt that in the Yankee charac ter—Yankees they call th ems elves, and Yankees we may be allowed t o ca ll them—there i s t o o great a tendency to think too m uc h of mone m aking, and to carry perhaps a little too f ar th e clev ernes s and acuteness required in trade. The people undoubtedly:possess a somewhat exagge rated idea of tha. merits, not only of their own country, but of all the people who dwell therein ; undoubtedly they are somewhat arrogant, somewhat intolerant of opposition, and also they have not in this hour of their trial developed all the virtues —such as atedfastness, patriotism, and spirit of self-sacrifice—which have been sometimes found in other less cultivated nations when put to a similar trial. But Ido not for a moment believe that the widespread popular education is the cause of any of these defects. (Applause.) I think we may find the causes if we look for them. The school education of American children is not in all cases very judicious. There is, even while the children are at school, a tendency to exaggerate everything, to make them admire more what is large than what is good, and, above all, what is Amercan than what is anything else. But it is when the children leave school that the bad in fluence gets hold of the national character, which prevent its being so great and good as otherwise it might be. However widespread the education, I believe that after boys hare left school the greater part of the reading of ninety-nine hundredths of the people will be the reading of the daily press ; and the daily press in America, from reasons which it would take too long to enter into here, is certainly not the intellectual food which tends to make a people great, or generous, or good. I be lieve, then, it is because r ea lly the education of the peopl e has not gone so far as to lay a solid foundation of good sen se and good taste that they are, as a people not vigorous enough to reject the unwholesome intellectual food which those nem- MR, WILLIAMS, M.P. Last night Mr. W. Williams, in accordance with his usual practice during the recess of Parliament, met his con stituents, in order to render an account of his stewardship during the past Session. The meeting was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. At 8 o'clock, when the hon. member entered the room with his friends, the large room was about half filled. Mr. Stretton having been voted into the chair, Mr. WILLIAMS proceeded to address the meeting, but spoke with so much feebleness and difficulty that in a few minutes he became inaudible, except to those upon and around the platform. The hon. member, who was warmly received, said that the past session had been a very laborious one, owir , g to the bad hours kept by the House of Commons. He would leave them to judge what a man must be fit for at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, when he ought to be abed and asleep. He had for many years endeavoured, in con junction with his friend the late Mr. Brotherton, to bring the sittings to an end at midnight. They had not succeeded, however, the Government stating that they would otherwise never be able to get through their business. What was the consequence ? Instead of 658 gentlemen on the benches there were seldom more than from 20 to 50 members in the House when bills of the greatest importance were carried. Those measures could not, of muse, receive sufficient con sideration or investigation, and hence, to a great extent, the laws of the country were in a state of confusion, and a good deal of the time of one Session was spent in remedy ing the mistakes of the previous year. If the House of Commons would do its business earlier in the evening, and adjourn at midnight, th e country wou ld ge t it s Legislative business properly transacted, but not otherwise. (Hear, hear.) Although the session had been laborious, very few measures of great importance had b3en carried. The public Acts of Parliament had been 126 in number, and the private Acts 238. Tho most important legislative proceeding of the year was the reduction of taxation to the amount of £3,250,000, which had been effected by the Government. The largest item of relief was in the reduction of the income tax from 6cl to 7d in the pound, and the next was the reduction of the tax on tea from is 5d to is per pound. Ho had been very anxious that a further reduction should be made on another necessary of life—sugar ; but the Chancellor of the Exche quer stated that he could not then spare the money. Next session, however, he should remind him of the sugar duty, and be had little doubt that the Government would propose a large reduction. (Hear, hear.) Another important mea sure was that which consolidated various Acts of Parlia ment. The statute law of the country now filled upwards of 40 volumes ; yet eminent lawyers had stated that these