The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-03 00:00:00

i-YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
LEEDS, TLIPRiDAY.—The annual meeting-of`
Yorkshire Agricultural Society was brought to s
close last night, by a public dinner in the New Stock
-Exchange, where a large company sat down to an
excellent and exceedingly abundant entertainment.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle presided ; the
Right Hon. Lord Harewood occupied the vice-chair;
and the guests' tables were surrounded by Lord Gal-
way, the Hon. and Rev, the Dean of Ripon, Sir J. V.
B. Johnstone, W. Beckett, Esq., M.P., the Hon. Mr.
Webster, W. R. C. Stansfield, M.P., Edmund Deni-
son, M.P., J. G. Smyth, M.P., the Mayor of Leeds,
and the principal gentry of the district.
After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, the
Earl of HAREWOOD gave " Success to the Royal
Agricultural Society," which was received with three
times three.

Sir JOHN JOHNSTONE, Bart., M.P., responded in
appropriate terms.
Mr. E. DENISON, M.P., then proposed " The
health of the Noble President," in a speech highly
laudatory of his Lordship's virtues and public
services.

The toast was drunk with applause, again and
again reiterated, and

-The Earl of CARLISLE, on rising to respond, was
most warmly greeted. His Lordship adverted to the
fact that no district and no place was more happily
suited than that in which they were met to enforce
the reconciling and stimulating lesson how much they
all depended on each other, how close and instataneous
a chord of sympathy, quicker even than the electric
chain, connected together the farmer's barn and the
tradesman's till. The Noble Earl then alluded to a
measure which had just passed through Parliament—
a Bill for allowing the borrowing of money by private
individuals for drainage on their own properties. It
was a Bill brought in and suggested by the Duke of
Richmond, to whom the promoters of British agri-
culture always felt a large debt of gratitude. For
the protection of the borrower and of his successor,
and of the remainder men, whoever they may be, there
would be the security of an organized superinten-
dence, that of the Drainage Commission, and of the
execution of the work by skilful and practical inspec-
tors. And for the protection of the person who lent
the money there would be a first charge made on the
property so improved equivalent to the increased
amount of value which had been imparted to
the property. And, as the amount of in-
terest would not exceed five per cent., it was
calculated that by allowing three per cent. addi-
tional, to repay the principal, a sum total of eight per
cent. would pay off both principal and interest in the
course of twenty-two years. The person who was to
succeed to the estate would have the security of com-
petent and practical men that the money would be
well laid out, and that no more would be laid out
than the actual money's worth; and the lender would
then have the security that in the space of twenty-two
years the whole sum, consisting of both principal and
interest, would be repaid to him. The Noble Lord
next glanced at the difficulties to which both the agri-
cultural and manufacturing interests had been ex-
posed, and concluded by expressing his conviction
that better prospects were brightening before them,
and that if there be a determination entered into, with
a humble dependence upon the source of all endea-
vour and of all success—if there be a determination
never to be put down—(Hear, hear)—never to give
way, then he felt confident that their manufactures
would be successful —that their trade would be uni-
versal—their agriculture victorious—the teacher of
new arts, the source of new riches, the dispenser of
new blessings, to every generation of our race.
The meeting was also addressed by Lord Galway,
Mr. W. Beckett, M.P., Mr. J. E. Smyth, M.P., the
Mayor of Leeds (Mr. John Hope Shaw), Mr. James
Brown, Mr. Smith, of Burley, Rutlandshire ; Col.
Tempest, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Ripon,
Mr. John Gott, Mr. H. S. 'Thompson, Mr. R.Creyke,
I and other gentlemen, in the capacity of successful
competitors or the proposers of complimentary toasts,
which included the customary series.

