The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY b:VENING, AUGUST 13

" During the few hours that Queen Victoria will stay at
Aix-la-Chapelle a cava!ry guard of honour, composed of the
young branches of the first families of the town, will do duty
near the person of her Majesty. We can easily imagine the
zeal each individual person amongst the authorities will evince
at the memorable meeting of two great sovereigns within the
walls of Aix-la-Chapelle, in performing the part assigned to
him. . .

" ` There are but two days for the young ladies to prepare
their cLesses, for the gentlemen to prepare their equipments
and uniforms, and for the municipal authorities to decorate the
public offices with flags and emblems.
‘‘' Li the evenings of to-morrow and the day after the town
will be hrilliir.tly illuminated. All are agreed that the recep-
tion of the Queen of England will correspond with the brilliant
fetes which the King of Prussia has ordered on the banks of
the Rhine, vilich are expected to be of an extraordinary cha-
racter.

NAMES OF RAILWAYS.

London. Liver- I Man- I Bristol.
pool. cheater.

" It is stated postively that the King of Holland will pass
a few days on the banks of the Rhine, and that he will be pre-
sent at the fket of Stolzenfels.'"

APPRO ACHING MARRIAGES IN

lIIGII LIFE.

We understand that a marriage is on the Lapis between
Selina Visceuntess Milton, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool,
and widow of the late Viscount Milton, M.P., and Mr. Fol.
jambe, of Oiberton-hall, Notts.

It is stated that the Hon. Miss Georgiana Liddell, daughter
of Lord and Lady Ravensworth, is about to be married to his
Excellency the Right Hon. John A. D. Bloomfield, eldest
son of Lieut.-General Lord Bloomfield. The fair fiancée is
sister of the Marchioness of Normanby, the Countess of Hard-
wick, and Viscountess Barrington.
The marrage of Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Manvers, and Mr. Egerton, second
son of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, of Tattoo Park, is to be solem-
nised in a few days at Thoresby Park, the Earl of Manvers'
seat in Nottinghamshire. Alter the ceremony the bride and
bridegroom will go to Mr. H. Gaily Knight's seat, Firbeck-
halt, Int the honeymoon, and afterwards proceed on a Conti-
nental tour.

The statement which appeared in the papers a few weeks
back, asserting that Lord Brooke, son of the Earl of War-
wick, was the accepted suitor of Miss Isabella Morritt, was
wholly devoid of truth. _ _ _ _ .

We learn that the nuptials of Lady Jane Grimston, youngest
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Verulam, and the Earl
of Caledon, are to be solemnised early in October. The mar-
riage ceremony is to take place at Gorhambury, the Earl of
Verulam's seat, near St. Alban's. A numerous family circle
will assemble at Gorhambury, t i celebrate the happy event.
The Nobl Earl, immediately after his marriage, intends to
leave for his patrimonial estates in Ireland, and his Lordship's
mansion on Carlton House-terrace, now occupied by Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, is to be partially re-embellished
by the spring of the ensuing year, Viscount Palmerston's term
expiring on the Ist January next.
It is understood that the marriage of Lord Macdonald and
Miss Wyndham, daughter of the Countess of Listowel, is to
be solemnised in the course of the ensuing week. The 2lst
instant has been mentioned, but we believe the precise day is
not yet determined.
The day is not yet fixed for the marriage of Sir Thomas
Hesketh, Bart., and Lady Arabella Fermor, sister of the Earl
of Pomfret. The fair betrothed, accompanied by her aunt,
the Hon. Lady Borough, have been on a visit to Lady Hes-
keth, at the family seat in Lancashire, but are now making a
tour in North Wales.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

The Right Rev. Bishop Coleridge and Mrs. Coleridge, at
Marshall Th()mpson's Hotel, Cavendish-square; Mrs. Ren-
nell and family, at ditto ; T. G. Parry, Esq., Mrs. Parry,
and family, at ditto; the Lady Petre and Miss Petre, at ditto;
Mrs. Martin, at ditto, from the Continent ; Mrs. Sherriff, at
the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Brighton ' - Sir M.
Chapman and Mr. B. Chapman, M.P., at ditto, from Ireland ;
H. James, Esq., at ditto.
DEPARTURES.

