The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

The Falcon, 17, screw corvette, made an cfficial
trial of her machinery yesterday in Stokes Bay,
Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Capt. H.
Broadhead and staff, preparatory for commission.
The following promotions, removals, and appoint-
ments of master-gunners have been approved :—G.
Groves, third-class master-gunner at Dover, to be
first-class master-gunner, vice Williams, pendiked ;
W. Coleman to be removed from Hastings to Rye,
and Hastings to be abolished as a master-gunner's
station; Sergeant Moneypenny, Coast Brigade, to
be master-gunner at Dover, vice Groves, promoted.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. R. Buckle to the Dake
of Wellington ; Henry S. Ley, master, to the Fis-
gard, for the Caledonia; George O'Cenncr and A.
S. Hamilton, naval cadets, to the Royal Oak ; S. F.
Dashwood, D. L. Dickson, and C. W. Last, naval
cadets, to the Black Prince; E. P. Hume, naval
cadet, to the Resistance ; E. H. Clarke, naval cadet,
to the St. George ; R. W. White and W. Hoghton,
naval cadets, to the Meeauee ; A. A. Taylor and J.
W. C. Campbell, naval cadets, to the Orlando ; W.
S. P. Graves, naval cadet, to the Liffey; G. Bethel),
naval cadet, to the Sutlej ; H. G. Archer and E. H.
Arden, naval cadets, to the Liverpool; W. H. G.
Goodlake and John A. Home, naval cadets, to the
Scylla; Alex. Baring, naval cadet, to the Pelorus ;
F. R. Robinson and Frederick Hutchinson, naval
cadets, to the Warrior; G. R. Divett, midshipman,
to the Sutlej ; F. H. Cruttwell, midshipman, to the
St. George ; J. R. Prickett, midshipman, to the
Edgar; G. Trower, midshipman, to the Defence,
Edgard Lewis and George Mills, engineers, to the
Asia, as supernumeraries; William Chase, assistant-
engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary, and
William Stewart, assistant-engineer, to the Supply.

Vale of Evesham Agricultural Society.

The annual meeting of this society was held at

Evesham on Wednesday, under the presidency of
the Duo d'Aumale, After the usual award of pre.
miums in the morning, and the hold of a cattle show
and flower show, a party of about 150 ladies and

gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Town-hall.
The Due d'Aumale (who possesses large estates in

this fertile vale) presided, and there were also
present the Duchesse d'Aumale, the Prince Conde,
Lord Northwick, Sir T. E, Winnington, M.P., Sir
E. A. Lechmcre, Hon. H. Ryder, and Mr. Ho!
land, M.P.
The Duc D'AUMALE, in proposing the first toasts
—" The Queen," and " The Prince and Princess of
Wales and the Princes and Princesses of the Royal
Family"—made some graceful allusions to Her
Majesty, the late Prince Consort, and the Prince
and Princess of Wales.

Sir E. A, H. LECIIMERE then gave the toast of
:he Bishop and Clergy of the Diocess, and alluded

to the condition of the agricultural labourer, ex-
pressing a doubt whether his condition had im-

proved pan passu with agriculture itself.
The Rev. A. W. INGRAM having responded to
this toast, proposed the toast of the " Army, Navy,
Militia, and Volunteers."
Lord NORTUWICK replied for the army, and
alluded to the recent death of a veteran soldier
who had been connected all his life with Worces-
tershire—Earl Beauchamp. Subsequently his lord-

ship responded to the toast of the " House o:

Lords."
The Hon. H. RYDER gave the toast of "The
House of Commons," and advocated the collection of
agricultural statistics. He was aware that the idea
was rather dreaded by gentlemen like those he saw
around him, but the dread was unfounded; they had
no reason to be ashamed of what they grew upon the
land. He saw by the newspapers that the imports
into this country last year of corn and flour
amounted to a value of X 37,000,000, which would be
perhaps, about equal to 18,000,000 quarters of grain.
We liked to have the statistics of those imports, and
why should we not also have statistics of the growth
of cereals in this country ?
Sir T. E. WINNINGTON replied to the toast of
" The House of Commons," and suggested that to
meet the objections raised by some persons to agri-
cultural statistics they should merely take the re-
turns of the average of wheat, beans, barley, or
whatever might be grown on each farm—(hear)—

