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

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Tho Mayor of WINDSOR returned thanks 41 Vt ts
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Mr. MILES, M.P., gave as a toast, "The Steis
the Yard, and the Judges of the Show," in doings
eta/eI:S,A !he '"j
congeatulated the society' upon its mop.
play of stock, and its increete of one-third upore
hers of last year. ljtt!N c:4‘
Mr. FISHER Hones responded, and said that the man-
ner in which the toast had been received went far to as-
sure him the company awarded to him and his brother
judges perhaps the most subsitantial compliment that an
Englishman could pay or receive, viz., the acknowledg-
ment that he had done his duty. After paying a well-
merited compliment to Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the hono-
retry director of the show-yard, Mr. Fisher Hobbs pro-
ceeded to congratulate the society on its splendid show
of stock, whica was not only numerically greater, but
superior in quality to any former show,—(Cheers.) A
great desire was felt among farmers to improve their
breeds of stock, as it was found -that superior animals
were the only ones that would pay, and that it was not
only for the advantage of the producer but of the con-
sumer that those beasts with the smallest amount of
bone and the largest of flesh should be chiefly encou-
raged. —(Cheers.) In conclusion, be trusted that the
judges for 1851 had proved themselves not unworthy of
the great responsibility placed upon thetc.—(Cheers.)
Lord ASHBURTON proposed the partners in the far-
mers' toils, the participators in his gains—" the Agricul-
tural Labourers." Without them the boasted implements
which had for successive days crowded upon their sight
would for the most part remain as profitless as the
metal from which they were made, when it lay hidden
in its native ore fathoms deep under the earth. De-
prived of the labourer, they would be like generals
without soldiers. Nor were the labourers less depen-
dent upon them; it was from the savings husbanded by
their self denial, and the self-denial oi their forefathers,
that they were housed and fed and clothed, and fur-
-1 nished with implements thet multiply an hundredfold
the eflisiency of their work ; without their savings the
labourers must hsvts lived, like New Zealanders, upon
grubs and roots. Alone they would be helpless—alone
the farmer also would be well nigh as helpless ; sepa-
rated he would scarcely raise food to drag on a toil-
worn existence, but united band in hand they raised food
for the Operative and manufacturer, for the artist and
philesopher, for all who deck oar homes with comforts,
for all who center dignity and refinement on the na-
tional character. Without farmers and their capital,
without the labourer and his sinews, these things
could not be. An yet there were those who
the labourer, who called him
rtheodueghatnaligbnhettly ofdish,who
made his ignorance a by-
word, They said he was uneducated because he knew
little of things ahich did not concern his own calling,
but, above all, because he was taught to do, and he was
not taught to talk, because in this land, where we choose
Members of Parliament by their talk and Cabinet Minis-
ters by their talk, a false test of ability, a false test of
knowledge, a false test of education, had been set up,
and by this false test the labourer had been judged. But
it was not by this test, it was not by his words, that
they should judge him. Let them try him by what he
did, and not by what he said. Let them try him by what
he knew of his own business, not by what he knew of
his neighbour's. Put a plough into his hand ; he could
not define a straight line like others taught by rule is
set forms of speech, but he could run a furrow mathema-
tically exact between its extreme points, though they
might be as distant as eye can reach. Was there no
education there? Did they hold that only to be educa-
tion which was to be gained in books?—that only to be
knowledge which was the development of abstract rules
and general ideas? Well, take another case ; give one
of these ignorant peasants a quarter of corn; bid him sow
it over six, or eight, or ten acres. He would not sit
down to pea and ink, and consult books; if he lost hours
at that work the world would forthwith dub him a scho-
lar, and doff its hat to him ; but he wen' straight into
the field, and distritcuted the grain so exactly over
the space assigned that at the harvest they would
see no spot unoccupied, no spot more crowded with
plants than another. Was there no education required
to give so exact an appreciation of quantity, so intimete
a knowledge of the capacity of a given space? Propound
the same problem to a philosopher, and the labourer would
sow a whole farm before the other could make out
his rule, and, when he had his rule, he doubted if he could
ever teach a scholar to apply it. But this was not all. He
came to the knowledge of the art of farming, an art
which had ever formed the delight of the noblest and
most elevated characters of all times—an art which
exacted from those who practised it ;the power of deal-
ing with the incidents, occasions, and emergencies, as
presented by the varieties of the seasons, by the nature
and constitution of domestic animals, by the nature
and properties of plants; an art which elevated and dig-
nified the mind by the perpetual study and constant con-
templation of God's most interesting works. And yet
the labourer so trained, so gifted, was held to be a boor
because he could not talk. But they were not led away
by this eophitna. Whatever they might do on the hust-
ings, whatever they might approve in Parliament, they
had never chosen their shepherd for his talk. They
judged the agricultural labourer by what he could do.
they loved him for his honest worth, they revereiced him
for his sagacity, for the genius of his instincts; and
now, when they were met together in this high fes-
tival, with the magnates of the land, with the distin-
guished in arts and literature of the civilized world—now
teat they had expressed their loyalty to the Throne, their
respect for the illustrious Prince, their patron, and the
patron ot all that elevan d society--now that they had
expressed their gratitude to their distinguished guests
for their presence, to their especial leaders and bene-
factors for their services—they find no toast so satisfac-
tory to their judgment, so grateful to their feelings, as
the toast of the labourer, even though he could not talk.
