The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The December general meeting of this society
took place on Saturd.,y, at the Societ)'s Rooms, Hanover-
sorer ; CoIooeICII.II.LONSM in the chair.
The report stated that :
" Ammon of the society are is • satisfactory condi-
tion, as is shown by the auditors' balance sheet to the 3.nli
.f June last ; since witch time tli. finance committee have
repor.erl, that all claims al.tiu.t the roeety su!,initted to
them had been ditehasged, and that the funded property
now stands in the Dem.., of the trustees •J the society, at
9,990/. Stuck. The MULCH have resolved to tiller, in
to their cu-rent prise ail for uu on the gen
graphical discovery of new supplies of guano, a priao for
the discovery of a substitute fur Peruvian guano, under the
following terms and conditions
"1. TERMS 01, THE Putts:
"Oct thousand pounds and the gold medal of the society
will be atom for the discovery of • manure cqurl in fer-
tilising properties to the l'ecnvian guano, and of which en
unkmitcd supply ems be furnished to the English farmer at
a rate not exceeding five pounds per ton.
" ttoe 11 —Conids or Conrgrirtom
7. •

" 1. That in the oiler of 1,1.1001. and the gold medal of the
soeiety,:as a prize for the discovery of it manure equal in
every respect iv its fertilising properttes to Peruvian guano,
the 1.0001. shell be offered in one unill%ided sum.
"2. That the eteuderd of such l't melon guaro shall be
assumed to be the average et suit obtained by ProfcesorWay,
the euusulting chemist to the eocietv, and puhlished in ►u
paper in the lOth volume of the "Journal," pages 206
'O4.