Sir Thomas and Lady Dancer, from Fenton's Hotel, St.
James's-street, for the Continent ; Lady A. Manners, from
ditto, for Belvoir Castle; the Hon. C. Lawless, from ditto, for
Yorkshire ; Sir John Duckworth, Bart., M.P., from ditto, for
Wear House ; Mr. and Mrs. Gough, from the Cavendish
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Dean of Derry's, Ireland ; Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, from ditto, for Plymouth ; the lion. J.
Bourke, from ditto ; E. T. Copley, Esq., from ditto, for
Nether Hall, Doncaster; Dr., Mrs., and Miss Morelands,
from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Scot-
land ; Dr. Buckmaster Brown, from ditto, for ditto ; P. P.
Williams, Esq., from ditto, for Devon ; A. T. Gordon, Esq.,
and Mr'. Gordon, from ditto; Major Armstrong and
Slater, Esq., from ditto ; J. S. Hay, Esq., from ditto, for
Edinburgh ; Miss St. Quentin and Miss Smith, from ditto, for
Harrogate.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.
On Tuesday a splendid Silver Cup, value 501., was sailed for
by cutters of the second class (50 and under 75 tons). The
following vessels started at ten o'clock :
Charm, 73 tons, Matthew J. Higgins, Esq., owner; Gaunt-
let, 59 tons, Andrew Fountaine, Esq., owner ; Wave, 54 tons,
Marquis of Blandford, owner; Noran, 70 tons, Sir H. B.
Houghton, Bart., owner.
The Queen's Course, namely, round the Isle of Wight,
passing outside the No-man buoy and Nab Light-vessel ; re-
turning between a vessel with a large Union Jack at the mast-
head and Cowes Castle.
The day was a very unfortunate one, there not being a breath
of wind at the time of starting, and but very little during the
day. There is now (six P.m.) a fresh breeze from the west-
ward, the yachts are supposed to be beating /down the back of
the Wight, and are not expected in much before daylight to-
morrow.
We have a great many fashionables, yet, " Lodgings,"
" This House to Let," meets the eye in every direction.
The Royal Yaeht Squadron ball takes place to-morrow
evening.
On Thursday a5O guinea Cup is to be sailed for by schoo-
ners above 140 tons.
On Saturday, her Majesty's Cup, value 100/., by schooners
under 140 tons.
On Friday, the annual dinner.
On Monday (August 18), a Piece of Plate, value 50 gui-
neas, given by the Royal Yacht Squadron, to be sailed for by
yachts under 30 tons, open to all England (the yachts of the
Royal Yacht Squadron being all over 30 tons, it must be con-
tended for by the yachts of other clubs).
The evening to close with fire-works.
A great deal of sport is expected on this day ; and should it
prove fine, and a favourable breeze, there will be thousands to
witness the sport. It will be the grand day of the season.

Aberdeen
Arbroath and Forfar
Ditto Half Shares .
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
Belfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Birknhd, Lan. & Ches, Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. New ( iss. at 71/2 dis.)
Ditto llalf Shares ...
Birminglim & Oxfrd. June.
Blckburn, Chrly, & N. Un.
Blackburn, Darwn, & Bolin
Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hast
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian .
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Birkenhead
Ditto New Shares
Ditto Half Shares
Chester and Holyhead . •
Cheltenham and Oxford
Chichester and Brighton
Churnet Valley
Clydesdale Junction
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal ...
Covntry, Bedwrth, & Nun.
Coventry and Leicester
Cornwall . ...
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmoth
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich ....
Dublin and Belfast Junet
Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine
Dublin and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath
Ditto New.........
Dundee and Perth..
Eastern Counties

Aug.l2.

