The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-18 00:00:00

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THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday the show-yard of the society was thronged
with visitors brought down to Windsor by excursion
trains running every half' hour, -at reduced fates, from _„,,
I the Waterloo and Paddington stations. The prize cell-
nisls were all examined with immense interest, and the
display generally appeared to excel in attractiveness that
of any former year. The society's meeting has lost
nothing in popular estimation from the absence of the
agricultural implements, and even the increased time '`,,'-,
during which the stock has remained open for inspection
has not been found to exhaust public curiosity. Not-
withstanding the excellence of the situation chosen fore
this annual fete, and the success with which it has been, ,
attended, it may now be fairly regarded as a subject of
regret that it was not held- more in the immediate ettee
, vicinity of London. Had such an arrangement been
mado the inhabitants of the metropolis, and the im-
mense number of strangers at present sojourning
among us, would have been equally accommodated,
the funds of the .society would have been greatly
benefited, and a more complete opportunity would
have been afforded for examining a display of
stock unprecedented both in its variety and its ex-
cellence. That display is now over, and all that remains
of it is the impression which it leaves upon the mind of,
the bounty of nature in supplying to the agricultural
system of this country such extensive and admirable
breeds of stock. For each description of land, for each
diversity of vegetation and, climate, we shall find au
adaptation distinctly provided. The Cotswold-hills and
the chalk downs, and the rich pastures of the midland
counties, and even the coarse grasses of cur Welsh and
northern mountains, are all remembered in that wise
and beneficent variety of sheep stock which the show-
yard at Windsor illustrates. In cattle the same law ia
more or less discernible. The North Devons, the Short-
horne, the Herefords, and all the other kinds exhibited,
develop severally a peculiar fitness for the districts
whence they chi( fly come. Yet in none is the aptitude
for certain localities so stringent that it does not admit
of ample relaxation to meet the exigencies of markets
and the wants of a comprehensive system of agriculture.
In this remarkable year, when every branch of human
industry takes stock for the past and girds itself for
new efforts during tea future, we earnestly trust that
the farmers of this country will direct their attention
more fully than they have hitherto done to the endless
diversities of practice, tempered always with a due re-
gard to the circumstances of soil and climate with which
obsmtinaantyeloythpeerrs-
Nature provides them. The display in the Home Park
to which language
at Windsor establishes with a force
cannot do suffiCient justice, the folly of
severing in any one course of agricultural management
which has ceased to be profitable when so
present themselves which, judiciously carried cut, may
lead to satisfactory results. Farming, like every occu-
pation in life, has its lines of divergence, along which
men must choose with discretion their path, for there is
no royal rood to success now which the uneducated and
the enlightened, the duped and the sagacious, the needy
and the well-provided, can all alike travel with confi-
dence. The repeal of the corn-laws has stopped up the
only, thoroughfare which had acquired that reputation,
and if, as a consequence of that great change, wheat has
ceased to be remunerative, our agricultural practice mast
be modified and altered until the disturbed balance
of the markets is restored in our favour. It is not
within the province of the journalist to indicate what
course should be adopted, but looking at the varied fea-
tures of the cattle show just terminated, one cannot help
thinking that an occupation which presents so many
alternatives and choices in manufacturing the food of
the people must alone bo dependent for its permanent
prosperity upon the independent energy and skill with
which each man pursues its acts. Impressed with this
conviction, wo are anxious to see the Royal Agricultu-
ral Society extending its influence among the mass of
our practical farmers. It has outlived an infancy ren-
dered doubtful by the patronage of the great, whose hu.
mours and jealousies had to be conciliated in return. In.
its council and management some of the ablest and most
enterprising of our agriculturists have gradually gained
a secure footing. Traces of toadyism and clique influ-
ence still remain, however; these will not be finally re-
moved until further steps are taken to secure the co-
operation and sympathy of the tenantry as a body, and
to make them regard the society less as an association of
amateurs, and more as identified with their own interests
and progress.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at one
o'clock yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court the Earl of Derby had an audience of
the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the ensigns of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter worn by his lather,
the late Earl of Derby.
Count Buol-Schaunstein, Envoy Extraordinary, and
Minister Plenipotentiary from his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of Austria, delivered his credentials from his
Sovereign. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston. G.C.8., the Queen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies.

Mr. Sheriff Robert Walter Carden, and Mr. Sheriff
George Edmund Hodgkinson were presented to the
Queen by Viscount Palmerston (officiating for Sir G.
Grey, the Hume Secretary), when her Majesty was
graciously pleased to confer the honour of knighthood
on both Sheriffs.

Lord Harris was presented to the Queen on his return
from abroad, by Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High.
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chan- '
cellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries of State for
the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the First Lord
of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to tho
Prince.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. Charles Earl of Sefton to be Lord-Lieutenant of
the county of Lancaster, his Lordship took the cus-
tomary oaths.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
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The Marquis erLansdowne had an audience of her
Majesty.
The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the
Household, Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing; Lord Elphinstoce, Lord in Waiting; and Sir Ed-
ward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Helens, and attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr,
Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour, visited the Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations yesterday morning. Her Ma.
jesty and the Prince remained one hour at the Exhibi.
tio ,n and then returned to Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent -visited her
Majesty yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting
and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding of the
Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at
three o'clock at the Palace of Westminster, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel F. 11. Seymour. ,
The Commissioners present were, the Earl of Carlisle,
Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, and
Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart.

The Secretary, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, and Mr. Au-
brey Bezzi were in attendance.
The meeting broke up at five o'clock.
Prince Arthur and the Princess Louisa took an airing
in an open carriage and four yesterday.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice and
the Princess Helena, and attended by the Countess of
Mount Edgecumbe, took a drive in an open carriage
and four yesterday afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy
and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour attended on horse.
back.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence last evening. The royal
suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe,
the Hon. Amelia Murray, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord
Elphinstone, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutent-Colonel
F. 11. Seymour.
Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham
Palace after dinner on Wednesday evening, and played
tho following pieces:—
Overture
Romance L'Enfant Prodigue Auber.
Chesur et Couplets
Finale, First Act, " Zauberflote" Mozart.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Lord
James Murray, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with
her presence yesterday evening.
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Oxford University Commission had a meeting
at the Colonial-office.
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yesteyesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
rday,
in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Her. H. G. Liddell,' J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev.
Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the
Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary).

BATTY'S HIPPODROME AT KENSINGTON.--This
extensive circle, it is gratifying to hear, is now daily attended
by the most respectable assemblages; and the exertions of
one of the most popular caterers for the amusement of the
multitude is earning that success which he so richly deserves
for his skill and enterprise. The unrivalled horsemanship
and the wonderful feats which aro performed at the Hippo-
drome justly entitle the establishment to be considered as
among the first places of interest to be seen by holiday me-
tropolitans or country visitors.
MISS CATHERINE HAYES.—Madlle. Hayes 144 08./K
arrived in Paris, previous to her professional trip to New ,r,•3
York, for which she has refused very
and Scotland. " brilliant offers, both on
the continent, and in England,
Madlle. Hayes is under a peremptory engagement to return
Ireland,
from America in the winter, having signed a contract to a?.
pear in January at Rome, where, since her triumphs of last
winter, they will not hear of any other prima donna....
Galignani.