The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-10 00:00:00

sue its perilous career on a precarious and vacillating
basis. France has therefore applauded with trans-
port your proposal for a Congras•—a provident idea,
which offers . to our country eeisfaction exempt
from ambition, to Europe guarantees of peace and a
disarmament, to civilisation a wide and free field of
development. :May the Sovereigns, guided by their
high wisdom, and the enlightenment of the century,
unite with your Majesty in a tata'which bs' meet-
ing struTgles, instead of awAiting their outbreak)
will settle pretensions, and place the right of glzs-
verotoents in harmony with the legitimate wishCS
of peoples. England, however, has decided that she
would abstain—her exceptional situation possibly
enables her to be less moved than your Majesty by
the
dangers of the statu quo, but the other govern-
ments
nts. cannot but gain, in presence of a crumbling
Bast,
founding a situation which shall be neither
threatened nor unackowledged. The peoples will
also gain in entering with them in a future of coca•
promise and concord. Happen what may, the
country will not disown your Majesty, when' you
have divided responsibilities
of wisdom,
,
• and when, after
uttering the words
ofwisdom, you told Europe—
\' I speak in the name° France.' "

The Smithfield Club Cattle Show.

Notwithstanding the extremely unfavourable state
of the weather yesterday, the Agricultural-hall at
Islington was well filled, and it is believed that a
larger number of visitors attended than on the pre-
vious day. The sale of prize stock was tolerably
brisk, considering that so large a portion had been
sold on Tuesday, but the " commended" wad "highly
commended" stock had mostly changed ovvners.
Sales were no doubt stimulated by the offer on the
part of the Club of a silver cup to the butcher who'
should make the largest purchases, exclusive of the

extra stock.
The following is a list of the sales effected, in ad-
dition to those which appeared in The Sun of yes-

terday :
In class 1, Devons, No. 1, the winner of the third
prize, had been sold to Mt. Hull, of ono.Nensal-gree
In class 5, Hereford steers, under three years, .
35, the winner of the first prize (exhibited by Major
General the Hon. A. N. Hood, and bred at the late
Prince Consort's farm, Windsor Park), had been
sold to Messrs. W. and Q. Waldham, of Torquay.
In class 7, No. 58, the winner of the third prize
among the Hereford heifers, not exceeding four
years old, had been purchased by Mr. Shopland, of
Knightsbridge. In class 15, the winner of the second
prize, No. 136, had been sold to Mr. G. Wood, Ter-
minus-place, Eastbourne. In class 16, Norfolk or Suf-
folk polled breed, the winner of the first prize, No.
149, had been sold to Mr. John Horwood, of Esher,
Surrey. In class 19, No. 159, the winner of the first
prize, among the long-horned heifers or cows of any
age, had been sold to Mr. S. Roberts, of Kenilworth.
In class 23, No, 182, the winner of the first prize,
had been sold to Mr. B. Smith, of King's-road,
Chelsea. In class 24, No.lBl, the winner of the first
prize among Irish steers or oxen of any age, had
been sold to Mr. George Ball, of Norwich. In class
26, Welsh breed, No. 187, the winner of the second

prize, had been purchased by Mr. H. Squires, of
Watford. In class 27, Welsh heifers or cows of any

ege, No. 190, the prize winner, had been purchased
by Mr. Parsons, of Leather lane, Holborn. In class
28, No. 191, the winner of the second prize, had
been purchased by Mr. H. Edwards, of Tunbridge
Wells. In the extra stock, No. 33, prize winner
with silver medal among the shorthorns, had been
purchased by Mr. 11. Keeble, of the Lion-tavern,
New Cattle-market..