1331/2
4

X%
111/2

10%
2'

2 1 Vi

1%

20g
7p

Do. New .
Do. Perp., 5 pr Cnt., No. l
Do. ditto N 0.2
East Dereham & Norwich
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum.
Edinburgh and Glasgow...
Do. Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edinb., Leith, and Granton
Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebleshire
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Bedford
Enniskillen and Sligo
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchstr
Garnkirk and Glasgow
Glasgow and Ayr
Do. Quarter Shares
Glasgow and Greenock
Ditto New
Ditto Preference
Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car
Goole and Doncaster
Grand Junction.
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New Quarters
Ditto Eighths
Grand Union .
Great Grimsby & Sheffield
Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd)
Ditto Extension
Great Munster .........
Great Northern of Scotlnd
Great Northern of Englnd
Do. New, 401. Shares
Do. New, 301. Shares
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares ..
Ditto Fifths
Guildfrd, Farehm, & Ports
Harwich
fludrstld & Man. R. & Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Half Shares.
Inverness and Elgin
Kendal and Windermere..
Kingstown and Bray
Killarney Junctions
Lancaster and Carlisle.....
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Dewsbury
Leeds and Thirsk
Leeds and W. Riding June
Leicester and Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis,& Kil. Junc
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares •••
Livrpl, Ormskirk, & Prestn
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwell
London and Brighton
Do. Cnsolidated Eighths
London and Croydon.
Ditto New...
Do. Guarantd. 5 per cent.
London and Greenwich
Do. Prefrnc. or Privilege
London & South Western
Do. New Cone. Eighths
Do. New, 50/. Shares
Do. New, 401. Shares
London and York ..
London and Windsor
Londn, Salisbury, & Yeovil
Londonderry and Coleraine
Londonderry & Enniskillen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham...
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares .
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester & Birminghm
Ditto Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Manchestr, Bolton, & Bury
Manchstr, Bury, & Rosend
Manchstr, Buxtn,& Matlk
Midland
Ditto Fifths
Ditto New
Do. Cons. Birm & Derby
Midland Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo ..
Nwcastl & Darlingtn Junc
Do. New (Brandling)...
Newcastle and Berwick ...
Newcastle and Carlisle ....
Newport and Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen ...
Newark and Sheffield
North British .
Ditto Half 5hare5........
Northern and Eastern .....
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Do. Quarter Shares
North Kent
North Staffordshire
North Eastern
North Union (A).
Ditto (B)
North Wales Mineral
Ditto New Shares .
North Western
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New
Not., Belvoir, and Granthm
Nottingham and Boston ...
N ott., Erewsh Val. & Man.
Nottingham and Mansfield
Oxford and Birming. Junc
Oxford and Worcester
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre.
Ditto Half Shares .
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div
Richmnd and W. End June
Rugby, Worcester, & Tring
Scottish Central ........•
Scottish Midland
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto ditto (No. 2)
Ditto ditto (No. 3)
Sheffield and Lincoln
Shrewsb., Wor., and Crewe
Shrews.,Wolv.,Dudly,&Bir
Shrewsbry & Trnt Val. Un.
Shrewsb,Herefd,&N.Wals
Slamannan
South Devon .
South Midland .........
South Eastern and Dover.
Do. New (iss. 321.) No. 1
Do. (iss. 33/.63.8d.) „ 2
Do (iss. 301.) „ 3
Staines and Richmond....
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline..
South NVales...... •••
Trent Valley
Do. and Holyhead Junc
West London, Old Shares
West End & Southrn Coun
Wexford and Carlow
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,Wexfd,Wick&Dub
Wakfid, Pontefrct, & Goole
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London
West Lancashire
Worcester and Tring .....
Whitehaven and Furness..
Do. New Half Shares...
Welsh Midland
West Cornwall
West 'Yorkshire .
Wilts, Somrst. & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich
Ditto New •

113/4

25%
11%
23%

228
123
50%

214

York and Carlisle
York and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares ,

lAug.l2.

1014
171/2

113/4

10
254

2214

6%

245.

