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

Course, 43.

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most perfect implements of husbandry, and when he coma-
dered that this meeting was composed of persons from various
parts of the kineom, and that these specimens of cattle and
these instruments of husbandry would thus become known
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to every part of the kingdom,t was a most gratifying thing
to congratulate and thank the gentlemen of the Council for
making this the place from which so much useful knowledge
might be distributed. (Loud applause.) After an allusion
to breeding stock his worship spoke of the great increase
which had taken place in the population of Liverpool. During
the last forty years, from which period he had resided here,
the population had increased by upwards of 200,000 souls.
and he need not mention the great increase and extension of
commerce and the enlargement of the portwhich had taken
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place. Manchester had also ncreased Its population from
various tributary streams, and it was a remarkable fact that
notwithstanding this increase, and notwithstanding the great
improvements in machinery, and the great diminution which
they produced in the amount of labour, there had been, up
to the present time, as great a demand for labour as there
ever was, and every year, until the last two or three years,
had given snore employment to human beings than the year
which precededit. (Loud applause.) Much had been justly
said of the capability of increase for a better mode of
agriculture, and he believed that the same remark might be
made with regard to the increase of the not less useful art of
commerce and manufactures. After adverting to the great i
advantages possessed by this country n coals and minerals,
and in the skill, industry, and enterprise of the inhabitants
his worship again expressed his thanks tor the kind mantle
in which the toast had been proposed and received. He then
said that he had a pleasing duty to perform,
it was one widen
he should not have assumed 'to himself. It was one which
had been suggested to him, and by their call he most willingly
responded, it was to propose the health of their most excellent
president. (Loud applause.)
The CHAIRMAN said he was unable to return thanks as
he ought, for the houour done to Inin, and therefore he trus-
ted that they would accept the will for the deed. He had
endeavoured to do his duty to the utmost of his power, in the
office to which they elected him a year ago, and he rejoiced
most sincerely to see around him the evidence that the inter-
ests of this society had not suffered by his inexperience.
(Applause.) The more he saw of British farming the more
he was pursuaded that it occupied the first station in the
agriculture of the world, and because he knew and believed
it to be so good, he entertained the hope that it would be bet-
ter still. His hope was founded on this, that they were all
agreed to learn from each other. He could tell theta nothing
which they did not know much better than himself, but there
were one or two points to which lie would just allude. In
travelling from their homes to this place, they had passed
a great variety of district, and they could not but have ob-
served how great a portion of the land of this country must
defy the utmost energies of British farming so long as it re-
mained in its present state—so long as it was saturated with
moisture. (Hear, hear.) He commented on the necessity