The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

IHE "'LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIN', JUNE 25, 1882.

THE INTERNATIONAL DOG SHOW.

The dog show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, yes-
terday, drew together a very large and fashionable con-
course of visitors, among whom we observed the Earl of
Westmoreland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Suther-
land, Lord Sefton, the Duke of St. Alban's, Lord Ports-
mouth, Lord Chesterfield, and many other distinguished
members of the nobility.
The following is a list of the first prizes in each class
awarded by the judges on Monday :-
1 Class 1. Pack of Hounds, 28 couples—The Duke of
Beaufort ; but in consequence of there being no competition
his grace declines to accept it, leaving the cup to be com-
peted for next year. For the excellent condition of the pack
the judges awarded to the huntsman, Mr. Clark, a silver
cup, value 10 guineas.
Class• 2. Fox Terriers—Silver medal and £5, J. H. D.
Bayly, Esq., lekwell House, near Biggleswade.
Class 3. Bloodhounds, dogs—Silver cup value 10 guineas,
Thomas Ames Jennings, Esq., Pickering, Yorkshire.
Class 4. Bloodhounds, bitches—Silver medal and £5, A.
S. Boom, 42, Chancery-lane.
Class 5. Otter-hounds, dogs—Silver cup, value £5, C. S.
Coulson, Esq., Darlington.
Class 6. Otter-hounds, bitches—Silver medal and £3,
Viscount Hill.
Class 7. Deer-hounds, dogs—Silver cup, value £lO 10s.,
Mr. H. Saxelby, Temple Newsom, Leeds.
Class 8. Deer-hounds, bitches—Silver medal and £5,
Earl Stamford and Warrington.
Class 9. Harriers, dogs—Silver cup, value £lO 10s., W.
Flower, Esq , Netton, Wiltshire.
Class 10. Harriers, bitches—Silver medal and £5, Walter
Flower, Esq.

Class 11. Beagles, dogs—Silver cup, value £5, E. S.
Stephenson, Esq., Hadley Lodge, near Barnet.
Class 12. Beagles, bitches—Silver medal and £3, E. S.
Stephenson.
Class 13. Greyhounds, dogs—First prize not awarded.
Class 14. Greyhounds, bitches—Silver medal and £5, H.
Jefferson, Esq., Rothersyke, Cumberland.
Class 13A. Greyhounds, dogs—Silver cup, value £2l,
Ivie Campbell, Esq., Dalzig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Class 138. Greyhounds, bitches—Silver cup, value £lO
10s., Earl Sefton,

Class 15. Pointers, dogs, largo size (above 551b.)—Silver
cup, value £lO 10s., S. Adams, Esq., Great Waltham.
Class 16. Pointers, bitches, large size—Silver medal and
£5, John Swan, Esq., Lincoln.

Class 17, Pointers, dogs, small size (not exceeding 551 b.;
—Silver cup, value £lO 108., John Cryer, Esq., Ashton,
under-Lyne,

Class 18. Pointers, bitches (not exceeding 501b.)—Silver
medal and £5, Thomas Taylor, Esq., Hopton, Wirksworth.
Class 19. Setters, dogs, English—Silver cup, value £lO
10s., Joseph Bayley, Esq., Stamford Lodge, Staleybridge.
Class 20. Setters, bitches, English—Silver medal and £5,
Sampson Hanbury, Esq., Maldon. _

Class 21. Setters, dogs (black and tan)—Silver cup, value
£lO 10s, Sir J. R. Carnac, Bart., Warborne, Lymington.
Class 22. Setters, bitches (black and tan)—Silver medal
and £5, the Rev. T. Pearce, Morden Vicinage, Blandford.
Class 23. Setters, dogs (Irish)—Silver cup, value £lO
10s, Win. Watts, Esq., 8, Onslow-terrace, Brompton.
Class M. Setters, bitches (Irish)—Silver medal and £5,
John Aston, Esq., Seisdon, Wolverhampton.
Class 25. Retrievers, dogs—Silver cup, value £lO 19s, J.
T. Riley, Esq., Halifax.
Class 26. Retrievers, bitches—Silver medal and £5, J. T.
Riley, Esq., Halifax,
Class 27. Spaniels (Clumber), dogs—Silver cup, value £5,
Earl Spencer.
Class 28. Spaniels (Clumber) bitches—Silver medal and
£3, Earl Spencer.

Class 29. Spaniels, dogs, other breeds used for sporting
—Silver cup, value £5, George Jones, Esq., Ivy cottage,
Oscott, Birmingham.
Class 30. Spaniels, bitches—Silver medal and £3, Vis-
count Bolingbroke.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL SHOW.