Among the sheep the following additional sales
had been made :—ln class 31, Leicesters, No. 248,
the pen winning the second prize, had been sold to
Mr. C. Harman, of 397, Hackney-road; and 247,
the pen winning the third prize, to Mr. W. Stepto,
of Walworth, In class 32, N 0.255, the pen winning
the second prize, had been sold to Mr. A. H, Jones,
of Tottenham-court-road ; and No. 257, the pen
winning the third, to Mr. P. Je.ekson, of 6, White
Conduit:-terrace, Islington. In class 40, Shropshire
fat wethers, No. 325, the winners of the first prize,
had been sold to Mr. Swann, of 78, High-street,
lloxton. In class 45, cross bred, sliort wooled fat
wetber, No. 374, the pen winning the .£2O silver
cup, as the best pen of Shropshire, Oxfordshire cross
or any other breed of sheep in any of the classes,
and likewise winning a first prize and silver medal,
had been sold to Messrs. Comfort, of 77, Farring-
don-street ; and the second prize pen, No. 382, to
Messrs. Brown and Davis, of Bedford. In class 46,
cross breds, No. 385, the pen winning the first prize,
had been sold to Mr. G. Pope. Among the extra
stock of cross breds, No. 388, the sheep winning the
silver medal had been sold to Mr. Tyrrell, of the
New-road, Hammersmith. Mr. King, a large buyer,
who was stated to be of Farringdon•street, resides
in Paddington-street, Marylebone.
Among the pigs the following further sales had
been effected :—ln class 48, No. 415, the first prize
pen of pigs, not exceeding eight months, had been
sold to Messrs. Watling and Son, Pimlico. In Class
50, No. 433, the second prize pen, had been sold to
° Mr. F. Robinson, of 246, Westminster-bridge-road.

Last evening the annual dinner of the Smithfield
Club was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, the Right
Hon. Lord Walsingham presiding. There were also
present Lord Feversham (president of the Royal
Agricultural Society), Lord Berners. Lord Trade-
gar, Sir J. H. Maxwell, Col. Fane, M.P., Mr. Hum-
phery Brandreth, Professor Simonds, Mr. Fisher
Hobbs, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Col. Green, Mr. C.
Stokes, Mr. W. Torr, and other persons of note as
agriculturists. The company was not so numerous
as in former years, though the club was never more
wealthy or prosperous than at present, and the ab-
sence of exhibitors, especially the most of those who
had gained prizes, was a subject of comment in the
course of the evening.
On the removal of the cloth,
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of "The
Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and the rest
of the Royal Family," took occasion to say hew
much the members of the club had been gratified by
the visit of the Prince at the opening of the exhibi.
tion in the Agricultural-hall on Monday, and by the
He
his Royal Highness had taken
heener
in t show. He hoped that some day his
Royal
Highness would become an exhibitor in
now that he had an.estate of h.his own
the club.
person, 18 ,
that he had been enrolled a member of own, and
Later in the evening, the CHAIRMAO.
which he said he
N gave " Suc-
cess to the Smithfield Club,"
bad long been a member, and of
late years an exhi-
bitor atlas annual gatherings,
complete success of the show
the members on the He congratulated
of this year—the entries having been more
numerous than usual, and
the beauty and quality
of the animals exhibited fully up to an
The growing interest taken in the proceedings of
agricultural
to their societies was a source of gratification
promoters.
Royal On this occasion they had had
Yed and noble visitors, but what had pleased him
most was the unusually great influx of pople of all
classes rushin
tion. (Hear to behold and admire their exhibi-
, hear.) These were signs of progress
in the
right direction, added to which was the fact
that, for the first time, , the club was now managed
by a council appointed by the members in general,
He trusted that the new constitution would be found
to work satisfactorily, though it was remarkable
that the first effect of the ie. troduction of the ballot
had been to exclude from the council, for two years
at least, many of the best and most useful men, and
,those who had taken the greatest interest in its
proceedings from the first. Without expressing
opinion of his own upon the subject, he thought
any op
ula be well for the members to consider
it wo
whether that was likely to tend to the welfare of
the club, though he must admit that it might be of
great advantage to infuse new blood into its govern-
ment. He understood that the club had become se
rich that it was at a loss how to spend its money,

