The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-21 00:00:00

TIIE AGRICULTURAL DINNER AT

MANCHESTER.

This dinner took place at the Palatine Hotel, on
Tuesday evening, Lord Stanley in the chair. About four
hundred gentlemen mare prams. After the 'mug loyal
toasts,
The Custanue, in peerfeelsg "The Army gad Navy,"
said ft was saw, thank Sied, gegoewhere about three aid
thirty yews sirs; this croft was exposed to all the visaed-
Sado, megother with the triumphs of a great and general
war, end dam that puled our troops had been, in the eye of
the weld, esmparaively unemployed. He did not mean to
my that ince then lime had not been gallant exploits
=by bsek moles% thief slimed that neither
don nor edam had dipmereted in their prime's
or eficioney and velour. The maw bed been well and ar-
duouTslyasttresied in the anthem she oat of Africa, and with
tbe of the Mgt ladbm mor ; and the of the
Math army bed been ipliesdidly and maannt maintained
upon the *Milani ef Ice ht.teader Harding* and Gough and
other less- dis tinselled bees tlemdsesertignames, who had
uniformly led them be augilee and vistery. (Ohtani Aed
he thought it wee not in these dale M oweatemy and
for every rumble rotringliminy gmbegoiedug to a large
assembly such as was than esegtegated, that be should re-
mind them that there was no army In the world which pre-
formed, in a inns of general and profound pease, the same
amount of harassing duty which fell upon and was cheer-
tally discharged by, the British soldier. A better
system bad always bees contemplated. That to
which the military authorities had always been desirous of
attaining wee, that the soldier should have five years of ser-
vice at home for every ten ran abroad; but to this maxi-
mum they had never been able to attain, and ordinarily It
happened that regiments eosin homebonsforeign countries,
the skeletons of whet thet were had again to be sent out to
bear the vicissitudes of firitiali tropical colonies within a
period of three years after returning tram a foreign service of
fourteen or fifteen years. At this moment the British army
for this country, and over all its widely extended colonies,
about forty in number and including the immense continent
of India, barely emended in amount the form which France
kept astern for the occupation end eunagement:of the French
poweseices of Algeria alone. He thought this feet alone was
sidleisat to show that there was but little reason, and
dill las wisdom and policy out the poet of those who, looking
at mere dorm andannt of saway,eusaplained of the amount
and urns el the DOA meal and military force. He was
sues the would ogees milk biro ia this, that my
thing short Mt preaset ams=e7dithrow"wasses eldesey
of the moved& need eel gold homily
have beau entbiont dudes the beer= peeled—nay, he
countryy infer the pont *gag whoa
of
other
Is the meld amp Si -woe the victim of internal
anarchy and dimeedows is nglimg to warfare. (Hear, hear,
end no.) He woad Whet kindly any smaller amount, even
new, would be sallisient Is do that which was so neesesary to
is, a peat comaswelal many, with colonies and interests
spread ever the wink of the globo—presays as ha believed
our pr set strong* and attitude, supported by the good
feeling of the sad se.would peseerve to us—amidet the jars of
a wombs mail the bloodess of internal tranquillity and
illyntelstiTtenstArriMeallstolrouctl/ odthellp. therefore
ast services
of army and nay mad is maildems that if those swims
amid spin be emairediZusit,osenny would find that former
eshimements ware not but were remembend to
be emulated and saepeeed, sad in the confidant ballet also
that the maintemese of cur military and naval forms was
gba brag of that which was the great °bleat of every
men, the preservation of mad peace. (The
tort was drank with cheers.)
The noble Chairman gave as the next toast "
to the Manchester Sad Liverpool Agricultural Ba.
He bad long felt that the union of these societies woad fund
materially to that which was the object of all such seglinkr—
the bureau of competition as a stimulus to exertioa. Es
had been for eighteen yews the president of the UM-
pad solely ; and though he had felt that it was making
Wearalima4 and that througlah its exertions and La-
the district whisk it siumgel was aim making
pest progress in the advamoment et egrisaltural science
prargeeffiy applied, he had aid a grew*, cemimica that a
great advantage would be pima if the sphere of its opus-
time were exteeded by en weelpmallan with its elder
sister, the Meathemeer beesaL In dm infancy of agricul-
tural impremena% or rather at the earliest period of that
spirit of imigeprise Width leads to getrieeltural imeuve.
mint, he swan slime go the length of toying, that the
smaller the mem of the smilegy the pester would be the
prospect of in Meg adventegeondy called into efficieat
operation, bemuse wary ma was then more willing to enter
into competition whin he souggasted with a smeller number
of drab, of whose pewees he me able to form a more accu-
rate adman; but when a mobil of emulation wu once ex-
cised, the anlisigament tithe Nage at a meaty tended to in-
crease the amenat of stlasolos to exertion, and to extend the
amount of competition. It brought with it, to the view of
each competitor, animate smd stock, and fuming management
of en mgembor description to that which it was
in his power to see widths hi 'ern limited district; and the
esmegnmos was, that his ambition being excited, he
made greater offing towards the attainment of that higher
excellence, and those efforts must almost invariably be
allowed hy the attainment eta greater degree of improve-
ment. He duo thought that some change in the places
where the nesstint of the society were held was conducive
se be promerity. He was indneed, therefore, to look upon
the sena of the two societies as a most auspicious event foe
their Mere welfare. Trifling difficulties there most be, and
sum BOA 111410•4111111 would of course occur, hick must
be senatesoven', or met with a spirit of mutual ICCOMUSO-
&WWI j bat if thatepirit existed, as he believedit did, amongst
the enlimeibers generally, he could not hesitate to believe
that the result essA be of infinite benefit to both the
societies, and to the dietriet over which their exertions ex-
tended. He MUM net Wok that a great commercial town
like Menehester was es inappropriate situation for the meet-
int of an switefitural sookity. The agricn.turists well knew
that the prospenty of the assaafectereng district and the
well-being of trade, mewed them good customers, and an
abundant asselust and favourable prime ; and the manufao-
rarer knew r well, the if by the visitation of Providence
the harvest of tido shoved be deficient, the cones-
queues mist net only be and ruinous to the eget-
cultadet, but lust else y elect him in his best, his

