The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1865. fr

Royal Agricultural Society's Meeting.

PLYMOUTH, Monday.
Few people visited the showyard on Saturday,
excepting members of the society ; but to-clay,
being bright and fine, has gathered a fair assem-
blage round the Judge's rings. The enclosed ground
is very large, no less than 35 acres in extent, beau-
tifully situated a mile from the centre of Plymouth,
upon an elevation commanding a magnificent land-
scape, and at the same time offering good slopes for
the drainage of the site in case of wet weather. The
offices, implement sheds, &c., are admirably ar-
ranged as usual, and the number of stands and ar-
ticles is very large. The implements fill sheds hav-
ing a total length of 6,700 ft., the machinery in
motion takes up 1,576 ft. more, the seeds and models
occupy 760 ft., and the live stock is lodged under
5,651 lineal feet of roofed shedding. As compared
with Newcastle meeting last year we have here
about the same number of implements, but 165
fewer entries of stock, and only about three-fourths
of the number at Worcester.
Of short horns there is a short suppply. In the
class of only six-aged bulls the first prize won by
Mr. Robert Sharpe's " Lord Chancellor," bred by
the late Mr. Jonas Webb. This bull is not up in
condition, and is slack behind the shoulder ; and the
other animals in this class are still further from
beng first rate. The yearling bulls make a good
class—Mr. Fawkes's first prize, " Friar Tuck,"
having rare form and quality. This clever young
bull is own brother to the first-prize bull calf, and
is bred from the Earl of Zetland's stock. Mr.
Booth's second-prize yearling bull has also con-
siderable merit. Mr. Fawkes, Sir Anthony de
Rothschild, and Mr. George Game take the prizes
in a capital class of bull-calves. The aged
shorthorn cows are very fine indeed, Lady
Emily Pigot's white " Perfume" (bred by Colonel
Towneley), Mr. Stratton's "Diadem," Mr. Sharpe's
" Elegant," and Mr. Tennent's magnificent
" Frederick's Farewell" (bred by Colonel Towne-
ley), yielding the palm to Mr. John Wood's first
prize " Corinne," which has never been shown before
at a Royal meeting. In the very large and grand
class of yearling heifers Lord Feversham shows a
real " Princess," and Mr. Charles Howard has a
pair of great beauties. The judges were Messrs.
Drewry, J. B. Thompson, and Robinson. The
Herefords make an especially fine show. Mr. J. M.
Read's fat prize aged bull " Colesborne" is ex-
tremely handsome, and has won many local prizes
before, though only commended last year at New-
castle. Here he beats both Mr. Hollings's " Chief-
tain" and Mr. Baldwin's " Battersea"—which great
prize-taking bull has much gone off in his points and
handles badly. The cow classes are good, and each
one of the 11 yearling heifers gets a prize or a com-
mendation. Major-General Hood wins a first prize
with a sweet heifer-calf, and a third prize with a
two-year old heifer. The judges were Messrs.
Druce, Yeomans, and Pye. The show of Devons
is the best of this breed ever seen. Mr. Sobey and
Viscount Falmouth gain the first prizes for aged
and three-year old bulls. Mr. George Turner is in
first and second places with two-year old bulls ; and
Mr. Davy's " Empress" in the cow class, and Mr.
Davy's " Symmetry," and Mr. Quartly's yearling
heifer are all the gems of this part of the
yard ; the Devon yearling heifers, in fact, are all
superb. The judges were Messrs. Franklin, J. E.
Jones, and Umbers.

In the sheep classes we find an unexampled show
of Leicesters, large in number and of rare quality.
Mr. Burton, Mr. Dabbs, Colonel Inge, and Mr.
Cresswell beating Mr. George Turner and Mr.
Pawlett. The judges of Leicesters were Messrs.
Borman, Painter, and Twitchell. The Cotswolds
are not numerous, but comprise some animals of
wonderful proportions and beauty, particularly
those of Mr. Walker, Mr. Gillett, Mr. Wells,
and Mr. Beale Browne. In the Lincoln classes
Mr. Marshall's shearling ram and Mr. Lynn's aged
ram are exceedingly good. The judges were Aylmer,
G. Clarke, and Bateman. In Oxfordshire Downs
Mr. Wallis, Mr. Bryan, the Duke of Marlborough,
and Mr. C. Howard show the best pens. In the
Southdown classes Lord Walsingham carries off the
first, second, and third prizes for shearling rams,
with three commendations besides, beating Mr. Rig-
den and the Duke of Richmond. Lord Walsing-
ham, also, wins first and second prizes and a high
commendation for aged rams, the third prize in the
class going to Mr. Waters. With shearling ewes
Lord Walsingham takes second place to the Duke
of Richmond's first; and it is to be noted that the
Southdown sheep are generally more perfect than
ever exhibited before. The judges were Messrs.
Fookes, 11. Overman, and J. S. Turner.

