524 THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
minister from the United States of America. He represented a 
people progressing in the march of power and opulence in a 
manner astounding to the other nations of the world — a people 
that must for ever be esteemed by us as brethren, notwithstand- 
ing any temporary difference of opinion, and that, united with us 
in feeling and affection, might defy the powers of the whole world. 
He had no doubt that the two countries would progress together 
in the arts of science and of peace. 
Mr. Everett would ever entertain the kindest feeling for the 
land of his forefathers. Attached as he was to his native country, 
he never forgot that his ancestors were the companions of those 
whom he now addressed. The sound of his native language be- 
yond the sea was music to his ear; and he believed that if one 
thousandth part of the energy, and skill, and treasure that had 
been expended by rival nations in the struggles of what was 
called the field, had been expended in a generous emulation to 
excel in the arts of peace, the farmers would very soon drive the 
diplomatists off the stage. The amount of commerce between 
Great Britain and America was two-fold more than between any 
other people, and it was his ardent wish that it might long con- 
tinue so to be. 
Lord Morpeth then rose. The toast he had to propose was 
“Agriculture,” and deep and unfeigned was his respect for 
all that pertained to it. Its principles are honourable — invigorat- 
ing and benevolent — dating from the very birth of time — growing 
with the progress of civilization, advancing with the advance of 
light and knowledge and indispensable to the public welfare and 
the national greatness. To agriculture we must add manufac- 
tures, for they have assisted us in attaining the height of pros- 
perity and influence to which we have arrived. “It has,” said 
he, “ been no common gratification to me to have had the privilege 
of attending a meeting like this ; looking, as I do, at the materials 
of which it is composed, the spirit by which it is conducted, and 
the object it seeks to obtain. It has been brought together 
through no motive of party excitement, or to swell the progress of 
any popular movement. Its purposes are purely and simply 
patriotic. It places side by side goodly examples of the honest 
faces of the yeomanry, with some of the brightest specimens of 