most Gateman, and his asanst market; and therefore seeing
that the interests of 'annum and agriculture were so nearly
oonnected, he thought that it was most appropriate that the
first raseUng of the netted societies should be held in the
gnat metropolis of British cosarneree. There was also an
apprepriatanme in the plate of misting, basses it was not to
be denied that the neighbourhood of this great town, and the
facilities for the cultivation of the land whisk its markets
afforded, were a great stimulus and assistance to the success of
agricultural opetatioas. He must, however, be Fontana to
express a doubt whether the agneultural interest were
sufficiently alive to the greet importance of the -.Wait, of
this town, or were suMcisany awake to the Important bene-
fits which they might derive from it. in el feet, the
fanners in the neighbourhood of Ilaaeh.stsr were sot
mainly dependent on the ealtivation of the soil, and on
making the most of the prods°, of the soil, but they were
far tee denims to get employment for their horses and carts,
is serrylag soul and other operations converted with the
labours Onus town more than with the labours of the coun-
try. If the agriculturist" in the neighbourhood of large
towns desire to thrive, they must change their system, and
endeanar to make the most of their land by the legitimate
means of draining, cultivating, and limiting it, as it
ought to be drained, cultivated, and ensnared, for which
they had !hotlines which no other part of the country
'cloyed. He should not advert to the subject off
draining, because every agriculturist was convinced
that thorough draining was the necessary prelimi-
nary to a sucessefol expenditure of capital in any agri-
cultural improvements whatever. He wished at present to
direct their striation to the incalculable waste of the manure
which great towns would afford to the agriculturists in the
neighbourhood. He was surprised when he looked at the
neighbourhood of Manchester and Liverpool to see no ap-
proach to that high cultivation which was carried on by the
market gardeners in the suburbs of London. Year after
year not only were hundreds of thousands of tons of manure,
au invaluable treasure and mine of wealth, absolutely
wasted and destroyed, but it actually became the source of
pestilential vapours; thus that produced death which was
intended to add to the fertility of the soil, and the linnet-
tenon of the rapidly growing population of this island. Step"
had recently been taken to remedy the imperfect drainage
of oar large towns, and thus to diminish the mortality of
those towns, bat the tendency of those steps was to get rid
of and waste that which, If we knew bow to use it, would be
invaluable to us. There was no object more worthy the
attention of the country than that of rendering the animal
deposits of the large towns in the kingdom available for agri-
cultural purposes and of diffusing them over the fields of the
country. He would now advert for a moment to the more
immediate subject of the toast. With reference to the show
of that meeting, he mint say that if it was true, as he had
been told, that much had been done, he could only say that
much remained to be done. He would say nothing of the pigs,
because for many years nothing could have exceeded the ex-
' ceUence of the pigs exhibited both at Manchester and Liver-
pool. lie had seen two or three bulls in the show which
struck him as being valuable animals ; and from what he
had heard and seen that day, and from what he had wit-
nessed in his own neighbourhood among the farmers, he
was satisfied that there was a great improvement in the
nature of the tenant farmers' stocks. With respect to the
show of horses, he must say that he believed that if any one
had gone into the streets of Manchester and Liverpool
for a couple of hours, and picked outs a number of horses
at random, they would have got a show at least equal to
that of the morning. One thing significant of the pros-
perity of the society, as showing an increased disposition on
the part of the public to suppart it, was the amount of the
receipts for admission into the show-yard, which was last
year 1071., and was this year 1401. He was convinced,
from his own observation and from the reports of the inspec-
tors of farms, that there had been a great improvement in
the application of science to the cultivation of the land on
the part of the tenant-farmers during the last 12 years.
There were now farms in Lcncashire which would do credit
to any county is England or Scotland. He must, however,
while doing justice to those landlords who had come forward
to assist their tenants in their efforts at improvement, ex-
, press his regret that more of the landed proprietors of the
county were not then present.
Some other toasts were given, but merely of a complimen-
tary nature, and the noble Chairman haring distributed the
prizes, the meeting broke up at an early hour.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, 131,7. 20.

