The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15,

there being attached a scarifier, a sad-boa, aid a roller,
and the whole weigh* from two boa to two teas and a
half.

jig .VECHTS BALANCE-SHEET.

EtrEgillENTB AT TIPTRER-HALL FARM.
.he rehear" weekly meeting of the Society of
At 0-
, ,sy Moine, Mr. 11. CDOSTRIL is the chair„l
iNeL ,"t"' mrierare, aracmget othen, were elected as
the 14""'"lewder, `SirWalmoley, ht ?
Ow LouLi of 3.• se
11.6'" • aad limn C. I. Hambro.
Xs. 11;
Mr it read third report on the feu:: ff his
At 'ripens-Loll Farm. Alter game rural
111.7.• I 1s tvry „stabs. he said-However unpalatable and
jA.
sztoP`h- • a may be to uncover sad expos. agricultural
fix, ort•irtrominr, time convisces me that it is at-
vela eel the happiest ultimate retain ; aad I tan MOOD
▪ w feel angry at former censures when I i.e that
miav a sturdy old pollard has bowed to my influence, and
teat masf • crooked kelp mad way have bum made
Mr,ybt by my example. By the bye, is it sot my lie.
Nor nut whilst oar railway fences are efficient, trim,
ma thriving, A being possible to dig beside them ennui.
any , tee :opal minute has
mmtroutors that diverge from them at right angles ? I
sow l'"'"d to produce my balance sheet, and I am sure
mat of fox will rejoice with me that it shows a most
joesraig, sad encouraging melt, the benefit I derive for
lures being is rent, profit, and letterset nearly GOO/. I
Amy asking of • further sum I ought to claim for ire-
• radials cat soil, owing to my having purchased for
isesamptioe by my live stock 700/ worth of cons, oil cake,
• I 41•11 have the benefit of ibis in east year's crop.
Da.-Ts valudioe, Oet. 31, 1812-Hones, 861. ; pogo,
irl.fis.6l.: sheep, ttel/. Gy.; cads and cows, 3471.; im
pont.. 3.10/. ; tillages, hay, &c., 526 i. 101. ; rent of
dial*en I l 431. • tithe., rates, 681 • labour, including
'
bailiff. 1e.,, Uhl.; guano, bones, and so porphos
9:41. ; seed corn and seeds, 45! ; live stuck
egka 1,240/. ; torn and cake hougnt for feeding purposes.
wowkeep, &e., 64m/. ; coals for engine, tradessinea's bills,
; my improved rent, 3Gs per acre, 2401. ; profit,
3651.16 e. 3d. total, 1,9;51. 6s. 91.
Cs.-By valuation, Oct. 31, 1853: Horses, 71/. ; pies,
dc., sheep, 4181. ; cattle and tows, 2391.101-, ; its.
ibt,..31.001.12.1.; tillage', hay, &c., 185.9 d. ; wsest,
iiiimun per acre-3U acres, 6301. ; barley, 5 quarters
per acre-11 acres. 1141. ; beans, 5 quarters per ten-13
acres, 14i1. ; oats, 101. ; produce of cows and poultry, 601.;
lay Kid, 351. ; burrs work, labour, hay, maser., &c., for
tan establishment, 601.; live stock and wool sold,
three stocks of old straw, : total, 4,9151. Gs. 91.
Live Stock Account -Cr. To valuation, 1852, 7334
8. 64. ; cent, cake, sail feeding stuffs bought, 6:81. ; live
stock Wright, 1,250/. ; profit, or rather price paid for pro-
gram of farm, 33;1.7s 1.-3,018/. 16s. Dr.: By valuation,
1553, 1,0161. 16a.; lids stick sad wool sold, 2,00'd!.-
2,01'N.16..
New, sir. this balanee-sheet opens up a vast question for,
delectios, both in town and country. Why la it so ado. j
wit from my former one ? Principally because I have the
power of irrigation. It is tine that priest are higher now
than then, but crops are Ws productive, and expenses are
higher. Nearly the whale difference between this balances
sheet end the former one arises in the live stock account.
By irrigation I VD enabled to doubly, if not triple, my
green and rout crops, and thus render them profitable in-
deed of unprofitable. It is quite clear that if I can double
lay stock, I also double the quantity of my manure, and
thus affect importantly the cereal crops. If I doebte
my green and root crop, 1 diminish their cost onc•half.
