The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-23 00:00:00

MA.NCHESTE Et ANI) LIVERPOOL
APRICISI:4TITRAL SOCIETY.
(Abridged fro n the
Mirtehester Courier.)
in The
the large roeT,. *
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oining the Palatine Hotel (Mr.
genera'
room, which is a e used as a riding school. The
fitted uft .
'most commodious one, was elegantly
p for
.., 'occasion. It contained 11 cross tables,
and the prir.,,ipal table (at which sat the Noble Chair-
man), ran tire entire length of the room.
The chai:r was taken by the Right Hon. Lord Stanley
at ha'neptest four o'clock. Upwards of 400 gentlemen
sat "own to dinner, and smonfist them we observed Mr.
J. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. IVilliam Brown, M.P., who
seepported the chair right and left; the Mayor of Man-
ethesfer (Mr. E. Armitage), Sir Richard Brooke, Sir
Thomas J. de Trafford, Mr. Humphrey de Trafford, Mr.
fee'e'il Trafford, Sir John Duckworth, Mr. J. Duncuft,
M.P., Mr. Mark Philine, late M.P. for Manchester; Mr.
Jithn Moore, F.L.S., 111 r. G. W. Ormerod, F.G.S., Sir
Benjamin Heywood, Mr. Peter Clare, Mr. C. J. S.
Witter, Lf-r. T. Hempson (etewttrd to the Earl of Wil-
ton), Mr. S. Br3zlce, Mr. Sowler, Mr. J. Neilson, Mr.
base Picton, Mt.'Comeniseioner Jemmett, Mr. J. Con-
sterdi.ne, Mr. J. Ireland Blackburne, Colonel Brooker,
Mr. T. Townley Ratite; Mr. Josias Booker, Liverpool;
Mr. fieeßooker, Liverpool; Mr. J. Wagstaff, Warrine-
tone Mk P. Ainsw, orth, Balton; Captain Blackburn, Mr.
Anderson, the committee of the society, the judges at
the exhibition (w hose names will be found above), &c.The clott h*
remoe
The Nobi.eA AIRMAN roved' and proposed " The
health of }•.ett most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria." —(Cheer a) er
e He need not say this toast was to be drunk
with th tee times three.---(lieemendous cheering.)
1145 Lojtpsezie shortly after rose, and proposed "The
hee'ith of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Prince
Albert, the Pritece of Wales, and the rest of the Royal
The Noble CILAIRMAN next said, he had now to pro-
Terse "The health of the Gallant Defenders of this
'country—the Army and Navy." It was now, he be-
lieved, a period of somewhere about thirty-three years
since tlfts country was exposed to all the vicissitudes, to-
gethereaVith the triumphs, of a great and general war-
fare; and since that period our troops had been, in the
eye of the woell, eompera ively unemployed. He did
not mean to say that in both services there had not been
gallant exploits performed, which showed that neither
British soldiers nor sailors had degenerated in their
prowess or efficiency and valour. The 'tailor had been
well and arduously tried in the conflicts on the coasts of
Africa and with the pirates of the East Indian seas, and
-the prowess of the British arms had been gallantly and
manfully sustained on the continent of India under
Heardinge and Gough, and other less distinguished but
not less deserving names, who had led them uniformly
to success—(Cheers)—and victory—(Renewed cheers)
—and he thought it was not in these days of economy
and demand for every possible retrenchment—it was not
unbecoming that, in a great assembly like that which he
had the honour to address, he should remind them that
there was no army in the world which performed in time
of general and profound peace the same amount of harass-
ing duty which fell upon and was cheerfully discharged
Ity the British soldier.—(Hear.) The plan which the
military authorities had always been desirous of acting
upon was, that the soldier should have five years of ser-
vice at home for every ten years of service upon a
foreign station ; but to this maximum they had never
been able to attain, and ordinarily it happened that regi-
ments coming home from foreign countries, the skeletons
of what the z were, were again sent out to bear the vicis-
th4udes of BAtish tropical colonies within a period of
'three years after returning from foreign service of four-
risen or fifteen years. At this moment the British army
for this country, for all its widely-extended colonies—
about foly in number, besides the continent of India—
barely et ceeded in amount the force which France kept
on foot for the occupation and management of the
French possessions of Algeria alone.—(Hear.) He
thought this fact was in itself eafßcient to show that
there was little reason, and still less wisdom and policy
on the part a those who, looking at figures and sums of
money,alone, oomplained of the amount and expense of
,the Biltish naval and military force.--(Hear.) He
called on them to drink the toast he proposed—" The
Army and Navy of this country."—(Loud cheers.)
The Cleeenetiet then rose and said,—Gentlemen, I
rise to propose to you a bumper toast, and in offering to
r, - the toast of " Prosperity to the Liverpool and Man-
*Nester AgricultuwAl Society," I must begin by express-
ing the pleasure which I feel at finding myself called
Upon to presicleitver the first meeting of this united so-
ciety, and at finding realised an object in which I have
ktag felt a deep interest,—being convinced that the
union of these societies would tend to the mutual ad-
vantage df both of them, and also would tend to effect
that which is the object of all societies like the present
—an increase of competition and a stimulus to exertion.
