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

NISI PRIUS COURT.

Mr. Baron Platt has been engaged in trying causes
which do not warrant a report. The second list of the
causes entered for trial has been published to-day, from
which it appears that there are only 37 causes, 9 from
the North and East Ridings, and 23 from the West,
being a very great falling off from the usual amount of
business; 7 of the causes are marked as special juries.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday was the third day of the meeting, and an
immense concourse of people, native and foreign, flocked
to the show. The yard was crowded with visitors, and
the animals collected in it were handled and examined
with an avidity and a zest which says much for the agri-
cultural spirit and tendencies of the country. On no
former occasion has anything like it been seen. All the
principal prizes were in a permanent state of siege, and
it was only after much pushing and squeezing that even
a glimpse of them could be obtained. Everybody
seemed delighted with the display, and the happy situa-
tion of the fete appeared to add to the regular attrac-
tions of the occasion. The day had been fixed upon a,
that for the grand pavilion dinner, and at three o'c'ock
it was curious to observe how those who had provided
themselves with tickets emerged from the showyard,
and gradually took up their places at the entertain-
ment. In the short space of an hour about two thou-
sand guests had assembled, who waited anxiously
for the arrival of the mere distinguished per-
sonagea. At last they came, headed by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, and all rose to receive them. The
vast banquetting saloon filled with people presented a
very animated and striking spectacle—oue not very re-
concileable with the idea of a declining agriculture, and
this impression was still further strengthened when
cheers arose from hundreds of powerful lungs, and
hands were clapped with a vehemence and force quite
astounding. At last the great assembly settled down to
the business of eating and drinking, and for a time no-
thing could be heard but the clatter of plates, the grind-
ing sound of knives and forks and the mastication of
jaws, carried on with the energy of rustic appetites.
Mr. Holt, of Radley's Hotel, had furnished the pro.
visions, which were its every respect excellent, and
gave general satisfaction. His Grace the Duke
.of
Richmond presided, and in the absence of Earl Dame,
who was kept away by indisposition, Lord Portman
acted as Vice-President. The following list will give
some idea of the distinguished company present on the
occasion:—

His Excellency the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of
Abercorn, the Marquis of Breadalbane, his Excellency
M. Bayard, Viscount Clifden, the Earl of Stradbroke,
the Earl of Leicester, the Baron Mertens, the Count
Huckgmuet, the Earl of Harkwicke, the Count Ker-
golay, M. Jonas Woarn' the Baron Sporcken, the Rev.
Dr. Hawtrey, the Count de Gourey, Colonel Wood, M.P.
(of Littleton), Lieut. Pogge, the Right Hon. John Hat-
chell, M.P., Mr. John Pogge (Bogor), the Baron Gold-
amid, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey, the Hon. A. Leslie Melville, Captain Bulkeley,
Mr. Leslie Melville (of Windsor), Mr. Minton, Mr.
Duval, the Earl of Powis, the Chevalier de Masslow,
Dr. Mall, the Count Hardenburg, M. Charles Martin (of
Geneva), Lord Vivian, Sir Pole Carew, Sir John Duck-
worth, M.P., Colonel Hulse, Colonel Reid, M.P., Sir
James Clarke, the Rev. Isaac Gosset, the Rev. Thomas
Best, the Mayor of Windsor, his Excellency the American
Minister, the Turkish Minister, the Prince Demidoff,
Lord Feversham, the Earl of March, his Excellency
N. S. Brown, M. Payee, M. Deby, M. Dumas, Lord
Bridport, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Walsingham, Director
of the Prussian Agricultural Academy at Boun,
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Dr. Zeller, friend of Dr.
Zeller, Dr. Daubeny, the Commissary of Zoll-
verein, Mr. Palmer, M.P., General Wemyss, the
late Mayor, son-in-law of his Excellency the American
Minister, M. Clasen Sukow, the Count Perponcher, M.
Hedengren, Chairman of Eastern Counties Railway,
Chairman of Eastern Union Railway, Chairman of
the London and South-Eastern, Chairman of the Lon-
don and South-Western, Chairman of the South Devon
Railway, the Baron de Bethman Holweg, Chairman of
the York and North Midland, Viscount Ranelagb, M.
Wittenberg Schlievenberg, Dr. Schaff heutel, M. Nath-
horst, M. Pr 4 voraine, M. Pirondel de Labertouche, Mr.
Hore, Mr. Bedborough, Professor Johnston of Durham,
Mr. Parkes, E.E., Professor Simonds, Sir Richard P.
Joddrell, Lord C. Russell, the Earl of Pomfret, Lord
Hastings, the Hon. Mr. buncombe, MT., the Right
Hon. Sir J. Nicholl, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Sir Piers
Mostyn, Sir E. Baker, Sir J. Manse), Sir Willoughby
Jones, Mr. T. Bell, of Now York, Mr. Wilhelm Mayer,
Viscount Lileord, Sir C. Tempest, Dr. Sharp, Sir H.
Verney, M.P., Mr. Blackburne, M.P., the Hon. Mr.
Portman, Admiral Sir Raymond Jarvis, Sir T. Tapered,
Sir Montague Cholmeley, Mr. Pugh, M.P., Sir J.
Mills Riddell,
Roche, M.P.for Lewes, Mr. E. B.
forrli Cr.olijker,feenct'd three friends, Capt. Egerton.
After the appetiles of the hungry mass of agricul-
turists had been sufficiently satisfied,
The "Jake of limaxou> rose and proposed the