The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

DR. DISRAELI IN RUCKINGIIASISIIIRE.

At the annual meeting of the Royal Buckingham-
shire and Central Rucks United Agricultural Aotocia-
tion, held at .k vlesbury o. Wedne=day last, after the
usual toasts had been given, the Chairman gave the
health of the " Members fur the County of Bucks and
the Bonoigh of Aylesbury," v.ltielt vu. rce,ived with
vehement claret Mg.

The Bight Wei-. Mr. !Henan!. M.P., on thirdly to
respond, aria received wait great cheering. le Neigh--
16,g leave to return you, on the patt of - the county
members, our thanks for the kind manner in which
you have received the proposal to drink their he-Allis
Although my colkagues on this occaeion are absent, I
lcuow—at least I ani convinced—that their absence may
he accounted for by circumstance,' which rendered it
impossible for them to be present. I can, however.
I truly say, that what I sin sure they must always feel.
that there are no occasion,' when their presence could
be inure agreeable to theinselvee than on occasions like
that which has brought u+ together toelay. And, gets•
Heinen, I can assure you, most unfeignedly, that after
all the leisure of puldie life, in which through your
confidence. end through your confidence slone. I sin!
my cote gu a take same p.rt. it is a very great delight
to 6i4 ourselves a 1111 l ng our friend+ and neighboura
again, an! ameng friende and heightened, us bin we
have ktioan an-I honoured for so many years. from
whom we have received ao many repeetesl proofs of good
feeling del trust, and eh..e good opini•al it is the
principel object of our life ever to retain. (('heers.)
11,entleislen, I am more pleased to meet you when
remember the occasion and the eireuiontailece
which bring us together. We are met to support
with our presence and our sympathetic feeling one of
those societies wh,ich. in toy opinion, exercise so bene•
I 564 a result upon the general feeling and cotelint 'if
all classes connected with agriculture. It is Do longer
necessary to r,se and viteie.ete the design and the
management of these agricultural ...iodations. They
have become, if uot formally and legally, in spirit and
in truth, part of the institutions of the country, and all
Chtleles and all parties combine in acknowledging the
adventageona cousequences which they exercise upon
the general life end pursuits of this country. When
this society was first formed--and I took a particular
interest in its formation, for I W.Ol one of its original
members—it limited itself merely to the recognition of
the virtues of the humble:et elastics connected with
English agriculture ; in rceoemitine and rewarding the
merits of three who by their service and by their skill
in husbandry had oleiserved their recognition on the part
of their ueighbours. That was a most laudable, but its
• certain sense it was a I led object ; but that object.
limited as it was, was for a considerable period viewed
by noun persons with colder., and even ocessionelly
with derieion ; but all that hae oases'. It has paned
became every Olen coneected with rural life has lone
strived at a conviction that these associations even with
that limikal object, have done much good—that they
have elecated the tone of this country with the labour
of the land, and that they have brought about a re-ult
which those connected with the labour of the land have
allown they highly appreciate. (Hear, hear.) Every-
one knows that those reward, which have been
describ, d as not ootionensurate with the merit.'
they recognize, are rewards which are ea,,erl)
sought and are highly appreciated by those
who receive them, •nd there never was • greate,
mistake than to sumose that the labour on land ever
believed fur a nioment that their merit, were valued bc
the lucre pecuniary amain' they received. They have
always sought these rewards, and Is., tawny* ch.:raked
them becsiuee they looked noon them as • pul•lic reeog•
nitiun of their- private virtues. (" Hear, hear," and
cheers.) I could give you, if necessary, many instances
to prove the truth of this assertion ; but then, is one
which! will toilets upon very briefly, because it oceurrdl
only this morning. and is to me quite a convincing
proof of the position I Wish to enforce. It in the CV...
of a man who, have% worked on 4 farm for 45 years,
hi the 14111111 service, which, I need not say, the respect
of all those acquainted with him, had several time.
being reptested to advance his claim for time favour.
wheli, by the regulations of this society. lie was
entitled to, but which he has repeatedly soil he 'would
not come forward to claim until he had completed the
MI6 year of his service. That shows that in the mind
of this Inall it was not the pecuniary reward that the
public recogniti 111 l of his long-enduring prine.te virtues
which he sought and which he valued. (Hear, hear.)
Thee, though ever laudable, were the limited objects of
the society when it Was first formed. A* time lOLA ad•
vanced, in obedience to that law of development Mid
progress without which no r•ociety and no institution
can long exist, we have found it necessary to increase
the area of our exertions and to aim at other aid more
extensive obje en then thaw we originally proposed.
So in thew we have (01144 it aeleiaahle to mop.' to that
spirt of competition and emulatiou which pervades all
classes. and to ask nut iiiendy the peasants and labourers
on land to exert theinelve* ',leain the recogeition of
their superior qualities, but the farmer end the I •teled pro-
prietor al. to prove their skill and then society to ob-
tain • public recognition of their attempts to advantage
the public welfare. By this course we are now the
means by which rewards are offered to those who pro-
duce crops of the best roots, and who exhibit moat supe-
rior stock. These are great and important ohjects 01
which we ought not to lime sight, and the Royal Bucks
Agricultural Association, the anniversary of which we
