The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1882.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

tionsa's rasa•
BKLGIUM.

BRUSSELS. SLY?. 24.

The King arrived here at 2 p.m. to-day from
Luken, and was received by the Communal Coun-
cil at the entrance of the city. The whole of the
Civic Guard were under arms. The army was not
present, by desire of the King. The weather was
magnificent. The route taken by the King was
thronged by the people, whose enthusiasm was in-
describable. The King and the royal family rode
in the same carriage. On reaching the palace the
King received deputations from the Chamber of
Deputies and the Senate.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Sin. 24.

The official staarceizeiger of this evening an-
nounces that Prince Hohenlohe has been relieved
from his functions as President of the Ministry,
and that Count Bismark-Schonhansen has been ap-
pointed Minister of State, being also provisionally
intrusted with the Presidency of the Ministry.
The semi-official Allgemeine Preussisehe (Stern)
Zeitieng states in addition that Herr Von der
Heydt's resignation has been accepted.
The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies appointed
for to morrow has been adjourned till Monday at
the desire of the Ministry.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, Bar. 24.

The official Baieria.che ZeitungOitodaysa ye i—
" The Bavarian Government despatched its reply
to the Prussian note of the 26th ult. yesterday.
The Government therein adheres to its refusal to
accede to the treaty concluded between France and
Prussia, stating the reasons for its decision."

BELGIUM.

XL GLADSTONE, M.P., ON AGRICULTURAL

pamitzss.

MOLD, FLINTSBIRE, WIDEISDAT.

:be annual meeting of the Denbigh and Flint
Agricultural Society took place in this town to-day. It
being known that Mr. Gladstone would preside, a very
much larger number of the gentry and fanners of this part
of North Wales were attracted to the show than had ever
before been known to attend. Unfortunately torrents of
rain began to fall in the early part of the morning, and
continued all day ; but the show-yard was, nevertheless,
crowded. The cattle exhibited were remarkably fine. At
5 o'clock a party of about 300 of the principal gentry sad
farmers sat down to dinner at the Black Lion, assist the
presidency of Mr. Gladstone, who was supported by Yr.
Mainwaring, 11. P., and Sir W. W. Wynne, Bart. The
right hon. gentleman on entering the room was loudly
cheered. After the removal of the cloth be proposed the
wed loyal toasts, which were drank with enthusiasm. In'
giving the health of the Prince of Wales and the rest
of the Royal Family, be alluded in the following terms
to the approaebiog marriage of the heir apparent : "Gentle-
men,—We have all heard, with no common interest, of the
event which is about to take place. The Prince of Wales is
about to be married to an amiable and virtuous princess who
has shown herself worthy both of her future husband and
of the exalted station which she will one day be called spot
to W in the country. Among the brightest and most happy
ohasacteratics of the present period and the present reign
asalbas haranesaadiethioa, medusa than this. nesaalg.,

