The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

MB. DINUELI ar sairanz,.

The annual dinner of the South Buckinghamshire
Apiculture' Armistice wee bead yesterday, et the Whitt-
mill Inn, fisithill, the Riot Hoe. B. Hisaiiitu, M.P., in
the chair. la the vicinity of the chair were Colonel the
Hon. A. W. Hood, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Clayton, Mr. boni-
to°, Mr. Home, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Gyll, fcc. Upwards of •
hundred eat down to dinner.

After the cloth was removed,
The CHAISMAN rose and said—lt is oar privilege to live
le happy' times, when the some of the sovereign of these
ashes ass never be mentioned without feelings of waif.
fected devotion and loyalty. But on the present occasion,
eoeid&riag the connexion of her Majesty with this &soda-
tion, of ish she has deigned to be the patroness, and the
great and lively interest which her Majesty and many mem-
Isers of the royal family take in our operations, I am sure
the tout of "The Queen" will be received with feelings of
particular gratification.
The toast woe drunk with enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, and the other members of the Royal Fa-
mily," said that the CI minx ion of Ida royal highness with
that association was one of it, greatest boasts. He gave
that supifieent stimulus to their exertions which was now
before hiss. The Duchess of Kent also took an interest
in their emaciation, mid gave them a magnificent gift.
It wee, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that be proposed
the toast. (Cheers.)
Mr. Curter proposed the "Army and Navy," and hi
doing so paid a handsome compliment to the volunteers,
who, in the spirit of ;striation; had nobly come forward
in defence of their Quest and country. While that spirit
continued no foreign power would dare to sully the shores
of England. (Cheers.)
Colonel Hoou returned thanks, and said the British
army felt the greatest gratification that the services they
performed in every quarterof the globe were appreciated by
their fellow-countrymen. He believed the army was
efficiently organised under the gallant duke the Core.
manderin-Chief, and that it was well-disciplined, and
although it was small compared with the armies of foreign
countries, it would bear comparison in point of efficiency
with any force ; and with their navy and volunteer force—
(cheer)—the country was prepared to guard its own and
osintsin its proud position. (Cheers.)
Mr. WAY briefly returned thanks on behalf of the
volunteer force.

