xcvi General Meeting of Oovernors and Members, June 23, 1891. 
year by year mnst feel that, whatever 
were the locality chosen, the foresight 
of their officers, the wisdom of their 
Council, and the great public spirit 
invariably shown — inasmuch as it 
was the universal attribute of Eng- 
lishmen — always ensured an indubit- 
able success. Those attributes, that 
wisely-directed energy, and that pub- 
lic spirit could not be more happily 
illustrated than by the Earl of Fever- 
sham. They did not need that he 
should tell them that the Society 
might well be congratulated upon 
having for its chief next year a noble- 
man who was so competent to for- 
ward in any direction that which 
was decided by the wisdom of the 
Council. 
Mr. Isaac Rough (Middlesex) se- 
conded, and the motion was carried 
unanimously. 
The Earl of Feveesham, who was 
received with loud cheers, thanked 
the meeting sincerely for the honour 
they had done to him. He esteemed 
it a very high honour to follow in the 
footsteps of those who had occupied 
that chair, and of his noble friend 
whom he had known for so long in 
both Houses of Parliament, and who, 
as President, had upheld the dignity 
and the position of that Society so 
well. He would not detain them 
upon that occasion, because he knew 
that they must be anxious to go into 
that famous Showyard, of which, he 
thought, every member of the Society 
must be proud. If they wished to 
consider for a moment what the 
Society had done, the great work 
which it had accomplished, and which 
it was carrying on in the country, 
they had only to look round the Show, 
an(l he thought that the agriculturists 
and farmers of this country, and of 
that great county in particular, would 
find a lesson of the greatest service to 
them. Next year the Society would 
visit the ancient and famous town of 
Warwick, and he was happy to think 
that there was a connection between 
that great county of York and the 
county of Warwick. In Warwickshire 
at that moment they were famous for 
their breed of Shorthorns, and those 
Shorthorns were originally from the 
banks of the Tees. To compete with 
the cattle of that district Yorkshire- 
men would have to take the very best 
animals they could, and he hoped 
they would do so. They had seen 
some evidences of what Yorkshiremen 
could produce in the field that day. 
He thanked them for the distinguished 
honour they had done him, and he 
need not say how much he appreciated 
it. 
The President then promised that 
attention should be given by the 
Council to the remarks that had been 
made on the subject of railway ac- 
commodation, and declared the busi- 
ness of the meeting at an encj. 