acts might be consolidated and included in four or five volumes without the least detriment. Many existing acts had become obsolete and inapplicable to the present state of society. Others had been passed for a limited time, and had now expired. An enormous quantity had been repealed. So groat, indeed, was the confusion that the judges themselves were often at a loss to know the law. if, however, the laws of the country could be contained in four or five volumes the people could read and understand the law as well as the lawyers. At present even the lawyers themselves did not know which Acts of Parliament had been repealed and which were in force. Only one Act of Consolidation had been passed last session, but others were promised. For this most important improvement the public were in debted to the present Lord Chancellor, who would, he hoped, remain long enough in office to purge the statute law from the confusion into which it had fallen. (Hear, hear.) He congratulated them on having got rid of one incubus--the lonian Islands, which we had presented to the King of the Greeks. The islanders were very glad . to be handed over to Greece ; we were very glad to get rid . of h them; and he trusted we should never be plagued Nrt them again. This country had spent, some said, milliona of money in fortifying those islands, and now their l fortifica tions were to be destroyed. That was great folly. y u:e to the If the fortifications were of use to us they would 0 Greeks, and he did not see any utility in n lruse of Commons 'blowing use up. The Government made a proposal to to buy the Exhibition Palace. Evetryhetoon_e view, moattdhisis . building watt, in an architectural Pm creditable to this country. It transpired, however, that the late Prince Consort had had a great deal to do with the ar rangeraent and concoction of the edifice, and it was proposed to retain the ugliest building in Europe as a monument of respect to his memory. The House of Commons had, how ever, rejected the vote, so that the pockets of the taxpayers had been saved the purchase of these useless buildings. (Hear.) He regretted that the usual measure for the aboli tion of Church rates had been rejecied by a majority of 10. As a Churchman he declared that it was most discreditable to allow the question to remain in its present state. (Ap plause.) Church-going persons ought at least to maintain their own places of worship, for dissenters maintained not only their chapels, but also their ministers, while the clergy of the Church had endowments for their support. There had been another discussion on a very old question—that members of Parliament should be elected by bal:ot. The motion was unfortunately lost ; but from his Parliamentary experience, which now extended over nearly 30 years, he was convinced that no reform bill would be of essential value unless the ballot formed a portion of it. (Applause.) They did not want the ballot, he would admit, in the borough of Lambeth, because that borough contained large employers who did not attempt to coerce their work men. But elsewhere electors were often unable to vote as they wished. When the vote by ballot prevailed the House of Commons would be the reflex of the opinions of the people of this country, and not before. A vast ex penditure was incurred in maintaining our colonies. We had about 45 of these colonies, which were of no use to this country, but which cost us 4250,000 a year. There was a time when the colonies might have been of service. Be fore the passing of free-trade measures the colonies pur chased their supplies and manufactures from us, Now they could go over the whole world, and buy where they chose. He did not object to that; but the Government ought to insist on the colonists forming thmselves into rifle oorps for their own defence, instead of calling on this country to send them troops. Canada, for example, was an enormous ex pense to the mother country. The States of America were certain to go to war with us about that colony. If they were to take it from us it would be a great saving to the people of this country. At all events, if the Canadians did not establish a militia, and form themselves into rifle corps for their own defence, he would propose that the connexion between Great Britain and Canada should be in a friendly way withdrawn. The Government had the agreeable duty of providing Governors and other officers for these colonies at high. salaries. The House of Commons was even called 11DOIL to pay the bishops and clergy of some colonies. When he entered the house 25 years ago the first thing he did was to complain of the payment of bishops in Canada. They afterwards proposed a vote for the salary of a bishop in New Zealand. He divided the house against it, and the vote was withdrawn. There was a horrible out cry from the friends of the Church, but what