Mr. TKUIIIIIOI proposed " The Members for the County,"
making special mention of the name of the chairman.
Mr. Dienirt.i, who on riaing wan received with cheers
and clapping of hands, said—l am very sensible and very
grateful for the honour you have dune your county !mem-
bers, and upon this ocainion I will not only speak for
myself but my absent colleagues. I received a letter
three days ago from Mr. Du Pre, who is in Germany, ex•
priming his regret that he could not attend this meeting,
and wishing me to convey his regrets to those present.
He is detained in Germany upon domestic subject, con-
nected with health ; and I am sure that, so far from
findiug fault with his absence, your sympathies will be
with him. (Hear, beer.) I am not quite sure what has
kept Mr. Chvendish-- taught—but I suppose he has a
sufficient excuse for not being present. As for myself. I
will only say that my earliest ambition was that I should
be • member for the county of Buckingham. That
ambition still remains ; and I will endeavour, to the
utmost of my power, to deserve it. (Cheers.) I
will stop a moment to vindicate myself, I will not
say from the charge, 'out to notice an expression used
by my friend, Mr. 'fruniper, with regard to my absence
on revered occasions from a company from which I have
experienced so touch honour and pleasure ; but it so hap-
peued that for several yaws past you have shown so
much firmness in fixing the celebration of your anniver
eery on the flame day as the old amociation, that it was
impossible to be present, even in this age of rapidity, in
two places at one time. (Laughter.) As chairman I shall
rigidly observe the rule of the society, but when it is
put an end to I shall avail myself of the privilege that
will then be open to me. 1 will make allusion to no political
subject. I may my of the Road Bill, which ia con-
sidered • subject .1 political interest, that I oinnot be
seemed of supporting it, and that I did everthing in my
power to oppose it, and successfully. (Cheers.) With
regard to another question, which my friend referred to,
the French treaty, by which • stimulua was to be given to
the consumption of claret, I may my that I opposed the
French treaty ; and when I was minister of the Crown I
proposed a great reductions of the malt tax ; and I trust,
without entering upon political subjects, I have vindi-
cated myself from the charges brought against me. Hut
as I am, in rhetorical phrase, upon my legs, I will tall
your attention to a matter of greaten importance then
the presence of your mambas. It is twenty-seven yeah
since we celebrated the first anniversary of this society,
and after twenty-seven years' experience, I think it is per
sible to form a correct opinion of the result. of our pro.
ceoliugs. I think I may aiy, without exaggeration, that we
have successfully and completely realieed the objects for •
which the society was formed, and accomplished the par.
puns we tins proposed to ourselves, namely, to give ewes.
andwards to agricultural labourersandservantii.
=trm
ar.) I think we have obtained the results that
was seatemplated at the time. I think we all agree that
tits tame of feeling among all cleans connected with
W cultivation of the soil has been improved by
ssekties of this character—(cheers)—that there k
no ion inienseted with rural labour who does not per.
Sam his allies more usefully sal more efficiently
teas tie eanmerientioua conviction that the community
in which bit lives have their eye upon him, and not only
their eye, but their heart, and that they are ready toap.
predatehis exertiona (Cheers.) I think there is no doubt
that they have improved the skill and elevated the feeling
of those who are engaged in the various capacities of rural
life. I think these mocieties, as far as their original objects
are corn tweed, have fully realised what they proposed, sad
that by their welbdireeited efforts they have rendered mere
happy the community over which they have exercised an
influence. (Hear, hear.) But it is impoesible to conceal
from ourselves that we live in a time which, so far as agri-
culture is concerned, is one of rapid programs, and that there
is • very general feeling that the area of the operations
of societies of this kind should be *Mended, and this is •
question which, without dwelling at leap& upon, I think it
right to advert, for it is upon anniversaries like this
we arrive atge neral conclusions for making our conduit
in the actoosading yew. (Herr, hear.) Some years ago the
patron of the association, his Royal flighnemi the Prince
Consort, proposed a splendid offering like that before me, as •
reward to those engaged in the cultivation of the soil, who
upon a considerable extent of ground should produce the
best crop of roots. No doubt that was • Proposition made
by a men who never interfered is affairs of this kiwi but
with the intention and object of improvement. No doubt
that proposition was travelling out of the highly laudable,
but limited, object originally contemplated; and in this
country where there are many societies of this filed, there
has been of late • considerable inclination shown that the
area of their operations must be more extended, and that
every cuss connected with the cultivation at the soil should
he acted upon by some incentives, and some inducements to
improvement and exertion. (Cheers.) There has been, as
you all know, an amalgamation between two considerable
societies of this county, the old Bucks Animation,
by which gnat rosette hays been obtained, sad
smother mon novel, but of an active and am-
bitious character, the Central Association. They have both
become one emendation and their object is the exhibition of
stock--(beer, hear)--the exhibition of all those remarkable
discoveries Is machinery, and those new implemental for the .
itultivanon of the soil, which an characteristic of the ens
which we live. Again, there ban been a society recently
formed in the entrees, north of the county of which Buck-
isgbain may be described as the capital ; but not neglecting
►ll the object. with regard to the nuprovement of the la•
boater which have been so extensively applied in South
Beets, they have proposed prime which entuarage the emu-

