The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-26 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION.

The general annual court of proprietors was held
yesterday at the offices, Klan's Arms yard, Moorgate, JOHN
Waowsatoo, Esq., the pruner of the emaciation, in the
chair.

The report represent:el the position of the company as
f Mows :-Btock of User and lambs Leaned for 1846,
141,144; ditto for 1847, 125,815; ditto for 1848, 119,354.
Deducting thus which had been sold, slaughtered, and
%smiled down for tallow, there remained on the 31st of De-
cember of these three years respective! y 111,496, 94,962, had
106,479 sheep. The stock of horned cattle ea the let of
January, 1846, was 8,189. 1847, 8,443 ; 1848, 8,261.
making the deductioos for sales, &a, there remained on the
31st of sack December of these years, 7,623, 7,310, 7.849.
Of horses and posies there were for the years 1847. 1848,
and 1849, respectively 1,115, 1,146, 1,251, and in the 31st of
November, there remained 1,039, 1,085, 1,229. The number
of meet and melee at the begin Ling of the same years w-s
83, 73, 80 ; and at the end of the years th-r• were 71, 73, 73.
The sale of Uve stock in 1848 realised 5821. 4s. Od. Toe
number of persons employed is the colonial establishment .on
the 31stel December, automated to 323 free, and
110 ticket of leave men. being • decrease of thirty.
nine men in the year 1 The quantity coals sold in 1847
wee thirty-eight thousand one hundred and twesty•teris tons
and 34,381 toms in 1848. The realised in the colony,
and in England, by the gale of outs, live stock. rents, erns!,
tallow, bides. &e., wee, in 1846, 33,4171. ; in 1847, 29.7701.
in 1848, 29,8321 ; aud, deducting the expenses, there
re-
maimed • @lupine, in 1846, of 8,3871. ; Is 1847, of 1,7671. ; in
1848, of 4,1021. The report also stated that a valeab:e wen
of eta bed bees diesseered et Newcastle, sad that the di-
nghies bed resehred, as ho as possible, to redoes the expen-
diture. In seeseireases of thh' determination es the put of
the Meshes. the unless of C +puha Hiag weld be
lest w the emapany, as the *Moe of 11011SMINi0111•T,
which be held, weeldle abolished altogether. It was meta
dared moodiest to establish ore or more townships in
suitable legalities on the beaks of Port Stephen, which would
save a bed carriage of st least 100 wiles to the New England
settlers. The directors were sorry to say that the emigration
scheme lbw adopted had not seconded is the way they
upsets& They were sorry they could not neommend •
dividend, but they would do evei7thieg in their power to
Muss the ezpeedinue and to realise the expectations of the
pro rictus. The belasee.eheet for the year 1849 showed
receipts to the assent of 20,6041. is. ld., sad an expendi-
ture of 113,4291. 15e. 114., leaviag • balance of 4,2651.66. 2d.
The report was adopted, and resolutions ler the re-elution
of the governor, deputy governor. three direeure, sad leer
sadues, were agreed to, after which the meeting separated.

ROYAL 15TITUTION.-MANUFACTURE OF

e;;, Cult.

