The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-20 00:00:00

HEREFORDS.

In class 5 the judgps highly commend Mr. Price's
nriter unc: Lord &Tr.ick's heirt.T.
In class 4 they command Mr. Hobb's heifer.
I)xToNs.

In class 1 the judges highly commend the Earl of
Leicester's bull.
In cla,s 4 they highly commend Mr. Farthing's heifer.
In class I they commend Mr. Fuuracre's bull and Mr.
Miller's bull.

In class 3 they commend Mr. Fouracre's cow and
Mr. A. Thomas's cow.
In cluss 4 they commend Mr. Turner's heifer.
In class 5 they command Mr. Blomfield's heifer.
CATTLE 07 ANY BREED.

In class 3 the judges commend Mr. Beard's Cow.
I❑ class 4 the judges commend Sir Edward Kerrison's
heifer.

nomEs.
In class 1 the judges highly commend Mr. Wilson's
In class 2 they highly commend Mr. Hobbs' stallion.
In class 4 they highly commend Mr. Wells' stallion.
In class 5 they highly commend Mr. Ellis's mare and
foal and Sir E. Kerrisou's mare and foal.
In class 6 they highly commend Mr. Frost's filly.
In class 1 the judges command Mr. klallord's
Mr. Ward's stallion, Mr. Fellowes' stallion, and Mr.
Catlin's stallion.
In class 2 they commend Mr. Bryan's stallion.
In class 3 they commend Mr. Browne's stallion.
In class 4 they commend Mr. Gower's stallion.
In class 6 they commend Mr. Catlin's filly.
LEICESTER SHEEP.

In class 3 the judges highly commend Mr. Burgess's
shearling ewes.

SOUTH-DOWNS.

In class 1 the judges highly commend Mr. Jonas
Webb's two rams.

In class 3 the judges highly commend his Grace the
Duke of Richmond's ewes and the Earl of Chichester's
ewes.
In class 2 the judges commend Mr. Jonas Webb's ram.

LONG• WOOLS.
In class 2 the judges highly commend Mr. Garne's
ram.

In class 3 the judges highly commend Mr. Hewer's
pen of ewes.
In class 1 the judges commend Mr. Hewer's ram and
Mr. Garne's ram.
In class 2 they commend Mr. Hewer's ram.

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FIGs.
In class 2 the judges highly commend Mr. Hobbs's
boar.

In class 3 they highly commend Mr. Greenwood's sow.
In class 4 they highly commend Mr. Gillett's sow,
Mr. Smith's sow, and Mr. Hubbs's sow.
In class 6 they highly commend the Earl of Radnor's
sows.

In class 2 they commend Lord Berwick's boar, Mr.
Smith's boar, and Mr. It. Smith's boar.
In class 4 they commend Mr. Storey's sow and Mr.
11. Overman's sow.
In class 6 they commend Mr. Smith's sows.

EXTRA STOCK.
CATTLE.
The judges commend Mr. Gamble's Bow.

Pics.
The judges commend Mr. Atkiuson's boar and Mr.
Tulefs sow and pigs.

HORSES.
The judges highly commend Mr. Wright's colt and
Mr. Abel's colt. They commend Mr. Morgan's colt.
It will be observed that the prizes in the 2d Class of
Short Horns were withheld by the judges; but persons
well qualified to pronounce on the subject state that there
was ample merit in the stock exhibited under this class
to have justified an a‘sard.
The great dinner of the society takes place at four
o'clock to-day, but will not be honoured with the pre-
sence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
who has returned to town.

