The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-15 00:00:00

PIGS.

Class I.—Boars of a large breed.—First prize of 15/. to
Robert Crossley, of Holland St. Miles, Platting Newton,
Manchester. Second prize of Si. to Thomas Horsfall, of
Burley Hill, Otley, Yorkshire.
SPECIAL PRIZES.

SHROPSHIRE OR OTHER GREY AND BLACK-FACED SHORT-

WOOLLED SHEEP.

Class I.—Rams of any age.—First prize of 201. to John
Gillett of Brize Norton, Witney, Oxon. Second prize of
101. to Thomas Horton, of Hamage Grange, Cressage, near
Shrewsbury.
Class 2.—Pon of Five Ewes of any age, with their
Lambs.—The prize of 101. to William Foster, of Kinver
Hill Farm, Stourbridge.
Class 3.—Pen of Five Shearling Ewes.—The prize of 101.
to William Foster, of Kniver Hill Farm, Stourbridge.

The Pavilion Dinner took place yesterday at four
o'clock, and, as usual, was very well attended. Nearly
1,000 agriculturists assembled on the occasion, the chair
being of course filled by Lord Ashburton, president for
the year. Mr. Pusey, the president elect, was pre-
vented by illness from being present, and other disap-
pointments also took place ; but among the company
present we observed the American Minister, General
Arista (of Mexico), Judge Halliburton, the Mayor of
Gloucester, the Earl of Powis, the Earl of Harrowby,
the Earl of Leicester, Earl Beauchamp, Lord Bridport,
the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Berners,
the Earl of Suffolk, Sir John Shelley, the Hon. B. R.
Clive. the Hon. G. C. Agar, Sir. M. -Ridley, Viscount
Hereford, Mr. Mullings, M.P., Sir Lionel Darner, Sir
Thomas Acland, Sir John Bailey, Colonel Challoner,
Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Foley, M.P., Mr. Hippesley,
Mr. Alcock, M.P., Mr. Clifford, M.P., Col. Rushout,
M.P, Mr. Hampden Turner, Mr. Portman, M.P., Sir
W. Codrington, M.P., Mr. Cobbold, M.P., Professor
Johnston, of Durham ; Professor Vocicker, Professor
Brown, Professor Way, Professor Simonds ; Mr.
M‘Gregor, Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway,
Mr. C. A. Saunders, Mr. J. L. Vaughan, Sir Peregrine
Acland, and Sir John Duckworth.

The usual loyal toasts having been given.
Lord AbHBURTON proposed " The Foreign Ministers,"
to which

His Excellency the AMERICAN MINISTER responded at
full length. He complimented Lord Ashburton, and
referred in terms of high praise to the high services
which the late lord had rendered both to this country
and the United States by the settlement of the boundary
question. Mr. Ingersoll then alluded to the agricul-
tural productions of America, reminding the farmers
that it was not too much to ascribe the prosperity of
England, and especially of her manufactures, to the
millions of bales of cotton which America sent over to
her. If they desired more, his countrymen would grow
more and more to supply that demand, and to cultivate
those relations of increased friendship which the cotton
trade was calculated to promote. There was no danger
for a century or two, at least, of the demand on the one
side or the supply on the other failing, notwithstanding
the production of Egypt, India, and Western Africa.
He was informed that the exports of cotton from Alex-
andria was 500,000 bales, a large amount certainly,
compared with the crop grown in America, which was
300,000. In 1860 this amount would have another
million added to it, and in Egypt the productive ground
was covered by the plant, so that the land of the Pha-
roahs and Ptolemys would not interfere in this respect
with the land of the Washingtons. His Excellency
having referred to tobacco—of which they grew in the
States 200,000,0001 b.—said that when a wet season, or
any extraordinary and unpropitious event rendered it de-
sirable for this country to call on the Americans for their
eatables, they would produce them to any extent. Of rice,
which was in itself the aliment of one-third of the human
race, his countymen produced 200,000,001 b. ; of wheat,
100,000,000 bushels ; and of maize, or Indian corn—
that which came to the relief of the Irish people during
the famine-600,000,0000 bushels per year. The soil of
England contained, he believed, 46,000,000 of acres, but
in the United States there were of public lands alone
belonging to the Government, and ready for sale,
1,370,000,000 of scree. A political philosopher had once
predicted that England could not support 10,000,000,
and she had now doubled that number; but if her popu-
lation went on increasing he invited her agriculturists
to come over and visit the United States, and to stay
as long as they pleased, for they would find a hearty
welcome there. (Cheers and laughter.) Besides the
vast' numbers of their countrymen now settled in the
United States, amounting to nearly 1,000,000 from Ire-
land, and 250,000 from England—he bade them re-
member that its constitution and laws were such that
any individual who came among them, attached to good
morals and in the practice of them, might attain nearly
every political distinction, and certainly would acquire
every social right possessed by him here. (Cheers.) His
Excellency then referred to ships, which, he said, were
drawn from the primeval forests as much as corn was
drawn from agriculture, and which was now bridging
over the ocean, rendering the
,voyage between England
and America so short that no one hesitated to take it,
and so agreeable that no one found it otherwise than
delightful. In a country like his, where there was
abundance of soil to he found, and where science and
art as applied to agriculture were eagerly cultivated,
they would always be proud to emulate the farmers of
England, who stood at the head of the agriculture of
the world. (Cheers.) His Excellency concluded by
giving as a toast "The Royal Agricultural Society."
Sir M. RIDLEY having proposed, in very complimen-
tary terms, " the health of the President."
Lord ASHBURTON responded.
The Earl of HARROWBY spoke to the toast of the
"Labouring Classes," pleading, with much earnestness,
their claims to be more cared for, better housed, and
better educated. Their increased intelligence would
raise their efficiency as workmen, and enable employers
to meet that great change in the labour market which
was now in progress.
Sir R. MURCHISON, K.S.A. said, he saw that they
were all very well acquainted with " Sam Slick," and
he would therefore give "Agricultural societies through-
out the world," and calling on Judge Halliburton to
respond to the toast.
Judge HALLIBURTON returned thanks for the welcome
with which the company greeted him, and which was,
even for the society's pavilion, unusually cordial. He
said that it was customary to give some "notice of mo-
tion" in such cases, and, if he had received it, he would
have come a little more prepared, though perhaps he
would not have made so natural a return. He compli-
mented Sir Roderick Murchison on his scientific ac-
quirements which had enabled him to predict the gold
fields of Australia, at which thousands of their country-
men were now digging, while the farmers of England
supplied them with food. Politicians claimed for them-
selves the merit of the high prices, but politics were not
the bread of life. (Loud cheers.) During the war, when
high prices raised up the farmer, it was because the un-
productive class were so numerous—because the army,
the navy, and the number of people in the public em-
ployment had to be fed. The same unproductive class
has again arisen, though from different causes ; and let
L not politicians take the whole credit of the results to