was the result ? The people of New Zealand provided a salary for the bishop, and he was paid by those for whose benefit he laboured. He regretted that so much indifference existed in the House of Commons in regard to the expenditure. We had a body of 170,000 rifle soldiers, most of whom were stated on high military authority to be fully equal to regiments of the line. Instead, however, of diminishing the standing army the Government went on increasing it. There seemed to be in high quarters, indeed, a disposition to make ours a military Government, like the great despotisms on the Continent. But the country did not require a large standing army for its defence. Our natural defence was our navy, and that was in a most efficient state. In point of strength and fighting materiel it was nearly double that of France. At present our army and navy cost twice as much as during the Ministry of Wellington and Peel. He did not see why Lord Palmerston should want double the expenditure that those distinguished men thought necessary, when he had 175,000 Volunteers, in addition to the regular army. (Hear, hear.) He had proposed a reduction of 10,000 men of the standing army, but he got very little support, and unless the country made a stir there would be no change. He gave the Government great credit for maintaining peace in the present state of the world. The rebellion in the United States of ..kmerica was a most disastrous event, but to go to war w ith merica would be an act of insanity. The time would come w h e zi that war would cease, and then we should again receive our usual cotton supply. He wished it might be soon, but the pro 'Peet was not very bright at present. There was a disastrous sta: - .!: of things in Poland in consequence cf the atrocity and brutal conduct of the Russians. Our Go vernment and that of France had made a vain attempt to obtain justice for Poland, but the Russian Government was behaving in a more oppressive and tyrannical manner than ever. The English Government were at peace with great countries, but we always had some little wars on hand. We had a little war, for example, in New Zealand. A Gentleman who sat on the front bench, close to the platform, here exclaimed, " We cannot hear one single sen tence of what you are saying." Mr. WILLIAMS said he was doing his best, but as his voice was so weak he would bring his remarks to a close. It appears that our ships of war had attacked one of the towns in Japan and set it on Ore. It had 100,000 in habitants, and many men, women, and children were de stroyed. He did not see how it was possible to obtain the friendship of that people after such destruction of life and property. Ho regretted that he had not been able to make himself better heard, but he must express his grate ful thanks to the electors of Lambeth for the patience with which they had listened to him and the confidence which they had placed in him. The hon. member having expressed his willingness to answer any questions that might be put to him, resumed his seat amid loud applause. I° The following resolution, moved by Mr. T. A. LYON, se conded by Mr. WEBBER, and supported by Captain D. ROGERS, was carried unanimously :—" That this meeting, having heard the statement of Mr. W. Williams, respecting his political conduct during the last session of Parliament, are of opinion that his faithful and indefatigable services in the Commons House of Parliament eminently merit the grateful thanks of this meeting, which are hereby most cordially tendered to him; and this meeting also express their most anxious hope that he may be blessed by Divine providence with health and strength to continue to repre sent this borough for many years yet to come." Mr. WILLIAMS, in acknowledging the resolution, said he could assure them that he joined most cordially in the hope that he might long continue to represent the borough of Lambeth. (Applause.) Years were rolling over him, and he found that he could not stand 2 o'clock in the morning so well as he could 30 years ago. He had been a member of Parliament for 29 years within a month, and he would take upon himself to say that no one had given more votes or attonded in his place more regularly than he had. (Ap plause.) At the last election a very important borough of fered to return him without cost or trouble. He declined the offer with thanks, being determined never to represent any constituency but the men of Lambeth. (Applause.) Mr. PuELPs then moved, " That this meeting deplores the continuance of extravagant Government expenditure, such as that of the army and navy, useless fortifications, &c., in times of peaee, but sees no hope of a reduction of taxation without more combined action on the part of the professing Liberal members of the House of Commons; this meeting therefore trusts that other constituencies will request their