The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

THE RIGHT HON. SIB E. B. LYTTON AT
HITCHIN.

HITCHIN, THOUDAT.

The annual meeting of the Hertfordshire Agri-
salami Association was held at the Oars Exchange, is this
Ulm to-day,
The Right Hoe. Sir R. B. LYTTON. Bart., presided at the
diaper, sod was supported by the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr,
G. A. Pallor M.P., Mr. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Ames, the
Env. G. B. Biomleld, the Bay. C. B. Pianos, the Rey. L.
Rsoaley, the Rev. R. Praeger', Mr. S. B. Smith, Mr. W.
Baker, ha.

Om the remorel of the cloth, the health of her Majesty
hawing been give, and duly houourd,
The CIEMILLIJI rid—lf the sins of the parents are visited
oa the Giddies, so, cm the other bad, in the virtues of the
parents the oblides often find • priceless inheritance of
diction and esteem. Is the joy al the nation at the nup-
tials of the heir apparent, in the welcome which was es
enthusiastically awarded to the bride, so doubt there IPSO am
uncoameicee tenbute to the virtue ef bins royal parse's, sad
the Priam may be said to hare seemed on the duels side
in the lastre relented from his mother's reign. (Hear, hear.)
Bat all that we blow or ma know of his royal highame
and his =gust bride Weds onafirm sad te justify
the loyal affection that was willing to take epee best
the videos ast "etre cps lids With It ts ad the Let
!raspy sign of the strong *sums and the genstal temper of his
royal !tightens that we whir an readily and so gnicioasly
waking to associate himmlf with the various enillep and
slums of his future subjects. In enrolling himself in the
gelds and fraternities of DAM+ comment*. &deeding the
meetings and k tooted Ia the objects of British art, mdse.
voserag dm to acquire • erected acquaintance with the
body parfaits of real lift • eonstry gentleman is his
Norfolk manor-bonne, a less *nonsense. and one of the
lidded riddle in the heating field, he is acquiring that braw-
l*, of madded which is among the rare doompliehmeets
of princes, sad thquainting himself with those subdividoes
which make up the national chart/Oar, and stun up the teed
of what le Fable crania. (Cheers.) La for her royal
Memos the Princess, she seeds so words of enoombem of
ogee far she bee only to appear in crier to charm all eyes
and to win ail beads. I give you the heel% of the Prime
and Prieto= of Wales and the rest of tits Royal family.
The toast was Creak with an hemmers.

The mese Maid wee " The away, easy, vaunt's; eel
which wee eummaded to by W. RAKER, jam, Seq.
W. Baum. Esq., proposed "The bishop eat cla of
the dimes." which was raspoaded to by the Rey. L.

"The hoalth of tho Lord•Lieeteseat of the musty" (the
Earl of Vera hum) wee proposal b 0. 0. Thourros. Seq.,
sad revolved with groat 'methadone.
The Bev. 0. Psalms imposed " The two Hamm at
Parillaatot."

The Marquis of SALULIKIEY irises responded is behalf of
tic House of Lode, sad expressed a hops that as his radar
sever had dimmed their maw they saner would disgrace
It sad would always so discharge their duties es to merit Ye
esteem of the country. (Chews.) _ _

