388 Report of the Stewards of Stock at the Battersea Show. 
when every week is of so much importance, may help to account. 
The first prize shearling of Mr. Sanday was a gay, taking 
sheep, but perhaps hardly equal in his fleece and flesh to the 
third from the same flock ; while Mr. Pawlett's, which separated 
them, had a very fat back, but not the same quality of fleece. 
The Aged Ram and the Theave classes " did not show any im- 
provement or retrogression as compared with Leeds ;" and the 
former class was headed by the gold medal winner, a remarkably 
good two-shear of Mr. Sanday's, which for " form, quality, 
mutton, and general appearance was exactly what a true Lei- 
cester sheep should be," and was sold for 140 guineas by auction 
in the following month. It is worthy of note that the second 
prize taker, a three-shear, earned second honours for the third 
time at this Show. The first prize theaves, also the property of 
Mr. Sanday (who won three firsts, two seconds, and two thirds 
in these classes) were " remarkably uniform in their character," 
albeit one of them was half-faced. 
The Lincolns, considei^ing the anticipations formed of them as 
the staple breed of a great county, and the renovators, in respect 
of size and wool, of other breeds in the midlands, were weak 
alike in numbers and stamp ; owing, it may be, to the disin- 
clination of the most successful letters to run the risk of exhi- 
biting. Hence the Judges report that there was " positively not 
one good one among them." Mr. Marshall's first prize ram was, 
perhaps, an exception ; and Mr. Greetham sent rather a nice 
pen of theaves, which had no opposition to face. 
" T/?e other Lonr/- Wools" presented, as was to be expected, 
rather an anomalous medley, now that the Lincolns, Cotswolds, 
and Romncy Marsh had classes of their own, and there were 
scarcely two lots alike. The Judges ran on " Leicester and 
Lincoln " in the Ram classes, and passed over Mr. Aylmer's 
with commendations, till tlicy came to his pen of theaves, when 
they were obliged to accept the type. These " West Derehams 
were a remarkable feature of this class, and consist of successive 
crosses of Cotswold on a Leicester and Lincoln foundation. 
They would appear to have more lean meat than the Leicesters, 
and to clip well, and have been remarkably successful both as 
competitors at Smithfiekl and as crosses for Southdovvns and 
black-faced sheep. 
The Cotswold men brought up a very fine lot of 60 shearlings, 
"as good as they were numerous. Messrs. Game's and Mundy's, 
the first and second, were great in shape, flesh, and wool, and the 
third and reserve number were very near them." In Class II., 
which contained 23, Mr. Lane's first prize ram is described 
by two Judges as "the best they ever saw," and the otheis 
" worthy of every commendation ;" but still, although the first 