Yesterday, the Lord Lieutenant had again to discuss
the merits of the rival applicants for the construction
of a western packet station. The claims of Limerick
were heard on this occasion, and they are not small in
consideration with others. Limerfek is the centre
and outport of a very fertile country, of which she is
also the entrepot. But Limerick is sixty miles from
the Shannon' mouth, and the navigation of the Shan-
non towards this city is still intricate. Nor do I see
why, when every circumstance is taken into account,
Liverpool should not an.wer all the purposes of postal
communication, as it must always do for trading ar-
rangements. For if, on one hand, the channel navi-
gation is avoided, on the other, two debarkations and
two embarkations—one at either. extremity of_ our

shores--are avoided, in addition to a sea and land
transit. The Freeman thus refers to the proceedings
of the Limerick deputation :
Yesterday a highly influential deputation waited on his
Excellency the Lad-Lieutenant, at the Viceregal-lodge, for
the purpose of presenting a memorial, setting forth the para-
mount advantages and superior claims of the port of Lime-
rick over other Irish western ports as a packet station for the
conveyance of mails and passengers to the British American
and West Indian colonies. The memorial referred to the fact
of the question having been frequently before the govern-
ment of the feasibility of selecting some one of the ports on
the west coast of Ireland fer the purpose, and begged to call
his Excellency's attention to the evidence given before the
Houma Lords as to the manifold natioaal advantages likely
to result from such a selection. The memorial urged, also, the
advantages derivable from the position of the western Irish
porta, as Iseing so favourably circumstanced for the quick transit
of the mails and for the transport of troops end materiel. The
port of Limerick was fully 300 miles westward of either Li-
verpool or Southampton, a distance which comprised the
most dangerous and difficult portion of the whole passage.
The memorial proceeded to state that additional interest had
monied to the proposed measure of making Limerick port a
packet station, from the fact of the completion of the railway
pestablishing a rapid communication between Limerick and
Dublin, so that the delivery of the mails from the English
metropolis, via Holyhead, might be effected at the city of
hoursd& within the short space of 18 hours and within 24
ho from the departure of the mails from London. They
would be in the eleventh degree of west longitude, clear of
ill coast or channel danger or difficulties, and according
le the imputed rate of steam-packet sailing, would be
Laded et Halifax within eight days. The memorial
saamsrated the many other advants,gee which the
establishment of a picket station at Limerick would (as ear
taorialista submitted) ultimately secure. The saving of time
In the tranonisalon of mails and pamengen—the avoidance
of channel and wait risks hitherto so often destructive to life
and property—the beneficial influx of commercial ente
consequent on the safety and rapidity a transit—thin
deve-
loping the resources of this country, and creating advan-
tages not merely local but extending to the great bulk
of society. His Excellency received the deputation with
much courtesy. The Mayor of Limerick, in presenting
the memorial observed that a copy of it baying
been previously laid before his Excellency, it would
not be necessary to occupy time by recapitulating it at
length. A conversation ensued, during which the Impcn
tance of the project and the vast advantage, likely to mak
from its adoption were fully laid before his Excellency bg
Mr. Williams, and other members of the deputation. His
Excellency gave the fullest attention to the details submitted
for the consideration of the government. He observed that
it would be in the first plus necessary to understand if it was
the intention of her Majesty's Treasury to establish any
packet station to Ireland. His Excellency added, that if
nth were the cue;and if such intention existed, he would
be happy to forward the representations conveyed in the
memorial and in the statements of the deputation to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.—The deputation then retired.

