The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A new
kind of waterproof cartridge bag, the in-
vention of
iCtisappete.tPaeterson, late 11th Hussars, was
last week
Committee of eby the officers of the Select
site tests,
the requi • Woolwich Arsenal, and, after under-
goingwas pronounced available
for the Government service. Of the specimens laid
before the committee, some; were filled with boiling,
water, and found to sustain
n onjury ;others,
powder, were con-
taining a charge of rie3xretained in salt
and water for 12 hours, and on examination were
found to be imperfectly impervious.
Orders were yesterday received at Woolwich to
hold in readiness the Ist and 3d battalions
Military
Train for Canada, to be commanded by col_ Ken-
nedy, C. 8., commandant. The two battalions, up.)
wards of 600 strong, are expected to embark during
the week. Captain Leslie's No. 6 battery, 4th field
brigade, Royal Artillery, is ordered to leave the
Camp at Aldershot for Liverpool to-morrow.
A notification was yesterday received at the head-
quarters of the Royal Eng De
ineers, at Chatham, by
Col. H. D. Harness, C. 8., from the office of the -
puty-Adjutant-General, directing 50 non-commis-
sioned officers and men, the whole of whom have
passed through their course of training at the Royal
Engineer Establishment, to be selected from the
depot companies at head quarters, and despatched to
the Curragh Camp to augment the 15th (Capt. J.
P. Maquay's) company, which has been selected to
proceed forthwith to Canada. A number of Royal
Engineers, consisting of telegraphists, surveyors,
electricians, photgraphists, &c., are to be selected
from
„uithe companies at Chatham and the other sta-
tvillat,tosoproceed to Canada on special duty, and
employed will be attached to the 15th

company, which will be reinforced to upwards of
100 men of all ranks. The 18th company, now at
Portsmouth, has also been selected to proceed to
Canada, and orders are hourly expected at Chat-
ham garrison for the sth company also to em-
bark for America. The latter company has been
augmented from the other companies at headquar-
ters, and is ready to embark 100 strong. The men
transferred to the sth company include a number of
the most skilful mechanics in the various trades.
The 24th company, stationed at Aldershott Camp,
will relieve the 15th company at the Curragh.
Yesterday the whole of the officers and men selected
for embarkation, together with the telegraphists,
and those attached to the sth company, were in-
spected at Brompton Barracks by Lieut.-Col. J. F.
M. Browne, C.B. The utmost despatch is ordered
to be shown in providing the Royal Engineers with
sea kits, and otherwise preparing them for embar-
kation.

Yesterday a detachment of 97 non-commissioned
officers and men of the Royal Marines Light In-
fantry, under the command of Capt. F.W. Thomas,
with two subalterns, left headquarters, Chatham,
for Sheerness, where they are to be stationed to be
employed on board the screw steamers fitting for
commission at that port.
Orders were yesterday received at Sheerness,
directing Lieut. G. C. Davie and Lieut. C. Bent,
Ist Division Depot Brigade Royal Artillery, to pro-
ceed to 'Woolwich for immediate embarkation for
Halifax.
The detachment of the depot brigade, Royal
Artillery, under the command of Lieut. Pearse,
which has been undergoing a course of instruction
at Sboeburyness in the use of the Armstrong gun-
exercise and practice, having completed their in-
struction, returned to Sheerness yesterday, having
been relieved by a similar detachment of non-com-
missioned officers and gunners from the depot
brigade.
Capt. E. 0. Hewett, Royal Engineers, who has
resigned the appointment of Instructor in Military
Surveying and Topography at the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, has received the command of
the 18th Company, Royal Engineers, now under
orders to embark for Canada.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE AND
IMPLEMENT SHOW.

The present exhibition':maintains without greatly
excelling the high standard of merit attained on
former occasions. While in some classes we find
small advance, in others great strides have been
made, alogether enabling us to characterise this
twenty-third and last show in Baker-street as cer-
tainly the best ever held there. The Devon cattle
are in great force, and more meritorious, as a
whole, than we have seen them before ; and if they
progress at this rate we may one day be sur-
prised at the spectacle of a gold medal placard
over the head of a comely, symmetrical red ox
or cow, no longer diminutive, but really of sub-
stantial proportions. Everybody must admire Mr.
Heath's compact, full-chined, well-fed, light boned
steer ; that of the Earl of Leicester, with a good
back and wide forequarter ; and also his Royal High-
ness's third-prize steer. In the large and fine class
of oxen symmetry and quality carry off most of the
honours from the bigger beasts ; but Mr. Buller's
second prize ox has a largo frame, and Mr. Ball's is
of great size for a Devon. The Devon cows form a
capital class, Mr. Heath, Mr. Buller, and Mr. Pope
taking the prizes, and his Royal Highness gaining
a recommendation.

