The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-25 00:00:00

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Mayo.—Colonel Higgins's candidature for this
county is stated to be beyond a doubt. It is rumoured
that Mr. Tristram Kennedy will seek the representa-
tion of the county, backed by the interest of Mr. G. H.
Moore. Lord John Browne supports the Palmerston
Government.
Woonsroc K.—L ord Alfred Churchill was returned
unopposed yesterday. His lordship in his address
to the electors of Woodstock professed himself in
favour of measures for strengthening the connection
of the Church with the State; he will support an
equitable adjustment of the church•rate question, an
extension of the present system of Government grants
for education. With regard to reform he says :
The increase of intelligence and education at the present
period is such that an extension of the suffrage appears with
some reason to be demanded, and it is evident that to in-
terest a larger class of persons capable of exercising a dis-
criminating judgment in the maintenance of social insti-
tutions would prove an additional security to them. Should
her Majesty's Government, in accordance with pledges
(which they seem to have given), introduce a measure
capable of effecting such ends, I shall be happy to give it a
fair and impartial consideration.

BiamtmixAm.—An announcement was made by
the Mayor of Birmingham on Wednesday, at a public
meeting, that Mr. Muntz will in a day or two be
likely to accept the Chiltern Hundreds.
GALWAY.—Mr. G. H. Moore has retired. Sir
Thomas Redington is now the only candidate .
Sir Thomas Redington (says the Freeman's Journal)
will of course get such portions of the Clanricarde interest
as can be influenced by the landlords ; and this interest,
which headed the pole at the last election, will also get a
large section of the O'Flaherty support. The popular
party are wasting much energy by the delay in selecting a
candidate.

OXFORD.—Mr. Cardwell was returned on Tuesday
by a majority of 07 over Mr. Thackeray. The numbers
were :

Mr. Cardwell 1,085
Mr. Thackeray l,OlB
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Majority 67
FALKlRK.—Captain John G. C. Hamilton has
issued an address to the electors of these burghs,
asking for their suffrages as the successor to Mr.
Merry, who has been unseated by a parliamentary
committee. He is " a sincere advocate of constitu-
tional and commercial freedom," in favour of a
" reform of the representative system," the extension
of the suffrage, and for the promotion of a tho-
roughly unsectarian system of education.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
THE annual meeting of this society has been held
during the week at Salisbury.
The show of sheep and cattle this year was good,
and that of horses magnificent. The pig yard
contained the largest and best assorted sam-
ples of breeds yet brought together, and the sheep
pens were especially good in Southdown and Cots-
wolds. Unfortunately, a sad accident happened to
an unequalled pen of Southdowns forwarded by the
Duke of Richmond. While coming per rail the
straw in their pen was ignited by a spark from the
engine, and the poor animals so severely burnt as at
one time to render their recovery doubtful and quite
destroy their chance of the first prize. The first
and second prizes for sheep have both been taken
by Mr. Jonas Wcbb. Among the shorthorns the
prize has been awarded to Colonel Townley, the
breeder of the celebrated bull "Butterfly," which
last year fetched the enormous sum of 1,200
guineas for exportation to Australia.
The sowing, hoeing, haymaking, and some other
machines have been tested on various fields, com-
prising about twenty-two acres, situate at Laverstock,
and which had been cultivated in such a manner
as to develop the special capabilities of the various
implements. The curiosity among the horse-hoes
is a turnip-thinner, exhibited by Messrs. Howard, in
which the revolving cutters are attached upon discs
on upright spindles instead of on horizontal spindles
s in Huckvale's implement.
Among haymakers, Nicholson's improvement of
hollow boxes to the wheels, as shown at Chelmsford
last year, has eclipsed the celebrated machine of
Smith and Ashby.
The trial of reapers took place upon a field of ripe
rye, near the show-yard, the style and expedition of
the work assuring the light-land farmer that be need
not suffer a single acre of corn to shake unreaped
for lack of harvest-men, as was extensively the case
last year, and affording promise to the grower of
heavy and storm-broken crops that he may yet hope
to possess a machine able to shear without wasting,
and to save both expense and the more momentous
matter of time in his laborious harvesting. Un-
doubtedly the greatest novelty in this department,
and one of the most meritorious and valuable pieces
of machinery in the whole show, is the "Eagle "
combined reaper and mower, invented by A. H. Caryl,
of Sandusky, Ohio, United States, and exhibited by
Mr. Clayton, of the Atlas Works, Dorset-square,