A-fe. --..ei1e.„..t...,
jcsare4s.weretit,e,,, EIVSPAPER
(A laugh.) The contev", in ore kii.,4 44:riVic-;;;1:-S.
viate the difficulty, proposed in future t (410:44:;f''1 ,KaffiF
larger premiums, and more of them, to exhi -tQiii -77---- .., ~#1 •
Lard FEV,ERSEIKM, in proposing "The health 47 - ~.: :.-'-',L„,
the Chairman" (Lord Walsingham), said his lord=
a' " a'
ship had been so fortunate as to obtain the silver
cup for the best ren of Southdown sheep, and that
was a department of the show in which on former
occasions he had been eminently successful, so that
he
now
bid fair to rival in that respect the fame of
the Duke of Richmond, Mr. RiNaien, and the late
Mr.
,Jonas Webb.
( explainedilew h
rit h
hear.)
t
The toast was drunk
that
tho b
acclamation.
e
The CHAIRMANg. at i ori g i
nail; with a very moderate
flock of Southdovane, his;prime object being to raise good mutton, but he was
afterwards tempted to exhibit,
of local societies, and then a
ttfihrestanat thenual Arsatteoeaing
shows
sosf
the Smithfield Club.
Lord BERNERS, in speaking; to a toast, in tho
course of the evening, mentioned' incidentally that,
the balance in favour of the Club
r weanaon:
daail on any former one, and that the councilrg meant
that the prizes this year had
tb„eta`lvaas nI/4)Bi
01.,aase them still more next year.- Re dwelt at
inv4.th on the encouragement which
tsoolina's
given to 0-tom cultivation, and upon its greater
ecfmomy, compared with ordinar
gard was had to the extent
ents.
efficiency-Wad
q uality of the soil in regulating
modes, provided asle re
in the use of implements.
of farms and to the
the depth of drains, am:
The CHAIRMAN stated, by way of contrast as to
the extent to which recourse wag being had to steana
cultivation in Scotland and England, that, whereas
he had heard that in a particular pa.rish in E ngland
three farmers bad clubbed their funais together to
buy a steam cultivator, there were three steam cul-
tivators at work in a parish with which he was
acquainted in East Lothian. (A laugh.) In proposi mg
the toast of " The Labouring Classes," he said there
at-
ever might be the improvements in agriculture,
must always be a large number of men engaged in
cultivating the soil. "The pobr they had alvvays
with them ;" but cultivation by machinery had boe n
attended with these, among other advantages, the t
it seised up a class of men from among t:-..::,ze en -
gaged, in digging the land who were able to take'
the
place of engineers and workers of machinery. ;
and
that wherever machinery had been largely in-
troduced it had resulted in improving the physical
condition
said of tbe labouring classes. All that, he
wad now being well understood even by the
classes who had been ever the most prone to regard
the use of
- machinery
with ;ealousy ; and he con-
trasted the prevail' j . .
that which led to thelng feeli
sta. 1
o u ion the subject with
deplorable agrarian outrages
~n the southern and south-wester/3 ,counties of Eng-
land many years ago on the intraa;uction of the
threshing machine.
Lord FEVERSHAM, in
so.responding to ti,:e toast of
a The Royal Agricultural
name had been connected as iety,' with Which his
a President,e statCd that
he had that very day received unicat.zoa from
General Knollys intimating that his
the Prince of Wales had been pleased.h o Royal
to ;f3ll-
- a governor of that society. The Royal A-- c;:-
cultural Society, he said, had now a greater nu-ml--
bar of members than at any former period. It ex-
cited universal interest, and had not only itself
tended directly to the improvement of agriculture,
but still more by calling into existence a number
of kindred societies throughout the country.
It was stated in the course of the proceedings-
that Lord Tredegar had been chosen President of
the club for the ensuing Year, and that Lord Spencer
was the President elect for the following one.
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

