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to the owner what he considered his good fortune; but,
on that gentleman examining the prize, to his utter as-
tonishment and regr,t he rliseovered that his captain had
possessed himseif of a large portion of the h,•mpLn cable
which encased the electric wire of the Irish Tel graph
Company. 'Mortified to think that his skipper had thus
brought to a stand, in so unceremonious a way, the la-
bours so industriously undertaken, and so elaborately
spread abroad through the English and Irish press, the
owner of the vessel hastened into !Belfast to communicate
the intelligence to the managers of the company. Great
was their horror to hear what he had to relate; and so
strange was his history that the gossips of the town were
more incredulous than believing in giving credence to the
history of such a piece of deep sea fishing. The 472
yards so strangely abstracted from the cable were re-
shipped at Larne, and brought to Belfast. We suppose
a renewed splicing will speedily take place, and another
attempt be made to pass the cable across the Channel.
We trust this endeavour will prove more successful than
the preceding ones.—Northern Whig.

THE GREAT YORKSHIRE AGRICUL-
TURAL SHOW AT SHEFFIELD.

The fourteenth annual show of the Great Yorkshire
Agrioultural Society commenced its manifold proceed-
ings at Sheffield on Monday. A high degree of interest
has been excited by this event amongst its vast urban
population. It has engrossed public attention, in fact,
all the week, to the exclusion of almost every other topic
The elections and things political have been overlooked
as matters of no immediate moment. We trust we are
correct in assuming that this intermixture of the agri-
cultural and manufacturing population of this " epitome
cf England," as the vast county of York is not inaptly
styled, will prove a mutual benefit, and as such, an ad-
vaaage to the nation at large. The instructive advan-
tages of the great periodical agricultural gatherings to
husbandry itself have been over and over again demon-
strated for some years. As to the Yorkshire Society,
from its commencement down to its present moment it
has steadily increased in strength and importance, and in
usefulness. It has proved itself an indispensable adjunct
to the successful pursuit of the agriculture of the county,
and in that manner its roots have been continually
spreading, and striking deeper.
The eyes of a large section of the great body of British
farmers have been opened of late to the absolute neces-
sity of stretching their sails to catch every passing
breeme of improvement, and the numbers at the en-
lightened and enterprising are daily on the increase at
an ever-augmenting ratio. The demand for implements
and machiees of the best kind thus created has awak-
ened already a large amount of enterprise, and infused
much new blood into the body of agricultural mechani
clans; and we infer, from all that we observe around us,
that to that class of the manufacturing community a pro-
fitable mine remains yet to be worked. The seeds of a
till further improvement have been sown, we trust, by
the hording of this exhibition at Sheffield. We do not
' despair of seeing Sheffield, at no distant period, an im-
portant seat of manufactures in the department of agri-
cultural implements.

The centre of the society's operations is a grass field,
situated about a mile from the centre of the town, known
as the Boyd's Cricket-ground. All things considered, a
better site could not have been chosen. The field is as
level as a bowling-green, and under no disadvantage in
respect.of draining. Its situation has been found very
convenient. Th 9 internal arrangements of the show-
ground were admirable, and such as manifested great ex-
perience of multifarious requirements.
Tho entries exceed those both of the Tbirsk and Brid-
lington meetings, the excess °vet the latter being of
nearly 100 entries. Among the noble exhibitors, who
aro more numerous than usual, are the Duke of Devon-
shire, Eirl Fitz wiliiarn, Lord Faversham, and Lord
Wenlock. There are about 60 exhibitors of implements,
and 400 entries in this department. There is a large
entry of stock, the number being pretty nearly 600.
JUDGES.

IMPLEMENTS.--1111'. Peter Love, Naseby, Northamp-
tonshire; Mr. William Hislop, Wolley, Wakefield; Mr.
Peter Stevenson, Rainton, Thirdt; Mr. Thos. Oath-
wait Cutterick; Mr. C. E. Amos, South-
wark, London.
CATTLE.—Mr. John Moore, Badsworth; Mr. Thomas
Tindall, Wheatley, near Rotherham; Mr. J. F. Butter,
Thornguttabald, Hedon.
FOR BEST COW FOR DAIRY PURPOSES.—Mr. T.
Turner, Eastwood, Roth,rham.
SHEEP AND PIGS.—Mr. W. E. Hobson, Kettleby,
Thorpe Briga; Mr. John Brown, Wranbrooke, Wake-
field; and Mr. Charles Hudson, Blyth, Bawtry.
HORSES.—Mr. George Gurnell, Sturton, Brigg; Mr,
Thomas Sowerby, Newton Morrell, Darlington; and Mr.
Charles Garfit, Tabley Hall, Knutsford.
POULTRY.--Mr. T. H. Travis, York; and Mr. Edward
Bond, Leeds.
The field committee consisted of Messrs. M. J. Elli-
son, William Fowler, and Vincent Corbett.
The trial of reaping machines and other implements
took place on Tuesday in the presence of a large number
of spectators, and excited much interest; and the award
of prizes, so far us completed, was to be read last night
at the Council dinner.