anon of landed proprietors, farmers, and all classes con-
Meted with the soil, and I may say with great success.
(Hear, hear.) lam not Ong to give any decided opinion
as to the come you should take, but it is my duty I think
to throw out these suggsstions for your consicleratios, in
order that if you do sot adopt them you may bays • suffi-
cient reason for the mime you pursue. Even in the town of
Thug they have formed an association? and one, as I have
been informed, that is highly creditable—(cheiers)—ead
which has produced an effect of which we may all he
I received my tafasmation been a landed proprietor oa.
that
neighbourhood, and although Trine is not in Buckingham-
shire it is on the holders, and is greatly dependent upon
the skill and capital of the county. I have been told that
though they pursue the mine objects as we do with refer-
encia to the condition of the labourer, they hold that the
spirit of the age in which we live requires more extensive
exertions, and they have formed their society upon •
broader basic-one appealing to the emulation of all classes
connected with agriculture. (Cheers.) I think the time
is come when we should calmly but completely consider
this point. (Hear, hear.) The prizes which have been
proposed by the Prince Orimort, sad which have been com-
peted for by men of considerable skill, and with exertions
that do great honour to this county—these prizes
appeal to the emulation, the exertion, and the
energy--not of the mere labourer upon the land,
for in a certain degree by the patronage and interposition of
the Prince Consort if, in an unintentional moment, the
society travelled out of the record of its original constitu-
tion. Ido sot see why you should not further advance.
You bear • vary ambitious title. (Hear, hear.) This asso-
ciation is not limited to the district in which it is our plea-
sure to most. The title of the South BuckinViire
le Amebas el as extemive ebunder; few we me-
nder ourselves, only limited on one side by the C • tarn
hills, and on the citreous north by Newport and Bucking.
ham. Gentlemen, we live in an age of progrew. The objects
proposed twenty-five years ago were more strong then than
they are now. In South Buckinghamshire we consider that
the whole of the bill farms are included ; and who is
prepared to say that the bill farms do not produce results
which may challenge the approbation of more advanced
sglcultural communities ? (Cheers.) And without dwelling
too much upon that point, I think in an age like this, when
by the application of science to the cultivation of the soil,
there ii a feeling in men's minds in every district of the
county that we should have an opportunity of witnessing
the several cultivators of the soil, whether they are men
who invest capital in Lend, or whether they are working
upon the land, that there should be au opportunity of wit-
pegging periodically the great improvements in machinery
and implements, and which are tallied of by so many per-
sons. (Hear, hear.) I confine I should not be sorry today,
when the ploughing match, which appeared to ma so far as
I could judge to be very well coaducted, that some means
were offered to the people of the district for wituessiog the
application of sham to the cultivation of the soil, and by
which such great results have been brought about. lam
glad that two Buckinghamshire men have taken • lead.
mg part in the application of steam to the ed.
tivatiou of land, Mr. Smith, of Woolston, and Mr.
Beard, of Stowe. (Cheers.) I should like to see the com-
petition between these two men imitated. I look upon Mr.
Smith as a man of genius and • great honour to the county,
and although he has all that fervour without which no
great result an be gained, but which is sometimes criticised,
yet I think the place he bolds in this county is one of great
importance as regards the ptugrar of agriculture. (Hear.)
It is for you to consider what is to be dune upon this point,
for we must not come to • hasty conclusion ; but whether
we look to the soil or the ability of those engaged in its
sultivatiou, you are perfectly competent to decide upon the
best course you should take. We were told recently by •
high authority, that mere agriculture is shore so far matter-
dinner speeches are concerned. I will not presume teen you
my opinion upon this subject. lam sure that Mr. Tramper
and other, would throw me upon my beam-ends if I pre-
sumed to allude to agriculture ; but as a layman I cannot
close my eyes to what is passing around me, and taking
South Bucks, I will say that it is oos which mayhems me
that during the last quarter of • century there has been
very considerable progress. (Cheers.) I think we can
show in the extreme south broad fields, which are treated
in • masterly manner, and we have gained from Mace not
favourable to the district an admission of the merits of the
crops. These results could not be produmil unless there
was considerable skill, considerable capital, sad consider-
able energy. (Hear, hear.) I think we may appeal to it with
credit. There is another part of the county, the bill part,
where I live ; I my it is impossible for a stranger who
comes into that district for the first time to form
• faint conception of the rapid progress which has
taken place there. (Hear, hear.) I find large mope skil-
fully produced. You see various flocks which could not be
epee 23 years sap. You find in that district a greater num-
Mir of new cottage residences for our workiug classes,
which I believe cannot be equalled in any other part of
England, whore I remember the hovel was the common mei-
deuce of the poor, and if you come upon • thatched cottage
it is the exception and not the rule. (Hear, bear.) Under
there circumstance*, South Bucks has no fear of any com-
petition, and I think that it holds • proud position in sgri.
cultural progress, which must be more rapid every year ac-
cording as the condition of the active cultivator of the soil
is improved and fresh appliances are introduced. The Eng-
lish farmer has a great future—(cheer)—and I wish
to see him fully equal to it. I think it may be
said that it is impossible to have too many
agricultural associations throughout the country,
By the exhibition of skill and industry, so far as localities
are concerned, nothing could be more complete in its ope-
ration than this association with regard to elevating and
improving the conilitiou of the labourer. (Hear, hear.)
No central society could do that. To do that requires
knowledge, and feeling, and therefore I think you
cannot have too many agricultural societies. I have always
done my utmost to encourage them, because I am sure
that improving the condition of the labourer could onlwbet
by multiplying societies, capital, and knowledge,
form the basis, and the only basis of improvement. But I
wish you to consider whether you may not combine with
it some maims by which all these local societies may have
some communication with • central body, by which at
least one day in the year the whole enterprise and the
whole intelligence of the county of Buckingham
may be brought upon one point so as to realise what the
general progress has been, whether as regards the cultiva-
tion of the soil or the invention of new improvements, and
whether, in all the division, of labour in the county, we
are not able to produce results which raise our character
and stimulate our energy. (('hews.) It seems to me pos-
sible, whether they be the stock farmers in the hills, or the
grantee in the rich valleys, or those who produce the admi-
rable mops in the broad fields, that all may compare notes,
exhibit machinery, and compete for prizes, one day in the
year, and thus become more thoroughly acquainted
with the different degrees of energy and intelligence in the
county, and receive a more general sympathy in the
county than I camli,By admit exists, and • greeter appre-
ciation of the pursuits in which they are engaged.
In the position in which you have placed me, and of which
am unfeignedly proud, I tithe a great interest in the
county which I represent. (Hear, hear.) I warn you against
supposing that the importance of • conimuuity depends
upon the amount of population. That is a great mistake,
otherwise what would England be in comparison with the
empire of China ? There are counties iu England much
more extensive than Buckinghamshire and mush more
populous, but there are few counties to which England is '
so much indebted for many causes for her prosperity as
the county of Buckingham As politics an excluded I
will not enter into the reasons, but no one I suppose forgets
that the British constitution was devised in the Chiltern-
hills. (Cheers.) I wish you out only to maintain but
to increase that reputation as an agricultural county,
and it is no mull one to till in a community,
which takes the lead in human conduct, and is every year
rising higher, not only in the opinion of Europe, but of the
whole world—a positiou that requires the highest intelli-
gence in the cultivators of the soil, and the epplication of
all the means which science can discover. (Hear, bear.)
Let me impress upon you that the population of a c=
Is not the test by which its importance can be esti
The intelligence and public spirit evinced by the several
societies of the country I think have greatly contributed to
this result ; and believing We to he so, it is with pleasure
that I ask you to drinks:perity to the South Buckle&
hamithire Association." cheers.)
Several other toasts smoothes followed.