"3. That each competitor claiming the prize shall send in
with his sample a chemie it Real> cis under seal, together with
such practical proofs of the successful application of the ma-
nun to growing crops of grain, reads, and grasses, as he
can preluee duly certified by growers. That such samples
of manure shall be liable to be subjected to all such further
twice, and for such period of trial, as the council may deem
requisite. All claimants shall, on application made to them
by the secretary, be expected to supply, free of expense to
ice society, such quantity of their respective manures as
may be required for trial.
" 4. That no claim for the prise will be entertained unless
the clsimant can satisfy the council that an unlimited supply
of the manure at a price not ex: evillest de per ton wit; st all
times be within the reach of the agriculturists of the United
Kingdom.
the council hen already reason to believe that the
attention which this prise will call to the whole economy of
manuring, and to the agricultural as well as unitary quos-
lion of the manurial mourns of the kingdom, will lead to
new and important results.
" The council, alter full deliberation upon the following
emended conditions, proposed to them by their veterinary
commit?, 1., and which have been accepti.42oa the college,
decided last month to renew the grant of ' for the Cur-
rent year to the Royal Veterinary College :
" I. That members of the society shell:have that privilege
of sending cattle, sheep, and pies to the Royal Veterinary
College on the same terms as if they were members of the
College.
" 2. That the college shall investigate particular classes
of 'linens or subjects as may from time to time be directed
by tne council.
3. That in addition to the increased number of lectern
given by Professor Simonds, the lecturer on Cattle l'athm
logy, to the pupils in the college, he shall also deliver
lectures in the council room before the members of the
society.
" 4. That the college shall supply a detailed report of the
cases of rattle, sheep and pigs treated in the Royal Veteri-
nary College.
•• The council have had their attention called by his royal
highness Prince Albert to the limns of inoculation so ex-
tensivelycarried on st the present tints in l'ruesia, Belgium,
and the Netherland., with a slew to modify the severity of
the symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle. la eons,-
qnence of the information furnished by his royal highness
to the Council, they authorised Professor Simonds, as the
veterinary. inspector of the society, to proceed to Belgium,
in Auisut laat,fer the purpose of msking himself personally
acquainted with the facts connected with the conditions
and results of the employment of this process. 'rho
report which Professor Simonds has made to the conned
on this visit of inspection will appear in the next partof the
society's journal, along with a second report on the occur-
rence of pleuro-pneumonia in the extensive herd of dairy cows
belonging to Mr. Paget, of ltuddiegton Orange, near Not-
tingham, and which that gentleman has with great libe-
rality placed at the disposal of the society for any experi-
ments the council may direct to be made on them. Profess
sor Simends has accordingly selected a certain number of
animals for the purpose of experiment at Ruddingtnn, mid
a further number to be brought up to the Royal Veterinary
College for experiment under his own immediate superin-
teadenee. The council have expressed to Mr. l'aget their
warmest thanks for the invaluable opportunity he has thus
afforded to the society, of having direct investigations most
tatistaeterily made on the nature and cure of this fatal ma-
lady. The council have also been favoured hz Lord Stanley,
Uuder-Secretary of State for the k °reign Depart-
ment, Sir Emerson T t, Secretary to the Board of
Trade, and Le. Willem', of Ranch, in Belgium, with cos-
munications on this subject.
" The council have decided that the Gloucester meeting 1
for the South Wales district shall be held in that city in
the:week commencing Monday, the I Ith of July. They
have decided on the prizes to be offered for live stock, and
for the prizes and conditions of implements for that occa-
sion, deferring uatil after Christmas the final arrangements
fur the poultry prizes. They have also decided on the
prizes to be offered for the essays and reports of next
' year. They have agreed to the arrangements for pre-
paring the land for the trial of implements, and have
accepted the offer of the contractor of works to under-
take their execution at the same rate of charge as in for-
mer years. They have received from the professors at
the Royal Agricultural College, at Cirencester, the offer
of co-operation in any way in which their services may
be thought, by the council, in any way Ii promote
the objects of the society at the Gloucester meet-
ing. In order to consider the best means of obviat-
ing over-feeding of .live stock for breeding purposes
exhibited at the country meetings of the society,
the Earl of Dude, your late president, uadertook the task
of entering into communication with the greater number
of those gentlemen who had acted as judges at the country
meetings of the society, and the great majority of their
opinions being in favour of decisive measures to put a atop
to en evil so generally complained of, a committee was ap-
pointed, who have made the following recommendations,
which have been since adopted by the council :
I. To appoint three juries of condition for the three
divisions of (1) cattle, (2) sheep, (3) horses and pigs ; each
jury to be drawn by lot by the steward of each division from
the whole of the judge* comprised in it, and to consist of
nine judges endow steward ; the steward himself not to
vote, hut to take the decision in each cue by a show of
bands, the majority of votes to decide.
" 2. The following notice to be printed in red ink at the
foot of each certificate of entry—namely, ' All salamis sent
for exhibition whisk shall in the opinion of the jury be in
an over-fed condition will be disqualified by the jury before
inspection by the judges ;' and a placard to be placed over
the standing of every animal that shall be so disqualified,
stating the reason of sueb disqualification.
" 3. The sge of bulls in the two classes of each division
of capital not to exceed four years and two years respec-
tively on the Ist of July in the year of show for which they
are entered.

4 No boll in Class I. of each division of settle to be
eligible for • prise unless • certificate is produced of his
luivirsg served not lees than three different cows within
saw this. ateatbs preceding the Ist of June in the year of
the show.

"b. No alteration to be made is the limit of sp tor
cows; bet that every cow in milk and ant M calf nisei ho
certified to haws bad a live calf within*, Mho amain
preceding the date of the show. No kart deftwei se be
calf to be eligible unless certifi.d to lava Imo bona bibs.
let of Marsh is the year of show sod sot to ham Leos
again in bulling subsequently to thee dote; see her owner
afterwards to receive the prise, sinless es the produetion of
a further certificate that she has produced a live calf before
the Ist of February ensuing.
6. No cattle or sheep to hays been fed with milk subse-
quently to the Ist of January in the year of the show.
" 7. No boor or sow to be shown that cannot walk on ac-
count of over-fatness._

The council have determined the district for the country
meeting in 1856 to be comprised of the counties of Hunting-
don, Cambridge, Bedford, Buckingham, Hartford, sad
Essea.l

