The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

LEWES CHRISTMAS AGRICUL

TURAL MEETING.

This show took place yesterday at Lewes, but was both
smaller and inferior to that of last year. After the show,
about sixty farmers sat down to a dinner, the chair being
filled by Mr. Verrall, jun., supported on the right by
H. B. Curteis, Esq., M.P., and on the left by T. R. Kemp,
Esq., M.P.
After the removal of the cloth, the Chairman gave as
toasts " The King," " The Queen," " The Princess Vic-
toria," and " The Lord Lieutenant of the County," which
having been severally drank, the Secretary announced the
awards of the Judges.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " Success to the Show ;" and
afterwards " The Judges, and thanks to them for their
services."

Mr. TURNER returned thanks.
HENRY HURLY, Esq., the Treasurer, then read the ac-
counts, and proposed " Prosperity to the town of Lewes."
The CHAIRMAN, after nominating Mr. Stephen Lowdell
as his successor next year, proposed the health of the
" Members for the ounty."
H. B. CURTEIS, Esq., returned thanks. He had great
pleasure in meeting them, and had come 40 miles on pur-
pose. By and bye, if desired, he would state his opinion on
the various remedies proposed for the relief of agricultural
distress.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Members for the
borough of Lewes."
T. R. KEMP, Esq., returned thanks.
Mr. HURLY (who occupied the Vice-Chair) proposed the
" ilealths of the successful candidates."

Mr. ELLMAN, in returning thanks, observed that at
Arundel and Chichester the aristocracy and clergy attended
the Cattle Shows in large numbers ; he should have been
glad to see some of them here. He would propose " the
health of almost the-only gentleman and magistrate in the
neighbourhood who had stood by them—Mr. Mabbott."
Mr. MABBOTT, in returning thanks, said—He perfectly
concurred in the necessity of keeping the chain of society
well together. If the. high aristocracy would not associate
with the' classes below them, he would not hesitate one'mo-
ment in saying they could not suppose that they had any
right to expect that respect which must necessarily be due
to their rank.—(Loud cheers.) There was one thing which
had always been most strongly impressed' upon his mind ;
that was, that the interests existing between landlord and
tenant were reciprocal,. He believed rents had been re-
duced to a very great extent. If a tenant occupied under
a long lease granted many years back, and the rent he was
standing at was far beyond what was fair and just, he should
say under such circumstances, any landlord who possessed
the feelings of a man and a Christian, would say, " It is
true you are bound by 'a piece of parchment, hut I wont
allow you to be so bound to your injury ; for it never shall
hereafter be said of me I tied you down by an existing
lease which must absorb your capital, and bring down ruin
on you and your family." He was sure there was no man
would say but such a lease should be cancelled.
Mr. CUIITEIS proposed the health of the Chairman, who
returned thanks.

Mr. ELLMAN announced that the farmers in the western
part of the county intended to present a piece of plate to
Captain Pechell for the Bill which he carried through Par-
liament relative to the tithe on turnips.
Mr. VLLMAN announced that a Gentleman had autho-
rised him to be answerable for the payment of 20 guineas to
the occupier of the best cultivated farm in Sussex.
After several healths had been drunk,
Mr. CURTEIS said, no one could more deeply sympathise
with them on the distressed state of the agricultural inte-
rest than himself, for all his property was agricultural.
He thought the currency question should be kept in abey-
ance. But he still stuck to a repeal of the Malt Tax, and
a more favourite theory of his was, an equitable adjust-
ment of the tithe system.--(Hear.) He also demanded
poor laws for Ireland—(Cheers)—and wanted a still fur-
ther reduction of the public expenditure. He also thought
the New Poor Law would have a beneficial operation.
Mr. DARBY declared himself opposed to an alteration in
the currency such as proposed by Mr. Cayley, declared
many of Sir It. Peal's statements respecting the Malt Tax to
be fallacious, that the adjustment of tithes would only be-
nefit particular parishes, that poor laws alone would only
partially benefit Ireland, and that the English farmers
were more injured by the importation of Irish corn than
by the influx of Irish labourers. He then strongly urged
the agriculturists to support the Marquis of Chandos in
obtaining a Committee to inquire into the cause of agri-
cultural distress,—the great cause of which was low prices,
which would not allow farmers to employ the surplus po-
pulation.

