The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THE °Rua INTERNATIONAL CATTLHSHOW

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The Royal Agricultural Society of England are
making extensive preparations for the International Cattle
Show to be held in Battersea-park during the ensuing
month. The ground on which the show is to take place is
already staked out to the extent of some 25 or 26 scree, and
workmen are engaged in making the necessary drainage and
other requirements for so extensive an exhibition. Nor is
it intended that the exhibition of this year shall be merely
confined to the cattle show and stationary engines to be
exhibited at 'letting:a-perk. The council of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England have secured two hundred
acres of land in the vicinity of the Farningham station of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, where there will
be a public exhibition of every description of steam culti.
vators in action. In order to render it the more
attractive, arrangements have been made by the council
with the London, Cluitham, and Dover Company to run
frequent trains, at merely nominal charges, hawses Victoria
station and Farnioghain. The programme of the arrange-
ments for the forthcoming exhibition are as follows :—Mon-
day, the 23rd Jane, is fixed for the opening of the show.
The Ist of May was the last day of entry, and the number
of entries is very larp. The Right Hon. Lord Portman
is the president of the year. Stewards of live stock : The
Hon. W. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Pain, and Mr. Milward.
Foreign stock: Mr. Fisher Hobbs. Implements: Lord
Leigh, the Hon. A. Vernon, Mr. Torr ; and steward elect,
Sir E. Kerrisou, Bart., N.P. Other portions of the m
ment devolve on the Hon. Colonel A. Nelson Hoodarr
Barnett, the Hon. A. Vernon, Mr. W. Fisher Hobbs,
Mr. C. Wren Hoekyns, Mr. 'lnward, Mr. Torr, Mr.
Henry Wilson, Mr. Browne'', H.P.. Mr. Canteill, Mr.
Drum, Mr. Pope, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Wells ; whilst the
general arrangements of the show are entrusted to Mr.
th Gibbs, the well-known and efficient honorary
secretary of the Smithfield Cattle Mb, and Mr. 11. Hall
Dare, the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society. The
principle upon which the exhibition will be opened to the
various classes of the public will be on the graduated scale,
varying from the sum of one sovereign down to one shilling.
Governors and members of the society are to be admitted to
the show yards without payment, by tickets issued by the
society, but which are not transferable ; and members of
the Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland are to
be admitted upon the rime terms as membered the society.
The show of implements will commence on Monday, the
23rd, and continue open Tuesday, the 24th, and Wednesday,
the 25th of June exclusively, from eight in the morning till
eight in the evening. Wednesday, the 25th, is also ap-
pointed aa the day for the preliminary inspection of the cattle
and live stack, and for the judges' examination mid awards.
The cattle, for which prizes are awarded by the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England, amounting to the sum of
1,1521., are divided into 11 sections, comprising 63 clone.,
vie., short-horned. Hereford, Devon, Saner, keg-horned,
Notolk, and Suffolk polled, North Wide', South Wales,
Irish (Kerry), Channel Islands Alderney end Guern-
sey. The horses are divided into seven sections and 26
dame, as follows :—Hunter, aamage, roadster, Suffolk,
agricultural, dray, and ponies. The prizes awarded
for hones amount to 8651., and for the beat stud
thorough hone, which, in the opinion of the
judges, is most calculated to improve and perpetuate
the breed of the sound thorough-bred horse for general
stud purposes, a first prise of 1001. and gold medal is appro-
priated, and a prize of 251. for the second. The sheep are
to be divided into 12 sections and 36 claws, namely,
Leicester. Lincoln, Cotswold, Kentish or Romney Marsh,
long. woolled, Irish—pure native long-woolled breeds, South
Down, Shropshire, Hampshire ad West Country Down,
Oxfordshire Down, Dorset, and Mountain. The swept;
amount of money prizes awarded in the sheep chums reaches
1,0861. The pip are divided into 15 classes, and money
prises are offered in then classes of 2251. The prizes
offered for foreign specimens amount to 7501. Thus, in
additive to eight gold medals and various valuable
prises for improvements in agricultural implements alone,
the prima to be awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society
of England for the various descriptions of stock exhibited
under their easpicea are—For cattle, 1,1521. ; hones, 865/. ;
sheep, 1,095/. ; pigs, Tffi/. • add for foreign competition,
7801. ; inking a total of 4,0671. in money. The cattle to
be exhibited under the auspices of the Highland and Agri-
' cultural Societies of Scotland consist of twenty-four classes
divided into four sections. viz., polled (Aberdeen and
Angus), polled (Galloway), Highland, and Ayrshire; money
poises, 468. Hones : Clydesdals, divided into aye classes ;
Fuss in money 1441., and five silver models. Sheep (eight
dames is two madams) : Black-faced and Cheviot ; money
prises 1081. sad eight silver medals. The gross amount of
prises gives by the Highland and Agricultural Societies of
Scotland being thirty-sight ether medals and 721.1. in
money, this mhos a gram moss* of money prizes in
cattle and live steak elope of 4,8071., or with gold and
silver medals a ens little short of MOM

ITALY AND GARIBALDI. —Signora Janie White
Itsrio, who superintended the licepitela in fienthern Italy,
sod who is so identified w►th the Dalai& mine, will deliver
two lectures on the last Italien campaigns to St. James's
BA cm May 11111 b and 2.71 i. Minos Move has both is the
provinces and is 800tland lectured to crowded and enthuii-
natio =dimes.
The whole of the extenaive cathedral yard at
USW he to be enclosed and turfed.