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The members of the Chertsey Agricultural Association held their fourth annual meeting at Chertsey on Tuesday. There was a munerous assemblage of West Surry landlords and farmers. After dinner, Cap- taM Perceval and Sir William Fremantle delivered speeches about the necessity of supporting agriculture. The Captain said— It was pleasing to sec men of all shades of political opinion, men of all par- ties, coming forward and expressing their determination to resist any attack Span the agricultural interests. If they continued united, they must defeat any attack that could be made upon them. Although the present occasion was one on which politics ought not perhaps to be introduced, yet, as one of their Representatives, he felt it to be his duty to state the course that he should adopt upon this important subject. It was clear from the signs of the times' that in the ensuing session of Parliament another attack would be made upon the Corn-laws. He therefore felt it to be his duty to state unreservedly, that he should give his most strenuous opposition to any measure having that tendency, and that he would never consent to deprive the landed interest of the protection they at present received.

Sir William Fremantle was also stanch for the Corn-laws- He wonld not allude to any measure that might be brought forward in con- sequence of the bad harvest ; but this he would say, that whether the Govern- ment was conducted upon Nilig or Tory principles, the first subject (upon which the national prosperity, and indeed the salvation of the country dc. petaled.) for their. consideration ought to be the prosperity of agriculture • and

whether Lord Melbourne, or any other noble lord, were at the head, of the Government, he ought to feel that it wits absolutely necessary to support the agricultural interest. Feeling, as he did, that the success of agriculture was essentially necessary to the wellbeing of all classes in the country, he must repudiate all the ;theoretical principles that had been brought forward upon the subject. Tie Was More inclined to act from practice and experience than from

theory in so very important a matter. 'When he found that for ten years a

law had worked well, that it had enabled them to support the population of the country without any foreign aid, and that the only drawback to the well- 4erking of this law, was the accidental circumstance of one bad harvest, lie felt that it was his duty to look to experience, and not to resort to any new theories,upoti a question affecting the interests of such an important class as the agriculturists of this country.

We are informed by a correspondent, in reference to the agricultural meeting at Chertsey, that the labourers in the service of the Earl of

Levelace -would have been entitled to premiums from the Society for

letigth of servitude and good conduct, but that his Lordship neglected to pay the trifling amount of subscription required from each member of the Society. The poor men, who had been led to believe that they

slMuld obtain the prize offered by the Society, were exceedingly morti- defl and-disappointed when they were informed by the Committee that

they were precluded front receiving them for the reason above-men- tioned.-11forkinv Post. (The Earl of Lovelace is not famous for paying subscriptions of any kind.] The North Essex Agricultural and Conservative Association had their annual exhibition, dinner, and oratory, at Castle Iledingham, on Tuesday last. Many families of distinction were present, and the day

was kept as a general holyday by the farmers and peasantry. We sub- join a re* extracts front sonic of the speeches. Mr. Round, M.P., the chairman, having proposed the health of the " Bishop and Clergy ofthe Diocese," the Reverend Dr. Burney, in returning thanks, ob- served— As for the clergy, they had good and substantial reasons for combining with the landholders and the freeholders of England in support of those rights and

privileges which were dent to them as men, and precious to them as church-

men, aud to which, through God's providence he looked for the preservation to this country of all those glories which had been so ably and so eloquently described, and which had been mainly won by the virtues and piety of our fore- fathers, through ninny centuries. It had been frequently said, that it was un- becoming a clergyman to take part in any political association; but he did not mint it political to encourage those huntble virtues and that industry amongst the labouring population which they had that morning seen evinced and re- warded. Nor was he tole told that a Christian minister was not serving the cause of religion, when promoting that union between the employer mid the employed whicit. was one of the great objects of their association,—a union which bound together the landlord and the tenant, the farmer and the more humble tiller of the land, whose fate it was to live by the land which he cultivated, and for which OA gave him the summer sun and the spring alidwers, and from which, if his blessing Was with 01011,44y would surely, de- - rive the increase: Neither' could,- it be political tbr a clergyman- to unite with them in defence of the Throne and the Altar. Their combination Was not to carry out any visionary views, to shake the order of society, ordisturb the just relations between one gradation and another. They did uot (keel in language of violence and blood ; nor seek to array the vicious, the disloylil, the unpnn- cipled, and the infidel, against the loyal, the good, the moral, and the godly. .I■lo; theirs Wawa nobler and a purer object, and one which he felt made it his duty as a clergyman, as well as his interest, to join them in defence of those rights which, unless they were maintained by the State, would render it impossible for the clergy properly to fulfil the duties of their sacred calling.