THE ARMY.
The half-yearly inspection of the artillery sta-

tioned in the South West District, land and sea
service, took place yesterday on Southsea-common,
near Portsmouth, by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet,
C.B. The force was drawn up in three brigades,
with a battery of field artillery on either flank ; the
I battery of the 4th brigade, with its six-horsed
Armstrong 12 pounder guns, occupying the right
of the line, under the command of Col. Barlow; the
K battery, of the same brigade, holding the left,
under Ctpt. Martin ; and both batteries under the
command of Col. Anderson, C.B. The 6th brigade
of Garrison Artillery, in seven batteries, under the
command of Col. Longdon, was posted on the right,
next the I field battery, with the Royal Marine
Artillery in the central position, under Col. Tait, in
eight strong batteries, the 7th brigade of Garrison
Artillery, under Col. Daneville, being on the left
and next to K battery. Col. Warde, C. 8., com-
manding [the :artillery of the South-Wee. District,
was in supreme command of the whole force. A
finer body of artillery in point of numbers or ap-
pearance, never probably assembled on Southsea-
common. After a close inspection of the force on
its first formation, it was marched past the inspect-

leaving the average of produce to be arrived at as i

might.
The Duc D'AUMALE, who on rising was received
with enthusiastic tokens of respect, said,-1 now
rise, ladies and gentlemen, to propose what is called

he toast of the day, and in beginning that part o

the duty which devolves on me as your chairman, I
must confess that I feel some embarrassment, for,
although I have been very much interested in agri-
culture, and although I have tried to observe its
state and what are called its characteristics every-
where that I have been, I cannot present myself to
you as an agriculturist, and at the same time you
all knew that I am a foreigner. I cannot, therefore,
speak to you with the same degree of authority as
would the noble peer or the hon. member of Parlia-
ment, or as many of the gentlemen I see around me
who are connected with the neighbourhood by long
family, political, or social ties could, I am utterly
unable to display the knowledge of a practical agri-
culturist. So I will address you as a foreigner, but,
let me add, as your sincere friend and well-wisher.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, first of all, that art which is
the profession of most of my hearers, cannot be car-
ried on all over the world by the same process.
Climate, laws, customs, the temperament of the po-
pulation, its wants and means, and the division of
property must have, and necessarily have, a great
influence over the way in which man works the
land and draws out of it the innumerable products
which are given to us by the munificence of our Crea-
tor. From the nature of your climate and your geo-
graphical situation you have been induced to apply
your energit a and your skill principally to two great
points, which are the growing of corn and the
breeding and feeding of animals. No doubt there
are some exceptions to this rule, but I think I am
justified in saying that the two great aims of Eng-
lish agriculturists are the production of meat and
bread. (Applause.) These are the two great objects
you have had in this direction, and you have pur-
sued them with the tenacity which is one of the
characteristics of your race. In this you have been
well served by circumstances, and you have reached
a degree of advancement which may be, and cer-
tainly will be, carried further, but which is not
generally surpassed out of these islands. (Applause.)
It is for this reason that your agriculture is the sub•
ject of study and attention to many foreign econo-
mists and practical men. A friend of mine, M, de
Lavergne, has given a very good description of your
agriculture in a work entitled " L'Agriculture
which has been translated into English;
Anglaise,"
and an account of your agricultural experiments
and meetings is periodically published in French.
Gentlemen, I will try to point out some of the fea-
tures which seem to strike more particularly foreign
visitors to this country. (Cheers.) The first is the
nature of your farm buildings, which are strictly
limited to what is necessary, and are much less ex-
tensive than those that would be required abroad
for the same extent of land in the same state of cul-
tivation. I believe this practise is a wise one to pur-
sue, for it saves a groat amount of capital, which
can he thus more profitably invested. However, on
this chapter of buildings there is an improvement
which is much required,' and which has recently
been much discussed—l mean the dwellings of your
labourers. (Applause.) Although the rural popu-
lation in this country are upon the average better
fed, better clad, and better lodged than in most other
countries, it is very certain that in many places the
cottages of the labourers have not been improved in
proportion to Lbe imps ovements made in the landlords'
mansions and the farmers' houses. (Applause.) I
am happy to say that in this neighbourhood, how-
ever, much has been done in this direction ; but
much still remains to be done. To increase the wel-
fare of the agricultural labourer is ono of the pun-
poses of this society, and as it is an object worthy
the attention of the landlord and the tenant, and as
it must be in the end profitable to both of them, I
believe it is an object worthy of your careful and
constant consideration. Another fact which rather
surprises the foreign economist in this country is
that the land should have been brought to the high
degree of cultivation that it hasheen when in many
parts cf the country it is held under tenure at will,
and without any very distinct agreement between
landlord and tenant ; tut if there is a deficiency in
that respect, I think you have it supplied by that
mutual trust and confidence whicu happily exist
between the various classes of society. (Applause.)
However, success has not made you deaf to the calls
for improvement. (Hear.) The question of landlord
and truant right has very often attracted your at-
tention, and has been more especially brought under
your notice by one of our friends, in whose judg-
ment, experience, and fairness we have the greatest