Mr. C. TOWNLIT, in moving the adoption of the report,
adverted to the new regulation there stated with reseed to
the exhibition of cattle, and expressed his belief that It
would prevent numbers from exhibiting. It was, he said,
impossible to Is down the precise degree of fatties', which
any animal should have u a audition of obtaining the
prise ; all that was really necessary vine that it should be a
boom fide breeding animal. He bad himself an excellent
breeding cow which it was impossible to keep from fat-
, toning.
The Rev. J. LTNTON, in seconding the motion, raid the
council were entitled to the best thanks of the members for
their efforts to effect a reduction in the price of guano, and
more especially (or their recent offer of a reward of 1,0001.
for the discovery of a substitute for guano, equal to it both
in quality an .1 quantity, which could be sold in the market
at per ton.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. It. BAkkan then presented the cash statement, from
which it appeared that tho receipts during the year
amounted to 6,1371. 13e. 3d., need the expenditure to
4,464/ 13a. 9.1 , leaving a balance in hand of 2,0821. 19s. Gd.
Thanes were voted to the auditors, who were re-elected.
Mr. W. Toot moved a vote of thanks to Professors Way
and Simonds for their valuable lectures.
Mr. W. loxes seconded the motion, and observed, that
though a purely scientific farmer would cut a poor figure
la the prevent day, no one mould be a grad farmer who was
not guided in Rome degree by arientille principles.
The motion havicg been agreed to,
Prof. sour WAY Slid that whilst he was investigating sub-
jects shieh hors on the daily life of the agriculturist, and
whilst results w, re necessarily slow' the belt encourage-
ment he could have to persevere was the confidence of the
society.
Professor SIMONDS, who followed, dwelt with satisfac-
tion as the good understending and harmony which ex-
isted between that owlet, and another body with which he
was eanate ed, namely, the Royal Vet. Hoary College, and
expressed his con•iction that the diffusnn of acientifie
knowledge would tend to the edvaneement of both, as well
as to the benefit of the whole community.
The business having thus terminated,
The CHAIkNAN asked if any gent'cman wished to put
refaseosetion or to make any remark foe the council's
Mr. Towni.ze then introduced the 'shiest of the new

fnlinhlieeli and repeated his Issavietion that it would ope-
rate Injuriously in reference to future cattle exhibitions.
Mr. 11. BARRER maid, having lien chairman of the vete-
Haag committee, he felt hound to explain the alteration
had arisen from the fact that animals should be valued, not
in proportion to their fatness, but to their milts a• breed-
ing stock. It was well known that in more clues than
one animals hat been inhibited which were perfectly use-
less a. breeding Meek.
Mr. 0111111{ILL thought that, although individuals niigh
sugar by the new regulation, the "labile generally wreslil
be greatly benefited. (11, .r, hear.) It was •Insied %shi-
ny felt that animals of all descriptions had been very
much overfeit. He would suggest to the council the im-
portance of devising some means of colliding the sweep-
logs of the, metropolitan street. for manuring imposes.
The other day, in passing over the Slit Meld and Lincoln-
shire Railway, he observed a long line of truck., and on
making inquiries he was told that they belonged to the cor-
poration of Manchester, and were emistautly employed in
conveying the offal and manure of Idaucluster to the low
lands of Lincolnshire.

Mr. W. F. llotineiSaid that, in adopting the new regula-
tion, the council had selected the only plan which appeared
likely to check the continued ezbibition of feet animals in a
yard intended fur the show of breeding stock; but he did
out think the nine judges would reject a good breeding
animal in a fat condition, provided the fat were nut pro-
elue..el by the use of milk, meal, or oil cake.
The Rev. J. Lionize entirely approved of the new
regulation.
Mr. R. BARllltft said one of the moot eminent stock
breeders in the Midland counties had told him that, having
expressed to some one his astonishment that he did not gain
prizes, he found the cause to be that he did not give his
animals milk up to the last minute; after adopting that
course he gained almost every prize for which he competed.
It wag not the intention of the society to encourage such a
practice. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. F. 'loom said, as a member of the council, he
wished to state that in future no bull was to he ellubited
after be was four years old. Cows must have produced a
live calf within twelve months, and the prize would not be
awarded unless •licy also pr,iduced a live calf before the lot
of February succeeding the show. The whole matter hail
been duly considered, and he trusted that the alteration
would meet with the approval of most practical men.
The subject was then dropped.
On the motion of Lord CANOTII, seconded by Mr. S.
Doves, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and,
after a brief acknowledgment from the chairman, the pro-
ceedings terminated.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TILE

