The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

"health of her Majesty the Queen"—a toast which he
said had ever been received by the members of the Royal
Agriculture' Society of England—and, indeed, by every
other public meeting—with the enthusiasm which it so
well deserved.—(Cneers.) He trusted that she might
long reign over a great, a free, an enlightened, a moral,
a religious, and, therefore, a happy and a constitutional
people.—(Cheere)—and that it might please the great
Creator of the universe long to guard and protect a life
eo justly dear to her subjects.—(Cheers.) They were
met there that day by the kind and gracious permission
of their Sovereign, under the walls of the ancient Castle
of Windsor, hallowed by its historical recollections.—
(Cheers.) They were also not far distant from that
great seminary of learning, the College of Eton, whence
had issued many of the most eloquent statesmen, the
most pious divines, and also (he might be Vermitted to
say as an old soldier) many brave and heroic warriors,
both by sea and land.--(Cheerik) Lea would mention
among these the name of one of the 4roatest generals of
this or. any former age—his Grace the Duke of Welling-
ton.—(Cheers.) He called on them to give three hearty
British cheers to the toast which he had preposed—
cheers which might be re-echoed from the turrets of
Windsor Castle—(Cheers)—that would prove to her
Majesty that the agricaltueists of this empire over had
and ever would be loyal and Et17013.U0115 supporters of the
institutions of our fatherland, and devoted to the person
of her Most Gracious Mejesty.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with immense enthusiasm.
The Duke of RICHMOND then rose and said, that in
the presence of the illustrious Prince, who had for the
second time honoured the society with his presence, it
would ill become him to say more then that they were
most obliged to his Royal Highness for coming among
them.—(Cheers.) They were most obliged to him for
the continued and anxious support which he had given
to the Royal Agricultural Society, and he was only
speaking the sentiments of the meeting, and that of the
great majority of the people of England, when he said
that they felt most deeply grateful to his Royal Highness
for the example of domestic virtues which he had set,
and which bad made the home of their beloved Queen the
abode of comfort and of happiness.—(Cheers.) lle
coupled with the toast the health of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales and the other breeches of the
Royal Family, who he trusted would act up to the prin-
ciples instilled into their youthful minds, and would
prove a blessing to their fatherland, an ornament to
their station, end a comfort to their illustrious parents,
whose steps be hoped they would follow.—(Cheers.)
He was sure that by the manner in which they received
the toast proposed by him, the company would show his
Royal Highness that he was surrounded by the farmers
of England, and that their cheers would be as their
actions, loud and straightforward.—(Cheers.)
His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, who was re-
ceived with immense enthusiasm, said My Lord
Duke—my Lords and,Gentlemen,—l cm very sensible
of the honour which you have done me in proposing my
health, and I can assure you, gentlemen, that the kind
way in which you have responded to the toast will never
be forgotten by me.—(Cheers.) Some years have already
elapsed since I last dined with you in this migratory
pavilion; and I am glad that you should have pitched it
this day under the walls of Windsor Castle, and that I
should myself have an opportunity of bidding you a
hearty welcome is the Hoine-parle.—(Cheers.) Your
encampment singularly contrasts with that which the
barons of England, the feudal lords of the land, with
their retainers, erected round Old Windsor Castle, on a
similar mead, though not exactly in the same locality.—
(Cheers.) They came then clad in steel, with lance
and war-horse. You appear in a more peaceful attire,
and the animals you bring with you to the meeting are
the tokens of your successful cultivation of the arts of
peace. King John came trembling amongst his subjects,
unwillingly compelled to sign that great charter which
has ever since been your birthright.—(Cheering.) Your
Sovereign came confiding among her loyal and loving
people; she came to admire the results of their industry
and to encourage them to persevere in their exertions;
and the gratification which the Queen has felt at the
sight of your splendid collection must, I am sure, be
participated in by all who examine it.—(Cheers.) I am
doubly pleased at this success, not only because it is wit-
nessed by the many visitors from foreign lands now
within our shores, whom every Englishman must wish to
inspire with respect for the state of British agriculture
—(Cheers)—but also because I feel, to a certain degree,
personally responsible for having deprived you of one,
generally most interesting, feature of your show—l
mean the field fruits, and the agricultural machines and
implements. Though separated from your collection,
they are seen to great advantage in another royal park
—(Cheers)—and you will have been glad to hear, that
whatever the difficulty may have been in deciding upon
the superiority of the works of industry and art sent to
the Crystal Palace, by the different nations of the earth,
the British agricultural implore-eats are acknowledges
by common consent to stand there almost without a rival.
