The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

WALTHAM AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

WALTHAM, OCT. 16.

The annual meeting of this association was held
to-day at the Agricultural Hall, Waltham. The show of
stook and poultry in the morning was stated to be the beet
that has been witnessed aloes the formation of tke acidity,
while the ploughing was such as to elicit the highest en-
comiums from the very numerous body of rumen from all
parts of Leicestershire end the adjolaing counties who
esserabled to witness it.

The poi.. of 30 guineas, gives by the Duke of Rutland
for the hest cultivated clay-land farm, was carried off by
Mr. Stephen Waders, of Redline; and the silver cap for
the brit ploughing by a farmer's son, to Mr. Thomas Jack-
son, of Sprorton.

Is the evening a large assembly, composed of gentry and
brain dined together in the Agricultural Hall ; bat very
considerable disappointment was ezperianeed at the last
moment by the iatelllgenee that the Marquis of Ormsby
was unable to be presses in consequence et the illness of the
Doke of &Wend. In his absence, the choir not token by
lit. Norton, of Elton, an inficeatal megistrate and one et
the eldest member. the semeiotics. Amongst general
ounpany ware Mears. Chowler, Nouns, Ha blithe, Often,
the Rey. Ids. atealey, and various other seaddoses of in-
hume. _ _ .

bed* of XT. Chewier" wan Murk ta ilesses tom
with a taut to Oa asiodalloa.
Mr.CzowLni, on rides/ to respond, was resolved with
cheers. la Um eaursa of his oburvations he said that he

was aware that nothing was an important to the country as 1
the ancient and sueessiful cii!tivatios of its soil, and there-
fore such noblemen as the Duke of Rutland deserved the
highest praise for the encouragement he "Horded to agri-
culture, and 'spatially for Introducing the element of cola- I
petition in cultivating farm.. He pawed some knowledge 1
of the country, and he could fairly say, atter walking 10
miles in .straight line over the estate of the noble duke,
the effect of that competition had been that the farming of I
the laud apes it was an example to the massy. It every
respites, both with regard to the application of manure, its
quantity and quality, and the Manua of weeds, it Welt
recoesifelly challenge competition with say other district.
(Chun.) 'Ain here he would venture to say that, with 4
the present remunerative prices and the Wares* of prods" '
the owners of property bad • right to upset a visible Im-
provement in the farms. What had been the result in this
instance ? Why, that the whole district, far beyond the '
limits of the estate, bad been indaentied, and the '
came of agriculture promoted by the ions of '
the tenants sod the seems' which had attended
their endeavour' to increase the quantity and
quality of their products. Oae thing especially was
Important to be seined—namely, that it was by no mum
ausesery to adopt stringent agreements is odes to enure
good forming, for none of the taxmen either in Initiator-
shire or Llacolnihire, where Use best farming bad met his '
view, had any *grossest with their ludlords. (Haar,
beer.) He quite admitted that In some parts of the country
it was neessiary that the fanners skean have a stimulus,
In order to get the laud into good condition. Bat that was
not required here. (Hear, hear.) It was quite tree that
a large quantity of land was not yet seder cultivation, but
it impnted them sore to know that mach which was
capable of grodadag mash sage than it did at present was
not yet cultivated to its proper canal ; and he made that
observation publicly, trusting that they would etc better
things yet, end that there would shortly be a visible im-
provement In certain pines which it would be anus
to partingeriee with greater ouctuess. (Laughter 3
The obey that day had been entromely good, both In
gorilla/ and quality ; but la sae particular he thought the
prinellinis of the society were a little too entreated. He
observed that by one of their roles all animals shown were
required so be Mud In the district. That we. sounnieg
like latredeeing a principle of restricted competition. which
be should in glad to see done away with. As he said before,
pekes wen sow remnatiratin, and he hoped that they would
unties so. (Hoes, hear.) He hoped from the bottom of
his been that the nnenfeentrere, who were the best cu-
ttings of the farmer, would outlaw" toss)", the prosperity
which they were now blamed with. (Rees, hear) Altuough
they might appear to porches* a ponies of their food at re-
latively high prices, he trusted that they would net feel the
pressen, but that the producer and the cocasseer would
both siatiatie to advance in peas, eamfort, mad prosperity
together. (Ohms.)
Several esker toasts of • Seal eltareetes fleinered, sad the
meeting did not separate till a late hour.

discard than ci unity. Indeed, u they went on in thole
struggle to educatethe pecple, it *pottered to him that the
greater their efforts were the mote apparent was the danger
of dinnion in the general cause. As an example he would
take the society which wss now before the meeting. For
forty-five years the National Society had existed as •
means of educating the people, end it had done
its best to expend its money in the ere.tion of schools
in which certain principles were taught. All who had
accepted its aid had pledged themselves to teach the
children committed to their care the principles of the eita-
blighed church, and the clergy who superintended the
schools were bound by their ordination None to teach the
principles of religion according to the formularies of that
chinch. It might be thought that in so ',mole a care all
strife and controversy would have been evaded, but even
within the fold of the church herself • controversy had
arisen se to the mode and manner in which the principles
'of the National Society should be carried out in corrosion
with the formularies of the established church. Indeed,
it appeared to be • question whether the y ought not to
open their arms to all, or whether, forgetting that they were
the representatives of the otstalibehed church, they
ought not to abandon their principles for the
sake of drawing in then who belonged to other
communions. For hie own part, he believed that
their formularies were in themselves evangelical,
because they were scripturel ; and he sew no necessity
for departing from the principles exhibited in those
formulating, in order to plisse theme who dimwitted
from teessm. ligifirceask . the dedemd lad bees
• demand, scot 'of religious priaciple, but merely a
political demand, set up in order to cause trouble in the
work of education. From pse‘experience be was enabled
to tell the meeting that this very question of the necessity of
abeindonicg the church formularies, in order to attract the
children of direnters into their schools, had been

thoroughly tested years ago in a district much agitated by
political discaasions as well as by religions strife. Years
ago he remembered having a discussitn with • very sincere
and sound member of the church as to the expediency of
abandoning the church formularies and the catechism, far
the sake of drawing In those who dissented from their c in-
tension. They eat up distessing the question nevrly all
night, and at length went to bed, both convinced that they
were right. Oa the following mereiog be (the Bishop of
Sodor and Man) decided upon trying the szporiniest in his
own school, which was situated in a large manufacturing
district, surrounded entirely by diesenten. The ;mode
which he adopted for testing the question was to decline to
admit the child of a dissenter, unless the parents person-
ally requested their children to be taught the church
catechism. The experiment was entirely successful. When-
ever there was an impediment placed in the way, it
was human nature to try and get over it, and so it had
been la this ease. The dimmers finding that their children
wield only be reinietd on certain conditions, finally ac-
cepted the conditions, sad after trying the experiment for
three monthe, he found that the proportion of children ad-
mitted Into the school at the request of digesters was nine
out of ten. fle, therefore, thought he was justified in
saying, from experience, that an education based upon the
principles of the church of England might be so conducted
auto attract those who, from ignorance and religious or
political disunite, kept away at present.
The misting was sitbsequisatly addressed by the Dean of
Lichfield, Archdeacon Moon, and the Rev. Canon Lone-
dale, eon of the bishop of the dime, and the proceediap
were then brought to a close.