530 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle. 
There were no animals of surpassing merit, yet if we except 
that of Three-year-old Bulls there were in all the classes worthy 
recipients of the leading honours. The Female classes, as a 
whole, were superior to those of Bulls. " Whole Class Com- 
mended," was the verdict of the Judges regarding the three 
classes of Heifers. 
In the Adult Bull Class seven entries were made. Mr. William 
Handley's " Royal Ingram " (50,374), Champion at the two 
preceding Royal Shows, and the hero of a hundred other 
fights, came out in tolerably good form, and led easily enough. 
There have no doubt been a few better bulls in England 
during the past ten or fifteen years, yet, taken all in all, he is 
well deserving of his position. He is long and fairly wide in 
the frame, with broad level back, and few animals carry so 
much lean meat as is disposed upon his level carcass. And he 
is a valuable sire, as well as a good Show bull. At least three 
of his sons have been Royal winners, and one, " Ingram's Fame," 
takes the Champion Prize here, he himself being marked as 
the " reserve." 
" Royal Ingram " was bred by Mr. Handley, got by the 
famous prize bull, " Sir Arthur Ingram " (32,490), and out of 
" Harmony" by " Sir Arthur Windsor (35,541). Some were 
heard to express a preference for " Veteran " (52,288), the second- 
prize bull, owned by Mr. John Vickers, of Catchburn, Morpeth. 
Good, however, as that bull undoubtedly is — and in several 
points he is exceptionally strong — we do not see how he 
could have been fairly placed first. His head is objection- 
able, and that is not a trifling fault. In other respects he is 
slightly lacking in Shorthorn character, yet is built upon a 
large scale, is very deep, correspondingly broad, very massive, 
and heavily and evenly fleshed. He is exceptionally thick in 
the girth, but light in the hind-quarters. He was bred by 
Mr. C. Craddock, Hartforth, Yorkshire, and got by " Lord 
Rosebery " (45,152). 
Mr. Handley's " Reformer " (53,521), which has a few times 
been placed before " Royal Ingram," was in his right position 
here. He is a big, well-formed red, with a little white, fills the 
eye well, and displays considerable merit, but has become some- 
what paunchy, and is not quite so firm in the flesh as could 
be wished. He was bred in Aberdeenshire by Mr. William 
Duthie, got by the Burnside bull, " Earl of March " (33,807) 
(brother to the red bull " Duke of Richmond," which won fame 
in America as a show and stud bull some ten or twelve years 
ago), and out of a grand-daughter of the valuable Keavil bull 
" Heir of I'^nglishman " (34,128), which was used with grand 
results by Mr. Marr, Uppermil], Aberdeenshire. The Aidfert 
