The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-24 00:00:00

CLOSE Or THE IiEIITU(O._

The_ groat metiiiia Ey;FWlCZlturel Society of
Ragland drawn le a close this evening. It is acknowledged
by all coansoted with the society, aad who have been at
former ptherbp, and are therelbre beet able to form an
=its comparative merits, to ham lesead its pre-
ia every reepsot. It the Menai in
sad the stook • ' and, sloth Weer, ham=
p%Pli lit
'Amt, Y bee atireeted • mush green modem of
pee* le the thelipards,
as
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aid of the hats The easther 'Mikes es this, the int
day, though the Ides d eidediska the Ina redased hone
2s. 6d. to lc, will apposeltp all abort d tttograday
when 24,796805t:67e milled to the
1t,004 at ea the eserespeaffing day het year.
The dist soot he however, le the rail way the, and
the atenegers who ore fie ring tote the town to-day big
abbeyof the worthy( deems, would be more likely to be
rantelled by the expense el travelling to Chester than by the
prise el eihalmion. The anithows anivlng ere vary gm.,
and tar dasbd'ul if they will MI math maw the renew- of
mthrZisrthoogb the essdpls w 0 assemsally he math los.
is eilialog shier, sad boat.
Lad= so edit TosQ7lo,4•l4.ll4daysTl meeting.
The soty held he pithrei thaling this morng
at the town-hsll, Chimer, edam Daterrs, the president,
took the chi& Lord Pereira, thr Watkin Williams
Wynn, the Mayer of Cheek; Mr. Moon, and the 1t.,.
Mr. Miami, wen among the stemthre present. The pro-
minim were merely of a band character, consisting of
votes of thanks to the mayor and corporation of
Chester, for their earalleat arrangements for the
meeting; to the imams Mil occupiers el land is
the neighqourhood who led allowed the triah of
Implainenta on their grounds, and to the respective com-
Mittae• ; to the railing cowponies, and to the peen/eat Is
the coulee of the proceedings Lord Portman alluded to the
unexampled mans which had attended the present meet-
in thanking the occupiers of lend for their corrtety,
uld he recollected that some years ago, when the society was
In its infancy, and agricultural improvements bad not creat I
so much attention, they had great difficulty in getting the
corporation of that town to allow them to make a trial of Im-
plements to drain the Moor, but It was found the next year
that there was no keeping the cattle off the part of the
moor that had been drained, and since that time the corpo-
ration bad been the advantage of the improvement, and had
drained the remainder of the land themselves.
The total mlinimilmas and receipt, up to this, the last day,
ere:

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Admissions. Price. Receipts.
Thursday, July 16 63 .. 6a. Of. £l3 1
Friday, July 16 144 .. 61. Od. 38 0
Saturday, July 17 l2B .. 61. Od. 31 10
Woodsy, Jaly 19
nosed ,ay July 20
Wedoesday, July 21—
Implement yard 4,887 .. 2a. Bd. 810 9 1
Cattle yard
Thursday, July 22 24,798 .. 2e. 64. 3,101 0

34,677 44,788 4 0
The total read* at the close of this day, when the ex-
hibition will be at an mad, will exceed 6,00 W. The=
=2 spoken 01 during the roeseng was one that
y, In the trW yard, where one of the judges was
Week en the forehead by a portion of a thrashing -machine
whka bent while being lesesd. It was said that the gen-
damn did not sustain =ions Injury. In the show
yards eashabie eeder lee been kept derby the whole eight
is aim le hetet ORM armed. Ia the arrangements tor
eleming thisemele, aea of policemen front the A diviakm
of the Loadoa pile., under the direction of Inspector
W. N. Ilddy, berm some credit, end Astir experience dor-
Zlloersme moilinge et this sedsq ambled them to give
old le eller lespeold This aseedny a very large
party ebbed by epleisi deb from Liverpool ea Birkenbea,
being the weber employsd at Nears. 11. Fie and Brother's
three eager rebel* together with their wives end feel-
bra. Their employes hot Ilbeelly paid their farm by rail-
way, gime time digbaleavamos per head for other
=Tsod have Übe cue to bare tea pro-
r them in the Mimic-hell, Chester, ere they
regueli bum The workmen numbering 700 and making a
party of Betzlyl,lloo with wives and children, ere also to
have their day'e wages as though they bad been at work, an
inatanoe of liberality which is rarely heard of. In skims-
h the number of people at the Exhibition, yesterday, at
24,7ug 80, the number paying for admission only is even ; there
were of coarse • vast number of people admitted as coati i-
buten. besides servants, in care of cattle and other property.
TM people al Chester. who wUI long remember the event, me
one of the most extraordinary in their annals, never bed so
many stronger' brought within the walls of their indent city
bided