The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-29 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL DOG SHOW.

The fourth day of the International Dog Show
has, in point of the number of visitors, nearly, if not
quite, equalled in that respect the three preceding
days put together, for up to 7 o'clock last evening
it was computed that considerably over 30,000 per-
sons had passed into the Agricultural Hall, and at
that hour the crush Was so great that it might almost
he compared to that of the last day at the late In-
ternational Exhibition. Nor was the exhibition
this day confined to the general public, but the
show was again visited by large bodies of the aris-
tocracy, chiefly ladies, and even by Royalty.
Shortly before 2 o'clock the directors and Mr.
Sidney, the secretary, had an intimation that her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was on
the way to pay the Dog Show a visit, and shortly
atter herßoyal Highness and suite arrived at Direr-
pool-road entrance, and were received by Mr. Sidney
and a committee of the board, and conducted through
the various avenues, the visit lasting nearly a couple
of hours.

The unprecedented, and, indeed, unexpected suc-
cess which has attended the Show, and the patron-
age which has been bestowed upon it by the upper
and middle classes of society, thus ensuring its esta-
blishment as a permanent annual exhibition, like
the Smithfield Cattle Show, has induced the direc-
tors to act with a corresponding amount of liberality,
with a view to afford an opportunity to the humbler
classes of witnessing this interesting and truly na-
tional display of animals, so pre-eminently useful
for sporting and domestic purposes. At a meeting
of the board held yesterday, with the foregoing ob-
ject in view, the directors resolved to reduce the
charge of admission, after 1 p.m. on Saturday next,
the last day of the Show, from ls. to 6d. This will
afford thousands of employees who are favoured with
the Saturday half-holiday an opportunity of wit-
nessing the Show, which would otherwise have
been a blank to them.

I'6 is to be regretted that yesterday afternoon the
portion of the splendid pack of foxhounds exhibited,
though not for competition, in the kennel erected
for their accommodation in the central avenue by
his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, had to be removed,
in consequence of his Grace requiring their services
with the remainder of his hounds in another en-
gagement he had entered into. There are, however,
other equally beautiful specimens, which will attract
great attention.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT GREENWICH PlER.—Yes-
terday afternoon a fatal accident occurred to a
young man named William Forrest, at the Greenwich
steamboat pier. It appears that at five o'clock the Dryad
passenger steam• vessel arrived at the pier, from Woolwich,
and having landed several persons was again in motion to
proceed up the river, when the deceased incautiously shook
hands with the mate of the vessel, which caused him to fall
from the edge of the pier into the river, and as he did not
again appear on the surface it is supposed that he was
carried under the floating dummy. The deceased was a
watchman in the employ of the Greenwich Steamboat
Company.
GREAT MEETING I? LEEDS ON SUNDAY LEGIS-
LATION.—A meeting of between 3,000 and 4,000
persons took place in the Victoria]-hall, Leeds, on Wednes-
day evening, the mayor in the chair, when by overwhelm-
ing majorities, several resolutions were passed in opposition
to the present facilities fur Sunday intoxication, and peti-
tions to both Houses of Parliament adopted in support of
Somes's bill.