Report on the Liverpool Meeting. 
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Emperor of Brazil, who, like the Caliph in the 'Arabian 
Nights,' prefers to pass unobserved, was strictly private. The 
receipts at the gates for the first four days were much larger 
than at Birmingham. The rainy weather on Monday alone had 
the effect of diminishing the attendance to a figure (31,935) far 
below that of the corresponding day at Birmingham (61,5(>7), 
but the total money paid for entrance at Liverpool amounted to 
14,470/. against 13,540/. at Birmingham. 
While much of this success is owing to the natural attraction 
of the Show, due thanks must be given to the Local Committee 
and private donors, who raised a sum of about 2350/., which 
was given away in prizes, and by their exertions did so much to 
meet the requirements of the Society. The energy of the Chair- 
man of the Local Committee, Mr. Alderman Hubback, overcame 
all difficulties ; and the Secretary, Mr. Rigby, was always ready 
to attend to any suggestions which his Committee could carry out. 
The Society must also acknowledge the liberality which enabled 
the thoroughfares of Newsham Park to be closed during the con- 
struction of the Showyard, and which provided an excellent 
ground in an airy and convenient situation close to the town. 
The Police arrangements were, in my opinion, unusually good. 
The Corporation placed the Judges' lodgings at the disposal of 
the principal officers of the Society, which, by their proximity to 
the ground, facilitated the work of the Stewards in carrying out 
their supervision of the stock and implements. 
The well-known hospitality of the town was evinced by the 
splendid entertainments of the Mayor and the Mersey Dock 
Board, and those who partook of it and visited the public 
buildings of the town, and the acres of docks which line both 
sides of the Mersey, will carry off a pleasant recollection of their 
visit to the town of Liverpool. 
Few of the present Council were members at the previous 
Meeting of the Society at Liverpool in 1841 ; it is therefore 
worth while to refer back to it for the purpose of comparison, 
and to test the progress of the Society. The ' Agricultural 
Gazette,' whose spirited proprietors printed and published that 
paper daily in the Showyard, contains some instructive articles 
on the changes which have taken place in agriculture between 
1841 and 1877. Into these it would be beyond my province to 
enter, but a few facts in connection with that Show are worthy of 
attention. The record of the Exhibition of 1841 occupied but 
a small space in the Society's ' Journal.' There were then but 
125 cattle and 19 horses, as compared with 328 of the former 
and 320 of the latter now. It was the first time that implements 
had any special recognition, and they filled two rows of sheds ; 
while this year there were several miles given up to them. The 