The horses have come up badly ; the hundred
pounds' prize for the best thorough-bred stud horse
has called but a single candidate—Mr. Casson's
Motley, by Touchstone, which won the prize last
year as the best hunter sire. He looks well in spite
of active work, having travelled hard ever since last
March, and at 14 years old it is time he gave up the
honours of the showyard. The hunter sires are a
moderate lot. Mr. Luxton's first-prize stallion took
second place at the Bath and West of England
meeting too years ago. One or two good brood
mares have made their appearance, but the hack-
neys are a small and poor class. The hunters make
a very ordinary show, even Mr. Battam's first and
second geldings being far from first-rate. There is
a good class of agricultural horses, particularly
the Duke of Beaufort's Clydesdale " Sir Robert,"
which wins first prize, and Mr. Elphick's Essex
horse " Boxer," which was first at the Essex show
at Brentwood. There is a very scanty show of
Suffolks, including, however, Mr. Boby's " Con-
queror," which was first in his class at Brent-
wood. and second at Newcastle, and also a good
horse and a prime mare and filly, exhibited by
Sir E. Kerrison. The Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies
are fewer than might have been expected, only one
or two of these possessing much merit. The judges of
thorough-breds, hunters, hackneys, and poneys were
Messrs. Barnett, Young, and Parrington ; and of
agricultural and Suffolk horses, Messrs. Steedman,
Brooks, and Cooper. The field trials of implements
still continue. That the judges of drills, &c., Messrs.
Hicken, Thompson, Sherburn, Johnson, and Dyson,
C.E., have tough work in their department will ap-
pear when we enumerate the nine general-purpose
drills, the 15 corn-drills, the 14 small-occupation
corn-drills, the two hill-side-delivery drills, the 14
turnip-drills on the flat, the eight turnip-drills on
the ridge, the five drills for small seeds, the four
drill-pressers, the eight dry-manure distributors, the
three liquid-manure drills, the five liquid-manure
distributors, and the nine horse-hoes on the flat, all
of which had been subjected to actual trial between
Thursday morning and Saturday night, with the
loss of fully one day from wet weather. The drills
were worked in turn with the requisite varieties of
seeds and manures, the construction and mechanical
details examined, and selected drills made to deposit
upon hard road, where the regularity of distribution
could be seen, as well worked for some time with the
coulters in pulverised soil. Hornsby's arrangement
of the manure barrel in the common drill is an effec-
tive improvement. Coultas has introduced many
simple but peculiarly valuable details into his first
class drills for all purposes, more particularly the
copper " tins" for artificial manure. Reeves has
furnished his liquid-manure drill with a cylinder
that prevents the cups from breaking ; and Sainty
has brought out quite a novelty in the shape of
springs instead of weights upon the drill levers,
an invention that lightens the implements and
adds to its efficiency where level and well-pul-
verised seed-beds are to be sown. In dry-manure
distributors little advance has been made upon
Chambers's barrel with scrapers for sowing either
minute or considerable quantities per acre. Priest
and Woolnough's horse-hoe now competes against
the novel implement of Sainty with the spring
levers and light lifting frame supplanting the old
chains and winding barrel, and Hornsby brings
out a horse-hoe having a swing steerage operating
with spring hangers in an exact and easy manner.
These weeding implements were tried upon young
growing rye, and again upon a turnip crop ; and as
far a testing has been bestowed upon them as the
time would permit ; though it often happens that
the merits of a good tool of this sort fail to appear
until the farmer has had it home and thoroughly
mastered every point ,in its somewhat difficult
management.

The Wimbledon Meeting.

Yesterday was again a day when the rain during
a couple of hours operated prejudicially upon the
shooting; but both morning and afternoon the light
and wind were all that could be desired. The Vo-
lunteers, therefore, grumbled but slightly at showers
which coincided very nearly with their dinner hour,
when shooting is, of course, suspended.

