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culturists of England when such a man was passed by, 

 in favour of one who was utterly unknown to, and there- 

 fore untrusted by, the agricultural community of Eng- 

 land and of the world. 



The Report was then adopted. 



The Chairman announced that the House-List, as 

 prepared by the Council, had been carried ; and after- 

 wards officially intimated to the Earl of Fowls that he 

 had been elected president for the ensuing year. 



The Earl of Powis begged to thank the members 

 present for the honour which they had done him ; and 

 although he knew the difficulty of occupying a chair 

 which had been filled by Lord Spencer, Mr. Ilandley, 

 Mr. Pusey, and the Duke of Richmond, he couldassure 

 them that he meant to do his best to promote the inter- 

 ests of the Society (cheers). 



Col.^HooD then read the balance-sheet for the half 

 year — 



Half-yearly Account, cxlcndiiuj from the \st of July to the 

 3lst of December, 1859. 



Receipts. 



Balance in the hands of the Bankers, July 1, £ s- d. 



1859 2017 18 7 



Petty Cash Balance in hand, July 1, 1859 ., 6 8 1 



Dividends on Stock 141 17 6 



Governors' Life Composition ., .. .. 50 



Governors' Subscriptions .. .. .. 50 



Members' Life Compositions .. .. .. 125 



Members' Subscriptious '109 2 



Journal 231 11 3 



Country Meeting (Warwick) 5407 13 6 



Sale of Sundries 8 2 6 



Payments. 

 iucludicg Kent, Rates 



and 



Establishment, 



Salaries 

 Postage and Carriage . . 



Advertisements . . . . . • . . . . . 



Journal ,. .. ., ., .. .. 



Essay Prizes . . . , . , 



Veterinary Grant (extra) 

 Chemical Grant . . 



Subscription returned (paid in error) .. .. 



Country Meeting (Warwick) . . 

 Sundry items of Petty Cash .. 

 Petty Cash not accounted for by late Secretary 

 Balance in the hands of the Bankers, Dec. 31, 



1859 



Petty Cash Balance, Dec. 31, 1859 , . 



£8477 13 5 

 Examined, audited, and found correct, this 18th day of May, 



1860. 

 (Signed) A. N. Hood, T 



William Fisher HoBBS, |- Finance Commitee. 



R. MiLWARD. J 



(Signed) William Astbury,"^ ^^^^.^^^^ ^^ ^^^ „f 



John Druce, 5 ^^^ g^^i / 



Henry Corbet. ) •' 



The financial statement having been adopted, 

 On the motion of Mr. Pain, seconded by Mr. R. 

 Barker, thanks were voted to the auditors, a compliment 

 which was acknowledged by Mr. Astbury. 



Mr. Fisher Hobbs was pleased to see so large an at- 

 tendance of the general body of members ; in fact, it 

 was the largest meeting he had seen for many years. 

 With reference to what had passed, no better advice 

 could be given than that from Colonel Higgins, as to 

 some improvement in the method of electing members 

 of Council. In its original form, as laid before the 

 Council itself, the house-list gave the number of attend- 

 ances of members going- out by rotation, as well ns the 

 names of the new candidates proposed; and he consi- 

 dered that such a statement of attendance should also be 



laid before the general meeting, as indeed had been the 

 case until within the last two or three years, and he 

 could not understand why so wholesome a practice had 

 ever been discontinued. When he saw the numbers of 

 members present that day, and while he knew the strong 

 expression of feeling from without, he confessed he was 

 surprised that no alteration had been elTected in the 

 House-List, but that the meeting had allowed it to pass 

 as originally prepared by the Council. There was one 

 point which he must take the present opportunity of 

 pressing on the members, and that was the nomination 

 of judges for the country meeting. The Council had 

 much difficulty in selecting duly-qualified men, chiefly 

 because they had so few names to select from. The 

 names of gentlemen proposed as judges for implements 

 should be sent to the secretary by the 31st of May, and 

 those for live stock by the 15th of June; and he trusted 

 that members would really take the trouble to exercise 

 the privilege they possessed of making such liominations. 

 He trusted, further, that the remarks which had been 

 made that day would be taken all proper notice of by 

 the Council, and that the suggestions made would lead 

 to more satisfactory results. 



The Chairman having inquired if any member 

 present had any suggestion to make upon which the 

 Council might act to the greater advantage of the 

 Society, 



Mr. Sidney repeated a recommendation he had pre- 

 viously offered — that an agricultural survey of the king- 

 dom should be made under the auspices of the Society. 

 Mr. Neville Grenville asked where the General 

 Meeting at Canterbury would be held? He also ad- 

 vised that public "posters" should announce this in 

 the city, and not be pulled down and defaced, as had 

 once actually occurred under the authority of the 

 Council. 



Mr. Moore considered that greater publicity should 

 be given by way of notice to the trials of implements in 

 the July Meeting. 



Colonel Higgins thought that some little privileges 

 might be advantageously allowed to the general members 

 at the Summer Show. For instance, he would recom- 

 mend that every member should be admitted to the 

 private view on the first day without charjre. He had 

 earlier in the proceedings advised some more satisfactory 

 mode of electing the Council, and now trusted the 

 direction would at once proceed to deliberate on what 

 appeared to be so general a wish of the members. 



Lord Berners, in proposing a vote of thanks to Lord 

 Walsingham for his conduct in the chair, dwelt upon 

 the uniformly good feeling which i ul existed between 

 the two classes comprising the Council. 



Mr. Sidney seconded the motion, and Lord Walsing- 

 ham having responded the meeting broke up. 



THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 OF ENGLAND. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE MARK-LANE EXPRESS, 



Sir, — Your leading articles in the two last numbers 

 of the Mark Lane Ea:p7-ess are much to the purpose ; 

 a third might be put stronger, with great propriety. 

 The titled men who are not men of business should never 

 be in office to the exclusion of practical, clever, business 

 tenant-farmers. The management generally of that 

 Society has gone down in public estimation. If 1 could 

 have attended on the 22nd, I should have voted for 

 Pawlett, Rigden, Sanday, and Wallis. And I feel 

 annoyed by the abominable rule, " No member ivill be 

 allowed to vote ivho does not personally deliver his list 

 to the President." If these lists could have been filled- 