11%

26ii
13
15
435. A
334

24
I 1/2 p

82
39
161(
4%

63/4 p
L 74%

26%
[34 I/2

231/2

24
32
8

3 %
39112

2112
(2
2,

lAug.l2.

93/4

......
31A

2%

176
5%

134

26
! 1. 3/4

--
3%

lAug.l2.

15 11-161

43/4 4
203 1

3214

_
7 3/4

2%

32
9%

314

7%

. . . . . . .
63%

97
121%
601/2

% P

41,4
p
3Y2

I 4 13-16,

32 %
_A 3

74

7%

28

35U

6%
[3O

129
16%
12%

161,i
12%

61s.
3%
3%
3%

301
4 2
45'4
173/4
15%

51A
191 A

5%
.....
18%6-
14

3 11-16

- -
55,

8%

234
27
314

39th

3p

714

3%

15%

14

80s.

Do. Scarborough Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto Extension

-
23%

RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES

IN TIE

PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

York,

Leeds.

lAug.ll

lAug.l2.

3%

245.

9s. p.
151.183.64

13%

554
25

725.

Hull.

Hudders-
field.

14%
18s. p
40s. p

Closed.

1535. 4dH

!Sheffield

274

'Aug. 7.

lAug.l2.

-
10%

614

221 A

201,4.

Glasgow.

Aug.ll.
68

575. 6d

91A

_
:4 14

35.. 6d.

545.

15 15-161

Dublin.

lAug.ll.

us. pl

7/. 14s.

6%

24%

6%

24%

29%

141-8.6d.pl

14
15%

264

2%

7%

243/4
265. pi

1225.641

21s.

3%

61s.

1214

38

2%

383/4

24%

73

445.

731,

31. 17s.
1414

414

2334

6%1

2%

514

-
365.

845.

