The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

MANCHESTER -3ND LIVERPOOL AGPI-

CULTURAL SOCIETY.

WARRINGTON, WEDNESDAY.
The fifteenth annual show of the above-named
society was opened here this morning.
Although this year the total entries are some-
what less than those in 1861, being 1,740 as
against 2,150, there is an increase in several of
the most important departments. The most
interesting part of the show is that of implements
and machinery. There are 70 stands of imple-
ments, and 967 entries. The exhibitors are
from Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington,
Leeds, Lincoln, Sheffield, Carlisle, Knutsford,
Birmingham, Gloucester, Herefordshire, Grantham,
and other parts of the country, and there is one ex-
hibitor from Canada. Steam engines are at work
in every part of the field set apart for implements,
making bricks, driving circular saws, and setting
all kinds of machines in motion. A more complete
collection of steam-engines has probably seldom
been brought together.
The show of horses is unusually good, the tho-
roughbreds being of fine qudlity. The horned cat-
tle are below the average in number. The show of
poultry is extensive. There is but a scanty exhi-
bition of roots, vegetables, fruits, and flowers, but
there is nothing to complain of on the score of merit.
The entries of horned cattle are 73 ; of horses, 119 ;
sheep, 92 ; pigs, 63 ; poultry, 138 ; geese, 11; ducks,
27 ; turkeys, 3; cheese, 13 ; butter, 22 ; seeds and
roots, 74; saddlery; 4. There are also ninety-nine
competitors for special prizes given by the War-
rington local committee to amateur cottage gar-
deners and others. There are 27 entries of flowers.

The annual dinner of the society was held this
afternoon. Colonel PATTEN, M.P., presided. The
dinner took place in a large tent on the show-
ground, accommodating about 400 persons.

Lord SICELMERSDACE proposed ` The patrons of
the society, the Earl of Derby and Lord Egerton of
Tatt on."

Lord STANLEY, M.P., who was warmly cheered,
responded on behalf of Lord Derby, and added
—No man, I think, can look at this country
now, and recollect what it was fifteen or twenty
years ago, without being able to bear from personal
observation his testimony to the value of associa-
tions such as this. No doubt we have still some-
thing to loarn and a great deal to do, but no man
can now travel in any direction over the country
which he remembers some years ago in this
neighbourhood without seeing that crooked fences
have been levelled, that small fields have been
laid together, that morasses have been drained,
that weeds are less frequent than before, that
land which was formerly unproductive from wet
has been brought under drainage into a rich culti-
vation, and above all that, gradually and slowly,
yet steadily, in many departments of agricultural
industry hand-labour is being superseded by I.i
ha:
ments of the class which we have seen in the s
ru•
yard. (Cheers.) He concluded by expressing
;sant
gret that there was not a larger nnalor e
the health
farmers in the association, and proposing
of the chairman.

CARBINE MATCLI.—A challenge, given by the
10th h out (Woolwich Arsenal) Volunteer Artillery to the
Ist Kent (Gravesend) Artillery Corps, t.o compete for a
series of prizes with the regulation carbine, has been a,-
The distances will be 100, 2'oo,
cepted, and the match will come off on Saturday. next
the Erith practice range. at

and 300 yards.
,D,. The unfavourable ;as tpheerr.
CRYSTAL PALA'---
. 810-n,d7
of yesterday necessitated an alteration in
which had been fixed to take place on the gar-
formances,
change into the centre transept had how-
ever,n rope. The
J. Rogers, of the
one great point of interest, Mr. j ,
Strand Theatre, requesting to be carried over the rope on
Blotidin's
back, a feat which was most successfully per-
moo, amidst the plaudits of the numerous spectators.