The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

Mt RIGS? HON. B. DISRAELI ATA YLESBURY.

AYLESBURY, THUKUU.T.

The annual ploughing match and allow of stock
is connection with the Royal sad Central Beaks Aided-
viral Association took place in this to,. yesterday. In the
evening a sumptuous entertainment was served up by Mr.
Fouler, of the White Hart, is the County•hall, to whit&
about32ogentlamen sat down. SirANTRUNT or ROTIIIICIULD•
Bart., president of the association, occupied the chair ; and
among those present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.,
Mr. C. G. Da Pre, M.P., Mr. T. T. Bernard, M.P., Mr. B. G.
Smith, M.P., Sr Thomsa Fremantle, 8,r1., Mr. John Abel
Smith, the Rev. C. Lowudes, Mr. P. Hammy, Mr. G. G.
hgott, Mr. J. Hale, Mr. Lowed's, Mr. B. Davidson, Cap•
twin Fremantle, R.N., to.

The usual loyal toasts having been bonoured, the CHAIR'
31A\ proposed, The Army, Navy, and Volunteers," which
was responded to by Captalts FREMANTLE.
" The Bishop Cley of the Diocese " was proposed by
Mr. flux, and responded to by the Rev. C. LOViNDES.
Mr. Di.; Pm, M. ~ then gave the health of the chairman,
which was duly acknowledged.
The CHAIRMAN—With your permission, gentlemen, I now
cell upon a gentleman whom I nave had thehmour of know-
ing for the last 30 years to to you the toast of the
evening, the Right Hon. Mr. Disraeli. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. B. Inefuma, M.P., at rising, was received with the
greatest enthusiasm. When the cheering, which was again
and again renewed, had subsided, the right hoc. gentleman
spoke to the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to
the Association." In proposing it he dwelt largely
on the benefit of such associations, sud then
returned to the charge in respect of the prizes offered
to labourers for length of service and excellence in
agricultural pursuits. He emphatically supported the
giving of such prizes, and aunounced bis intention
to offer one next year for care and attention
in the management of the dwellings of la-
bourers. Before sitting down be alluded to the
distress in Lanceahire. He said :—So far as I
can observe—and I have been about the county lately • good
should say that the harvest of England, in which
we are all interested, is by 'mimeos the bad harvest which
was anticipated in the glimmer, and the county of
Buckingham may rank in the first class. (Cheers.)
This, then, gentlemen, is a moment of prosperity,
and continued prosperity to the farmers of Euglarsd, and
I want them to remember the positiou of their own clam in
the first instance with regard to worldly fortunes. What I
want to say is that they should provide for the future.
(Hear, hear.) It is a remarkable thing that although farm-
in is the most honourable and ancient calling iu the country,
it is the only calling which has never yet, or male until very
recently, availed itself of thou resources which the sym-
pathy of the community is always ready to confer on any
established class in this country. I wait the Jarman of
Buckinghamshire to support mote roundly than they do,
and become more acquainted than they are, with that provi-
dent association which was established, the year before he
died, by theists Duke of Richmond— I mean the Agricultural
Provident Association. (Hear, bear.) You know that every
man who follows a calling must be suoject to vicissitudes,
however prudent, or however energetic be may be ; and all
the vicissitudes that are experienced by other callings are
equally experienced by the farmer, who has, in addition,
vicissitudes and visitations peculiar to bimselt. I believe
that until within the last two or three yens the county has
made no provision whatever for those calamities which may
fall upon its members, which no providence can foresee, arid
sometimes no fortitude can endure. (Hear, hear.) Under
these cirri:ma'am:es I would beg the farmers of this county
to give all the support in their power to the Agricultural
Provident Benevolent Society. Its object is to give to
farmers who have suffered from calamities and unforeseen
=ideate a pension for themselves in adversity, and a pro-
vision for their widows and orphans in case of death. It
also provides for the education of their children, and gives
them an opportunity of making provision for their families.
I feel that this is • subject which only needs to be
mentioned to ensure its cordial consideration. C' Hear,
bear," and cheers.) I know that in the tenth of Bucking-
hamshire we have given no ioconsiderahle support to that
society in London, and I trust that the farmers of the Vale
of Aylesbury and the north will come forward.
because the subject is one that materially concerns the
interests of the farmers as • clue. (Cheers.) At this mo-
ment, touching on the subject of the comparative prosperity
