The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-16 00:00:00

'TLE SHOW

The show-yard was unusually crowded on Friday, Satur-
day, and yesterday, by persons, the greater portion of whom
were agriculturists. The animals exhibited were those
enumerated in our Paper of Friday, and well repaid the
trouble of visiting them ; many were remarkable for sym-
metry, size, weight, and other rare and esteemed qualities.
The large lofts in the show-yard were stocked with seeds,
roots, and grasses ; there were also many improved agricul-
tural implements.
Yesterday morning the club held its annual meeting in
the parlour of the yard, to settle their financial matters,
and determine the amount and conditions of their bill of
premiums for next year. We are informed that a prize of
ten sovereigns is added for one-year-old long-wooled sheep
that have never eaten cake, seeds, corn, pulse, or meal.
Further, the prizes for one-year-old short-wooled sheep is
altered from ten to fifteen sovereigns ; and a second prize
of five sovereigns is offered for two-year-old short-wooled
sheep.

THE DINNER.
In the afternoon, between two and three hundred mem-
bers of this Club dined together at the Freemasons' Tavern,
is Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, to celebrate the
thirty-sixth anniversary of the formation of their society.
E Spencer presided, supported on the right by Lord
Huntingfield, and on the left by Lord Oxford. There
Iv( re also present Francis Pym, Esq., Clark Hillyard, Esq.,
Henry Handley, Esq., M.P. ; W. May, Esq.
The cloth having been removed, " The health of the
King" was given. It was drank with no very marked ap-
plause. Neither did the toast of " The Queen and the
rct of the Royal Family" produce such an ebullition as
could be referred to political feeling. Some half-dozen
appeared to be disposed to prolong the plaudits, and this
give them the effect of an expression of Tory sentiment ;
but their efforts met with no encouragement, and their

atte.npt, therefore, was a complete failure.
E irl SPENCER said, it was not necessary for him to pre-
flee ti e next toast he had to propose, with any observa-
tions ; he would at once give them, " Success to the Smith-
fie!d Club"---(Cheers)—and that it would be successful, he
thought there could be no doubt ; the best evidence of the
fact was to be found in the character of the shows of cattle,

year after year ; and to this be might add the very nume-
rous attendance that he saw before him this evening. He
was most anxious, as indeed he always had been, for the
success of this Club, because he was sure, that on examina-
tion it would be found exceedingly beneficial to the farming
interest of the country ; and for that interest, whatever
might be his situation, it would be his earnest endeavour to
do what he could.—(Great cheering.) The toast was

drunk with great applause.
His Lordship then read the list of prizes awarded by the
judges, and distributed them to such gentlemen as were
present to receive them. The list, as read by his Lord-
ship. was published in our paper of Friday last. The
health of each successful candidate was given, and drunk

by the company with great applause. There was much
cheering when his Lordship announced himself as the
receiver of the premium of twenty sovereigns for a four
years and six months old Durham ox, and of the .gold
medal for the best ox shown. His Lordship's health
having been proposed, the toast was honoured with several
rounds of applause.
Earl SPENCER said, it illways gave him the greatest satis-
faction to be received in the manner in which he had been

by the present meeting. His own taste inclined him to
follow agricultural pursuits as much as possible. He was
interested in every way in which a man could be in the suc-
cess of agriculture ; but, independent of his personal inte-
rest in it, he felt that to the country its success was of the
very highest importance.--(Cheers.) When he proposed
to them as a toast, " The success of the Club," he told
tLem that his endeavours should never be wanting to pro-
mote that object ; surely he need not repeat that this was
his determination. He should now have more time, he

