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

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The Mayor of WINDSOR returned Clanks
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Mr. Mhaus, M.P., gave as a toast, "The Stew tic eft sessee
the Yard, and the Judge.; of the Show," in doiugees Or,
lit congratulated tho society upon its magnifiade • tt
p'ay of stock, and its increase of ono-third upon the num- • -
hero of last year. •
Mr. FISHER Hones responded, and said that the man-
ner' in which the toast bad been received went. far to as-
sure him the company awarded to him and his brother
-jutiges perhaps the most substantial 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-
rary director of the show-yard, Mr. Fisher Hobbs pro.
ceeded to -congratulate the society on its splendid show
of stock, which was not only numerically greater, but
superior in quality to any former show.—(cheers.) A
groat 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 twit it was not
only for the advantage of the producer but cf the con-
sumer that those boasts with the smallest amount of
bone and the largest of flesh should be ehiefte encou-
raged. —(Cimers.) In conclusion, be trusted :mat the
judges for 1851 had proved themselves not en orthy of
the great responsibility placed upon them.—(Cheers.)
Lord ASHBURTON proposed the partners in the far-
mers' toils, the wrticitaturs in his gains—" the Agricul-
tural Labourers." Without them the boasted implemeuts
which bed for successive days crowded upon their sight
would for the most part Le:main as profitless as the
znetal from which they were made, when it lay hidden
in its netive ore fathoms deep under the earth. De-
prived of the labourer, they would be like generals
without soldiers. No: were the labourers less depen-
dent upon them; it tees from the savings husbanded by
their eelfnienial, and the elf-denial of their forefathers,
that they were housed and fed and clothed, and fur-
nished with implements that multiply an hundredfold
the effisieciey of their work ; • without their ravings the
lebourers must have lived, like NOW Zsulanders, upon
grubs and roots. Alone they would. be helpless—alone
ewe farmer also would be well nigh ae helpless ; eepa-
rated ho would scarcely raise food to drag en a toil-
Wore Existence, but united hand in hand they raised food
for the operative and manufacturer, for the artist and
philosopher, for all who dcek our homes with comforts,
for all who confer dignity and refinement on the na-
tional character. Without farmers and their capital,
without the lubotiret" and his sinews, these things
could not , be. there were those who
theught lieehtly; or the labourer, who called him
rude and ;perish, who
made his ignorance a by-
word. They said he was unedueoted beeaus. he knew
little of things which did not
,coneern his es a calling,
but, above all, because he was agiggt
tr) do, and he was
rot taught to talk, because in this lard;' where we choose
Mstnbers 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, bed 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 hint. 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 in
set firms of speech, but he could run a furrow mathema-
ticaily 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 pen and ink, and consult books; if he lost hours
at that work the world would forthwith dab him a seho-
ler, and doff its hat to him ; but he wens straight into
the field, and distributed the grain so exactly over
the spears assigned that at the harvest they would
sea 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 intimate
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 termed 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
tied properties of plants; an art which elevated and dig-
nified the mind by the perpetual study and constant con-
templation of God's moss 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 sophism. 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 reverenced him
fur his evgaeity, for the genius of his instincts; and
now, whoa. 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
that they had expressed their loyalty to the Throne, their
respect for the illustrious Priuce, their patron, and the
phtron of all that elevated 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 efihr 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 ell places, end to say
God speed to all societies engaged in promoting the
noble work of agriculture."—(Cheers.) Standing 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 a great
deal of good to each other in theetings 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?—(Bear, bear.)
If he wished for au instance of the benefit of a wide
range of observation arid of the stimulating influence of
this society ho 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 on the coast of
Porn, was translated into an early number of their Jour-
nal of Agriculture. Lord Star:ley—the Earl of Derby—
(Great cheering)—spoke of it at the Liverpool
meeting.—(Loud cheers for Lord Stanley, which
were repeated again and again.) Among the
many things which the voice of Lord Stanley
had effected it gave its first impetus to the trade in
guano—a trade which now employed 100,000 tons of
British shipping—(Cheers)—and which produced a re-
venue of above half a million to the Governor of Peru,
from which (be it said) the British bondholder was paid
his dividend, for which above 1,000.0001. sterling was
paid every year in this country; with what results—
with what increased verdure to our fields and fertility to
our crops they know better than he could them.
(Cheers.) Again, the important discovery of dissolving
bones by sulphuric acid was made by a German chemist;
and following up this discovery there was present among
them to-day from across the Atlantic a gentleman, then
in his eye, who had announced the discovery of a mine-
ral stratum in the state of New York, rich in the same
compound as that of bones, and which, ho was informed,
could be brought to our shores at such a prioe as to
place it within the reach of every farmer.—(Cheers.)
Ho feared to weary them with these details.—(ll2
no.) One other instance be could not pass over.
great compliment had within the last few dayse,ber..
paid to the society by a powerful ,sovereign. T"'
parer of Russia had sent them maps of h"" which
domi-
nions with the zones marked out upon
the various grains—wheat, maize, flax,
&c.trassacions
theinwillere pro-
duced, with a gracious intimation that the god in Rua.
of the Russian society, which were now
printed
the wish of
sian and German, should, if it should
into English also.
the society, be hereafter translated.
(ttear, hear
Let them not undervalue these t
hin importane
of which they "ill
Let them not undervalue their intrinsic
less the spirit of goodwill and esteem, _ _ ey Were
had resulted to us
the sure indications. On© advantage-
let into some State secrets.—
from the visit of a distinguished oreign Minister this
evening. They had
(Laughter.) Those rebyeestneorious boxes, those sealed bags
which issued forth with much solemnity from the
bureaus of Ministers, esoseci with the fate
of empires, they pe r Contained only com-
lbeigar'nsaesdthooli7esu`'lsre°
ords, and Devons—
paigsggs hegyeadrencSoiOrticliorpriesr,ha
perhaps a specimen of wools,
(Laughter)—
er- Happy the country and
happy the times where iplornatists were so employed.
• anew they were of so much importance. Let
He hardly long and short.n (Latliebeit.
them awn these things to their profit.—(Hear, hear.),
might assist in
They 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 iti these sentiments, and give proof of ii by
the cordial and zealous reception of the toast he had
now the honour to propose, the " Sister Societies of
Agriculture."—(Loud cheers.)
The Marquis of ABERCORN returned thanks.
The " Railway Companies" were then toasted, the
compliment being acknowledged by Mr. THOMSON.
'The " Health of the President elect," proposed by Earl
Powis, closed the proceedings.

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FOLKESTONE.—An inquest was held yesferlay 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 off. 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 procure a fixed chain round
the harbour.

AN AGED CLERGYMAN.—By the death of the Rev.
A. Price, M.A., the valuable rectory of Brightwell Salame
in the county of Gloucester, and the vicarage of Down
Ampney, in the same county, have become vacant. The
Rev. Gentleman, at the time of his death, was within a few
months of his 100th year, and was for upwards Of 75 year, in
the church.

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