DEATH or Geonon EirirrEß.—The
Pittsburgh Ossetts meads the death, from consumption, of
Ann, sister of George Stephesetii,n. "Mrs. York," says
our Transathuitio oontemporary, whose maiden name was
Ann Stephenson, was the cuter of George Stephenson, sod
the aunt of Robert Stephenson, two Englishmen who have
done more to illustrate the force of 'ennui, and to advance
the material interests of the world, then any other of say
Ration. Mrs. York was the youngest daughter of Robert
and Mabel Stephenson (George being their serousd eon), and
was born on the 19th July 1792, at • place called Hawley
Bum, in the county of Northumberland, England. She
subsequently married John ?lima, with whom she emi-
grated some forty years slam to this country. He died in
this city, leaving sic children, and some ram afterwards
she was married to William York, by whom she had one
daughter, who now mown' her loss. In her unobtrusive,
unpretending life, she manifested the mine heroic
energy, perseverance, and faith that distinguished
remarkable character of her illustrious brother Of a
'image that the proudest might envy she boasted not, but
in her own meek way performed faithfully all the duties ef
a sister, wife, ad mother—remarkable alike for her mound '
common aeons and her prsctical piety, courageous and sus-
earful In the achievenienta of her private life as her
renowned brother in public."
(Advertieoment. F--In consequence of the death
at the Isle Sir Jammet)ce Jejeebboy, Baronet, of Bombay,
his siding son, the present baroset, him, by virtue of Act
No. 20 of 1800 of the Legislative Coeusalkof lodic, seamed
the names of Jarasetjee Jejeebhoin lieu of his former
names of Curestjee Jamie** Jejeebboy, and will hence-
forth be known by the name of Sir Janisetjee Jejeebboy,
Baronet. —Load/a, August 15, 1800.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 3.—PRowartowe AND APPINNT-
NENTIL—First-cLise Assistant-Engineer W. Stacey, to the
Mersey.
Elseowd•elses Assistant-Engineers J. R. Agates, to the
Lendrail; J. Hansford, to the Ajsi, for service in the Rain-
bow; and H. Duncan, to the Indus, as supernumerary.
Engineer J. Snell, promoted to lirst-elass sasistantenginear
is the edema

