The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CLUB GA7TLE SHOW.

On Saturday the Agrieultural Hall at Islington
• presented a scene which indicates the close ap-
proach of the Great Metropolitan Cattle Show of
1862, and the arrangements, under the directior! of
Mr. B. T. Brandreth Gibbs, the hoe. secretary, on
behalf of the Smithfield Club, and Mr. Samuel
Sidney, secretary for the company, were progress-
ing rapidly towards completion.
The eastern facade, facing Islington. green, is now
so far completed as to have the scaffolding removed
from it, and the avenue, which is to connect it with
the main building, but which _for the present year
will be. of a temporary character, will be finished in
a few days, and will be brilliantly illuminated, the
eastern frontage having on it, in gas jets, the words
". Agricultural Hall—Cattle Show." There will
be no such illumination at the grand entrance, but
there is in course of erection a large number of gas
lamps, so that the approaches may be thoroughly
and properly lighted.
The agricultural implements, direct from the
Exhibition, are coming in rapidly, and being depo-
sited at the respective stands which have been as-
signed to them ; and there is a peculiar feature con-
Opted with their arrangement which will be exceed-
ingly acceptable to the public. In the first place,
all the stands for the exhibition of seeds, roots, and
agricultural produce are being erected with their
backs to the walls of the building, with an avenue
between them and the implements, which will oc-
cupy the centre, leaving another avenue between
them and the outside railings of the galleries, thus
affording to visitors an uninterrupted view from the
latter of the show-yard and the cattle and other
specimens from which, it will be recollected, they
were completely shut out at Baker-street. Messrs.

Gibbs and Co., seedsrnen to the Royal Agricultural
Society of England, have already commenced the
erection of their stand for the exhibition of cereals,
seeds, 8z2., and the space appears to be nearly double
. . . _

,hat supplied to them in Baker-street. It is situate

immediately adjoining the eastern staircase in the
southern gallery ; whilst Messrs. Skewing, of
Liverpool; Lawson and Co., Thos. Gibbs and Co.,
Carter and Co., seedsmen to the Queen ; the well-
known Benj. Edgington, and others, are erecting
stands of a more than ordinary neatness in various
parts of the galleries. Messrs. Clayton, Shuttle-
worth, and Co., Burgess and Key, Wedlake and
Co., and other makers of steam engines, thrashing
and reaping machines, and the other larger and
more weighty specimens of agricultural implements,
are taking up their stations under the galleries, as,
in accordance with a rule which had been laid down,
no single machine is to be permitted in the galle-
ries above the weight of two tons, and all over that
weight must go below.

A very elegant clock is being pat up at the wes-
tern of the grand area, and the arrangements for
lighting are now also completed. Upon this point
it would appear that, with a desire to show off to
advantage the really beautiful roof of the central
avenue, the gaseliers, of which there are 14 large
ones (seven on each side) bearing sprays consisting
of 14 lights each, have only been lowered to within
about 10 or 12 feet of the level of the flooring of the
galleries, which raise them so high above the ground
of the basement where the cattle will be placed, as
to render the light, which they would give were
they alone employed, scarcely sufficient ; but all de-
fect, if there were any upon this point, has been ob-
viated by attaching a second circlet to the tubes
which run from the galleries at intervals, and by
erecting on every alternate standard which holds the
iron work of the cattle and sheep pens, a spray of
six gas batswings, which, while it affords ample
light, gives the whole building a very pleasing effect:
The general arrangement leaves nothing to be de-
sired, and as a matter of accommodation to the
visitors, the Agricultural Hall Company have se-
cured the services of a numerous and efficient staff
of commissionaires; a post letter-box, lavatories,
and accommodation of every description is afforded
The waiting-rooms for ladies are fitted up in a most
comfortable and convenient manner, whilst those for
gentlemen are not less so; and the refreshment de-
partments have also engaged the study of those
who have had the arrangements under their care for
general convenience and comfort.

Amongst other novelties, a place has been assigned
at the Islington-green entrance for the exhibition

by Messrs Anbeit and Linton of their piping• bull
finch, which attracted so much notice at the Inter

national Exhibition, and which they have under.

aken shall amuse the visitors for the benefit of the

Lancashire Operatives Fund. The last day for the
_ _ _

reception of implements will be Wednesday first,
and Friday night, at 12 o'clock, will be the last
hour at which specimens of cattle or other live

stock will be received. The stewards will make

heir award on Saturday, and about eight o'clock

on Saturday evening the building will_ be opened
for a private view to the members of the club, the

public press, &c. Monday, the Bth, the show will
be opened to the public as a 6s. day, and on the

four following days at the ordinary charge of ls.,
finally closing on Friday evening.

BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POUL7RY

8110 W.

BIRMING HAM, SATURDAY EVENING.

This year's exhibition of cattle, sheep, and poultry, at
Bingley-hall, will be opened on Monday to what is called
the "private view." The show has gained so gradually
upon that of Smithfield, that so far from being merely
second to that time-honoured exhibition, this is at least on
a par with it; and this year's show is in every respect
pre-
ceded it. For instance, the number of entries for cattle is
equal, and in some rather superior to any which have
131, which is, we believe, the largest, with one exception,
in any year since the show was established.
Since last year an important change has taken place in the
arrangements at Bingley-hall ; spacious as the area of the
building is, it has been found inadequate, and especially
so since the determination of the council to admit agricul-
approprtely
tural implements. Last year a small space was devoted to
that purpose, but the applications for it being much larger
than could paaaibly bo spared, the council determined to in-
PwPhilleachti°calanSnfootr certainly • £5OO.
in-
crease their space by the erection of a gallery at one end of
the building. This has been done with good effect, and it
is this year filled with a fine collection of roots of excellent
gfrowth for the season, especially as regards the mangolds,
owhich there are some very magnificent specimens.
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for articles more closely
In another respect
arrange-
ments of previous years. With exlii-
doubt, it resolved to admit the the very best intentions,no
soon after three o'clock this afternoon,representatives of the press
that time in the midst of their duties the judges being at
there were at times a greater number ; the result was that
proximity to those gentlemen than of
ptrsons in closer
con-
venient or consistent with the verywas perhaps quite
had to perform. Mr. Jeremiah Matthewsarduous duties they
mem-
bers of the council did their best to keep
and other
from all embarrassment from the cause? the judges free
referred to, and
probably with success ; but we are by no means certain
that the new arrangement is a satisfactory on©; a modifi-
cation of the rule for future years may render-Y n eiet B°.
The show itself is a great success ; no doubt
there have
been occasional instances in which a better animal has been
shown in a Hereford class than is now to be seen ti
hall ; but as a class entire, it is the opinion of the gieY-
that there never was a finer display. The judges
Hereford bul-
locks are splendid animals, and the short-horn heifers are as
near perfection as possible. The prize in class lis a noble
specimen of the Hereford breed ; its girth behind the shoul-
ders is 9 feet 4 inches; the exhibitor, who is also the breeder,
is Mr. John Hatcher, of Marwood Grange, near Bristol.
This animal also took Mr, Jo‘l's prize, The Hereford steer, 1