The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-27 00:00:00

THE PAVILION DINNER.

This grand wind up of the social proceedings of the show
cook place at four o'clock. The Pavilion was erected
at the upper end of Houndmell ; and although considerably
smaller than that used at the Derby meeting, was extensive
enough to seat upwards of 1,200 people.
Earl Spencer occupied the chair. His Lordship also acted
as chaplain, and at the beginning and end of the repast pro-
nounced a short grace, in a loud, sonorous tone.
The Duke of Richmond acted as Vice-Chairman.
Among the gentlemen present we may mention the Duke
of Leinster, the Marquis of Downshire, the Earl of Car-
narvon, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Chichester, Lord
Hatherton, Lord Portland, Lord Worsley, Lord Grosvenor,
Sir John Easthope, Bart.. M.P., Colonel Challoner, the
Chevalier Bunsen, Mr. P. Pusey, M.P., Mr. Hayter, M.P.,
Mr. Shelly, Colonel Le Couteur, Dr. Buckland, Mr. Benet,
M.P., Mr. Cowper, M.P., &c.
After the usual loyal toasts, the Earl of CARNARVON pro-
posed " Success to the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land." It was a toast which he fully expected would be
hailed with an unanimous burst of acclamation.--(Loud
cheers.) He knew their absorbing anxiety for the advance
of agriculture, and although the appearance of such a body
anywhere assembled would give him the greatest pleasure,
yet such a meeting in Hampshire—his native and cherished
county—inspiring as it did the thought that all the concen-
trated agricultural intelligence of this great kingdom was
collected within its bounds, filled him with inexpressible
pleasure. The Society brought together exhibitions of agri-
cultural skill, supported and advanced by science such as the
world could not equal.—(Cheers.) They knew that the ex-
perience of a single district was limited, and they were too
apt to suppose that what was the best in their district was
the best which could be produced. Such exhibitions as they
had lately seen tore away the veil from before their eyes. Al-
though a man might return a disappointed, he would not, he
hoped, return a disheartened competitor, but would come
back to the trial next year, supported and improved by the
experience of the last.—(Cheers.) The condition of the la-
bourer had been an object of great solicitude with the So-
ciety, the aim of which was to induce him to look upon the
enlightened farmer who kept the best cultivated land as his
best friend.—(Hear, hear.) Although they often heard it
stated that machinery was prejudicial to the labouring man,
he did not think so.--(Hear.) The persons who availed them.
selves largely of machinery could often employ the greatest
number of labourers, thus benefiting in the greatest degree
themselves, their poor neighbours, and the country, by in-
creasing the general amount of human subsistence. It was
difficult to calculate the great development of the re-
sources which might be effected by the progress of agricul-
ture. He must say that his hopes for the prospects of agri-
culture were much strengthened by the high moral character
of those who were at the head of this Society, and with his
heartiest wishes for its continued success, he begged leave to
give the " Royal Agricultural Society of England."
Earl SPENCER proposed the next toast, " The Foreign Mi-
nisters present." He expressed his firm conviction that the
Society had been of the greatest benefit to England. They
had all great reason to rejoice at its establishment, but they
would not be so selfish as to confine its benefits to their own
land, and they would be most glad to communicate what
they knew to the farmers of other countries receiving in re-
turn the advantage of their varied knowledge and expe-
rience.—(CheerS.) He had always great satisfaction in re-
ceiving distinguished foreigners amongst them, and he hoped
that they would return with some information which might
be of advantage to them in their own countries.—(Hear,
hear.) He had great pleasure in proposing the next toast,
"The Foreign Ministers present, coupled with the name of
their illustrious guest, Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Mi-
nister."—(Loud cheers.)
