592 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Wolverhami^ton, 
bouglit up most of tlie best yearlinj^; and 2 years-old bulls and 
beifers at good prices for exportation, consequently exhibitors 
have not those specimens to send forward as fully matured and 
developed animals. Moreover, the higher bred Shorthorns have 
in the same period become immensely advanced in value, whilst 
pure and fashionable pedigrees command such extreme prices, 
that selection is avoided and the bad with the f/ood are left to 
grow together, like tares and wheat, till an auction is held which 
scatters them far and wide ; but there can be no doubt that the 
piwe stock of the country — though more may be bred — is hardly 
likely to be much improved in symmetry and quality, for 
there is an apparent coarseness in some of the more fashion- 
able lines of blood. The old bulls were comparatively a poor 
class, and there was an absence of that massiveness and grandeur 
which one looks for in such animals. The first-prize bull, the 
famous old " Edgar," was a fine type of a good Shorthorn, and 
Cumberland may indeed be proud of him ; the second prize, 
" Telemachus," was much younger and smaller, but neat, and 
lacking somewhat in masculine character about the head. The 
2 years-old were a larger class and better ; and several animals, 
rich in colour and fine in quality of flesh, were shown, though 
none of the specimens possessed any unusual merit beyond 
Mr. Linton's " Lord Irwin," which is very even and sym- 
metrical, and was deservedly placed first in his class. The 
yearling bulls, as a whole, were scarcely equal to the last 
class, but still had some superior animals at their head — to wit, 
the first and second prizes in Colonel Towneley's " Baron Hub- 
back 2iid," and Lord Sudeley's " Cherub," both immediately 
picked up for export, whilst Mr. Lamb's rich-handling " Igno- 
ramus," a worthy grandson of " Edgar," was placed third. Beyond 
Messrs. Dudding's "British Flag," the Bull-calf Class does not 
call for much comment. The cows were decidedly inferior for 
" a Royal lot." The first prize, " Warrior's Plume," belonging 
to Mr. Beattie, of Dumfriesshire, was very sweet and feminine, 
with lovely head and fore quarters, short legs, and good quality 
of flesh, but evidently overdone with excessive feeding, and but 
recently calved. As a 2 or 3 years-old she must have been a 
good animal, being (like " Edgar") so full of true old shorthorn 
character. The 2 years-old heifers were indeed a grand lot, and 
the Judges had a difficult duty to perform in coming to a decision. 
Lady Pigot was placed first, with a rich-touching white, 
" Dame Swift," heavy in-calf; with Mr. How's " Vesper Queen," 
second; and Mr. Foljambe's "Concert" third. Not a few out- 
siders considered the latter worthy of a more prominent place, as 
she is very large in size, rich in colour, and full of flesh, without 
being coarse, but when walking she gets her back up too much. 