Of the Herefords we cannot report any marked
advance. Mr. Shirley's steer is a good animal; Mr.
Aldworth's ox and the third-prize ox of his Royal
Highness particularly good; while Mr. Heath's first
prize ox is uncommonly great, and of splendid make
and quality, girth no less than 9 feet 1 inch, the age
4 years and 2 months. Mr. Taylor's heifer, that was
first in her class at Birmingham, holds the same
honourable position here; her forequarter is un-
usually good, but, thoughshe is very fat, her rounds
of beef are light, and she is in several points infe-
rior to animals we have seen on former occasions.
Mr. Roberts and the Earl of Shrewsbury win prizes
with two beautiful cows.

The show of shorthorns is good, but in some
classes falling below that standard of surpassing
excellence sometimes attained at Baker-street. The
steers make up a fine class; the Duke of Beaufort's
is commended, Mr. Chapman's highly commended,
Mr. Shaw's is third, and Mr. Wortley's compact
white steer is second ; but all far in the rear of Mr.
Taylor's magnificent animal, here carrying off the
gold medal, as at Birmingham. This worthy repre-
sentative of the Kirkleavington herd is about per-
fection in form; if there be a weak point, it is a
slight falling off from that squareness which
should be seen in the setting-on of the tail ;at the
age of two years eleven months the girth is
eight feet 10 inches ; the bone is remarkably
fine, and the head very handsome. Undoubtedly,
no boast of the year comes at all near to this for
symmetry, beauty, and the quality of the feeding.
The oxen are not of remarkable merits. Earl
Spencer's first-prize ox girths no larger a measure
than Mr. Taylor's steer ; Messrs. Mitchell, Swin-
nerton, and Clayden, however,:show:some good and
well-fed beef. We have seen much better specimens
than are now presented in the heifer class, and the
cows do not display that grandeur and superb qua-
lity that have occasionally added to the attraction
of the show. His Royal Highness wins a third prize,
Mr. Duffield a second, and Mr. Faulkner is not
only first, but takes the gold medal for the best fe-
male in all the cattle classes. Judges are generally
right ; but very general complaints are uttered as
to the propriety of this award. The rival competi-
tor for the distinguishing honour is Mr. M'Combie's
polled cow, which won such a signal triumph at
Birmingham—of wonderful quality of flesh, with
great depth of carcass, extraordinary hind quarters
and rounds; but, though proportionally a little

weak in point of girth (Bft 9in, at 4 years and 10

months old), measuring 2in mere than Mr. Faulk-
ner's shorthorn cow, which is a whole year older.
The latter is certainly a hanthome animal, but not
grand before the shoulder nor deep enough in frame,
though her chine is splendid, and her thighs nod
flanks are light and defective. Mr. M'Combie's
polled Aberdeen ox is a remarkable animal—no less
than 9ft sin in girth, and 2suedingly well fed.
Both the Scotch polled and Scotch horned cattle
arc unusually good.
The Sussex cattle make a strong show, and are
an improving as well as valuable breed. The Nor-
folk and Suffolk polls are but few ; the longhorns
fewer, though presenting some fair specimens of the
breed. Only one Irish beast makes its appea ranee
—a nice little cow of Lord Berners. The Welsh
cattle are in force, and of considerable;merit. Mr.
Philips's enormous black ox, with its great horns,
is a curiosity, but unfortunately suffering from ill-
ness caused by its journey to the show. Among
the crosses are some very weighty beasts, and two
or three fine animals appear among the extra stock.
There is an unusually grand show of Leicester

