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arranged in families, and drawn up in a serried line. 

 The word of command was then given, the parade com- 

 menced, and a more masterly movement was never 

 executed. In fact, it is one which we should like to see 

 carried out at all sales. The pull is in favour of the 

 seller, as the cattle show themselves so well ; but at the 

 same time, good judges have an opportunity of seeing 

 them in action, and satisfying themselves better upon 

 little points, than if they wandered hour after hour 

 through their stalls, and "nipped 'em" ever so dili- 

 gently. They were moving slowly round their quarter- 

 of-a-mile course, whea dinner was announced, and in a 

 few minutes three hundred had enrolled themselves as 

 welcome guests, and were doing full justice to a most 

 admirable repast, to which sherry and punch lent the 

 fullest zest. Mr. Torr, of Aylesby, was in the chair ; 

 and when he had introduced the health of Mr. Wetherell, 

 that gentleman in a few brief and feeling sentences 

 acknowledged the toast, and led the way to the ring. 



John Ward forthwith brought lot 1, Young Jenny 

 Lind, into the ring, as blooming as the most loyal care 

 that ever herdsman devoted to a master's interests 

 could make her. Independently of condition, it was 

 evident that the cattle knew well how to make the most 

 of themselves, and stood up as square and true as the 

 most fastidious critic could desire. 



Twenty guineas was the fir.^t bid which greeted Mr. John 

 Wetherell's ear; but business only went on slowly, and 

 Mr. Barclay gave forty as a closer. Cosy, a very fine nine- 

 year-old cow, and the dam of Alderman, made the bid- 

 ders look rather sharper about them ; and Mr. Dreury, 

 on behalf of the Duke of Devonshire, got her for 53 gs. 

 Passion Flower beat her by 2 gs. ; and Edith, who was 

 frankly stated to be a very doubtful breeder, fetched only 

 butcher's price, minus a margin. That very fine old 

 cow, Lady Scarborough, then went for 200 gs., Mr. 

 Pole and Mr. H. Smith being the bidders; and Mr. 

 Gamble carried off Duchess of Northumberland (No. 

 6), a very striking cow, with all the Bates' quality 

 about her, and a very fine head and prominent breast. 

 She lingers, we are told, in Yorkshire for a few weeks, 

 on a visit to Capt. Gunter's Sixth Duke of Oxford. 



A contest then ensued between Mr. Doig, on behalf 

 of Col. Pennant, and Mr. Dreury, for the Duke of De- 

 vonshire, over the body of the renowned Moss Rose, 

 (who won at Kelso on March 31st), which ended in 

 Marmaduke receiving a fresh visitor in his Welsh home. 

 Mr. Neasham, the late owner of Usurer, (who was sold 

 in Darlington market to a butcher about seven weeks 

 since) next went in at 85 gs. for Young Magic Flower 

 and her two-days-old white calf. Wallflower departed 

 cheap to Mr. Gell for 34 gs., though the Lord Raine 

 blood rather spoiled her; and Venus, a very good- 

 looking cow, who was at fifty in a jiffey, with three 

 bidders, was also sold cheap at last to Mr. Pole for 80 gs. 

 The Master of the Bedale then gave 50 gs. for Oak 

 Apple, whose yearling son. Baron Martin, was sold last 

 August for 100 gs. ; and some dashing biddings 

 for Lucy, of full Booth blood, with the exception of 

 Roland, in which Captain Spencer and Mr. Parrington 

 both bore a part, ended in favour of Lady I'igot. Mr. 

 Ivens p;ot Countess cheap for 36 gs. ; and then followed 

 her three half-sisters, all got by Field Marshal, and 

 bred by Earl Zetland. With the exception, however, 

 of Crocus, they were slightly thick handlers ; but she 

 was a magnificent heifer. Col. Gandy, who faced the 

 auctioneer, and bid with great spirit throughout the 

 sale, had his own work to get her, as Mr. Dreury was 

 at it part of the time; and there were two claimants 

 for the 65-guinca bid. Acorn was of a bad colour, 

 but very good ; and Mr. James got her de- 

 cidedly cheap: Mr. Aylmer also bought a thick 

 well-made daughter of Whittington in Roseleaf ; and 



then Mr. Doig fought it out for Ayrshire Rose, but he 

 never could shake off his antagonists until 165 gs. had 

 been bid. She is within a few days of calving to Wise- 

 tonian. Lady Stanley followed — very clever, and with 

 a sweet head and neck ; and Miss Lumley, who did any- 

 thing but discredit to the Lord Scarborough blood. 