Although nothing could be finer than the wea-
ther yesterday the public manifested quite as much
shyness in paying their half-crowns for admission
as on the day previously, when the entire receipts
did not amount to £5O. Each day the majority of
the visitors have been foreigners, who, it is to be
presumed, contributed the greater portion of the
money taken at the doors. The remainder must
have consisted, therefore, chiefly of members of the
society, implement exhibitors, and the holders of
gratuitous admissions. We do not, however, see
in this fact any cause for the despondency with
which some of the officials appear to be animated as
to the ultimate results, or reason to believe that the
show must turn out a failure. Hitherto all that
the public have had access to is the implement de-
partment, and, vast as is its magnitude, its main
attraction undoubtedly consists of the yard where
the agricultural machinery is in motion. Besides,
the newest, best, and choicest inventions or improve-
ments have already found appropriate places in the
eastern annexe of the Great Exhibition building,
where they can be viewed on four days in the week,
in conjunction with the many marvels collected in
their neighbourhood, for the popular shilling. Who,
then, but the agriculturist and the mechanical engi-
neer, is likely to pay half-a-crown for entrance to the
implement stalls at Battersea Park, varied and use-
ful as their contents may be ? To-day the barrier
will be removed which now separates the cattle from
the implements, and the two yards will be thrown
into one; but another Handel Festival day at
Sydenham will again prove a magnet whose posi-
tive influence the expected presence at Battersea of
the Prince of Wales, the Prince Napoleon, the
Pacha of Egypt, and other distinguished person-
ages now sojounaing amongst us will be of scarcely
sufficient power wholly to negative. The guineas
will, therefore, we apprehend, flow into the society's
exchequer but slowly ; and, after all, the proba-
bility is that the success of the meeting in a pecu-
niary point of view will have to depend upon the
shillings of the masses, who on Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday next may be expected to flock in
in large numbers. Should the exhibition turn out
a failure the society will have to thank their own
arrangements for it, which, conceived in the spirit
of the steam boat and omnibus proprietors who ply
for passengers to and from the International Ex-
hibition, treat the occasion of the holding the show
in London as an exception to their ordinary annual
gatherings in the provinces, and one on which a
high and exclusive scale of admision is to rule for
six days, and the low rate for three only. In an-
ticipation of a bumper attendance on the shilling
days, it would be wise if measures were adopted to
open at least two more entrances to the show on
opposite sides of the park, seeing that at present
the ingress is confined to one which, however
convenient to the river, is not to the road, and
people do not like to perform the circuit of two-
thirds of the inclosure before they reach the inte-
rior. On Monday when visiting the show we own
we were astonished at the immense police force
which had been assembled in the park, although
there were not a hundred idlers to be seen in the
neighbourhood. If F. M. the Chief Commissioner
had had to provide against an irruption of all the
rascality of London his preparation to meet the
emergency could not have been more imposing. It
struck us that such an overwhelming display was
simply ridiculous, and others in authority appear
to have formed a similar opinion, for yesterday,
even if there was the same amount of force at hand,
they were not massed" together in the same con-
spicuous manner, and the few police on duty had
little or nothing to do, and of course found no diffi-
culty in helping each other to do it.
' Resuming our notice of the show of implements
and machinery, particular attention may be directed
to Clayton's brick and drain-pipe machines, which
are at work in the engine yard amongst the ma-
chinery in motion. One of these, adapted for
working by a 6-horse steam or water power, per-
' forms at once the operation of crushing, pugging,
and brick-making, and turns out equally well solid,

verfui tubular. 133.i01ra anti pipoa, at the rate
of 10,000 to 12,000 per working day of ten hours.
Another machine of this description is constructed
for working by hand, and is capable of producing
from 5,000 to 7,000 bricks, tiles, or pipes per day.
Both machines are in their way perfect triumphs of
mechanical skill.
In this department of the show. also Mr. Collin-
son Hall exhibits two patent sectional drums and
steel rope for steam cultivation, to be used with
locomotive engines of from 10 to 30 horse

power. The object of the invention is to supersede
the costly wire rope and round drums, with a

simple, cheap, and durable substitute; and its
utility, we understand, is to be tested at the trial
of steam cultivators at Farningham to-morrow.
The rope is formed of round steel rods, half an inch
in diameter, and 18 inches long, and by means of
4-inch plates riveted one on each side at the end of
then fact, rods
th a
e ropeoobtained of any required length.
I
e consists of a mere multiple of rods
rrp is
and plates, which are then passed round a drum
having a number of flat sides to correspond with
them. There can be no question about the simpli-
city of the invention ; but its strength and dura-
bility, and consequent economy, are matters which
Mr. Hall admits time must determine-

A very useful kind of wrought-iron gate, the
invention of Mr. Webb, of Smallwood Manor, Ut-
toseter, is shown by Mr. Bewley, who is its manu-
facturer. It consists of the orthodox number of
bars, which are united to three uprights by means
of rivets, on which they turn, A balance projects
from the top bar, which being pressed by the hand
the gate rises with the greatest ease. It fastens of
itself on falling into its place, and it is obvious that
it cannot be opened by horses or cattle. Such a
gate must be invaluable at a level crossing, or for
a field which opens on a railway.