THE COUNCIL DINNER.
The Council dinner took place yesterday at six o'clock,
in Sc. Andrew's Hall, and was very numerously and in-
fluentially attended. The Earl of Chichester, (resident
of the society, filled the chair ; the Marquis of Down-
shire, President-elect, the vice-chair ; and among the
company present were—the Earl of Lincoln, the Mayor
of Norwich, the Duke of Manchester, the Marquis of
Douro, the Earl of Orford, the Dean of Norwich, the
Bishop of Norwich, the High-Sheriff of Norfolk, the
Canon Residentiary, Mr. Burroughs, M.P., Mr. Betts,
chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway, Mr. Wood-
house, M.P., Professor Sedgwick, Dr. Buckland, Vis-
count Telford, Viscount Hill, Sir John Boileau, the
Sheriff of Norwich, the Hon. Captain ,Cunt, Mr. Cob-
bold, MT., Professor Simonds, the Rev. E. Sidney, Dr.
Daubeney, Lord Sondes, Mr. Parker, Professor Wray,
Professor Johnstone, Sir C. Lennox, Colonel Challoner,
Mr. Shelley, the Hon. Captain Pelham, Mr. Villebois,
Sir T. D. Ackland, M.P., Mr. Ackland, M.P., Colonel
Berkeley, M.P., Major Beresford, and Mr. Sturt, M.P.
The Hall of St. Andrew's, in which the dinner took
place, is one of the buildings upon the antiquity of which
the good citizens of Norwich not a little pride themselves.
In the slow progress of generations it has been changed
to the secular purposes of musical festivals and public
meetings, from being the church attached to the Black
Friars Monastery, the ruins of which still exist in the
neighbourhood. Temporary screens bad been erected to
partition off the side aisles, thus transforming it into a
spacious banquetting apartment, decorated with paint-
ings, looking clean and well kept. The dinner itselt, and
everything connected with it, was wretched in the ex-
treme. No charity, desirous to squeeze the utmost far-
thing from its supporters, would have dared to charge a
guinea for such an entertainment; and we believe the feel-
ing was unanimous among the company, that the con-
tractor was either the boldest of men, or the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England the most screwing and in-
hospitable association in the country.
The cloth havinc, been removed, the usual loyal toasts
were given by the Chairman, and enthusiastically re-
sponded to by the company.
Mr. B. Guens then read the list of prizes awarded is
the cattle department of:the show-yard, the announce-
ment of which seemed to give general satisfaction.
The CHAIRMAN remarked upon the fair proportion of
prizes
be unexpected,wonNorfolkbj• an
dh
breeders,e concludedw h i which
by proposing the
ht osom some of them
would
health of the successful candidates in the exhibition of
cattle.
The Earl of LINCOLN returned thanks, and expressed
his great pride and satisfaction at finding so many Nor•
folk men included in the list just read.
Mr. GIBBS then read the list of prizes in the sheep
and pig departments of the show.
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the successful
candidates in the classes of sheep and pigs, and called
on Mr. Fisher Hobbs to acknowledge the toast.
Mr. FISHER Hozias returned thanks, and congratulated
himself particularly upon his success in the breeding of
Southdown sheep, living as he did in the county of Essex.
lie was happy e, have the opportunity of expressing the
desire generally ft It throughout the eastern counties,
which was a corn-growing district, to have the best
breeds of sheep; and ho promised to omit no effort to
promote the diffusion of a pure stock throughout that
district and the country generally.
Professor SEDGWICX, on the call of the Chairman, rose
and expressed, in a conversational manner, his views o
the subject of drainage, particularly with reference to
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and the northern partsa 0
Norfolk. He recommended his hearers towhgcohdob sea
the
to
t
e
the coast of Norfolk to watch the
ebattle
was waging there, and to considerwliat ought to be done
with reference to the shitting sands.
ic hHe described the
v,reat clay bed between and Yarmouth; and
Norwich
having suggested its probable geological origin, and that
of the soils in Norfolk generallj ~ viewing their connexion
rw
Bedford L. eels, and explaining the
productive
of those soils, and the mariner in
with those of the
ee Lich they were properties
uierruunded with highlands of chalk, he
stated his opinion as to the way in which they had been
originally formed in the three counties to which his ob-
servations related. The Learned Professor was proceed-
leg with a series of highly scientific and interesting ob-
.ervations on these subjects, when that after-dinner
spirit of impatience, so fatal to the exercise of the re-
flective faculties, got the better of his audience, and com-
pelTlehdehciltiolizisuNnii)reophoisseade,
which having beeu duly la't;ofessor Sedgwick's health
responded to, the proceedings
terminated.

THE VACANT JUDGE.—The rumour prevails that
it is nut Mr.
. Watson who z• es to be promoted to the
vacant judgeship, but Sir Frederick Thesigor. We need
not say with what changes and coalitions such an ap-
pointment is connected.—Morning Paper.
VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS DE NVIOUIII
TO OSBORNE. Her Majesty's steam-tender went to
Portsmouth from Cowes yesterday morning.
to convey
the Duke and Duchess do Nemours to Osborne, on a
visit to the Queen and Prince Albert. The Duke and
Duchess arrived at the terminus at Landport, from St.
Leonard's, at four in the afternoon, and proceeded into
the dockyard, where one of the Atdmiral's barges con-
veyed them on board the royal yacht. Captain Crispin
received them, and the yecht steamed off to Osborne.
PEDESTRIANISM._R. INwooD AND MOLYNEUX.-
This disputed race of 300 yards, for 50 sova., was on
Wednesday decided in savour of Idolyneux, alter a slow
race, by Law' a yard.