representatives to combine with their esteemed member. Mr. W. Williams, in endeavouring to achieve so desirable an object. And this meeting, having heard that church rates have been made in two of the parishes in the borough of Lambeth, hereby express their surprise and in dignation at a revival of the obnoxious impost, and urgently entreat their representative Mr. Williams to use his influence in the House of Commons to abolish church rates for ever." Mr. PARKER seconded and Mr. CULVERWELL supported the resolution. An elector in the body of the room suggested that it was ill-timed to add to the resolution just proposed a declaration against church rates. The resolution was, however, put and carried without a dissentient, and the proceedings terminated with the usual acknowledgment to the chair. COLLINGRIDGE'S CITY DIARY AND ALMANAC FOR 1864.—An excellent new diary and year book, specially adapted to the citizens of London, has, under this name, but just now made its appearance. 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There are at present in the custody of the Hull police three youths, who leave been eppreheeded on a charge of committing a burglary by breaking open the offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company in Lowgate, Hull, and stealing a sum of money. A youth concerned in this rob bery is yet at large. One of the three in custody has just made a most extraordinary confession. When taken to prison by Detective Jones, he stated, in the presence of his mother and the officer, that he and the other boys broke into the premises of Messrs. Young and Pool, iroomongere, Waitham street, Hull, a few evenings ago. He held the light while the rest of the boys were engaged in trying to break open the iron safe. They used oyster-knives and crowbars, but, failing in o pening it, it wes suggested that they should use a file' With this instrument they worked on the safe for more than an hour, but the hardness of the metal baffled all their attempts. They therefore abane doned the safe, which contained about £lOO, and began to examine the premises for the purpose of carrying off anything which they might be fortu nate enough to meet with. In the cupboard they found some bottles of wine, with which they refreshed themselves, and they then went into the shop, from which they took a number of large knives, spoons, forks, and other articles, and with this booty they decamped. After wards they went into a jeweller's AO and asked if the spoons were silver, and they were informed that they were merely electroplated. After having been in this shop they formed a Pl an of robbing it, one of them being deputed to reek e observation as to the best mode of carrying ou t this design. As the stolen spoons were of little value t hey determined to bury them, and a hole was acco rd ' ingly dug in the yard of the North Eastern Bill way Company, Paragon-street, but as one of ‘ the prisoners resided near that plac e h e did not f eel comfortable e l comfortable about their remaining th e re, and -; they were afterwards taken up and r e buried sh ot ' . a mile and a half on the Humber bank. Before tin , opportunity offered of robbing the jeweller's sh ° ' the lads determined to rob the offices of the Elec tric Telegraph Company, where one of them had be en employed. They arranged that when the robbery had been committed they should engage a dogc art and drive to some place in the country where th e y might might hide until the affair had been forgotten. eu; robbery was perpetrated, and about 110 taken ° l4 ' It was agreed to leave the town on Sunday m orn ing last, and for this purpose a dog-cart was d o v e engaged. It was decided that they should set at an early hour, and two of the lads missed their, trip by lying in bed too long. The two left beh in " agreed to take a cab, and before starting they e° e. spired to take possession of the cab between Bevel and Driffield. They were to mount the box, en seizing the cabman, his throat was to be cut. I li : body they were to dispose of by throwing it into th a roadside ditch. The cab and horse they determil le e to sell when they arrived at Driffield, and g° with the proceeds. It appears that the youths W e " took the dog-cart managed to break it before t he/ reached Driffield, and they left it in a field on the a roadside. On Monday morning they took the h celi c i into the stable at the inn where they had put UPI lin g went to a horse dealer, to whom they offered to do. the animal, which of its class was a valuable On e f fo : £5. The dealer's suspicions were at once arotiee°' and he handed them over to the police authorities, who conveyed them to Hull. The youths veil° had engaged the cab, and had conspired to murder te f cabman, got the cab, but just at the moment starting one of them became afraid, and he told the cabman what he and his