Sir John Tyrrell said, that if the agriculturists ceased to support the Corn-laws, they would cease to support the best interests of the country— The object of that great measure was plenty, and security for plenty. n was not often that it happened to man as it had happened to him, to see it made evident to the senses of all that his predictions were correct. But now, those diversities of opinion which formerly existed amongst them were in great measure reconciled ; for they had so recently seen seven millions of hard gold taken out of this country for the purpose of buying foreign corn, that it was vain any longer to attempt keeping up the delusam which the Corn-law Repealers had so industrioasly spread, that the Continental states would be but too happy to exchange their corn for our manufactures. It had been proved over and. over again, that not one of those on the Continent had received any thing but gold in exchange for the corn which they brought over to this country. They stood on the beach' and held out their hands for our sovereigns; and if the Corn-lames were repealed, and there were to be a dearth and famine in the land, we should have to melt our spoons, our plate, and our watches, because they would not take a yard of cloth or of flanneI in exchange for earn as long as we could give them gold. Thus, it would be seen, that in supporting the Corn-laws, they not only supported their own interest, but also the best interests of the country ; for nothing could be so prejudicial to the general commerce and interest of the country, as to deprive it of all • its bullion. Ali the schemes of the free traders had been based upon the argument that the motley would be soon returned back to this country. and expended in the pur- chase of our manufactures, and that thus the balance would be restored to England; but the events of the last year had sufficiently shown that they were exceedingly unfortunate in their predictions. Those persons who had lately been abroad stated, that in C,rmany, in Switzerland, and in Poland, there hall been a fair average crop ; that in France there was a diminished crop; and in the United States a very abundant one ; and there was some chance, he was happy to say, of effecting art exchange with our own manufactures for their corn, without producing the article of gold, and that we shoold not expe- rience the same difficulty as on former occasions. This would show to the farmers that they were not only interested fur themselves in cultivating ther soil in the best possible manner, and in producing the greatest quantity of. corn, but it was also of the greatest importance to all the other interests of the country that they should do so ; a circumstance which, notwithstanding the. unjust complaints which had been made against their Eelfithucas, would no he was sure, weigh lightly in their estimation.

Mr. Round touched upon the chief question which had occupied Parliament during the last session, and upon the recent Ministerial changes— The concluding act of the session was the pitchforking of the Chancellor of the Exchequer into the House of f.ads, by way of reward for the flourishing state in which he left the revenue, and the igtioininy and contempt in which he involved the Government on t110 measures relative to the Bank. of Ireland. When that measure was brought fbrward, the kind and candid leader of the Opposition (Sir Robert Peel) simply ofjected that it was too late in the session; Mr. Spring Rice declared that it was not too late, and it was essential that it shouldbe passed; but whenMr. O'Connell said that he would ivail himsclfofevery form of Parliament, and die on the floor of the House sooner than it should be passed, Mr. Spring Rice withdrew it, and thus involved the Ministry clearly in a charge, either of gross neglieence in not sooner bringing forward so im- portant a measure„ or of gross stitserv:ency and cowardice for yielding so easily to the threats of Mr. O'Connell. It certainly was no great matter to the agri- culturists that the rhetoric of Mr. Shell should be transferred to the Board of Trade ; but he feared that English merchants would find tropes and figures of speech a very imulequate substitute for figures of arithmetic, and the solid' qualities of a man of business. Neither wns the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Canadas one calculated to give satisfaction. Our countrymen, there had a right to ask why, when standing at the very gates of sear, they were to be deprived of the great name, military talents, and local experience of Sir John Colborne, for a gentleman taken oat of a mercantile counting- house. But there was an appointment still Imre affecting the people of Eng. land than this—he alluded to the appointment or Lord Normanby as Home Secretary. What sin had the people. of England committed what it-anis:meat had they deserved, that this she ul I have been inflicted on them ? What Lord Normanby had done in a neighbouring island, would for ever preclude him from the confidence of the people of England. Was the same game to be played in England as in Ireland? Was all law to become political favouritism,* and the Judges of the land to be set at nought ? Were the sante antics to be played here as had been witnessed there?

Mr. Selmes, of Berkley, Sussex, proposed a match to Lord Spencer, to show one hundred Sussex beasts of his own breed against one hun- dred of any other breed in England bred by the same person. The offer was accepted by Earl Spencer with one hundred short-horns ; and two gentlemen were appointed to decide the match, who have declared in favour of his Lordship.