The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

THE ROYAL

AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY'S SHOW AT EXETER.

The Gordonbush wool sold at 175.; Bighouse, 17s. 6d.;
Balnakeil, 16s ; Scorrybreck, 16s. ; Auchinduich,
16s. 91.; Eriboll, 16;.; Ebost, %; Kyle, 15s. 6d.;
Auchmore, 16'.; Calder, 161 ; Dale, 153. 61; Drynoch,
15s 6d.; Sandsige, 17s. ter. Kenneth Murray sold his
Cheviot wool at 16s. Mr. Baigrie sold tte Ardross
Cheviot wool et 16s. 61 .Mr. J hn Chisholm bought the
Ardochy clip at 153. 61; the Kerrow clip at 15-. 61;
another clip at 155.; and others mantioned elsewhere.
Mr. :311ar sold his wool at 173. 6d. The Ardintoul
wool went at 15s. 6d. Mr. Bethune, Arcan, sold his
wool at 153. 61 Mr. Clark, Ulva, sold to Mr. Morren
of Bradford, his Cheviot washed wool at 15s. 6d.,
and his blackfaced at Bs. Mr. Nicol, Inverness
factory, bought the Comer white wool at 20s. 6d.,
laid 15s. ; the Sheuglie Cheviot white washed at
233 , white tarred 18s., laid 16s. 3d.; and the West
Garty white hog at 245., laid 16s. 6d. Mr. Arras,
Delnies sold his white wool at 245. Mr. John-
stone, Inverness, bought several lots of white and half-
bred wool at 20s to 245. Laid Cheviot from 143 to 15s.
Mr. Brown of Linkwood sold the Novar blackfaced to
Mr. Johnstone, at Bs. Mr. Johustone bought several lots
of the same kind at from 7s to 83. The white wool, as
we have said, was much in demand, chiffly for manu-
factories at Bradford. The Murkie white wool 243 per
stone; Oldhall, 245; Stemster, 245; Scorrybreck do.,
235; Dryncch, 24..
Black Wool-Comparatively little blackfaced wool
was sold; but we heard of s,me lots at Bs, 8s 3d, and 8s
9d. A small parcel was bought for the Inverness Fac-
tory at 8s 6d.

EXETER, MONDAY.—TbiS year—the twelfth which
bas been marked by one of the great rural festivals
annually got up by the Royal Agricultural Society
—that distinguished body have pitche I their tent in
Exeter, and called upon the farmers of the far west,
of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, to participate in
bucolic business and amusement ; and the summons
seems likely to be heartily and universally responded
to. Already Exeter is overflowing with fast•coming
guests. Already the announcements of numberless
extraneous attractions are glittering in many-hued
placards from every corner and wall. Already, in
fact, there is as much animation, as much bustle, ten
times as many flags, and twenty times as many tri-
umphal arches in any one of its gay and French-like
streets, as was exhibited last year throughout the
whole of the grey and venerable, though somewhat
mouldy, city of Norwich. I shall have other oppor-
tunities than in these few preliminary lines of sketching
a few of the picturesque and characteristic features of
the " ever faithful " city ; but I may say at once that
it is as gay and brilliant as numberless flags, devices,
arches, and floral and sylvan decorations can make it,
and that there is every appearance of settled, bright,
and sunny weather to light up the rural beauties of
the garden of England.

The usual routine of the society's operations have
been this year somewhat altered. The council dinner
at the last show was felt to be a most dismal failure,
and it will therefore be this year entirely dispensed
with ; one grand general banquet, to be held in the
pavilion, being substituted for the twin festivities of
yore. The other arrangements for the most part
hold good after the old fashion. The judges are busy
in the show yard receiving and arranging stock ; and
at six o'clock to-morrow evening, members of the
council and governors of the society will be admitted
to the implement yard. On Wednesday the public in
general share that privilege, and in the afternoon
the favoured few will be allowed to visit the cattle.
In the evening Professor Simmond's lectures on the
liver complaints of domesticated animals. On Thurs-
day the cattle and implement yards will both be
open, and the grand dinner will take place; and on
Friday, after the usual meeting of members of the so-
ciety, who will assemble in the Guildhall, Mr. Tur-
ner and Sir Thomas Dyke Acland will receive and
explain to all agricultural corners the uses and con-
struction of certain " catch meadows" and " water
meadows at Barton and Killerton—places in the
vicinity of Exeter.
Witb this the business of the society closes.
The blank upon Wednesday evening will be filled
up by a grand ball in the pavilion, at which almost
all the county notabilities, the most distinguished
members of the society and their guests will be pre-
sent, and the occasion is expected to be a very gay
and a very brilliant one—even for Exeter. Be-ides
this ball there will be unnumbered minor entertain-
ments out-door and in. The Exeter Oratorio So-
ciety, assisted by some metropolitan celebrities, and
Miss Catherine Hayes, locally announced as the
" Prima donna of her Majesty's Theatre," will per-
form the Creation. Furthermore, there will be
divers horticultural shows, concerts, balloon ascents,
fireworks, and other devices, to add to the general
pleasures of the week.

