The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

'Ube Court.

The Queen walked yesterday in the gardens of
Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday
at Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce and Lord James Murray, honoured the performance
at her Majesty's Theatre yesterday evening with her pre.
ince.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the
Earl and Countess of .Wilton with their company at dinner
yesterday evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-square.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
business.
THE CHIEF BAILIFF OF THE SHERIFF'S COVRT.—
The chairman of the Officers and Clerks' Comlnittre
brought up a long report in relation to the contiuct
of Mr. Hockley Wood, the chief bailiff of tte Sheriff's
Court. He stated 11,1 it had been proved to ';he committee
that the report in the daily newspapers the proceedings
against Mr. Wood in the Insolvent Debtors' Court was sub-
stantially correct ; and that they had required Mr. Wood to
give them a statement in writing in refutation or explanation
of the charges preferred against him by his creditors. They
had received a letter from Mr. Wood, affecting to answer
the charges against him; but the committee were unani-
mously of opiaion that he had entirely failed to remove the
condemnation of his conduct which the commissioners of the
Insolvent Court had pronounced, when he had applied for
relief under the act. The committee further reported
that some doubt existed whether the official conduct of Mr.
Wood as chief bailiff had been such as to warrant his imme-
diate removal from office. They had therefore given direc-
tions to the City Solicitor to collect the evidence of negli-
gence and mis2onduct which ha 4 been brought against this
officer, and if it were found that the facts would justify the
court in removing him from his appointment without wait-
ing for the period of annual re-election, the committee would
order the City Solicitor to take the necessary proceedings
for his immediate removal, se the committee were unaai-

mously of opinion that it would be derogatory to the cha-
racter of the court, and to the corporation who elected the
officers, if they permitted an individual, engaged himself iu
executing the process of a court of law, to shelter his own
person from arrest under the assumed privilege of an official
appointment in one of their courts.—A petition from Hockley
Wood was presented, in which he prayed to be heard by
counsel against the report. It was accompanied by a medical
certificate of ill health. The report was unanimously
adopted, and the petition was ordered to be laid on the table.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
The customary monthly meeting of the magistracy
of the county of Middlesex took place yesterday at the Ses-
sions-house, Clerkenvrell. The first business to be trans-
acted was to elect a chairman of the court to serve until
July next, and Mr. Henry Pownall was unanimously re-
elected.—The Deputy Clerk of the Peace laid before the
court the report of the committee for accounts and general

purposes.
Tile CORONER'S ACCOUNT.—Capt. Ciatterell said he felt
bound to call the attention of the court to an item in the ,
account sent in by Mr. Wakley, the coroner, for expenses in --
attending inquests he had held within his district. Of the within the
MSC he was about to refer to he had some personal know-
ledge, and he must say that it was too bad for ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
the county funds to be voted away without in- ENGLAND.
quiry, for there were so many of these cases that in. THE COUNCIL DINNER took place at the Guild-
quiry ought to be made. The cue was that of Georre hall on Wednesday. The spacious apartment was occupied
Plummer, a little boy, who was suffocated on the 21st of by five parallel tables, running lengthwise, with one croes-
June, by. falling into a cesspool as Barnet. On the same day table at the head. Covers had been laid for 300 guests, and
information of the event was sent to Mr. Wakley, but as no- fully that number sat down. On the arrival of the Prince
thing was heard from him in reply, the child's friends on the Consort the band played the National Anthem, and his
Friday determined to have the body enclosed in a coffin, it Royal Highness was welcomed by a hearty. cheer. The
having advanced to a high degree of decomposition. On the Earl of Yarborough, president of the society, in the chair;
following Monday, Mr. Mr. Wakley'a deputy, at- the Earl of Chichester, president elect, in the vice.chier.
tended, but then the child's Mills,friends expressed some tai- On the right of the chair sat Prince Albert, the Belgian
willingness to have the coffin lid unscrewed, as they did not Minister, the Marquis of Abercorn, and Lord Morpeth ;
on
wish to see it in its state of decomposition, and as the smell the left the Chevalier Bunsen. the Hon. E. Baucroft (Ame-
was too offensive to be borne. Mr. Mills then said that if titan minister), and the Earl Fortescue. In the body of the
they would bring before him the man who screwed down the ball we observed the Duke of Richmond, Lord G. Bentinck,
coffin lid, he would dispense with a view of the body, and the Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Ingestre, Lord G. Beresford,
take it the same sus if it had been viewed. This the friends Lord Beaumont, Lord Zetland, Mr. P. Pussy, M.P., Mr.