and long-woolled sheep—Mr. Foljambe, Mr.
Waimealey, Mr. Willmore, the Marquis of Exeter,
and Mr. West taking prizes. The new class for
Kentish or Romney-marsh sheep is not numerously
filled, but Mr. Murton's excellent animals are a
complete contrast to the lengthy fiat-bodied sheep
commonly known as the hardy denizens of that
bleak salt district. Mr. Lovel and Mr. Lynn take
silver medals for two very beautiful ewes. The gold
medal for short-woolled sheep goes to the Duke of
only second.
Richmond,LordWalsingham's pen of beauties being
only Rigden's first prize wethers,1 in
g
the light weight elms -ta.re also magnificent. In the
class for older sheep
pea e class,
a question whether Lord
Mr.
I,p.aot have had at least the
Walsingham's
:I:rson's, Mr. Kent's,
third prize ; as it is,
aarlel bfetter placed.
and the Duke of Richmond's
prize-takersogreat size as
The short-wools, not southdownse
well as good quality. The
King, Mr. Canning, and Mr. Walter. The e Mr.
new
class for Shropshires is not largely filled, but Mr
Foster's wethers are extraordinary and most meri.
tarious animals. In the other new class for moue
tain sheep the horned Exmoors—thick, fat, level
with good necks, splendid mutton, are most remark-
able, exhibited by Mr. Quartly and Mr. Hole. The
cross-breed classes are
and very fineHine showing sheep of
, Mr. John Overman,
Mr. Samuel Prune, Mr.
great merit.
ood exhibition,
The pigs form a very g not many

monsters of size and over fatness disfiguring the
show, but every pen being marked by admirable
breeding, symmetry, and wonderfully early matu-
rity, without over delicacy.
Competition in the article of well-fed meat is cal-
culated to confer substantial advantages upon
everybody, for all people have months and are
" consumers" when flesh meat is not too dear for
their appetite ; and it is therefore a matter of satis-
faction that our English, Scotch, and Irish breeders
and feeders will have an opportunity at the great
Poissy Exhibition, next April, of showing the
French, Dutch, and Belgian agriculturists the profit
as well as pleasantness of the meat deposited upon
the ribs, rumps, and rounds of our cattle, on the
backs and thighs of our sheep, and everywhere upon
the bodies of our economical swine. A liberal prize-
' sheet has heen provided by the French Govern-
ment, and probably some of the crack animals of
the present show will find their way across the
Channel when the time arrives.

To survey and critically estimate the merits and
deficiencies of some animals, even to note the com-
parative excellence or inferiority of each one among
46 classes, within the short space of a couple of
hours after the umpires have completed the " exa-
minations,' and awarded the several diplomas, is
necessarily a work of some smartness, and liable, of
course, to errors of hasty judgment. To inspect, in
addition, the great array of implements and ma-
chinery is an impossibility, particularly as at this
" private view" many of the mechanical novelties
and curiosities are hidden under their cloth cover-
ings, and exhibitors are not present to unveil and
explain them. We hope that in the new Hall the
implement department will be so separated from
th© fat-stock stalls and pens that gentlemen with
note-books and pencils—informants of the public
who are expected to flock to the objects of wonder
and celebrity on the morrow—may have early
access to the ploughs, steam-engines, mills, models,
vehicles, collections of seedsmen's wonders, &c.,
while the judges are engaged in comparing and
selecting weight, style, and quality in the live
classes. As it is, all we can say in a (literal) run
through the upper show is that it comprises, by
means of miracles of close packing, a more multitu-
dinous assortment of contrivances than we have
seen here before, We have steam-engines and thrash-
ing-machines of Clayton and Shattleworth, Tux-
ford and Sons, Hornsby, Garrett; plough; mills,
rotary screens, new feeding troughs of Ransomes
and Sims; ploughs, haymakers, steam-cultivating
mechanism of Howard ; steam ploughs of Fowler ;
grass-mowers and reapers of Burgess and Key, Cran-
ston, Samuelson ; broadshares, root-pulpers, of Ben-
tall; new iron-mills of Corbett; carts, reapers, of
the trustees of Cresskill; the splendid stalls of roots,
specimens of grain in the straw, grasses, seeds,
&c., of Messrs. Thomas Gibbs and Co. (the Royal
Agricultural Society's seedsmen), of Messrs.
Lawson, Messrs. Sutton, and so on ;—the number
of implement exhibitors, of greater or less note,
being larger than on previous occasions.
The following are the prizes awarded :
CATTLE.

