The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-25 00:00:00

BOYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The half-yearly meeting of this society was held in
London yesterday, Mr. Thompson in the chair. The
Prince of Wales having been elected president for next
year, the report was read. It stated that "since the
general meeting in December, 4 governors and 42 mem-
bers have died, the names of 189 members have been
removed frora the list, 133 members have been elected,
so that the society now consists of 75 life governors, 74
annual governors, 1,409 life members, 3,888 annual
members, 15 honorary members, making a total of
5,431, being a decrease of 97 names. The funded capital
stands at £16,027 19s. 7d. in the New Three per Cents.,
the sum of £2,000 remains on deposit with the society's
bankers, and the cash balance iu their hands on the
let instant was £3,243 Us. The Leicester meeting
to be held from the 16th to the 22nd July promises
to exceed that of Bury St. Edmunds in the imple-
ment department. The entries of horses, cattle, sheep,
pigs, cheese, butter, and wool will remain open as usual
till the Ist of June. Mr. Larking, the representative
in England of the Viceroy of Egypt, having announced
the anxiety of his Highness to offer a prize cup to
be awarded by the society at their next show of
agricultural implements, the council have resolved on
accepting the offer of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt,
of a prize for the best iMplement for the cultivation of
the soil by steam power, combining strength with sim-
plicity of construction, for use in foreign countries, where
skilled labour for repairs is difficult to be procured.' This
cup, which is of the value of 03°44'150, will be competed
for at the Leicester meeting, and filially awarded at the
a llourned trial after harvest."
I.e Art was adopted.

ii..i.;.ral:..—according to "An Aurtralian Cynic," who
:tCS to the Spectator—is mad. That is to say, the rulers
d Australia are mad, and the people arc the same. This
• u.“.:ness was brought on by the visit and attempted
assosshation of Prince Alfred. It has resulted in absurd
speeches by public men and wretched doggerel in the
now papers, denouncing the crime which has been com-
mitted. It has brought forth a bill for the stppresz:ion
of treason and sedition, which ought never, in the
opinion of the writer, to have been passed by any
legislature, but which was almost without opposition passed
through all its stages by the Assembly and the Upper
house in New South Wales on the same slay, and received
the Royal Assent early next morning. This Act renders
anyone proposing separation from the mother country liable
to penal servitude for life, makes it a misdemeanour to
refuse to join in a loyal toast, with a penalty attached of
two yearl' penal servitude; and any person publishing
se litioul matter, whether with bad intent or not, is made
to imprisonment for three years.
Everyone knoWs that the immediate canoe of the
hyssiaian war was Lord Russell's neglect to answer a
letter in which King Theodore made proposals of marriage
to Queen Victoria. By a curious coincidence, it turns out
that, though the Queen is not to share his Majesty's
throne, she is to possess his crown. That trinket is now
being sent home as a present to our sovereign. This is an
arrangement which Theodore could hardly have antici-
pated, and would certainly not have approved.
An explanation of her Majesty's journey to Scotland in
the height of the London season is volunteered by the
Imperial Review. According to this'authority the Queen
went to the north solely in consequence of the medical
advice which had been tendered to her.
The deputation which waited upon the Duke of Marl-
borough, Lord Devon, and Mr. Gathorne Hardy, " to
urge a remedy for the complicated nature of the present
laws of health," have drawn attention to a matter which
will doubtless obtain full consideration in a Reformed
Parliament. The difficulty of carrying out the existing
laws where the local authorities were either inefficient,
obstinate, or powerless to act, was pointed out, and it was
suggested that a royal commission of inquiry should be
appointed. A hint was also given that for the interests of
justice it would be well to encourage the special education
of "experts" in matters of sanitary laws and skilled evi-
dence on medical questions by the official employment of
such officers. The Duke of Marlborough, in reply,
thanked the deputation for the suggestions, and said that
" perhaps" the Government would adopt that of a royal
commission.

Mr. Mitford, the member for Midhurst, has been one of
the most active members of the Legislature in promoting
the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act of 1866 to
the civil population. An association was lately formed for
this purpose, and at a recent meeting, over which Mr.
Mitford presided, it was stated that upwards of 500 mem-
bers had now joined the organisation, which now com-
prised within its ranks many eminent Churchmen, a large
number of members of the Legislature, and the chief
medical and philanthropic gentlemen of the large cities of
the kingdom. A communication from Sir John raking-
ton, the War Minister, was read, sheaving the great de-
crease of contagious diseases since the passing of the Act,
in several towns, among the soldiers and sailors, The
Duke of Cambridge is to be invited to become the presi-
dent of the association.

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properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica,
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings
it has already received from Invalids whose position had been
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope,
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years
of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette
du Midi," July 25th :—"Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The health of
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other remedies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consumes a plateful
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effect on his healt, and his Holiness cannot praise this
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more than 65,000 cures :—Cure No. 58,21 G, of the Marchioness
de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting awaY•
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