The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-13 00:00:00

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The annual meeting of the Worcesterehire Agri-
cubsual Society was held at Woroliter ea Ildiraday eves.
log, and after the 411011 of dock and award al prises in the •
diffecat aperbments of agriculture, apart) of about 100
abletne'• sal gestleanis sat down to uer at the Guild
hell. The chair lala taken by the Hoe. WnuanCovenrer, .
and there were also nt Earl Beauchamp, Lord North-
wiek„ Viscount IRmyy 1f . P., Rigid ROIL Kr J. S. Peking- •
ton, Bart, MP., 'Mon. F. Lygon, Y.P. Sir W. E. Wia-
nington, Bart., ILP., Sir Edmund A. H. ,echmere, But., -
Mr. Hodgetta Foley, M.P., hc.
The usual loyal aid patriotic insets having been duly
Immured,
The CHADIYA, gave the toast of " The Army and Navy.
on which
Earl Incaucitaxr brledy responded on behalf of the former
service, and
Sir J. PLantorox on behalf of the latter. Sir John mid
he had no claim to have his name connected with the toast.
He heel no better means than the general public had of
aniertain_what the prembit coadition of the navy alight
be, but judge[ from those Mans he bad no doubt that the
British navy wee at this moment as ready aa it Lad ever
been at any former period to do food service to the ,rountry
if Used be. (Cheers.) His foamier ode experience, how-
ever, bed quahAed him to speak ea am subject connected
with the navy which just now was attracting public attes-
tip. in the newspapare-whe meant the question of the
policy of expending a large mom( money in building armour.
covered ship'. It hod best las hotline and his duty, as a
amesiber al the hie admlntsisedia, to prows, that they
Dodd adept A* liffecethim is the. navy, se that other
Maas win asioptise it, mod se they had reason to believe
than %helmeted's' would be a most valuable one. It bad
bah his duty to superintend and to weigh the experiments
OM WINN mile in connexion with this invention, and
the mulls had been that these armar-covered ships,
although *ord.* net be proof against every poisibie
attack under every possible cieoumeteuice, were shown to be
so superior to the ordinary wooden vends, as well to repay
the extra cost. The late government had built two of these
armour-covered ships, the -Worrier and the Black Priem
the present government had ordered others ; and he believed
the British public desired that the experiment should be
well tested. (Cheers.)
Hr J. PALWOTON (save, " The County Members."
Viscount ELNLIT, in reply, said the proceedings of par-
liament during the last session reminded him of a wai-
tron, anecdote. A gentleman finding two of his servants
idle, said to one of them, •' Jack, what are you doing !"
"1 am doing nothing, air," we the reply. Then to the
other be said, " And what are doing:Tom!" and the
answer was, "I am helping Jack, inr. '(A . bomb.) Ho
must consider himself to have been in the position of Tom,
having during the last session been " helping Jack "to do
nothing. (Laughter.) Lord Elmley then sanded to the
improvements that had been mode in agriculture since the
esteblialment of these societies, the members of which
were at one time spoken of by the press as so many " chew.
bacons." This was now altered. He &wend a hope that
next session a bill would be passed for facilitating the trans-
fer of land, by which those who bad debts upon their pro-
perty and thou who had money for investment might be
mutually accommodated.
Lord Noarewicc give the toast of " Thtbfembers for
'the My of Worcester and the Boroughs d fte County."
He did ant agree with Lord Daniel that the Howie of Com-
monied done witless in the last passion ; eq the contrary,
be thought they had done a good deal. Perhaps they bad
not salnall pawed malty bills, bet what they had pealed
.=dabad t sifted. He did not know that they
hive p.rdnuch better off if they bad had another
lis Reform Bill into a law. (Hear, hear.)
Sir JO/J3 Amami rose to respond to the tout, aid
nog formally acknowledged it, he said he ought, perhaps,
te sit down and trouble them no further. He was of opinion
that times agricultural societies were t,diag too much to
speacb-ruking Agricultural moieties were berotatte very
epieeral ; but one result of this was, that a part of their
produce was a large crop of speeches. Like other laiv
crops, they varied a good deal in gall*. (Hear, heir.) He
would not say that they contained a -good deal of " chaff ;*
but no doubt they were adapted to different tarketa.
(laghter.) One of the rules of these societies was, that
politics should be excluded from their diactusloca but,
unluckily, the practice was all the other way. He
did not approve of this practice of introducing politics
lat these meetings. He did not mean to say that
there were no oixesions on which subjects of a
political nature might be introduced. He 1.%d bai-
lee expressed his opinion at that table that the meaning
I Me mile we,, Vititiartv politics should be excluded.
tar There were questions, such as the late re-
bellion in I•• femine in Ireland, the position of our
army bet ere and such like subjects, which might
fairly be dimmed these gatherings, as not involving any
party question. (Hear, hear.) lie might Sudan illustra-
tion at the present day ; they might congratulate them-
selves that they weft living et this moment in England in
'=aorgsuegerity. We ought to be grateful that the
i net lira eimadsr by combined or divided fee.
Mma, me hiegambell by these distressing anxietnia which 04— -- , !
