The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

' may be blended with the fertile valley into ono
common and prolific garden ! We entertain but a sorry
opinion of the patriotism of the man who would draw upon
foreign states for those articles of consumption which, by a
proper appropriation of the gifts of Providence, he can pro-
duce upon the land of his fathers ; and we shall never yield
to the senseless clamour for unrestricted importation from
abroad, until we have brought into full cultivation every
available spot of ground at home. This we conceive to be
a principle neither invidious nor unjust, but wise and po-
litic ; and we would commend the same spirit, the same
preference of home production in others, as the most bene-
ficial, by its promotion of industrial habits, for the general
family of mankind. It is a feeling, indeed, essentially phi-
losophical, and peculiarly English. The fragrance of the
rose that is plucked at the door of the cottage is sweeter in
odour to the peasant, who has assiduously reared it, amidst
difficulties and discouragements, than if it were culled from
the parterre of the palace : the root which he has dug from
his own little garden, is more grateful to his palate than if it
were the purchased produet of unknown hands; and the
same argument, though simple, if it be true as applied to
individuals, is equally valid on the broad principle of nation-
ality. What vintage of a sunnier clime can yield a beverage
so refreshing —so health-inspiring —as our own " home-
brewed nut-brown ale." And (we may further inquire),
what foreign pasturage—as witness the present exhibition—
can produce stock to compete with the home-fed beef of old
England ! Truly it may be said, indeed, that whether as
regards the necessaries of life, or the employment to millions
which their production creates, " there is no place like home."
With these impressions, the meeting of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England, at our western metropolis of
commerce, is an event of much interest and gratification,
and will, we doubt not, beget a more jusb and kindly feeling
towards the rural population, amongst the ultra-advocates of
free trade, than they have for some time exhibited. They will
learn from it, if they be accessible to conviction, that much
as has already been accomplished in the cultivation of the
soil, much more may yet be achieved ; and that we should
cease to be true to ourselves if, by neglecting to husband
well our own resources, discouraging the home producer, we
forward one interest to the ruin of another, and become
thereby dependant upon foreigners for any portion of our
supply of food, beyond an occasional fractional amount in
the rare occurrence of seasons of scarcity. The primary
object of the society is second to none that have hitherto
engaged the attention of man individually or collectively,
and is strictly compatible with the soundest and most un-
deniable principles of philosophy and political economy. It
is, by the encouragement of new and scientific improvements
and discoveries, to bring agriculture to the highest possible
degree of perfection ; in a word, to ensure to the husband-
man the greatest possible amount of the produce of the soil
at the least possible expenditure of capital and labour. A
Purpose more beneficial, or more honourable, can scarcely
be found amongst the range of human influences ; and we
regard its originators with a degree of respect akin to that
universally awarded to the magnanimous Roman senator,
Cineinnatus, who, when his services were again in requisi-
tion in the guidance of the helm of the state, was found in
unobtrusive retirement following the plough !
The first great meeting of the Agricultural Society was
held at Oxford, in 1837, and the second at Cambridge, in
1840, both of which were patronised by a vast and influential
body of our agriculturists and others; and the generous
emulation which they excited, extended its beneficial effects
to the most remote, as well as to the proximate districts of
England. The present is the third meeting, and from its
central position, as regards England, Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland, and the facilities of conveyance from every point by
railway and steam-vessels, the attendance of strangers from
distant counties, as well as the immediate locality, is conside-
rably greater than that atany former gathering, exceeding, pro-
bably , 40,000, amongst whom were many of the nobility
and gentlemen of distinction, with their families, and a vast
concourse of rearers of horses, cattle, &c., growers of corn,
nursery-men, horticulturists, cattle dealers, agricultural im-
plement manufacturers, amateurs, and others interested in
such exhibitions. The proprietors of railways, (particularly
those from the south,) and of steam-boats, coaches, &c.,
have for some days reaped an unusually abundant harvest in
the conveyance hither of passengers, implements, specimens
of grain, roots, plants, and specimens of rare and extraordi-
nary vegetable production ; the principal and even secondary
hotels and inns, and the principal streets, are more than
usually animated and bustling.

tkrnongst the distinguished strangers we may enumerate

the follo;%.. i n g
AT THE AnF,Lrtit.—Lord Dude, Lord Miltown, the
Dean of 'l'uam, Sir C. Morgan, Sir John Guise, Sir C. Cuffe,
Messrs. Skerrrur, Tyson, Penrice, MacFarlane, Young,
Barker,
.Purey, Kinker, Lawton, Cheap, Brown, Gray, Ir-
ving, Scarlett, Palmer, M.P., Pusey, M.P., Knatchbull,
Jaund, Shaw, and Falcon.
AT THE WATEnloo.—General Swaithworth, Sir R.
George, Messrs. Connal, Weaver, Deighton, Stone, Todd,
Grey, Bless, Proctor, and Ranson.
AT THE ROYAL HOTEL.—Sir R. Langrish, Captain E. L.
liolsey (Charleston), Captain Ferris (New York), the Right
lion. Brown, M.P., Messrs. Robert Stewart, Joseph
Gillis, John Gasgarth, Fishbourne, Maguire, Comport),
Avonel, Gibson, Joseph Price, W. Phillips, E. B. Warner,
Davis, Willoughby, Yorke, Clarey, M'Evoy, Slameton, T.
Peterson, Roche, Champion, Waite, Dowles, and Jones,
Mr. O'Connor, family, and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick
and family, Mr. Mitchell and family, Mr. M'Clelland and
friend, Mr. Arthur Guinness and family, Mr. Mortage and
friend. _ _ . _ _

AT. THE gerEEN's ARMS.—Lord St. John, Colonel Eger.
ton, Rev. W. Egerton, Colonel Sandamon, Col. Crichton
Richard Swan,

AT THE ANGET

—Lord and Lady

Flemming, Messrs

_.... _.. ~
Adshead, Littlewood, Ashman, Biddle, Hearne, Heath,
Gray, Green. Adkins, Steel, Gabell, Pearce, Garret, Bod-
dington, Whitey, Bright, Passenham, Bolt, Jones, Brether-
ton and friend, Mr: and Mrs. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Miller
and friend, and Mrs. Ermer.