Competitors who had been fortunate enough to
obtain a place in the second stage of the Queen's
Prize busied themselves during the day in making
experimental practice with thenew rifles, which were
served out to them on Saturday, and expressed
entire satisfaction with the results. The chances of
ultimate success on the part of Mr. E. Ross, who
won the silver medal, were freely canvassed, and
as Englishmen are always ready to " back their
opinions with their money," the discussion in
many instances led to pecuniary wagers. At
some of the former meetings it would not
have been competent for' any competitor to
carry off the Queen's Prize a second time, but in
consequence of representations made as to the dis-
couraging tendency of this regulation, the subject
was fully considered at a meeting of the Association,
and it was determined to rescind the rule. Mr.
Ross, therefore, if he should find himself ahead of
the 60 this afternoon, as he has already made his
way to the lead of the 2,000, will become entitled
to the enviable distinction of receiving for the
second time the prize given by her Majesty. Al-
though admission to the second stage of the great
annual competition at Wimbledon is restricted to the
60 best shots in the first stage, the possession of a
Rigby rifle fell within the grasp, or, rather, the for-
tune, of others as well. In connexion with the first
stage a Queen's or Rigby Rifle Sweepstakes was
founded and carried on under the following condi=
' tions :—Such competitors as chose to do so paid an
entrance-fee of 55., in addition to the entrance-fee
for the Queen's Prize, and rifles were awarded to
them in the proportion of one for every complete
100 entries. The scores made for the Queen's
Prize decided the individuals--outside the prize
winners under the general conditions of the match
—to whom rifles should be given, but no one who
had neglected to pay the extra entrance fee had a
claim to one of these rifles ; and it happened, curi-
ously enough, that there were several who were
obliged to go without them, though their scores, had
they been subscribers, were adequate to procure for
them this advantage. The regulations under which
the sweepstakes were carried on, introduced an ele-
ment of novelty into the competition, and seemed
to excite much interest among the Volunteers.
To all parties the new system is attended with
gain. For while successful Volunteers obtain a first-
class match rifle upon a nominal payment of 55., the
Association benefits from the proportion of entries
in excess of those required to make up the cost price
of £2O. And, lastly, Messrs. Rigby, the makers of
the new rifles, not only secure in this manner the
placing a large number of their weapons in the
hands of first class shots, but are relieved from the
necessity of taking back 30 rifles, which, from hav-
ing been used in the competition, could oply be sold
afterwards as second-hand. It is understood that
this latter disadvantage was felt very strongly by
Mr. Whitworth, whose name has been so creditably
associated with former prize meetings of the Associa-
tion, and that the new arrangement was adopted,
in a great measure, with a view of overcoming the
difficulty thus pointed out.

The two most interesting competitions of the day
were those for the Dragon Cup, restricted to the
sixty best shots in the first stage of the competition
for the St. George's Challenge Vase ; and for the
" Any Rifle, Wimbledon Cup," value £lOO, re-
stricted to winners of prizes of the value of £5O and
upwards in " any rifle" competitions at Wimbledon
in previous years.

The Dragon Cup was carried off by Private J.
Hamerton, 12th Middlesex, with a score of 22 points,
made in seven shots at 600 yards.
Captain Horatio Ross, 6th Nineardinshire, took
the Wimbledon Cup, justly accounted one of the
principal prizes of the meeting, with a score of 48
points, made at the 600 and 1,000 yard ranges, a
feat which it is needless to say has increased the
confidence of the Scots in camp as to the issue of
the match for the Elcho Challenge Shield.
The other principal competitions during the day
were the following :

FIRST STAGE ALBERT.
Highest Scores at 500 Yards.
Capt. Goodliffe, London Rifle Brigade

... 20

Capt. boaton, 3d Manchester

Mr. Metford

Capt. Astley, School of Musketry
Sergeant Edwards, 6th Stafford
Corporal Norsvrorth, 23d Middlesex
Ensign Pixley, Victories
Private G. Wilkin, Ellon Rifles

Major Bishop, Guernsey
Ensign Sprott, sth Lancashire

Corporal Thomas, 13th Lancashire.,.
Sergeant Tinker, sth Lincoln
•••
Private Malcolm, London Scottish ...

Sergeant Brown, 13th Lancashire
Capt. Penny, Ist Gloucester Artillery
Private Johnson, Bth Stafford
Private Dawson, 4th West York
Ensign Cockeram, 4th West York

Lieut. Purchas, 14th Worcester •
Corporal Ingram, 3d Lanark...
Sergeant Green, 3d Somerset
Sergeant Palmer, 36th Stafford
Captain Jaques, Surrey ...

