The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

(onrt nio fashion.

HER MAJESTY is still resident at Osborne, where
the Duchess of Brabant continues to be a guest.
_

Sin WILLIAM C. Ross, R.A., on Tuesday, had the
last sitting for a miniature of her Imperial Highness
the Duchess of Brabant, painted by command of the
Queen.
LORD Jon, Russm.r. arrived at Osborne on Thurs-
day on a visit to her Majesty.
Tun EARL or AI:ERDEEN was indisposed for some
days towards the close of last week, but on Monday
was sufficiently recovered to attend at his official
residence in Downing-street.
THE or CLARENDON, Count LRVIThIiO ( Portu-
guese Minister), and General Lopez, on a mission
from Paraguay, arrived at Osborne on Monday, and
had audiences of the Queen. _ .

CoNstnEttAtox sensation was produced in Brussels
by the sudden arrival of the Duke of Brabant front
England, to which he again returned, after staying a
few days in Belgium. Many rumours were current,
and much speculation was afloat. The impression in
well-informed circles was either that that Prince was
commissioned to make important notifications to his
royal father respecting the apprehensions entertained
in England regarding the dubious conduct of Austria,
or that the King, his father, is compromised in the
Frohsdorff Bourbon fusion affair, and that Louis
Napoleon has taken some steps indicating his dis-
pleasure thereat. Not a little importance was attached
to the departure of one of the Ihtke's aides-de-camp
for Germany.

Volitital anb Otraral.

Tlfl CATTLE SHOW.

Dm:Fa-met; last year, presented a show which far '
surpassed the exhibition of all preceding anniver-
sanes, and which was pronounced unapproachable by
any subsequent show of fat stock and ingenious im-
plements. The collection in both departments which
has been under inspection by the appointed judges,
by invited critics, and the paying public in general,
during the current week, is accordingly acknowledged
to be inferior in most, if not all, points to that of
Christmas, 1852, but is nevertheless presented with
a confident challenge regarding its superiority to that
of any other year—always excepting as hereinbefore
excepted
The cattle are, as usual, placed in three great
divisions—the Devons, the Herefords, and the Short-
horns; all three classes being fully and well repre-
sented. The Devons make a fair appearance, the
principal exhibitors being Prince Albert, the Earl of
Leicester, Lord Aylesford, Lord Portman, Mr. Far•
thing, of Stowey-court, Sc. Lord Leicester carried
off more than ono prize in this department ; and a
cow of his lordship, which was fourteen years of age,
and had produced seven calves, was much admired
for her symmetry and fine appearance. The Here-
fords were fewer in number and deficient in quality,
though there were some fine specimens of this breed
also, in which Prince Albert, the Earl of liadnor, the
Earl of Darnley, and the Duke of Bedford appear as
competitors. The short-horns were, however, the
principal feature of the show, some very remarkable
specimens being seen among them. The attention
of the visitors was very early directed to one huge
animal, which towered about two feet higher than all
his neighbours—a five-and-a-half-year-old (.x, bred
by Sir Harry Verney, from the stock of Mr. Ilayter.
of Linslade, near Leighton Buzzard. To a red and
white ox, exhibited by Mr. Stratton, of Broad Hinton,
near Swindon, Wiltshire, aged three years and nine
months, was awarded the first short-horn prize and
the gold medal, as the finest ox in the exhibition.
An animal, exhibited by the late Duke of Beaufort,.
in the class of mixed breeds, and which caviled oft
the prize—a cross between a West Highland bull and
a Jersey cow—was much admired for symmetry and
condition.