consented to, end thus this inquest plumed over. Now, Mr. 0. Stephenson, and other gentlemen. The cloth having been
Wakley had charged 16s. for mileage for that inquest, if removed,
inquest it could be called, and he (espt.Cotterell) felt bound The CHAIRMAN said—My lords and gentlemen, it is ells-
to object to that item being allowed.—Mr. Armstrong ternary at the council dinners of the Royal Agricultural So.
thought it hardly worth while to alter the allowance for a day to propose two loyal touts, and two only ; and I am
paltry sum of lfis.—Mr. Serjeant Adams said it was ir. fact sure that you cannotbee atr toast We shall, sin
for it.—Capt. Cotterell said he raised his objection from sati.fied, drink with great cordiality that toast which the
principle: he regarded not the amount.—The court ordered farmers of England have always drunk with enthusiasm—
the item to he expfinged from the recount. The report was the health of her Majesty the Queen. I beg leave, there-
received, and orders given to draw on the county treasurer fore, gentlemen, to propose " The Health of the Queen, God
for payment of accounts to the value of 9,9551. Z. bless her." (Cheers.)
Houses or INDUSTRY.—Pureuant to notice, Mr. ARM- The PRESIDENT said the council tot was one which it was
STRONG moved: customary to drink at these dinners, viz., " The
That as great numbers of the male and female prisoners discharged Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert
from the prisons of this county, from being totally ignorant of any Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and the rest of the
trade or business, and for want of an honest calling, have no means of royal family." It has always been customary to drink that
obtaining a livelihood, and are, consequently, tempted again to the health with the greatest pleasure, because we have had the
immediate commission of crime, whereby they again and again incur
the penalty of the law, to the great injury of society, and heavy ca. honour of counting among our members, from the very. first for-
the
to the rate-payer of the county; it is expedient that this court =scion of this society, the Duke of Cambridge ; and since that
sanction the establishment of a voluntary house of Industry to which time, and immediately when we obtained the royal charter,
each discharged priwrner, may resort for instruction in some useful it pleased Prince Albert toj lira us and to become a governor
employment. handicraft, or trade, by the industrious exercise of of this society. And lam sure that I say no more than
'ouch they may be rescued from the temptations incident to everybody feels, when I assure his Royal Highness
ignorance, idleness, and vice, and be no longer a disgrace to the com-
munity and a burthen on the public; and that a toromittee be sp. that we are pleased and gratified that he has come
pointed to coneider and report to this court on the heat mode 01 estate- amongst no on this oteasion ; and I am reminded by
dishing the same, and to what extent. some gentlemen that the Duke of Cambridge, who has been
Mr. WILSON objected to this motion being proceeded with, in York during the present show, and who has visited the
and submitted to the court that the hon. magistrate was out show yards, would have been present on this occasion, bad it
of order in making such a motion. This court had not the not been that he was prevented by other engagements.
power to grant money for any such purpose.—Mr. Wilke However, lam proud to have to inform you that Prince
concurred in what his friend Mr. Wilson bad said, that this Albert will be enabled also to attend the dinner to-morrow in
court could not entertain the motion in its present form ; but the pavilion. (Cheers.) And I can assure his Royal High-
he should give notice that he should move that this comet do nese that we feel gratified that we can consider him as one
petition both hours of parliament for power to of the governors of the society. Therefore, indepen-
devote funds far the objects specified in the motion dently of the feeling of the attachment that we feel as
of his friend Mr. Armstrong.—The Chairman was farmers of England towards the royal family, we are glad to
of opinion that the motion could not be pro- observe that his Royal Highness freely mixes with the farmers
ceeded with.—Mr. Armstrong asked permission to amend of England at these agricultural dinners. I will now pro-
the motion to the effect recommended Ity Mr. Wilks.—This pose, as the next toast, " The Health of the Queen Dowager,
the court was opposed to, and Mr. Armstrong gave notice the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, the Duke of
that at the next county day he should bring on his motion Cambridge, and the rest of the royal family. ' (Cheers.)
