The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-05 00:00:00

sl,ewn.
Also another South Down Ram, and a curious
r,ugh,black ?potted Sheets, with four hotels, said to
he from. the Cape of Good Hope.
His Grace the Duke of BEDFoRD, CHARLES
sTtimEsq.andMr.KlNG,olNewgste Market,
were, we understand, the three judges who: •exa.
inincti the five South Down Sheep strewn by'MoNFY
s Ehq. and Sir TunMAs CAttit, Made at the
last Smithfield Club Meeting; • Their decision will
he tisane' known this day.
Some. very -fine Pigs were exhibited ; particularly
a small, but remarkably fat and. handsome blaCk
and bite Sow, by a Leicester 13nar and China Sow,
eight months old, bred by Mr.lsosn, and fed by
the Duke of lit' pro no ; it measures, in height, one
foot eleven inches ; in lenghth, imp riunp to snout,
three feet nine inches; and, in girth across the
Abotilders, four feet nine Oates.
Mr. Tuan!s exhibited two fine large white pigs
of his breed; a peauliarity in these pigs is highly
deserving of notice; it is Mr. Ttrau's praCtice to
ih3yeflicl.widi a razor,or sharp knife, the gristle on
the top of the nose of his pigs, when they ate young,
which soon heals over ; tuft the pig is thereby ren_
tiered incapable of that destrudiVe rooting or turn.
int up of the ground, Which Farmers find so de.
struflive to their sWird.land.
CHARLEs Witsiett, Esq, shewed two spotted
Essex Pigs, of his breeding and feeding. Also four
Sussex Pigs, bred and fed by him.
Mr. WAKEFIELD shewed a white Pig of the Suf.
f and Essex breed, six months old, bred by him.
The Rdrl WitscoeLson skewed a large Leices.
ter Pig, tcv years old, hied and fed by him.
Also, a black and white Pig, of the Essex breed,
bred by .CIiARLEs WEsTERN, &q.
Mr. PICKPoRD exhibited two large black and
White pigs, bred and fed by him.
The five .umpires or judges of the Shock ire, the
Hon. Ross MAHON, CHARLES GORDONGR EY, Esq.
Mr. EDWARD, AUGUR, Mr. THOMAS Boys, and
Mr. JOHN .THoMAs. In the forenOon of yesterday
they examined the Several certificates of ages, breed,
keep, and other circumstaticei required by Lord
SoMV RV MLR's printed proposals, and in the after.
noon pfnceeded in their inspeakin and 'examination
of the Cattle, preparatory-Jo their decision, which
will be read after ttte dinner this day, when the
prizes will be pilbliely agjudged to the owners of the
best Oxen, Shcsp, Pigs, &c.
In the centre of the Repository Vara a very use-
ful implement, called a. Patent Hurniiihire Waggon,
was shewn, belonging to. His Royal Hiemess the
Dutra KexT ;it is the invention of Mr. ROOO,
• of Portsmouth, and'is so connived as to take readily
in two, and form two carts it was hewn lately so
His IVln J ItsTY ; several mechanic contrivances about
it are very ingenious.
Mr. PLawmAt4 exhibited part 'of.
on a new construe-6mi, Moving upon wheels, whieh
he hat made for the Duke of BianrOao, .applicable
to the pcnnirg of hogs upon clover, Or other green
food.

Mt. M4DOUGAL slimed Lord Sorktaxtutt's
patent plough, with ,two, shares ; n chaff-cutter ;
'a barrel.churn, which. tines not revolve as Usual, big
Peverberatcs by means of a peridtiltirn ; a hand-di ill
fur corn, and another with an' additional parr for
sowing any light manure, as rape-dust, soot,
with the corn in any required proportion.
Mr. GARitAtID, the cattle modeler, took several
sketches from the company present, forrthe portraits
in his intended view.of the Woburn Sheqi.shearing ;
be also slvtch: d the Duke of Psnrottn'i handsoinc
pigi, and Mr. JoYNER.'O beautiN Spanish, cow.
Messrs. G s u as and Co. seedsnien,sheweil saraples
of great mead 0,0 grass-seed, common ineadnw-grass,
cocksfoot, inemlow fox-tail, fescue, Crested dog's.
sweet vernal, improved perennial rye-grasl,
*r.t:ev's rye.graas, tine bent-grass, and yarrow
seed. •

A Gentleman at Qundle, the othetday, einceiv.
int thrit one of his horses was rather Wilier itt the
fure.fect, proposed that his 5t.(1 shoulti sell him in
tl, 'afternoon previous to the fair for 2;1..10 a
horse.deaier,'and the bargain was concluded. Wish.
ling, however, to keep up his stock, he sent his inn
t the. fair on the following thy to purchase ano.
titer, when, After stole hours spent in viewing, &c.
he fixed upon one in possession of the same tieakr,
for which he gtiyc- 35 guineas. C) his return hvate
it was discoveted, after a minute investigation, that
he had bought' the same horse which he had sold
the day befOre I the animal
.hav tug, in the c6ursc of
i 6 hours, been completely metamorphosed.
A Meatematical Instrument-maker has made
smote isnprovemeots in the formation of the air.
pump, which simplifies its intchanistn, and increaser
its exliaosting power. Glass cylenders are tied
Z.ttail of brma ones, and the poritons ate uf tin, so
well fitted es to he airtight, wit oUt the inter yen.
lion of leather, by meanie the fiidion and la.
bout in wroking are Kayoed: the values, which
open by the tlfrakattitill It:Mt!.l of. the pump iitatead
41..tbe pressure of the air, an placed at the top of
cylender6; and the' tube, which ift ordinary •air,
pumps teeth from 'them th.+, receiver, it in conic.
(rime, ttudered-unnecesNary.

On the •2.15 t Ult. as Mr. 'Thin**, Agony was re.
itiming to the High Felling, nrar Newcastle, owing
t ) the d*rkness of the right he aceltteloAlly fell kty.
a quarry 36 feet 'deep, wheie he 6y uniliicoverea
until flex* morning At half pot six o'clock, whln
,he was titer* by one of the workmen. }h I,,ngtliihed
till Wednesday laet in the greatest agopy, when he
expired, aged 3+.

List week one of the pallet anvils at Brecnn
Forge, having gat so fast in the block us not to be
extricated in the uqual manner, the following means
were bud recourse to.. Boles' tvrte bored.in the
block and filled with Fiwcler, and having tet fife 1,,
the train which led thereto, it blew up the mosey
anvil,labove 500 cwt. with a tremendous explo.,inn,
and penetrating through the roof, shove 36 fret
high, it fell into the hammer dyke at a consider-
hie di,t.ince, fortunately I:vithotit any, person sus.
aiding the least injury.