are met here tualay to observe, haa aimed at, and I hope
will continue to accomplish those objects. 'Cheers.)
At the gains time I should not anyeelf be speaking with
that frankness with which you always permit me to wi-
dens you upon all OCCOtlell,l if I were to say, us is some
-
time's said at similar meeting's, that I have been at your
showyard to 'ley and was *truck with amazement and
wonder at what I have witnessed. I did ace souse
things there which do our friends great credit. but I
did nut see enough of good things, and I think it of very
great importance, when we dine after the. exhibition,.
and Cu,, up our experience, that we should not shut our
eyes to whet is the truth of what has occurred, because
it is by autilially taking stock of our progress, as it were,
that we may regulate our eeertions for thee...ming year.
(Hear. bear.) I•etitlenien. I did not wee with respect to
horned cattle, or even cheep, that promise which hat
year was even so prominently toad,; and though it may
he accounted for to eume extent by the unfortuuete
weather which has occurred at the period of our union,
preventing souse of our hest friendu from exhibiting,
still we usuet never for • in.iii,cnl forget that
it is by progress, by consume agyarta at
excellence, that societies like the present can
alone be maietaindl with spirit and advantage.
I would not have mule these observations had I not
recollected dial although the old agricultural association
in this country is 1111 l re than a quarter of a century
old, the peculiar institution whose anniversary we are
nOvr celebrating, is really sluicet in its cradle. This i.
only the second year of the existence of the amalga-
mated society. I heard with very great pleasure thee
these societies had dete • ed to amalgamate their
resettles and their energies. I had hoped it was on
the whole for the advantage of the county, and I am
confident myself that that amalgamation, founded as it
was on sound principles, will, if we ere determined to
carry them out, ultimately accomplish all the most
sanguine have anticipated. (Cheers.) But success wiil
not be attained by being blind to the real circutn+tances
nround Amelgamation is an admirable Ilfrallge-
no.nt under favounble eireumetances, such as I thought
were thole under which the amalgemetion of the two
societies in this company took place; but when you
ausalgemate you ui sli rivalry, and if atualgamatios,
Isis virtues, emulation can produce wonders. Emulation
has alway two strings to its bow; amalgamation, we
flatter ourselves, h,aa only wee string—ha+ that
string of a stouter character. I trust •se shall not be
diarlappointed in the character of our amalgamation •
that we shall not have only one string to our bow, and
that not a hit stronger than that which, we had before.
We meet avoid that as much as possible ; and in that
constitution of our society we lellat attempt to
arrive at not merely the advantages of rivalry.
hut also tile benefits of per14.4.11V04e. Those were
the obj• eta we prupoeed to ourselves in &waive
mating the two societies. I ans aure there are in the
rann members of both the original societies met
together ith only one admirable object. and they will
not at all inieconceive the spirit of my observations.
They are made with • eincere desire to see the Royal
Bucks Association, not only 111ai14.1111, but increase Its
character in public catenation. We can only do that by
all of us witting our shouldere to the wheel, and all
classes of our seiety must unite together, and by that
union of exertion we shall accomplish the great object
we have at heart. IS becomes. then, I thiuk, the princi
pal proprietors of this county, the leading MVO among
our tenant fanner; and all connected with the radons
classes of our rural life, to reuiember that it is only by
union that societies of this kind can be maintained—
that the object of euch societies are the most admirabk
that can Possibly rupee,: themselves, to 11 progressive
and free people, like the free people of Bins country.
(Cheers.) Allow me, in reference to the toast you have
drunk, to say it is an 1 1111 l our te frprt.elli Mee WhO Will
carry out and accomplieli the objects of this .ociety has
publicly declared it is its inteutimi to fulfil. I thank yon
most sincerely for the honour you have done me. To
posse* your etedidence aitel deserve your good feeling is
~tie of the greatest objects of my life, and at all tones
it is ti me a gourd, of great gratification to find wren
with you ; and, on occasion,' like the present, I all,
happy that while I am performing a public duty I am
enjoying a private gratification. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. BettNARD, M.P., also briefly responded ; and
other Seas, princiielly of a lueel character, Laving
been given, the proceedings terminated.

FATAL ACCIDINT PROM FIRE•ARMA. —An imlne4 wn,
held on Friday, at Ratliangan, on the body of Mr. Rich aril
Oliver Nelson, who came by his ,heath under the fol
lowing melancholy circumstance: --it: •ppeared that on
Wednesday last the decvased went irut about I o'clock
1., -hoot rabbits on the estate of bird liarburton, and
whie crossing a part of the demesne in search of game.
lila gun—which of course MIS hauled -accidentally
struck against smile autstatice, which mimed it to exploit ,
mid, the barrel being incautiously 'mimed tuwar.6 him
at the time, the wide:lit, were I.alged in the lower part
of his abdomen, which was lacerated in a frightful
manner. At 3 o'dock, a servant of Lady Forbes,
happening to palli through the demesne, found the un-
fortunate gentleman lyiug mute dead, and having giving
information of the fact, the body was re ~,,, ved to await
an moue:A. The deceased was ni the lifty-siztli year of
los age. He waft the youngest son of the Hey. Oliver
Nelson, late of Hill.house in King's County, aunt was
deservedly resvected by all classes. The jury, without
hesitation, returned • verdict of "Accidental Death."