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steam eugiues, thrashiug atacuiuea, hay machiacs, hoiac rakes, 

 grain mills, chaff cutters, &c. 



W. Graham, Dublin : Steam engine, thrashing machines, 

 chaff cutters, turnip sowing machines, swing ploughs, grub- 

 bers, harrows, clod crushers, &c. 



George Turner, Loudon : A variety of small machines 

 for household use, 



John Maguire, Dublin : Patent stoves, wheat mills, 

 churns, &c. 



Ferguson & Co., Dubliu : Specimens of a variety of arti- 

 cles in gutta percha, including portable manure and other 

 pumps, millbands, &c. 



O'Byrne & Co., Dublin : Washing machines, churns, &c. 



R. & J. Keeves, Westbury, Wilts: Patent dry manure 

 distributors and corn drills. 



A number of manure manufacturers and agents had alamls 

 in the yard, amongst which were the Dublin Manure Com- 

 pany; J. Perry, Dubliu, superphosphate of lime, &c, ; Roger- 

 son & Co., Dublin, guano, blood manure, &c.; Purdons, 

 Dublin, phospho-Peruvian guano, &c., &c. 



EVENING MEETING. 

 DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. 



The evening meeting for the announcement of the awards 

 was held in the Theatre of the Royal Dublin Society House, 

 at half-past eight o'clock. There was a crowded attendance, 

 and amongst those present were — The Lord Chancellor, the 

 Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice Hayes, Hon. George Handcock, 

 Dr. Adams, Dr. Johns, Mr. Alexander Parker, Mr. James 

 Haughton, Mr. C. Hamilton, Alderman Campbell, Sir "E. 

 M'Donne), Mr.R. Montgomery (secretary, Zoological Society), 

 and Joseph Hone, juu., &c. 



On the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the chair was taken 

 by the Earl of Clancarty, one of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 Dublin Society. 



Dr. Waller, in opening the proceedings, said that our 

 excellent and respected Viceroy had, with his usual courtesy 

 and desire to advance the interests of the country, signified 

 his intention to be present that night, as he had been on other 

 occasions, at the distribution of their prizes. He however 

 had, as secretary of the society, received a communication 

 from him two or three nights ago, in which he expressed his 

 deep regret at it not being in his power, in consequence of 

 his being under the necessity of leaving this country for 

 England, to take the chair as president of the society on that 

 occasion. He (Dr. Waller) did certainly regret very much 

 that they had not in the chair a nobleman who, he would say 

 —without drawing any comparison between hira and other 

 Viceroys — was at all events distinguished in this, that he 

 had a most ardent desire to promote the interests of Ireland 

 on every opportunity that was afforded him of doing so. 

 He said that, because it was the concurrent testimony of all 

 parties, of all sects, and of all creeds in the country (applause). 

 But while he regretted that they had not the President of the 

 Royal Dublin Society in the chair, his regret was certainly 

 mitigated, as far as it could possibly be, by the substitute 

 they had the good fortune to see in his place (applause). In 

 his stead they had the Senior Vice-President of the Royal 

 Dublin Society — they had an Irish nobleman— and what was 

 best of all, they had an Irish resident landlord — than whom a 

 more useful, honourable, and better character did not exist 

 (applause). They had one, too, who was pre-eminently 

 suited to preside over such a meeting as that — 

 a nobleman who thoroughly understood what cattle 

 werr, and who was himself a successful competitor on 



every occasion in Ireland, and one who stimulated and pro- 

 moted the best interests of agriculture in that country 

 (applause). With respect to the show of that day he (Dr. 

 Waller) had been informed by the best Judges that such a show 

 had never been seen in Ireland, or he might say anywhere else, 

 for it was especially a show of short-horns ; and at the Paris 

 Exhibition they beat [the whole world in that class of cattle. 

 The entries were about 400 black cattle, and a mere trifle 

 under what they had ou a former occasion, viz., 414 ; but 

 practically he believed an increase, because he understood that 

 of that 400 there was a greater number of black cattle for 

 breeding purposes than on former occasions, there being very 

 few of what were called butchers' cattle. There were 100 

 entries of sheep, and he understood the show of those auioals 

 was not only good in quality but extensive in variety, including 

 Shropshire!, short-wooUed Cheviots, &c. The pigs he under- 

 stood were very creditable, including the Essex, Hampshire, 

 and York varieties. The collection of agricultural machines 

 and implements was also extensive and valuable ; and he had 

 been particularly struck jwith those for reaping and mowing. 

 The value of machinery of the .kind, in enabling those who 

 used them to anticipate the markets and to accomplish other 

 objects, was incontestable, and it was very short-sighted and 

 weak feeling on the part of the peasantry of that country to 

 seek to check the use of machinery. They all recollected that 

 attempts were made by the peasantry not long since to destroy 

 agricultural machinery. Now, he was not going to philosophise 

 with the poor man ; that was not a wise thing to do, nor was 

 he in the proper place for doing it ; but perhaps that was the 

 place to say a word or two to those who were the masters of 

 the poor. It would be well if the gentlemen of the country 

 would reason with those humble people who thought that ma- 

 chinery was the greatest evil that could befal them. The fal- 

 lacy had been exploded in towns already. The artizan had 

 already learned that the machine was not his enemy. Educa- 

 tion had taught him that there were other physical means to 

 be employed besides human labour ; and the country gentle- 

 man should impress on the peasant that even if agricultural 

 machinery were multiplied a thouaand-fold, and if the popula- 

 tion of the country were much greater than it was, still there 

 would be enough for him to do ; and that he should regurd the 

 agricultural machine not as his foe, but as his co-agent and 

 friend. For he believed that in every country it would come 

 to this at last, that the functions of the physical would be dis- 

 charged by the brute, and the machine and the functions of the 

 intellectual only would be discharged by mankind (applause) , 

 He believed he might say that the agricultural prospects of the 

 society as exhibited in the show of that day were such as gave 

 them very great reason to congratulate themselves. For, after 

 all, the agricultural interests of a country like Ireland were the 

 basis of its prosperity (Hear, hear), and the more they widened* 

 and strengthened, and deepened that basis, the stronger and 

 more permanent, the more useful, and the more beautiful 

 would be the structure which they would elevate upon it. The 

 present show was admittedly one of the finest that had ever 

 taken place in the country, and he trusted that on the next 

 occasion they met they would have as good reason as they had 

 now to say that the motto of Ireland was — as it certainly had 

 been for some years past — "Progress." 



Sir Edv/ard M'Donnel, in moving a vote of thanks to 

 the English gentlemen who had acted as judges, dwelt upon 

 the difficulties with which they had to contend in the discharge 

 of the task which they had so kindly undertaken ; and, when 

 they bore in mind that these gentlemen had come over to this 

 country at great inconvenience, the meeting would cordially 

 join in tendering them a vote of thanks (applause). He re- 



