The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-21 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL DOG RHO*.

This great show, the first of a series to be held
every year, and prmising to be as famous of their kind as
the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, is likely next week to bring
together, from all parts of the world, the noblest collection
of varieties of the Milne nos that his ever been am/milled
under one root. The entries are now definitely closed, and
dice rejecting some hundreds of dogs which came too late,
and weeding the entries made of poor and common sped-
name, there still remains for exhibitions list of nearly 1,700
dogs, exclusive of puppies. Of this number 900 are *porde/
dogs of every known and rare denoroisation, the re-
maining 800 being of the non-sporting clue, such aa mas-
tiffs, watch, sheep, and bull-dogs, terriers, foreign doge, dzo.
Of foxhounds there is said to he the best entry that has
ever bleu made in London, and quite equal is merit to the
famous Yorkshire shows. The Prince of Wales's show of
harriers will be in lies with misname from eight other
famous packs. Four couples of the New Forest blood-
hounds have been entered how Mr. Nevill's pack of stag.
hounds, and these, with some beagles and upwards of fifty
of the most celebrated deerhounds, complete the selection
of hunting dogs, which on the opening day will be attended
by their huntamen ; when, after the Yorkshire famines, the
judgment on the foxhounds will be permed publicly.
The most noted private breeders bare sent about
thirty specimens of the picturesque bloodhound—the
bloodhound of painters and novelist*, as distinguished
from the small. snappish black-and-tan bunting bloodhound.
In the clue of foreign hounds, which has many enters*
the Duchess of Manchester contributes an immense Russian
wolfhound and a leash of German boarhounds. The prime
for greyhounds, pointers, setters, sad retrievers have at-
tracted compstiton of all classes and from all pert. of
Great Britain. In the Clamber class the Duke of New-
castle sends three coppice, bred at Clumbsr-park, the cradle
of the race, and with his gram Lord Boners and Sir St.
GeorriGore compete in the Name elm. In the Doe-sport-
log dwiaion some of the most noted examples of the English
and Scotch sheepdog' will be shown, and there is a very nu-
merous entry of Newfoundland., though of what kind re-
mains to be seen. If they are not purer bred than those
lately shown at Cremona., we hope, if only for the coedit of
their own discernment, that the judges will withhold the
prizes altogether. In the Oka for foreign watchdogs there
are some nn entries. Among them the lion dog of Algiers,
so useful on the wild, outlying farms of the Algerian
mountains ; the Opanieh sheepdog, the Pyrenean wolfdog.
the Sicilian wolidog, and a doze° more of the bold huge de-
fenders of fold and farm abroad. The London fancy, who
hold among than the finest oollection of toy dogs in the
world, have sent in about 300 of their choicest specimens, and
in the clams for the best monster dog. irrespective of breed,
the lion dog we have mentioned and soother huge creature,
described as a halfbred woUdog from Tartan, each MY.
claim to supremacy. There are clogs from all parts of the
world, in short, from the bloodhounds of the Equator to
the foxdop of the Arctic circle, from China and the South
Pacific to beyond the Rooky Mountains. The judges who
have consented to act in the sporting division are all noble-
men and gentlemen who are famous for their support of our
national field sport*. Two steam boilers have been erected
for bulling the food of the animals daily, and the dog biscuit
has been laid in by the tom.—Timm