This w actually the fact, and therein is my present and most
agreeable potion. Every practical farmer knows that the
loose par. of his fans is the root crop (I mean in the
Midland, Southern, and E 'stern 'aunties, where we have
bet moaners end little rain). That root crop costs him
MOM than the animals repay, and leaves a heavy charge ea
the ensuing grain crops. Irrigation changes all this, and
waits each crop to be responsible for its own 1111111111
charge, thus rendering them all remunerative. I am ha
ably and irequently reminded of the truth of this Maw
meat by a live-sere pasture opposite my residence. Vainly
did I try, by solid manures, to render this vile plastic clay
sate a useful pasture. It was like birdlime is winter and
cast iron in summer-poor, indigenous, and drab-coloured
grapes choked sod eradicated the finer kinds I had sown'
-and the animals wandered about, hollow and dissatisfied.
la the space of 18 months irrigation has changed all this-
new, ho. and fattening grasses have clothed the field with
perpetual verdure-it keeps three times as many animals,
lad the close and shaven pasture indicates their
affection for it-buttor, milk, and cream alike tes-
tify by their richness to the fertility of irrigation,
whilst the animals are improved in their condition.
Professor Way, in his recent valuable analysis of grasses, in
the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, has revealed the
astounding auth, that irrigated grasses contain 25 pee cent.
more swit-raakiag matter than those not irrigated. We all
know that grasses are voracious drinkers-they mud
steal drowning on undrained land in stagnant water, from
which their roots soon extract all the oxygen ; but see how
prim and green they look beside any trickling rivulet.
luster*, therefore, to predict, that the people of this
many will soon mined ample water-supply, desalinate,
sad health, with the idea of ample aad cheap physical sups
plies-(hear, hear)-they will identify the well-washed
mutest, of their closets with rounds of beet, saddles
of mutton, big loaves, and rich milk. (Great laughter.)
The ladies, whom I am too happy to me hero to-night,
Mowing their great and proper indigence, will recognise
is every slop that leaves the boost, a rich, cheaper,
sad more abandeat supply of that Mount. -
(lughter)-which is to develop I. their offspring by brie.
aid inuchnibeauty and power, mental and physical. • • •
It is of no us• to send a 'Mara of sewerage to a farmer
who allows his own mune* to rue down the ditches, and
muds to Peru to bring it beck wide is the shape of bird's
dug at 101. per ton. No, leadlorda and tenants too must
be taught, or brought to believe, that food tad liquefied
maser. are one and the same thing, merely altered in
Arm. Than yea may make a small well by the aide of each
punt sewer, and with your steam force pump take all that
mimes down that name, and distributs it through stabler-
mesa arterial pipes oaths whole country ; riot a drop need
Till pest your pimp to taint your streams. There is no more
dilculty in it, than is the water supply, but you mut
week a change in the minds of the agriculturist, or they
will hardly take it as a gift, muckier pay you for in • • •
The effects of liquefied manure are so striking is improv-
ise set crops, that the caw l worth trades. We know
that there is nothing of which a lamer is en mach afraid
sa the subsoil six or seen inches below the surface ;
if he bring, this at oeme to the surface, he will grow
aethiag for soma time. This inovee clearly that that
detailed Mooed has never received, or bare improved by
the solid maitre ploughed in to the surface soil • but by
747: solid manure is a liquefied form, it sinks
y tato the aulmil,iiaturating every greeds, sad by
a affectionate afilnitios improves its chemical
Meditise, rendering its panicles available and agreeable
lathe Mem of plasm ; change of air, and iimems of water
msso eresmary to roots of plants ea ts dikes Weida; ail
this is effected by drainage and irrigation. It is no et
mama thing lee es to estimate the sell is the derit:sf
five feet ia w very strongest clay, makkag the
rut with the precious fluid. th•dabbm of amens be
strength and value. The specific gravity and Isamene
tare of liquefied mum are much light time them of
Ordinary water, thereby warming the add eel inaelneate
eatwoll-we know the elect of boUsin beet in our guises.