LORD MORPETH UPON THE ED U-
CATION OF FARMERS.
At the annual dinner of the members of the Y. rk -
shire Agricultural Society last week, after the u ual loyal
toasts had been drunk,
Lord MORPETH, in proposing " Success to the So-
ciety," spoke as follows :—My Lord and gentlemen, I
have been honoured with a command to propose a toa-t,
and I cannot but feel confident that it is a toast that will
prove acceptable in your sight. The toast is " Success to
the Yorkshire Agricultural Society."—(Loud cheers.) I
feel confident, gentlemen, that you will agree with me that
there could not have been an occasion upon which that
toast, at all times so dear to our hearts, could have been
more appropriate and more auspicious than the present.
• - (Cheers.) I think we may congratulate all concernr d,
and also one another, upon the *event of this day's exhi-
bition.—(Cheers.) And these results must have fully
justified the selection of the place for holding it—of this
pleasant town of Beverley—(Cheers)—the capital of a
district second to few, if second to any, in the progress
and the perfectioning of agricultural improvement
(Loud cheers.) I ask you whether it was possible to
walk through the various departments of this day's ex-
hibition, and to feel that it was merely the exhibition of
a county of England at which we were assisting?—
(Cheers.) Everything seemed to me to be most aus-
picious and first-rate.--(Cheers.) The spot for holdine
it was most commodious, the arrangements most satis-
factory. The sun itself was like that which ought
always to gild the labours of an agricultural August ;
and although we were told last night that the
rain of heaven made by far the best liquid
manure—(A laugh)—yet I think we all most gladly
dispensed with any. manure of that kind this morn-
ing.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, highly honoured as I
feel myself by being selected as the organ for proposing
such a toast, and on such an occasion, and before such a
company, I rather fear that you may be inclined to
complain that it has been entrusted to rue, when I inform
you that, before giving it, I must trespass upon you in a
twofold capacity, not very acceptable at any time, and
perhaps least so upon an opportunity of festive recrea-
tion—l allude to the twofold capacity of a bore and a
due.—(Laughter and cheers.) And, gently men, the only
compensation I can make is to render my appearance
in those repulsive parts as brief as possible. With re-
ference, then, to the business which has brought this
goodly gathering here to-day, I have sometimes been
led to apprehend, amidst all the perfection to whirls
the breeding of stock and the exhibitions of cattle
have attained, from the faultless symmetry of the short-
horn to the unquestionable proportions of pigs and
sheep—amidst also the perfection which has been at
teined in the department of agricultural imph menus,
of which your field to-day arroraea suet' zu.a and ad-
mirable specimens.—(Hear, hear.) I have sometimes
been led to apprehend whether we bestow on all occa-
sions a corresponding degree of culture and attention
upon that which you will all admit to be the most int
portant breed, the noblest stock of all the human animals
—(Loud cheers)—whether amidst the increasing care
and skill which day by day, and year by year, are ex-
pended upon the farm, we do all we ought to do to the
farmer.—(Cheers.) Now, I am well aware that out of
the materials here before me I must at once meet with
the most satisfactory and triumphant refutation.—
(Hear.) Many, very many farmers here present there
are who may eafely be pointed out, and then I
might be asked, where would you look for more in-
telligence, for more enterprise, for more worth ?
(Loud cheers.) In the face of such an exhibition
as we have seen to-day, where would you desire better
evidence of the skill and ability which are bestowed
upon the management and cultivation of the land ?
(lcer.) Where, and under what system, could you
wish to better the results that are set forth in the farm-
ing of the Welds, and in the show fields of Beverley ?
(" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Now, I am the very last
person to counteract or weaken such a satisfactory
testimony ; but what I wish for us all to strive
for is, to make what is now partial become universal—
(Loud cheers)—to make the whole mass what the pat-
tern samples are now made of. It would be superfluous
at this time of day, and upon this occasion, to descant
upon the advantages of education. Education is proba-
bly now more abundantly provided for than at any for-
mer period of our history. But, whilst the best
and most approved methods of education are at the
service of the wealthier classes, and the mer-
cantile and commercial classes in our larger
towns,—and while, on the other hand, there is a multi-
tude of schools now open in our country parishes and
villages, where the children of the agricultural labourers,
and the working classes generally, may receive a daily
improving system of education, it has seemed to me, and
to others far more competent to form a sound opinion,
that there is a deficiency in the special and appropriate
modes of education best fitted for the sons of farmers.
—(Loud cheers.) Now, the importance of this point
turns very much upon the importance which ought to be
attached to the class of farmers, and to the rising
generation of English farmers.—(hear, hear.) I, for
one, attach the very highest importance to that class.
I think they fill the most important place in the
social scale of the British commonwealth. I think they have
high duties to discharge,—first, to themselves ; and per-
haps, this is the class of duties which we are always
most likely to remember. But, whatever Parliaments
or legislators might do with respect to the laws which
bear upon their condition, it is plain that, in the pre-
sent state of competition which besets every department
of human industry and effort, if the farmer will do his
duty to himself—if he means to keep his place, or, as I
fervently hope, to improve upon it—(Loud cheers)—he
must be wide awake, he must be up to all the new me-
thods and discoveries which are every day so largely de-