ing officer in single batteries and in grand divisions,
after which a series of evolutions was performed
under Col. Warde's directions, the mimic battle
being mainly fought with the 12 pounders of the I
and K batteries, no ammunition having been served
out to the Garrison Artillery, who were marched
about in different formations, encumbered by the
carbine and sword bayonet. At the close of the
evolutions medals for long service and good conduct
were presented to the following recipients :—Master.
gunner Edward Dewey, a medal and £l5 gra-
tuity ; Master-gunner Thomas Anderson, a medal
and £l5 gratuity; Master-gunner Joseph Thornley,
a medal and £lO gratuity ; Master-gunner John
Williams, a medal and £l5 gratuity ; Sergeant
James Gilbertson, a medal and £l5 gratuity; Gun-
ner J. Breley, a medal and £5 gratuity. Col. Warde
impressed most earnestly on young soldiers that
the medals he was presenting could only be won by
a long course of service and exemplary conduct, and
that the gunner in the ranks might win it equally
with the Master-gunner or non-commissioned officer,
while every wearer of such a medal must command
the respect of soldier and civilian in addition to the
esteem of his officers. In the case of Master-gunner

Dewey, Colonel Warde said, "this was a soldier o
whose career he had a personal knowledge. During
the Indian mutiny the troop of artillery to which
he was attached was sent after a large body of
mutineers, whom they overtook, rode through, cut
down, and destroyed. With his own hand Ser-
geant-major Dewey killed three of the mutineers,
when his horse was shot under him. Encumbered
as he then was he managed to slay three more of
the fiends. That was no child's play—no fighting
with John Chinaman ; it was a downright struggle
with soldiers whom we had taught ourselves, and
who when loyal and true could fight as well as
most men."
A general regimental order, signed by Col. C.
Bingham, Deputy-Adjut.-Gen., Royal Artillery,
has been received at Chatham garrison from the
Horse Guards, containing the following announce-
ments :—Her Majesty has been pleased to approve
the following promotions in the Royal Regiment of
Artillery—viz., Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieuts.—
W. F. H. Curtis, vice Trafford, deceased; and H.
E. Dolphin, vice Capper, deceased. To be Pay-
master.—Lieut. Col. S. S. Stevens, C. 8., retired
Indian service, at :present employed as paymaster,
with local rank, at Warley. To be Capts. of com-
panies of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich.—Capt. 0. R. Stokes, 9th
Brigade, vice Brevet-Major H. T. Fitzhugh, who
resigns the appointment; Capt. C. V. Arbuckle,
vice Hunter, who resigns the appointment. Brevet-
Col. J. B. Woodman, on the retired full-pay list, to
be MajoraGen., the rank being honorary only.
Lieut,-Col. H. L. Gardiner, having completed five
years' qualifying service in that rank, to be Col. in
the army, under the provisions of the Royal War-
rant of October 14, 1858. The undermentioned'
officers are raised to increased pay :—Lieut. C. W.
Brereton, 20th Brigade, vice Goldingham, pro-
moted ; Lieut. C. F. Glass, 18th Brigade, vice
Trafford, deceased ; and Lieut, W. A. Day, lath
Brigade, vice Edmeades, promoted.
Col. W. R. Nedham, attended by Adjut.-Lieut.
Graham, of the Depot Brigade, resumed his inspec-
tion yesterday morning of the Royal Artillery
quartered at Chatham garrison, which was brought
to a termination in the afternoon. Ia consequence
of the threatening aspect of the weather and the
state of the ground the field day announced to be
held on Chatham Lines did not take place, and the
officers and men composing the mounted C field
battery of the 9th Brigade Royal Artillery were
drawn up in the North-square, at the Artillery
Barracks, Brampton, where they were subjected to
a minute inspection. The remainder of the day was
devoted by Col. Nedham to an inspection of the
field battery of 12-pounder Armstrong guns, wag-
gons, ammunition carts, harness, &c., orderly rooms,
non-commissioned officers' quarters, school-rooms,
&a., all of which appeared to be in a very satisfac-
tory condition.
The reinforcements of Royal Engineers selected
from the depot and other companies at head-quar-
ters, Brampton barracks, to augment the 6th com-
pany of Royal Engineers serving in New Zealand,

