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and that lOO acres of land should be provided by the 

 Local Committees, who were requested to ascertain im- 

 mediately what land they can procure, and the condition 

 they can place it in so as to represent as near as possible 

 autumn cultivation. 



All Cultivators must be again exhibited at work 

 during the Show under the direction of the Stewards. 



Exhibitors intending to send Steam Cultivators shall 

 especially enter the same, with specifications, on or be- 

 fore the 1st of May. 



The preliminary arrangements for the Leeds Meeting 

 were reported as progressing satisfactorily. 



On the nomination of Mr, T. Raymond Barker, the 

 Duke of Marlborough was unanimously elected to supply 

 the vacancy in the Class of Trustees, created by the 

 death of the Duke of Richmond. 



A Special Committee was appointed at the suggestion 

 of Mr. Fisher Hobbs for the purpose of recommending 

 additions and alterations in the Bye-laws and Resolutions 

 of Council. 



The Council then adjourned to Tuesday, December 

 II, at 11 A.M., when it is specially summoned by the 

 President. 



Special Council, Tueaday, Dec, li. — Present: the Earl 

 of Powia, President, in the chair; Lord Berners, Lord 

 Tredegar, Hon. Col. Hood, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Barthropp, Mr. 

 Bramston, M.P., Ool. Challoner, Mr. Druce, Mr. Braudreth 

 Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr, Howard, Mr. Jonas, Mr. 

 Milward, Mr. Pain, Mr. Pope, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Toir, 

 Mr. Owen Walli», Mr. Jonas Webb, Mr. Burch Western, and 

 Mr. Henry Wilson. 



The Resolution of Council of the 7th November, 1860, was 

 then by uuanimous consent altered, and the ptice of admission 

 at the Leeds meetiug on tbs Tuesday, was fixed at Ss. 6d. 

 instead of 5a. 



Lord Berners requested leave to draw the attention of the 

 meeting to the fact that, it being the general opinion that all 

 who knew the frank, kind, and amiable character of the late 

 Duke of Richmond, and who had observed his career as a 

 gallant and distinguished soldier, aa Lord-Lieutenant of the 

 County of Susses, as a zealous supporter of the interests and 

 improvements of agriculture, as member of both Houses of 

 Parliament, and in every relation of life, will desire to record 

 their opinion and express their feelings by erecting a lasting 

 memorial to his worth. With a view to carrying out this ob- 

 ject the following county gentlemen have formed themselves 

 into a Provisional Committee for West Sussex :— The Hon. H. 

 Wyndham, M.P., chairman ; the High Sheriff of Sussex, the 

 Hon. J. J. Carnegie, the Rev. Sir George Shiffner, Bart., 

 George Barttelot, Esq., Richard Prime, Esq., Major Sandham, 

 William Townley Mitford, Esq., M P., the Rev. John Goring. 

 Subacriptiona not to exceed £3 3s., to be paid into the London 

 and County Bank, Lombard-street, or one of its branches. 



The Council re-asaembled at half-past eleven o'clock, to 

 which hour it had been adjourned on the 5th instant, when 

 the Report of the Live Stock Prizes Committee was adopted, 

 and the Stock Prize Sheet for the Leeds Meeting was finally 

 settled. 



The Council then adjourned over the Chriatmaa recess till 

 the first Wednesday in February. 



THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING 

 Took place in Hanover-square on the Wednesday iu the 



Stuithlield week at twelve o'clock, the Earl of Powis as Pre- 

 sident in the chair. Amongst others also present there were 

 Lord Berners, Lord Walsingham, Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P„ Sir 

 W. Brooke, Mr. Langston, M.P., Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Owen 

 Wallis, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Barthropp, Mr. Caldwelli 

 Mr. James Howard, Mr. Jonas Webb, Mr. S. Jonas, Mr. 

 Pope, Mr. C. Stokes, Mr. T. B. Western, Mr. Torr, Colonel 

 Brice, Professor Voelcker, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. Cuthbert 

 Johnson, Mr. H. Corbet, Mr. Astbury, Mr. S. Sidney, Mr. 

 J. C. Morton, Professor Simonds, Mr. Godwin, Mr. 

 Jonathan Grey, Mr, Baines, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Packe, Mr. 

 Mumford, Mr. Arkel), Mr. Saunders, Mr. R. Clarke, Mr. 

 Stephens, and Mr. Frere, editor of the Society's Journal. 



The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said he felt 

 confident that the Royal Agricultural Society, in common 

 with the Smithfield Club and other kindred societies which 

 met in Ijondon at this season of the jear, would join with 

 him in the regret he now expressed at the loss they had 

 recently sustained by the decease of the late Duke of Rich- 

 mond (Hear, hear). His grace had been president for life 

 of the Smithfield Club, and he had three times filled the 

 office of president to this Society, to which no person was 

 eligible for re-election until the expiration of three years 

 from the time he last filled the office. His grace had always 

 paid close attention to the business of the Society from its 

 earliest days : at all times he had taiien a great share in the 

 show-yard as an exhibitor and practical farmer ; and in every 

 matter in connection with the Society, whether as a farmer 

 or a public man, he had been ever anxious to promote the 

 interests of agriculture (Hear, hear). He (the Chairman) 

 was happy to say that the accounts of the Society were this 

 year in a highly satisfactory state. They had been duly 

 audited by the Society's auditors, after having been submit- 

 ted to and approved by Messrs. Quilter and Ball, the public 

 accountants (Hear, hear). With respect to the late meet- 

 ing at Canterbury, they would probably not be surprised to 

 hear that that event would entail some cost upon the So- 

 ciety's funds. From the peculiar situation of the county of 

 Kent, surrounded as it was by the sea on two sides, the dis- 

 tances which many persons had to travel were much greater 

 than at either Chester or Warwick ; and although Kent was 

 a populous district, it was not in immediate communication 

 with such masses of population as existed in the two last 

 places at which the Society had held its shows. It was not 

 reasonable to expect, therefore, that they could have had so 

 large an attendance in the show-yard ; but those who had 

 passed up and down to Canterbury would be of opinion that 

 it was a very proper district to visit (Hear, hear) ; for they 

 had seen both along the track of the South-Eastern and the 

 North Kent lines lands in various degrees of cultivatiouj 

 which afi'orded clear demonstration that the agriculturists 

 of those parts required to be routed up a little by the criti- 

 cism of observers from a distance (Hear, hear). With re- 

 gard to the importance of the district, he need only allude 

 to the immense sums which were now being expended under 

 the authority of Parliament to promote railway accommo- 

 dation therein. Since the meeting of the Society at Canter- 

 bury the great Victoria terminus in London had been opened, 

 by which means direct access was obtained from the west- 

 end with the south-eastern portions of the country. And 

 not only that, but Parliament had sanctioned the extension 

 of the Kentish railways across the river Thames at Black- 

 friars to a point near Smithfield, at an expense of upwards 

 of a million sterling. These were matters which indicated 

 the importance of the district, not merely with respect to 

 the continental traffic, but also the local traffic, and would 