Considerable gloom was on Monday created
amongst the persons superintending the working
machinery in consequence of a man in the employ
of Messrs. Crosskill having had his arm torn from
his body whilst in the act of feeding a bone-
crushing machine. He was immediately conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, but the injuries he has
received are so serious that no hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery. The poor fellow has a wife
and two young children dependent upon him for
support.

THE CASE OF MR. TVATSON TAYLOR,

ANOTHER ,SIIOCKING MURDER, IN

11AMPSIIIRE.

A murder, revolting in the extreme from the
cold-bloodedness in which it was committed, and
the brutal treatment received at the hands of the
murderer by his victim, was perpetrated at Ford-
ingbridge, a small town in the county of Hants,
twelve miles from the cathedral city of Salisbury,
on Sunday morning last. The particulars are as
follows :—Mary Ann Susan Hall, aged 28, was the
only daughter of a Mr. Hall, of Midgham Farm,
distant about a mile from Fordingbridge. The
family are highly respectable, and rent a good-sized
farm. It was Miss Hall's custom to walk to the
church at Fordingbridge every Sunday morning for
the purpose of attending Divine service; and on
Sunday morning last Ellen Smith, the dairy-
woman, saw her leave her father's house about ten
o'clock, and strike into the footpath through the
fields that led to Fordingbridge. Nothing more
was heard of her until four o'clock in the evening,
when" a man named George Jacob Gilbert, alias
Philpott, informed the police-constable at the town
that, as he was crossing a field called Harding's
field, he picked up a lady's parasol, and on pro-
ceeding a little further he saw the body of a woman
lying on her back in a gully or ditch that separated
Mr. Hall's farm from Harding's field. The con-
stable, a surgeon, and several people at once went
to the spot, accompanied by Gilbert, which is
situated about half a mile from the town,
where they discovered the body of Miss
Hall lying against the side of the ditch,
quite dead, the hands out-stretched and clenched,
the clothes fearfully torn, and covered with

the mud and filth of the ditch, through which evi-
dently she had been dragged. On her breast was
her•church-service and in her hand her hymn-book.
The body of the unfortunate young lady was re-
moved to her father's house, the windows of which
were visible from the place where the fearful deed
was committed, the man Gilbert assisting at the
removal. From information received by the po-

lice constable he was induced to arrest this Gilbert
on the charge of having committed the murder, and
from what transpired at the inquest held on Mon-
day, and from circumstances that have come to the
knowledge of the police, but which, of course, were
not made known at the merely preliminary pro-
ceedings of Monday, there seems every probability
of their connecting him in some way with the com-
mittal of the deed. Gilbert is a native of Ford-
ingbridge, but bears a very bad character, having
been transported on one occasion for rape, besides
being committed on innumerable occasions for
minor offences. He :is now on a ticket of leave,
and has resided in Fordingbridge for the last 12
months, working as a labourer, although recently
he has been unemployed. He is unmarried, aged
about 35, and resides with his sister in a small cot-
tage about 500 yards from the spot where the body
was found. His statement is that he did not go
out on Sunday until three o'clock, the time at
which he discovered the body, but a shepherd
named Garland asserts that he saw him at a quar-
ter past eleven o'clock on the Sunday morning in a
field about 500 or 600 yards on the Fordingbridge
side of the ditch, where the body lay, wiping his
boots and trousers with grass. On the spot being
examined by the police there were traces found of
such an occurrence having taken place. His clothes,
also, on being examined were found to have been
recently washed, and his stockings were hanging out
to dry in his cottage garden. It would seem that the
murderer met his victim as she was walking to
church, at the stile that separated her father's from
Harding's field,and there attacked her evidently with
a view of criminally assaulting her, as there seems to'
have been no attempt at robbery. Here th ere are
evident traces of a struggle having taken place, and
of the mastery being gained by the murderer, who,
it would seem, dragged the unfortunate girl about
15 yards up the gully or ditch (which is completely
covered in by the furze bushes on either side) that
separates the two fields above mentioned, and where
they would be screned from the observation of stray
passers-by. Here it was that the second struggle
took place, the girl having been evidently placed
against the side of the ditch, with the lower part
of her body trailing in the mud and filth, whilst
the brute attempted to carry out his object. This
he would appear to have failed in, according to the
medical evidence. From this spot, then, he dragged
his victim by the legs for the distance of 140 yards,
through the water, filth, and weeds of the ditch,
screened from all human observation by the over-
hanging bushes, finally placing the now lifeless
body in the place and position in which it was
found. From the medical evidence at the inquest,
it appears that the deceased was alive when her
inhuman murderer immersed her in the poisonous
water of the ditch, for some of it was found in her
stomach. Her inside clothes were torn to rags,
and the weeds and mud had even penetrated under
her stays.