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THE SUN, LONDON, FBIDAY EVENING, AUG HST 30, 1867.

LONDON& NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
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Euston Station, August, 1867.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

IRELAND.

WEYMOUTH MEETING.-THURSDAY.

The Scurry Handicap of 5 sot's each, 2 ft, with 25 added ;

DCBLIN, Thursday Night.
The annual banquet of the Royal Agricultural
Society was given last evening in. the krge concert
hall of the Exhibition Pi,lace. The room was hand-
somely decorated, the on-thestra filled with ever-
greens, and banners of different countries suspended
around the walls. A guard. of honour supplied by
the 48th Regiment awaited the arrival of his Excel-
lency in front of the building, and the organ pealed
forth the National anthem, the company standing
as he entered the hall. JEs Excellency had been
escorted to the building by a troop of the 9th Lan-
cers. He was accompanied by Lord J. Butler, llon.
L. G. Dillon, Mr. G. W. Lambert, llon. Captain
Wellesley, A.D.C., and Mr. Gregory, A.D.C.
About 200 gentlemen sat down, but covers had been
laid for a much larger number, and the attendance
at the show dinners held in the provinces have
usually been more numerous.
The chair was taken by Lord Talbot de Mala-
hide, president of the society.

half a mil,.

Mr. Genge' Miss Camerine, by Camerino - Naiad, 2 yrs,
sst 716
Mr. Sanders's Rustic Beauty, iyrs, 7st 121b...(11olland) 2
Mr. IL Goatees Cleopatra 3 yA, 6st 41b (car. list Gib)
('l'. Sadler) 3
The following also ran :....Historian, Little Charlie,
Avonwater, Hue and Cry, Eticrt*Htte, and Bouquetiere.
Betting—Even on Bouquetiere, 4to 1 agst Historian, 5
to 1 agst Hustle Beauty, 6 to 1 agst Etiquette, and 8 to 1
agst any other. Won by two lengths.
The Visitors' Plate of 30 sovs, added to a Handicap of 5
sovs each, 1 ft ; three quarters of a mile.

TILE VACCINATION ACT.—In consequence
of the passing of this measure without inquiry by the
Legislature, the Lion in front of the BRITISH COLLEGE
of HEALTH, Euston-road, London, went into mourning
for a week. Tho hat of Gessler is up, and wo must bow
to it, but let the people petition Parliament next session
for a total repeal of tho Vaccination Laws. There has
been no inquiry into Vaccination although promised in
1856. What aro they afraid of ?

Mr. H. Goatees Secresy, by Trumpeter—Fairy, 3 yrs,
7st 101 b • • (Scorey) 1
Mr. Hope's Leading Suit, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Maidment) 2
Mr. Powney's Lady Bose, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (inc. 71' extra)
(Cannon) 3
Betting-7 to 4on Lady Rose, and sto 2 agst Secresy.
Won by two lengths.

The Nursery Plate (handicap) of 50 sous ; about three
quarters of a mile.
Mr. 11. Goater's Venomous, by Lifebaat—La Taranda,
7st 41b
Mr. Edwyn's Englishman, 7st 101 b (G. Sapp) 2
Mr. J. Day's Cock of the Walk, Bst 21b (Cannon) 3
The following also ran :—llope filly, Macduff, Duffer,
Chic, Bouquetiero and Our Mary Ann.
Betting-2 to 1 apt Our Mary Ann, 4to 1 agst Duffer,
and 5 to 1 agst Cock of the Walk. Won easily by a length.
The County Stakes (Handicap) of 5 says each, 1 ft (to the
fund), with 25 added (if three start); one mile and a
distance.

The healths of the Queen and the Prince and
Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal family
were received with loyal manifestations. In pro-
posing the latter toast the chairman expressed
regret that, owing to the illness of the Princess of
Wales, they had been deprived of the pleasure they
had hoped to derive from the presence of the Prince,
but they trusted that he would come among them
at no distant day. Ile then gave " The Health of
his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity
to Ireland," and made a graceful allusion to the
intimate acquaintance with the country which his
Excellency possessed and the esteem in which he
is held as a landlord.