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give an opinion on the subject, of the various# ' 1 ecite4",4
of the proposed code, but I believe that anyarrAttliep:):'
ment which may be found practicable, and `iirti iseil:
may induce a larger outlay on farming, and inereas. a
the safety of the investment of capital in farming, is
a step in the right path. (Applause.) The code may
introduce some more complications than the mere,
verbal or common written agreement ; but improve-
ments often make complications. Is not the rifle,
with which your soldiers E re armed a more compli-
cated thing than the old" Brown Bess ? ' (Laughter
and cheers.) The steam plough on your farms—the
various implements now used on your farms—are
certainly less simple than the aratrum which Virgil
so beautifully describes, and which 1 have seen at
work just as it is pictured by the immortal author
of the Georgics, under the lofty olive trees of Sicily
or though the plains of Algiers. I have named the
steam plough, and thi6 brings too to another point--
I mean the application to agriculture of industrial
and scientific means. I read the other day an excel-
lent speech made by Sir William Armstrong at
Newcastle, in which it was stated that England
produced 84,000,000 tons of coal last year, which
represented the labour of 100,000,000 horses, and
horses, too, which did not require to be fed. (Ap-
plause and laughter.) I hope that every year agri-
culture will claim as its own requisite a larger pro-
portion of that immense self-feeding productive
power. It is by taking a larger share of that un-
measurable force that agriculture will be able to
increase its produce and fulfil those increasing
demands upon it which are the result of the indus-
trial activity of the day, and of the progress of
universal welfare, that it will be able to keep pace
with industry on the tract of progress, for the bene-
fit of mankind. The use of steam power and of
artificial manure answers a double purpose. Where
hands are deficient they supply the deficiency.
Where hands can be easily obtained, and where there
is no lack of capital, I think it is admitted that the
use of steam increases rather than decreases the
demand for manual labour. (Applause.) Then with
the help of man's labour and capital it gives the
means of drawing out of the land an increased pro-
duce, for which in the present state of trade, indus-
try, and commerce outlets will always be easily
found. When I consider what progress has been
accomplished in the last 50 years, and since the
adoption of a proper course of cultivation, I am rather
induced to believe that if a large additional produc-
tive power be made use of the result will be a more
constant employment for labour—(applause)—
more profit for the farmer, and even in the long
run, which we won't forget, higher rents for the
landlord—(laughter)—and more prosperity for
the rest of the community at large. (Applause.)
As regards institutions similar to this society,
which by a peaceful combination stimulate the pros-
perity of all classes, and afford an occasion for the
exchange of opinion, I am glad to say that they
now exist in many places abroad, and that they
have been attended with success and the happiest
results. (Hear, hear.) There is a circumstance
connected
and which is
ted with these undertakings which I may
notice,
mean the entirely unoffip ce ci
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eh
ri s
of c otuhnet
ings. You manage for yourselves here your own
ry
meet— I-
business. (Laugher and hear, hear.) You do not
require any superior assistance or interference, and
I believe that upon the whole the advantages of
this system are greater than its disadvantages. I
heard the other day of a meeting that was held in
a place of which I like better to talk than to name,
at which a friend of mine who was presiding said
something which did not answer the purpose of a
high official, and who was suddenly stopped in his
speech by the tremendous beating of drums.
(Laughter.) Happily nothing of that kind is to be
found in this country, for if any one trespasses be-
yound the boundaries of his oratorical rights you
perfectly well know how to bring him to order.
(Laughter.) But, as I have said before, laws and
customs cannot be the same everywhere ; still, I
hope upon these points your example will be fol-
lowed more and more every day. I trust that every-
body will become more and more convinced that the
