POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The annual meeting of the Suffolk Agricultural Society was held at Framlingham yesterday. The Earl of Stradbroke presided over the usual banquet, and Sir Edward Gooch and Sir Fitzroy Kelly were "in their places." Most of the speeches were made up of the staple employed on such occasions. As "consolation," the Solicitor-General said to the farmers, " All the best energies of some of the best intellects in this country are now dedicated to your service and to your interests " ; "but after all, it is to yourselves that you must now chiefly look." As an earn- est that the farmers had partially anticipated this sound policy, we notice that the show is said to have surpassed all former exhibitions both in quality and quantity.
Mr. G. H. Whalley has commenced his canvass at Peterborough.
All the Conservative strength of Yougbal, of dining calibre, mustered on Wednesday, to entertain Mr. Butt, the Member, and to be entertained by him. Colonel Chatterton, the rejected of Cork, was the other orator. i Irish enthusiasm broke out into mild Orangeism, and was sustained by "Kentish fire."
The Oxford University Herald of this morning says-
" The opinion gains ground that the Premier will be the new Chancellor. The declaration in favour of Lord Derby has received nearly three hundred signatures ; and we understand that his Lordship has, in answer to the ap- plication made to him on the subject, given his consent to be put in nomina- tion. It has been asserted that Lord Derby had not gained honours at the University : this is not true, his Lordship was a prizeman in 1819 ; he gained in that year the prize for a Latin poem, 'Syracuse.' "
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