The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1856.

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to talk* partial damage, sad • temporary !
expense, but to threaten the actual tom of
the harvest over • wide area of the most productive
part of France. Is the midst of them preemie, and
prospective evils two incidents have occurred which
are more animating and encouraging than any
fortunes of • salmon can be disheartening. One wee
the trial of the agricultural implements of the Paris
Exhibition, when the Arab chiefs were in France last

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year; and the other is the arrival of cattle and agri-
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cultural produce from distances of above 1,000 miles

for the Universal Exhibition which is to open on the
Ist of June. It is impossible but that a prodigiously

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increased production of food most be the consequence
of these exhibitions.

Without going back so fax as AWE= YOLING'S
lamentations over the backward condition of agrical-
tore in France, we may say,with9ot fear of coatradic-
lion,
thst,while in advance of all the world is scientific
discovery, and in SOM. of the more brilliant arts of 1
life, the French are behind some neighb3uring
nations in the practices of agriculture and of
grazing. This should be the cause not so much
of mortification as of hope to the French
people, at least since the exhibition of agricultural '
implements has shown them what plenty is within
their reach. Without going into the Games of their
mistakes, it is enough to say that they, like most
other people, have wasted a last deal of strength in
trying to make their bricks without straw, to grow
grain without the neceteary support of green crop..
To grow grain in proportion to the area devoted to it
in France, an amount of money most go for foreign
manures which certainly n will go for any such
purpose.. The object will be accomplished in the

more rational manner of taking a considerable pro-
portion of their land for green crops, by which two
good sods will be achieved at once ; more meat will
be supplied to the town populations, and the manure
of this increased stock will ;rodeos more grain on the
smaller area than was ever grown on the larger. It
is true, the soil of France generally is less favour-
able to pasturage than that of the moister climates
of England and the Low Countries ; but
there are broad districts in Frans; very well
fitted for the growth of green crops; lands where
scanty crops of rye an now extorted, or where a
very poor peasantry live in scattered cabins, to tend
a hardy lean sort of cattle, that feed on a scanty
natural herbage, and barely pay for the mere herd-
ing. There are broad reaches of the Landes, and of
other open commons, which might be *made to pay
for improvement, at Wet as well as the Norfolk
sands reclaimed by Lord Lumens, and many a
moor in the Lowlands which Scotch industry and
perseverance have tamed into a garden. If the
work has yet to be begun in France, earnestly and
effeetaally, there is the comfort that the resource
remains untouched. When Sir R. Pau gave us the
power of importing cattle, we felt that he therein
gals us enmity that succeeding generations would
not be debarred by their increase from a meat diet,
bat that se the contrary the meat might, if we
am% blesses faster than the eaters. Our experience
Gem that day to this has proved that the produo-
doe of ern busesses, instead of diminishes,
with the increase of settle. The experience of the
Pewit people swab* the same, If they proceed en
Ills saes priselplusemi use the same method—if they
slept Ile maim net yet so familiar to them as to us
eflan mu perm steps the more stock; the mare
meek the more mmeure; the more manure the more
sem arope—sad it crops thee green. Hens►
it will be otherviine. Just at the time when a
new spirit of industrial and speculative enterprise is
awakened in France, and when scarcity of food has
ecessioued an unusual preorere, and the peace has
brought many nations hoe to face in the head-quar-
ters of the Califon/au, seek displays of improved
metheds of agrlealtan and stook-keeping are
' presented to the French people ae will certainly not
be last upon their apt and enterprising genius. If
they wisely ass their opportunities, their bakers may,
in the future, sell bread at its natural price, and their
butchers be left to deal with their customers as the
parties may agree. Hippophsgy—now a fancy of the
day—will turn out to be nothing more ; and a due
supply of good beef and mutton will put all cravings
for pony-steaks and all filled= of sumptuary laws
oat of people's thoughts.
Meantime there is the spectacle of the arrival at
cattle from an area which comprehends sot Europe
alone, but a portion of at least one other emetheset,
with the prospect of a second. The spectacle is an
exciting cue for those who are least aware aria siva.
licence. To others who disarm in it the promise of a
sufficiency of food fora now hungry people, it is can
of unspeakable interest. Even in Ireland, en near
the French shores, where treason and hostility to
England have so often and so wily passed to and
fro, the people have thronged the quays to ass the
shipping of the cattle for the Paris show—cattle
which will explain to all who see them that Ireland
is a very different country from what she was. Hee
Kerry herdsmen—e superior order of her passaatry
—will contrast curiously with the turbaned drovers
from the African pout and the landaus
from the Danube, with their blanket-like cloak.
and lambskin caps. According to the French and
German newspapers, all the oountries of Europe are
eager to contribute their element to the future supply
of cattle in France and the neighbouring countries.
If so, the small sleek Spanish cows have been wend-
ing their way from the valleys of Estremadura and
the downs of °aide and the Asturiu, by the passes
of the Pyrenees, and before the wondering eyes of
the peasants in the Landes. In the opposite direction
have converged the pimp, heavy cattle of the Hol-
stein mashes, and the aristocratic cows from the
velvet fields of Holland, attended by the quaint
Dutch dairy-people, whom every French child knows
by pictures, standing is a square, sunken field, with
a windmill and a canal boat, and a spire with a stork's
nest upon it in the background. The beasts from
Hungary have been travelling, we are told, since the
3rd of May. Their keepers will be surprised et the
smallness of the show, whatever may be its extent.
for nothing that any other country can show can
equal the daily exhibition in their native plains. We
remember how we leaned this about sheep; bow the
late Lord Lacuna showed the Holkham flocks is
Prince Eirmaauv, and, on pressing fora amperage
between them and the sheep in Hungary, found that
Prince ESSItiItAZT had just the same number d
shepherds that Lord Lacuna fad of show Is-
hind the trains of maces now carrying the cattle
to Perim may be ma the showy Hungarian Sock-
nester, sad the piehresque Transylvania.' drover,
and the steroids& issey-scraping Bulgarian, from
isms Oasis gamy on Rusian soil, of whom his
employer will meet that he works like a horse,
serous together like a magpie, and lives like a beg.
In t►e Swiss uplands, where the grass begins to
wave before the wind, coasting motion in the Alpine
solitudes, the horn has collected the few cows yet at
the chalets, and brought them down to join the choke
specimens that have bees fattened in the valleys fir
the shows not a few Swiss, with their picturesque
°Mamas, will appear among the variegated crowd es
Sunday. Whenever the proposed Russian al
Polish railways are made, there will be as great
a diversity of costeme at a French show
of western egrialtare as at a Ruda' oriental
fair. There will be Tatars from the Steppes; sad
Makeeeeleve from their downs; and Teheredoike