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

Won by half a length.

ROYAL it7;7;.TCULTUR,4L SOCIETY OF
7' ENGLAND,
CHELMSFORD, TUESDAY NIGUT.
The streets of this pretty little country town have tee
day been full of life and hustle at the commeceeno et of
the great annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England. Every inn is fu lof strangers ; all
the beJs in the town will beoceupied 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 ha all the market
gardens for miles. Fiaga 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 cr evergreens.
In fact, the people of Chelmsford Make the most of this
opportunity, and well they may.
Amongst the foreign visitors here at preeent are—H.
Eugene Tisserond, commissioner from the French Ge-
vermnent ; N. Engeee Gareao, a member of the C
Legislatif ; M. Villiers de Pite, Chamberlaia to the
King ef the Belgians?, and metal:el• of tLe Chrouhre des
ELats G±n.eratix ; M. de Gulguie d'Fielepere, C,ateau de
Guieuis, Cantoa do Vaud ; M. Dutrone, Coaseiller
lioncraire a la Cone d.'Appel d'Andens ; M. _Bolin; the
Baron tie Kouch, deputy from the Agricultural Seciety
of Beleiu ; the Count de 'Bendle, Count Andre
Zaruoyski. M. Ailiee Ceunt Arley, M. Bunsen, son f
Chevaliti Bunsen, Baron George de Cotta, Baron WM-
linginer, and M. do Treh.
Among the Enelish visitors I may mention the Earl of
Macclesfl,il t ; Sir J. Y. Butler. M.P. ; Sir E. K,ri-isen,
Bart., 111. P. ; S r J. Ore Bart. ; C .lonel Fi`e.roy ,
Weeton ; Sir J. Paxton, P. ; Mr. Niles,
; Mr. T. Barine; M.P.; and the MM. E iwia
La,celles,

We have said that the meeting Conitne oel to-day, and
properly so it did ; but there have been trials gclog on
for several days past in the imp'ement department, al-
though the show-yard has been closed to puhlic•view.
It is a field adjoining the railway embankment, about 17
aces in extent, of which 10 acres are set apart f irn-
pl,3oelts awl seven for shock. For the trial of imple-
n s three pieces of " light land," belonging to the
Blair p's full Faro, a /ew minutes' walk from the
show-yard, have ben aloiited, about 26i acres; and of
" heavy land," fer the same pdrpose, about 12 acres
have been en;aged upon the Patching Hall Farms,
Broomfield, at a convenient distance from the show-
yard.

Of the cattle department we can say not'iing to-night,
since it will not be open for inspection until tomorrow.
The implement yard has been open today, on pay-
meet of 21. Gd., but the visitors have been tower than
usual. There are a multiplicity of strange .looking ma-
chines to gaze and wonder at. The most conspicuous
are the rsaning machines, among which is M'Cormick's,
with the various improvements made in it since its first
introduction into this country at the Great Exhibitien
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 force
pumps, churn', carts, clod crushers, and every conceiv-
able variety of agricultural implement are toilette I en
this spot ; but pse haps there is less novelty than in for-
mer years, the collection being rather rmele up of " ke-
pi ovements" and " combinations" than of inventions
entirely new.
The thi ashine machines, the tile and brick mati)ires,
and the saw and other mills, were exhibited at work for
a couple of hours l:y steam ; and chaffcutters, tile ma-
chines, mills, turnip-cutters, oil-cake breakers, winnow-
ing machines, barley pummelling, and ether implements
were also worked by hand for the same period ; but, all
though, doubtless, there was a great deal in them worth
observation, there was generally such an equality of
excellence among -the competing machines as to render
it not very easy to allude to one withoet doing inius'-,ice
to the others. They will be worked again to-morrow,
and a second visit may warrant a more decided opinion
of their resp-ctire merits.
The number of stands in the implement yard is 147 ;
some of them containing nearly 200 articles.
It should be aided that a large proportion of the im-
ph meats exhibited are not competing for the prizes,
hich 'are this year, for the first time, confined to one
class, namely, to that of field implements.
The fallowing gentlemen are the stewards of the de-
partments :—Cattle--Mr. Wood ward, Sir Stafford Henry
Northccte, Bart., M.P., Mr. Jonas. Implements—Mr.
Cavendish, Mr. Wren Hoskyns, 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-yardebeMr. Raymond Barker.
Dinner—Sir 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 Gibbs.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING I'HE

WEEK.