CLASS I,6—DEVON STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3 YEARS
OLD.—First prize of £2.5 to Mr. W. Heath, Ludham-hall,
Norfolk; second prize of £l5 to the Earl of Leicester,
Holkham-hall, Norfolk ; and third prize of £lO to his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort.
CLASS 2.— DEVON STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE 3 YEARS
OLD.—First prize of £25 to Earl Howe, Gopsall-hall, Lei-
cester; second prize of £l5 to Mr. J. W. Duller, Downes,
Crediton, Devon; and third prize of £lO to Mr. W. Heath,
Ludham-hall, Norfolk.

CLASS 3.— DEVON HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING 4 YEARS
OLD,—First prize of £2O to Mr. C. liambro, Milton Abbey,
Dorset ; second prize of £lO to Mr. It. Farthing, North
Petherton, Somerset ; and third prize of £5 to Mr. H. H.
Ball, Hankridge Farm, Taunton.
CLASS 4.— DEVON COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD.—First
prize of £2O to Mr. W. Heath, Ludham-hall, Norfolk;
second prize of £lO to Mr. J. W. Bulwer, Downes, Crediton,
Devon; and third prize of £5 to Mr. E. Pope, Great Toiler,
Dorset.

CLASS S.—HEREFORYI STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3
YEARS OLD.—First prize of £25 to Mr. R. Shirley, Bancott
Munslow, Shropshire; and second prize of £l5 to Mr. L.
Loyd, Monk's-orchard, Surrey.
CLASS 6.— HEREFORD STEERS Olt OXEN, ABOVE 3
YEARS OLD.—First prize of £25 to Mr. W. Heath, Lud-
ham-hall, Norfolk ; second prize of £l5 to Mr. W. Ald.
worth, Frilford, Berkshire ; and third prize of £lO to his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort.
CLASS 7.— HEREFORD HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING 4
YEARS OLD.—First prize of £2O to Mr. W. Taylor, Thinge-
hill•court, Hereford; and second prize of £lO to Mr. H.
Higgins, Woolaston-grange, Gloucester.
CLASS 8.-.4IEREFORD COW, ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD.—
First prize of £2O to Mr. T. Roberts, Ivington, Leominster ;
second prize of £4O to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot,
Brancote, Stafford ; and third prize of £5 to Mr. j. Vaug-
han, Longdon-hall, Shropshite.
CLASS 9.—SHORT-HORNED STEERS, NOT EXCEEDING 3
YEARS OLD.—First prize of £25 to Mr. G. Taylor, Sewer-
by-cottage, Bridlington, Yorkshire; second prize of £l5 to
Mr. R. Wortley, Puffield-hall, Norfolk; and third prize of
£lO to Mr. J. Shaw, Hunsbury-hill, Northampton.
CLASS 10.—SHORT-HORNED STEERS OR OXEN, ABOVE
3 YEARS OLD.—First prize of £25 to Earl Spencer, Al-
thorp, Northampton; second prize of £l5 to Messrs. A. and
A. Mitchell, Alloa, Clackmannan; and third prize of £lO to
Mr. R. Swinnerton, Weddington. Warwick.
CLASS 11.--SHORT-HORNED HEIFERS, NOT EXCEEDING
4 YEARS OLD.—First prize of £2O to Mr. T. G. Tuck,
Strumpshaw-hall, Norfolk; second prize of £lO to Mr. W.
Shaw, Far Coton, Northampton ; end third prize of £5 to
the Earl of Radnor, Coloshill, Highworth.
!CIA s 12.—SHORT-HOE.NED COWS, ABOVE 4 YEARS
OLD.—First prize of ;£2O to Mr. J. Faulkner, Bretby-farm,
Burton-on-Trent; second prize of £lO to Mr. C. Duffield,
Marcham-park, Berks; and third prize of £5 to his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort.