The Cummun With es agrienhersl !bars Mok• at some
topics He coetisued—Aed sow for • how moments allow me
amiewhat to wide' the mope of our surveys. In proportion
as England has extended not oily boot *amid empire, bat
her forage trade. theendithe of oar count/meg, whatever
their class and calling, ie liable to be affected by the violet-
Puke of fonsige nations, sometimes affecting oar ernmilerce,
..susses oar besour, seemekess threats' our very
safety itself ;and if the;e vicissitudes shook' • y ea-
glebu us in the perils of war, there is no class in the com-
inanity which it would mere semi* affect than the inhabit-
aloha the rosiddietriets War fora time may raise prime, bet
thee it draws mthey, it impetigo the facilities for credit, sod
it sods in tams of which the land is pretty sure to bear the
=holden. And it weigh+ more heavily es the Meet
fear of pews iney loss, beanies it is frees the rural
*lye that our armies an mainly drove and every simmer
which meads • MAW, fee whit& lie streets of the mew
trepolis may be MTN* dhuidnated impasse's to many •
wintry home, from the hall to the cottage, the moornfill
death of a brother or a sm. Blear • hear.) Whim I ad-
dressed yea is this room about two Yews age I dwelt Der-
haps at some length apes these remarkable mesh whisk
had »adored theirs in which we has memorable fm start-
ling and sodden cheeses. During the two years that have
elapsed sines that time Ramps has mutinied to exhibit the
same political elements of change and of disorder. While
in America a civil war unprecedented for the merciless
waste of treasure sod of kindred blood 'Delirium animated
by magma which appear to on at a distaste* as
void of room at this moment the news-
papers of the Northern fleshes et America are actually
leviers* Curds to =Mange the disorders and oppression,
of British dominion for the mild blesiom of American
peace and brotherhood. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.)
One might have supposed that even the valiant Americas
would have thought that this was sot, the most favourable
moment to persuade Camas to desert the old Hates Jack
for the American Stgcf the stare and ottipra, jest at the mo-
ment when that Aegis so tars it tare that the sears engem
and the stripes remain. (" Hew," and laeghter.) Now,
whilst the old world b thus disturbed and the new world
is thee convulsed, it mans to osimemploos to say that
most 'main epos boo guard. Not that I am ew
of alarmists who seppoe. that these shores are always
on the point of being invaded, and certainly I am not es.
penal to solider this se imperils a war by costly
time for imagioduy dangers. But still I eoesi- that
there le no dui more obvious to a British stateless than
the vigilant el the British miry, for if KIND a
fight for England as a Int-rate power is to be
decided by force of arms, the battle is more likely
le be fought Is the midst el HA Mediterremeau or the
Admits coma thee in the stridie of the British Clamor&
(Bear, hear.) It is set from any bowl, of national vanity
that I say how mach the greet Interests of miasmal civilisa-
tion and the noble mass ed-selismil freedom are band op
with the material prosperity and the moral powerMEogland ;
far it is not the tternarkebli feature of thew changes to
whist] I have ad i that they all take Frigheil as their
model tend esumas in the institutions which they seek to
establish. (Hear, hear.) You recognise it in the material
prosperity of F.:wised. the advantages at her paths'
system ; sad you men it in the moral powered Tasked. es
the advocate of humanity and freedom. (Hear, bear.) You
will theirve—and it is worthy of observatios—that while
ha all ftweign sentries they have grass I. use dietetics
:Crforms of goverment based en absolute despotism,
ually discourage systems that are based ou
; sand perhaps do' close of the mutiny will
Vslawily remarkable to k Weems by the establiabmeet
throughout the whole of the civilised world of constitatimal
inossiohles more or less inthstimi of Oda old monarchy of
are (Hem, beer.) Perhaps asses/ the many moms whisk
costribeto to our political traequillity mad the safety
of our social pproraggrresors is the due properties is whkh the
hth cam of tatelilgsses sad of numbers opal' logithatho
imetrnerde end epos public spanks is divided between the
two greet claims which are happily represented in the as-
sembly which I have mow the honour of soldroosisoo—l men
the elms of there who purses their recomitacioa is the limy
life of the tows and the class of thaw who form their habits
of thought oaths calmer life of the country, for thus
potl-
heal changes are petty well ecesidmed sad matured. The
Worms whisk may be messed by the eager spirite which
• lire from etch other in the heated atmosphere of
towns are sere to be sifted easefully by these who. Befog
more resole freet popular omitsmsa; are accustomed to
weigh well the conemossois of political change, and an apt
dimmed to welcome • mashy merely became it is •
Inovelty. (Bear, hem.) Thus public *Oahe, we me, his
time to wort itself fres from public pamion, and !Morns,
whether they are wise or whether they are not wise, still
sever take the Molest character of revolutios ; while
when they are once adopted into the law of the laid, no
politician dreams of revoking what he. become pert sod
parcel of oar free constitutioo—as safe from the riots of a
mob es It is from the guards of • king. (Hear, hear.) Now,
these two dues—the town and the constry—rousi
both be millers, and throe h them the mattes
whisk they compose, aemrdfag ea they me be
brenght lath a f deadly sad fandliar iutemosne, as
az.upon them ociessioce, when the fanner end the
OM Mt side by side, andde, find as they talk together,
that beerever they Rey differ as to iedividsal memures or
the eherecter of public mon, they ell feel the same love for
their amnion mushy, the same seal for her welfare, the
I mem seraisties for boo peril, the same stale in her freedom,
the taros patriot's pride is her mown. (Cheers) Why
should this mast's' be rolled a meeting of the agricultural
isterent? Its thirst is me of ethicist interest. Jr a piper
by the illnations Bali/. whose same lea menectins link
between orpionitene had seisms 1 found a fen words
which aro so kepressed cs my memory that I will repeat
• them to ye. Imams, ff they were Mewed by • baser they
would be moldered as esteavagest compliment to his owe
prolamine, bet they mews the simple language of truth
whim they areisttered lay • philosopher so dwintereated sod
enmhos& " Upes agrieeltere" (says he) " &pads the
and development of the whole house species. the
Oche. of dates and all sonenerea.* Well, le it not se
Awl may I set sow call men ell present, tradesmen as
well as frmere, ialshitaste d the hewn as well se Sheik
thate of the meshy, to jots with mod heartiness le the
tout Madames peeps% `7 team to the Harts *Oval-
Mal Sesloty: lamed ad eschewed chewing.)Tim Most of marbes tor thoueosty MAD' Lisa dab
Isorroarsi.
Mr. Pvistaaa, IL P., adrenal te the distress width merailed
is the Pease, aid the which bad beds
Mira tot Ms Wil:111 thiptery lad.