first necessities of agriculture are peace, security,
and liberty. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the life 1 have
led has accustomed me to be a good deal in the open
air, and I like to go through your fields and follow
a covey of birds, wild as they are, and I venture to
gallop sometimes after the hare or the fox over your
hedges and ditches and your heavy clay. (Laugh-
ter.) And when I see a good piece of turnips or
mangolds I like it the better, not because I know
that the birds will lie better, but because I see good
husbandry. (Applause.) And at a time when the
scent is good and the hounds will run, when I feel
under the hoofs of my horse good elastic ground I
am glad, because 1 know that the clay has been burnt
and the land drained. When I have to clear, instead
of a blind fence, a good clean ditch and a well trimmed
hedge, I am certainly pleased, not only in having a
safer ground before me, but because I notice the im-
provement in agriculture. And when at luncheon
time or during a check I meet with a nice cottage or
a commodious farm-house, it is not only the pint of
cider or the glass of sherry which soothes my thirsty
soul—(laughter)—but it is the sight of the happi-
ness, the comfort, and the hospitality shown by the
cottager or the yeoman which cheers my heart.
(Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, I hope that every year
I may meet in this neighbourhood with straighter
fences, cleaner ditches, better drained and finer cattle,
more comfortable cottages, and happier people, and
it is because I believe this society has promoted and
will promote all these improvements that I offer yon
my best wishes for its prosperity and success.
(Cheers.) So, gentlemen, I fill my glass with what
I may call, and what I am proud to call, the agricul-
tural produce of my own merry and beloved land.
(Cheers.) It is a produce which Worcestershire men,
with all their skill, cannot grow in their fields.
(Laughter.) I now fill ray glass, then, with what I
may call a genuine countryman of mine own, and I
drink to the prosperity of the Evesham Agricultural
Society.
His
concluded Royal
nc Highness,
luded his very who spoke with great
fluency,
elqouent.address amid
great cheering.
o
Mr. HOLLAND, M.P., responded to this toast, and
ie. the course of his remarks briefly alluded to the
topics of the dwellings of the agricultural labourers.
He expressed his opinion that it was absolutely
necessary, now that they had implements that
required more skilled labour, that they
should have a more intelligent race of labourers im-
bued with self-respect, 'which self-respect they could
not attain under their present condition. He traced
the history of the labourer from his boyhood, and
showed how the want of home accommodation
drove him to the beerhouse, and how the crowding
of families of all ages into a common sleeping room
must lower the tone of morals in the class. He
thought landlords should not look to a large direct
return in rent for their cottage property, but that
they should consider the indirect advantages which
these cottages afforded to an estate in having the
supply of labour close at hand and under direct
supervision. In conclusion, he proposed the
" Health of the Due and I)uchesse d'Aumale and.
the Prince Conde," remarking that the address of
the Due led them to forget that he was a foreigner.
Drunk with three times three.
The Duc D'AumaLE replied, and said it was be-
cause he felt deeply interested in the prosperity of
agriculture and the rural population that he had
always been happy to promote any improvement in
his own neighbourhood. It was true that his heart
and thoughts were very often en the other side of
the wrter—(hear, hear)—but if anything could
soften the regrets of the exile, it was to find in a
foreign country that hospitable 'welcome which ho
and his family had found here. (Cheers.)
Several other local toasts were proposed and
speeches made, the party breaking up at about S
o'clock.

NOT A BAD PUN.—A Witness of a murder in
France was asked by the President, this week, what his
name was, and he replied, as every one thought, " J'en
fremis d'herreur" (I shudder with horror—namely, at the
recollection of the deed). The judge cut in severely, and
said, " I don't want to have any expression of your feelings.
What is your name ?" " I repeat what I said before," re-
plied the witness, tartly;
"my naino is Jean Fremy,
donor" (gilder).