The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-25 00:00:00

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

WORMTER, FtwiT.

This is the closing day of the exhibition, and
although the attendance is certainly not so large as rester.
day, when about 40,000 persons entered the show-yard, the
weather has fortunately been very fine, and the meeting
altogether is pronounced a complete moms. The conve.
nience afforded by the Manchester omnibus:a, of which a
considerable number have been specially brought down for
carrying passengers between the railway station and the
show-yard, has been very great, although paasengen loudly
complain that, instead of being taken down to the doors
of the exhibition, they are turned out by the cads nearly
half a mile away from it. A body of the A divnion of the
metropolitan police are in attendance on the show ground,
and the Worcestershire oonsteibulary do duty outside. No
accident is reported, though tome alarm was occasioned yes
terday by some hayricks taking fire in a field war to the
show-yard. The ricks were destroyed, but no further
damage was done.

Today the annual meeting of the council of the Royal
Agricultural Society was held at the Guildhall. Viscomat
EVIIIBLET presided, and among the members of the mimed
present were Major-General Hood, Mr. Dent, M.P., Mr:
Holland, ALP., and Mr. Hall Daze, the secretary. The pro.
needing. were for the most part of a formal character.
Mr. THOMSON moved the thanks of the council to the
mayor and corporation of Worcester for the reception they
had given them. He spoke warmly of the hospitality which
the council and members of the society bad experienced at
the hands of the inhabitants, and the vote was unanimously
carried.

Major-General HOOD moved s vote of thanks to the local
committee for the arrangements of the show-yard.
Mr. Dam, of Eynsham, seconded the vote, which also
was carried unanimously.
Mr. FISHER HOODS next moved the thanks of the council
to the railway companies, and eulogised the arrangements
made by them for conveying the stock and implement■ into
the show-yard, adding that without their assistance the
society would not have held their meeting at Worcester
at all.

This being the whole of the bailees' of the meeting, a
vote of thanks was passed to the President, on which
Viscount EVIBSLET replied, and congratulated the mem.
hers of the council on the very successful exhibition which
they had had at Worcester. Although in some former
years they had had a superior number of entries in some of
the departments of stock, and the Battersea show must
always be looked upon as an exceptional are ; yet on the
whole they had never had a better exhibition of stock,
and certainly not a larger exhibition of implements, than
at Worcester. He thought the exhibition of implements
formed the most interesting feature in the meeting.
Nothing could exceed the gratifying reception which had
been given them at Worcester, and everybody who bad
visited the show-yard must have been gratified sot only
with the amount of accommodation afforded, but also most
have been struck by the beauty of the spot, with the grand
chain of hills backing the landsospe. (Hear, hear.) His
(Lord Eversley's) term of office closed with that meeting,
and he had to offer to the members of the council his
cordial thanks for the able assistance and support which
they had rendered him on all occasions, and which had
made those duties light that would otherwise have been
onerous. He bad always been warmly attached to the
society from its infancy, and should continue to feel the
seine interest in its well-being. (Cheers.)
The meeting then broke up.