The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-12 00:00:00

EXTRA STOCK.-SHEEP.

Sir Thomas Dyke, Bart., of Lullington, near
Dartford, Kent, three 20 months' old and three
32 months' old Southdown Wethers, bred and
fed by him. The Judges thought Sir Thomas's
a very useful pen of one year old Wethers. Sir
Thomas's sheep did not arrive in the yard soon
enough to be shown in Classe, IX. and X., which is
to be regretted.
The Marquis of Exeter, three 32 months'
aid Leicester Wethers—bred and fed at his Lord-
ship's Burghley Farm, on vegetables only.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond, two South-
downs.

Mr. Richard Rowland, four long-woolled sheep.

EXTRA STOCK.-PIGS.

Mr. T. Chapman, a thirty-three weeks' old Nea-
politan and Hertford Pig.
Mr. Blackburn, a nine months' old Suffolk Pin;
and

Mr. Orchard three Essex and Hertfordshire Pigs.
Yesterday the show-yard was visited by a very
respectable class of comp lny, who, from their ex-
aminations into the merits of the several animaig,
appeared to take a more than ordinary interest in the
exhibition. Among the company were one or two
noblemen of the highest rank, and their attendance
to view this show has caused much gratitication to
the agriculturists who hare so zealously supported
the Club.

The display of new and useful improvements are
as numerous as usual. Mr. John Hunt exhibited a
very useful and practical horse-machine for distri-
buting ground bone into the soil with the seeds, in
six rows at a time, so as to gain the greatest pos-
sible effect from that useful species of manure. Mr.
Bailey, Mr. Marryott, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Parkes,
had each an appropriate assortment of new articles
required for the cultivation of the soil. Messrs.
Gibbs and Son, Messrs. Sinclair and Co., and Mr.
Phillips, each bad very numerous and fine speci-
mens of seeds, roots, and samples of useful yet rare
vegetables, well worthy the agriculturist's notice ;
and Thos. Edgington showed beautiful samples of
rick-cloths, tarpaulines, &c.

The Club held a meeting in the Committee-room,
t the yard, Lord Althorp in the Chair. The Mem-
bers saw no reason materially to alter the present
year's bill of premiums; but in consequence of
Smithfield Market being altered from Friday to
Thursday, they have decided to have their Show
altered in conformity with that arrangement; and
also the Members decided, as their funds were ra-
pidly on the increase, even this year to present
silver medals, with appropriate devices on tach, to
the breeder of the prize animals in Class 1., and to
the breeders in the Ist prizes in Classes 11. and 111.,
and hereafter to continue giving these medals to the
breeders of the Ist prizes in each of their Classes.
The new Members elected were :—Samtiel Craw-
ley, Esq., William J. Dunkley, Esq., Mr. Charles
Nottage, Mr. Samuel Bennett, Mr. Richard Row-
land, Mr. John Bunt, Peter Allix, Esq., Mr. Baker,
Mr. Thomas Umbers, Mr. Thomas Inskip, Charles
Leigh, Esq., Sir James Graham, Bart., Mr. Yates,
and James T. Senier, Esq.
Much other routine business was gone through,
which was concluded with a vote of thanks to. their
President, for the zeal and talent he had displayed
in the Chair. The Meeting broke up after dark,
and it had a pleasing effect to cast an eye down the
yard, shining as it was under the brilliancy of the
gas, with numerous company viewing the animals.
It continued crowded till a late hour.

MACBETH.

(From the Cabinet Cgclopcedia.)