[TWOPENCE

sotwithstending the existence of that distress, that our
imports and exports had increased to sub as extent as
almost to counterbehuice the loss which had arisen from
the combined anima of the manufacturing drams and the
Ameriou war. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. A. Burnt, X. Y., also acknowledged the toast, °b-
eers* that his colleagues bad exhausted almost every
topic at which he might base touched. They might not
have doom scything very grad last session, but be fauna
on examtuatra that they bad passed 124 acts up= various
subjects. At all events, they had does this—they had
tame oe the income tat to the extent of 211. is the posed,
which was a nierare teat must, he should 11rak, prove
isobigho lz acceptable to the whole country—ea neeepiebbo, he
suppose, as a sweeping reform bill, or eve a com-
mercial treaty. They had just been blamed by a rash
abundant harvest, asid, with the exception of the manatee-
taring dramas in the *or* the whole Gouda"
was is a Mato of proeparity. There was era
thing be might ray, and that was that with wrest to the
rational define* the country did cot grudge lhoe
:ire which the House of Culllolooo bad patted for Uri*
adenoma. Be had brae struck with the °aril's'
with which the Chemist fleet had brae received, and the
eathusirem which it had created on all parts of the mast
which it bad slated. Thu ;arras of Zeglaied, he fait
erased, would always support the army aid aam who os
W part were always able to hold their ura. agkad at
thie aosapied • proud pelting. being hippy ape-
purees al Ws" rad at poses with all the ro
de )
Various other toasts *engem sad regrad * and the
proemediagt taradnated.

MA BENTINCE. M.P., ON REFORM, THE
RURAL DISTRICTS. AND AYRRIOA.