 Stanley Rose, who has won at Kelso already this year, 

 then marched into the ring. Mr. Doig was again among 

 the bidders for this justly-celebrated family, and Mr. 

 Douglas went as high as 230 gs. ; but Lady Pigot, 

 who was on the ground with Mrs. Carr and Miss 

 Booth, bid so boldly, through Mr. John Booth, that she 

 was passed over to Sufiolk at .300 gs. Many were the 

 wishes that her ladyship may see her enrolled as a Royal 

 winner. Bell Flower, the only daughter of Statesman, 

 and as snow-white as himself, realized little more than a 

 tenth of the sum ; and then Sir Antony de Rothschild 

 and Captain Spencer had a set-to for Governess, the 

 only daughter of Archy Moore, and a very nice little 

 heifer. Mr. Drewry very wisely determined that Cosy 

 and Comfort — both of them very neat, and full of 

 quality— should not be separated; and then Captain 

 Spencer (who had not persevered for Governess when 

 he saw how determined Mr. Taylor was) went in for the 

 handsome Bloom, a beautiful combination of the Lord 

 Mayor and Lucy blood ; and she departed at 110 gs., 

 to join Lizzy, Sappho, and Leila, the last of whom 

 has just calved a bull-calf to Marmaduke. Lady rather 

 brought down the average ; but it is no small testimony 

 to the value of the Lord Mayor blood that three calves 

 by him averaged nearly 89 gs. each. 



With the King Arthur roan heifer calf the first act of 

 the sale ended ; and Lord Scarborough, who is 

 now well on in years, and has got rather heavy, opened 

 the bull biddings, which were rather lifeless at first. 

 Statesman, -who did not look improved since last year, 

 w:is as active as a kitten ; and as if to show that, in spite 

 of the endless handling he had undergone for weeks, 

 there was no trace of temper, John Ward unbuckled his 

 pole at once, and held him simply by his chain. Mr. 

 John Wetherell got no offers even at fifty ; but at last 

 there camethe impatient Y^orkshire opening, " Go 07i!" 

 from a bidder, as a halt was made : and she rose slowly to 

 82 gs . Mr. W. Cox, who has a small but select herd near 

 Pickering, was the buyer, and we trust we shall see that 

 gay elegant form with many a prize-ribbon on it yet. Sir 

 John Crewe's agent then dipped into the Usurer blood at 

 55 gs. through Wisetonian, who seems likely to do as 

 much good to Derbyshire as Alderman a son of Cosy's 

 to Cumberland. The latter is perhaps a trifle too long 

 for some eyes, but still he was wondrously cheap, and 

 we believe that Mr. Wilson, with good judgment, did 

 not intend to stop short of a hundred. Pilot was 

 rather thick and heavy, and Lumley, a son of Lord 

 Scarborough's, from Duchess of Northumberland No. 

 6, shot the average up to 125 gs. He was a very nice 

 bull, but not of a very good colour, and we thought him 

 dear by comparison with Statesman's brother, Stanley, 

 who is, without exception, one of the most beautiful 

 young bulls that ever stood the sand-glass test. Strange 

 to say, the biddings were very laborious, so much so, 

 that it was quite a moot point whether the sand had not 

 run once between 80 gs. and 90 gs. However he was 

 put up again, and Mr. Paeke, who seemed to have 

 plenty of running left, finished a clever winner for only 

 92 gs. CattoQ looked an ordinary bull : Traveller was 

 am ju c. il to be purchased for Sir Joseph Pr.ston ; that 

 capital bull calf. Royal Oak, went to Farnley to supply 

 the place of his senior Bon Garcon, who died, we are 

 told, some months since, after only a four hours' attack, 

 of inflammation ; and then the Earl of Aberdeen by 

 Lord Mayor, who is really, as far as elegance goes, an 

 almost 7ie jjJns ultra of a calf, brought down the curtain. 



