The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1864.

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nounced without any proof whatever. If you cross a flock
of Southdowns with a Cotswold ram the effect upon the
meat is not of an appreciable character, but what is the
effect upon the fleece? Why, suppose you get 5s more for
each fleece that you produce, and that your flock amounts
to 300, then, in these days of agricultural desolation, de-
scribed by my friend, you will find that at the end of the
year a profit of 5s on 300 fleeces forms an item not to be de-
spised. Nobody supposes that you are going to cross like
as many cousins intermarrying. (A. laugh.) You must
cross with discretion, and you will find that a ewe with
a black nose will never propagate coarse meat. (Hear.)
I have now gone over the Salthill indictment. I ap-
peal to you with confidence whether I have not replied
to those charges which have been brought forward.
(Cheers.) I feel confident that, in a very short time,
you will be all of my opinion,
that it has been a good
harvest. My test of a good harvest is this—why
is there not a great importation of corn ? (" There
is I") If there were a great importation of corn at the pre-
sent moment, it is impossible to describe the injurious effects
that it would have upon the
public credit and generally upon
the public property of the country. It ought to be some con-
solation to the farmers of this country that by their skill,
under Divine Providence, they have produced such abun.
dant cereal crops that at the moment when the credit of the
country was in a most delicate state, and when it was strained
to its utmost, they have saved us from a commercial collapse,
the effects of which would have been of a most deleterious
and dangerous character. (A. Voice—What thanks do they
get for it?) Our farmers may be proud of their position, and
ought to feel a great satisfaction that the crops which have
been produced under their skill has preserved the country
from one of the most severe and serious panics that probably
ever could have occurred in-England. I will now, before I
sit down, refer to the circumstances under whi4l3.,we meet.
I his society has had very great success, and at no time has

it been more prosperous than now. These local societies
have spread all over England, which is an undoubted proof
of their popularity and success. The principle upon which
local associations of this kind are founded is of an inesti-
mable character. The local sentiment in mania :the strongest
passion in his nature. At this moment there are English-
men in Australia, in India, in China, and in America, toil-
ing with all that enterprise of which English men are alone
capable, learning languages that were never heard of, and
entering into speculations of the most hazard o us and difficult
character. Why are they making all these exertions? Why,
that they may spend their last years in the home where
they were born. This local feeling is the 'parent of most of
our virtues. It is the best security for our liberty, because
it is the greatest opponent of undue ce atria authority.

is without doubt the purest source of our domes-

tic affections, which are the most salutary basis of all
good government. But although I entirely appreciate these
local sentiments, and although societies like this should not
only be maintained, but multiplied, still, like all other good
things, they have some attendant disadvantages. Local
sentiment if too much indulged tends to contracted views of
many circumstances and subjects. While therefore I wish
these societies to pursue their course in this important
county, I would increase the area of competition on all the
subjects that interest our agricultural world. The right hon.
gentleman then suggested, with the object of carrying out
this view, that the Royal Buckinghamshire Agricultural
Association, instead of always meeting atAylesbury, should
meet at various parts of the county, and resumed his seat
amid loud cheers.
Mr HERVEY, M.P., also briefly acknowledged the toast.
A number of other toasts were given, and the meeting
separated.

cultivation. They are of European descent, already
acclimatized to a tropical climate, intelligent, moral
in their habits, and have frequently large families.
Probably £5 a head would be the expense of pas
sage and outfit. The upset price of Crown land in
the colony is 10s the acre. A letter from Tortola,
West Indies, states that the weather has been very
favourable, and that a fine crop of cotton is ea.
petted. A letter was read from Chingleput,
containing details of some experiments made by the
writer with Peruvian and other cotton seed, and stat-
ing his intention to forward a bale of cotton shortly
to the association. Copies of a Franco-Prussian
treaty of commerce, signed at Berlin on the 2d of
Aug. 1862, and of the treaties and tariff, the result
of negotiations with certain States of the Zallverein,
with a view to the promulgation of the term for which
that union was contracted, were received from the
Foreign.office ; and also a translation of that part
of the new trade law recently promulgated by the
Swedish Government, which regulates the right of
foreigners to exercise trade or any other branch of
industry. Samples of cotton were submitted for
examination from Venezuela and Montserrat. A
grant of seed was made for experiments at St.
Thomas, West Indies. Mr. Consul Skene, from
Aleppo, had an interview with the committee, and
communicated valuable information respecting the
cotton-growing capabilities of his consular dis-
trict, in which there appears to be encouraging
prospects of still farther progress.