The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.

SIR,—On Sunday afternoon last, a small " speculating
gig," with four boatmen in it, was capsized, through
inadvertence, at the mouth of the river ; when the James
Atherton, steamer, and a boat belonging to an American
barque were put off in pursuit. The chase down channel
lasted some time, -and eventually the crew of the steamer
picked up three of the drowning men, and the American
boat's crew the other one, thus saving four lives ; the
steamer towing back both boats and men in gallant
style. A subscription was at once entered into by the
passengers of the ferry steamer, amounting to about 365.,
and given (as I understand) to the men who were
immersed, whilst three hearty cheers were given for the
American boat's crew. lint as 1 wit ne:setl. with anxiety,
the seamanlike intrepidity displaye4 j the captain and
crew of the James Atherton, may I be permitted to ask
what tueans should be taken to compensate or compliment
those brave fellows for their humanity, or the owners of
the steamer, who perform such expensive services gratui-
tously ? —Yours respectfully,

BRAITHWAITE POOLE,
Marine-terrace, New Brighton, July 25, 1860.

THE IRISH NATIONAL CATTLE SIAOW

AT CQRI.i..

SPEECH OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT, &e.
This great agricultural exhibition was inaugurated
yesterday by a grand banquet in the Corn Exchange, at
which the Lord-Lieutenant was present. We have
been favoured by the Magnetic Telegraph Company
with the following report of the proceedings :
The banquet was held at half-past six, and v,,us 4n a
splendid scale. Tile hall wus I,,andsomely decorated,
and preee.nted a tailliant appearance. Over .500 noble-
men and gentlemen were present. On the head of the
table were placed the five challenge cups, awarded at
the show. A band, stationed in the gallery, performed
during the evening. Lord Clonbrock, as president
of the society occupied the chair. At his left side his
excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, the Marquis of Water-
ford, the Earl of Shannon, the Epal of Huntingdon, the
Earl of Balinor, Lord Dunlo, the High Sheriff of the
county, the night Hon. W. I). Tighe, Sir G. Colthurst,
Mr. Justice Hayes, Captain Moore, A.D.C., and Doctor
Hatchell ; at the right of the noble chairman sat Earl
of Erne, Earl of Cork, the Earl of Bandon, Lord Car-
bery, Lord Doneraile, Lord Talbot de Mayihide, the
High Sheriff of the city, Malt:lr-general tiAe Hon. A. A.
Dalzell, 4heritf‘ot the county of LimeriCk,
Lieutenant Andrew, R.N., Captain Everard, Colonel
Parke, and Colonel Smith.

The cloth being removed, and the usual loyal toasts
being drunk with enthusiasm,
The Earl of Balmore proposed " The Arms and
Navy," to which General Dalzell and SAmiral Talbot
responded. The galleAt admiral assured the company
that the greatest sympathy existed between those who
plough the sea and those who plough the land. (Cheers.)
The president, Lord Clonbrock, said it gave him
sincere pleasure to propose the health of the Lord-
Lieutenant, and knew it would I.e ruc,st heartily
received. (Cheers) Iney were all anxious to pay him
that honour and respest due to him officially as the
representative of her Majesty, but also personally as the
warm friend of Ireland. (Cheers.) Ever alive
to the interests of the country over which he
so worthily presided, his Excellency is ever ready
to afford the advantage and honour of hia p.reAeuce
upon all occasions important to those interests, whether
of a local or more general nat (cheers) ; whether, tak-
ing advantage of our geographical position, the magni-
ficent project is entertained of spanning the ocean with a
magnetic wire, and thereby joining together the interests
and desires of the old world and the new one ; whether
a foundation stone is to be laid of a building devoted
either to scientific or other useful purposes; or
whether, as on the last occasion of his Excellency's visit
here, a fresh country is to be opened by a new line of
railway—on all these occasions we find his Excellency
at the post, and, in that graceful and eloquent language
which is peculiarly his own, encouraging our hopes and
bidding us God speed. To his name most approvingly
is added prosperity to Ireland, which prosperity is the
object of his Excellency's best wishes.