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Let me now use the privi-
lege which your President has allowed me to enjoy, in
proposing to you as a toast Prosperity to the Royal
Agricultural Society.'—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
To its exhibitions, the means of comparison which
they have afforded, and the emulation which they have
stimulated we owe to a great extent the progress which
British agriculture has made of late.—(Cheers.) To
this society belongs the honour to have been cne of the
first to appreciate the value of such exhibitions, and to
have, from the beginning, liberally and fearlessly ad-
mitted all competitors without restriction. I drink,
Prosperity to the Royal Agricultural Society."' His
Royal Highness resumed his seat amidst loud applause.
The Duke of RicamoteD proposed the " Health of the
Foreign Ministers," coupling with it that of his Excel-
lency the Belgian Ambassador.
M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, who was
received with loud cheers, said that it was with feelings
of deep gratitude ho rose on behalf of his colleagues
and of himself, to return their most sincere thanks
for the manner in which their health had been re-
ceived by the present company. He could assure them
that among the various foreign visitors who had come
to their shores there was not ono who had not by their
kind reception felt himself perfectly at home. lie might
well be allowed to speak on the present occasion, as it
had been from Flemings that bad been taken the very
modes of their scientific and ordinary agriculture. The
day had, indeed, long passed away since a messenger
had been sent over to Flanders to provide a salad
for the Royal table. The agricultural system of the
Flemings had, however, been the object of one of the
first publications of the society, in the communications
read by the Rev. Mr. Rham. Proud as Belgians were
to claim the title of being the oldest practical farmers in
Europe, and boasting as they did, with what justice the
meeting before him beet knew, that they were still the
foremost in certain most important points of agriculture,
he acknowledged they all still looked up to England and
to the society whose successful labours in struggling for
preeminence they all admitted to have been the result
of their industry and psrseveraeoe. By the established
relations between the citizens of Belgium and of Eng-
land they were now intimately allied, more particularly
by the connexion which existed between the two Royal
Families of the kingdoms of Belgium and of England, and
which was in effect an union of habits, of tastes, of in-
dustry, and of similar institutions. Instead of contain-
ing diplomatic dispatches, the red boxes that now were
sent from the Minister here to his Court abroad often
contained but remarks on agriculture and stock in Eng-
land, After an eloquent and very effective speech, which
was the more remarkable as coming from a foreign Mi-
nister,
his Excellency concluded by proposing in the
most flattering and eulogistic terms the " health of the
Duke of Richmond."—(Cheers.)
The Duke of RICHMOND returned thanks. He was
proud of being the President, and though many more
able than himself should have occupied the post, there
was no one who more deeply felt an interest in the agri-
cultural welfare of that great country. Ile was proud,
too, in being enabled to introduce to his Royal Highness
so many intelligent, honest, and straightforward tenant
farmers. He considered there never had been an occa-
sion on which there had been so many animals of the
first class congregated together. The judges bad not
commended his stock, but still he would follow the
example of one of the most successful exhibitors, and if
beaten now he would try to be successful next year at
Lewes. His Grace, after a lenghthened address, which
was highly applauded, wished the agriculturists better
times, and called en

Lord PORTMAN, who rose to propose "Agriculture,
Manufacture, and Commerce," which he did in a very
able, argumentative, and amusing speech, showing, with
much clearness and ability, the connexion between the
different subjects of the toast he proposed. Ho was in-
trusted with a toast that was in effect " the earth and all
that therein is." The glass they drank from, the knife
they used, the plate which held their food, were all made
by the manufacturer from material supplied by the mer-
chant, who had brought for their use the products of
different portions of the globe. To those who had come
there by rail he needed not to speak of the utility of iron,
nor to agriculturists was it neceasary to speak of the
uses of glass; there was, however, in another royal park
a combination of iron and glass which was new not only
in its uses, but which had taught them all to live in unison,
in harmony, and peace. Our daily life testified to the
fact that commere was the link which bound the
etre
capi-
talist and artist to the raw material; that in 1.4
was the work of civilized and intellectual man;ect to man
at.nhuat
agri-
culture was the perpetuity of the work assigned
by the Almighty will. All in that unity,t,..7,..ad,m_iried,
all in that unity they respected; but be re" "u De-
lieved they all did, as the child loved his mother best of
all;so they all loved the earth.—(Great cheering.) They
loved it as their first love; they loved it as the source
whence they sprang, and they regarded it, after the
cares and sorrows of the world were over, as their last
home.—(Cheers.)
He
gave them, " Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Manufactures, and long might they flourish
together."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE the American Minister, whose health
,
was proposed by the
Noble President, returned thanks,
and after some allusions to the ties of consanguinity be-
tween the people of Great Britain and the inhabitant of
the United States, which ho said were felt by all Ame-
ricans with peculiar force on such an occasion—and after
expressing the great satisfaction he felt at being present
at au assemblage like that, held under the walls of the
Castle, which was hallowed to every American eitizni
of English origin by so many rEcolli coons—concludedwith a high culogium on the Duke of IVenniond, and
then gave " The health of the Mayor and Corporation of
Windocor."