companion had determ ined to do. The lad who was to have perpetrated the deed then jumped out of the opposite door of the cab and took to his heels. He was soon after c A P tured by Detective Jones. The names of the three . boys in custody are J. W. Wrigglesworth, Ric hard Lord, and J. J. Reynolds. They have been re; manded to gaol until the evidence in the seve ral cases against them has been made complete. the prisoners are said to have been led to this extraore dinary course of crime by reading the lives of Dick Turpin and other such characters, and they had de termined to become burglars, highwaymen, and, to crown all, murderers. Their career, however, het i been cut short, fortunately for them, COUNTRY MARKETS. .. ----- - COLCHESTER—DEc. 5. There was a moderate supply of wheat at o i u n r day, and the demand was good. No change on .280 3 ‘ Wheat, white. 44s 50s I Beans, Ivlazag—fi.32s 360 red ..40s 44s middle OE O .. 355 38s Barley Oats 2os 258 grey .... ricrekset to- There GLOUCESTER—Dn. 5• to-daY) f°l. There was a fair show of English wheat maintained' which the currencies of last week were firmly g f Foreign wheat held for an advance of ls on the Price" but last week. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were dull, b unaltered in value. CHELMSFORD—DEC. 4. At this corn exchange to-day y' 02 there was an inactive bt1901: ness done. The prices of las . we ek were barely r tained. Barley also dull, and prices is per qu arter cheal?..e for inferior sorts. Beans and peas a very limi ted buses and prices ed. Wheat, old unchan white... g 30s 47: Peas, Partridp,e..... 36s „ 3 9 9 : new .. 44s 48s White .......... 39s 419 old red.... 34s 408 Boiling new 38s 42s Dun 33s 36° ..--0 Barley 27s 36s Ditto new --s Chevalier ....... 28: 39s Beans, Tick, old 34: , 39 : Grinding 22s 31s 61s 67: Harrow Tic n n k e e s w w . ...; 0 4 1: Malt. .••• • • _ l O Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 20s 28: Mazagan .......30: i)" KIRKCALDY GRAIN—DEC. 5. our We had large supplies of all descriptions of at grain market today, which sold f ree ly at the currencies o f lot week. Wheat. Barley. Fir5t....348 Od 2ss 6d Second ..37s Od 27s Od Od 30s Od Oats. 16s ° el 170 r , 6 ,1 • 19 , v. COAL MAltlitiT• Prima of Coal per Ton at the close of them arket. N. 8. . Buddle'sW d eat Hartley 16 0 West Ha rtle y ........1G 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....16 0 Cowpen Hartley 16 0 Davison's West Hart ley.. Holywell 17 6 Ships at marl Walls End. Hatton .............. 20 6 Tunstall •••• . • 13 , IHaswell .............. 20 Gosforth ............ 1 8 " .ket, 7 ; sold, 7. • MILITARY BALLOONTNG.—Mr. Cox well's balloon will ascend from the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich for experimental military purposes. On the 10th cf Deco r ber it will be inflated with 75,000 cubic feet of gas from the Arsenal, and General Sir Richard Decree of the War-office authorities will be present. The troops in garrison will be marched some miles over the country r oads, in order to give the aeronaut and the scientific committee who will se" company him an opportunity of reconnoitring their moire' rants. Births. D'UNDAS.—On the 3d inst., at Carron Hall, Falkirk, N.D., the wife of J. Dundas, Egi., of a son. MURIEL, —On the 3J inst., at Wickham Market, Suffolk, ° the wife of W. G. M uriel, Esq., of a son, SMITII.—On the 6 th inst., at Sutton, Lady Smith, of 4 ol thins uner, t; at Hatchland s , G u ildf o rd ; al son. S uwiui of Esq., of a son. Marriages. Afthnur the me S BRIGCum., UT—PowELL. — On the 3d inst., at St. Bee's, b er l a nd, John Henry, eldest son of Dr. James Brig htr late of Cambridge-square, London to Olive Anne, °D) : daughter of Charles Pow e ll, Esq., of Abergavennh 14°12 BUnluAttArr— shire.HuTcHiNsoN.—On the 3d inst., at s ai n t Stephen's, Dubli n , D . W. R. Buchanan, Esq., eldeg son of Andrew Buchanan, Esq., of Greenfield, Lant,,, shire, N. 8., t o th e Lady Kathrine Alicia HOY Hutcv,.ri son, daughter o f the late and sister of the present A' of Donoughnaore. A L is L i rE.N James. O a Allen,t h the 3d i gat, agedDa6etoa7tets. ArsCOUGH,—On.O3, the 2d inst., at Norwood, J. AYs e°— Admiral of the Red. .co COMBE.—On the sth inst., at Cheltenham, Captain O°J - Combe, late Madras N. 1., aged 78. Mills, Henley on Thames, h DUMMETT.-011 the sth inst., at Longfleet, Poole, JoseP Dummett, Esq., aged 82. 11 - II MARTIN.—On the 4th inst., tT b "cl -wells Sir .... ell a an nge , Martin, Bart. fpril . MAGENIS.—On the 4th inst., at Harrol d Hall, Bed. shire, Richard Wm. Magenis, Esq., aged 74. 80 BUTTER.—On the 6th inst., at Hackney, James Thom Rutter, Esq., aged 39. London: Prinz,ed and Pubilshed by WILA L I 31 of No. 112, Strand, Pr inter, at Tun Surf Office No' ° ‘ ,4 Stra a nd, in the Precinct of the 3avoy. .11 the Couta ididdletiCX.—TtletWAYLDCOCWher 5, 1863. L. a(