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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 June 18, 1853.]

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

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¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Government, the Governor-General is supposed to have given his assent to the principle before its introduction. The provisions of the bill are of great importance, and will make the representation more thoroughly Democratic. The members of the provincial Parliament are increased from 84 to 130. The Legislative Council, the second branch of the Legislature, is made elective. The Upper House to consist of 60 mem­bers, 30 to be elected from either section of the province. The qualifi­cation for membership to be £1000 worth of real estate or ex-member­ship of the Lower House. The councillors to hold office for a period of six years, and to be elected and go out by rotation. The Governor- General to have the power of dissolution in case the Council should reject a measure twice passed by the Lower House, but not otherwise. The Colonial office has uniformly discountenanced this change.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 The news from the River Plate is again of. a most unfavourable cha­racter. The siege of the city of Buenos Ayres continued, but was car­ried on merely by a species of skirmishing guerilla warfare in the out­skirts of the town, by which much property was destroyed, and many lives sacrificed. General Urquiza, after proclaiming that the “ fatal obstinacy of the political circle which had possessed itself of the arms and power in the city against the general will of the province of Buenos Ayres,” compelled him to assume an attitude he would sincerely have desired to avoid, the General-in-Chief of the National Squadron issued a notification, dated April 23, announcing, “ that the blockade in the afore-mentioned part of this port is established from this date, conceding a term of six days, reckoned from said date, for foreign vessels to quit the inner roads, and twenty days for those that are in the outer roads.” The pressure of the siege was severely felt in the city.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 WEST INDIES.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 By the Parana we have dates from Jamaica to the 27th ult. Five deaths from yellow fever occurred on board this steamer. The weather in the West Indies was rainy, and favourable for the next crop; but the falling off in the present crop will be general—say about 12,000 hogsheads at Barbadoes, 10,000 in British Guiana, 5000 in Trinidad, and the other Islands in similar proportion. At St. Thomas, the yellow fever was fatally prevalent.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 At Jamaica, yellow fever was very malignant in the harbour. Great excitement prevailed about mining operations, and each week announced some new mineral discoveries. Two new copper and mining companies were being got up. In commercial affairs there had been more activity. The differences of the Council and the House of Assembly appeared to be as far from adjustment as ever; and the question of the revenue bills was not likely to be entertained by the House of Assembly, whilst the Council refused to pass them with the appropriation clauses. In the meantime, various ports may be considered as free ports; but there had not been that large influx of goods which it was supposed would have taken place. The Hon. Hector Mitchell, Mayor of Kingston, died on the 27th May.

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE.

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 A private Correspondent at New York, writing on the 3rd June, states that the Exhibition will certainly not open before the 15th of July, and he inclines to think that the 18th will be the day of inauguration. He states that great complaints are made by persons intending to exhibit who have been waiting in New York with their goods for some time, and at great inconvenience. As yet, he says, the building is a mere skeleton. The Earl of Ellesmere and his brother commissioners were hourly expected, and preparations were made to give them a cordial re­ception.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 The directors of the Exhibition have issued an announcement that the Exhibition will be opened on the 15th. They state that the com­pletion of the building has been retarded by “the novelty and intricacy of the style of construction, and the high standard of architectural beauty it has been their object to attain.” They add, “ It will, unques­tionably, be the most attractive and interesting collection of the works of art, the results of science, and the productions of industry that has ever yet been made in this country, and will tend to increase the active emulation of the age in every branch of intellectual development.”

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 The glazing of the building will not be finished in less than a month or five weeks. There also remained to be done the roofing of the dome, the painting of the interior and exterior, and the construction of a sepa­rate building, between the principal structure and the Reservoir, for the machinery. Viewed from the interior, the dome—which is 100 feet in diameter, and, from the ground to the top of the lantern, 150 feet— has a very grand and imposing appearance. The galleries will soon be enclosed with trellis-work railings, which are in admirable keeping with the light and airy character of the whole building. In the course of five weeks the building will be so far finished as to be ready for the reception of contributions. Large quantities of articles for exhibition continued to arrive. Amongst the latest contributions the following are re­capitulated

