Mr. THoMPSON.—As Mr. Morton has alluded.to the General | school e expressly fo for 
Committee and the — of sufficient notice on the subject of 
Education in the Coun 
agricultura| 
that w Ad n 
Cirencester, one of t A bent tests A 
tation has not fully carried out the objects 
vas founded is, tbat it e assumed the name 
ao Eui 
= bat tutende - the pem of agricul- 
It w cpi. he Yeomanry School It was 
d building 
certair 
l acquai 
scientific "nowlede of the 
rial to work upon 
but is s 
A. RE ‘among the young agriculturists of 
Beotland to submit themselves to sud. a Suc F But what has 
been the ? Our President received a letter quite latel 
pma att stating, as the 
ers an 
well suited for the pur; t'in iia 
a greater readiness 
lum 
candi- 
Bap r7 | 
th the o subje 
ork is perfec vom. te | 
an wi 
Society is conc 
in the t ofi 
success 
"€ e pra — there seems to 
result than there has 
“qu 
: nes. to the 
better a pening = 
are =u indebted to Mr. 
Mr. Hottayp,—I must be allowed to set you right with regard 
to some CI the expressions which have been used by Mr. 
Thom as to the want of Jera at mni m first 
establishments, public or private, there little domestic 
occurrences po ee sometimes A with th m welldoing of 
an institution as of a private hi uch ha tmt nue 
history ef the Cirencester College. 
9 
OS 
i Seared: at f 
farmers' sons, but always under the | sch. as 
The pame - e yc aland, since ~~ peo of 
fail 
ofa pe". 
But w welfare of ourselve: 
biishment. 
aps bya =< it touches « tf T es € 
yay r sent from a inj d 
a > pi at ula e very ni name of schoolmaster vM d 
Sow esti 
success. firs 
alm a la er nn Ae or 
te most effective an 
it was our misfortune to X 
but Jo Pes -A ee We f found t 
wish 
of men 
o idle away a certain amount of time. 
the. Teias “tor which the Institution was re-establis! tea ao 
therefore we got rid of those men, verom at uis 
bant to ourselves. In the course of time we have now, 
through the able assistance of our ohne A established a 
system which is perfect, I should say, as far as it goes, in 
teaching both practical and scientific iculture. -— is 
to TV — = facts. yesterday had 
ga dinner some old students 
Rod rem ing o. We met about 30 in 
Hien Sg and though I did not take a census of those who 
se om I etd that two-thirds were more 
ore and thatthey had obtained 
as agen ts, a ah Sama me pm RE better 
circumstances than ordinary farmers, in consequence of the 
instruction, practical and scientific, obtained at Cirencester. 
In ess w v of time, a and it is alre: eady odcundng, these men are 
beco iculturists, and 
Poa but A 
attoniti of the Co 
them yesterday. 
importance to members of the 
CER. and in the pl 
day 
not being far distant when very many former students of the 
favour to ask from the 
Royal Agricultural College, and many present students of the 
College, will also be members of tbis Council, and I have no 
fear of the fomite then’ of the nature of the education which 
y 
will be adopted by this Quee il. In the meantime I can only | trains if there is enough ; but i to east the 
"i with reference to your proceedings in Council, that I have | privilege of sending our animals in horse y passenger 
0 oojection, as far l^ d am concerned, to quietly and | trains and oe rates, instead of p ih byl 
at all events | trains a ting them backwards 
tardily to work, and I think Mr. Thompson will 
nd s 
it = _ have not been in a hurry in conside -— po to the comrepionse of other traffi 
g 
subject. o the want of success of the examinations of thi ining that their sheep are injured by the -— of tho 
Highland od i and of their having stuff * to work upon in m of transit, p nd I think 
entitled to call upon railway coi companies: 1o 
—— oe BS x os =A our ae of the Royal Agricultural College 
to those examinations, and have 
n any attention 
he 
nt us a quick passage for our stock, over their lines, which 
they might accord to us without loss to themselves. 
ae — instituted at rencester will have 
nothing could be more jejune than purely| The Presi : Iam exceeding]; A: glad, as I 
scientific education—no z more absurd than instruction members o Sopa "omnei must be, t omy discussion has been 
lt. 
raised on t important question of Agricultural Educa- 
qoum to ems Mr. Morton for [E a gone fully b 
who like myseif, Mr. — 
others in the acras il, 
f 
tion. 
- zo as it p es those 
r. na gne an any 
d n the ques esti 
first made—so many 
hi 
ss of 
nations and in practical and scientific agricu tu ure, prove 
ME is possible ; that there is no experim 
be tried; that a clear and straightforward path 
Council of this Society, and that if they follow it they will be 
promoting scientific and practica s e tion, and improving in 
Meer ct the position aias t farmer. 
T believe: that x no MENOR 
dies PR ject aes alata] education can attention 
of pia mem or the members of this I myself 
very I S the observations of Mr. Morton. 
ion which he s of is the 
ter — 
Tient Tem 
He has paid great attention, to agriculture, 
Highland er a 
and is well that 
yersed in this pa arti cular matter. What did 
nitural Educ 
EMI in 1787, any 
tion at al all; but in 1 
hoe eae 
to enable them to 
hich ar ex 
‘perience 
Morton to 
exceedingly to our having to do with the 
led 
DATE 
country—to our subsidisin 
education of a ng sch 
E A. our taking up any 
ools 
Schools. 
that we should do any 
fterwards, m in the course 
appears £0! 
expect to hm 
canvassed, d forward. LN 
fio do ubt that able gentleman "in every 
ing about the operations 
'eel any interest in it, 
poe brought m 
tthe Editor is a vi 
iot! 
any person belonging to 
forethat we shall not - 
anything against Ciren: 
roce The principle on to mer pem 
| by them. 
have ‘elt 
Bu io; 
rred, : 
| Hotere is of p t question in all its MN but there is no | 
of the working classes in the rural 
A dm conte 
Le. m schools, or in 
ioe oe school ont the other. We 
ion, e interest 
nsof drawing others 
NS 
do wa 
will be x 
have but 
lucation ting — which would meet with 
edd e Chinen iie are taught ipproval of Society. I trust before the next 
by which they will have to that some motion will be taken in the matter, and in the 
of education g 
denn — their” 
any of 
ability of the 
m in whic ch ic "ind roe A m I Sr they will 
rise in spite of the ditficulties by which | they are surrounded. 
I d it is a mistake in — d instruet them in any- 
reach. I have taken 
th 
untry do not know where to send their ac Fag “Th T 
AT oov better education than their forefathers ren. Thay the boys up 
They find a good school too heavy in expense for them, | question is more for th: 
and they do mot like sending their children to parochia al f and train them, and they hi 
p 
e farmers themselves. to take ee 
ave neglected one very easy method 
