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NOTE. 



The Central Agricultural Society of Oreat Britain and Ireland vvas 

 formed in 1835, expressly for Agricultural Protection and Agricultural 

 Encouraganent, totally divested of party or political feeling. President, 

 His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K. G. Vice Presidents, Earls Tan- 

 kerville and Darlington, M. P. ; Lords Wynford and Western ; Sir 

 George Sinclair, Bart. M. P. ; General Sir Charles Broke Vere, M. P. ; 

 Edward Wodehoiise, Esq, M.P. ; William Ormsby Gore, Esq. M.P. ; 

 John Benett, Esq. M.P. ; Henry Handey, Esq. M.P. ; E. S. Cayley, 

 Esq. M.P. ; John Maxwell, Esq.; besides forty -five Baronets, more 

 than seventy Members of Parliament, sixty-six local subscribing Agri- 

 cultural Associations, and several hundred Owners and Occupiers of 

 Land. 



The English Agricultural Society has since come forward (o carry out 

 Agricultural Encouragement alone, by uniting some of the most influential 

 parties in the State, many of whom doubtless only wait the opportunity 

 for co-operating cordially with a similar Institution confined to Agricul- 

 tural Protection. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Central Agricul- 

 tural Society, when it assembles the day after the next Smithfield Cattle 

 Show, will determine upon affording to the Members of the English 

 Agricultural Society an opportunity so desirable, by remodelling the 

 constitution of the " Central," and confining its future operations to 

 Agricultural Proticlion — then may we expect to see the two Great 

 Agricultural Societies steering un even course hand in hand together, 

 each assisting (he other in following out objects the success of which 

 is vitally interesting to both, as well as to the whole community, and 

 among these the very objects proposed in the above Address, and 