'tie s sigalfimat fact that the liquid ,insist of animals
fa dry weather destroys vegetatioa-dilate it well, ells our
semen, then it stimulates and fertilizes. • • •
gx-
purism has taught oar fanners, that the ammoubseal pie-
ties of ow: mammas is the most costly, aad yet the most
difficult to retake; owing to its extreme volatility, sada-
tun frith water is Ike only profitable wilt* provost its
fate the atmospleme, therefore the wash's( away atlas=
made tom isle easpious tank for irrigation, le every
way a gems emeeleag tied advantage. • • • As this
is • geared dieeourse, I will not overlay it with
tedious statistics of soot, but will state generally that to
irrigate a farm of 200 acres you would require :-Four-
horm steam power, worked at sixty to seventy pounds per
itch. Fifteen yards per acres of three-inch nos pipe. A
circular tank, about thirty feet in diameter, and twenty feet
deep. Two !misdeed yards of two heakeinda "mks hose,
with corrugated joints to reader it flexibas. Uinta perdue
jet. A pair of forts pumps, capable of discharging 100
gallons per minute. (Miss are of five-inch diameter, and
twenty-inch stroke, making thirty strokes per minute ; but
I would recommend larger bands, and a slower action, to
prevent wear and tear.) At present prices all this can be
accomplished for about fa. per acre, so that the tenant
Paying nine shillings per acre to his landlord fur such
an improvement, would be a great gainer. • • •
While touching on irrigation, it may be useful to consider
&name' with which it has a close coanezioa. Of course,
without drainage natural or artificial irrigation would be
iajarloya A smart discussion has recently been carried on,
whether drains should cross the slope an or follow
the natural fall in equi-distant lines. There can be no
doubt as to the necessity for tapping sand or peat pots, or
other natural and free receivers of water, when sura.unded
by tenacious clays. Up and down drains will generally do
this, but where they do not lateral brandies may be added.
Although close and shallow drains may make the land ape
pear somewhat more dry during winter, the trope on the
deeply drained lead show a superiority in the summer. As
so dense a fluid u liquefied manure will filter deeply (five
feet) through the heaviest clays, and flow from the pipes
in streams, I hops we shall n gain hear the too
common assertion that " water won't go through our soils."
I place before you the model of a steam cultivator,
which I think is about to introduce a new economy in
British agriculture. I have become, as it were, a parent to
it against my inclination. Mr. Romaine, the intelligent
inventor, was consigned to me by the agricultural depart
ment of the Canadian goternmenc, who had a high opinion
of it. After trying in vain to interest some of our imple-
ment makers in this invention I found that it would be lost
to agriculture unless I advanced the necessary fund, for its
manufacture and for the securing of the various patent,.
On public grounds I did this, and happy I am tosay that its
success promises all that the inventor anticipated. lf, with
the assistance of a pair of horses and ss. worth of coke, we
can effectually comminute and cultivate ten ores per day,
we may bid farewell to the whole tribe of tormentors. aces
Mere, grubber, harrows, broadsbares, and clod-crushers,
that consume, through our horses, so much of the food of
this country. (Cheers.) If it does not supersede the plough
it will limit it,, operations. When once the steam eultiva'or
is shown to answer no doubt many others will appear, and
I venture to predict that, within seven years, veam will
become the grand motive cultivating power. (Hear, hear )
Mr. Miens here referred ton drawing of Mr. Romaine's
mach.ne, which appeared to consist of a steam-engine of 20-
horse power fined on a cart, drawn by one or two hArses ;

"If such machines answer" (continued Mr. Mechi), „I
gee as reason why they should not he male sufficiently
powerful to do thirty or forty acres, or even 100 acres per
day. 1 have ae doubt that we shall se* on our land what
we now see on the wide ocean, monstrous moving volcanoes,
rendered by admit* useful and subservient to mar., each
representing the powers of coins thousands of horses,
which we shall feed with coals jointed of corn.
,141.12, then, to small fields and emote lanes. I
wash! maw Mr. Romaine's engiae, when not cul-
tivation, will be avaiiithle driving the thrashing
maehine, irrigating pumps, et:r dto:;,•1
eutten, cake-breakers, de., requisite oe most iMproved
farm. It is also intended to work a reaper at harvest.
As it is highly important to concentrate great power with
little weight, I have adopted Mr. Buran's Patent Cupped
Boiler, which pretesting • much larger area of fire-box
surface to the water, economises fuel, by a much more
rapid emanative of sawn. I have no doubt we shall soon
find it applied to locomotives; the one I have is the first
i that has been issued—l have proved it to 2701ba. per inch,
and shell work it at from 1001bs to 1401 In. To appreciate
the great advantage of steam over horse power, we must
reflect that an express engine weighing 38 tons, represents
the power of 1,000 real horses, which would weigh 730 tens.