The Chevalier BUNSEN returned thanks. It was five years
ago, at the beginning of the career of this excellent Associa-
tion, when he was first honoured by an invitation to take
part in its proceedings. He was then at Oxford. It was
when he had first arrived in England, and before he held any
official situation. lie then said a few words to them, and the
kindness with which he was then received he should never
forget.—(Hear.) He had watched with great interest the
rise and progress of the Society. It was unnecessary for him
to explain all the reasons why he considered that the pros-
perity of the State was intimately connected with the prospe-
rity of agriculture He thought so with respect to this
country and to his own. There were many things which
must strike a foreigner when he arrived in this great country,
but ho knelt, nothing more striking, in the history of the ty:,_
velopment of its mind, than the yearly recurrence of scenes
such as that which he now saw around him.—(Cheers.)
That country must be pleased and happy for many years and
ages which could boast of so many of its gTE at legislators and
statesmen who thought it not nnworthy 4. them to conse-
crate their leisure hours and'theii experiencek to the improve-

ment of agriculture and the welfare and happiness of those
who cultivated the soil— (Cheers)—a country in which the
illustrious conqueror himself—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—
turned his sword into a ploughshare, and assisted in the
p,aceable pursuits of his countrymen. The history of
their own conntry, and not less that of Prussia
and Germany, proved that country life was the cradle of
every civic virtue and military achievement, and the promo.
Lion of agriculture ought to be amongst the first of the cares
of a good and enlightened Government.—(Loud cheers.)
Their Society furnished an excellent example to the rest of
the world, and an example which in Prussia they were try-
Lig to follow as well as they could.—(Hear, hear.) In those
countries of good old Saxon blood, they had all the same
love of country life. They loved peace and domestic enjoy-
ment; and no person could better insure the one, and enjoy
the other, than the farmer.—(Hear, hear.) In every pro.-
vince of Prussia they had societies modelled upon the_plan of_
this; they published agricultural journals connected with
them, and laboured to bring into general use those Improve-
ments, the nature of which were attested by experirtce.-,--
(Hear, hear.) Perhaps they would allow him to tell them
an anecdote of the King of Prussia, his Royal master, 'when
upon his late visit to this country. When visiting the splen-
did establishment at Eton, and gazing from one of the old
gothic windows upon the magnificent scene around him—the
ancient structure in which he stood—the fields and woods
smiling around it, and the happy faces of the boys gazing up
to his—looking at this union of old and new, he exclaimed,
"6 Blessed is the country where the old is ever new, and where
the new is ever entwined with the old."—(Loud cheering.)
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by returning thanks for the
honour done him.
Viscount PALMERSTON proposed the next toast. After
an eloquent eulogium. of the Chevalier Bunsen, his cha-
racter, and his country, the Noble Lord said that the more
immediate subject which called him. before them was the
toast of " Prosperity to Agriculture, Manufactures, andCorn-
merce"—(Hear, hear)—those three great branches of the
prosperity and power of this country ; three branches in-
separably dependent upon each other, and intimately inter-
twined and connected in all their most important interests
and relations. Agriculture gave employment to commerce,
commerce gave encouragement to manufactures, and then both
commerce and manu actures repaid with ample interest the
obligations which they owed to their mutual parent.—
(Cheers.) Commerce brought back capital—manufactures
contributed spirit and demand, and by the united operation
of commerce and manufactures, agriculture arose from
its plain and primitive condition, until it assumed the proud
and pre-eminent position which it occupied in this country.
—(Loud cheers.) There was, indeed, no country in the
world, he might venture to say, in which these three great
sources of national prosperity stood out so boldly in
relief as they did in this great kingdom.--(Hear, hear.)