THE COLOSSAL TUBULAR
BRIDGE AT TIIE MENAI STRAITS.
(From the Liverpool Mercury of Tuesday.)
In last Tuesday's paper we endeavoured to describe
our impressions with regard to this most extraordi-
nary, this.unrivalled—we had almost said this incre-
dible work, respecting which, we repeat, no one can
possibly obtain an adequate idea unless he goes to see
it, while it is yet in progress, portions completed, and
portions in the course of formation. The thought of
carrying a railway, with all its moving load of pon-
derous engines and carriages, from one lofty steeple
top to another, and then to another, would hardly
have come within the dream of an opium eater ; but
the actual fact is about to be presented to our asto-
nished gaze, and the beholding of what is already done
towards it is an era in our lives.
We will endeavour to give our readers one sketch
by which they may judge of the daring and magni-
tude of the work. But at the outset we may observe,
that the word " tube" does not convey to the mind
an accurate conception of the hollow passage through
which the railway is to proceed, at an elevation of
more than a hundred feet above the level .of the sea
which it is to cross. The passage is a rectangular hall,
formed of boiler plate iron ; it is an iron box, in tact,
to be suspended in air, and of prodigious dimensions,
as will be conceived from the following homely, but
perhaps graphic suggestion :—Middle class houses in
Liverpool and other towns are often six yards wide
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of one tube ; and the breadth and height will be pretty
accurately imagined, if we suppose all the front apart-
ments of those houses (parlour, drawing-room, and
upper bed•room), to be formed into one, throughout
the entire length. A long and lofty hall it would
certainly be; and yet it would only represent one of
the iron boxes, several of which are to carry the rail-
way from the summit of one tower to another over
the Menai Straits. They will be suspended from
tower to tower, throughout a length of four hundred
and sixty feet, without any central support whatever:
two tubes of this length, and two of a shorter length,
form one line through the air ; and if we imagine a
similar series of halls, formed of the back rooms of a
sufficient number of such houses as above supposed,
we shall have a tolerable idea of the double line of
railway (for the going and coming trains) thus con-
veyed over a space which seemed to forbid the pro-
gress of any such means of transit.
The exact length of each of the four principal tubes
is 472 feet ; the exterior height nearly 30 feet ; the
interior breadth 14 feet. Numbers of persons are
flocking down the railway (the most picturesque line
in the kingdom), from Chester, by Flint, Mostyn,
Rhyl, Abergele, Conway, Aber, and Bangor, to see
the works, and well they are repaid ; while numbers
are, also, arriving by the steam-vessels from Liverpool
to Beaumaris, for the same object. From
the journey is performed by rail within
eight hours.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—A quarterly general court
the chair.;asT;ohlthune %it'll; best
to thepatients,
suited was
theyesterday
visits After
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ert
short discussion
sr hospitald ic u 1
officers
in the course of which it appeared that the hours re-
commended by the medical committee were found in-
convenient by the medical officers, the minutes were
read and confirmed, and the question which had been
raised was postponed for the further consideration of the
weekly board. The collector's report showed that,
from May to August, there have been 33 new sub-
scribers, whose subscriptions amount to 84/. 95., whilst
eight old subscribers, whose subscriptions amounted to
231. 25., have either died or withdrawn, and that con-
sequently there is a balance in favour of the hospital of
711. 7s. The secretary also gave the following list of
alterations in the unpaid legacies since the last court:—
' Lady Caroline Murray, paid 10,000/. Consols; J. Curteis,
Esq., paid 1,000/. sterling; S. Knight, Esq., paid 300/.
sterling, in acknowledgment of which beneaction Mrs.
Crutchley and Me,srs. E Marjoribanks and F. John-
stone, executors of Lady Murray, were elected honoraryort
governors; as were also Mr. J. A. Powell,
jsoliceinty 0
on,
executor Lady Murrayt
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to Mr. Knight. It may be mentioneads
topened, and that
of the proceedings the poor-box
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amongst
there was found in it,
of a pair of crutches,"
"For the use
a sovereign, labelled,donations, ai tniotnhseel,lccoc one o f
more business
to transact, the
being no
patient. There
were voted to the chairman, and
thanks of the meeting_
the business ended
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OF
and concluding volume of this
which has rendered the name of its
P
moat maim'
author a household word, is just published, find contains
the completion of the Diary, a selection from Pepys'
rsilow,Nhoerk,
Correspondence, a mass of new and valuable notes
(nearly 500 in number), and a very copious general
o siCoTtre.L:
index. About two-thirds of this portion of the Diary is
entirely new, and contains many most diverting features
of the writer's domestic life, told in his happiest vein.
The correspondence is full of curious and interesting in-
formation, and the letters on " Second Sight," compris-
ing such marvellous particulars us would seem incredible
if they wt.rQ not so well attested, will attract especial
attention.

THE REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The first aggregate
public meeting of this association will be held on the
evening of Monday, August the 13th, at the Theatre
_ hoyal, Drury-land. A magnificent assembly ib antici-
pated. Sir Joshua IValmsley. M.P., will take the chair
at seven o'clock. Mr. Joseph Hume. M.P., Mr. Milner
Gibson. M.P., Mr. B. Osborne, M.J'., Mr. Geo. Thomp-
son, M.P., and other leading reformers, will address the
meeting. Tickets of admission are to be obtained at the
offices of the association, 1 t, Poultry.
BRITISH ARCkIXOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CUESTER
WEDNESDAY.--Thi, days proceediugs cgmmenced with
as the company raised
an ciumination of the cathedral, illustrated with re-
The piny afttrwards
A.An
ancient structure.
priuteclt,u
re:
proceeded in a special train to visit the ancient castles of
Flint and Conway, on the latter of which an exceedingly
jaterestiDg paper Wils read by ILL J.,
tmharrotsgh by
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