PART, HISTORY-SCOTLAND-BY SIR WALTER SCOTT

Malcolm died peaceably in 1033, and was
succeeded by "The gracious Duncan," the same
who fell by the ponial d of Macbeth. On read-
ing these names every reader must feel as if
brought from darkness into the blaze of noon-
day ; so familiar are we with the personages
whom we last named, and so clearly and dis-
tinctly we recall the events in which they are in-
t erested, in comparison with any doubtful and
misty views which we can form of the twilight
times before and after that fortunate period. But
we must not be blinded by our poetical enthu-
siasm, nor add more than due importance to le-
gends, because they have been woven into the
most striking tale of ambition and remorse that
ever struck awe into a human bosom. The
genius of Shakspeare having found the tale of
Macbeth in the Scottish Chronicles of Hollins-,
bed, adorned it with a lustre similar to that with
which a level beam of the sun often invests some
fragment of glass, which, though shining at a
'distance with the lustre of a diamond, is by a
near investigation discovered to be of no worth
or estimation.

Duncan, by his mother Beatrice, a grandson
of Malcolm 11., succeeded to the throne on his
grandfather's death, in 1033 ; he reigned only
six years. Macbeth, his near relation, also a
grandchild of Malcolm 11., though by the
mother's side, was stirred up by ambition to co►►-
test the throne with the possessor. The lady of
Macbeth also, whose real name was Graoch, had
deadly injuries to avenge, on the reigning Prince.
She was the grand-daugher of Kenneth IV.,
killed in 1003, fighting against Malcolm 11. ;
and other causes for revenge animated the mind
of her who has been since painted as the sternest
of women. The old sm4alist add some instiga-
tions of a supernatural kind to the influence of
a vindictive woman over an ambitious husband.
Three women, of more than human stature and
beauty, appeared to Macbeth in a dream, or
vision, and hailed him successively by the titles
of Thane of Cromarty, Thane of Moray, which
the King afterwards bestowed on him, and
finally by that of King of Scots ; this dream, it
1; said, inspired him with the seductive hopes
o well expressed in the drama.
Macbeth broke no law of hospitality in his
attempt on Duncan's life. He attacked and
ble w the king at a place called Bothgowan, or
the Smith's House, near Elgin, in 1039, and
not, as has been supposed, in his own castle of
Inverness. The act was bloody, as was the
complexion of the times ; but in v y truth,
the claim of Macbeth to the throne, i.,:cording
to the rule of Scottish succession►, was bet ter than
that of Duncan. As a king, the tyrant so much
exclaimed against was, in reality, a firm, just,
and equitable prince.
Apprehensions of danger from a party which
Malcolm, the eldest son of the slaughtered Dun-
can, had set on foot in Northumberland, and still
maintained in Scotland, seems in. process of time,

to have soured the tember of Macbeth, and ren-
dered bim formidable to his nobility. Against
MacdufF, in particular, the powerful Maormor of
Fife, he had uttered some threats which occa•
sioned that chief to fly from the Court of Scot-
ia nd. Urged by this new counsellor, Siward, the
Danish Earl of Northumberland, invaded Scot-
land in the year 1054, displaying his banner in
behalf of the banished Malcolm. Macbeth en-
gaged the foe in the neighbourhood of his ce-
lebrated castle of Dunsinane. He was defeated,
but escaped horn the battle, and was slain at
Lumpkauanan in 1056.
Very slight observation will enable us to re-
' collect how much this simple statement differs
from that of the drama, though the plot of the
latter is consistent enough with the inaccurate
historians from whom Shakspeare drew his ma-
terials. It might be added, that early authorities
shew us no such persons as Banquo and his son
Fleance, nor have we reason to think that the
latter ever fled further from Macbeth than across
the flat scene, according to the stage direction.
Neither were Banquo or his son ancestors of the
house of Stuart.

All these things are now known ; but the
mind retains pertinaciously the impression made
by the impositions of genius. While the works
of Shakspeare are read, and the English lan-
guage subsists, History may say what she will,
but the general reader will only recollect Mac-
beth as a sacrilegious usurper, and Richard as a
deformed murderer.

Macbeth left a son, named Luach, which is
translated fat:rus, or the simple. After a few
months' struggle, he was defeated and slain at
Essic, in Strath-Bogic.