The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

MOROCCO JEWS AT GIBRALTAR.

Mr. Alderman Salomons will feel greatly obliged
to the Editor if he will kindly insert a letter he
has just received from Sir W. Codrington.
Lothbury, Nov. 28.

" Gibraltar, Nov, 200859.

"Dear Alderman Salomons,—l have received and paid to
the committee of relief the £lOO from Baron Rothschild and
the 200 dols. from yourself. I think this the best way of
benefitting those for whom it is intended. I have requested
them (the committee) to keep an account of disbursements
and arrangements, in order that you and others who assist
may know that the funds have been usefully employed.
" The Government giving a ration of bread to the neces-
sitous in camp has relieved the local fund much, and enabled
the committee to devote money to other requirements, of
health and clealiness, as well as additional food. The ration
of bread is given into each tent every day according to cer-
tified lists of inmates, and it is distributed direct by military
people. The machinery was at hand, required but little
addition, and secured regularity and certainty in the daily
receipt of the loaves.
" We ration every morning about 1,600 souls ; but we
have weather during which it is scarcely fit for families to
be under canvas, and yet there is no room elsewhere.
" Yours sincerely, "W. CO DRINGTON."

TILE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW.

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY.

The 11th annual exhibition of fatcattle, pigs, and
poultry opened this morning at Bingley Hall, and
is one of the most successful which has yet been
held.

Among the company assembled yesterday were :
—Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord Southampton,
Lord Howe, Lord Mountgarret, Lord Berwick,
Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Stanhope, Earl Spencer
(the president), Lord Macclesfield, Lord Calthorpe,
Lord Hatherton, Lord Sondes, Lord Leigh and
party, Earl Denbigh, Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord
Curzon, Lord Loughborough, Sir John Ratcliff,
Colonel Towneley, Sir H. Deveaux, Lady Evelyn
Stanhope, Lady Dorothy Neville, Sir George Chet-
wynd, Sir Francis Goodricke, Hon. Mr. Russell,
Edward Greaves, Esq., M.P., C. N. Newdegate,
Esq., M.P., Sir William and Lady Hartopp, Sir
Francis and Lady Scott, Right Hon. C. B. Adder-
ley, M.P., and many others.
The: entries, it is true, are not quite so nume-
rous as last year, but the quality of the stock is
excellent ; in fact, it would be exceedingly difficult
to attain a higher degree of perfection than that
displayed in the various classes of the present ex-
hibition. The show of pigs, always an important
feature of the exhibition, is far above the average,
and a more complete demonstration of porcine ex-
cellence it would be impossible to witness. In some
of the classes the competition was very severe, so
close that the judges experienced considerable diffi-
culty in making their final awards. The exhibition
of poultry is superior in every respect to any previ-
ously held in the county, and throughout the day
this extensive department was completely crowded
with visitors. Returning to the cattle, the Hereford
breed is well represented, there being no less than
31 exhibited, the greater portion coming from Here-
ford, Salop, Brecon, Montgomery, and the adjacent
counties. The most notable of this class was a mag-
nificent animal belonging to Mr. Richd. Shirley, of
Bawcott, near Shrewsbury, which carried off the
lion's share of the honours of the yard. It was
not only declared first in its class, but the judges
awarded it the extra premium for the best Here-
ford, the gold medal as the best ox or steer, and the
president's silver cup as the best ox or steer of any
age or breed bred and fed by the exhibitor, a con-
dition with which it was the good fortune of Mr.
Shirley to be enabled to comply. The beast is a
dark red, with a spotted face, well up in all points,
of ripe condition, and considering its age, only two
years and six months, exceedingly heavy.
The short horns are more plentiful than they
have been in several preceding years, 29 animals
being exhibited in the yard. Mr. Stratton takes
the leading premium in the first class for a noble
beast, three years and eight months old, exhibited
as a steer last year, and which afterwards won a
gold medal at the Baker-street Exhibition. It is
of enormous size and weight, of excellent quality,
thick in flesh, with a fine head and neck, and its
symmetry admirable.
The Devons are not so numerous as last year, but
they nevertheless take a high position, every one
of the competitors receiving the marked approval
of the judges. His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort appears again as an exhibitor in this class,
and takes the lead with a neat, compact, and highly
conditioned beast, which attracted great attention.
The exhibition of sheep is quite equal to the best
of its predecessors, and in some respects probably
superior, and the Leicesters, in the opinion of the
judges, are better than usual as regards size and
substance. The Shropshires maintain their high
reputation, and the Southdowns are all [that could
be desired, either in point of symmetry or quality,
both of wool and mutton.
In the classes of fat pigs and pigs of a small
breed, two neat animals, exhibited by his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, were highly com-
mended.

The total entries of domestic birds amount to
1,565, and embrace every description of poultry,
and amongst them some of the choicest specimens
ever exhibited.

The exhibition of roots has assumed a most im-
portant character; entries having this year been
made by growers in not less than seventeen coun-
ties. The improvement in this department of the
show may be accounted for by the liberality of Sir
John.Ratcliff, who, to encourage this description
of farm produce, has, for the second tune, generously
given two prizes of elegant silver tankards. The
roots in competition included the long and globe
varieties of mangold-wurzel, swedes, common tur-
nips, and carrots ; and the prizes were awarded to
Sir William Heathcote, Bart., M.P., and Richaid
Benyon, Esq., of Eaglefield-house, near Reading.
The show opened this morning at ten o'clock,
and from that hour until six this evening, every de-
partment has been literally crowded with visitors.
The number of admissions has not as yet been ascer-
tained, but it is believed it 'will exceed that of any
previous show.