564 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Birmingham, 
Whites were in the ascendant in the bull-calf class. Mr. 
Torr's " Fitzwilliam," who was declared to be the best, and 
the Duke of Northumberland's " Cheveley," who took third 
prize, being- of that colour. The Judges remark, that while 
it was a fair class, some of the animals were " very good." 
They selected eight from a lot about twice as large again, 
and the placing required much deliberation and attentive 
survey. The whites alluded to were both rather small, but 
remarkably neat, with very little to find fault with in the shape 
or quality of either. The second animal, Mr. Nevett's roan, 
called " Claro's Duke," is a beauty of another stamp, with grand 
back and quarters, and an altogether large frame and dashing 
style. The Judges also took notice of ^Ir. B. St. John Ackers's 
handsome young bull, " Prince of Georgia," and Mr. G. Game's 
" Viscount Cherry," who, although small, is so comely and 
well shaped, that he will be hard to beat if all goes well another 
year. 
Shorthorn cows were few in number, but the Rev. R. B. Ken- 
nard's beautiful " Queen Mary " was there to head them ; and 
some will have it that her fame and the anticipation of her pre- 
sence kept not a few others away. Lovely as a heifer, and now 
perfectly majestic at four years old, she has been held up to the 
world as a model Shorthorn, whose almost perfect contour and 
prepossessing charms have seldom or never been equalled. The 
present generation knows little, except by reputation, of those 
beauties which so dazzled the eyes of breeders when " Necklace " 
and " Bracelet " were famous Show-cows, and Mr. Bates brought 
"Duchess 34th" to a Royal Showyard to meet and conquer the 
former. Indeed, many people have almost forgotten Mr. Richard 
Booth's celebrities of a later period, when he swept off Showyard 
prizes wholesale. His " Queen of the Vale " and " Queen Mab ' 
were so faultless, it is said, that even " old Cuddy," the herdsman, 
never knew which to prefer. Even " Charity," according to 
Carr, was " the personification of all that is beautiful in Short- 
horn shape ;" while he relates of " Queen of the May " that two 
American gentlemen were perfectly ravished by the fascination 
of her beauty." It is not too much to assume that some of these, 
and several others which could be named, were of equal merit, il 
not superior, to " Queen Mary ;" but certain it is that no Short- 
horn cow in recent years has been brought to the Showyard 
which has carried off more trophies or been half as much admired. 
Her easy victory at Birmingham gave her owner the fourth Royal 
first prize she has won since entering the lists as a calf at Hull. 
Her achievements include more than a dozen other leading prizes, 
' besides two 100 guinea challenge cups, namely, the Gloucester- 
shire, furnished by Mr. B. St. John Ackers, and the Havering 