in the amended form.—Mr. Wilson said that he feared the Prince ALBERT then rose. He was greeted by plaudits of
introduction of industrial schools in this country would be some minutes' duration. Ile said—My lords and gentle-
the same as the ateliers nationaux in France ; they would men, you must allow me just to express to you my very sin-
be filled with rogues and vagabonds who would not work. cere thanks for the present kindness with which you have
PRISON REBORTS.—The reports from the county prisons received the toast. I think I should be acting contrary to
were read. The visiting justices of the Coldbath-fiela House the rules of the society if I were to detain you by a long
of Correction officially announced to the court the murder of speech. I have, therefore, merely to repeat to you how
Woodhouse, the turnkey, by Hewson, now condemned grateful I am, and how gratified I feel, for the kindness
to death for that crime, and that the county solicitors you have shown me on this occa,ion. (Cheers.)
bad been ordered to defend an action brought against Col. The PRESIDENT rose and said--Gentlemen, I dare say '
Chesterton, the governor, by a prisoner named Pollett, who most of thou present are aware that it has been the wish of
was committed by the judge of the Whitechapel County the council of the Royal Agricultural Society that this
Court; also that Mrs. Woodhouse, the wife of the murdered meeting should not be merely convivial, but that there
warder, had presented a memorial to them, praying for pc- should be some practical information obtained by the as-
euniary assistance, but they haring no funds from which to sembling together of two or three hundred gentlemen in a
make any such grant, they had referred the matter to the room like this. And it has occurred to the members of the
Secretary of State, thinking that as government had paid council that as a lecture has been delivered this day, which I
the expense of the prosecution, they would afford her some regret that I could not attend in consequence of other en-
assistance. The report from Westminster Britlewell reconi. gagements, and having to attend his Royal Highness Prince
mended the appointment of an assistant chaplain at a salary Albert in inspecting the stock in the cattle yard—that lecture
of 2001. a year. This recommendation was made a notice being upon the subject of calving, the council have thought
of motion for the next court. This report stated that the it would be an advantage to the society and to the farmers
rate of sickness amongst the female prisoners was 5i generally, if a discussion were to take place on that subject,
per cent.; amongst the males, 34 per cent. There had especially as what is said here is generally spread among a
been several cases of fever, arising from the admission of great number of the farmers of England. They have, there-
Irish vagrants.—The Rouse of Detention report announced fore, thought that it would be an advantage to have the
the suicide of a prisoner there confined c'st remand, the facts opinion of practical men as to the best way of rearing cattle ,
of which have already appeared in this paper. The prison from the time that they are dropped to their being a year 1
ennt.ined 77 male 29 female prisoners. old. But `tang farmers (especially those who are fond of
The committee appoinced to Consider a resentrei
grand jury ant 9I the fox-hunting) knew that if you would have sport you must
that this 80!f0/111 Houle IMP a nuisisnee ow me then, gentlemen, to ask Mr.
61,enfirt
thfoari.a;purertseof justice, repo.. • and I first find a oz.
• discussion upon this interesting
that they did not - Thompson W kftm con-
nt there was any need 0. a new house.—A I subject

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

H. 8. Tamarac., in., of Kirby-hallesakl he would
divide his observed eise into the summer and winter treat-
ment of calves. With respect to the summer treatment, his
system was chiefly applicable to those hems which contained
a certain quantity of good grazing land. In those cases the
farmer would be anxious to devote the inferior land to lean
stock ; and as lean stock was dear, and of inferior quality,
there was a great inducement to breed stock of • much better
description. The system he had found to answer best was
to purchase at the beginning of summer • number of young
heifers, from a year and a half to • year and three-quarters
old ; to put them to the bull in June or July ; to turn them
on inferior land ia the summer, and to the straw-yard in
winter, but keeping them on the grass-land in the day time.
He always allowed his cows to suckle their calves. He
always found it best to turn them with their calves on the
same description of land in the summer, and in about the
end of October to wean the calves and sell the mother, or
to tie her up for fencing. Thus he had a calf at six months
old at • very reasonable price. He knew it was generally
considered extravagant to allow calves to suck their mothers,
but the question hail been complicated, by farmers calculating
the profit they would have made if they had milked the
COW% and manufactured the milk inter butter or cheese. If
estimated in that that way, the matter became complicated,
because the farmers had to deduct the expense of milking
and churning, of taking to market, &c. He estimated the
cost in this way: The land he was speaking of should not
be rented higher than 11. per acre ; and en acre and • half
would be sufficient to carry a heifer of a year and a half
old for the first summer. The cost of maintaining her for
the first summer would be 305.; in winter there would
be 11. for the cost of the straw in addition. The second
year with a cell the cow would require two acres of grass ;
which would be 21. for the second summer. The expense
therefore, would he 303. for the first summer, and 21. for
the second summer; but as lie would now have to sell a
cow which would be worth 21. more than when the calf
was born, that would reduce the expense to 21. 10s. If
gentlemen had not grass land they would give what milk
they could spare and make up with linseed porridge, which,
however was not equal to milk. 'With regard to the winter
keep, it was of consequence to provide a sheltered yard for
the young stock, and not to allow them to mix with the
older ones. The way that he had bound to answer was to
provide an open yard, with a shed facing the south or south.