It ie gratifying to me to be able to state that my engine.
driver is ore of my farce labourers, who works the engise,
irrigation pumps, and other machinery, perfectly to my
satiofaction. Vie fact is, all the men on the farm soon get
used to the steam, cud you may easily select one or more
with a particular pride in its management. A forge haw
mer, anvil, vice, tongs, flat and round Mee, ift!.. ate • nee
comity elate situation —so you make a blacksmith, as well
as an engiae-driver.
After reminding the meeting that all great inventions
had had to struggle into public favour against an amazing
amount of custom and prejudice, and observing that fifty
years bad not sufficed to impress on the agricultural mind
the great economic tact, that steam was more profitable and
available than horse power, Mr. M. chi concluded with some
remarks on the neeetsity of a thorough reform in the pre-
sent mode of transferring land. Ile said—. I purchased
the other day three acres of land that intersected my
fields, and was highly amused at the production of as many
parchments and documents, as, when spread out, would
cover the great charity dinner table at the London Tavern.
(Laughter.) After traveling back seventy-five years to
trace the enclosure or kidnapping of this piece from •
heath, it traced the death of the parties, their wills, their
successors' wills, three or four mortgagee several times
transferred, and • mass of writing out of which any clever
lawyer could, I should think, extract fifty objections.
Apply the sumo principle to our funded, and every other
description of property, and we should come to a dead fix,
like the Irish encumbered estates. (Hear, hear.) Like
those, the very absurdity of the evil, will, I fancy, some
day work its cure. It certainly keeps down the price of
lead, by greatly diminishing the competition for it."
(Cheers.)
It,. U. F. DATUI said he knew a farm in the West of
Scotland in which the produce of 30 acres had, with the
assistance of two pounds of cake per day for each
beast, and a quarter of a pound for each sheep, fattened
60 head of stock, and 110 sheep ; and after charging 10 per
cert. for cost of machinery, and making • full allowance
for real and every other item of expense, the result was,
when the stock was all sold off, • positive profit to the
landlord of 41. 17e. per acre, or about 1601. (lieu, hear.)
Agriculturists appeared to have no idea of the hidden trea-
sures which were running to waste.
The CUSHMAN mentioned • case within hisown know
ledge, in which an omnibus driver by cultivating ten pole.,
or about the sixteenth part of an acre, in his spare time,
with the aid of liquid manure, hod produced sufficient
vegetable toad for himself, his wife, and eight children for
nearly the who's year. (Hear, hear.) At this rate, he
observed, one acre of land would produce cn?ugh vegetable
food for 100 persons.
Mr. COLS made some remarks on the desirableness of
applying the principle of limited liability to companies
formed to aid agriculturists In making improvements.
Dr. LYON PLATPAIS Bid it had frequently been made
an objrction to the irrigation of manures that it washed
valuable matter into the drains ; but this was not the case,
as soils were endowed with the power of extracting from
the solution all its most fertiliaing properties. When llb.
of manure contained the constituents of llb. of wheat,
surely the greatest ears should ha taken to preserve it ; acid
those who aided to do so conferred a great benefit on their
country. (Cheers.) As regarded the use of steam, the
simple question was, whether it were better to consume
flesh, or to consume coal; and, as • pound of cost was
clearly cheaper than • pound of flesh, it was evideatly the
best to use. By the adoption of new instruments, by the
, extrusive use admire, and by the creation of intelligence
. and skill in agriculture as a manufacturer, a bloodless vie-
tory would virtually extend the dominions of the sovereign,
anu ample food be provided for an increasing population.
(Cheers.)
A vote of thanks was given by acclamation to Mr. Mechi
1 for his paper.

PIEIENTATION ter PLATE.—Yesterday a party of
about seventy geatlessen connected with the parish of Bt.
