The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-08 00:00:00

Eto YA L NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INS rITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution would
earnestly call the attention of the public to the great and extra-
ordinary exertions which the Society is now making to supply ex-
posed points on the coast witik efficient lire-boats, and which will
Involve an expenditure of more than £3,000 : they therefore earnestly
APPEAL to the benevolent for ASSISTANCE to enable them to
continue, with unabated vigour, their hitherto successful exertions
in the cause of humanity:
THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
Oct. 27, 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
contributions
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional
T 3. he Misses Frends,don. £5O 0 0 James Taylor, Esq., a ..£1 1 0
Poyntz, Esq., 2nd don. 50 0 Admiral Sir Eaton Tra-
Lady Jones Parry, don. 50 0 vers, annual ........ 1I 0
Sir John Maxwell, Bart., a 5 0 0 Lord Shelborne, d0n.... 20 0 0
Donations and subscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs.
Willis, Percival, and Co.; Coutts and Co.;Herries and Co. ; by all the
metropolitan and
the
bankers ; and byi Richard Lewis, SecrOtitrY,
attlie •Alce •f the Institullo, 14, 4.91111-Alloet, Acl4lPlll,

If the members of this club do not discover some
more spacious building than the present Baker-
street Carriage Bazaar, or else open their hearts,
after the Midland Society's example, and erect a
commodious exhibit ion-hall for themselves, the
period seems threatening to arrive when either the
visitors or the animals must be admitted by a sys-
tem of relays and rotation. The present show-yard
improved as it has been, is already too confined to
do justice to the enormous display of fat stock and
implements ; unable to entertain the throngs of
town sightseers with comfort, much less to afford
the grazier or his customerfall scope for displaying
or examining an animal; while in the galleries there
is scarce elbow-room among that impassable accu-
mulation of mills and chaff-cutters. Yet the show
is farmed out to the proprietor of the place for four
years to come, and the club, instead of resting in
their present scale of operations, are of course en-
deavouring to widen their influence and enlarge
their prospec. ive collections if animals, by inviting
classes of cattle hitherto neglected, and heightening
the attractions of their prize-sheet. There is
ground-room enough bAosging to the present
building to admit of consider ible enlargement, but
even were this effected at vat cost, the pressure
would soon again be felt in consequence of the
growing magnitude of the show. There is our vast
Metropolitan Cattle-market, with ample space for
the erection of a noble exhibition-hall ; and why
might not the Smithfield Club prize animals be
shown simultaneously, or nearly so, with that largest
and finest show of fat beef and mutton, our "Christ-
mas market 1" The club are really laying out
for larger operations, for we are no longer to have
anexhibitiou of the few pet breeds, with his Royal
Highness and Mr. Heat?}_great in Demons and
-Herefords, sthali,Duko., aNslf_irl Sp:o3l4Arvi
Lord teigb, and Mr. Stratton triumpharit among
the shorthorns, ; but, taking a step with the
times, the list comprises separate classes also for the
longhorns, Scotch horned, Scotch polled, Irish,
Welsh, Norfolk or Suffolk, and Sussex cattle, and
also cross and mixed breeds, besides the usual class
for extra stock. While the Doyens, Herefords,
and shorthorns have four classes each, the first
three descriptions of cattle btiing apportioned 405/.
worth of prizes and 12 silver medals ; and the
others, which (except'ng the Scotch, Welsh, Irish,
and crosses), were last year obliged to compete in a
general pure-breed class, have 315/. and 17 medals
for their share.

At the present show we have 43 shorthorns, 36
Herefords, 32 Devons, 8 cross breeds, and 57 other
cattle—a total of 174, being an increase of 33.
There are 130 sheep, or an increase of 34 ; and 59
pigs, or an increase of 18—making a total of 363
entries, 85 more than last year.
On the present occasion there are fewer specimens
of extravagant fatness than we have had in many,
former years, but instead of a few such obese mar-
vels, there is more general excellence, and not an
inferior animal to be found.

The Devons, as a whole, maintain their fame for
beauty aid quality, and have less of the charac-
teristic defect of hindquarter that was formerly
' universal among them. His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort takes a first prize for a vary beau-
tiful heifer, and a second prize for a steer, which,
though well fed, has narrow hindquarters, and is
in several points inferior to the Earl of Leices-
ter's steer, which has been awarded the third prize
in the same class. His Royal Highness's ox is a
particularly good beast, with extraordinarily fine
rounds of beef and nice quality of flesh.
Mr. Wortley's prize ox has been justly awarded
the gold medal of the show.
The pride of the sheep classes last year was Mr.
Walmsley's pan of Leicesters, and the short-woolled
classes were especially good--the Duke of Rich-
mond's and Lord Walsiug ham's Downs having been
the best shown for many years. On this occasion
they possess the quality, beauty, and just propor-
tions of former years. We thiuk the specimens of
cross-breeds have gained greater uniformity and
present most admirable outlines ; as individual
'animals many of them are of surpassing beauty,
such as we could scarcely have anticipated three or
four years ago. The pre-eminent breed of South
Downs are aqtandsome and large in frame as ever.
The Leicesters are exceedingly good, and we saw
some beautiful specimens—such beauty in counte-
nance and form its Feldom seen. Mr. Foljambe's
are near perfection ; Lord Berners' pen of Long wools
aro admirably proportioned, and possess very hand-
some " looks.' The Royal College at Cirencester
sent some large specimens of Cotswolds, but Mr.
Hewer's being mare equal in frame take the first
prize. These we have been led to consider the true
Longwools. Here we find Longwools and Leices-
tors in the:same class constituting "any long wooled
breed."

