II. — Report on the Agricultural Department of the Paris Exhi- 

 bition. By J. EvELYX DexisoX, M.P., Vice-President of the 

 Jury for Class III. Agriculture. 



To die Pii.iilit Hon. the Lord Stanley of Alderley, President of the 

 Board of Trade, &c. 



My Lord, — Tlie International Jury of Agriculture (Class III.) 

 of the Paris Exhibition consistad of, — 



Count de Gasparin, President . . 



Evelyn Dcnison, V^ice-President 



Count Herve de Kergorlay, Secretary 



Bousslngault 



Barral 



Yvart 



Dailly 



Vihnorln (Louis) . . 



Monny de [Nlornay . . 



Robiuet 



Delehaye . . 



De Mathelin (Leopold) . . 



Ramon de la Sagra 



Dietz 



Baron de Riese Stallbourg 

 Dr. Arenstein 

 Baron Delong 

 Wilson, J. 

 Amos, C. E. 



Nathorst, J, T 



France. 



England. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



France. 



Belgium. 



Belgium. 



Spain. 



Grand Duchy 

 of Baden. 



Austria. 



Austria. 



Denmark. 



England. 



England. 

 (Sweden and 

 \ Norway. 



It was quite time that France and England should be better 

 known to eacli other, and that it should be made apparent what 

 great benefits would accrue to both countries from an improved 

 acquaintance and extended intercourse. 



Up to the year 1851, till the time of the Exhibition of London, 

 we are told by a French writer of high authority,* " that in 

 France, more perhaps than elsewhere, notwithstanding our near 



* M. Leonce de Lavergne, -author of 'Essai sur TEconomie Rurale de I'Angle- 

 terre, de I'Ecosse, et d'lrlandc' This essay formed part of a course of lectures 

 delivered at the Iiistitut National Agroiioiiii(|iie. The information it contains, as 

 regards the condition and prospects of agriculture in these islands, is so correct, 

 and exhiliits such a thorough knowleiige of the subject in all its branches, that it 

 is a reasonable assumption, that an author who writes so accurately about the afl'airs 

 of a foreign country may be relied upon when treating of his own. Tliis essay has 

 gone through two editions in France, has been translated into Englisli, and has 

 unilergone the ordeal of Scotch criticism. 



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