aoped a great deal more time, to apply to agricultural pur-
stits.—( Hear, and a laugh.) He told them last year, when
he gave the gold medal to the gentlemen to whom it was
fe!judged, that, in his opinion, that ought to be the object
they should all have in view. He would use his best ex-
ertions to obtain the prize next year, as he had done this.
When he was unsuccessful, lie should not feel discontented ;
but he hoped to succeed in the future years that he pro-
mised himself he should have the heneur of setting at this
table.—(Great applause.)
The healths of the unsuccessful but commended candi-
dates having been drunk,
Lord HUNTINGFIELD, in returning thanks, said, though
he had not been fortunate enough to succeed this time, he
assured them he would try, and try again, and if he failed
at last, it would not be owing to a want of exertion. Ho
congratulated them on the numbers he saw present. He
had been afraid the interest the public were taking in such
business was going down like the price of corn—(Laughter)
.—hut be was happy to find it was not so. His Lordship
having expressed his sorrow at seeing the short-horns beaten
by the Herefords—(Laughter)--proceeded to say that ho
thought it desirable there should be a premium for animals
net fed on artificial food. The lonm- wooled sheep, as well
as the South Downs, might be producedb in as fine a condi.
tion as any person could desire, having been raised by natu-
ral, and not by artificial means. If they made them fat
beyond a certain degree, they became unsaleable.---(Hear.)
Mr. P. HILLYAIID said the gentlemen whose healths
had been drunk were the " commended " unsuccessful
candidates, and for them he presumed to rise to return
thanks. He was rather surprised to see the Noble Lord
who last addressed them, get up for that purpose, because
his Lordship did not belong to that class—his Lordship
belonged to the class that were simply unsuccessful.—
(Laughter.) Now he (Mr. Halyard) was as nearly a
successful candidate as he could be, being one of the un-
successful who were " commended." He always considered
that the judges bad a rather difficult task to perform, but
their difficulties on this occasion must have been greater
than usual. He believed that singe the club had been
instituted the judges had not been so puzzled as they
were to decide between tbe
_claims of Lord Brownlow
and himself. He rejoiced at having so nearly obtained
the prize, and be regretted that he had lost it. At all
events, he was perfectly satisfied with the conduct of the
judges, and, in conclusion, begged to propose their healths.
(Cheers.)
Mr. BENNET returned thanks.
Earl SPENCER said, the club being of opinion that a
treasurer was unnecessary, Henry H. Hoare, Esq., their
banker, had consented to perform the duties of that office.
This gentleman was one of the oldest Members on their
books. His Lordship proposed " Mr. Hoare's health."—
(Drunk with applause.)
The following toasts were also given :
" The Marquis of Tavistock ;" " The Duke of Rich-
mond ;" " The Stewards of the Club ;" " The Duke of
Bedford ;" " 'l'. W. Coke, Esq. ;" " The Earl of Talbot ;"
" Success to the Manufactures and Commerce of the
Country ;" " Prosperity to the Labourers of the Country
" The Butchers of the Metropolis ;" " Live and let live ;"
" F. Pvm, Esq. ;" " The Manchester Agricultuial Society ;"
" H. Handley, Esq., M. P. ;" " Sir C. Morgan, Bart. ;"
" Mr. W. Parey, the Club's indefatigable Secretary ;" and
" Success to the Agricultural Societies throughout the
kingdom."
Earl Spencer and. his friends withdrew at about nine
o'clock, when Mr. Hillyard was voted into the chair, and
conviviality was kept up till a late hour.

MR. BULIVER'S LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.--
" By the magic of his genius the author has in this, his finest
work, conducted us into the midst of a people now extinct.
His descriptions of that luxurious Campanian city, with its
decorated houses, its baths, itn temples, its theatres, and its
idolatrous places of worship, are fresh and life-like, while his
allusions and his pictures of society discover his classical
taste and erudition. It required a writer of no small genius
to present to us the characters of this finely-imaginative story,
instinct with passion, restless with ambition, toiling in their
search after pleasure, and busy in accumulating the materials
for remorse."— Globe.
We understand, from good authority, that John
Neeld, Esq., the only brother of Joseph Neeid, Esq., M.P.,
for Chippenham, intends offering himself for the borough of
Cricklade, in case of an election.—Saeisbury Herald.
The Treasury have lately ordered a chapel to be
built adjoining the barracks in the Regent's Park, for the ac-
commodation of the troops.
The Governors of the Seamen's Hospital Society
have erected a very handsome marble monument on the north
staircase of the Royal Exchange to the memory of John
Lydekker, Esq., a liberal benefactor to that institution.
The Central Court, called into existence in misc..
quence of the mistakes" elsewhere, has already served itself
the same way. Owing to the absence of an Alderman certain
fcrinalities were gone through in a manner not sanctioned 11
the Act, and the whole proceedings being vitiated, it is ex-
pected a number of the prisoners must again be tried.
THE ELECTION FOR DISTRIBUTION.-- A
cheap edition of Mr. Bulwer's " Letter on the Present Crisis,"
for distribution will be published this day, price 11. 12s. per
hundred, or 161. per thousand. Orders to whatever extent,
with remittances, addressed to Messrs. Saunders and Otley,
Conduit-street, will be immediately forwarded to any part of
the kingdom.
One of the most remarkable features of the new
comic romance (" The Princess ") by the popular author of
" Florence Macarthy," is the mysterious omnipresence of the
heroine. Of all the strange incidents of the work she is the
prime mover, though her agency is not at all suspected by the
other dramatis persona, and until the final clearing up of the
plot, but little guessed at by the reader. The scene of the
story shifts occasionally from London to Brussells ; bat still
the inscrutable Princess is ever present, weaving snares for all
the characters, and playing them off, each against the other,
with consummate effect. Surely this highly original and
spirited conception must owe its origin to a certain foreign
illustrious lady, who exercised in London, some little time ago,
a similar spirit of intrigue.