Their commerce carried their ships to the most distant parts
of the ocean—their commerce was wafted upon every wave
which washed the remotest shores of the habitable portion
of the world.—(Loud cheers.) Their manufactures supplied
the wants and wishes of a great portion of the human race,
and their commerce and manufactures creating that wealth
which abounded in this country, furnished to the agricul-
turists those means of developing the resources of the soil,
without which these resources could not he brought to bear,
and provided also that population which increased the value
of the land, and tended to give his due reward to the tiller of
the soil.—(Hear, hear.) Commerce, indeed, stood distin-
guished from manufactures and agriculture, because the func-
tions of commerce were distributive and not creative. Agri-
culture and manufactures were both creative processes—they
differed more in name and degree than in reality. Agricul-
ture and manufactures both enlisted in their service the
powers and laws of nature, and both were dependent upon
the exertion and skill and ingenuity of the machinist.—
(Hear, hear.) Indeed, lie might venture to say that if
the agriculturist of the olden time, one of those who
lived a century or a century and a half ago, should
rise from his grave, and witness the magnificent
display of manufacturing skill which they had all
seen in the show-yards of this town, it would be difficult to
persuade him that that great amount of the results of
human industry did not belong to the manufacturing enter-
prise of several large towns, instead of being the implements
with which agriculture was pursuing its useful and daily-
improving course.—(Cheers.) Whenever it had been the
misfortune of this country to be compelled, either for the de-
fence of its interests or the vindication of its honour, to draw
the sword, and engage in the calamities of war, the result
had been to record on the page of history the triumphs and
prowess of British arms.—( Hear.) That result must ever be
the consequence of the unconquerable energy, untiring per.
severance, and the inestimable resources of our national cha-
racter. He trusted that the day was far distant indeed
when it would be our unfortunate lot to be compelled, by the
aggression of a foreign State, to add another chapter to the
military and naval annals of Great Britain ; and in the mean-
time let them employ their national energies in acquiring
those distinctions so far superior in point of advantage, and
not inferior in point of honour, whkh arose from pre-emi-
nence in the arts of peace; and among those of peace, what
was there more deserving of the cultivation of a great and
free people, than instructive and enlightened agriculture?---
(Cheers.) Instructive and enlightened agriculture was the
best foundation for high and exalted national character, and
was the surest and most enduring basis for permanent na-
tional prosperity.—(Cheers.) But to encourage and pro.
mote instructive and intelligent agriculture was the peculiar
object for which this Society was formed. It was an object
for the attainment of which it had laboured with exemplary
patience and astonishing success; and he might venture to
add, that there never was a great association in a great em-
pire which more deserved than this did the good opinion and
support of the rest of the community, or ought more to evoke
those feelings of self-satisfaction which must be shared by
all who had the honour of belonging to it. The Noble Lord
Concluded by proposing the toast, which was received with
great applause.
Lord PORTMAN proposed the next toast, "Practice with
Science."

Dr. PLAYFAIR returned thanks.
Mr. PUSEY then proposed the " Health of the President,
Earl Spencer".--(Loud cheers.) It was not in his private
character—most excellent and most estimable as that pri-
vate character was—that he had to introduce the object of
the toast to the meeting ; it was as the President of the So-
ciety, as its more than founder and creator, that he called
upon them to drink Earl Spencer's health.—(Cheers.) He
had never shown indolence or lassitude in the service of the
British farmer, and he was sure that it was their unanimous
wish that he might long be spared in health and prosperity
to combine his labours on behalf of agriculture, the cause of
which he had so greatly advanced.—(Cheers.)
Earl SPENCER acknowledged the toast. His Hon. Friend
had said too much when he stated him to have been the only
founder of this Society. He had not been its only founder.
He had first made the proposition to his Noble Friend the
Duke of Richmond—(Cheers)—and both of them agreed that
such a Society must and would be of the greatest possible
advantage to the country.—(Hear, hear.) It had been
agreed between them that he should propose the subject to
the Smithfield Club. He did so, and the proposition was re-
ceived as it ought to have been by English farmers.—(Hear,
hear.) The matter continued to advance, and his Hon.
Friend (Mr. Handley) aided its progress, by writing a pam-
phlet upon the subject. He must, therefore, include Mr.
