The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

BAYSWATER, PADDINGTON, AND HOLBORN-BRIDGE
RAlLWAY.—Ytsterday, in Lord liedesdalr's committee,
the preamble of this einipany's bill was declared proved.
The undertaking involria upwards of two miles of tunnel
under the New-road, longer in eater.' than the celebrated
Box-tunnel, hut the promoter, allege there are no en-
gineering difficulties in this, and that, in their apprehension
of the thing, it is no more than a " railway arcade."
Paart.—The bill, empowering the Battersea
Pak commu•ioners to purchase all rights over the site of
the proposed Battersea Park, and to pay the churchwardens
of St. Mary, &tune., 1501., was yesterday posed in
"Lord Redesdale's committee."
Stine, Er.zeviox.—A petition has jag been presented by
R. U. Wood, complaining of this election, and is referred
to Rio General Committee of Elections.

CLITIIEROE ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Yesterday, the select committee, consisting of Mr. O. A.
Hamilton (chairman), Biz James Duke, Mr. Imac Butt,
Mr. Laing, and Sir Thomas Herbert, appointed to try the
petition presented against the return of Mr. Aspinall at
the last election for the borough of Clitheroe, sat for the
first time, and in consequence of an accididit which bad
befallen Mr. Serjeant Kioglake, who had prepared himself
Mopes the case, adjourned until this day, at ten o'clock.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF

ENGLAND.

GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY.

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The pleasant change in the weather to-day has
brought an immense concourse of people to this city, this
being also the cheap day. It is thought that the number
of visitors will d 50,000 to-day.
The concluding meeting of the Royal Agricultural Soci-
ety war 1 old to-day at the Shirehall. The chair was taken
by Lord Ashburton, and among those present were Sir M.
If. Ridley, Messrs. R. Barker, Hudson, Fisher, Hobbs,
Rickards, Wright, Maw, Druce, Budd, Whitsway, Jonas
Webb, Gillett, &c.
The firs: business of the meeting wee to pass votes of
thanks to the mayor and corporation, to Mr. Jones, the
liberal proprietor of the show yard, to the local committee,
and to the several railway companies for the services which
they had respectively rendered in a generous spirit to the
essisty.
Mr. DRAMA proposed, and Sir M. RIDLEY seconded a
tote of thanks from the society to the noble chairman for
his services during the peiiod he lad occupied the presiden-
tial chair.
Lord ASHBURTON returned thanks, remarking that one
of the chief merits of the society was, that it imposed no
arduous duties upon its president. The council did the
work them:nine, and had done so ever since the society
was founded ; sad the society bad been successful in
linking in that council the efforts of men who were capable
of carrying on with success the machinery of an institution
so gnat as their own. Of all the duties he hod been called
upon to perform, noise had been more gratifying than the
giving to the mayor of Gloucester and other authorities
that had been named the society's thanks far their cur-
tions in its behalf. They all knew that they could not
work long in any direction, even successfully, without faU-
ing into some points of weakness or of danger; and so they
could not go on breeding cattle up to a very high
point without tome little giving way. So it was
with the society. They had doubtless succeeded in
bringing up some most beautiful models ; but he could not
help thinking thatthey were running a risk, at the saute time
that they got size, and fat, end absence of bone, of losing
flesh altogether. Nature was most economical in all her
proceedings; for o time she went en in her ordinary course,
but when a thing war not wanted she ceased to supply it.
Oar stock were brought up like ladies in the drawing room,
with little or no use for their ',limbs, and bye-and-by their
muscle might vanish, leaving nothing but a pulp, and thus
the power of motion would be withdrawn. With nerd tie
implements, his lordship suggested that a nand. of
the present disparity in the first and second plisse ghedi
be made. He highly approved of the present spell= og
testing implements, by which not only the public end the
farmers, but the machine makers themselves, by ow
lag the deficiencies or improvements of others, are edit-
'sated ; but so great was the struggle for the fint place, that
superior work was put in the machine that was brought for
trial than in that sold to the farmer, and thus a species of
" dodging " was resorted to which ought not to exist. In
conclusion the noble lord paid a high compliment to his
successor in the chair, Mr. Posey, who unfortunately was
till prevented by illness from being present.
Mr. Flaunt BOBBe :addressed some exceUent observa-
tions to the meeting, in which he expressed his difference of
opinion with Lord Ashburton as to the evils to be appre-
hended, either from the present system of feeding, or the
mode of testing implements, relying on the good sense of
the agriculturist to indicate what was proper on the mat-
ter.
Mr. Lumen Maw, however, agreed with the chairman,
and entered a request that the council of the society would
go through their proceedings, to ascertain what they had
elicited sines the formation of the Society, which was of
wane to the farmer, and what was not.
The CitAIIMAN said Mr. Pussy had just published a
paper on this subject.
The suggestion was referred to the Coaseil, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

LETTERS TO FRIENDS ABROAD.