The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-16 00:00:00

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AND

DINNER.
The Lewes exhibition was visited yesterday by a
much larger number of persons than on the preceding day ;
but the arrivals from London and Brighton fell short of
what might hays been expected. Several leading members
of the aristocracy, whose names occur below, wen in the
cattle sad implement yards, and stayed long enough to
i make a very complete nspection.
In the afternoon the dinner teak place in the pa-
vilion adjoining the show yard. The their was
taken dowdy after four by the Earl of Dude,
the president, and the following were prawn :
The Earl of Davit, President; the Chief °dicer of Lewes,
Viscount Palmerston, his Excellency the Chevalier Bun-
sen, his Eseelleney the Hon. Abbot Lawrence, the Right
Hon. Sir John Paington, Ban , the Earl of Carlisle, his
Excellesey the Marquis d'Aaeglio, his/Jet:enemy the Baron
Bentinek, Major-Oen. Sir Harry Smith, Bart.. his Excel-
lencyOsseral Count Groans, the Earl De la Wan, Lord
Willingham', the Earl of Sheffield, Lord Berms, Lord
Hash the Berl Talbot, Coast Peoposcher, the Chair
ngs,
man of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway, M. aiehard
von Holtzendorf-Viel-Mansdorff, Mr. Hampton Linnaeus,
1 M.P., Chairman of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
1 Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, Chairman of the
South Western Railway ; Mr. Fay, from the United
States; Chairman of the Eater& Counties Railway, Mr.
B. Vernon Hannon, Sir Edward Baker, But.; Mr
Davey, late Chief OSeer of Lewes; Mr. Lower, late Chief
OMeer of Lewis, the Earl of Leicester, Viscount Gage, Sir
Henry Shiite!, Bart, Colnel Davies, the liegh Sheriff of
Sown. Pedesser Simonds, Professor Way,'Junior Chief
Outer of Lew*, Captain Stanley Carr, Sir Archibald Mac-
donald, Ban" Captain Hepburn, Ilartin Martens, Mr. Wood
(of Culimus), Lord Rivers, M. ,Mbilexieux, Captain
Mark MAI, Mr. C. A. Saunders, Me. R. Meesiii, Mr.
Slight, Mr. Stun, Mr. Endemism Ilimpen.ties Earl of
Darnley,tlio Earl of Chichester (Viss-Piffeman).
After the loyal toasts,
The CEAUIXAN papaya "The Peroiipt Ml•kbers."
TM mono of meow of that disuns~ body woo. he
sohl, rsonosltgiwi tisg isolsod a amilmoso of the har-
wwwy ishiit Imo wasp* owl It was swot spiteful to see
thus ming do a& Inaba with British agriculturists
is ask onalosisoss Ms idioms the ate atpu., (Cheers.)
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He anistediol try The Royal Agricultural
Society of England.'
After a cordial response
SirJ -PAK INOTON miss:mid "Tlie President." They must
all feel that the interests of the landowner and the interests
of the tenant farmer alike required that they should com-
bine, by every possible improvement in agriculture, by
every possible canna of agricultural skill, to produce from
the soil the largest crop. which it would yield. (Hear,
hear.) Such, he believed, were the objects of that society,
and they would all agree with him that npne
were so St to preside from time to time over their
annual meetings as those who had rendered themselves
conspicuous by their own exertions in the cause of agricul-
ture. (fTheen.)
The toast was drunk with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN, after returning thanks (or the com-
pliment paid to him, laid he wished to make a few remarks
with regard to some practical matters. As respected the
show which was then taking pins, he believed he might
safely say that the show of cattle was an avenge one.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the implements, he was en-
abled to say snow. Never, since they had been a society,
ha.' they had so useful or so instructive an exhibition
of implements—(hear, hear) ;end he believed that were

they to take a pricticel farmer and a practised engineer to
some of the best meatuses in the yard, the one would be
remised on seeing the wonderful adaptation of those
machine, to his wants and to the cultivation of the lascl,
whilst the other would be equally astonished at the sim-
plicity and the perfection of the mechanism. (Hear, bets.)
There wee but one thing which, to his mind, was a draw-
back to that society, and that wan the eaters. fatness of
the animals exhibited. (Hear, hear.) He had not heard
of many beasts which had become beef, but he had heard
of many pigs which had become pork race the begirds.
of the meeting. (Laughter.) He really wished seriously
to draw attention to the state in which animals were shown
at the meetings of thatenciety,beause those meetings were not
only exhibitions of the best animals, but also drew together a
number of the best purchasen; and if the purchasers came
there, and were disappointed, they would cease to come.
(Hear, hear.) He knew it was Impossible suddenly to ran
counter to anything like the usual practice, but he asked
gentlemen to reflect whether it might not he posihle gra-
dually to rid the public to see the advantage of showing
animals :n a more natural st de. (Hese. hear.) It would,
of course, be oarless to ask any steward of the yard, or any
breeder of stock, to immolate himself on the altar of his
ceaatry. (Laughter.) Perhaps the ealy way of waists,
the *West was to have sews sleek, and he believed that ia