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 From the Society of Arts and the Geological Society, London. The Duke of Buccleuch, from his mines, sends a bar of silver weighing 437 ounces. Sweden and Norway send all that is interesting from those countries. Articles will be sent by the British Government from the various public departments. Mr. M. Calisch, an eminent painter, of Amster­dam, had sent one of his best productions, representing the first meeting of Giotto and Cimabue. Dusseldorf paintings. The largest ammonite known. The Earl of Carlisle’s piano. Miss Shenstone’s sculpture of Nourmahal. The French Government are affording every facility for sending the goods of French manufacturers. M. Buschek, the European agent for the Exhi­bition, had been admitted to an audience by the Emperor of France, who assured him that the Imperial manufactures should be worthily represented. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is among the con­tributors of works of art. The portraits of her Majesty, himself, Prince Arthur, and of the late Duke of Wellington, forming the picture painted by Winterhalter, is his contribution. The Baron Marochetti has com­pleted a colossal equestrian statue of General Washington, which is about to be embarked. Mr. Carew has executed a colossal statue of the late Daniel Webster; it represents the American statesman in the act of addressing the Senate. From Rotterdam will be sent a variety of articles used by the Japanese, with Japanese silks, sea plants, shells, minerals, crystals, ores, and fossils collected during a five years’ residence in Japan. The Sardinian Government grants the same facilities to exhibitors as that of France. Samples of china and glass from Austria and Bohemia. Bronzes from Duplan Salles, France. Crosskill’s patent flour-mill and agricultural machinery in motion. Elkington, Mason and Co., the great manufacturers of electro-plate, send some articles. J. and S. Garrard, the crown jewellers of London, are amongst the exhibitors, and send a mag­nificent collection of silver ware.

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 The Canadians take great interest in the Exhibition. It is the in­tention of the Canadian Government to apply to Parliament for the sum of £2000, to defray the expenses attendant on the transmission to and from New York, and custody there, of articles to be forwarded from Canada to the great industrial fair at New York. The President of the United States and a large number of eminent personages are ex­pected to honour the event of the opening of the Exhibition with their presence. An invitation to his Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, has been forwarded from Professor Sedgwick, President of the Exhibition Committee, which his Excellency has signified his intention to accept, in the event of his other avocations permitting. Several members of the provincial administration, with other distinguished visitors from Canada, will also be present on that interesting occasion.

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Great Industrial Exhibition for Scotland.—A public meeting is about to be held in Edinburgh, to concert measures for an industrial exhibition, to take place in that city in the summer of 1854. The committee appointed by the promoters of the scheme have succeeded in acquiring the option of a central and adequate site on the Calton-hill of Edinburgh, so as to combine, along with the present object, the com­pletion of a great national edifice. The contractor is prepared to execute the work, and to rely for payment of half of the expense on the receipts.

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 Brompton Hospital for Consumption.—The London Sacred Harmonic Society will give a performance of sacred music at Exeter- hall, on Wednesday evening next, in behalf of the funds for the com­pletion of the east wing of the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton. The performance will be under the immediate patronage of her Majesty and Prince Albert.

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe.—We have authority for saying that this officer is about to retire from the government of Vic­toria, so soon as the necessary arrangements for the appointment of his successor are made. His Excellency has sold his Melbourne property, originally bought by him at a nominal price, for £70,000.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette,

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 Postage Regulation.—-By a Treasury warrant, dated June 10,1853, it is directed that every printed price-current, commercial list, course of exchange, shipping list, or other publication, respectively printed or published in the United Kingdom, although not a newspaper, but bear­ing newspaper stamp, the circulation of which, by the post, under the newspaper privilege, shall be allowed by the Postmaster-General, may be sent by the post free of British postage, or liable to British postage according to regulations set forth at length in the said warrant.

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS.

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 SIR JOHN HOPE, OF CRAIGHALL AND PINKIE, BART., M.P. The death of Sir John Hope took place on the 5th inst., at the residence of his son, in Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park. The deceased Ba­ronet, born on 13th April, 1781, was second son of Sir Archibald Hope, the ninth Baronet, and succeeded as eleventh Baronet on the death of his half-brother, Sir Thomas, in 1801. He mar­ried. in June, 1805, Anne, youngest daughter of the late Sir John Wedderburn, Bart., and by this lady, who survives him, leaves issue seven sons and two daughters, of whom the

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 eldest now becomes Sir Archibald the twelfth Baronet.

¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 The Hope family in Scotland are descended from Sir Thomas Hope, of Craighall, Lord Advocate of Scotland, temp. Charles I., created a Baronet of Nova Scotia and Scotland (19th Feb.), in 1628, of whom the late Baronet was the lineal representative, and was thus chief or head of the family. From a younger son of Sir Thomas the Earl of Hopetoun and many others of the name of Hope are descended. Mr. H. T Hope, of Deepdene, is de­scended from a younger brother of the first Baronet.

¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 The family seat was formerly at Craighall, in Fifeshire; but has latterly been at Pinkie-house, near Musselburgh, six miles from Edinburgh.

¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 The deceased Baronet had been for many years Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Mid Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, and Vice­Lieutenant of the County of Edinburgh; and he was formerly Convener of the county. He was also one of the Lieutenants-General of the Royal Company of Archers, and Deputy-Governor of the Royal Bank of Scot­land, &c.

¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 In 1845 he was elected member for the county of Edinburgh, or Mid­Lothian, and again in 1847, and in 1852—each time without opposition. Throughout his whole life he was a steady and consistent supporter of Conservative principles.

¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 SIR RICHARD BAKER.

¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 The death of this gentleman occurred on the 1st inst., at his residence, Mount Errol, Donnybrook, county Dublin. He had attained the age of seventy-two. Sir Richard, eldest son of the late John Baker, Esq., of Cott-house, Totnes, Devon, was an army and navy clothier, in Dublin. In 1833, he filled the office of Sheriff of that city, and received the honour of knighthood; and in 1838 he was elected Aiderman. He married, in 1814, Miss Morrison, daughter of Alderman Morrison, of Dublin.

¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 RALPH BATES, ESQ., OF MELBOURNE HALL, NORTHUMBERLAND.

¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 This gentleman died on the 6th inst., in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He was the representative of an old and respected Northumbrian family, whose ancestor, in the time of Queen Mary—Thomas Bates, Esq., of Oving­ton Hall—sat in Parliament for the borough of Morpeth, and stood high in favour with his Royal mistress, who addressed to him a complimentary letter (still preserved) in 1556. Mr. Bates’s grandfather, Ralph Bates, Esq., served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1762; and his father, the late Colonel Bates, com-manded, for many years, the Inniskilling Dragoons.

¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Death of Madame Macedo.—We regret to announce the sudden demise of Madame Macedo, wife of the Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at this Court. The fatal event occurred at the Brazilian Legation in Mansfield-street, Portland-place, on Sunday, during her Excellency’s confinement. She was an English lady, and has left a young and interest­ing family.

¶ 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 Wills.—The will of the late Chamberlain of the City, An­thony Brown, Esq., has been sworn to by the executors. The personal property was valued, for probate duty, at £30,000 ; there are no bequests to public charities.                 The late Dean of Peterborough, the Rev. George

¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 Butler, D.D., formerly head-master of Harrow, has bequeathed to his widow, and afterwards to his children, those presents of plate made to him by the scholars and Harrow men, on his retiring. in 1829, from Harrow School; as well as the gold snuff-box, with lid of Mosaic work, the gift of Prince Lieven, whose three sons were educated by him. He leaves his widow an annuity of £900, and to his sons and daughters £4000 each. The personalty was valued at £35,000.—The will of Lieut.- General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Bart., E.I.C.S., has just been proved by his relict Lady Gilbert, to whom, by a codicil made the day before his death, he bequeaths all his property in the course of transmission from India; and the residue to his son and two daughters.

¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 Bequests.—The late James Foster, Esq., of Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, died possessed of £700,000 personalty, bequeathing large portions among his nephews and nieces; and his share and interest in the Chillington Coal and Iron Company between his nephews William Orme Foster and Percival Foster. To his brother, William Foster, Esq., an annuity of £2400; and to his sister, Mary Foster, £3000 a year, as well as all the furniture, carriages, and residence of Stourton Castle; and the castle, with the pictures, busts, and statues, at her decease, to his said nephew, William Orme Foster, whom he appoints residuary legatee and sole executor, devising to him his freehold estates.         Simon Joseph

¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 Joseph, Esq., late of Montagu-place, Russell-square, has left legacies to a great number of Jewish Institutions. His effects were estimated for duty at £25,000.—Miss Isabella Brown, of Skipton, Yorkshire, has bequeathed to the British and Foreign Bible Society £200; Religious Tract Society, £200; Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, £200; London Missionary Society, £200 ; Irish Society for Promoting the Edu­cation and Religious Instruction of the Native Irish, £100; Scripture Reading Society (Ireland), £100; Church Missions to the Roman Ca­tholics, £100 ; Moravian Missions, £100 ; and like bequests to many other institutions.—-Mrs. Catherine Manning has left to the British and Fo­reign Bible Society, £550; and a like sum to the Religious Tract Society, London Missionary Society, and to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 Mr. Charles Manby, the indefatigable secretary of the In­stitution of Civil Engineers, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, has been unanimously elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London—one of the highest distinctions connected with science.

¶ 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 Boston and Midland Junction Railway.—This committee, of which the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry was chairman, commenced their proceedings on Thursday, the 2nd inst. Evidence in support of the pub­lic requirements of the railway was given by several noblemen and gen­tlemen connected with the district, which occupied the two first days of the inquiry ; and, on the subsequent days, a numerous body of witnesses were examined with the view of establishing the superiority of the de­funct Ambergate line between Grantham and Boston and Spalding, over the proposed course by way of Sleaford; but this attempt signally failed. The great, and, in fact, the sole remaining ground of opposition, was the impracticability of the bank of the South Forty-foot Drain, from Swines- head-bridge to Boston, especially that portion of it which lies between that bridge and Clay Dyke. Upon that point many witnesses were exa­mined, whose testimony did not appear to be much regarded by the com­mittee, who required the objectors to examine the practical engineers. Mr. Burkinshaw and Mr. Braithwaite were then called; and the effect of their evidence was to show that the banks were insufficient to carry a railway train. On Monday last the committee re-examined Sir William Cubitt upon the allegations of the two gentlemen before named; and he succeeded in establishing the utter worthlessness of their testimony, showing that the bank was peculiarly well adapted to the formation of a railway, and that the danger apprehended was entirely opposed to the results of all practical engineering. After a very powerful speech from the promoters’ counsel (Mr. Burke), the committee decided that the preamble was proved.

¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 Pictures for the New Houses of Parliament.—Mr. E. M. Ward has received authority to commence at once on a second illus­tration of English history, for the new Houses of Parliament, as a com­panion to the “ Execution of Montrose at present one of the leading attractions of the Royal Academy Exhibition ; and now about to be engraved in a size commensurate with its merits. The story which Mr. Ward is to tell on canvas is known among artists as the “ Sleep of Argyll.” It has been painted before. Mr. Ward’s hero is the Argyll who was executed early in the reign of James II.; and the  incident which he has to paint is, when briefly told, the touching cir­cumstance of his having been found in his cell only a few hours before his execution, sleeping in all the innocent repose of childhood.

¶ 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 Search for Sir J. Franklin.—Dr. Kane had sailed from. New York in the brig Advance_t on his second expedition to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin. He was accompanied down the bay by his father, Judge Kane, his three brothers, and a large number of friends. The steamboat Union, with the members of the New York Masonic Grand Lodge, and a company of two or three hundred persons, proceeded a long distance with them.

¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 Saving of nearly Two Hundred Lives.—The British mail-steamer Conway had arrived at Savannah from Jamaica, announcing that all but two of the passengers on board the ill-fated barque William and Mary, recently wrecked off the Great Isaacs, have been saved. They were rescued by a wrecking schooner just before she sunk. The loss of this ship, it will be remembered, was reported about a fortnight since, as having been lost with nearly 200 passengers. She was bound from New York to New Orleans.

¶ 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 Visit of Her Majesty to Hull.—Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to notify to the municipality of Hull that she accepts their invitation to visit the town in the course of the current season, but that she has not yet been able to fix the time when she may be expected to arrive at this port. But the Queen directs Lord Pal­merston to make known to the people of Hull that ample notice will be given to them of her coming.—Hull Advertiser.