AT THE GRECIAN.—Messrs. Sparling, Suffolk, Cook,
ditto, Crisp, ditto, Thorpe, Newark, Marfleet, Lincolnshire,
Griffin, Peterborough, and Litchfield, Cork.
AT THE NEPTITNE.—Sir S. Lawson, Captain Taylor, of
York, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke and family, Messrs. MI-leek,
Smythies (2), Townsends (2), Richardson, Badsford,
-Whyley, Ledger, Parkinson, Smith, Leddenhall, Melzler,
Laidlaw, Stables, Grundy, Lindsay, M`Chine, Mr. and
Mrs. Bury.
AT THE MONKS' FERRY HOTEL.—Mr. Hayter, M.P.,
E. Buller, M.P., P. D. Cooke, Hon. R. Clive, M.P.. J. W.
Childers, M.P., Hon. W. B. Baring, M.P., Mr. Divett,
M.P., IV. Miles, M.P., Sir J. Johnston, M.P., G. Legaw,
IL J. Thompson, R. F. Shawe, Wilson Patten, M.P., J.
Villiers Shelly, R. M. Milnes, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Vavasour,
Messrs. Miles, Sir Richard Puleston.
Besides these numbers of the gentry, not only of this and
the ftd.ininino• counties, but from different parts of the three
countries forming our United Kingdom, and not a few from
the European Continent, and even from the United States
of America were present at this truly great national meet-
ing, in which much interest was excited apart from poli-
tical feeling. at home, or national jealousy abroad. To these
latter in particular, and to strangers generally, the immense
and rapid increase of "the good old town," within compa-
ratively a few fleeting years, in splendid streets, public buil-
dings, elegant shops, docks, and other structures, and above
all in its vast mercantile marine, from which it may be said,
no inconsiderable fleet is daily sent forth to prosecute com-
merce in every part of the world, will doubtless form objects
of curiosity and admiration ; and for:their guidance in in-
specting them, we furnish in another part of our paper a
brief sketch of a morning ride, or ramble, which will enable
them, within a few spare hours to visit all the "lions" of
this modern Tyre, and its immediate neighbourhood. We
learn that the Committee of the Lyceum News Room
passed a resolution to admit 'to the room during the week all
members of the Agricultural Association, and the example
will no doubt he followed, not only by the other news rooms,
but by all the public institutions, all of which are well worth
inspection. Aleantime, the Theatre Royal, with a talented
company,
the Amphitheatre with admirable equestrian en-
tertainments, the Zoological gardens, with a splendid repre-
sentation of the Siege of Acre, Exhibitions of paintings, &c.,
will present attractions for both the grave and the gay ; and
aquatic trips to the opposite shore of the Mersey, or to the
Floating Light, Rhyl, or the Menai Bridge, will invite those
who have more leisure at command.
At the last monthly meeting of the council of the Royal
Agricultural Society, Captain Challoner submitted a general
programme of the business of the meeting in the daily order
of its occurrence, of which the following is a copy, amended
by the council, on Monday, at their meeting, at the Mechanics'
Institution, with sonic observations appended by ourselves:—
PROGRAMME FOR TIIE WEEK AT LIVERPOOL.
of the council for the general
Monday, July 19.—Meeting

arrangements of the society.
Tuesday, July 20.—The judges will this day determine
the prizes in the implement yard. The members of the coun-
eil will dine by invitation with the mayor, in the banquetting_
room of the Town-hall.
Wednesday, July 21.—The judgos will. implements
the
prizes in the cattle yard. The exhibition of will
n
be open from eight o'clock in the m
in the evening—admission ss. Trial of
until six o'clock
f the implements will
he made in the fields. The council of the association will
dine in Lucas's Repository (at five o'clock), and the award
of prizes by the judges will be announced.
Thursday, July 22.—The show of cattle and implements
four
will be open from eight o'clock in the morning until
o'clock in the afternoon—entrance 2s Gd. The grand dinner
of the society will afterwards take place in the great pavilion,
for the members, at four o'clock.
Friday, Jul, 23.—The show of cattle and implements
will be open from eight o'clock in the morning until two
o'clock in the afternoon—entrance ls.
[The
price is this
day reduced with a view to gratify all classes. In the after-
noon there will be a splendid show of flowers, fruits, &C, at
the Botanic Carden, Edge-lane, when a large tent will be
pitched, and a band of music in attendance. The Royal
Agricultural Society is not, of course, connected with this
exhibition, which will be by tar the most extensive and beau-
tiful ever seen in this part of the country.]
Saturday, July 2-I.—The sale of stock in the show yard
will take place—entrance Is. [lt is expected that the greater
portion of the extensive collection of fine cattle will be dis-
posed of, •is many of them are brought from distant parts at
a great expense. The sale of horses, pigs, sheep, Sze, will,
no doubt, be also great, and the occasion will be highly inte-
resting to connoiseurs and others.]
For many weeks past preparations on a most extensive and,
scale have been in progress, for the
and the publio diunnora that will
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