Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at JSIanchester. 509 
Committee ; and to the onergy and liberality displayed by the 
very hard-workino; members of that Committee, no small measure 
of the success of the Exhibition is due. 
The financial details of the Meeting will be found elsewhere, 
but it may be interesting to compare the numbers of persons 
admitted, and the corresponding amount received, at the three 
great towns — centres of densely populated districts — Leeds, 
Newcastle, and Manchester respectively. They are as follows: — 
Amount received. 
No. of Admissions. £■ 
Leeds 14.-),738 .. .. 9,889 
Newcastle 144,683 .. .. 8,045 
Manchester 200,733 .. .. 17,050 
The entries of Stock at the three towns were as follows : — 
Cattle. 
Horses. 
Sheep. 
Pigs. 
Total. 
Leeds 
.. 295 
. 132 . 
. 345 . 
. 115 . 
. 887 
Newcastle . . 
.. 302 
82 . 
. 328 . 
. 135 . 
842 
Manchester . . 
.. 33G 
. 384 . 
. 464 . 
. 131 . 
. 1315 
This great increase in the number of entries was made up by 
a very general addition to the numbers in most of the classes 
although the increase was, perhaps, most marked in those o 
the horses. Even last year at Leicester, where, as migh 
have been expected, the number of horses shown was large 
than common, there were only 167 entries against 384 a 
Manchester. 
Of these 384 it is satisfactory to record that 131, or as many 
as were comprised in all the horse classes together at Leeds, 
were entries in the agricultural or dray-horse classes. 
In the various classes for hunting mares and geldings there 
was a keen competition for the very liberal prizes offered 
by the Local Committee; and some of the "Hunters" — a name 
little appropriate to not a few of them — were put through 
a further ordeal in an enclosure adjoining the Society's Show- 
yard, where other and separate prizes were given by the Local 
Committee to the successful competitors in jumping over hurdles 
and water. 
This performance, to see which a separate entrance was 
made, and separate entrance-fee charged, proved to be very 
attractive, and was a means by which some of the heavy 
expense to which they had been put was recovered by the 
Local Committee. 
Notwithstanding, however, the financial success which attended 
this exhibition of horse jumping, it is very questionable whether 
it is advisable for the Royal Agricultural Society to allow the 
same thing another time. It was impossible at Manchester, and 
would always be impossible, to make the public understand that 