veloping themselves, and adding to, in the science of
practical agriculture. Next, the farmer has duties to his
landlord—reciprocal duties, 1 admit—ln which the used-
lord largely shares.—(Hear.) I am not now about to take
up the question of leases, or of any which may excite
a degree of opinion ; but I may observe in passing,
that, in my belief, there is perhaps a greater degree
of what is called security of tenure in the ordinary run
of the Yorkshire landlords—this practically is the case—
than can be found in Scotland or elsewhere, where grant-
ing of leases forms the system of more regular business.
(Cheers.) But if this be the case, and if the landlord is
expected not lightly to disturb the tenure of the tenant
—as I hope he never lightly will—then, on the other
hand, the tenant owes it to the landlord not to let
himself be grievously outrun in the management of
his farm by his neighbours around him.—(Loud cheers.)
And the last duties to which I would advert on the
part of the farmer are those which he owes to the
agricultural labourers, on the strength of whose arms
he so much relies, and on which he must so mainly
depend.—(Heare hear.) Now it is upon the well-being
and the good conduct of the labouring classes of this
country that I think our hopes and destinies as a nation,
more than on any other thing, mainly depend.—(Cheers.)
And when I reflect how much the farmer has it in his
power, and within his reach, not only to consult the
material wants and the condition of those who work for
him, but also to influence their character, and to raise
their moral tone, I think it must be agreed that, in addi-
tion to the duties they owe to themselves and to their
landlords, they have most serious duties to discharge to
the class of agricultural labourers.—(Load cheers) But
wherever there are high duties, there are also high re-
sponsibilities. And what I earnestly wish is, that the
coming generation of British farmers shall be trained
fully up to the level of its duties and responsibilities.--
(Cheers.) I beg pardon, gentlemen, for being so long in
laying my premises ; but I will fix my conclusions very
shortly. That which under the circumstances I should
have originally thought most desirable would have been
to establish some distinct school in a rural district, in con-
nexion with some model farm—(Cheers)—where a com-
plete course of agricultural instruction might be pur-
sued. But these with whom I have had an opportunity
of consulting came to the conviction that we should not
be able to raise sufficient funds, nor insure sufficient at-
tendance, to set on foot and maintain such an object.—
(Hear, hear.) However that may be, I believe many
amongst you may be acquainted with the substitute we
are endeavouring to introduce. There is already in ex-
istence a most excellent school at York, where a very
useful, sound, and complete education—when I say
complete, I admit that it will not be so without re-
ligion and morality being taught at the same time—
(Cheers)—where such an education is provided for the
young and middle classes, who have at present no such
means afforded. What we propose is to attach to this
school a large and commodious boarding-house, where
children from any distance may be accommodated and
carefully attended to ; and on the education at present
given it is proposed to graft special instruction
in agricultural chemistry, in practical mechanism, or
any other branch which recent discoveries have brought
to bear upon this class of her Majesty's subjects.—
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) But this undertaking, like
all others, stands in need of funds. I have been in-
formed that many of the wealthier and spirited farmers
in this district have given as much as 1001. a year; and
it is proposed that the entire expense for lodging,
board, and education, shall be twenty-one guineas
a year, which I hope will not be considered out of the
reach of that class whose interest we are wishful
to consult.—(Cheers.) But, as I said, to accomplish this
we are in need of the sinews of war. 2,2001. has been
already subscribed ; and about 1,000/. more is required
in order to make the boarding-house and school con-
tiguous to the present establishment. And I ought to
mention that many of the chief proprietors and leading
noblemen and gentlemen of the county, including our
noble chairman, have come forward most munificently on
this occasion. But perhaps their munificence, in the first
instance, may have had the effect of deterring smaller
subscriptions. If, however, the wealthy farmers would
spare us 11. a-piece, we should probably be enabled to
accomplish the whole extent of our wish. Our York
Yeoman School is well worthy of support, and with the
' addition of what we propose would be a most valuable
acquisition to the British farmers. I again beg pardon for
being indiscreet—tedious, I know.—(No.) But I thought
that, having occasion to address you, you would for-
. give me, if, instead of indulging in vague generalities
. in praise of agriculture, I should have called your atten-
. tion to a project which, to my mind, would be most
ti useful, most desirable, and which is most extremely
wanted.—(Loud applause.) And I feel that it would be
- as well for us to make an intellectual co-operation second
- to our mechanical contrivances, for when we have made
' man keep pace with the machine—( Hear, and cheers)—
" when we have made the human breed as thoroughly
- furnished to the work as the best and most faultless
of our short-horns • when we can not only point
- to the rest of England, and, so far as the northern
- counties of the island are concerned, show our agricul-
tural labourers superior to our brethren of the south,
- not only in the amount of wages, but in the physical
- energy which more than repays the outlay—(Cheers)-
- when, besides these, we have made every class of the
- farmers take the same high ground in all their resources
- of intellectual affinity, it will then be with the best con-
-
science, and with the surest auguries of prosperity, that
we shall drink the toast I have now to propose—'
cons to the Yorkshire Agricultural Society."—(Drunk
with three times three, and continued applause.)