-at this messeet pesheted almost every other Ratios but
our own. We were attached to the Sovereign and to the
institutions emir which we lived. We bad minor differences
among us, no disabk but there was one great fact for
which we could not be too thankful, that we were a people
happy, prospraus and contented, and while other nations
were struggling to; that liberty which we enjoyed, we were
meeting together in these social parties to enjoy each other's
society. The object which members of pediment should
Lee in view in attending these meetings, should not be to
court cesseitneneies, but to pay their respects to mother
earth. Ilia right bon. friend, Mr. Disraeli, had set a wise
example in this respect in his own county of Bucks, where
be had addressed ancultural meeting without touching
ice politics; agricultural
and he (Sir John Pakington) could wish that
gentlemen who undertook the task of drawing up the lists of
toasts on those occeeions would not give the members of
parliament for the district so conspicuous a position ow
their lists. Their object at these meetings 'honk' be
to disseminate agricultural knowledge. He had within the
last few days travelled through that celebrated farming die-
, trtot between the Firth and the Tweed. There he had Ma
splendid farms, with large fields and small hedges, where he
Gould count the homesteads, because there were few trees to
intercept the view, and every homestead had its steam
melee chimney. There route were high, because farming
was profitable, and farming ass profitable because leases
were lone. (Hear.) Every farmer had a sufficient capital,
and the tenant had 1241 hesitation in laying it out. Corn
'mutts were common, and he Wpm told that the rent of a farm
per acre in that district was the price of two quarters of
wheat, and sometimes three, so that a farmer sometimes
paid a rent et 1,0001., 2,0001., and eves 3,0001. .year,
and had a handsome profit left for himself afterwards.
He must say he should be sorry to see the oaks and elm,
andappleorchards of Worcestenhire felled, &nabs country
rendered OA treeless as in Scotland. But they might do a
good deal in the way of improvement before they arrived at
any such desperate alternative as that. There was sense
geed farming in some parts cif that county, but pm-
;a7y the character of farming in Worcestershire did not
stand high._ As to the speeches at agricultural dinners, Sir
Jobs added that be rather hear ono good practical
speech oa farming from a practical man than the best pub.
total speech a member of parliament could utter.
Other toasts of a local and general nature succeeded. •

A public reeling was hold ou Thursday after-
noon in the lecture theatre of the Birmingham and Midland
Institute, Birmingham, for the purpose of distributing the
Weaned ceirtidostas awerde'l by the University of Oxfonl
to the miconlitul candidate. from the Birmingham and Mid-
land district, at the examination in June last. The chair
urea occupied by the Bight lion. C. B. Adderley, )LP.,
the president of the institution ; and amongst the gentle-
men present were M. D. Hill, Esq. (the moonier), T. Lloyd,
fti(ithe mayor), the Rev. W. Cochin, the Rey. Mr. Clif-
the Rev. Nash Stephanotis the Rev. W. Houghton,
the ay. J. T. Buns, he. The theatre was densely crowded
la every part by the students and their friends, and the
greatest enthusiasms' manifested during the proceedings.
/1022/4 W —The monthly
msetts of the directors of the Sailors' Home was held oa
ThuseS. the 11th instant, in the museum of that institu-
tiers, Cipeatn Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., in the chair.
Tao secretary presented the accounts, by which it appeared
that the number of boarders at the Home during the month
averaged 216 daily, consisting of seamen jut returned front
Indian, Australian, and other foreign voyages. The solos
of money remitted by sailors to their families during the
five months ending Sept. 90 amounted to 10,217/. Is. lid.,
and their deposits in the Beard of Trade Savings Rank to
1,865/. 13s. 9d. Tenders fur the quarterly supply of pro-
Titian were also submitted, cud it is satisfactory to remark
that a reduction has taken place in the price of meat, breed,
Bois butter, sod cheese, compared with the preview
quarter. It was also shown that 302 able seamen barn
been enrolled at the Home for the Naval Reserve since Ist
January Ist, all excellent sailors, many of them quite able
to perform the duties of petty ofhoors The largest
number of theme men have undergone their 28 days
drill on board the Brilliant, in the Wait India Docks,
and they appear delighted with the exercise, and speak in a
very cheering manner in favour of this portion of their
navel experience.
The Manchester Free-trade Hall has been licensed
for an amateur performance by, and for the benefit of, the
Manchester Ride Volunteers. The performance is to take
place on November 14th.
" Mr. Frederic Jones has published a act of
Stereoscopic Views of the Interior of the Chapel Royal of it
°gorge's, Windsor. They aro of remarkable merit. The depth
el les dark colonnades, with the mystic obscarittea and two-
itio2sl Rashes et lb*. Is rendered with a fidelity to nature un-
equalled by anything we have ever seen In stereoscope!. —Attie.
seam, Jana is, MIL " Highly Interesting and valnablv."—Daily
geirt The Win complete den sent tree en receipt Of a post-
Ace ordar for !Ts , or two samples fer Sa Wholesale and
fra anuertation.—Yrisierte Jones, l•fi Oxtordetreet, Leaden,
• isedg appose Boadetrst.—Adverthierust