Luke's dined at the Prince of Wales, Banner-street, on the
occasion of presenting a testimonial to Mr. John Kees; late
churchwarden, " for the zealous and efflcieat discharge of
hie duties as churchwarden, and as a proof of the esteem la
whisk he is held by his fellow parishioners." The festival
dmiwod additional interest from the fa't, that although the
gnat& had, as at present constituted, lasted 120 years, the
Fewest cue was the first in which a licensed victualler had
Mod the Aloe of churchwarden. The chair was taken by
Me. Hooper, the present churchwarden, and at the same
liable were the Master sad Warden of Dulwich College, and
several of the most respectable and influential inhabitants
aft Luke's pad& The plate consisted of • handsome
I nt sap, saalfhalls and coffee service, the whole designed
ili_aMesseedlasly gem taste, and weighing nearly 250 os.
Tba Miner vas ameallsat and abundant, and the wines
wen of esislisse cemlity. After the usual loyal slid eon
Windiest toasts, the health of Mr. Keset was given from
the chair, with a handsome allusion to the services which
bad iadsood his follow parishioners to prevent him
with se splendid a testimonial. During his year
of gam he bad castributed to • complete Mao-
ratios of she Mission of the pries church,

bad et►awies distiagnialied himself the importa'at and
moneys odes of ehmokwardes. The plat* havine bees
preaosted, Mr. Heist returned thanks. He was sot
nolmmed ef ►ia ►umble origin, but attributed his advisee.
mint to his elan always to associate with those who were
higher I. moiety then himself. He had always end...
veered to reserve the goodwill of his hllow parishioners,
and the present testimonial was a proof that his efforts bad
sot been wholly neemosesful. The several other memo
were this disposed of, and the company separated at eleven
o'clock.
WORKING MEN'S READING AND REFRESHMENT

Room, Pendruanir, WEITEINSTII.—Tbis 'agitation,
which is divided is ass of the peered and moat densely
populated distillate of Westminster, h now opened. It is a
sett sod Giamatti linliditse geneletki of a lecture hall,
impale et 4
haldl SOW 4111 Of lei poems; a readieg
seem ongpMed the &say end weekly periodicals,
theleadini Ike.; • es&s soma, large enough to
Nat 116;rooms, shims teems, club rooms, etc.
Woe** g their own refreshments will have
MN= Oltelted M a reasonable charge. Free admission is
Mehl ta pogebNers; and mu halfpenny a visit, or 2d. a
woes charged he these who us the reading rooms, dc.,
without calling he retreshmeats. All the lectures will be
on popular and aimed& subjects. The Rev. 0. Milos.,
of St. Michaele...Sas ins on the syllabus.
MEXICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN CONPANT.—
Irsealriaythe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
lad at the Laths Tends, Mr. J. D. Fowles in the chair.
The chairman said that at the last meeting the there-
holders had resolved to hold a half-yearly meeting
be the purpose of laying a statement of affair before the
proprietors ; and it was in consequence of that resolution
that the present meeting was called. The concerns is Chili
had gone on, on the whole, in a satisfactory manner sines
the last meeting. The quantity of ore smelted in the nine
months from January last was 6,772 tons, and the quantity
of ore extracted was 1,091 teas. There were 1,157 tons of
copper received MUM the is England, and the
ore on hand en the Ist of flglaaler, in Chili, was 2,151
tone, containing about St 7 Isms of sapper. There was also
a quantity of ore ea bead in two other places, which would
be forwarded as ass es ships could be got to bring it. The
average prise stopple glace they last met was sash as is
afford a Ids pats all they brought to market. The
chairman thus mad noses from the letters of Use agents
of the compasey ahead, and aaaosacsd that the halt-yearly
dividend of 7e. 6d. per share woald be paid on the 20th of
neat month.
PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
AIISOCIATION. Lest evening a special general meeting of
the members of the Benefit or Mutual Life Assurance De-
partment of this Aseeciationw as held at the London T ,
for the purpose of electing two members as auditors in con-
sequence of the vacancies occasioned by the election of
Messrs. Coleman and Wood as managers. The chair was
occupied by R. H. Jones, Esq. Messrs. Bathurst, Parnell,
and other gentlemen addressed the meeting, after which
the balloting was proceeded with, and on its close it was
found that the successful candidates were Messrs. Toole
and Lloyd.