Mr. E. DENISON, M.P., said he rose, by command, to
propose " the Sister Societies of Agriculture." It had
always been the custom at their annual meetings to speak
with grateful respect of their elder sister, the Highland
•
Society of Scotland, and to offer their cordial greeting to
their younger sister, the Royal Agricultural Society of
Ireland. He was happy to say that these societies re-
ciprocated their good feelings. The best proof of the
value and estimation in which their society was held in
those countries was the increasing numbers which year
by year joined themselves to their body. In the last year
not less than 22 members had enrolled themselves on their
lists. But on the present occasion he asked them to drink
" Success to their fellow-labourers in all places, rind to say
God speed te all societies engaged in promoting the
noble work of agriculture."—(Cheers.) Standit tg as he
did, surrounded by visitors from many of our district
societies and by many distinguished foreigners, he might
urge the toast on the ground of courtesy and becoming
hospitality; but he would press it on wider considera-
tions, in the certain conviction that we might do zt great
deal of good to each other in meetings such as. that,
Could it be doubted that in a business so purely practi-
cal, experiments accurately made, and results carefully
noted, must be of general advantage?—(Hear. bear.)
If ho wished for an instance of the benefit of a wide
range of observation and of the stimulating influence of
this society he would name the case of the guano trade.
Ten years ago the article of guano was unknown for
practical purposes in this country. The work of a Ger-
man professor, noticing the great deposits en tile coast of
Peru, was translated into an early number of thseir Jour-
nal of Agriculture. Loa' Stanley—the Earl of Derby—
(Great cheering)—spoke of it at the L.verpool
meeting.—(Loud cheers for Lord Stanley, which
were repeated again and again.) Amon; t the
many things which the voice of Lord l; itanley,
bad effected it gave its first impetus to the, tr: tae in
guano—a trade which now employed 100,000 .e,ons of
British shipping—(Cheers)—and which produced :a re-
venue of above half a million to the Governor of ;Peru,
from which (ho it said) the British bondholder was- paid
his dividend, for which above 1,000.000!. geeing: was
paid every year in this country; with what r es, tits—
with what increased verdure to our fields and fer til ley to
our crops they knew better than be could t
(Cheers.) Again, the important discovery of disoolving
bones by sulphuric acid was made by a German chen list;
mad following up this discovery there was present an song
them to-day from across the Atlantic a gentleman„ titles
in his eye, who had announced the discovery of a mine-
ral stratum in the state of New York, rich in the WI
compound as that of bones, and which, he was info nate°,
could be brought to our shores at such a price esctiZ
place it within the reach of every farmer.--(Ch'l(6rl,l-:
Ho feared to weary them with these details.-
1..
no.) One other instance ho could not pass °veal
great compliment had within the last few cI,P, a EbetaA.n
..
paid to the society by a powerful sovereigeu -L"
vast demi•
peror of Russia had sent them maps of
nions with the zones marked out upon
,p_..fwwerowupra:l.
trartsaetiona
the various grains—wheat, maize, flax,
(limed, with a gracious intimation that
owth
intoe
. Englishtth also.
of the Russian society, which wesrpoeui printed in. Ras_
d be the Wish of
sian and Gorman, should, if itl tehd
theiiet stoheeime ty,--(near, ear.)
intrinsic importance, still
Let them not undervalue theirnotbehereafter
esteem, of which they less the spirit of goodwill anadvants
advantage had were
resu ted to us
the sure indications.trtabneisra
Onesashed foreign
from the visit of a dis6ngl t into mister this
bad been esome State secrets.—
evening. Theymysterious boxes,
Those
(Laughter.) Th
with so much solemnity from the
which issued forth -
bureaus ot Ministers, big, as t 5 ea supposed with the fate
they now learned often contained only com-
of empires, n shorthorns, H
• „, between, . erns, Herefords and Devons—
parrs° 0
—and carried perhaps a specimen of wools,
(Laughte
long
ad short.—(Laughter.)
Happy the country and happy the times whe diplomatists were so employed.
He hardly knew there y were of so mach importance. Let
them turn these things to their profit.—(Hear, hear.)
They might assist in one great object of the society,
which was to collect into one focus the scattered rays of
intelligence from every side, and turn all to the account
of British agriculture. They would, he trusted, concur
with him in these sentiments, and give proof of it by
the cordial and zealous reception of the toast he had
now the honour to propose, the " Sister Societies of
Agricillture."—(Loud cheers.)
The Marquis of ABERCORN returned thanks.
The " Railway Companies" were then toasted, the
compliment being acknowledged by Mr. TnosesoN.
The " Health of the President elect," proposed by Earl
Powis, closed the proceedings.

FOLKESTONE.—An inquest was held yesterday at
the Pavilion Shades, on the body of William Impett, who
was drowned in the harbour on Monday during the high
wind, whilst endeavouring to regain his cap, which had
blown otT. After hearing the evidence of several persons
who witnessed the accident, the jury returned a verdict of
" Accidentally drowned," at the same time requesting the
coroner to use his influence to procures fixed chain round
the harbour.
AN AGED CLEEGYMAN.—By the death of the Rev.
A. Price, M.A., the valuable rectory of Brightwell Saiame
in the county of Gloucester, and the vicarage of Dom;
Ampney, in the same county, have become vacant. The
tland was for upwards time ofhisdeath, was within a few
of
75
years in
iineove.th6seonfthl Gentleman,
alnOb a
100th year,
the church.