The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

DURFIAM.

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EXTENSIVE FORGERIES. AT SUNDERLAND.—The
Newcastle Guardian says : " Considerable sensation has
been occasioned in this borough during the present week by
a report, which has unfortunately proved correct, that Mr.
Charles J. Humble, a share and ship broker, in a Arm
recently dissolved, has committed forgeries to a great
amount, and decamped. Our correspondent states that
three or four bills for 1,0001. each have been discounted at
Sunderlsnd, which the supposed acceptor. have pronounced
to be forgeries ; and it is rumoured that there are forged
bills to the extent of 10.0001., but probably on this point
it rosy Ls found that there is some exaggeration. Mr.
Humble is a young man, respectably connected, and we be-
lieve engaged extensively in spreuiation during the railway
mania.' fhe Durham Chronicle gives a circumstantial ac-
count of the parties who have been defrauded by Humble
and who, we may state generally, are Ms relatives. It,
adds : " There is too much reason to fear that Humble, who
is quite a young man, had got some unfortunate connexions
with swindlers at a distance, who were victimising and
goading him to his ruin. • • • A warrant has been
granted for Humble's apprehension ; but there is not much
probability of his being caught, as he has gone about a week.
It is supposed he has sailed for Monte Video.'

EAST RETFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The
eighth 'nasal meeting of this society was held on
Thursday at Rut Retford. It is scarcely possible
that the weather could have been more unpropitious.
Shortly after nine o'clock the rain began to fall
ht,,,,jly, and continued, with little intermission, until late
to the laernoon, It was the general opinion that the exhi-
quantity and quality of stock. The
In would bear comparison with that of any previous year,
sbbbiii,;7:t!hth'e.ega.„ rwdutoparticularly good, as also was that of
o.seellent cart-horses, as well as several fine
cows ""'' '• were exhibited. The ploughing-
• are ',us dry weather they
young blood animaa., to have taken p arc on Monday
matches were tineoweee.•
last, but, on account of tLe *•-• • - -
postponed. At haft-past tfir.'• o'clock about Do gentlemen
Lord t_,,,lway, who, in ropoting
. served up in :%c Town-ball.
sat down to a sumptosissoollation;
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tend Society," said—lt may, gentlemen, he almost unneces-
sary for me to mention to you that I mustier these meetingt
beneficial, your presence at once bespeaks it; but I must
say a few words upon the subject, as the rases and other
papers appear to me to be endeavouring to write these socie-
ties down. I read an article the Wins day in the
Times, in which it stated, after sundry cavilling at
these societies, that "a fat beast is better re-
warded than a meritorous labourer." You must all see the
absurdity as well as the unfairness of this usertioe. Im-
plements, which form a most important feature in these
societies, are left totally out of the question. I venture to
nay that these societies have conduced to good farming as
much by the improvement of implements and machinery as
by any one thing. This shows you the unfairness of the
Times' assertion. With regard to its absurdity, I think
the Times must see that at these societies we no more pre-
tend—we have not the means, to begin with—we no more
pretend to give an equivalent to a meritorious labourer
than we pretend to dive the full value of an animal to the
owner who exhibits it. In neither case do we pretend
to give an equivalent; hut I am sure that, if tho Times
will place a sum at our disposal for that purpose, we shall
be proud to bestow it. In thee* societies I believe
that, by the interchange of opinion among ourselves, by
generous rivalry, by competition, and by the removal of pre-
judices, we lead each other on to the attainment of a must
important result—namely, the production of the greatest
quantity at the least cost. That, gentleman, is what, as
farmers—and I see there is great stress laid upon it at the
agricultural meeting held at Sir Robert Peel's, at I)rayton—
Wis the great point at which we shoul4 aim. Let us re-
collect that this is what will enable us to give higher wages
to our labourers—though the Times supposes we are
lowering the position of our labourers by these societies—l
ray by this means we shall be enabled to give higher wages
than we otherwise could do, when the struggle really takes
place between ourselves and the foreign growers of corn. I
must not trespnia on political grounds; I could say something
more, on that subject, but must not. Ido regret to see
a paper like the Times using its vast influence to create
dissension between the tenant-fanner and his labourer. I
believe that in this district the labourers are well attended
to; the pigs well illustrated this point to-day the show of
labourers' pigs would have done credit to any class. In
many of the southern counties, where the labourers are not
well paid, the landlords and tenant-farmers do lay them-
selves justly open to the censure of the Times and of the
press generally. 1 need not say more than that I think if
you, as farmers, choose this society to be carried on, and
carried on in the spirit of this meeting, having men of
diffirent shades of politics, free-traders and others, neither
I the Times nor any other paper will ever put us down. I
give you, and I jun with you in drinking most cordially,
" Success to the East Retford Agricultural Society." (The
I toast was drunk with enthusiasm.) The usual round of
toasts were drunk, and the list of premiums announced.