The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-13 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.) LTWOPENCB

NAkAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Jots 12.—Arnisrmuis. —En-
rimer J. H. }Mons, to the Majestic, ter serrice in the
Ueshavrt. . .

B. & Burney. to be additional to the Russell.
Clerks F. L. M. -er, to the Impregnable, supernu-
merary ; It. L. Hardee, to the Loudon ; and D. Rayne, to
the Excellent. _

First Class Assistant-Engineer J. Singer to the Indus, as
supernumerary.
Acting Second Clam Assistant• Engineers G. Parkin, to
the Majestic, fur service in the Goshawk ; and J. Craig, to
the Indus, as supernumerary.

CHATHAM, Jour 12.

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM A VERICA. —At an
early hour this morning 40 men belonging to the Royal At,'
tillery,'Royal Engineers, 62nd and 63rd Regiments, arrived
at this garrison from Liverpool, at which port they had
disembarked from the ma' steamer Europa. The troops,
who were under the command of Lieutenant Knowles, 63
and rd
Regiment,
x. belonged to regiments serving in Newfoundland
Halifa

AGEICULTU.R4L BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION..

•
Yesterday, the 'woad &university festival of .
this charity ems held at the FA:durta,ons Taveru. The
Right Hun. B. Diesalu, 31. P., was in the chair, supported
by hoed Dynevor, the Hon. P. Wyndham, M.P. Major
Whictsor, Parker, M.P., Sir J. Paxton, M.P., Mr. Bangor,
H.P., Mr. Alderman Mecla, and a numerous company of
gentivmen corm,. tea with the agricultural interest, many
of whom mate ft.., gr. A distances to be present on the occa-
sion. The Agrutdtairal Benevolent lastatutiou woe founded
in 1000, its oby&s being the relief of farmer, their widow;
and orphans who have fallen into distress. The persons
eligible shall be the farmer, being a British-born subject, who
has followed the occupation as an exclusive arena of sup-
port, who has ottsiut-1 GO years of see, who by adverse mi.
cumstatoes and uniootrollable misfortune is reduced to
poverty, whose income from all sources shall not exceed 20f.
a year, whose holdiug as tenant or as landlord and tenant
in the Limited Klugabaut during 20 consecutive years has
been not leas then f;11 acres, or whose rental during the
same pet hod In a not beau lea than 1001 a year, except iu
special iustances of outline injury oraaidental bodily infirmity
permanently disabling him ft= ever following any occupa-
tion or amerce of income, in which eases Pi years shall be
the minimum. A widow who shall have attained 55 years,
ant whose husband during his lifetime fulfilled the above
coaditioes. The orphan of either sex, whose father shall
have fulfilled the above conditions fora period of ten years,
and who is not imbecile, diseased, or deformed so as to
lateits growth. The minimum age for admission of
u is AIX years, the boys remaining inmates of the
institutivn until they attain fourteen yeses of age, and the
girls untilaixteen year; and no child to be balloted for
after having Attained the age of ten years. The objects
of the charity have been very favourable accepted by
those to whym,it especially appeals, and in the first year of
thsitelalttatiMit its amass vieetbe laid 'to ban' been
sasured. A 31 /I of shout 10,0001. was raised last year, of
which 4.000/. 11/4 Wet well invested. The income of the
institution from sulaseriptioss is 1,2001. a year, and so less
' than twenty pensiubere have become the recipients of the
bounty of the dimity.
The CRAVNAW hiving proposed the health of the Queen,
gave that of the Prince Consort, as one of the most ad-
vanced practical, as will as experimental, farmers of the
day. With this toast wasconpled the Prince of Wales and
the rest of the Royal family.
The Moo. It. WTNDILAII proposed " The Army, Navy,
and Volunteers."

