The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-27 00:00:00

ROYAL BUCKING MAMMAS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of this association was held
yesterday at Aylesbury. The show of stock took place in
the immediate neighbourhood of the town, and although
the entries were not so numerous as last year, the display of
11 animals, particularly of cart-horses and colta, was very ere-
dit►ble to the exhibitors. A nearly new and important
feature of the show was the celebrated Aylesbury butter,
for the best specimens of which the Hon. W. G. Cavendieh,
one of the members for the county, had offered several
prizes.
In the morning there was a warmly contested ploughing
match at the Prebendal Farm, in the uocupatioa of Mr.
Fowler, of the White Hart, but it did not include may
steam ploughs.
In the evening the member of the easociation, to the
number of 120, dined together in the county hall.
It was originally intended that the dinner should be given
in a maxim on the lawn of the White Hart, but in oonse.
quenoe of the threatening aspect of the weather it was
wisely determined Manse the above-mentioned building,
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The chair was taken by Mr. Rumor B. Heaver; who
wee supported
Y.P.he Right Bon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Mr. T.
T. Bernard, P Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., Limit.-Colonel
Smith Dorrien, 'Mr. Jame Williams, of Tring-park, Mr.
0. G. Pigott, Mr. Acton Tindal, Mr. John Grove, of
Pro, and other county gentlemen.
After • very excelleut dinner, the usual loyal toasts were
Pr and duly responded to.
oCtdimAlluutii, in proposing the health, of the member
for the county, and also for the borough of Aylesbury, ex-
MIMI his regret that two of the county members were
absent, one of them being well known as • staunch agricul-
turist. There was, however, one person present who all
would agree, was a host in himself, and as they would be
anxious to hear him speak, he wooed simply conclude by
proposing the toast.
The toast having been drunk,
Mr. DiaILUELI, M.P., who was enthnsisetically received,
said—Mr. Chairman and geutleineo, I beg leave cm the part
of the county members to thank you for the kind manner
in which you have received the proposal to drink their
healths. Although my colleagues are on this occasion ab-
ort, I know—at least I am outdoor —that their absence
may be accounted for by circumstances which rewired it
horrible for them to be present. I can truly say, myself,
what I am sure they also feel, that there are no rumor
when their presence would be more agreeable to themselves
than ocorions similar to that which has brought us to-
gether to-day. And, gentlemen, I or assure you most un-
feignedly that after all those labour, of public life in
which, through your confidence, and through your con-
fidence alone, I and my colleague take some part,
it im with very great delight we find ourselves among you.
ee frieudm and neighbour, rein, and Amor friends and
neighbours whom we have known and honoured so many
years, from whom we have received so many and repeated
proofs of good feeling and trufi•, Ted whose tred pinion it
isorejtincipaltoblectet
toifehoree vosteher
the lam the rnt
occ lion and :hree
einvamstances which bring us together. We are met to sup-
port with our presence and our sympathetic feeling one of
those .census which, in: opinion,il exercise so beneficial a
result upon the general f and conduct of all chases oon-
aided with scimitar. Gen it is no longer necessary
to ries and vindicate the design and tonnegeneest of theme
moratoria associations. ((iners.) They have route, if
not formally and legally, at least in spirit and in truth a
part of the Institutions of this country, and all classes and
all parkin combine in acknowledging the advantageous in.
finsoces which they exercise on the grand life and punter
of this eountry. When this society wee first formed— and I
took a pardurr interest in its formation, for I was one of
ire members—it limited itself merely to reooviming
the virtue of the humbler clam econeeted with English
Wiulturet—to recognising and rewarding the merits
of those who, by their service and their skill
in husbandry, had deserved such recognition of their
labour. That was a most laudable, but in a certain
sear it we a limited object ; and limited as it was for a
ocesiderablo period it was by some persona viewed with
Goldner and eves derision. But TB that has passed. It
he rend, because man courted with rural life bad
long arrived at the coo that these eructations, even
I with that limited objet, bad dose much rod, that they
had elevated the tome of this country with the labor of the
I had, and that they had brought about malts which those
co noted with the labour el the land bans shownemetz
approbate. Every
_ea* knows that those
t—r- have bra dorribed as not ocimmensumte with
the merits they recognise ere rewards which are eagerly
ought and highly aprecioted by those who receive them
sail then saver a greater mistake Dui to mapper that
I labourers on lend ever for a moment believed that their
merits were eased by the mare pecuniary moat they re-
ceived. They always sought these rewards, and always
cherished them, bream they.looked opus them as • public
recognition are their private virtue. (Cheers.) I could give
you, if ascomeor, malty tostances to prove the tenth of
these sesertiors ; bat there is one I will touch upon, and
very way, bosom A occurred only this morning,
omil is to me quite • convincing proof of the
portion I wish to wise. That i the use of aas what

[TWOPENCE.