The report of the directorssates that the result of the
year's working shows a balance in favour of revenue of
£42,674 ; and,
.after payment of all preference eharoses and
interest, there remains at the credit of the general revenue
account the sum of £20,218 available for division among' the
proprietors of ordinary capital. Out of this sum the direc-
tors recommend the payment of a dividend of 2 per cen't.
(2s. per share), which will leave a balance of £164 to ben
carried forward. The Dulwich-wood property AONV stands
in a much more satisfactory position than it has hitherto
done. The annual charge has been reduced from £3,000
to £741, and will continue to be further reduced and finally
extinguished, as groand is sold or let and honsessee erected.
The directors feel satisfied that the sum with Which this
estate now stands debited in the general balance-sheet is
below its real value. Credit is taken in the general revenue
account for the I alance of cash received from the South Lon-
don Railway Comp my for the land occupi,,d by their high
level line and station, after deducting the sum of £lO,OOO
paid to the Dulwich Ccllgo for the leasehold interest of
this company therein. In respect of this payment, an allow-
ance of £3OO per annum has been made by the College
from the ground rents. Tho saving shown on the expendi-
ture side of the accounts is a feature which cannot fail to
he regarded as satisfactory, The diminution in the re-
ceipts arising from shilling visitors and the departments
dependent thereon is no doubt large, but this is in A great
degree to be explained by the natural reaction in the Past
season, after the excitement and attractions:of the Exhi:bi"
tion year, a reaction which is well known to have generally'
affected both the trade and the amusements of the metropo-
lis. On the other hand, this diminution is to some extent
compensated for by the increase in the receipts directly and
indirectly attributable to season tickets—'a branch of income
which, as it is mainly derivable from residents in the
neighbourhood of the palace, may be looked on as per-
manent, and may be expected to grow with the growth of
this rapidly-increasing district. The directors look forward
with confidence to an improvement in the general traffic, as
the additional railway accommodation now rapidly in course
of completion is graduallysualniegd.proTsheecuNtveodrkswit Ohl the
th
South London Railway are
e
greatest vigour. Considerable progress has been already
made in the preparations for the high level station in
front
of the Palace, while the tunnels at Sydenhara_ni,.
and
Forest-hill, with others of the heaviest works on u
are being energetically pushed forward. The directorsue line,
assured that the line will be cpened for traffic, as are
on or before the let of Ma 3, 1865, and thus a
ngdhDleovveeiriißneaailzdatyisl promised,
nection will be made with the Metropolitannc)rthern eon.co
the South-Eastern.
heart of London. Of great importance to line into the
s
the arrangement lately effected between p
ro v thisi
d i n company
c o n ne ci
e stations at Charing-
s
cross, Cannon-street, Greenwich
tanibnd the
betweenCh at
li
theam high
giving the Crystal Palace direct , and Woolwich, and thus
valu-
able points. If, as is also pro access to these most
between the Southern and, red) a connection be effected
Thames below London-brid astern lines, by crossing the
'reason to congratulate ge, the directors will have great
of the railway access t their shareholders on the completion
general expenditure o the Palace. The ec3nomy in the
out in the leastof the company has been effected with-,
building. The impairing the efficiency or stability of the
without the Perty of the company, both within and
The reee,,,_ building, is maintained in the best condition.
a eatistaLP's of the exhibitors' department continuo to show
""Y advance upon those even of the receding
year. This P
th 8 department has been lately re-arranged, and
ereby•
materially improved. Great care has been taken.
to Se enr e generally the most desirable class of tenants. with
the view
to maintain as much as possible the present favour-
able position and working of this important portion of
the Palace. The tercentenary of the birth of Shakes-
peare, which occurs next year, is an event which cannot
fail to influence the proceedings of the Crystal Palace in the
ensuing season. The revenue account for the 12 months
ending the 31st of October last shows that £107,434 had
been received, including £12,285 for season tickets, £58,699
for admissions, £15,436 for general exhibition department,
and £14,678 from refreshment contract. The expenditttro
amounted to £64,760, including £6,432 for maintenance and
repairs of building, £6,029 for same of gardens and grounds,
£2,225 engines and waterworks, and £7,726 main. tenance
and repairs of various departraents, with alterations and
additions to s e, recedingvia balance of £42,674 ;to this is
added £2,937 from the pe year, and £5,891 in respect
the new railway win-
of leasehold interest in
land takn by
£51,502. From this is deducted £31,284 for
pany, making
preference charges and interest on deben
accounttures,
shows that
£1,443,710 had been expended.
Aasamillls

V nsEtAlesUmitEeest.—ingT,hearßiproiitnistlitaAassco(cyaiia_-
°'
eights and Measures with reference
to i
mittee to prepsre a report. " On the Best Means of Providing
Eait° the TS
ANDNe w c l‘al
Interest of Science," the committee to consist of the
following members, with power to add to their number—
for a Uniformity of e
na m el
y,
Professor Rankine, Sir W. Armstrong, Lord
tion,
thelrl
Wrottesley, Sir John llerschel, the Astronomer Royal
General Sabine, Dr. Lee, the Rev. D. Robinson, Mr. W.
i Colonel Sy M
kes, ,P., Sir John Hay, M.P., the
Right
r'ite'i‘iF"
lion. C. B. Adderley, m.p.,
Mr. W. E wart, M.P.,
Mr. James Heywood, Professr,r Williamson, Professor
Miller, and Mr. F. Purdy as secretary.
THE PITMEN'S STRIKE IN THE NORTII.—.Oa
Tuesday 45 of the families of the miners on strike
at Messrs. Straker and Love's collieries, in the Aucklandteir
district, in the county of Durham, were ejected
coed conducted
cottages at Okenshaw. The proceedin
in an orderly manner. The chance of jr;
bas declared
the Union men is as remote as ever, as the finr
Brancepetb,
their intention not to employ Union•
Okenshaw, -Willing-ton A
work, and Wing,ton B pit, it IF hoped
Will Boon commence work, drnen collieries are at
pit, and 13rgned by the employers,
‘scrueetrtleement with