Lieut. Martincl., 9th Middlesex

Private Lord Aberdeen, London Scottish...

Private Dunlop, London Scottish „.

Private Rasons, Hon. Artillery Company
Private Holloway, sth Gloucester
Private Paulett, Cambridge University
_ _

Captain Macgregor, London Scottish
Sergeant Snelus, Bth Cheshiro
Corporal Fraser, 7th Inverness
Captain Kinnear, Edinburgh Rifle Brigade

~ 20

... 20

... 19

... 19

... 19
... 19

... 19

... 19

... 19
... 19
... 19

... 19

... 19
... 19

Private Baker, Ist Gloucester
Sergeant Lane, Bristol Rifles 3
SECOND STAGE ALEXANDRA, 600 YARDS.
WINNER.

Sergeant Kerr, London Scottish ... ~. ... 23
ANY RIFLE ASSOCIATION CUP—HIGHEST
SCORE.

200 600
Yards. Yards. Total.
A. Annison, L. S. R. C. ... 19 20 39
THIRD SERIES EXTRA PRIZES—HIGHEST
SCORES.-600 Yards.
Lieut. Cunningham, 18th Middlesex 19
Private the Earl of Aberdeen, London Scottish ... 18
Private Johnston, Bth Stafford 18
Private Read, 14th Suffolk ... ... 18
Private Masai], 21st Lancashire ... ... 18
Corporal Chapman, 3d West York ... ... 17
Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company 17
Private Adams, Ist Hereford ... 17
Sergeant Lane, Bristol 17
Ensign Starkie, Queen 17
DRAGON CUP.—WINNER.

Private J. Hamorton, 12th Middlesex, 600 yards, 22 points.
Correction.—Mr. Bass's Prize (Saturday, 15th inst.)—
For Private Bird, 18th Salop, read Colour-Sergeant Black,
Bth Warwick.

RIGBY RIFLE SWEEPSTAKES.—WINNERS.
200 Yards.

Private C. Porter, 6th Lancashire ...
...
... 18
Ensign Rimington, sth Cumberland ••• ••• 77
Sergeant Harries, 23d Middlesex ... •" *" i . 7'
Sergeant Allcock, Ist Warwick ... •'• '''

Captain Henderson, 12th Cornwall ... 18
Quartermaster-Sergeant Williamson,
29th Lanark ... 18
Captain Holme, 18th Somerset... ... 18
Captain M‘Gregor, London Scottish 18
Colour-Sergeant Marriott, 4th West
York ... ... 18
Private Duncalfe, 27th Stafford ... 18
Private Dear, Ist Herts ... 18
Colour-Sergeant Westlake, 18th Devon 17
Private Irvine, Ist Aberdeen ... 17
Ensign Cunliffe, 3d Manchester ... 17
Private Bustard, 20th Middlesex ... 17
Sergeant Winstanley, 40th Lancashire 17
Captain Mitchell, Ist Clackmannan ... 17
Lieut. Thomas, 4th West York ... 17
Private Bruce, Edinburgh R.B. ... 17
Private Pigou, 9th Surrey ... ... 17
Captain Turner, 3d Manchester 17
Sergeant Thompson, 2d Kirkcudbright 17
Sergeant Kerr, London Scottish 17
Gunner Meggie, Hon. Artillery Co. 17
Ensign Norcombe, Ist Devon 17
Lance-Corporal Ingram, 3d Lanarkshire 17
Sergeant Deacon, Ist Northumberland 17
Corporal Brown, 3d Ayr 17
Sergeant Cundy, Oxford University 17
Sergeant Philip, 2d Middlesex ... 17
sergeant Mellor, 6th Lancashire 17