SOUTH AND NOUTII COASTS OF

Plans hare been deposited, and notices given, for
the purpose of bringing before the present session of parlia-
ment two projects for making a railway from Plymouth
northwards. These are the South Devon and Tariatuck
Railway, of which company Lord Morley is the chairman,
and which is promoted by the din ctors of the South Devon
Railway Company ; and the Plymouth, Tavintock, Oke-
liampton, end Eimer Railway, of which company Mr.
Thomas Gill, late M.P. for Plymouth, stet formerly the
chairman of the South Dom Railway Company, is the
chairman, The first-mentioned company, the South Devon
and Tavistork, only contemplate at present going for
powers to make a railway from Plymouth to Tasistock, but
it is presumed that in another year they would seek powers
to continue the line by the way of Weet Des, n from Taviw
tock to Litton and Launceston, thence to Holswerthy and
Bids ford to the Bristol Channel. The other company now
seek powers to make • railway from Plymouth through
Tavistoek to Okehampton to Coleford, theca to connect
itself with the North Devon or Taw Vale line. and so enable
plies ogen to go or goods to he forwarded either to Exeter
on the east, or to Bideford and Barnstaple on the north.
By the proposed line the distance from Plymouth to Exeter
would be 57 miles, by the South Devon it is 52; but the
promoters of the new line say, in consequence of superior
gradients and corners, the journey might be mado in a
shorter period by many minutes than by the South Devon.
This statement will be sufficient to indicate that the pro-
posed line will be opposed by the South Devon directors,
and a resolution to that effect was accordingly come to at
one of the recent meetings of the board. The promoters of
the Okehampton line c .ntend that the illereMe of traffic
which railway communication with Bideford and the dis-
trict between Okehampton and Plymouth to the South
Devonshire would be far greater than any portion of the
through traffic from Plymouth to Exeter it may divert.
There EMI be no question of the fact that the Okehsnipton
line in far the most popular in the district through which it
is to pass, as well as iu Plymouth. Nearly the whole of the
landowners along the line have agreed to sell their land at
a fair agricultural value end to take payment in the shares
of the company, and in addition many of them have taken
• large number of shares beyond the value of their land.
In Plymouth, dueng the past week, meetings iu favour of
the minipanic* have been held.

MUSIC.
JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.

M. Jolliet) has terminated his series of farewell
concerts at Drury-lane Theatre, previous to his departure
fur America. The lest took place on Saturday night, and
attracted an immense assemblage, every part of the house
being densely crowded during the whole evening. The pro
grammind this's of the preceding conoerts,was an agreeable
mixture of great orchestral pieces, with the light and bril-
liant dance music which Jullicn (both in its composition and
in its performance) has brought to an tinper cedented degree
of excellence. The principal features of the eoacert were,
Weber's overture to "Buryanthe ;" Mendelmohn's Sym-
phony in A, generally called the "Italian Symphony,"
from its having been written in Italy, and from its most
characteristic movement being in the style of • Neapolitan
Sallarello • grand selection and fantasia from • Don
Giovanni," arranged by Jullien, the vocal parts being per-
formed by Barret, Prospere, and Herr Koenig ; Angelina's
beautiful " Marche Funehre," which has been nightly
repeated during the series; Jullieu's quadrille, from his
own opera, " l'ietro it Grande;" and Pruch's air and varia-
tions, and Haas's 71yroliessies, sung by McWe. Anne Zen.
At the end of the concert " God Save the Queen " was
performed with the whole strength of the orchestra and
chorus,