The Liverpool Agricultural Society had been in exist-
eifele for a period of eighteen years, during which I have
had the honour of holding the situation of president of
that society—(Heass hear)—and for the last few years,
white I have watched with the deepest interest—an in-
terest shared I am sure by many around me, and I may
d with the greatest satisfaction, the progress which
that society had made, and the improvements effected in
the district to which it belonged, which were mainly at-
tribtetable to the exertions and influence of the society—
when I noticed the advancement which has been made
by the practical application of science in the cultivation
of the land—l have yet felt for the last few years a grow-
ing conviction that great advantage would be gained if
the sphere of the operations of that society were extended
by its amalgamation with its elder sister—the Man-
chester Agricultural Association.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I would not be supposed to mean to undervalue the ex-
ertions or the efforts of small local agricultural
societies. —(Hear, hear.) On the contrary, in the in-
fancy of agricultural improvement, or rather at the
earliest period of that spirit of competition and enter-
prise that leads to agricultural improvement, I should
almost go the length of saying that the smaller the range
of the society the greater the prospect of its being bene-
ficial by leading to improvements (Hear, hear)
because every man is more willing
to enter into com-
petition with a small number of rivals, of whose capacity
he is able to form a more correct estimate; lead many a
man will enter into competition with a small society who
would be disinclined to enter the lists with one whose
range was of a more extended character.—(llear hear.)
But the spirit of rivalry once excited and brought
icto action, the exteulon of the range of the society,
in my judgment, tends to increase the amount of
the stimulus, and the extent of the competition.--
(II ar, hear.) It briny the competitor intoi contact
with his neighbour, and into a range of an infinitely
superior description to that which it was in his power to
attain in his own less limited range; and his views and
feelings being thus raised he makes efforts towards a
higher scale of excellence, and those efforts must ever
be succeeded by the attainment of the object which the
competitor has in view. I think too, that great advan-
tepees are derived by the localities in which meet-
ings of such societies are held, and that great advantage
results to a place from having acme society connected
writh it.—(Cheers.) I am sure it is impossible to see
the effects which were produced, locally, by any of the
peelings of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,
without teeing convinced that the peripatetic nature
of the society, if I may so call it, does materially
add to the improvement of agriculture generally.—
(Cheers.) Therefore, gentlemen, tor these and other rea-
sons I have long been, as I have said, anxious to see a
union effected between these two societies.—(Cheers.)
Irf joMee to • see it effected, and under, I hope, favourable
air-plots for its future success.—(Cheers.) Trifling
difficulties, of course, there must be; no doubt some
little jealousies will occur, and some difficulties will have
to be smoothed over and removed in the spirit of mutual
accommodation. But if that spirit exists generally
amongst the subseeibers of the society which I believe
does exist, the result, I cannot hesitate to believe, will
be productive of interest and :advantage both to the two
societies ehemselves and to the united district over
which their joint exertions are to extend.—(Cheers.)
I cannot, gentlemen, think, whatever others may do,
that a great commercial town like Manchester is an
unimportant situation for the holding of a meeting of
a great agricultural society.—(Cheers.) None know
better than the agriculturists and the manufacturers—
and I speak in the presence of both elassea belong-
ing to Lenoashire and Cheshire—how much they are
dependentlent on each other for their mutual prosperity
and succes.s. Tho agriculturist well knows that the
prosperity of the manufacturing and coin nercial districts
and the well-heing of trade, secures good customers, an
abundant market and favourable prices. The manufac-
turer knows as well, that if by a visitation of Providence
the harvest of this country should be deficient, the con-
sequences inunt be not only dangerous to the agricul-
turist, but must also injuriously affect him and his best,
hie mast extensive, and his nearest market.—(Cheers.)
Therefore the interests of agriculture and commerce are
intimately connected in this great country, and I think
it a most appropriate place for the first meeting of this
united Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society
to be held in--this, the great metropolis of British
manutactures.—(Loud cheers.) Again, gentlemen,
there is• one great advantage, I think, of peculiar pro-'
priety, in the society meeting here, because it is not to
be denied that the-neighbourhood of these emit towns,
the neighbourhood of these constant and opulent markets,
that the facilities for the cultivation of land afforded
by these great towns and these markets, give them-
selves a great stimulus and assistance in the spread
and carrying out of agricultural operations. —(Hear.)
Gentlemen, I must be permitted to express some doubt
whether 1t this respect the ?sericulturel interest was
sufficiently alive to
of these larg. towns or sufficiently aware of the im-
portant benefits which they •
(Hear)--e e„0„. might. derive from them—
commercialwnether •
, in the neighbourhood of greet
towns, like similar character, there ]Manchester and others of a
by the neighbouring far are the same advantages taken
them of a due expenditure
of the facilities afforded to
perhaps, but not an extrava capital, and an expensive.
—(Hear, hear.) I
see in
ihteiseut cultivation of the land.
of small plots of land ; theneighbeurhood occupiers
farmers at all ; they are not y ceen scarcely be called
cultivaeien of the soil. on Leaking e mainly on the
duce of the soil for theiraendmost of the pro-
trust far too much to the casual empl,
lisluipport ; they
and carts in carting coal for their boeutrts of horses
operations connected with the labour of h
oper • in other
, and
in supplying the towns of this kingdom with milk, the
produce of cows fed undrained, rushy, ill-cultivated
firms.—e Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have no hesitation
in seying, tha h t t..e agriculturists in the neighbour-
,
hood of these great manufacturing and commercial
towns, if they desire to thriven, must change their system
—they must apply themselves to make the most of their
.11.nd—(Cheers)—and, to make the most of their land,
theY must adopt the legitimate means of farming it, of
cultivating it, and of manuring it, as it ought to be
drained, cultivated, and ma.nured. And for this, perhaps,
they in the immediate vicinity of a great town like Man-
chestier enjoy advantages which no other portion of the
Community has. Oa the subject of drainage, gentlemen,

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