WAITON, filibr. 24.
The proceedings of the Wayland Agricultural
Amociation. held yesterday at thin little Norfolk tows,
were diversified by a speech from Mr. BIISUM*. M.P., oat
el to. weathers for the western (Betties of the tout*.
Lord Walatiustits presided at the dinner, sad is mplyiad
to the bast of the " Conn*
Yr. BiIIITUICZ. in the 00Q11111 of his splash, said i—
f look upon the *tenet of agriculture t. be like may
other gnat commercial interest, with Ms sttembleni,
that it tompriass a larger mount of wealth, of ladadry,
mid I will mature to say, of intalligenoe, thsa any other
industry in the world. (lisar, hear.) • But whet is mottos?
The awns • this-that ia ous naps* the egrisaltural
Wrenn differs from every other interest is ths world; that
is so other great commercial ado*, is Lobed
whim its ems interests are at doss net
theft topether, sad so fight its own battles
Is that tin are with lb. agricultural intoning's
try! Is that the nor with the tarsi ditineM slipshod?
Do they bead themselves together to a ems and fight their
own baths? I ask you the question, tad yen an bast
iamb it I s.k you *bother the result of the
that acsaldestioa and of that detambistion to silstill =5
dome to them*** is not that they of the sgriodural
target are rands, as I ham bdore aid, this stalkisphanse and
bardemeanissu of the ti ..try. f'Hass, hare," aad=
Otatissom, I have I* strobes, which I have p
would not im tory. lam gabs to say eat wed,
sad allyeat word more. I am going is um a mai
which woo waist very Gael spread tam ia
pal*. ossimbliss ; but I ma assure my table frilled
it the thaw sad the pretest maistiog Ow need
mot think I ma snag to datimat on this subjoin
which that word involves. I am goad to malice that
tresseadom word "Worm." (LaughtiM) 1 mead in CM of
try papers a fee days ago, a nabob* made by a
am. CU" b• of the Homo al Commotai totilloatall•
I lag • Creat.
eogli. He arid that we were to Ink for.
ward shortly to the istrocisetios and diosamics cd Earthily
asimares of reform. I givs no opinion an that quoits. I
do sot tater into ths subject in any way. I do set my
whether robe= is wanted ; Ido sot say reform ea& to be
mad*; I doillas the subject altogether ; buts. To bilVfa bus
told oa sash high authority that it is a abject old* nosy
tie brought forward, and which wo may ham to disease.
sad to which of routes whoa wt ham to dimes it ow hest
ottani* mast b. given. I seaters with your pormimits I.
say ma word athe subject You say a " refers ISM"
What dots it mesa ! It mesas simply this ; it MGM the
is:ideas of Winks. (Ham.) Take for %Mao* tits: *ni-
bs state of *lap which is
_Oft athe Mbar ail
of the Atka*, haws* the Neris sad floatises Watts.
Is point of fait that is nothing but the divests of • rim
form bill, eery they go to work in a different way, happily,
frees whet we do. Thy do it with blows intim* of with
wards, but they are caly discuadng the quietist el isoldsora
ef taasibia sod lam insistiooing tbs to *so whoa aa
astrentoly isaporstat gambit it is oostidarad in all seam
trim. Woll, us that great mantry they see abb. ark
*hen threats en tither side, and that to Shop we 'chi-
les about—tame, and aothiug eke. Happily, in Olds aountry
we have a more good-humoured sad agresaltis way of
deeliog with an* subjects, and I hope we shad always ad-
here to that good-humoured way of dealing with all pa-
tios' 9nesticsoo, which, I must my, of lab yearn has head lb
way into every part of Qs country. (Hear.) Them anhjscis
art sow treated with good humour and goad mom issistill
of being made, as they formerly were, the subject al siri•
moutons discussioe. But all I want tomy up the 'abject
of reform uthis, I mist to ask you--asrl if I wort mike*
its the united read dist** of Basked I would pat to
them the seise request—if the hocourshle gestbsois who
has takes spot, himself the poelticio of a prophet tuns out
*be right. and we are to have, somwor, btu, the question
of meant brought Wore us, what I would ask the rural
districts to niummbar r this, that they are she superiors ia
Ott of wealth aid cambers, sod I will agais add that they
are the tomb is poi* of iatelligene• o. say other Weary
la this world. Wheoevar the question of reform is to be dis-
cussed I will sok them to bear this in miod, that**, should
*its as sae leas to claim their own rights ; sad to her is
mind olio that theonlyatiating grtevsaa is the istmairythat
spy man *ma Ilairloasd frankly lay his baud is the watt
of reproustatiou on the part of the rural di.triet. of tide
reaatry--(akisera)—asd I apt, my, ill order that
as rI=K
wind up, mast speakers do, with a diagramed* mastic
_(bigabir)—that I attribute this to a great artist to the
watt of • thisrminatkie to the part at the rural dielbeis of
the must/7 to arks *mast vas hard. (Cheers, earl cries
of " America.") *kg &wits that 'mg soosolies are sot
advise** as stilt as manias as the presest, mad laving
mileavoutrd to oempress as many dimmvslibt thimp as I
possibly could isto the smallest poesiba rasps., I now
again most cordially thank you for the way u wNoh yon
lave oxbow' tin toast, sod driok your health in et.
tars. 'Ma honourable patios* resumed his mat amidst
much chiming.