haiku had • " tremendous " reception; he was ap-
plauded with acclamations which might well be called
enthusiastic. And truly this able and enterprising
musician deserves well of the English public, having done
more than ever has bees done by any other individual to
popularise the art, by educating (as we may say) the gene-
ral taste, and raising and refining the discernment and feel-
ing of the million Wan appreciation of the meet clerical
works of the great masters. Whoever remembers the
progress of the entertainment called the "Promenade Con-
cert " since it was first introduced within thees twenty
year, cannot but be struck with the change in the character
of the towers themselves, and in the manner of their re-
ception. When Jullien began cautiously to introduce, now
and then, an overture or • short movement of • symphony
among his dashing waltzes and quadrilles, the intrusive
novelty was barely tolerated, and was the signal for noisy
inattention or weary impatience till the audience were again
enlivened by the spirit-stirring measures of the ball-room.
Bet Jullien persevered, and gradually got the =tithed«
whom he attracted by his quadrilles and waltzes to listen
to his symphonies, overture*, and elegant operatic setae-
tie«, and at last to prefer them to everything else. Is
this respect the series just closed has been an advance upon
these of every preceding year. The finest works of the
greeisst masters have formed the largest portion of every
peetymimme, and have been uniformly listened to with the
alma attention and interest. Some night. there has
Meat a greater quantity of classical music than has ever
Mw given even at • convert of the Philharmonic Society.
One night there were two of Beethoven's greatest sympho-
nies (the Pastorale and the C minor) ; the same composer's
Choral Fantasia for the pianoforte, orchestra, and chorus;
and his Overture to " Leonora," almost a symphony for
magnitude and grandeur. We do not believe that such •
profusion of classical piece., demanding for their enjoy-
ment • cultivated taste and practised ear, was ever
before given at any concert en Europe; and yet
the whole of this lerned and profound music
was not only warmly applauded, but • portion
of it was actually encored. A similar result was produced
another evening, when the entertainment consisted chiefly
of great orchestral pieces by Mendelsohn. Nor is it in
London only that Jullien has wrought this improvement in
the public taste. At Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester,
Glasgow—all the principal towns, indeed, of the three
kingdoms—the effects of Lis exertions have been marked
and satisfactory. And we cannot help feeling that his de-
parture for the New World—where, however, he has •
great field before him—is in the meantime • serious loss to
the music of this coastry.

THE WEST INDIA STEAMERS. —,Sir William Pym,
the inspector of quarantine regulations under the Board of
Health, arrived in Southampton on Thursday night, and
in consequence of there being no sickness on board the
West India steamer Medway, and ten days having tran-
spired since a death from yellow fever occurred on board
of her, she was allowed to strike her yellow flag yes-
terday morning, and enter Southampton dock. All the
parsons who came home in the La Plata ill in the yellow
fever have recovered or are recovering, with the exception
of one, an engineer, named Napier, who died this week,
and whine death is registi red by the medical gentleman
who attended him as having been caused by malignant
fever. Napier's case appears to have been a mitigated
form of yellow fever, but the most virulent kind that could
possibly exist in this country. A low fever prevails to some
trifling client in Soutledripton the some as in other Mime,
hardly rising to the malignity ot typhus, and this illness Is
attributable to the humidity of the atmosphere end the
unfavourable *father, redwing the standard of health.
Dr. Sutherland and Dr. C•ioper, of the Board of health,
have recommended the West India Company to make
some alterations in their ateami re in order to secure some
better ventilation throuehout their ships, and which is now
rendered doubly desirable on account of the intense heat of
the West Indies and the prevalence of yellow fever there.
By better ventilation and other sanitary improvemen4 it
is most probable that the West India packets would be
able to arrive et Southampton with clean bills of health.
QUEEN Virroma (my. the Ilambrorg Vorreapm-
dent) having expressed a desire to the King of Henover,
that the medals, crimes, and other decoratious of the late
Duke of Wellington should be auerabled together in a no. '
tlnnal collection, his Majesty at once weeded to the Omen's I
&sir,, as far ee he was tonrerned. lie also directed the
baton of Marshal of Hannv,r, which had been accorded M '
the late Duke, and the Orsnil Cross of the Oaelphic Order,
should be gins to the eldest eon of the deemed.