A peculiar feature of the occasion, and one very
much deprecated, as I understand, by many of the
leading members of the society, is a dinner—a po-
litical and Protectionist dinner—to be given on
Friday, in a pavilion erected for the purpose, to no
less a person than Mr. F. G. Young, under the
presidency of Sir J. Yarde Buller. This enter-
tainment, although technically distinct from and un-
connected with the proceedings of the society, can
hardly be viewed in utter isolation from the latter.
It is said that the Duke of Richmond will be pre-
sent, and that many of the practical speakers of
Thursday will be the political haranguers of Friday.
Any event which would have the effect of mixing
up a purely agricultural society with party politics
is, in the opinion of the principal members of the
Royal Agricultural Society, much to be deplored,
and, accordingly, efforts—unsuccessful efforts, I re-
great to say—have been made by the heads of the
party to put an end to the convulsive caperings of the
tail.

As usual the good folks of the locality are doing
their best in the way of emptying the pockets of
visitors. The hotels have been engaged for weeks.
In some instances, the inmates of houses have let
them from the roof to the cellar to speculators, and
have gone away holiday-ising with the profits ; while
the general tariff of first-floor fronts and two-pair
backs is positively alarming. The delicate nerves of
the cab-owners and fly-drivers have received a terrible
shock from the sudden irruption of a caravan of
coaches, omnibuses, and vehicles of all descriptions,
from Birmingham and other 'cute northern towns, in
the plying whereof the local Jehus foresaw an awful
come-down in the scale of fares. However, they
raised a gallant cry of " Protection to local industry l"
with which they laid siege to the civic authorities,
and that so successfully, that the Wan% ickshire ad-
venturers, being absolutely refused the necessary li-
cences, were constrained to drive their vehicles home
again with fleas in their ears.

But if local industry was thus triumphant, native
industry received an alarming upset in the appear-
ance of M. Soyer, who is to provide and get up the
great Pavilion dinner ! All the purveyors of Exeter
flew to arms. What I were they to be set aside—
native industry compelled to give way to foreign—a
Frenchman to set dainty dishes before the Marquis of
Downshire and a hungry assemblage of true British
farmers ! The sensation was almost revolutionary. It
was said that the agricultural interest was betrayed
once again. And when M. Soyer appeared in a pre-
liminary tour of observation, he saw nothing but
scowls in all the Faithful City. However, the Gas-
tronomic Regenerator is a diplomatist. He knew the
peculiar sort of soft words which turn away wrath ;
and, accordingly, when the Exeter tradespeople found
that the whole of the raw material was not to come
from London, or, still worse, from " foreign parts,"
but that M. Soyer was going from shop to shop pur-
chasing unheard-of quantities of beef, mutton, lamb,
and fowls, their virtuous indignation cooled consider-
ably; kill as furthermore the "Regenerator" gave,
according to a local paper, the "first price asked" for
all he bought, the popular estimate of his character
suddenly changed,
.and "the Frenchman at the Sub-
scription Rooms" is at this moment about the most
popular personage in Exeter, where he expects to
produce great effect upon the agricultural palate by
Pates it la Suer and...S:qlades a la Nayenese.
Much regret is-expressed at the sad death of the
Duke of Cambridge, who was to hav'e been present.
The French and American Amb ssadors are, however,
expected ; and dwellers by the Exe are in great
hopes of being.able to admire the swarthy visages
and diamond aigrets of their Highnesses of Nepaul.

INVERNESS GREAT SIIEEP AND
WOOL FAIR.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
The market here, looked forward to with so much in-
terest and anxiety, as involving the whole year's comfort
and prosperity of a large body of our hill farmers and
others, besides regulating the prices in all the inferior
markets, commenced yesterday, and may now be said to
have terminated.