Mr. Powney's Nelly, by Winolb:Fund—Miss Birch, 4 yrs,
Cat 71b (Pranglo) 1
Sir F. Johnstone's Camellia, 5 yrs, Bst llb (inc. 51b ex.)
(Cannon) 2
Mr. Edwin's Needle Gun, 5 yrs, 7st (G. Sopp) 3

The following also ran :—Charles 11., Vandyke, Change-
able, Rebecca, and Miss Alice.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Camellia, 3to 1 agst Changeable,
sto 1 agst Nolly, and 7to 1 agst Needle Gun. Won by a
length.

His EXCELLENCY, in rising to respond, was
greeted with prolonged applause. He said —My
Lord Talbot, my lords and gentlemen, I rise to re-
turn my most sincere thanks for the honour you
have done me in drinking my health, and for the
very cordial manner in which the toast connected
with my name has been proposed by my noble
friend, and responded to by you. I thank you
also for coupling it with that which bears a
meaning of no unreal or slight significance to all
who have the welfare of this country at heart
--I mean the words of " Prosperity to Ire-
land." (Applause.) I should be doubly unworthy—
unworthy both of the high office which I have now
the honour to hold, and unworthy of the nationa
position which I enjoy as one of the largest proprie-
tors in this country, if there were any one in this
assembly or elsewhere to whom those words could
convey a deeper import or impart a more thrilling
sympathy than they do to myself. (Applause.) My
noble friend has alluded in terms of which I can
only complain as being too flattering to the relations
which I have had the good fortune to hold with those
with whom I am connected as a landlord ; but I
most honestly say that my experience of Irish tenants
and Irish farmers has been such as to make such a
course not only an imperative duty, but also a high
and unmixed pleasure— (applause) a pleasure with
only one drawback—that the shortcomings, if any,
have, I think, been on my side. (Cries of " No,
no.") But while I thank you for favours already
conferred, I must also thank you for the privilege of
being here to-night as your guest, and as such it may
not be presumptuous in me to congratulate ycu upon
the very great success of the show held to-day.
There have been reasons during,' the last two years
since you met—reasons both social and political—
which might seem to indicate a possibility that the
farming interests of Ireland might notshow so strong
a front as in apparently more favourable years ; but
I think a walk through your sllowyard, and a cal-
culation of the numbers in your entries, will show
that such a presumption was totally unfounded, and
that your society, after its enforced slumber of two
years, has arisen with renewed freshness and vigour
to resume its important functions, whether those
functions be to extend the improvement and progress
of agriculture in your own country, or to compete in
friendly rivalry with the titled aristocracy of the herds
of the sister kingdom. (Wear.) Gentlemen, with re-
gard to the show of this morning, I think the show
of horses was pre-eminently good. I believe it is
undoubtedly the best show of horses that has ever
been seen in this country. (Applause.) The short-
horns also were well represented to-day, especially
the yearling heifers, some of which had very great
merit. I must not omit also the very great number
and variety of implements and machinery ; and I am
glad to say that Irish manufactures hold a very pro-
minent place. (Great applause.) Gentlemen, I think
the evidences we have seen, both of the success of
your society and of the progress of agriculture which
it indicates, are so far satisfactory ; but I think it
may be useful to go somewhat more minutely into
the ramifications and details through which the
sources of wealth well up to the prosperity and ad-
vantage of nations, before we come to any accurate
conclusion as to what the comparative state of the
prosperity of Ireland may be at this moment ; and
in considering this question we must not omit from
our consideration that this country has for two years
undergone political disturbances which have ma-
terially affected the outward prosperity of the
country, have locked up its own capital, and diverted
that most easily frightened of all visitors, I mean
external capital, from taking any footing on our
shores. (Applause.) I confess that, while I have
a great dislike to anything which seems like taking
an extravagant or imaginary view of what may be
presumed to be the prosperity of this country, I
hold it to be an evidence of equal weakness to take
a despondent view of temporary obstructions. (Ap-
plause.) Therefore, with your permission, and
even at the risk of somewhat wearying you by a
dry compendium of figures, I will place before
your juigment a true and reliable statement of some
of those details of internal finance and economy
whose reaction operates mast powerfully upon that
which more immediately concerns your society
—the agricultural wealth of the country. There
is, perhaps, no more effectual test of what the
comparative state of prosperity of the agricultural
labouring classes may be than the number of persons
receiving poor-law support during the year. We must
acknowledge that, tried by this test, the present sea-
son has been one of unusual distress for the poor.
We find the year ending Feb., 1867, shows the num-
ber of 78,000 persons receiving poor-law relief, both
in-door and out-door ; a greater number than
has ever been since 1855, when it was about the
same amount ; while the four previous years to 1866
only show an average of 72,000. Nor do we find, as
is usual, that as the season advances there is a pro-
portionate decrease in the numbers, for 1 regret to
to say that on the 4th August we still find 63,000
persons receiving poor-law relief. This is not alto-
gether a pleasing picture, but there is much to be
said on the reverse side of it. This, it appears, was
.
caused by an exceptionally severe winter and an in-
clement. autumn, and not by permanent causes. We
have had, from the same cause, to regret a consider-
able amount of distress in Connemara, and the Go-
vernment have taken means to give employment, as
far as lay in their power, in some districts, in the
hope of enabling the population there to get through
their difficulties, till the harvest, which is of good
promise, shall have further relieved them. And we
have done this with very considerable success, I am
happy to say. (Applause.) But I must remind you
that if the number of persons receiving poor-law re-
lief has been in this last year in excess of previous
years, yet, as compared with former years—for ex-
ample with 1852 and 1853 the amount in the pre-
sent year is not one-half of that in those yen's, and
is 40,000 less than in either of the years 154 and
1855. We may, therefore, while acknowledging and
regretting a temporary depression, yet come fairly to
the conclusion that the position of the agricultural
labouring classes is more prosperous uow than it
was fourteen or fifteen years ago, namely, in 1852,
1853, 1854, and 1855 ; and we may also confi-
dently hope that a good harvest may completely ;