Handley among the founders of the Association. But after
all, it was idle to talk of originators and founders. He be-
lieved that the success of the Society would be of enormous
benefit to his fellow-countrymen at large. Its success would
improve agriculture in the greatest possible degree.—(Hear,
hear.) Their motto, he would remind them was " Science
and practice ;" but they must not forget that it was very
necessary that the practice should be good in itself. He
should like to see practice universally good. Science ought
to be applied to practice; but the first great object was to
have excellent practical farming general over the country.
His Lordship concluded by thanking the company for the
reception which they had given to the toast of his health.
Mr. SHELLY, in a short and energetic speech, proposed
"The Ladies present," and the toast was done full justice to.
The Earl of CHICHESTER then proposed the next toast,
that of "The Agricultural Labourer," a toast which was
drunk amidst loud cheering.
The PRESIDENT next proposed " Prosperity to the High-
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and the Royal
Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland."
The Duke of LEINSTER, as President of the Irish Society,
said a few words in acknowledgment.
The PRESIDENT then proposed the last toast—" The health
of the Duke of Richmond, the President of next year." (The
toast was received with the most marked enthusiasm, the
company cheering as one man for several minutes.) The
President observed, that the character and conduct of the
Noble Duke had always been such as to entitle him to their
approbation. When the Society elected him as their pre-
sident for the next year, they made a choice which must
have been approved of by every farmer ; and he had no
doubt but that their president elect, would carry out the ob-
jects of the Society in the manner most conducive to its
interests.—(Loud cheers.)
The Duke of RICIIMOND, who was received with a perfect
tumult of applause, acknowledged the toast, and assured the
meeting of his deep gratitude for the reception which they
had given to him. He would always be found at his post in
the maintenance of the prosperity of agriculture, on the well-
being of which he conceived that all classes of his native
land depended.--(Cheers.) He required nothing as a land-
owner from his tenants which as a fhrmer he would not be'
happy to pay.—(Cheers.) The Noble Duke concluded by
expressing his gratitude to the farmers of England for the
manner in which they had uniformly received him, and
his hopes that he would never do anything calculated to
make them repent of the confidence which they had placed
in him.—(Loud cheers.)
The party broke up at nine o'clock.

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DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT BATTtEhRe
evening, between ilve and six o'clock,
Wandsworth-road, Battersea: :—About
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accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at.
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Creek-bridge, Lower TV anciswor t
the time above mentioned, a cart heavily laden with grains,
and drawn by two horses, was crossing the bridge, in the
direction of Battersea town, having just come from Mr.
Watney's distillery, when a wash butt, on which was seated
an old man and hie son, named Bartlett, drove up in a con-
trary direction. The old man, without checking his horse,
endeavoured to clear the cart, bygoing close to the left-hand
side of the bridge, but in doing so the butt struck the para-
pet, and both Bartlett and his son were pitched off. The son
pitched upon his head, and lay to all appearance dead ; the
old man fell under the wheel of the cart, which passed over
his back and loins. The accident was so instantaneous that
it was impossible for the driver of the cart to stop his horses
in time, and no blame can be attributable to him. The suf-
ferers were taken to the Nag's Head Inn, where the boy died
in a few minutes after his arrival. Dr. Shaw was sent for to
attend the father, but the nature of his, injuries are such
that recovery is looked upon as hopeless. Many accidents,
4nd fatal ones, have occurred on this bridge, which is a dis-
grace to the parish of Battersea. It is not only so narrow as
to lie barely passable for two carts at a time, but its con-
struction and approaches are of the most clumsy and ill-con-
ditioned character.
MEETING Or ODD FELLOWS.-112, luke of Buck-
ingham-, on Wednesday, entertainsd the folio Ning noblemen
An gentlemen, at thQ Trafalgar Greenwich, to a fish din-
ner ;--71gr, lionhion, Lord Brougham; Mr. Beckett, Mr, Bol-
dero, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Hogg, 111 r, William Holme, Lord
Lyndhurst, &c.
The Comedy of Quid pro Quo was represented on
Saturday last, at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh, with the
nAOst triunaphgnt suc.cem.