The Duke of Richmond is again eminently sue-
cessful in South Downs, carrying off the two first
prizes in classes 35-36, and the third prize in Class
37. The Earl of Radnor also occupies a good
position in the 35th and 39th classes ; Lord Wal-
singham, Mr. Rigden, and Mr. J. Kent are the
other fortunate winners. •
The classes of pigs comprise 40 pens of three each,
and 19 single specimens in the . Extra Class. They
constitute in number a splendid show, but by no
means superior to those of farther years in quality ;
indeed, we have seen better pens, and certainly
better single specimens. There are only a few that
strike us as being of extraordinary character, either
in fatness or porcine beauty. Mr. Morland's are
very superior pens, quite equalling the weight and
correct proportions of our best years. Mr. Barber's
pen deserves our highest praise. Sir J. B. Mills
shows a very good pen, as do also Mr. E. L. Betts
and Sir William Booth, all of whom take prizes.
The implement department has grown in extent
and importance until the number of exhibitors is
more than half what it is at the Royal Agricultural
Society's meetings—all our well-known makers
bringing specimens
of their invention and work-
manship, and transacting a large amount of busi-
ness with a concourse of customers from every part
of the kingdom. Thus we see in their usual array
below stairs the portable steam engines and com-
bined thrashing machines of Tuxford, Clayton and
Shuttleworth, Hornsby, Garrett, Ransomes and
Sims, Cambridge,
firms. In the gall Barrett and Ezell, and. other
galleries we have an immense assort-
ment of every possible kind
of tool, milk, churn,
pump, fencing or fitting, available in the field,
farmery, or rural household.
The entire arrangements of the Show are very
half-crown
the
presswhose
complete and satisfactory ; but we wish the Smith-
field Club were in a position to adopt the Birming-
hamdesirable, comfortablehaving ° i one
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more than two hours in which to master the details
of the show.

The following is the award of the judges :-
CATTLE. -DEV ON s.
Clare 1.-First prize of 251. to Mr. John Overman, of
Burnham, Sutton, near Burnham-market, Norfolk, add
silver medal to the breeder, Mrs. Clarke, of Burnham-
market; second prize of 101. to his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort ; third prize of 5/. to the Earl of Leicester,
of Holkham, near Wells, Norfolk.
Class 2.-First prize or 251. to the Earl of Leicester, of
Holkham, near Wells, Norfolk, and silver medal as
breeder; second prize of 101. to Mr. W. Heath, of Lud-
ham-hall, near Norwich ; third prize of 51. to Mr. H. Hine
Ball, of Hankridge-farm, West Monkton, near Taunton.
Class 3.--First prize of 151. to his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, and silver medal to the breeder, Mr. J.
Hole, of Knowle-house, near Dunster, Somerset ; second
Bridgewater. ize of 5/. to Mr. W. Farthing, of stowey.court, near
Class 4.-First prize of 201. to Mr. J. Coate, of Ham-
moon, near Blandford, Dorset, and silver medal to the
breeder,
---.OY, of Stockley Pomeroy,
near Crediton, Devon ; third prize of 51. to Mr. J. C.
Btoomucr. e h
Jr. ,of Jews-farm, Wiveliacombo;
Heise, of Molland, near South Holton, Devon.
HEREFORDS.
second
Class 5.-First prize of 25/. to Mr. W. Heath, of Hnd-
ham-hall, near Norwich, and silver medal to the breeder,
prize r"
of Ewd.
101.
Mr. Wm. Stedman, of Bedstone-hall, near Aston on Clunn,
Salop; second prize of 10/. to hie Royal Highness the
Prince Consort ; third prize of 5/. to Mr. John Naylor, of
Leighton-hall, near Welshpool, Montgomery.
Class 6.-First prize of
251. to Mr. John Shaw, of Huns-
bury-hall, near Northamton, and silver medal to the
breeder, Mr. Richard Shirley, of liancott, Shropshire ;
second prize of 10/. to Mr. Win. Heath, of Ludham-hall,
near Norwich ; third prize of 5/. to the Earl of Darnley,
of Cobham-hall, near Gravesend.
Class 7.-First prize of 15/, to Mr. Henry Higgins, of
Woolaston Grane, near Ly I
LneY, Glocester, and silver
medal to the breegder, Mr. Wm. Raeder, of Within too
Court, near Hereford ; second Prize of 5/. to Mr. Samuel
Walker Urwick, of Linthall Starks, near Ludlow.
Class 8.-First prize of 201. to r. Edward Thomas, of
Colebatch, near Bishop's Castle, s
P, and silver medal as
breeder; second prize of 101. to Mr. Richard Thomas, of
Ryton, near Dorrington, Salop ; third prize of 5/. to ir.
John Naylor, of Leighton-ball, near Virelehpool.
SHORT HORNS.
Class 9.-First prize of 251. to Mr. R. Lynn, of Stroxton,
near Grantham, Lincoln, and silver medal as breeder;
second prize of 10/. to Earl Spencer, K.G. of Althorp, near
Northampton; third prize of 5/. to Mr. J. Stratton, of
Manningford Bruce, near Fewsey, 'Wilts.
Class 10.-First prize of 251. to Mr. E. Wortley, of Rid-
lington, near Uppingham, Rutland, and silver medal as
breeder • second prize of 10/. to Mr. W. de Capell Brooke,
of Geddington Grange, near Kettering ; third prize of Si.
to Mr. H. Roberts, of Paxford, near Moreton-in-Marsb,
Gloucester.
Class 11.-First prize of 15/. to Mr. J. Phillifisd of Ar-
dington, near Wantriges Baku, and aura me to the'