Protein°, Brands delivered a leoluril :10 evening
at the Royal Institution to a crowded and highly attcative
audience,' Os the Theory sad Practicer of the Manufsetan
of Sugar." The learned professor mannered by *slyness
his obligations to the gentlemen practically connected with
the =esthete", of sum especially to Mears. Scherer, Dr.
Seamy Messrs. Thwaites of Cork, and liners. Goadhart,
and Sea, of Loudon, for intonations sad UNMASK* on this
laspirtaat red et. It was importers to distiagnish between
cane sager sad grape sugar. The former existed is the
mph sad various other plants, beside. the sugar oase ; the
latter was Midi, toned in fruits, honey, sad starch, sad
fumed the sambarine principle of malt. Theis cheatiorl
snancaitios was diff ; tks latter mataisiag two atom
more of oxyma sad hydrogen, and two leas of cubes, dna
the ems sugar. Another curious distinction was that is..
sugar bad a far higher sweeteniog power than
grape sugar, in the properties of about See to two.
Ciao sugar slain be couverted veto grape sager, bat not
the reverse. The roost comma Jeanne* of this moversis
was by ihnsestation ; it nieht also be dons by merely boil-
* the eine sager kr a length of Use. In proportion as
the boiling was seadamd, sad the but raised, was the de-
imposition rine sager hailitated ; still or. so, by the
oddities ef a little weak serial* or sulphur* or very ant*
&kris arid. By the miles of moss aids Oh sugar, wink
aside night be produced. (AU these Omen were illus-
trated by experiments.) The loss whisk sugar suffered is
boiling might be materially diminished by boiling in a
vwnm (A large model of a mashine recently opened to
this purpose was ezhibited.) The facility with whim llaid•
boiled seder the exhausted receiver of so air-pasap was wall
kottera, and the operation of this boiler was somewhat
✓ender. The grist difficulty had been to take oat samples
from the boiler during the presses, without letting
is the air; bet this bad sow bees anntpli.hed
by moons of a peculiarly em,ructed tabs, which
might be Inserted lan the boiler, without destroying the
vecums, and a portion el the liquor night be withdrawn
sad 'armload, to ..certain the drum of gransbrion. Wins
the war arrived at the peeper drynellieke point, it was rem
of sad peered fate large molds (the sham .f ea ordinary
eltsonegne glees) ; in these sasedde the sugar was &lowed to
oryste_,_l_llle• earl the waste liquor was thin poured off: The
OWN lOW man is India from date palms was
itieph=j isoodusie, Ste Inset leaf sugar, by di* Prom°
hod desoltred. The limit cop was to dissolve it I. water, sad
them minim No ingteriti* !or this puree anmerns
eutenseres bed hese sod; sae was linee-water and blood,
whisk was *meld to sang& sad envy off no lasynaides.
Chemed was nest kepseloat as a deodising agent ; the
liquid sugar was made to amend threes\ 5 bed of-charmal,
by which it was derked Of he niasekg .mar. Other
eabstanase wield mower WI paws; mensal them was
oxide of Led; bus the /elm maid never be semis that he
bad got rid of the lead until a pprr wa. Invented by
Dr. Seaffera by whisk this,a.bsbls ohJ.et wasralonloten
maned. The sub-menis of land prodpitated the mime-
lag natter, but left seek had la the solatioa ; sad thi.
was sot rid alloy sulphurous WA which did no bars at all
to the saga, and threw down the lead as an iseehnie
powder, of besil„ By applying the well-knew.
sdpkarettod tose from Is to use: it was may to
amen* when all • Ind was driven of. Sulphurous said
was sadly obtained by homing sulphur in oxygen, or eves
In 41111 MS ea alr,—the embed resorted to ia the sugar. house.
When the sneer-lost was lest predated, medals of colour
lag satin aimed betwees the isteresem of the mynah;
three had bees got rid of ken,* by the mesas palled slay-
* ; bet now it WWI more sosamon to outplay a solution of
sugar itself. The lost was geonally isspertect at lb- apex,
sad beam it was that the loaf war gentrille seen Is the
poser,' .hops without the extreme riot. Terre was greet
Monaco la the degree of crystellmation of rogue 'boy
wen preferred mans or 1410 crystallised, &media( to the
market they wee dined for. Is andasion the karma
refuse, Smelted the sedition for their anemias, sad the
perlemee to whom he had abided for the smistaace they
had rendered hiss.

EXPLOSION OF GAS.—Yestseday aPernooo, shortly
before owe o'clock. so t splrsios of pas took place is front of
the ship a Mr. Goodyear, betisot maker sod ellbser. No
IPeehmes•street. In coustqusnes al which the whole
of dm sera two t woe emaplitely blows out, sad the 'atta-
che**, elw 'ambit shattered to won'. F Itiustsly no
amp teas to bet property to the swoons of about
g or.npisicir spoiled. The sock e is the op
ene wits .
Inakelameestlth. N 0.19, wee crab duased by the
frig sewed as Me shop os edits side.
Flss AT PINNIZAII.—Last night (Frit .y), whilst
the Its woe bask/ la flithep•pte-etreet, lee Armee wee.
eal/ed to mean is the Cosaaerelal read, Paddies, is the
werhshers et 111 r. G. Netball, a balder sad sadist/4er.
The &awe were evestaally enagaidted, bet mot seta the
worbehme were bussed out end the steel/ Is teals is the
pied amassed by removal. Om