At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Condon, or t)entral Farmers' Club, held on the 2nd of May, Mr. Alderman Mechi read a paper on " The^dyantages of Steam in Agri culture, and. how'tar they have been availed of." This gentleman's position ab a practical agriculturist, gives great weight to whatever opinions hV^ftay advance on a subject of so much importance. The paper, which is of considerable length, was published in full, in* the Mark Lane Exqress, of 9th May. We however, quote merely such portions of it as appear likely to subserve the farming interest in this quarter of the world. Mr, Mechi commenced by reviewing the general benefits conferred by steam, and estimating the extent of its use in manufac tures. He^ then glanced at the progress of steam culture, recognising, with gratitude, the services of its early pioneers. Steam ! mighty Steam ! " The term," he said, '• suggested a thousand pleasing and profitable reflections: that marvellous and almost invisible power which brooks no opposition — which never tires. Scouring the plains, piercing the hills, threading the valleys, and ploughing the wide ocean ; mastering with indignant ease, time and space, wind, water, and seasons ; the varieties of its power may well amazo us. Mere it is wielding the ponderous hammer that gives shape and consistence to gigantic metallic masses; there it weaves the gossamer web, or twists the slender fibre ; it plunges ithe hardy miner deep into the bowels of mother earth, and raises from her lap her mineral and metallic treasures; these glow and ; flow with liquid meltings at its powerful blast ; here it is printing bank-notes, there it is coin ing golden "sovereigns; today it is prepaiing food and clothing for the body ; to-morrow it feasts the mind, spreading far and wide, in countless numbers, the broad sheets of intelli gence. Instruments of death and of preserva tion alike acknowledge it power. What a comprehensive word is this said steam. It means peace, progression, civilization, educa tion, abundance, and cheapness ; it is the death-blow to monopoly and privation. 