¶ 42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 Extensive Turn-out at Stockport.—The master-spinners and manufacturers of Stockport having refused to give their operatives the ten per cent increased wages they demanded, the latter, to the number of several thousands, have turned out, and are now on strike. The town is in great excitement, and the authorities have sworn in special con­stables ; but the people are quiet, believing they will be sure to win, because of the demands of trade. Some of the masters are said to have given in.

¶ 43 Leave a comment on paragraph 43 0 Increase of Wages.—The general rise in wages throughout the country has induced the Edinburgh County Police to petition for an increase of pay. The application has been favourably entertained, and a graduated scale has been adopted, increasing the wages of the highest class of officers 3s., the next 2s., and the third 1s. 6d. per week.              The

¶ 44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 Police Board of Glasgow have agreed to add 2s. to the weekly pay of the police officers of that city.

¶ 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 .. Soiree to the Members for Bolton.—On Friday evening week a public demonstration took place in the Bolton Temperance Hall, to commemorate the defeat of the petitioners against the return of Messrs. Barnes and Crook, as members for that borough. About 700 persons sat down to tea.

¶ 46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 Mining in the St. Ives District.—Three companies have been formed for working mines near St. Ives. Engines are to be erected forthwith, and there is reason to expect they will be carried on with spirit, so that the demand for labour in this neighbourhood is likely to be very great, especially when the Harbour Improvement Bill is obtained, and the railway branch from the West Cornwall line.

¶ 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 A Singular Discovery.—A man in humble circumstances lately produced at the Aylesbury branch of the London and County Bank a Bank of England note for £25, dated eighty years back. Upon being questioned, he stated that about twenty-five years since he married, and that his wife’s mother gave them, among other trifles, some old books, upon recently turning over which he found in one of them the note. It was paid by the bank. At compound interest it amounted to £1400.

¶ 48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 Discovery of Old Coins at Lancaster.—A few days ago, in making some excavations on Castle-hill, and in the churchyard, several old coins were discovered. Among them were a Roman coin of the Em­peror Domitian, who began to reign a.d. 81. This coin is consequently about 1770 years old. There was also a copper coin of the Emperor Trajan, who began to reign a.d. 99; a small copper coin of Tetichus, one of the Thirty Tyrants; and a silver twopence of Queen Elizabeth, dated 1580.

¶ 49 Leave a comment on paragraph 49 0 Discovery of Roman Remains.—In the course of excavations at the works of Messrs. Dixon, West Tower-street, Carlisle, a number of deeply-interesting relics of the Roman era in Britain were lately dis­covered. Some of them were portions of the remains of animals, as bears’ tusks, deers’ horns, &c. Amongst the latter were two lamps, one of earthenware, another of iron, with a chain by which it would seem it was suspended when in use; two stilettoes, one of iron, another of com­posite metallic substance similar to our bronze, and in shape resembling the half of a diminutive spear; the half of a red earthenware bowl or basin, beautifully turned, and in a state of such excellent preservation as almost to appear like the work of yesterday, instead of being, perhaps, more than 1500 years old; a spear head of peculiar construction, and some brass coins.

¶ 50 Leave a comment on paragraph 50 0 Hurstpierpoint Public School.—The permanent building of St. John’s Public School, for the middle classes, at Hurstpierpoint, will be opened on Monday next, the 20th inst. A special train will leave London-bridge at eight in the morning; and those persons who may not be able to avail themselves of this train may use the ordinary Brighton trains—at nine, stopping at Hassock’s-gate; and at ten a.m., stopping at Hayward’s Heath.

¶ 51 Leave a comment on paragraph 51 0 Invitation of Kossuth to Sheffield.—An application has been made to Kossuth to know if he could accept an invitation to come to Sheffield, to be presented with a testimonial. He has replied as fol­lows :—” It is. no affectation on my part, but, under present circumstances, I can pledge myself to nothing, not even to being in England. If affairs were to be tranquil—if circumstances permit me—I should feel honoured to visit Sheffield, as suggested.”—Globe.

