The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-16 00:00:00

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CHELMSFORD, TUESDAY NIGHT.
The streets of this pretty little country town have to-
day been full of life and bustle at the commencement of
the great annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England. Every inn is full of strangers ; all
the beds in the town will be occupied to•night ; for this
! occasion choice stocks of wine have been ordered from
famous metropolitan houses, and dire has been the
" slaughter of poultry and the ravages in all the market
gardens for miles. Flags and banners are streaming in
every public place, and deck the house front of many a
tradesman. Triumphal arches occasionally meet the
sight, and plentiful displays of flowers or evergreens.
In fact, the people of Chelmsford make the most of this
opportunity, and well they may.
Amongst the foreign visitors here at present are—M.,.
Eugene Tisserond, commissioner from the French Go-
vernment; M. Eugene Garean, a member of the Corps
Legislatif ; M. Villiers de Pite, Chamberlain to the
King of the Belgians, and member of the Chambre des
Etats Generaux ; M. de Guiguis d'Eclepers, Chateau de
Guiguis, Canton de Vaud ; M. Dutrone, Conseiller
Honeraire a la Cour d'Appel d'Amiens; M. Bortin; the
Baron de Keusch, deputy from the Agricultural Society
of. Belgium ; the Count de Dandle, Count Andre
Zamoyski, M, Allier, Count Arley, M. Bunsen, son of
Chevalier Bunsen, Baron George de Cotta, Baron Wal-
lingmer, and M. de Treb.
Among the English visitors I may mention the Earl of
Macclesfield ; Sir J. Y. Buller, M.P. ; Sir E. K,rrison,
Bart., M.P. ; Sir J. 0,-de Bart. ; Colonel Fitzroy ,
Colonel Weston ; Sir J. Paxton, M.P. ; Mr. Miles,
M.P. ; Mr. T. Baring, M.P.; and the Hon. Edwin
Lascelles, M.P.
We have said that the meeting commeroei to-day, and
properly so it did ; but there have been trials going on
for several days past in the implement department, al-
though the show-yard has been closed to public view.
It is a field adjoining the railway embankment, about 17
acres in extent, of which 10 acres are set apart far im-
plements and seven for stock: For the trial of imple-
meek's three pieces of "light land," belonging to the
Bishop's Hall Farm, a few minutes' walk from the
show-yard, have been allotted, about 26 acres ; and of
" heavy land," for the same purpose, about 12 acres
-have been engaged upon the Patching Hall Farms,
Broomfield, at a convenient distance from the show-
yard.

I Of the cattle department we can say notiing to-night,
since it will not be open for inspection until to-morrow.
The implement yard has been open to-day, on pay-
ment of 2s. ed., but the visitors have been fewer than
usual. There are a multiplicity of strange looking ma-
chines to gaze and wonder at. The most conspicuous
are the reaping machines, among which is M'Cormick's,
with the various improvements made in it since its first
introduction into this country at the Great Exhibition
of 1851, and with which it is now recommended to far-
mers as "a machine which can be depended upon."
Thrashing machines, drilling machines, lift and Lorca
pumps, churns, carts, clod crushers, and every conceiv-
able variety of agricultural implement are collected on
this spot ; bit perhaps there is less novelty than in for-
mer years, the collection being rather male up of " im-
provements" and "combinations" than of inventions
entirely new.

The thrashing machines, the tile and brick mae'liues,
and the saw and other mills, were exhibited at work for
a couple of hours by steam ; and chaffcutters, tile ma.
chines, mills, turnip-cutters, oil-cake breakers, winnow.
ing machines, barley-pummelling, and other implements
were also worked by band for the same period ; but, all
though, doubtless, there was a great deal in them worth
observation, there was ge❑erally such an equality of
excellence among the competing machines as to render
it not very easy to allude to one without doing injust,ice
to the others. They will be worked again to-morrow,
and a second visit may warrant a more decided opinion
of their respective merits.
The number of stands in the implement yard is 147 ;
some of them containing nearly 200 articles.
It should be added that a large proportion of the im-
plements exhibited are not competing for the prizes,
which are this year, for the first time, confined to one
class, namely, to that of field implements.
The following gentlemen are the stewards of the de-
partments : —Cattle—Mr. Wood ward, Sir Stafford Henry
Northcote, Bart.. M.P., Mr. Jonas. Implements—Mr.
Cavendish, Mr. Wren Heskyn., Sir Archibald Keppel
Macdonald, Bart. Poultry—Mr. Joseph Cooke, Mayor
of Colchester. Finance—Colonel Challoner, Mr. Fisher
Hobbs. Sale of Tickets—Mr. Henry Wilson. Receipts
and admission to show-yard—Mr. Raymond Barker.
Dinner—S'r John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., Sir
John Villiers Shelley, Bart., M.P., Mr. Bramston,
M.P., Mr. Brandreth. General arrangements of show
—Mr. Brandreth Gibb 3.

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