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

The show of sheep was of a high class, and it
must have been with no little hesitation that the
judges finally came to the decision of awarding to
Mr. Foijambe, of Osberton-hall, near Worksop,
Notts, the gold medal for the pen of three finest
sheep in the exhibition.
The show of pigs wag particularly good. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who has exhibited
stock in several of the classes, has been most
successful in this department of pigs ; his pen of
three Sutfolk pigs, aged twenty-two weeks, having
gained the gold medal, as the finest specimens of
their class in the exhibition, and it was the opinion
of all who examined them that they middy deserved
that honour.

The gallery this year possessed many features of
unusual interest. Among a crowd of new reaping-
machines and other implements, all tending to the
improvement and simplification of agriculture,
there is one stand which, for many reasons, will bo
looked upon with peculiar gratification at this
juncture. This is the contribution of the Royal
Dublin Society, which occupies a prominent positi
in the principal gallery. Ireland is here fitly repre-
sented by a magnitieent collection of green crops,
embracing all the different varieties of mangold
wurzel, turnips of various kinds, sugar beet, parsnips,
white and red carrots, potatoes, field onions, flax-
seed, and several remarkable specimens of field
cabbage. Some of these roots are perfect curiosities
in their way, and fully bear out the proverbial fer-
tility of Irish soil.
The number of visitors to the show has been
almost unprecedentedly large. On Thursday and
yesterday the concourse amounted to mu absolute
mob, through which at times it was extremely diffi-
cult to move. The sales of stock, &c., however, have
been remarkably dull, especially during the earlier
days of the show.
On Wednesday evening the annual dinner of the
Smithfield Cattle Club came ow at the Freemasons'
Tavern, and was attended by more than 100 of the
leading agriculturists. The Duke of Richmond, who
occupied the chair, and Mr. Pusey, made speeches
after dinner, congratulating the club on its success as
an instrument in promoting the improvement of
British agriculture, and on its prosperous condition
in regard to funds at the present time. The show
finally closed yesterday (Friday) evening.

TUE RATE.: OF MuPTALITY in the m.•tropolis con
tinues to advance, and in the week that ended on
Saturday last the number of deaths rose to 1,414.
In five weeks that have elapsed since the 19th of Octo-
ber the numbers have been 1,111, 1,192, 1,101, 1,839,
and 1,414. Concurrent with these weekly numbers
there has been an almost constant WI in the mean
temperature. Last week 620 children died under 15
years of age, 451 men and women between 15 and 00
years, and 306 at 64) years and upwards. From con-
sumption there died 115 persons ; from bronchitis,
175 ; from lung diseases, 113. Old persons, and
those particularly who are subject to pulmonary
complains, suffer from the coldness of the weather;
and the high price of fuel at this time renders the
poor less able to contend with it, besides abridging
their means of obtaining bread, which is also dear,
as well as the other necessaries of life. Cholera is
very much diminished, and will probably, as in the
previous epidemic, nearly disappear for a time.
Only 18 deaths from this disease were registered last
week.

Tim Hos. G. S. STAFFORD JERNINGII.vq, now
Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, is appointed her
Majesty's Minister at Stockholm, in place of Sir
Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., who has resigned, ou
his appointment to the second command of the
Mediterranean squadron. The lion. W. C. Eliot (son
of Earl St. Germans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland),
now unpaid attache at Lisbon, is appointed second
paid attache to her Majesty's mission at Berlin, in
the room of the Hon. Vesey Bliglt, resigned.

Ir is rumoured that the Earl of Aberdeen has
appointed his stepson, the Marquis of Ahercorn, to a
diplomatic mission of importance, in the present
state of foreign politics.

VISCOUNT PALMERSToN will remain in town until
shortly before Christmas, when the noble viscount
and viscountess proceed to Broadlands, to dispense
their hospitality to a succession of guests.

TUE VALrE or• LACE, of British and Irish manu-
facture, exported in the ten months ended on the
sth ult. was 495,8841., being a large increase on the
former year.

GEORGE Ariassox, E•Q., of the Inner Temple,
and of the Northern Circuit, was on Monday last
sworn in, before the Lord Chancellor, as one of her
Majesty's sergeants-at-law. He gave rings with the
motto " Tout temps prist." He is a native of West-
morland, and the author of " The Worthies of West•
morland," " International Law;' a work on " Sheriff
Law," "The Shipping Laws of the British Empire,"
&c. &c. dc. His promotion seems to give general
satisfaction at the bar.