The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY $
EXHIBITION Ar currisaaar

It is always considered to be rather a difficult
task to please everybody, and the Royal Agricultural Society
have bees no more sucoeseful than their neighbours in
solving the problem. Fault was found with them in the
first inatanoe for their specifications.' the sort of machinery
which wee to compete for prises, which were pronounced to
be entirely beyond the collective comprehensioa of the
machine-makers of England, awl the consequence was that
some of the most prominent firms refused to send in •
threshing-machine, • steam-plough, or even • turnip.
cutter to the show. Then, fault was found with the site of
the exhibition, as being a sort of no man's land, which was
out of everybody's way --rather a cruel criticism on • floe
old cathedral city like Canterbury, which has the noblest
church, the grimest Norman keep, and the most complete
assortment of back laces of any city in the United Kingdom.
To our judgment it seemed a delightful place for Smithfield
show to go out to for • day's summer excursion, and the
citizens themselves had left nothing undone to make their
'orient town worthy of so great an occasion. Few people
who travel much in the country have failed to notice
the normal depression of spirits that seems to weigh down
the inhabitant* of cathedral cities generally ; but that could
never have been more striking than the contrast that was
exhibited in Canterbury yarterday morning, from the com-
mencement of the great exhibition. The whole city bad
broken out in bunting of various colours, including the
French tricolor, Italian ditto, English union jack, a carious
banner that must have belonged either to the Sublime Porte
or the Lonl Mayor of Loudon, and the American "star.
spangled," with the addition in some came of ► portrait of
Mr. John C. Heenan. These gay and many coloured flee
filled all the streets, whilst laurel decorated all the doorways,
and every one in the townwasevidently out on the fiagways,
• watching the arrivals from London sad elsewhere, who
were combs, to Canterbury to see the collections, animal
and mechasisal, of the Royal Agricultural Society, sad,
what was bettor, to do • little trade with the natives, &c-
-ombos to a moderate tariff, which the latter had eceeei-
&irately arranged for this special mania& The armee.
meats made for refreshing the travellers appeared to have
bees trial,' on an enormous scale, the whole way from the
town to the exhibition ground being lined with booths on
both sides, and within the barriers the moves hotels
were mach more numerous and deputious than at
the rifle match at Wimbledon. The fact was that
the caterers knew the farmers were coming, and that the
agricultural stomach was an instrummt et peat vigour for
the destruction d eatables and drinkable., especially when
the proprietors had travelled so far from home for a holiday.

We omenot say that on arriving at the barriers, where We
reeepised sous of the well-known fame of the A division
hesplng emir, we fogad the crush at Ell ressenhbas that of •
amp 1 night at the opera It was the fret public day,
sad the eranicil had thought tie atirsolione of the Pint ex-
hibitions salient to bear • charge of Ts. 6d. for admissina,
but the public were evidently of • different opinion, as
the attendance was asything but surnames during the day,
although there was both la the asachises sad is the live stock
quite sufficient &Wax-tics to Justify the expectation of •
large attendance. The exhibition is arranged in a larp
teld„ in the matey of which are two vest open ,pladranglee„