¶ 52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

¶ 53 Leave a comment on paragraph 53 0 The Show of this olden Association, originally established in the City of Bath, in 1777, was held last week at Plymouth, with great festivity. A very liberal subscription was entered into by the inhabitants of the three towns, to which the country gentlemen in the immediate neigh­bourhood very spiritedly contributed. An eligible site at Penny- comequick, in the parish of Stoke Damerel, adjoining the borough of Plymouth, was selected for the cattle, implements, &c., with additional accommodation for the poultry show; and other arrangements were made effectually to carry out the object of the managing committee of the Society. The railway companies also acted in a liberal spirit, con­veying the stock, implements, &c., at reduced rates.

¶ 54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 The towns (Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse), were charac­teristically decorated for the occasion ; the arches being dight with flags and banners, and illuminated on each evening with devices in gas. We regret that we have not space to engrave our Artist’s sketches of these festal embellishments.

¶ 55 Leave a comment on paragraph 55 0 On Monday and Tuesday the trial of implements took place in a field at Keyham Barton, in the occupation of Mr. Bradford. The im­plements being of the latest improvements, and the ploughmen amongst the most skilful of their class, the work was executed in a very clever manner, and called forth expressions of admiration from the agriculturits and labourers by whom it was witnessed. The scarifiers and paring and skimming ploughs were subsequently brought into operation. The judges next proceeded to another part of the field, where an acre of turnips and mangold-wurtzel had been sown in rows two feet apart, by direction of the council, and where the horse-hoes and scuffling- machines were tested. The deep ploughing was afterwards tried in another field, on the east side of the Saltash-road, called East-down, of about four acres in extent, with a similar but deeper soil to that of North-down.

¶ 56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 On Tuesday the chief attraction was the reaping machines, the trial being made on a piece of rye, which was in full ear. The field had been sown by Mr. Bradford expressly for the occasion. The following were tried:—No. 1, Hussey’s, improved by Dray and Co., London; patented, 1847. Mr. Hussey is an American, of Baltimore, Maryland. No. 2, M‘Connick’s, improved by Burgess and Key, of Newgate-street. Mr. M’Cormick is also an American. No. 3, Hussey’s improved by himself. The improvement aimed at may in general terms be said to be, the raising of the machine as it approaches furrows, and a surer method of arranging the knives for cutting the crops. The judges then proceeded to test the powers of the digger (exhibited by Burgess and Key) on the ploughed land, and it appeared effectual. At about six o’clock the trials were concluded.

¶ 57 Leave a comment on paragraph 57 0 On Wednesday, the Cattle and Implement Yard was effectually en­closed. It was situated on the rising ground at Pennycomequick, and on the west side of the Saltash-road, rather less than a mile from Ply­mouth. The field in which the show was held was about ten or a dozen acres in extent, and was admirably adapted for the purpose. Within were erected four tents, which extended the entire length, with the ex­ception of a narrow space in the centre for the visitors to pass and re­pass from one side of the show-yard to the other, in their tour of inspection.

¶ 58 Leave a comment on paragraph 58 0 In the neighbourhood of the show-yards there were refreshment- booths of every description; and in one of the five fields numerous minor shows, exhibiting giants, giantesses, extraordinary sheep, fat boys, and dwarfish girls, attracted various classes of the community to the spot.  Drinking-tents and marquees were also well filled, as well as Macarte’s circus. The field throughout the three days was crowded to excess, and the utmost good humour prevailed.

¶ 59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 On Thursday, the number of persons at the Show was immense; and, when it had closed, the streets became crowded with persons to witness illuminations, &c.

¶ 60 Leave a comment on paragraph 60 0 On Thursday afternoon the annual meeting of the members was held at the Guildhall, Plymouth; after which, upwards of 500 gentlemen dined at the Royal Hotel, under the able presidency of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart.

¶ 61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 The Poultry Show was another attractive feature of the meeting: it contained upwards of 800 birds, admirably arranged.

¶ 62 Leave a comment on paragraph 62 0 The Royal Devon and Cornwall Botanical and Horticultural Society held their first Exhibition for the season in the vicinity of the Show- yards of the Agricultural Society.The principal tent was for the exhibition of flowers, plants, &c., by