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Sir Watkin Owem Pell, Bart. C. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., M.P. 
Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Kerrisox, Walter Long, Esq., M.P. 
Bart., M.P. 
Edwd. Buller, Esq., M.P. 
E. A. Christopher, Esq., M.P. 
Jonx Bowes, Esq., M.P. 
H. Blanchard, Esq. 
W. T. Uopeland, Esq., M.P. 
.1. \V. Childers, Esq., M.P. 
AVlLBRAHAM EgERTOX, ESQ. 
PiAlph Etwall, Esq., M.P. 
II. Handlet, Esq., M.P. 
Wm. Miles, Esq., M.P. 
Jos. Neeld, Esq., M.P. 
E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P. 
Philif Puset, Esq., M.P. 
E. A. Sanford, Esq., M.P. 
R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P. 
J. A. Smith, Esq., M.P. 
R. G. Towxley, Esq., M.P. 
\Y. WlIITBREAD, ESC. 
Henry AYllson, Esq. 
This list of names is suggestive, not only of the great in- 
fluence of Earl Spencer with the foremost men of the day, irre- 
spective of their political leanings, but also of the ardour with 
which he must have pressed his views to a practical issue in 
the interval between his Christmas speech and the appearance 
of this advertisement. It is difficult to imagine a list likely to 
have greater weight with agriculturists, and it is not surprising 
to find that when the meeting was held on Wednesday, May 9, 
the room was " crowded to excess." The assembly was indeed 
a notable one. Earl Spencer and the Duke of Richmond were 
there, of course, with many others of their order, including 
Lord Chichester, a very popular landlord ; Lord Portman, then 
in the prime of his manhood, who, though not spared to witness 
the Jubilee of the Society he helped to form, was to the last 
one of the most earnest of its supporters; Lord Stradbroke, who, 
till a comparatively recent period, was the veteran Lord-Lieu- 
tenant of Suffolk ; with Lord Lyttelton, the Marquis of Tweed- 
dale, Lord Oxmantown, Lord Eliot, Lord Hatherton, Lord 
Rayleigh, and others of high rank. There, too, was the great Sir 
Robert Peel, and, with him, another prominent statesman of the 
day, Sir James Graham, and many other Members of Parlia- 
ment, including Sir Harry Verney, Bart, (now the only survivor 
of the meeting), Mr. Henry Handley, whose earnest advocacy 
has already been noticed, Mr. C. Shaw Lefevre, afterwards 
Speaker of the House of Commons, who died only the other 
day, full of years and honours, as Lord Eversley ; Philip Pusey, 
who for so many years gave his best services to the Society as 
the Editor of its Journal ; Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Miles, 
and Mr. J. W. Childers, staunch friends to the last ; and a host 
of other members of the Lower House, including Sir E. Knatch- 
bull, Bart., Sir E. Wilmot, Bart., the Hon. A. Duncombe, the 
Hon. B. B. Baring, Alderman Copeland, E. Wodehouse, Col. 
Sibthorp, E. A. Sanford, R. A. Slaney, E. S. Cayley, Captain 
R. Eaton, J. H. Calcraft, H. C. Sturt, E. W. Pendarves, W. 
Williams, and others. 
