Star.
London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

RQUIS WELLESLEY.

His Grace the Duke of LEINSTER, the Lail of
ME.arti, and Viscount Lismone, as a Deputation
from the Farming Society of Ireland, attended by
their Secretary, waited upon his Excellency the Mar-
quis WELLICSLEY on Friday, and presented the fol-
lowing Address :

"TO HIS extsr.Lizece THE MOST NOBLIC RICHARD MARQRIS IMF".
LESLLT, LORD.LIECTENANT-G&NIDIAL, AND GINEMAL-GOTESDOS
OF 'ARLAND.
" May it please your Exeelleney,—We, as Directors of the
Fanning Society of Ireland, most respectfully present to your
Excellency a copy of our Charter, by which we are entitled to
the valued privilege of calling your Excellency our Patron.
" And we confidently trust, that under the gut:l:weep( such a
Patron, the Farming Society may be made an efficient instru-
ment of muds advantage to this country.
" Its objects and its labours have hitherto been arected (we
hope successfully) to improve ploughing, draining, and irrigating ;
to the importation and growth of seed-corn, the dispersion ofgood
implements, and the improvement of neat cattle, sheep, and swine.
111nrever advancement in agriculture Ireland can boast, has been
principally effected since its institution, and by its means.
" Latterly, the efforts of the Society have been fettered by
the limitation of its funds, under the necessary system of general
retrenchment. It looks forward with hope to better times, and
to the wisdom and liberality of your Excellency's patronage.
" The Society comprises amongst its Members almost all the
rank and respectability of the country—ready to esteperate in
every exertion towards agricultural improvement which your
Excellency, their respected Patron, Shall do them the honour
to suggest.

" Your Excellency's comprehensive mind, whitit it admits
the importance of improved agriculture to every country, will
intuitively appreciate its peculiar value to Ireland, ax the most
Ilkaual Means of providing permanent employitwin (or a dis-
tressed population, and of furnishing to the Stat_ the full benefit
of bar gnat natural resources."

To which his Excellency was please) to retern the
following gracious answer :
" WELLESLZT,
" Under the authority of your Charter, I accept the honour-
able charge which you have been pleased to intrust to me. with
a high sense of its public importance.
It will be my anxious endeavour to afford every a--istance
within my power to the Farming Society, in the promotion of
its useful and salutary objects; and I sincerely hove that you
n:ay continue to advance the agriculture of Ireland, and to dif-
fuse the spirit of honest industry.
" It Is painful to me to leal n, that the efforts of the Society
have been fettered by the limitation of its funds, wider the sys-
tem of general retrenchment lately adopted; and I shall be
harpy to avail myself of any proper means of augmenting your
tiinds, con,istently with the attention which is due to the strict
economy of the public finances. But I cannot omit this oppor-
tanity of declaring, that it is not less my inclination than my
bounden duty to give every aid to the progress of that wise and
necessary system of general retrenchment which has been adopted
by his Majesty's Government and by Parliament ; and which is
as essential to the true dignity of the Crown, as it is indispensa-
bly necessary for the security of the State, and for the interests
and wel:ar.: of the people.
" I am deeply impressed with the value and the importance
of your Institution ; and sensible, as I must be, of the utility of
such establishments, in whatever country they may have been
introduced, I het that they are of more peculiar interest and
advantage in Ireland, where the introduction of habits of indus-
trious labour is indispensably requisite for the safety of property,
and fur the happiness of the great body of the people."