NE W Z E AL AN D.
PROVINCE of AUCKLAND GOVERNMENT WAN,
£600,000.
lh c.ANK of NEW ZEALAND, Bankers to the Oeueral
G.% alltliClit of New Zen and and to the P. os Metal Government
of Anekiaml, GIVE NOTICE that they me authorised to SELL
by rusuc TIN DER the IflaST INeTALii ENT of 8100,000 of
the HALF-MILLION LOAN, issued under the authority of the
Auckland Loan Act of len
The Debentures, with Coupons attached, are issued in sums of
Life, 4250, saCO, end 'caring luterest at the rate of
C, pat cent. per annum, rommeming un let April, leOd, to be
r. eeennal In 33 years by a nuking fund of a per cent. um the
sum borrowed.
The principal Is ruade payable at the option of the buyer,
either nt the ~ftiee of the hook of New Zealand, London, or at
the make of the superintendent of the Province of Auckland.
The interest hatty.arly at the Bank of New Zeeland, London.
Tender, will be received 1 o'clock on Thursday, Ink
Oetober, Is 3, specifying the total amount of Debentars* re-
quired, and the preurituu per cent. which will be evert for the
same. to be addressed to the Director, of the Bank of New
Zealand, with the words "Tender for the Auckland Provincial
tloverntuent Loan" written on the outside.

A deposit o aS per cent. on the amount of each tender moat
le previously pail to the hank of London, Threadneedle-street,
and receipt fee same enclosed In letter of application.
Tenders sill be opened in the presence of all persona tote-
restal of 1 lock on Thursday, lst October, laB3, at the Bank of
New Zealand. The highest bidders shall he deemed the pur-
chasers, presided the prices are not lower than the minimum
placed Ina sealed paper on the table before the tenders ere
opened. Where tenders are made alien the same terms, a pro
rata distribution on such tenders wib be made.

The MelltUl are* contracted for will be delivered at the Bank
of Loudon, Threadneedle-street. on Friday, tint October, be.
%wren the hours of eleven aud two o'clock, upon payment of the
balance due thereon.

about 17,000,030 acres.
tiist?pean territory, 1,679,43 s acres.

Native territory 16,121,641
It la the object of the Provincial Government of Auckland to
obtain funds to purchase from the natives the waste Muds of the
above 15,121,511 acres, and to .bout upon them • European
population; and It Is calculated that the reveuue accruing from
such aroma of population would of itself bealllllCiellt to liquidate
the loan now sought to be beyotiated.
Distribution of Loan.
. _ .

Itedemption: of rtorinerat WlTsuttums due liaty
la&)
Public Buntings
linadarratiunaud Purchase of Land

X. 313,000

To be advanced by way of loans to road hoards and
ruoilcipalltios for the esecution o public works.... 185.000

41100.°90

no Madge( and interest of this loan are charged sod made
payab,e out of all revenues of the said pros dee.
fa IaSS the revenue of the province of Auckland was 463,507;
in 1461 It amounted to AW,01.12. Fo later oeleial returns hens
been emptied, but the revenue has materially Utmassed since
Forms of tender may be had at the Mlles of the tank, to ether
with copies of Loan Act, kaspone, Mg Act, SIMI latter of Confir-
mation by the general government ; also Sketch of the present
position of the Province of Auckland, statistictllyand financially
complied by the D,puty Waste Lands Commissioner.
P. LAKILWoRTIIY, Ilsnagbig Director.
Bank of New Zealand. bd, o.lcitleuedeteept.
Sept. 21. 161.4.

ERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES.
.11.1 Alfred Webb Miles REMOVED FROM BOND-STREET
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