CHATHAM, Ocv. 3.
Lanai Pusan STEAMS:Z.—AS • official visit ban
been paid to this dockyard by the Assistant-Surveyor of the
Navy, Mr. J. Large, in order to asoertma whether either of
the docks at this establishment siosiled sufficient amora-
-1 modstion in which to construct a Lege iron steam-vessel, to
be protected with thick steel plates, which the government
has decided apon having constructed immediately at this
dockyard. The proposed vessel will be of unusually massive
proportions, and of a sire superior to anything yet con-
structed for the British navy. She will be 400 feet in
length, or about two-thirds the length of the Great East-
ern, and will be provided with Armstrong guns of the
heaviest calibre. Mr. forge spent sonic time in the inspec-
tion of the second dock, which is nearly 400 feet iu length,
and which can be made sufficiently long to enable the pro-
posed ship to be built in it by the caisson at the entrance
being removed and a cofferdam erected in its place, by
which several additional feet will be gained. The new
vessel will be conusenoeil as soon as the Trusty 14, steam
floating battery, now in the dock, has completed her repairs.

• ' PORTSMOUTH, On. A.
The port division of the Channel fleet, under
the command of Rear-Admiral John K Erskine, hove
IldsAlLit off the port this morning at half-past seven
The squadron mishits of the Edgar, 91, screw,
Captain James E. Eaton, bearing the rear-admiral's
Bag ; the Trafalgar, 91, screw, Captain K G. Fan-
chews; the Algiers, 91, screw, Captain G. W. O'Cal-
; the Mersey, 40, screw, Captain Henry Caldwell,ll,7 and the Diadem, :32, screw, Captain James H.
Cockburn. The ships came in under sail and steam, and
anchored at head at ten o'clock.
The Swedish corvette lagerbjelkie, inptain Melander,
arrived at Spithsad this morning, and exchanged salutes
with the garrison and Victory, flag ship. She is from Stock-
holm, hound for the Mediterranean.
. _

The Pnoce■e Royal, 91, screw, steamed out of harbour
to-day for trial of her machinery.

Flan DAT AT ALDRRRHOTT.—Yesterday, at 11
o'clock, a grand 'diviaional field day of the whole of the
troops stationed at the north and mouth camps, and at the
permanent barracks, took piece at Aldershott. The Royal
Artillery consisted of the horse brigade, commanded by
Colonel Phillputta, and the batteries .4 Armstrong guns,
commanded by Captains Elgee and Pigou. The cavalry
brigade, commanded by Brigadier-Genend Lord G. Paget,
C. comprised sth Lancers, Colonel Sullivan, 9th Lancers,
Colonelß. Little, 18th HUMUS, Lieutenant Knox, and the
Military Train Corps. The thtee infantry brigades, under
the command respectively of Major-General Lawrence, C.B.
Brigadier-General Brook Taylor, and Brigadier• General
RUSSIA comprised the 10th, 32nd, 41st, 40th, and 55th
Regiments, the rale brigade and the Royal Busses Militia
The whole force WWI under the command of Lieutenant-
General Sir John L. Pennefather, K.C.8., and about four
hours were occupied in a series of evolutions of attack and
defends on an extensive scale. The troops returned to
quarters at 3 o'clock.
EMMA/CATION or TROOPS AT LIVERPOOL—Seven
hundred men and fifteen officers of the Grenadier Guards,
under the command of Colonel Lambert, embarked yester-
day (Wednesday) morning at Liverpool in the Dublin
steamer for conveyance to Dublin. Yesterday mule( also
700 men and 15 officers, under the command of Colonel
Palmy, sailed from the Mersey for Dublin.