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General Meeting of Governors and Members, 
of a man to serve upon a committee 
of this sort twice in his lifetime. It 
so happened that he had the great 
honour and privilege of introducing 
the deputation to the Koyal Agricul- 
tural Society in 1859, and the same 
privilege in 1892, and on both occa- 
sions he was successful. He could 
only say that he was delighted to find 
that the Society was again visiting 
them. In 1859 he thought the build- 
ings of the Society covered a space of 
about ten acres. On the present 
occasion he believed they covered a 
space of ninety acres. That was an 
extraordinary fact, and showed how 
the Eoyal Agricultural Society had 
grown during that period. 
Vote of Thanks to the Earl of Warwick. 
Mr. Bowen-Jones (Steward of 
Cattle) said they could not separate 
without according the best thanks of 
the Society to the Earl of Warwick 
for the use of his park for the purposes 
of the Society’s Country Meeting. 
He (Mr. Bowen- Jones) was now grow- 
ing somewhat old in the membership 
and in the service of the Society, and 
he had attended very many of its 
Country Meetings, the first of which 
was at Warwick, thirty- three years 
ago ; but he had never in the whole 
course of his experience seen a more 
beautiful ground than the one that 
had been placed at their disposal by 
tlie Earl of Warwick. In no small 
degree, he believed, would this be the 
means of causing the Meeting to be 
a great success, and they would all 
cordially agree with him in returning 
to the noble Earl their best and most 
cordial thanks. 
Sir Nigel KixGSCOTE,in seconding 
the resolution, said that although com- 
parisons were odious, he was bound to 
say the Society was never in a more 
suitable and picturesque ground than 
it was at present. They all felt that 
wherever they might go hereafter the 
beauty of the Show at Warwick in 
the park of the Earl of Warwick 
would never be surpassed. (Cheers.) 
The motion was then put by the 
Pkesident, and carried amidst loud 
cheers. 
Lord Bkooke, M.P., said he re- 
gretted extremely that his father, 
Lord Warwick, was unable to be 
there that day to acknowledge per- 
sonally the kind manner in which 
they had offered him thanks for giv- 
ing his park for the use of the Show. 
One of the pleasantest duties of an 
Englishman was the privilege of 
being allowed to offer hospitality to 
his friends ; and, therefore, it was 
with great pleasure that Lord War- 
wick, when they decided that his 
park was the one most suitable for 
their Show, gave consent that it 
should be used. To him, he con- 
fessed, one of the greatest pleasures 
of the day had been to see his father 
there taking a small part in the pro- 
ceedings, although the interest which 
he had shown had only been the end 
of what he had felt for a consider- 
able time — in fact, since the idea of 
the Show in that park was first 
started. He might also say what 
great pleasure it had given them to 
have had H.R.H. the Prince of Wales 
and H.R.H. the Duke of York in their 
house. They all regretted most 
deeply that that visit had not been 
shared by one whom they all loved 
and respected, the Princess of Wales ; 
but events of great sadness had oc- 
curred in this countiy which had 
touched them most deeply, and natu- 
rally the mourning which Her Royal 
Highness had felt so acutely had pre- 
vented her presence on that occasion. 
He thanked them most heartily for 
their very kind vote of thanks, and 
his family had only been too pleased 
that their park had been of any use 
to them. 
Suggestions by Members. 
In response to the usual inquiry 
from the Chair as to whether any 
member had remarks to make or sug- 
gestions to offer for the consideration 
of the Council, 
Mr. George Gibbons drew the 
attention of the Society to the fact 
that they had had free trade in im- 
porting cattle diseases from abroad. 
Those diseases had been of enormous 
disadvantage to them up and down 
the country. Since that time there 
had been an alteration. They had 
now a Board of Agriculture to look 
after them, and a splendid man who, 
during the last few months, had ex- 
erted himself right manfully to com- 
bat those diseases by which they had 
recently been attacked. He moved 
“ That the thanks of the Eoyal Agri- 
cultural Society be given to the Right 