MENDING A FACE.—II has been stated, says
Oatignani, that a person named Ponsoles, the proprietor of
a travelling menagerie, was, three weeks ago, at Toulouse,
attacked by a tiger, on entering its rage, and had his nose
bitten off, so that it only hung by the skin of the upper lip,
and that he had received besides several severe wounds on
the head and elsewhere. When rescued from the animal,
he was placed in the hands of medical men. They began
by washing the wounds ; then they replaced the skin of the
skull ; readjusted the ear; refitted the nose, after removing
the bones, and the cartilages, which could not have become
eicatricised ; and they deemed the other wounds. To pre-
vent inflammation, they kept bladders filled with ice round
the head of the patient for five days. Their mode of treat.
meet was so succeeds' that Pensolee it now going on well.
The nose adheres entirely ; the skin of the skull has also
adhered ; but the ear is still not quite solid.
Ltvzitrool., WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday forenoon
the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific, Captain Ezra
Nye sailed from this port for New York, with the usual
United States and Canadian mails, 101 passengers, sad a
, large and valuable cargo of specie on freight.
A HINT TO FAMILIES.—A correspondent says :
Whilst currants are so dear in price, now Is. per lb.,
Turkey black raisins are being much used in families,
mixed with currants. They are wholesome, end call
' blush( at fourpence to fivepence per lb. They shoul.d be
stoned. Buy each separately, two-thirds raisins end one-
third currants, mad it will be a saving."

THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE 8110 W.

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SMUDGES'S, WEDNESDAY.
The annual dinner in connexion with this show
took place lest night, at the Royal Hotel, under the mei-
dency of Earl Rows, who was supported by Len' Col-
thot pe ; James Baldwin, E.q , the Mayor; Mr. Newdegate,
M.P., Mr. Spooner, DI P.; and amongst the pairing of
150 were Mr. Chandos Wren Iloskyna. of Wrosail Abbey ;
Mr. Alderman Lucy, Mr. Alderman Hodgson, Mr. Alder-
man Phillips; Mr. William Mathews, of Corbyns 11.11, &c.
Amongst the toasts given wasof course, " The Agricul-
twat interest," proposed by Alr. NATIIP.WS, who ob.
served that if, a few months ago, he had been called on to
propose that toast, it *Gold have been in mournieg, and
with sackcloth and ashes ; to bewail the fate of what was
once the embodiment of all prosperity; to lament over it as
having seen the best of its days. But these short months
had passed by ; and instead of bewailing agriculture as in the
last stages of senility and decrepitude, we find it full of lusty
life, the ridgy sides of the fat stock they saw that day being but
• feeble type of its strong and healthy condition. He con-
gratulated those around him on this happy combination of
circumstances. The pursuit of agriculture found always a
warm sympathy from every man whose heart was in the
right place. (Cheers.) There was no pursuit, however
pleasing or profitable, they were not desirous of giving up
to enjoy the pleasure involved in agricul•urol life. He felt
that his old friend, the Mayor, engaged as he was in manu-
facturing, had more p 1 in surveying his stock of fat
pigs than in his civic honours. (Cheers and laughter.)
There could not be a doubt of it; he turned like Ciocin-
natus to his Lim again. There were things which could
not be debated in assemblies such as that; but W.
he might be allowed to sq, that he delighted in this
condition of things, not only on its own account, but
that then was a total abandonment of all the fallacious
and monstrous doctrines which were formerly eosin-
ciente!, namely, that the Agricultural interest could only
exist by the sacrifice of the manufacturing interest, end that
manufactures could only flourish amidst the ruins of agri.
culture. Al these delusions were vanishing, to the delight
of every thinking man ; and now Ephraim no more shall
envy Judah. and Judah shall not yea Ephraim. (Cheers )
Their only rivalry now should be in doing the best they
could under their different cireumstauces. Now, although
there he did not desire to enter on topics on which differ-
epees of opinion might prevail, yet he might be allowed to
say that corn and currency had • larger signitieati,n than
the world generally supposed. (Hear, hear.) Tne walls
of that room he had heard more than once re-echo with
the subject; and he might venture to make one slight
allasioa to the new poeitiou in which the agricultural in-
terest was placed by the question of the currency. From
the year 1340 to the year 15641 the average price of the
quarter of wheat was oily ISt. A little previous to 1650
in 1648—the discovery was made of the mints of Mexico
and Peru, that brought an entire change over agriculture
and all other in t . In twenty years the prices of corn
and other commodities were nearly tripled, and wheat bore!