A Selling Stake of 3 sovs eacb, with 20 added ; two year
olds 7st 71b, three 9st, four 9st 101 b, five, six, and aged

lOst ; half a mile.
Mr J. Day's Oheddington, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (car sst 131 b)
(Prangle 1
Mr T. Stevens's Sunnyside, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Holland 2
Mr J. H. C. Wyndham's The Masson, 4 yrs, 7st 111
(T. Sadler) 3
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Imogene filly and Agnes do Mansfoldt also ran.

Betting—Even on Cheddington, 2 to 1 agst The Masson,
4to 1 agst Sunnyside, 6to 1 agst any other. Won by two
lengths. _ _

A 13audicap of 3 soya each, with 30 added ; about three
quarters of a mile.

Mr A. Day's Flying Spanker, by Plum Pudding—Lady
Gay Spanker, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (J. Sadler) 1
Mr T. Stevens's Laura, 3 yrs, 7st 10Ib (Holland) 2

Betting - 6 to 4on Laura. Won oasily by three lengths,
The winner was sold to ➢ir. Hadlay for 43 guineas.

Her Majesty s Plate of 100 gs. ; three year olds Bst Mb, four
9st 71b, five 9st 121 b, six and aged 9st 121 b; two miles.
Marquis of Hastings's John Davis, by Voltigeur
Jamaica, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b (Cannon) 1
Mr Goldbrough's /Bolus, aged, 9st 10Ib ...(Scorey) 2
No betting. Won in a canter.

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