11 OCTOBER 1856, Page 8

We have received the following letter from a correspondent at

the Ba- varian capital. Its contents afford a contrast between German agricul- tural meetings and our own.

"Munich, October 6.—The present is a week of festivity. in Munich, being the period known as the Octoberfest,' a species of agricultural rejoicing. Yesterday prizes were given to cattle which were paraded before the King of Bavaria and King Otho, who just now honours Munich with his presence, and appears at the theatre in Greek costume. The Allgemeine Zeitung states that the absence of outward splendour is compensated by the inner worth of the Octoberfest, and proceeds to enumerate several advantages—such as, to employ its own seeguipedalia verba, the deliverance of ground and soil through the loosening-legislation,' (Abldfungsgesetagebutag,) the excellent laws of cultivation, the high prices of corn, the great progress made in the structure of farming utensils and the physical-scientific parts of rural econo- my, which have led to unanticipated results. The Theresien Wiese, where the cattle were yesterday paraded, and where a horse-race afterwards took place, was perfectly covered with peasants, in costumes that would have been remarked as outlandish at the Moscow coronation and received due commemoration from Mr. Russell's pen. Today a procession of rifle-shoot- ers draws a similar crowd of spectators. "The Allgenteine Zeitung of Friday last gave an account of your criti- cism on Kuno Fischer's Baco von Verulam.' After quoting a passage from your article, and announcing that an English translation of the book in question is about to appear, it remarks that Kuno Fischer's book is some- thing more than a Bacon made Easy,' and deserves greater praise and a larger audience than you have assigned to it. We shall shortly know, the ground of this objectionxfor the Allgenteine Zeitung promises soon to devote ' a special article to this interesting literary novelty.' "