TUESDAY EVENING, JULY l6, 1850.

when, having confirmed the by-low, and completed the
appointment, the power of the ratepayers to object to
rush appointment, under the Act 11 and 12 Victoria,
chap. 112, had expired?
2. Upon what authority, written or verbal, th© Me-
tropolitan Conarnhisiorers of Sewers changed the narre
of the individual originally announced as Mr. Frank
Foster into Mr. F, ank Forster?
3. Whether the name appendtd to the return (see-
sional paper No. 481, of session 1850) as Francis For-
ster, engineer, is that of the person originally announced
as Mr. Frank Foster, and subsequently designa-ed by
the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers as Mr. Frank
Forster?
4. Whether the engineer to the Metropolitan Com-
missioners of Sewers is the same person as the Mr.
Francis Forster who valued the Comgreve property at
the request of James Henry Shears, and whose di-posi-
tions, as a witness, appear at page 77 of the appeal case
of " Small v. Attwooel," in the house of Lords?
Lord EBRINGTON stated that the name of the en-
gine r to the Metropolita❑ Commissioners of Sewers
was Forster, and not Foster; that he had been appointed
on the recommendation of Mr. Stevenson and Sir H.
De la B..clie, and that he was the same gentleman whose
depositions as a witness appeared in the appeal case of
" Small v. Attwond."
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE BILL.

Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second reading of
this Bill.
Mr. BASS seconded the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed
the motion, and moved that the Bi.l be read a second
time that day three months. In all probability, every
Hon. Gentleman then present had received a circular
letter, signed by every attorney and solicitor in her Ma-
jesty's dominions, in favour of repealing this tax, and if
they were prepared t r give their votes under that descrip-
tion of solicitation and pressure, then, of course, they
would consent to the second reading of the Bid; but he
for one would not believe that the House of Commons
was thus to be acted upon. If he were about to impose
the tax in question, doubtless, he should be bound to
show good reasons for doing so; but, on the other hand,
when it was proposed to repeal a tax which returned so
large a sum as 100,000/. to the public revenue, those
who supported its repeal should show in what the impost
was objectionable. This tax had existed for 50 years;
up to the present year it had been paid without mur-
muring, and no adequate reason had been given why it
should of all others be now selected fur repeal. This
was only one of a considerable number of licences which
were issued fur the purpose of raising revenue from
persons carrying on different professions. There were
not less than 35 classes of persons who were subjected
to a licensing duty, and unless the House was
prepared to say that it would, put an end to the system
of raising revenue by means of licences, and was prepared
to sacrifice 1,200,000/. a year, which was the amount at
present raised by that means, he knew not upon what
grounds they could be called upon to repeal this parti-
cular tax. He did not intend any disrespect to the
learned profession in mentioning other cases who paid a
licensing duty, but there were bankers, auctioneers, and
others who were subjected to it, and if the House re-
pealed this individual tax, he asked were they prepared
to refuse to extend the same relief to theta? No doubt
it was a very painful thing to say " no" to a personal
friend when he came forward and asked the repeal of a
duty—(A laugh)—but unfortunately, from the position
which he occupied, it was a duty which he had frequently
to perform, and a disagreeable duty it was.—(Another
laugh.) - Let Honourable Gentlemen remember that they
were sent there to act not upon personal considerations,
and that it was no less their duty, as well as his,
to say "no " to a personal - request of this kind,
unless - upon public grounds a case could be
made out for the repeal of this duty. He
would put it to them was this the question of a
tax upon consumption? Was it a tax upon property?
Or was it the case of a body of men who were suffering
under any particular distress or pressure? The number
of persons who applied for admission into this profession
was yearly increasing; and he presumed that it was so
because upon the whole they made a sufficient livelihood
out of it. The present measure applied only to attorneys
in England; but there were parties in Scotland and Ire-
land, also, who were entitled to a- similar remission. He
held in his hand a letter which he had received from a
notary, who said that he conceived himself to be as much
entitled to the remission of the duty he was called upon
to pay as an attorney. If this duty were removed ho
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did not believe that
the public would derive the advantage of a general re-
duction of attorneys' charges, and he observed that the
attorneys themselves had proposed to increase the fee
paid to the Law Institution for certificates of registration
from Is. 61. to 10s. If the House was prepared to give
up so much revenue he thought there were many other
taxes which were much more objectionable, and the re-
mission of which would be attended with greater advan-
tage to the country. Upon these grounds he proposed
his amendment.
Mr. MULLINGS (amidst cries of " Divide") said
the Right Hon. Gentleman had compared the annual
certificate of solicitors with the licences of bankers, auc-
tioneers, and other persons; but it should be remem-
bered that when a young man was articled to an attor-
ney he bad to pay 1201. for the stamp, when admitted he
had another stamp duty to pay amounting to 25/, and
sometimes a premium amounting to 500 guineas. The
case of an attorneywas not parallel, therefore, to the case
of a banker-or an auctioneer.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MUNTZ objected altogether to taxes upon trade,
and was therefore - opposed to the duty on attorneys'
certificates. It was on that ground be should vote for
the Bill.
Mr. GOULBURN said that the observations of the
llor. Gentleman (Mr. Muntz) presented a sound reason
why the House should pause before they gave their as-
sent to the Bill. The lion. Member was averse to any
tax upon trade, and was therefore prepared to give up a
million of revenue. He (Mr. Goulburn) would resist
the repeal of this tax on the ground that there was no-
thing that more imperilled the sources cf the public re-
venue of the country than that parties should thus
come forward to seek the repeal of certain taxes,
which were small in amount certainly, but the repeal
of which involved a principle that rendered it impos-
sible to maintain an adequate revenue. For instance,
because the stamp duties on legal proceedings were re-
pealed, it was now asked to abolish the attorneys' certifi-
cate duty.
Mr. BRIGHT had formerly voted for the Bill, be-
cause he thought that by so doing he was aiding in the
relief of a body who were oppressed by a heavy tax ;
but he had found since that there was a great difference
of opinion among attorneys themselves on the matter,
though the greater number certainly were of opinion
that the tax ought to be taken off. Ile agreed with the
Hon. Member (Mr. Muntx) that the taxes on trade
were of a ♦ery obnoxious character, and that the attor-
neys' certificate duty stood upon the same ground ; but
as all those taxes would be made the subject of revision
next year, he should vote with Government on the pre-
sent occasion, on the ground that this tax should be in-
cluded in that general revision,
Colonel SIBTHORP attributed the Ben. Member's
change of opinion to his looking for a place from the
Government.
After a few words from Lord R. GROSVENOR in
reply,
The House divided, when there appeared,
Eor the second reading ... 139
For the amendment ... 122
Majority „„
The Bill was accordingly read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL.

