The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

iprobilutal.

THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAAI AT
AYLESBURY.

THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM presided last week at a
special meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural
Association. The meeting was convened with the
view of adopting measures for the extension and
enlargement of the objects of the association.
Mr. J. HOWARD, the secretary, read a letter of apo-
logy from Mr. Disraeli—in which the Right Hon.
member expressed his satisfaction at hearing the,
the sphere of action of the society, which for five and
twenty years had so consistently laboured to not'
rage and maintain a good feeling bel,ween the various
classes of the agricultural community, was now about
to be enlarged—and also similar letters from Mr.
Farrar, the High Sheriff, Mr. Philip Dauncey, Col.
Brownlow Knox, M.P., the Van. the Archdeacon
Bickersteth, and numerous other gentlemen influen-
tially connected with this county, all expressing
their
approval of the objects of the meeting.
In the evening the members of the association and
a distinguished company, numbering in all upwards,
of two hnndred, dined at the George Hotel. Iho
Duke of Buckingham presided, supported by Mr. Du
Pre, M.P., the Marquis of Chandos, M.P., General

MARCH 15, 1856•

Hall, M.P., Colonel Howard Vyse, M.P., and many
of the magistrates and clergy.
the usual loyal toasts— the Army and Navy, and
the Bishop and Clergy of the diocese—having been
drunk,
Mr. Du PRE proposed the health of the noble
founder and president of the association, the Duke
of Buckingham. No one bad more interested him-
self in the welfare of this county, whose interests he
had at heart, than the Duke of Buckingham ; and he
was sure that the warm greeting which his grace had
received that day would be an omen of his future
reception amongst them.
The toast having been most enthusiastically re-
spniled to,
The NOBLE DUKE said:—

Mr. Du Pre and Gentlemen,—Often as I have risen
on previous occasions to return my grateful acknow-
ledgments to this association for their invariable kind-
ness, never have I risen with feelings of deeper emotion
t inn I do at this moment to thank you fur this kind,
t •is honest expression of your feelings. (Applause.)
It has been my good lot and fortune to live in this county
tor many years. 1 have been associated with you from my
earliest days—l have seen this association spring up
amongst you—l have witnessed its early prosperity, and I
sin here to-day to lend my hum ble aid towards its ultimate
triumph. I have been the humble but honest instrument
in carrying into effect those great principles which are dear
to all our hearts, and in my place in Parliament, when I
bad the honour to be your representative, I strove—ineffec-
tually, it may be, but still with unswerving purpose—to
aid that cause on which your best wishes were set. ( Loud
cheers.) But proud as I am, gentlemen, of my former
days, what must I feel when I see in this room those old
friends, those kind associates, those familiar faces cheering
me on as 1 appear again amongst yon. I cannot express
all I feel. You must take the word for the deed. You
must take the word of the man who never yet deceived
you as your representative. (Applause.) When I look
hick on the happy days passed in the society of many now
assembled here, when I revert to the cheerful hours spent
in their society, when I think of the kindness I have
received from you, even to the warm reception of the
honest labourer—(cheers)—when 1 think of all these
things as memory hears me to the past, then do I feel
proud, indeed, that I then obtained your good opinion,
and that, in spite of circumstances, I still retain it. If 1
have in bygone days rendered service to the county, I
have only followed the principles of my family, and I am
proud to say that in advocating and maintaining those
principles I have never been defeated. (Cheers.) When
I see around this board many old and familiar faces, ,Then
I see one nearest connected with me by blood and affection
cheering me on by a kind and warm approval, how can I
express my grateful thanks? I wished to retire into private
life ; by your desire have I come amongst you, grateful,
imleed, for the reception you have this day accorded me.
What can I say more? What more can I add when no
words can give expression to all I feel? You will believe
me when I say I fully appreciate the reception you have
this day given me—a reception which I may say surpasses
everything I have ever before known. If I am permitted
to remain a few years longer in this world there is no
trouble which I will shun—there is no efforts in which I
shall be found wanting—to carry into effect your wishes,
and to render this association one worthy of the support of
this great country. Your president will never be found
backward in coming forward. (Cheers and laughter.)

The noble duke having passed a high eulugium on
Mr. Du Pre as one of the representatives of the
county, concluded by saying :

Whatever may happen to the man who addresses you—
and, perhaps, be has suffered more than many—his heart,
his energies, and his soul will ever be given to the service
of his country, and to those kind and enduring friends
who have never forsakes: him.

SIXTEEN SACKS OF ADULTERATED FLOUR were
seized at Goole, last Saturday, on the premises of
Rhodes and Rockett, the millers. Three-quarters
per cent. of alumina was found in nearly every
sample. The magistrates convicted the defendants
In 101. fines and costs, and ordered the flour to be
sold for pig feeding—the money to go to the poor.
A SAD ACCIDENT occurred at the launching of ten
gunboats at Pembroke, on Saturday last. The stage
erected for the visitors gave way, and the whole were
thrown with great violence down the slip. Several
children and persons were severely cut and bruised,
and a Miss Matthias, who had just christened one
of the vessels, received so severe a concussion of the
brain that her life is despaired of.

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