The toast was received with great cheering.
His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, on rising to
respond, was greeted with loud and continued cheering.
He said,—My Lord Clonbrock, my lords and gen tlenaen,
for the great honour which
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warmly paid me, I beg to return my hest thanks to
this numerous and distinguished erunPanY• I can assure
you all that I look upon it as one of the most pleasant
of my functions, when I have the privilege to attend
those great annual gatherings of the Royal Irish Agri-
cultural Society, (cheers) for, besides the animation
and the gaiety which lie upon the surface, I attach
a deep and wide, and I may say national, importance to
these occasions. (Hear, hear.) It assnmes, from the
very nature of things, that agriculture in Ireland is the
most important of all subjects connected with her
prosperity. After having referred to the agricultural
statistics of 1841 and 1851, and giving a glowing
description of the climate, position and sceneries of
Ireland, his Excellency went. on to say that here we find
in the soil and the climate the conditions best suited
for pasture—and pasture frequently of too rich
a kind to be good for several species of sheep, which I
say it in the face of the splendid show of sheep in the
showyard hard by, will often be found to, browse better
in such hilly uplands as Scotland abounds in. pence
it appears that, cattle above all things, seem to be
rendered by the conditions of soil awl climate
the most appropriate stock for Ireland—(hear, hear,)—
and the laws of the market, to which 1 have before
inverted, co-operate in recommending this source of
supply. Corn, you all know, can be brought from one
country to another from a great distance, at compara-
tively small freights. It is not so with cattle. Hence the
great hives of industry in England and Scotland,
across the Channel, can draw their very frequent
shiploads of corn from more southern and drier
climates. Rut they must have a constant depend-
ence upon Ireland for an ahundant supply of meat.
(Great applause). Now, the precise test of a very few
figures will be found to confirm these general remarks.
In the year 1859 I eompared Scotland and Ireland. The
heads of cattle in Scotland were 974,437, in Ireland they
were 3,630,954. (Applause.) This shows the immense
preponderance of cattle. With sheep, as I have said before,
it is the reverse. Scotland produced 5,683,068 sheep;
Ireland only 3,452,952 ; but it appears that whether
for cattle or for sheep, nearly half of the whole surface
of Ireland was devoted to pasture. Now it is obvious
that with this immense quantity of your capital wasted
in the production of live stock, ton much caution and
vigilance cannot be taken in providing against the
a great measure, through which we have lately passed, and
which, I fear, will be found to have inflicted very serious
injury, especially upon the small farmers. Now the
moral of what I am drawing your attention to is this
that the country ought not to be coveted with stock fie-
cording to the measure of good which may naturally
be produced on one or two very favourable seasons.
(Hear.) For instance, you ought nut to calculate on
the abundance of ote year very favourable to the growth
of hay, at the risk of its being succeeded by another
year which will prove to he very short in the hay gop,
whether from drought or over much rain. His Expel-
lency, atter referring to the great progress made in all
agricultural departments, then proposed " The Health
of the President of the Society, and Success of the Royal
Agricultural Society of Ireland."

The noble Chairman responded in suitable terms.
Several other toasts were proposed, and responded to,
after which the company separated.

Four workmen in Dublin were dangerously injured,
on Monday, by the fall of a scaffold.

THE GALWAY COkPANY.—The Freeman's Journal
states that Mr. Jobn Orrell Lever has written a very
creditable letter tendering his resignatcion as a member
of the Galway Board of Directors.

The Freeman'; hawnat says :—" Our London advices
assures its that the whole body of the Galway directors
have resigned, and. confirm the intelligence hinted at in
the Times—viz. that. capitalists of high standing are
about to replace the old hoard."
AFRICAN Missiox.—The Mission to Central Africa,
which up to a short time ago was known by the name
of the Oxford and Cambridge Mission, lately added the
name of Dublin. to those of the two English universiti:r;,
It has now received a farther reinforcement from thir-
ham, the name, of which university;. is in, like nIR/mer:to
be incorporated into, the title.
THE GI,OORAPRIr OF At-tut-A.—It is a curious fact
that two lakes resembling those •great sheet% of water
lately discovered by Captains. Pyrqop and Spike in
published izt
Mti
Eastern Africa, are laid down oP map,the French Rapper's Africa (AA Ic Ain,
16,56). papper 1:14-s the lakes_ some aeow too far
i\o'the *south, hat their telati4Vg vi4Aitloli hi the „me as
twat. of •SahOnyika. Xyanza. None of the geo-
0011E4 joialiah have yet noticed this siagulski,.
# c:olioideace.