Lieut. Stock, Ist Gloucester Artillery 17
Captain Milward, 17th Worcester 17
Corporal Lester, 12th Stafford ... ... 17
Private Adams, Ist Hereford 17
Private Meakin, 2d Derby 16
Corporal Coulsin, Ist New. ... ... 16
Corporal Brown, 2d Salop 16
Captain Davis, 7th Northumberland 16
Lieut. Fuller, Ist Cumberland 16
Private Knox, 11st Durham ... 16
Private Dawe, Victories 16
Sergeant Kimble, 25th Kent 16
Private M'Lean, Ist Ross-shire 16
Private Vale, Ist Warwick 16
Lieut. Watson, 16th West York 16
Lieut. Palmer, Ist Cumberland 16
Ensign Cartwright, 11th London ... 16
Private Paton, Ist Ayr ... ... 16
Sergeant Kirk, Ist East York ... ... 16
Corporal Leah, 19th Cheshire 16
Sergeant Green, Ist Somerset 16 2
Sergeant Lunnon, Ist Bucks ... 16
Lieut. Fisher, London Scottish 16
Captain Fenton, 24th Lancashire ... 16
Captain Ashley, School of Musketry 16
Corporal Penman, 3d Durham... ... 16
Corporal Webb, 2d Oxford 16
Sergeant Herries, 23d Middlesex 16
Sergeant French, Ist Warwick... 16
Captain Bosanquet, 6th Monmouth ... 16
Corporal Bland, 4th North York 16
Corporal Glane, 19th Middlesex 16
Sergeant Thompson, 2d Renfrewshire... 16
Private James, Queen's ... 16
Quartermaster-Sergeant Woodcock, 3d
West York ...
... 16
Corporal Chaloner, Ist West York 16
Sergeant Hardy, 16th Lincoln 16
Captain Webb, Ist Hereford ... ... 16
Lieut. Woodall, West London ... 16
The contest between eight members on each side
from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for
the Chancellor's Cup will take place on Wednesday
next. Oxford will be represented by Corporal
Blackburn, Private Winser, Colour-Sergeant Ward,
Sergeant bony, Lieut. Morrell, Private Kolle,
Sergeant-Major Bathe, and Sergeant Cundy ;
Cambridge by Captain Richardson, the Marquis of
Lorne, Lieut. R. Thompson, Sergeant Grieve, Ser-
geant White, the Hon. B. Bouverie, Private Dyer,
and Private the Hon. Orde Powlett. This contest
will take place at 3 o'clock.

Railway Directors in the New Parliament.

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Judging from the progress which has been made in the
elections, there will be several important changes in the
representation of railway interest in the new Parliament.
To the close of the polls on Saturday night the railway
interest had lost Mr. Beale, at Derby ; Mr. Beaumont,
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Mr. Bramley-Moore, Lincoln ; Mr.
Cargill, Berwick ; Mr. Chapman, Great Grimsby ; Sir J.
D. Elphinstone, Portsmouth ; Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald,
Horsham ; Sir John Hay, Wakefield ; Mr. Heygate, Lei-
cester; Mr. R. Hodson, Tynemouth ; Mr. Lawson, Carlisle;
Lord A. Paget, Lichfield ; Mr. Pilkington, Blackburn ;
Alderman Rose, Southampton; Mr. Turner, Manchester;
Lord Fermoy, Marylebone ; Major Bruce, Elgin ; Mr.
Buchanan, Glasgow; Viscount Bury, Wick ; Mr. Langton,
Bristol ; Mr. Leatham, Huddersfield ; Admiral Leako.
Dover ; Mr. Norris, Abingdon ; Mr. Quinn, Newry ; and
Mr. Thompson, at Whitby.
Among the additions and changes which maybe recorded
aro the return of Mr. Kelk, the great railway contractor,
who has been returned for Harwich ; and Sir Morton Pete,
who has been returned for Bristol instead of Finsbury.
Mr. Alibert Grant, managing director of the Credit Foncier,
has been returned for Kidderminster; Mr. J. Goodson,
chairman of the Great Eastern, has been elected for Yar-
mouth ; Mr. Freshfield, who represents the Chatham and
Do verintere st, has teen successful at Dover, having defeated
Viscount Bury, a director of the London and South-
Western. Mr. G. F. Holroyd, formerly secretary of the
London, Chatham, and Dover, now one of its directors,
has been unsuccessful at Northamptan. Alderman Dakin,
director among other railway companies of the Great Wes-
tern of Canada, has been defeated at Thetford. Mr. Lyall,
formerly member for Whitehaven, has lost his seat for that
borough, and was also defeated for the city of London.
Mr. Hudson flashed like a meteor across the horizon, but
has suddenly disappeared, owing to the unwelcome inter-
ference of the sheriff's representatives ; and in connectioi
with these unpleasant disappearances may also be men-
tioned the case of a Mr. Harris, not however a railway
director, at the suit of the South Wales Railway Company,
who was compelled to bring his candidature for Evesham
to an untimely close.—Railway News.