of our fortunes as the landed interest, I cannot refrain from
adverting to one topic to which on another occasion I felt it
my duty to allude, and one which oo all mendoos at the
present time I can scarcely believe any Englishman cm
keep silent upon. I refer to the contest between the
comfort and prosperity we enjoy and the condition in which
a very large class of the lebourers of England and the
northern part of the kingdom is placed. (Hear.) I would
not for one moment indulge in any very flattering and ful-
some panegyric on the labouring classes of Laniashire,
Cheshire, awl Yorkshire The people have their parasites
as well as nristorrscies sod monarchies, and I am not are of
them ; but it is impoesible for any one to be insensible
to the intelligence and good souse with which the
working claims of the north of England have de-
ported themselves during this temble visitation,
which has not been brought upcm them by their own folly,
which bu not been brought upon them by the immutable
decrees of Providence, but by the passion of men. ("Hear"
and cheers.) Hitherto they have borne their sufferings
with • manly spirit, sad with a good sense which I confess
has not astonished me, as I am not altogether min:Tainted
with that clue of our countrymen ; but I cannot conceal
from myself that the gloomy period of the year is now
arriving, when that which is now dark in fortune must be.
come of a still deeper hue ; and the possibility, and more
than passibility, is that a more extensive appeal must he
made to their fellow-countrymen to support them than has
hitherto been made to those dunes who, from their local
coonexiona and spontaneous charity, have already largely
contributed tonsils the relief of their suffering neighbours.
I ern sure, if that appeal be made, the landed interests
throughout this country will most cordially respond to it,
and I am anxious that the county of Buckingham,
which has always taken the Iced in public affairs, should,
when that occasion arrives, not be backward in its contribu-
tions. (" Hear, hear." sod cheers.) I think the opportu-
nity is one that should not be lost, and at this moment
when we are holding a successful meeting of the most
ancient agricultural association I be I ieveiotbis country, when
the whole of England is witnessing similar assemblies, which
prove the futility of the attacks that were first levelled
against us, and the complete success and soundness of the
principles on which these societies were founded, I think it
would well become the landed interest of England to show to
the manufacturing labourers of the country that they may
count upon our sympathy and our support. (Cheers.) Gen-
tian...a, I have deviated for a moment from the strict ar-
gument which I wished, and to which, perhaps, I ought, to
have confined myself. I hope, however, that I have put
before you clearly the principles upon which this and similar
associations are founded. I hope I have not indulged
io any flattery of our fortunes, and I tenet I
bars not concealed from you those parts of
our position which are not altogether satisfactory.
1 want to see more members of this particular association-
-1 want to see the Royal and Central Association become
tot merely iu theory but in practice the central society of
this county. I wish in the cultivation of our land, in the
improvement of oar stock, in the invention of implements
and in the elevation of the working classes, that we should
prove our claim and our right to the proud title of being
the Central Association, and if to-day we emancipate our-
selves from the mere laal position in which we find our-
selves, while animating as we ought the immediate district
with which we are individually connected, we can held out
to the county gem:rally • great example for them to follow.
(Chevy) I think that this association should be one that
should show that societies of this kind are not mere meet.
logs on one day of the year of genial companion, ; but that
it is a society founded on sound and deep principles, exer-
cising a beneficial influence on the community in which it
nista, and entitlim it to public approbation and public
gratitude. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, in conclusion, I beg you
to drink "Prosperity to the Royal and Central Bucks Agri.
cultural Avocation." The right hot. gentleman sat down
amid loud cheers.

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Sir T. FIUMIAIITLE briefly proposed the badth of the
members for the county, which was acknowledged by Mr.
Du Pi!.

Mr. P. 157tOirorr sent gave the health of the members
for the borough of Aylesbury.
Mr. T. T. Between, M.P., and Mr. S.C.Burnt, M.P.,
respoeded.
Several other toasts, principally of a local nature, were
su bsee.quently drunk, and the proceedings were brought to a
clos