CLASS 13.— SUSSEX STEERS OR OXEN OF ANY AGE..--
First prize of £2O to Mr. J. Shoosmith, Berwick, Sussex;
second prize of £l5 to Mr. J. M. Montefiore, Worth-park,
Sussex ; and third prize of £lO to Lord Leconfield, Pet-
worth, Sussex.
CLASS 14.— SUSSEX HEIFERS On COWS OF ANY AGE.—
First prize of £l5 to Mr. G. C. Coote, Tortington, Sussex;
second prize of £lO to Mr. G. Penfold, Wiggonholt, Sussex;
and third prize of £5 to Mr. P. Gorringe, Pebsham, Sussex.
CLASS 15.— NORFOLK Olt SUFFOLK POLLED STEERS OR
OXEN, OF ANY AGE,—First prize of £lO to Mr. J. Sewell,
North Pickonham, Norfolk; and second prize of £5 to Mr.
E. Beare, Poston, Norfolk.
CLASS 16.— NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED HEIFERS
OR Cows OF ANY AGE.—First prize of £lO to Lord Sondes,
Elmham-hall, Norfolk.
CLASS 18.—LoNo •lIOILNED HEIFERS OR Cows OF ANY
AGE.—First prize (A£lo to Mr. J. 11. Burbery, The Chase,
lidtuiwtrth, Warwick; second prize of £5 to Mr. W.
-J)orset.
CLASS 19. —SCOTCH- HORNED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY
AGE.—First prize of £2O to Mr. O. Wallis, Overstone-
grange, Northampton; and second prize of £lO to the
Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, Wilts.
CLASS 20.—SCOTCH• HORNED HEIFERS On COWS, OF
ANY AGE.—First prize of £lO to Mr. J. Stewart, New-
market, Aberdeen ; and second prize of £5 to the Duke of
Beaufort, Badminton, Wilts.
CLASS 21.—SCOTCH POLLED STEERS OR OXEN, OF ANY
AGE.—First prize of £2O to Mr. W. M'Combie, Tillyfour,
Aberdeen; and second prize of £lO to Mr. W. Postle,
Smallborough- hall, Norfolk,
CLASS 22.—SCOTCH POLLED HEIFERS on Cows, OF ANY
AGE.—First prize of £lO to Mr. W. M'Combie, Tillyfour,
Aberdeen ; and second prize of £5 to Mr. J. Stewart,
New Market, Aberdeen.
CLASS 24.— IRISH HEIFERS OR COWS, OF ANY AGE,—
First prize of £lO to Lord Berners, Keythorpe-hall,
Leicester.
CLASS 25.—WELSH STEERS OR OXEN (RUNTS), OF ANY
AGE.—First prize of £2O to Mr. W. Spencer, Congerston,
Warwick; and second prize of £3 to Mr. F. Neale, Pagham,
Sussex.
CLASS 26.—WELSH HEIFERS OR COWS, OFANY AGE.—
The prize of £lO to Mr. J. White, Parsonage-farm, Rick-
mansworth, llerts.
CLASS 27.—CROSS OR MIXED-BRED STEERS, NOT EX-
CEEDING 3 YEARS OLD.—First prize of £l5 to Mr. 3.
Stewart, New Market, Aberdeen ; and second prize of £lO
toMessrs. J. and W. Martin, Aberdeen.
CLASS 23.—CRDSS OR MIXED-BRED STEERS OR, OXEN,
ABOVE 3 YEARS OLD.—First prize of £l5 to Mr. J, Stewart,
New Market, Aberdeen; and second prize of £lO to Messrs.
J. and W. Martin, Aberdeen,
CLASS 29.—CROSS OR MIXED-BRED HEIFERS, NOT EX •
CEEDING 4 YEARS OLD,—First prize of £lO to Mr. J.
Stewart, Now Market, Aberdeen; and second prize of £5 to
Mr. E. Herbert, Powick, Worcester.
SHEEP.

CLASS 30.—FAT WETHER SHEEP, or ANY LONG-
WOOLLED BREED, 1 YEAR OLD (UNDER 22 MONTHS).
—First prizo of £2O to Mr. G. S. Foljambe, Osberton-hall,
Worksop, Nottingham ; second prize of £l5 to Mr. G.
Walmesley, Rudston, York ; and third prize of £5 to the
Hon. Colonel Lowther, Barleythorpe-hall, Rutland.
CLASS 31.—FAT WETIIER SHEEP, OF ANY LONG-
WO•LLED BREED, 1 YEAR OLD (UNDER 22 MONTHS),
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