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Anniversary Meeting of the Leicestershare and Rutland Agricultural Society.

THE Anniverſary Meeting of the Leiceſterſhire and Rutland Agricul- tural Society, was held on Friday the 4d. inſt. at the Three Crowns, Le1- ceſter, attended by Colonel Noel, M. P. for Rutland; Sir E. C. Hartopp, Mr. Keck, Members for Leiceſterſhire, Mr. Winſtanley, Mr. Hudſon, Mc, Edwyn Burnaby, Colonel Crump, Rev. Mr. Swann, and a very conſiderable number of gentlemen of both counties.—Prizes were adjudg- ed to,

Mr. Watkinſon, of Woodhouſe, for a/pen of ſhear hogs

Mr. Oldacres, of Kirkby, for a pen of two-ſhear ſheep.

Mr. Nixon, of Belgrave, for a pen of ewes.

To John Bradford, ſhepherd te Mr. Warkinſon, for his care,&c.

Upwards of forty new members were admitted at this meeting; Lord

Henniker, M. P. for Rutland; the Rev. Mr S. Prieſt, and the Rev. Mr. Munning, of Norfolk, were ele&ted honorary members; Colonel Noel was nominated Chairman of the Committees ot Correſpondence and Premiums for the enſuing year, ſuch Committees compriſing the noblemen and gentle- men who are Vice-preſidents of the Society; and the gentlemen who tormed the Committees of laſt year, with an addition of lix gentlemen of the county of Rutland. At dinner Colonel Noel preſided, and by his vivacity and good humour, contributed to produce the greateſt conviviality and ſocial pleaſantry, which continued to prevail until the cloſe of the meeting at a late hour. The ſubje& of the abuſes attendant on the preſent mode of con- duäing the ſale of wool, was taken into conúderation. The Chairman, Sir E. C. Hartopp, Mr. Keck, Mr. Burnaby, and Colonel Crump, ſeve- ally addreſſed the meeting; the neceſſity as well as policy of holding'an annual meeting, for the ſale of wool appeared to be admitted on all hands, gy which a convenient communication between the wool ſtapler and grower would be obtained; a letter was produced and read, received from a gen- tleman of conſideration in Oxfordihire, ÉRating that the attempt to eſtabliſh a ſimilar meeting in that neighbourhood, had met with oppoſition, but being perſevered in, it was ultimately ſucceſsful and had been þproduêtive of much benefit. The preſident appointed for the next July wool meeting, is Colonel Noel; the ſtewards, ¿ord Henniker, Sir E. C. Hartopp, and Mr. Keck; the members for both counties, deſerve the greatest pralle from every claſs of graziers, for their endeavours to conciliate all parties in the propoſed ſcheme of a wool meeting, from which there is every reaſon to expe the reſult of the ſame beneficial effeâs, as have been experienced from ſimilar eſtabliſhments in other dittriéts.

At the above meeting, a fore hog was exhibited, fed by Mr. Pallet, of Kevythorpe, from the breed of Colonel Crump, of Alexton Hall, which weighed ſixty-four ſtone, fourteen pounds to the ſtone, although not nearly

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