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places amounting to nearly sixty millions of pounds 

 weight. The high average weight of a fleece, to be 

 inferred from this statement, is in some measure to be 

 accounted for by the fact that a portion of the wool 

 from these colonies is exported in the grease. 



It may be not uninteresting to trace tlie progress of 

 this staple article from the first introduction of merino 

 sheep into New South Wales, by the late John Mac- 

 arthur, in the year 1797. Lbs. 



In the year 1807 New South Wales ex- 

 ported to the United Kingdom 245 



In 1820 99,415 



In 1835, New South Wales and Tasmania 



to all countries _• 5,500,000 



In 1845, Australian colonies to United 



Kingdom only , 24,177,315 



In 1855, ditto , 49,142,306 



In 1859, ditto 53,700,542 



The quau titles for 1845, '55, and '59 are taken from 

 the Board of Trade Returns, and are therefore for the 



United Kingdom only, excluding the amount exported 

 to France and the United States. 



Here, then, are important facts for reflection and 

 consideration. These infant colonies, for such they 

 really are (although strapping bantlings), are the won- 

 ders of the age ; and are not only able to shift for 

 themselves, but also to give us a helping hand with 

 gold and wool in return for the labour they have taken 

 from us. The external trade of these Australian colo- 

 nies (imports and exports) now exceeds 46^ million 

 pounds, with a population of little more than a million. 

 They have upwards of £"'12,000,000 deposits in their 

 banks, and a local coinage exceeding £5,500,000, with 

 a united annual public revenue of five and a-half mil- 

 lions sterling. These statistics indicate a substantial ad. 

 vancement, and best testify to the industry of these dis- 

 tant and scattered British settlements. We can but 

 echo the motto of the elder colony, and say, ' ' Advances 

 Australia," 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 

 A CATALOGUE OF THE IMPLEMENTS EXHIBITED AT THE CANTERBURY MEETING. 



Hare and Co., of 31, Essex-street, Strand, London. 



Specimen of an illuminated title page, show card, or circu- 

 lar; specimena of agricultural machinery printed iu colours ; 

 specimen illustratioDs of agricultural implements and ma- 

 chines J specimen of an advertising sheet, suitable for railway 

 stations, &c., designed, lithographed, and printed by the ex- 

 hibiters. 



Saml. E. Ransojie and Co., of 31, Essex-street, 

 Strand, London. 



LoDg'a non-poisonous specific, price 43. 6d. per gallon, 

 ready for use ; Long's foot-rot aud general lotion, price, pints 

 2s. 6d,, half piuts Is. 3J. each, invented by Joseph Long, of 

 London, improved ai:d raauufactured by Barry Brothers, of 

 Meriton's-wharf, Londou ; specimen of sheepskin with fleece ; 

 improved wrought iroa sheep dressing fork, price 15*., manu- 

 factured by the exhibitors ; Scliasffer's patent steam pau?e of 

 601bs. pressure, in broad brass case, price £3 5s. ; Schffiffer'a 

 patent steam gauge of 601bs. pressure, in narrow brass case, 

 price £2 ISs. ; Scbseffcr'a patent steam gauge of lOOibs. pres- 

 sure, 4 inches diameter, price £2 ISs. ; aad Scbseffer's im- 

 proved countiug machine with four figures, price £2 ISs. 6d., 

 invented and manufactured by Schrcffer and Co., of Magde- 

 berg ; British patent steam pressure gauge, in iron case, price 

 for either 4, 5, or 6 inches diameter £2 15g., invented, im- 

 proved, aud manufactured by Wallis, Langford, and Co.; 

 (new implement) portable hoisting and travelling crane, on 

 wheels, price, to lift 4 cwfc. £8 10s., 7 cwt. £12, 10 cwt. £17, 

 invented and manufactured by J. Joyce ; model of self-acting 

 alarm whistle for steam boilers, price £2 7b., invented by Wm. 

 Johnson, and manufactured by the exhibittrs; sample of pa- 

 tent boiler composition for destroying aud preventing incrus- 

 tation in steam boilers, price £2 53. per cwt., invented and 

 manufactured by \V. Buckingham ; sample of Newcastle 

 vulcan cement for all kiuda of steam joints and pipes, price 

 £32 per ton ; set of patent Argand fire bars, pries I83. per 

 cwt., invented and manufactured by Martiu and Co., of Lon- 

 don (commended by the judges at the Warwick Meeting of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society, in 1859); hfting jack, with 

 brass bush aud cast iron frame, price, to lift two tons £1 16s. ; 

 and a lifting jack, in cast iroa frame, with wrought screw and 

 iron bush, price, to lift four tons £2, mauufactured by the 

 exhibiters; patent English knuckle washing machine, price 

 £3 58., invented by Grey and Co., and manufactured by the 

 exhibiters; improved rgller w»§hingiaaciiiae, price £3 lgs,6d., 



invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters ; 

 wrmging and mangling machine, price £3 10s„ manufactured 

 by the exhibiters ; wringing machine, with elliptic springs 

 and adjusting screw, price £2 Ss.; nest of two corn bins, 

 price, six bushels £1 63. 6d., eight ditto £1 lis. 6d. ; and a 

 nest of two flour bins, price, two bushels 16s., four bushels 

 £1 Is., manufactured by the exhibiters ; pateut filter or 

 purifier, with enamelled case aud brass tap, price £1 ; and a 

 patent filter or purifier, in earthen case, with brass tap, price 

 £1 5s., invented and manufactured by Frederick Ransome, of 

 London ; a pocket or sportsman's filter, price 3s. 6d., invented 

 and mauufactured by the exhibiters ; Nye's patent mincing 

 and sausage making Aachine, price £1 lOs. and upwards, in- 

 vented and manufactured by S. Nye ; Lyon's patent mincing 

 aud sausage making machine, price £1 IO3. and upwards, in- 

 vented and manufactured by A. Lyons ; suet chopper or vege- 

 table chopper, prices, Ss. 6d., 53., and 63. ; (new implement) 

 registered mouse trap, price 6s. 6d. ; (new implement) im- 

 proved rat trap, price 7s. ; and (uew implement) improved 

 mole trap, price 2s., invented and mauufactured by Colin Pul- 

 linger; (new implement) Ransome's " Gem" knife cleaner, 

 price £1 Is., invented and manufactured by Robert James 

 Ransome, and improved by the exhibiters ; Loysel's pateut 

 hydrostatic percolator, in plain tin, prices, one pint 6s., two 

 pints 7s. 6d., three 93., four lis. 6d., six 143., and upwards, 

 invented by E. Loyeel, of Paris; patent air pressure churn, 

 invented by S. C. Sahshury, New York, and manufactured by 

 the exhibiters. 



William Thomson, of 46, Canal-street, Perth. 



Registered four wheeled dog cart, price 55 guineas ; and 

 waggonette, convertible into a four wheel dog cart, price 

 60 guineas, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters. 



W. Augustus Munn, of Throwley House, near 

 Faversham, Kent. 



(New implement) reaping machine (new patent for knife, 

 finger guides and beam, reel, platform sheaf and swathe, and 

 side delivery), price, without the rake at side £36 10s., if rake 

 £2 IO3. extra, also as a grass or clover mower or reaper, extra 

 £7 IO3. for knives, &c., invented and improved by the exhi- 

 biter, and manufactured by Mr. J. B. Sharp, "ugineer, &c., 

 of Faversham, Kent; (new implement) horse .oe or turnip 

 thinner and insect destroyer, price £12, invented and improved 

 by the «xlubiter, mi oiasufActmecl by Frederick Xiudall, 