east, and divided with posts and rails, so that each die on
of the yard afforded access to the sheds behind, be which
there was a feeding trough, and • passage alefte which a
man conld go and feed the calves in all 'ale pens without
%wine to open a siugle gate. By thit means they would also
be enabled to enclose the calve;, so as to prevent the strong
from robbing the weak. The fodder he gave to the calves in
winter was turnips—three stone a day on the average
through the winter, but increasing the quantity as the wea-
ther got colder. Calculating the keep of the calves at three
stone per day, and the turnips at the quantity per acre, they
would consume, during the three months of winter, nearly
sixteen tons. lie found mangel wurzel the best; and half
an acre to three roods of land would keep the calf for three
months. He gave oilcake, which, at 31. per ton. would
be 20s. a head during the winter. The great advantages of
this way of keeping were, that the calf never lost its calf
layer, and, if carried on the second year, they would be
able to sell their stock whenever they pleased; and it it suited
them to keep them beyond two or three years, no stock
could pay them better. As this was a much higher rate
of keeping than was usual, they would expect him to
prove that it was a profitable mode of investing capital.
In proof that it was the best way of doing so, he would
repeat what he had done on that system. The first trial he
made was in 1811, and the first hint he received on the
subject was from Sir Tattoo Sykes. He had some heifers
for this purpose, the young stock being three years and a
quarter old. This stock would pay well. He had made
DO deduction for the improved quality of the manure, which
ought, however, to be taken into the account. He
had heard prepared linseed recommended for calves ; it
had been advocated by Mr. Marshall, and he (Mr. Thomp-
son) also recommended it. Ile had used it for horses and
young cattle. It was much better for them, although he
was aware it was somewhat of an extravagant system of
farming. The time was gone by for a large stock to be
reared on small capital. The plan was to keep young stock
well from the day they were calved.
Mr. Tuareg said, it was the custom in Devonshire to let
the calf suck the cow, assuming the calf was dropped in the
winter months, from the time of birth to ten days old. At
the end of ten days they took it from the cow, and gave it
six pints of new milk twice a day. This was continued two
or three weeks ; at the end of that time they withdrew a
portion of the new milk, and gave some skim milk, oatmeal,
hay, and turnips, taking care that it should be kept per-
fectly clean, with • free circulation of air, and well littered
up. Two or three weeks after this the calf eats meat with
avidity; the new milk is withdrawn, and skim milk
given. It was continued five or six weeks longer,
and then the calf feeds heartily oa cut meat and oatmeal, atter
which it lives on cut meat. It was kept in during the winter
months, and then on the first sunshiny season given the free
use of its limbs. It was then turned into good pasture, and
shifted from cue to another as convenient; for he held as an
essential point, that it was necessary for every young animal,
during the first year of its existence, to be fed on different
kinds of food. His own calves were carried on in this
way, being taken in in the latter end of October or the
beginning of November. The yard was kept clean, and i
well bored, end the animal had • little hay and chopped
straw awl turnips. In the winter months the animal might
have mangle wurtzel. Thus it was kept during the winter
months, and when spring arrived they turned it into the first
good immure they could, and all trouble was then at an end.
That was the doctrine he nod pursued; he found it answer
his purpose, sae he had never found a dear animal to follow.
He held it to be most essentially necessary that the animals
should not be forced. If they forced their calves in • manner
that sumo of our stock were treated, perhaps the very next
that came under their notice they found very unprofitable.
The lion. Mr. PELRA?d observed that his system was a
eimnle and not an expensive one. After the first fortnight
he took off the new milk, he took a quarter of a pound of
linseed, a quarter of a pound of bean meal, by way of 1
restoring the caeaine to the new milk, and added a quarter of
a pound of molasses. Ile found this not an expensive plan,
and without stating whether Mr. Thompson was right with
respect to suckling calves or not, he merely meant to say he
found this a satisfactory, and believed it was not an extrava-
i glint plan. (Applause.)