the proportion of nearly 50i. a quarter far the next two
huhdred years. Then came acts of parliament, corn laws,
followed by disputes, strikes, and differences of opinion,
hapolitical and social. Now, it seemed as if Providence,
ving pity on our defects, brought in its own bill of
California and Australia—(hear, hear)—a bill to which
he loosed with most unpile, expettatione—which,
if they dl4 not interfere who any crotehetty plans of
their own, would put every interest in its proper posi-
tion. (Hear, hear.) They had disputes, strikes, differences
between the employer and the employed, with faults on
the part of the men, and perhaps too high • tone on the
part of the masters; but he had such • strong faith ir. the
Anglo-Saxon good sense of the country, that he hoped soon
to see them get beyond all aberrations of this kind ; that
they would find all interests united—their only rivalry the
emulation of well doing. (Cheers.) Speaking as a large
employer of labour, and as expressing the sentiments of
those in a similar position, be could say that they looked to
see the day when every man should be able sometimes to
sit under his own vine and fig tree, in the enjoyment of the
pleasures of a country life. All hail, then, to agriculture.
He had to ask them to drink success to it, and he did so
with the very best wishes of his heart. (Laud cheers.)
The health of Mr. T. B. WIsIOUT, the founder of the
Exhibition having been given, that geatlemsa responded.
With regard to the progress which the society had made,
be said teat be thought there was every reaso• for con-
gratulation, and for the opinion which he fur one enter-
tained that their future prospects were most encouraing.
Their meeting this year, as he had said, was in all revers
satisfactory, and everything tended to show that their
society had attained a permanent character. It was the

conviction that this was the case that induced the co el
to determine upon a great extension of their operations,
by the announcement of a first exhibition of store stock
and agricultural imslements, to be held in June next.
(Cheers.) The prize list for stock to be shown at this
meeting had been for some time in the hands of the princi-
pal breeders, and he was glad to know that it had been
highly approved, and that many gentlemen had already
promised to become competitors. He looked upon the
store show as a most important extension of the
society's operations; end he slid not disguise it from
himself, as he would not from that meeting, that the
work now undertaken would s until a vast amount of re-
spoosibility upon the council, and require (or its accom-
plishment a very complete organisation, and an efficient
staff. In fact, every one interested in the success of what
bad been so well begun, should be prepared to afford the
most activo assi4ance ; while those to whom the actual
management was entrusted should each take fur his Fria.
anon the well known proverb, that " nothing moves without
being moved." (Cheers.) It was undoubtedly a most de-
sirable thing that a great agricultural meeting should
be held in the ceatre of England, in a town affording
and willing to supply the most eseellent accommoda-
tion in all respects, and in the centre of a district in which
had been found many of the most intelligent and success-
fel agriculturists of the present time, both landlords and
tenants. The marvel was, not Mist their progress had been
so rapid, but that in the midland counties, with all the ma-
terials at our hands, we had been se late in the field with a
movement of this kind. (Hear, hear.) Their show had
increased with each rapidity, that every [year brought the
same work with regard to the fittings and the reception and
disponil of the stock ; sad this year, owing to the »tenor-
dinary character of their Poultry Show, the labour had been
vastly increased. Arduous as it was, however, it had been
cheerfully undertaken by a few members of their council;
and the entire approval of all that had been done, both by
exhibitors and visitors, would, he was sure, be most grati-
fying to those gentlemen. (Cheers.)
CKANDOS Wang Hossixe, Esq., observed that their
thanks were peculiarly due to the manufacturers of imple-
ments, because every implement they produced was an in-
cises's( power to the human hand, and thereby an exten-
sion of the power of the hulas twain, to which the hand
was the miniskr. Its Anal saes were physical, but they
halm that physical power lay at the bottom of moral and
intellectual nature, and was the foundation of the highest
aims and the highest theampUehmeats of the human rate.
It was with mash , therefore, that he gave " The
Manufacture» a Implements." (Cheers.)
Mr. Joint LOWS, as the only »presentative of the agri-
cultural implement maws plant, acknowledged the toast.
The CaiithwaW them gave the lot toast on the list,
" The Ladies," which wee eekriewledged with the usual
benears ; alley whisk the noble chairman left the chair,
and the y sepelatsd.
This •
the were admitted to the show ; the
Hall boa beim yerewded throughout the day.—Yea
terday shamus the Desires et rretand and a large
party from Trentham visited the Itzhibitioa.