The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-20 00:00:00

THE ROYAL AURI
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Market day found the Leicestershire Curn.
—whom quaint Old Puller coLobrattvl two
years ago for their " masculine loans,"
ail th,
good silver which rattled in their pockets
from "—with a strictly divided duty, but stria ty,
KLOW yard was well attended in the afternoon.m.l
the large horse ring was surrounded thrss,
when the classes came oto parade. (•„
The „itt.
in which Cream Gorse,n Barkby Ilolt, and Th',
Coplow have long been names of renown,
dearly loves a horse. Nearly every ono had a
wya
among the stock classes, and you found select
round the bull Commander-in-Chief, or coanp,ul4
Mr. Booth's beautiful pair of yearling
Patricia and Lady Gaiety, whose rival ela,.
wo believe, be re-tried in public both at (annealt
and Wetherby. Still the visitors gemrally
to care very little about shorthorns, and to 1:1')w just as much of what are called " limeyp •.
as of the weight and colour of those '• Seim
nozzar's seventeen lean kine," which Lord I:
Montagu has drawn from the .; ...•
of his biblical lore and duly
•,,
in Jionserd. If you want4ll t•• •
friend, the Abyssinian pump and th.•
were the surest finds for him. At th.• 1
Yorkshir-men mustered strong, and a.
proud of their prowesa with Angell/ s, t• iy I) -f:
went, and Brigadier. If Go -a- 11 ead a /11 v.:,.
managed the first hunter broodinare
quartet of winners would have la .1 •It T...
butter and cheese shed was a most
affair, and those who know what a pier',. ;.,.
meat of farmers' wives and datight.,..
tho cheese tents at the Cheshire ":
hardly have fancied that they \• •
country which pitches nearly 2 - • • .
of new milk cheese annually at •
Leicester fairs, to say nothing •..
Stilton," and a "smattering •,f I.
There was merely one counter, which ws. i.••
over by an old labourer in fustian,
as Arthur Clough onto said, - a yelkw.
oolitish appearance." The first pri,•• : ,
the new milk cheeses came from the I. 1:••
Hinckley, and Nuneaton districts ; tool th• • ;.
were divided into three classes
451 b., exceeding 451 b. and not exe.s,iihLf •
and each entry contained six cheese....
to judge from the rind and general
the touchstone of merit, and some of the tan.
of Stilton had well earned the late Mr.
Moore's eclectic definition of perfeethal, -•
ripe, rusty, and rotten." At the last Mr,
fair the highest price for new milk cheese v.-,
i„
cwt., but the American factorycheese has
seriously with all makes up to 751. z... -
thing, four cheeses go to the hundr..k.
which is 1201bs. in Leicestershire, or
than in Warwickshire. The second
cheese, which includes the make from 31.1 1 .;
August 27, is nearly twice the size ei th.
weigh, which is made from August 27 to the • u• 1
of the season, and is considered the I).A
two.