' Mr. Denim-re of Biggleswade, had been somewhat stew
eessful, as he had not lost a calf " from scouring " during the
last three years. lie left the calf with the cow four or five
days, then removed it to the calf pens, which are constructed
so as to be very cool in summer, and sufficiently warm in
winter. He preferred pens, thinking that when young calves
are tied up it irritates them and produces scouring. When
taken from the caw, he gave three quarts of new milk morn
ing and evening for four weeks ' • at three weeks old a very
small quantity of crushed linseed and chaff ; at a month he
added " sweet" skim milk, two quarts, reducing the new to two
quarts, and increased the quantity of linseed,chaff, and added
tine pollard ; at six or seven weeks old added skins milk, and
then half a pint crushed linseed, and more chaff and pollard.
The skim milk he continued as long as there was any to
spare from the younger calves. He found it useless to glee
• very liberal allowance of new milk to a calf after six weeks
old ; he thrives better by using sweet skim milk, and he
accounts for it in the following manner: —The new milk
satisfies his appetite, and he does not consume a sufficient
quantity of linseed and chaff for his age. His cows calve at
all periods of the year, but he considers September the best
mouth for aged cows, both for dairy profit and the calves,
which become strong to turnout the following spring. Heifers
should calve in Apra, as the grass in May forces their milk
and lays the foundation for their becoming good milkers. He
never turned an. calves out to grass that are calved after
March until the following spring. He attributed the success
he had had to the new milk system. He objected to the
System of c caking for young calves, but alter the first year
it might be the best mode in which they could fatten cattle,
and bring them to market.
Mr. SHAW differed both with Mr. Turner and with Mr.
Thompson, and thought that a good calf could never come
wrong. Much, however, in regard to feeding, was whether
they were to be reared upon the produce of ploughed land, or
whether they were to be fed upon grass. If they wished
their calves to go upon ploughed lands, the quicker they go
from their mother the better. lie was himself a dairy far-
mer, and sold a good deal of milk. He never Buckled more
than eight weeks, and did not give after that more than a
quart a day; but he gave them oil-cake or cut hay, to induce
them to eat. By these means he got them to eat at three
weeks old. He found that by giving them linseed to eat for
• certain period—not for long. as he considered linseed to be
a had thing when too long continued—that a change for
oat-cake was the best thing. lie repudiated the notion that
beef should be fed on grass, and thought that his syst
had preyed far preferable, when conjoined with stall
feeding. He had an excellent proof of this in his own
experience. At the present moment he had an animal,
two years and eight months old, which weighed 108
stone (of 81b). (Hear.) This was done by cutting all its food,
and giving it first oat-flour, and beans as it grew older.
If he were to follow the pramice recommended, and turn
them out to grass, hellivould lose by his calves; and that led
to the question whether they should stall-feed their calves
or turn them out to grass. It also led to the question whether
they should suit the land to the cattle, or the cattle to the
land. There was great favour now shown to the Norfolk
system, which was held up as a pattern; and he could
remember when the Herefordshire men brought them their
cattle to feed ; but now they sent them to London ready
fattened for the market. He did not deny that they might
with profit turn them out to grass, provided they gave
them oatmeal and linseed, and beans when they were able
to take them; but he preferred stall-feeding nevertheless.
He was a Midlaad Counties man, and, as such, he thought it
right to declare that he had found it difficult to follow out
the early maturity system profitably, when combined with
grass-feeding. (Applause.)
Mr' Muriel held it as a principle that they could never
improve nature, and therefore it was their duty to follow
her as closely as possible. (Hear, hear.) The same remarks
applied to the rearing of a calf as to the child of human
beings. If the Almighty had provided the parent with food
containing the best materials for forming the perfect animal,
which no one could for a moment doubt—and if they
were desirous of following nature, they must, if they
removed the young animal from its mother, give it
, those things which come as near as possible to the
mother's food. lie saw an attempt to follow this prineiPte
in the food recommended by preceding speakers who had
been enlightening them. Some gave oatmeal or nitrogen ;
1, others, linseed or carbon ; and they ought also to give oatcake
1 for the phosphates. lie would not stop to discuss the relative
merits of the scheme propounded ; but he mustsay a word about
the poor grass land that had been spoken of. They must not
hear of poor grass land, either for feeding the animals or the
farmer. He maintained, practically maintained, that poor
grass land was the curse of the tenant, the landlord, and the
merely for sale, as tending
country at large. lie deprecated the system of feeding calved
es
b
their calves and keep them, and they must fe
the land. They
hear.
would prosper.