The House went into Committee on this Bill, Mr.
BERNAL in the chair.
On the 15th elausr.,
Sir B. HALL inquired upon what data the salaries of
bishops and archbishops were fixed? He found that the
salary of the Bishop of Oxford was fixed at 5,0001. a
year, and yet that in ono instance he received 5,8741.
Lord J. RUSSELL said the principle on which the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners appointed the sums that
were allotted as salaries to the bishops was, that instead
of settling a fixed payment yearly, they took a certain
period of years, according to the returns laid before
them, and directed certain payments to be made such as
on the average of those years would produce the allotted
sum, so that in some years the amount paid them might
exceed, and in some fall short of the salary named for
them. The object of the present clause was to make
an entirely new arrangement, so that the bishop should
receive the exact amount of his salary—neither more
nor less.

Sir J. GR &HAIL was glad of the introduction of the
clause; for, prospectively, it would be a very great im-
provement. With respect to the Bishop of Oxford, as
his name had been introduced, he wished, in conformity
with a request from that Right Rev. Prelate, to offer an
explanation of some circumstances which had been ad-
verted to on a former occasion. The Bishop of Oxford, on
being appointed to his see, was informed that he could
hold no preferment in ammendam, but should reside
constantly in his diocese, having no other preferment.
The five preceding bishops in the see had held extensive
preferments in commendam, and very seldom resided in
their diocese. The episcopal residence at Cuddesdon
had in the interim been destroyed ; and some outlay
being necessary to render it habitable for the bishop,
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners gave the bishop 3,5001.
for the purpose, and a further sum of 1,3004 to remove
a public-house that was in the gardens of Cuddesdon—
in all 4,8001.; in addition to which the bishop laid out a
further sum of 1,600/. upon buildings. lie then asked
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to make a further aci‘
Vance, but they refused, expressing a wish that he ,
should go to Queen Anne's Bounty Fund for the 1,600 h,
which he did, and for that sum he now paid interest out
of his own ptivate resources. lie could assure the Hon.
Member there had been no extravagance whatever in
the outlay upon the episcopal residence. With respect
to the arrangement which made the payment of the
bishops contingent upon an average of seven years,
he thought it very objectionable, and he was de-
cidedly favourable to giving them a fixed immutable
sum, which would be 'be effect of the clause they were
now discussing.
Mr. GOULBURN, in reference to what had been
said on a former occasion with respect to the income of
the Bishop of London, read a communication from the
Right Rev. Prelate, in which he stated that the sum he
had returned was the exact sum that he had received .on
the year for which he bad made the return.
Sir B. HALL said that the amount of income re-
turned by the Bishop of London for year 1837 was
14 2
910/., and for the year 1843. 1 481 .
showing a fill-
while in the same years the assess.
meat o jug'
of property 2429 i ;
. in Paddington, where the Bishop's
property was situated, amounted in the former year to
112,9881,
and in the latter to 191,194/, being an increase
while the assessment for 1850 amounted to
304 f
32
661 ,
78,2061.,being an increase of upwards of 230,000/. on
the assessment upon property in Paddington, and yet
the Bishop of London said there was no increase in
his income, which was derived from property in that
very parish of Paddington.
Mr. GOULBURN said that only one-third of the