The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-03

Al a recent dinner given BY the Royal Agricul.
tural Society Of England. (as we learn from 4
report in the London Times.) the loyal toasts hav.
ing been Loyalty drunk
Lord AsHBuRrON proposed "The Foreign Min
listers, to which
His Excellency the AMERICAN MINISTER re-
sponded ut some length He complimented Lord
Ashburton, and referred in terms of high praise to
the high services which the late lord had rendered
both to this country and the United States by the
settlement of the boundary question. Mr. Ingersoll
then alluded to the agricultural productions of
America, reminding the farmers that it was not
too much to ascribe the prosperity of England,
and especially of her manufactures, to the mil
lions of bales of cotton which America sent over
to her. If they desired more, his countrymen
would grow and more to supply that de-
mand, and to cultivate those relations Of increased
friendship which the cotton trade calculated
TO promote. There no danger for century
or two, at least, OF the demand on the one side or
the supply on the other failing, Notwithstanding
the production of Egypt, India, and Western AT
rica lie was informed that the exports of cotton
from Alexandra was 500 900 bales, large amount
certainly, compared with the crop grown in Anne
rica which was 3,O00,O 200. In 1860 this amount
would have another million added to it, and in
| Egypt the productive ground was covered by the
plant; so that the land of the Pharoahs and Plo-
lemys would not interfere in this respect with the
land of the Washngtons. His Excellency hav-
| ing referred to tobaccO--Of which they grew in
the States 200, O00, 900 lb.--said that when wet
season, or any extraordinary and unpropitious
rendered it desirable for this country to call
on the Americans for their eatablcs they would
produce them to any extent Of rice which was
| in itself the aliment of one-third of the human
race, his countrymen produced 200 900 900 b.; Of
wheat, l0O,000.O0O bushels; and of maize, or
Indian corn-that which came to the relief of the
Irish people during the famine-60O ,OOO, 900
| bushels per year. The soil Of England contained,
he believed 10000 900 of acres but in the United
States there were of public lands alone belonging
to the Government, and ready for sale, $780,
O0O 900, of acres. political philosopher had once
predicted that England could not support 10 0O0,-
600, and she had now doubled that number; but
if her population went on increasing he invited
her agrlcuturists to come and visit the
United States, and to stay as long they pleased,
for they would find hearty welcome there.
| lCheers and laughter. Besides the vast numbers
OF their countrymen now settled in the United
States-amounting to nearly ,O00, 900 from Ire
land, and 25O, 900 from England-he babe them
remember that its Constitution and laws were
such that any individual who came among them,
attached to good morals and in the practice of
them, might attain nearly every political distnc-
ton, and certainly would acquire every social
right possessed by him here. tCheers.l His ex-
cellency then referred to ships, which, he said.
were drawn from the primeval forests as much as
corn was drawn from agriculture, and which
voyage between England and America so short
that no one hesitated to take it, and SO agreeable
that no one found it otherwise than delightful.
| In country like HIS where there was abundance
of soil to be found, and where science and art as
applied to agriculture were eagerly cultivated,
they would always be proud to emulate the far
mers Of England, who stood at the head of the
agriculture Of the world [Cheers.] His excel
lency concluded by giving as toast ssThe Royal
Agricultural Society"
| Sir M. RIDLEY having proposed, in very com
plimentary terms, s'the health of the President
| Lord AsHBuRroN said: feel proud of having
my name connected, even for day, with a SO
ciety which has done much for agriculture--so
much for England. [Cheers.] Other societies
have risen before to beg or to extort assistance
from the authorities of the day. They have passed
away with the occasion that gave them birth,
without leaving trace of their existence. This
society has been founded upon the principle that
God helps those who help themselves. We have
left governments to do their best or to do their
worst. In spite of heavy blows and sore discour-
agements, we have kept our shoulders manfully
to the wheel, and God has blessed our efforts,
that now at this time, if you were to ask any one
OF the distinguished foreigners who honor England
with their presence what produce of British indus
try is most unquestionaby superior to the produce
Of the rest of the world--what is the produce of
Great Britain which gives him the highest idea of
the judgment, ingenuity, and practical skill of
you tIAhI lc HIS SccIl
better silks in France, more beautiful cottons in
Switzerland, that we are losing ground in edge
tools and cutlery, that America equals lis in ship
building; but that there is one kind of British pro-
duce the excellence of which no other country can
approach-onc kind that men flock from all coun-
tries to and admire, and purchase at fabulous
prices, and that produce is the produce of the Bri
fish farmer Cheers. He would tell you further
thatwhilc Manchester, and Spitalfelds, and Stoke
upon-Trent, and our other hives of industry, are
f, 80, al j.
rect, and instruct them in the higher branches of
their several arts, the world comes to to learn
farming. But am not satisfied with merely
claiming the palm for our produce. Il venture to
assert that the farmer has far greater difficulties
to contend with in his calling than any other pro-
Queer; that his contest with those difficulties en-
| ploys, cultvatcs, and develops more energy,
more courage, more resource, more practical wis
dom than is created by any other industrial pur-
suit. Take, for example, the case of the cotton
spinner. He buys his machine, puts his wool or
cotton in at one end to take the finished article
out at the other; he undergoes risk, he feels no
anxiety; he deals, indeed, with the powers of ma
ture; but with powers delivered into his hand con-
trolled, mastered, and domcsticated by his
chinery: The farmer also deals with nature, but
with nature in her widest and most waywa I'd moods;
he has to encounter her in the tempest, in the
burning drought, in the overwhelming flood, in
the plague Of insects. The qualities required Of
him are those of one who navigates his vessel
dIillu StOTIiS OI AIldnI1C, the QUALITIES
quired of the other rather those of the captain
of barge towed upon your peaceful canal. The
consequence is that the farmer of the present day
is no more like the farmer of yore than the steam
ship that forces its regular passage in spite of wind
and current s like the tubshaped gallot of DID, that
lay to in every head-wnd and made one voyage a
year. [Cheers.] Like the steamer, you have learnt
almost to defy the vicissitudes of the elements 1t
is true you cannot stop the deuge of rain, but you
drain off the superfuous moisture; you cannot
prevent drought, but you give such crumb to
the surface ofthe soil by your implements, such n
strength to the crop by your manures, as to defy
it; you cannot arrest the plague of insects, but
you hurry the growth Of the tnrnip by artificial