The hard-bake weather had this advantage. the
it proved how steam can beat the sun wh.s th y
are fairly pitted against each other in a ploutr.htitz
match, with Fowler of Leeds, or Howard
Bedford to back steam. Fowler took both tim
and second prizes, to the amount of 1:10/.,
competition for " the best application of •ti.gh
power to the soil," and Howard the tint lnio it
the class for its " application to occupations et
moderate size." To Fowler's lot there
prize gold cup of 1501., given by the Vir..roy
for " the best implement for th., ..taitiv t-
tion of the soil by steam power, ; 0m..in.114
strength with simplicity of construction for lb.. is
foreign countries, where skilled labour for
is difficult to obtain." In implements strip ,!r •
steam cultivation, the Leeds firm took seven 1...• •
and the Bedford three. The latter firm beat
great antagonists, Ransom° and Sin's, for g. •
purpose wheel ploughs, light land •
ploughs, general purpose swing plough:. • •
land swing ploughs, subsoil ploughs and : •--
rows, but suffered defeat from them in parrz
ploughs. Whitehead was the champi,n
the week in brick and tile mschines,
will produce 12,000 solid or perforated hr. _•
or 1,600 pipes per day ; while Hunt and Pl:t-
-ering. for draining tools, E. H. Bonk!!
cultivators, the Beverley Ironworks for do!
crushers, Armies and Barford for rolh.r.
Ransoms and Sims for turn-wrest pluugl, • •
patent wheels, were either prize takers ot
medalists. Mr. Norton was one of the tilt Alo.
medalists who received this recognition in tho at:
for any speciality of invention ; and thy,,, wii,
had a drink at his Abyssinian pump, whirl]
forth a never-failing stream of water a: o,ld
iee, allowed that it was well deserved. This prep
must have been a formidable rival to the Grin?
Stand and other liquor stores • and really 0,1 '
that it made no matter if Leicester ran :bort in
soda-water, provided it had " Abyssinian" to to
in its room. Clayton and Shuttleworth
medal for their combined revolving liquid mess:tn..
and drop drill for turnip and other seeds, and 31..
Marsden, of Leeds, for his steam stone-breakent.
The traction engine was always performing
groaning circuit in the centre of the yard, With. 4!
times, one of those large portable houses un
attached to it in which some of the gnat Univ.
went firms lodge their men for the week.
A very large number of engines of from mu ti
20-horse power were drawn up in the yard. The
Tuxforda, of Boston, had, as usual, a tine array.
ofan dtainwoonsogrtt_oon
and the other with the extra eiplinvA
ntheeirwhi°thriwtnhted portablordinarye envP•dni:.
valve—a class of engine with whi,h they
were so eminently successful in the rail
competition at Bury last year. Thin niz
bad also a very noteworthy and adjustable pima
revolving screen in their combined thrashing irg
perfect finishing machine. Taking the implela°l!
yard throughout it is beautifully arranged. bat rt
is becoming too much, year by year, a kind 01
huge bazaar, into which a number of things fora
their way which have no more real bearlag_l
practical agriculture than the pegtops gal-
lery of the Agricultural-hall last Christmas, a"
were described in their specification as " a new in-
vention for communicating motion to the peri-
phery of wheels."
The weather held up most relentlessly all dk'
and hence the horse ring, which ought to bee
been laid down with tan, continued of such a cast-
iron character that the horses had very little
chance of showing themselves and their psoa
perfection. Those, however, who have seen Mt.
Tailby's Orangeman go in the hunting field hs.i
the pleasures of memory to fall beck aP°P.,...
far, with the exception of the strike over prinuan
the prize sheet, it has been a most successful
:meet-
ing, and most admirably managed la all it'll de-
partments. partments. Nearly all the leading showers
agriculturists left on Saturday for do l.
to look after their harvest, an c,
hard-fagged officials of the society must ha
been right thankful for the solid bar of 1,
which, under the new rules of beginning in the
middle of the week, is now secured to
Sunday. Already considerably upwards of 3.7.
have been taken at the gates, and if the convitt auj
shilling days--Monday and Tuesday—are thr•'"
the great towns in the neighbourhood only Pat/
their sight-seeing hosts, as is expected, tho 0r
due homage to " hoof and horn " by sendolitf°o
,
will be more than doubled. How the olaar
will be dealt with at that poor station, which
not very much more than equal to the crisis 6
cheese-fair, is a stern problem which vexed tin
Leicester mind.

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THE Naw Pozm BY litaToff.—Notwithstandig
the contrariety of opinion which has been exPro'd
the subject, Mr. Henry Marla y has still no doubt of de
authorship of the poem recently discovered by iliPuu":
the British Museum. It speaks Hilton's mind,
style, and contains touches worthy of him. Mr. /in
Men from Mr. Rye as to the signature hang_ 7,1'.
instead of " 11. ;" but, it it is signed ~r. 10 lir
awe the possession of tt W copyist.