The accounts from the south are of precisely that
nature for which we were prepared—straggling, un-
quiet, and unreasoning manifestations of turbulence.
On Sunday night last there was a meeting of the
clue which has originated the recent movement near
Kilkenny, at a place called Talbot's Inch. The police
advised of it and were out in all directions.
Those taking the Freehford road overtook the party
assembled, and the insurgents immediately fled in all
directions; there were no prisoners taken. The per
I sons assembled are described as the very lowest class,
indeed the Pariahs of society even in Ireland.
On Sunday night there came accounts to Carrick
that there were thousands of people assembled at the
Comeragh, upon the Coumabingane summit. This is
a very inaccessible peak of the range. The military
at once marched oat with three days' p!ovisions; thus
we fled they relied perfectly on the information re-
ceived. They surrounded the bill at day-
break by cavalry, and marched the infantry
and rhos by every accessible path to the
summit. The whole mountain wu " beaten up " in
this way, yet not a soul was captured or appeared.
The accounts, therefore, must have been fictitious.
The constabulary and soldiery returned to Carrick in
the evening, foot sore and weary. This sort of ser-
vice is very exhausting to the body, and, certainly,
taut weary the temper even of corps so disciplined
u those now in the south. _ _

It is said that the high sheriff of Tipperary, Lord
Sok&le, had at first given instructions that no dis-
tinction should be made between the accommodation
given the state prisoners transmitted to Clonmel yes-
terday morning, and persons in the prison on other
charges, but that his determination was overruled by
the Board of Superintendence.
From the correspondence of Saunders' this morn-
ing from the scene of the outbreak, I take the follow-
ing, premising that 1 do not accord any credit to the
alleged intention to captors the noble parties named
as hostages, as I have seen more than one letter from
well-informed parties—catholic clergymen,! or instance,
in the yieinity —which concur, in stating that no

attempt would be madeagainst either. The peasantry
in the vicinity would not suffer it.
The belief is gaining ground that T. D.Arey M'Gear,
lately connected with the Notion, wax tke leader of the
attack on the police barrack at Portlaw, and that he is in
that neighbourhood 'till. There is no doubt that there an
more leaders than O'Mahony. I am aware of Lord Water-
ford's having received unquestionable information (whisk
be credits), that a week or two ago, at a meeting of four
or five leaders in the neighbourhood of Carraehmore, it
was resolved to make a capture of hie lordship or the
marchioness at a hostage, with the determination of visit-
ing on either a punishment similar to that awarded to the
state prisoners. The marquis, however, has determined to
stake such a feat no easy matter; between soldiers and armed
specials he has an effective guard of about 100 armed
men. The bold and determined stand which his lordeuip
has taken' and the unremitting activity and b y
dio-
played by him, have done much to save that country from
the violence and outrage of a rebel horde, that threstenel to
bear all before it. At the outset he acted wisely in caning
upon all to declare themselves for or against rebellion, and
to act in accordance with they decision, in order that the
matter might be brought te a crisis. The following from the
Maisel Chronicle is • description of a scene that occurred
at the meeting convened by his lordship for that purpose :
" Some few weeks ago, when insurrettistuu7 symptoms first
laanift Med themselves, the Marquis of Waterford convened
his tenantry and labourers for the purpose of asking them
what part they were disposed to take in the threatened out-
break. A crowd of ill disposed fellows, from Portlaw, also
gathered about him and made several demonstrations of dis-
sent from his lordship's statements, about the far szperior
force which England would bring against the rebels. One
fellow was 'remarkably forward, full of bluster, and cried
out, "We do not care—we are able for them—we are ready
to fight them—wai, till we are let at them." The noble
marquis pointed at the noisy boaster, and said, "Come here,
sir; you want a tight—stand out and have a rsund with me—
let us use what you are made of, who want to be at the
troops; come, air, try your hand with me." The fellow
dropped his head and skulked away, amid the derision of
the spectators. It is hardly neonsary to add that the cir-
cumstance was not without a good effect on the spectators.
Preparations are now in progress for the reception
of the Premier at Knocklofty Castle, the seat of the
Earl of Donoughmore, whose hospitality will be ex-
perienced by Lord John during. his stay in Clonmel
as a witness at the special commission.
The account in the Clonmel Chronicle states that
O'llahony has been in company with Father Bourke,
P.P. of Rathcormaek ; but I think this rather doubt-
ful, for if so, why is not this clergyman at least in
custody? There is no difficulty in arresting .him.
o'3lshony, it appears from another statement, was
within an .lee of being captured a few nights since in
hie own house. He escaped on horseback by a back
way, without having had time to dress.
There was a meeting of the Bank of Ireland Com-
pany yesterday here, bat as it was not for the purpose
of declaring profita or dividends but to approve of the
acts of a former meeting, no interest was attached
to it.