WO the sittreedzr., family hate been wit
=NOM while in every respect con-
formable* YID publia interests, have been also founded
upon the wroth and sincerity of personal attach-
ment, as mush se in the case of the humblest of the
Queen's subjects. (Cheers.) That was the cue in the first
instance with her Majesty herself. It was the case with
her daughters, and we have it upon the most undoubted
authority that it will be the case with the marriage which
is about to take place with the Prince of Wales and the
Primus of the House ci Denmark. (Cheers.) You will
allegros) with me in saying God bless them both, and may
liNk marriage be &fount** of joy both to themselves sod to
the people over whom at a distant date they may be called
open to reign. (Cheers.) The next toast was "The bishops
and c'ergy," which was acknowledged by the Vicar
of bold, and which was followed by " The
Army, Navy, and Volunteers." Iu giving this, We. Glad'
stone observed, that we alone of all nations had solved the
problem of vesting enormous strength in • separate portion
of the community without destroying their citizenship or
endangering the liberties of the people. (Cheers.)
Colonel Roinee responded.
The health ci the county members having been drunk and
acknowledged by Mr. Ilantiegiurio,
The Cametue said, I have now to propose, " Success to
the Denbighshire and Plintthire Agricultural Society," •
toast which I need not say forms in the main the principal
interest of our meeting to-night. (Cheers) Ws
have not been altogether favoured to-day by that,
circumstance which they say is always uppermost in the
heart of Englishmen —the weather, and there was in the
show-yard • very free exhibition of umbrella; but, with
that exception, I trust the show has been of a character
fully worthy of the ancient reputation of this society. I
duet myself profess to have such information, judgmeat,
and skill as to authorise me for a moment to attempt to
pronounce upon the merits of either cattle or sheep, hop,
or whatever else we have seen to-day ; bat I do venture to'
think that if this exhibition ls less eatisfeatory than former
ones have been, they must have been very satisfactory indeed.
It is impossible not to see that societies of this kind are of
the very greatest possible interest end importance. More
than anything else this tends to show that the agricultural
interest is not always what it has been sometimes supposed
to be—behind the rest of the world. (Cheers.) By means
of these societies you bring together the best of every de•
scription, both of live stock and of all other kinds of agricul-
tural produce, besides the tools and implements by which
you till the earth. The meaning of the is that you
all give blessings to one another. Thou who are
able to give them, give them, those who have
! occasion to receive them, receive them. There are
few who can't teach something, and fewer still who have not
something to learn • but it is within our own recollection
that you have been beforehand in thus matters, as com-
pared with the rest of the world. It was thought • very
' greet achievement, and it was a very great achievement,
when in 1851 all those engaged in industrial pursuits were
invited to send to one spot their productions for mutual
comparison and mutual instruction in what was called the
Great International Exhibition. (Cheers.) The happy idea,
which was then so successfully carried out for the first
' time, was imitated in various foreign countries
and the ascend application of it has been witneseed
among ourselves during the present year. Long before the
manufacturers and those interested in the general produe-
lion of articles of utility were called upon to compere their
productions you had exhibited to them that system is
actual operation as au established thing, both in Scotland
and in England. There were indeed societies of this de-
scription all over the country—some of them great and
others small, but all flourishing and all tending to the same
great object, mutual benefit, which I hope will always at-
tend thou, operatioua. (Cheers.) Whatever may be
I the character of the exhibition to-day, upon which better
judges than myself will pronounce, I think I may
congratulate you as an summation intimately coooected
with agriculture on the present condition and prospects of
those engaged in that noble pursuit. (Hear, hear.) All
that old English framework that binds us together, all the
three principal classes, landlords, tenant-farmers, and the
pageantry of old English and old Welsh society, have been
subjected under the circumstances of our lifetime to consi-
derable pressure and considerable strain during the tran-
sition from one system to another, but we have all seen with
the deepest satisfaction and the most cordial delight that the
result of putting the Briton upon his mettle has in this
cue been what it has undoubtedly been in other
cues—namely, that he has proved himself to be more than
equal to every call that could be made upon him, and that
out of circumstances of danger and of difficulty he has
emerged, not • loser, but a gainer, sod • conqueror over all
the obstacles that have beset his course. (Cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, I venture to hope and to believe that the fannies
class of this country, to whom we must look es the centre of
this great system of agricultural improvement in respect to
the cultivation of the land, will now feel themselves
to be embarked on a career which is likely to
be one of advantage and success to themselves,
as undoubtedly it must always be one of progress and
im-
provement. There wee • time, undoubtedly, when the
farmer was looked upon as • different kind of pen* to a
manufacturer, and when it was supposed theta low
standardof mental qualities,if not of physical exertiou,would
suffice for the pert-armoire of the duties of those who are
engaged In the cultivation of the earth ; but we have now
found outon the contrary, that everything more or less coo-
nects itself with the cultivation of the soil, and that it not
oily !evolves all the knowledge which science can be brought
to bear upon the manufacture of implements the most suitable
to be employed in cultivation, bat a high chemical know-
ledge of all the qualities of those restoratives which in their
thousand forms replenish and revive the surface of the
ground ; that consequently the duties and functions which
constitute the busieses of • farmer are such as to afford the
amplest scope to the greatest efforts, whether mental or
physical, of the highest order of intelligence which can be
brought to bear upon the subject; and that, it it is pur-
sued in the manner in which it ought to be pursued, in •
manner worthy of itself, the man who pursues
it as an occupation must be • man of active
mental as well as of active bodily habits and'
the more he exercises those gifts of the mind and that
power of thought with which Providence has endowed him,
the greater and more conspicuous will be his Incur in his
calling. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, my honourable relative,
Sir W. Glynn, has congratulated you upon the favourable
change which the last few weeks has made upon the pros.
pent of the harvest ; we have had indeed very serious
time of the reappearance of the potato diaries, but so fa'
u information has reached me I am happy to say those ap-
pursue's are local and partial, and upon the whole I think
we may consider that up to the present mo-
ment the potato, crop is in a sounder and
more healthy condition than It has usually appeared
to be of late yes*. lam afraid it would be • liti=ed
re-
mature to pronounce definitely as yet upon the mutt of
the general harvest, yet it is within my knowledge and
within the knowledge of some of my frieuds, who are most
competent to judge from an 'extensive agricultural saps-
risoce, that the yield of all descriptions of esculents for the
present year will be far more considerable than it has been
for several years past. We most all feel very great thank-
fulness for the measure of favourable weather with
which the country has been blared, and the pro-
spects which farmers now enjoy. Indeed, the
state of the corn market proves pretty conclusively
that we enjoy a fair prospect of • sufficient supply of food
for the country at Teasel:labia prices during the coining
winter. (Cheers.) If we look at airiest** as • trade, I
must say that I think it impossible not to be struck with its
favourable circumstaaces. I don't mean to my that agricul-
ture as • trade will ever be distinguished by the asersees
gains which other pursuits maaoccestruldirmernial husk
then inasmuch as agriculture is far the beilllc,b,
far the most, agreeable, sad on the whole 1t
far the most satisfactory of all puesells, h wand/