The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " Prosperity to the Agricul-
tural Bessvolent Instatuuon," was received with great ap-
plause. He said that it appeared strange, in a country
where no suffering had not found in the sympathy of the
society son, means of alleviation, the claims of the most
ancient voesitiou in the world ;lid one still honoured,
had never been reeognieed. The cause of this anomaly was
that fors long period the position of the farmer had wipe-
rated him Fein the other classes of society, and evea
from his con sues in the same pursuit. Twenty-
eve years ago the life of the farmer was passed
os the acres which he cultivated ; the harvest was
his horizon, end the market-day his recreation. In the
lest tweety-fivo years all this changed under the influ-
ence of a new order of things, including the radioed ; sad
the area of the tamer's operations had been extended.
The penny postage and other facilities of communica-
tion, the penny newspaper and other means of hearing
what was going on. hail largely expanded his ideas of what
was going on ice the world, while agricultural associations
had taught him to compete and to combine, while his means
of information bad culminated in the operations of the Royal
Agricultural Society. All this has caused a greet chimps
in the character of the fanner. Intercourse was
found to produce knowledge, but it also produced sympathy,
and these twohadproducedthefeeliagthat there wamaneces-
sity for providing for the vicissitudes to which their class was
*speed in pursuits which were in their nature uncertain
and cha;ged with risks. The farmer's calling was subject
to the peculiar visitations of had harvest, the storm, the
mildew, the murrain, and the rot, It was not surprising,
therefore, that a class like this, when they were brought
together as they had been of late, should consider the
necessity of placing themselves within that category
of providence against misfortune, which had been
long acknowledged and acted on by every other class. The
fanner, when be met calamity, met it in solitude—M the
moist of the fields and land with which he was so familiar,
and has to reflect that while he belongs to a class which in
considered an honour to the country, he is left by that clog
to suffer alone. This wee the present position of the farmer.
As reprded his future, as it bore on the necessity of
' making provision for the day of drought and misfortnee
which may come upon him, he pointed out that it wan
this great country of power anal of progress it was neces-
sary to feel; and whatever were the supplies of commerce,
it was to the soil of the country that we must mainly look ;
sad he would my that the British farmer and the British
soil would be found equal to any occasion. In proportion
Se the extent of the efforts to attain this end, would be
the vicissitudes to which those who were agents in the mat-
ter were exposed, and the misery which it would be taxi-
sary to relieve. It was some such reflections as these that
bad led to the formation of the institution which they were
assembled to foster. It was a growing institution, established
two years, but really in operation for one. They were in-
debted for the idea to one individual, Mr. Alderman Mechi,
who had thus established hie claim to be a public benefac-
tor, as well us a man of quick conception. sod great success
in the applkatioo of his ideas. The efforts of the society
had not been alight or its results unimportant, although,
with prudence, it had not rushed into largo and
extended engagements. But many fanners in distress and
their widows had received pensions of 20/. a year; and a
sum of 4,0t0/. had been inverted. The right hon. gentle-
man then urged exertion for the future, and the necessity
of continued efforts. The farmer class w.,s net exempt
from the calamities of life ; and looking to the way in
which every district of the country was represented on that
I occasion, he had little doubt that wherever there was a
farmer, this society would have an agent. In concision
with the toast be proposed the health of the Duke of Wel-
t:rood, the presideut of the institution.
The other toasts were "The Chairman." "The Agricul-
tural Societies of England, Ireland, and Scotland," " The
Arts, Manufsetures, and Commerce," "The Executive
Council," "The Stewards," and "The Ladies."
The thusical arrangements comprised the services of Mies
Ballston!, Miss Poole, Mr. G. Permit, Mr. Naylor, Mr.
Bamford, Sic. Mr. Toole was the toast-master.
A liberal nthscriptiou was announced.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.

A geo,ral court of proprietors was held yester-
day, at the company's aim, Moorgathstreet. Colonel
Brim. in the +M. . .

The nii;iiesTiiii;ti;icourt having been rend,
The CIIAISVAN announced that the dividend on the
ordinary stock of the company would become payable oa
the 6th of July.
The Swint-rain* then read the statement of the capital
fund and investments of the oompany.
A copy of the petition to the crown praying for an M-
esmer:id allowance from the government, with the reply of
Sir eliarles Wool declining to entertain the proposition, were
then read to the meeting, the chairman expressing hie opi-
nion that ea nothing was to be expected from tLe gevi.rn-
ment the proprietors meat arrange to supply the
necessary funds from their own resourt es. Dr. Finch gave
notion of a motion on this subject fir tin: next court, to the
effect that tLe amount of the unclaimed dividends being
I 4,000!., and the interest thereon beiog about 4001. per
annum, such interest be appropriated for the purposes of
the company.
Mr. SAAW called the attention of the court to a bill just
iotroduced into parliament by Sir C. Wood, wlrcb, he acid,
would he highly detrimental to the intercots the public
servants in India, and a breach of faith with those who had
qualified by examinations, and them who were studying for
the Indian civil service. He moved a resolution to the
effect that the court were strongly of opinion mull a mea-
sure was totally uncalled for, and would be a breach of
faith of the provisions of the AM Slat and 22nd Victoria.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Cooke, supported by
Mr. Jones, Mr. Helps, and Mr. 'Aston, and agreed to.
Mr. Joan moved a revolution econdemnatory of the came
duct of the authorities at the Horse Guards an acting con-
trary to the proclamation of the government declining al/
natives of India eligible for qualifying for intruitions in the
military medical service, as evinoed in their late rejection of
a patietnan, otherwise qualified, on the ground of his hems
• Parsee. The resolution was seconded by Dr. Pinch. and
carried.
Some routine business having been transacted, the court
broke up with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

GALLANT ACT. —The following account of
gellantenry act, in saving four line from an inevitable death, by
H Puzley, Fel., of Dunboy Castle, Castletown, county
Cork, has been forwarded by an dike'. of the Coast Otuud
for the consideration of the Rural It:atingle] Life Boat lnaM-
talon :—"Oo Friday lask whilst in his grounds, Mr. Purley
saw a punt with six men in it capsize. He at once plungd
into the sea sod swam to their assistance. Coming to a beet
moored off, he with this help, there being no person in her,
saved, at a great risk of the boat capsizing by the mu
clinging to her, four of the men—two having swam ashore,
a distance of about 200 yards. Three of the men were =-
able to halm. I need ecaroely add, that but for this assist-
ance they must have been drowned, as well as the fourth
man. the when baring seized bold of bim, he Imo; a good
swimmer. On landing. Mr. Pulley had them taken to his
house and medical assistance sent for, they being in a pre-
axiom state, more especially the man mentioned as a good
swimmer, whose life was despaired of. Although the
cident occurred about 4 p.m., it was midnight ere the
medical man could leave him."

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