Mr. VALENTINE next addressed the meeting, re-echoing
the arguments of Mr. Curteis, with whom in the main ho
agreed.

Mr. W. BAATTLE proposed the " health of the late Lord
Lieutenant of the County."
Mr. CURTEIS gave, " Prosperity to the parish of
Uekfield."

Mr. MARBOTT then delivered a long speech on general
topics, and declared himself an enemy to tampering with
the currency, and a complete convert to the new Poor
Law ; and added that there could be no reduction of ex-
pences in Ireland until that arch fiend, that abominable in-
dividual O'Connell was got rid of !
Mr. CURTEIS defended Mr. O'Connell, not for his in-
temperate language, but for his usefulness in tranquillizing
Ireland.

After a few further observations from Mr. Mabbott, Mr,
Curteis, Mr. Darby, and others, the meeting broke up.—
Brighton Guardian.

THE STORM-IRELAND.

The provincial papers contain distressing accounts of
wrecks and loss of lives. From Dunmore they write :
" Never did we witness such a tremendous storm as during
the last few days ; it blew incessantly a perfect hurricane.
Great damage to the shipping, besides numerous wrecks on
the coast, has been the consequence."
The Cork Constitution gives the following account of one
of the numerous calamities occasioned by the storm. It
will be seen that a Spanish vessel has been lost, and eight
of the crew drowned :

LOSS OF THE SPANISH BRIG SANTA ANToNIA.—Tbis
vessel left Stockholm in October—we do not know on what
day—with a crew of fifteen persons and a cargo of iron,
tow, &c. Her destination was Lisbon, and she was pro-
ceeding direct for that port, when, on the night of the 22d,
or the morning of the 2sd, it blowing a heavy gale from the
North, she struck on a sand-bank about six miles off the
coast of Norway. In a few minutes she grounded, and
eight of her crew were washed overboard and perished.
Their names were :—Guisippe Defermi, Pietro Masso,
Giusippe Gandolfi, Farquoni Della Spina, Mattio di Scalzi,
--- Grimaldi, Podesta, and Guisippe Enrico. The
remainder of the crew were rescued from the wreck, and
taken to Galway by the Swedish brig Ceiphini, Austin,
master, and after a harassing journey on foot from that
town, the poor men arrived here yesterday.
WATERFORD, Nov. 28.—Early on Wednesday a vessel
was seen embayed at Tramore. About one o'clock she
grounded a little above the Men's bathing place, a dreadful
sea rolling at the time. The crew were landed in safety,
but the vessel went to pieces in two, hours. She was the
schooner Les Deux Sceurs of Calais. The cargo is saved.
Between ten and eleven on Thursday night, a vessel
went down at the rocks to the eastward of Portally, in the
county Waterford, about two miles west of Dumitore East.
It appears too probable that her crew perished, as no trace
of them has been seen.

About five o'clock on Wednesday evening, a brig was
driven on the lime rocks at Slade, on the coast of the
county Wexford, a little above Hook Tower. She speedily
became a total wreck. She bad on board one or two Ca-
tholic clergymen and a student returning from the Univer-
sity of Salamanca. The latter and two of the crew, we
are informed, were drowned—all the rest were saved. She
was bound for Liverpool, and, we believe was returning
from Finding some of the British auxiliary force in Spain.
The late violent gales have been productive of vast in-
jury to the Shipping along the Wexford and the Waterford
coasts.

The Freeman of Saturday gives the particulars of seve-
ral wrecks amongst others of the following :
On Tuesday night, while it was blowing a hurricane, the
brigantiog Brunette, of Great Yarmouth, William New-