had worked on a farm for forty-fivs years in the same ser-
vice, and who was several times requested by his friends to
advance his claim for the prises to which, by the regulation
of this society, he was entitled. This man has repeatedly
maid that he would not come forward to claim that public
recognition of his qualities until he had completed the
fiftieth year of his service; which shows that, in hie mind,
it was note pecuniary reward, but • public recognition
of his long-enduring private virtues which he sought,
and which he valued. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, although that
was the limited object of the society when it was originally
it has, as time has advanced, in obedience to that
111r€44 developement and progress without which no
societies and no institutions can long exist, been found ne-
cessary to increase the area of our exertions, and to aim at
other sad more extensive objects than those we originally
and so, in time, we found it advisable to appeal
re-=depirititesopetition and emulation which pervades
all classes, me to pek, sot merely peasanta and labourers on
land to exert ibeenselvestoobtain a recognition of theiraupe-
rior qualities, bat also the farmer and laudod proprietor to
provetbeir skill and their anxiety to obtain a publicre aignition
of their attempts to advantage the public welfare ; and so
dby this course we have now the means by which rewards
are to these who produce the best crops, the
beet, and the most superior stock. These are the
aimportant objects of which we ought nut to lose
which the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association,
anniversary we meet here to-day to celebrate, has
aimed at, and I hope will accomplish. Though I should
sot myself be 'peaking with that frankness with
aw,2 to you permit me to address you on all occasions
my, what is sontstimes said cm similar occasions,
isel irent to the show-yard to-day and was struck with
_.....,,. t and wonder by what I saw—(hear, hear)—l
" ;'," 7 . sib soneethlug mill* did our friends great
credit ; but I did not see esaugh good things. (Cheers.)
And I think it is of very peat importance, when we dine
at these exhibitions, and sum up our experience, that
we should not shut our eyes to the truth
of what ham occurred, because it is by this annual
taking stock of our program as it were, that we may
regulate our exertions for the coming yesr. I did sot see,
I must say, with respect to the horned cattle, or even the
sheep,that promise which was so brilliantly =delimit year
fulflßed Though this may be, and no doubt is ted
for, in • great degree, by the unfortunate wattling
has occurred at the period of our union, and which, Thaw,
has prevented some of our best friends from exhibiting;
still we must not for a moment forget that it is by
Or:, by constant effort. at excellences, that societies
hi:present can alone be maintained will spirit and ad-
vantage. 1 would not have made these observations if I
had not recollected that, although the old Agricultural As-
sociation of this county is more than • quartile of • century
old, the peculiar institution whose anniversary we are now
celebrating is really almost in its cradle. This is only the
second year of the amalgamated moieties- I heard my-
self with very great pleasure that Mom societies had
determined to amalgamate their resource' and their energies.
I thought that, OD the *hole, it was meat for the advantage
of the county, and lam convinced myself that this
ganiation, founded as it is on sound principles, will, if we
are determined to carry out those principles, ultimately
accomplish all which the most sanguine amongst as as.
ticipated. But success is not to be attained by being
blind to the real circumstances around us. Amalgamation
is an admirable arrangement under favourable cueum-
stances, such as were the circumstanoes when the
amalgamation of the two societies of this county took
place. But when you amalgamate you diminish rivalry,
and if amalgamation has ita virtues, emulation can aim pro-
duce wonders. Emulation has always two strings to its
bow ; amalgamation, we flatter ourselves, although it has
cooly one string, has that string of a stouter character. I
trust we will not be disappointed in our expectations,
and that under amalgamation we shall not have only one
string to our bow, and that note bit stronger than it was before.
We must avoid that as much as namable. We must attempt
to arrive not merelyat the advantages of rivalry, but also at
the benefits of permanence, and that was the object wen
proposed to ourselves by the amalgamated society. I am
sure that the members in this room—members of both the

original societies—meet together with only one admi-
rable object; and that they will not at all miscon-
ceive the spirit of my observations. They are made
with • sincere wish to see the Royal Bucks
Agricultural Association not only maintain but increase its
character in public estimation. We can only do that by
all of us putting our shoulders to the wheel ; and all classes
of our society must unite together, and by union of exer-
tion accomplish the great object which we have at heart.
It becomes, therefore, I think, the principal proprietors of
this county, the toadies men among oar tenant
farmers, and all connected with the various classes
of our rural life, to remember that it is only
by that union that solieties of this kind can be
maintained, and that the object of such societies are the
most admirable that can possibly propose themselves to •
progressive free people like the people of this country.
Allow me, with reference to the toast which you have
drunk, to say that it is an honour to represent men who
would carry out and fully accomplish the objects which
this society has publicly declared it is their intention to
attain. I thank you most sincerely for the favour
you have done me. To possess your confidence, and
to deserve your good featiog, is one of the greatest
objects of my life, and at all times it is a source of great
gratification to find myself with you ; and on occasions like
the present, while lam performing a public duty lam also
enjoying • private gratification. (Cheese.)
Ar. BERNARD, it P., also acknowledged the toast, but in
a few brief sentences.

Several other toasts, mostly of a local character, followed,
and the festivities of the evening were kept up to an ad-
vanced hour.

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