532 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Liverpool. 
curious to note that when the Society visited Liverpool before 
with its third Show in 1841, seven acres sufficed for the display. 
I would fain linger over a comparison of the state of British 
agriculture thirty-six years ago with the present, and very in- 
teresting would it be to glance at the rise and progress of agri- 
culture in the course of these thirty-six years, but the title of this 
Report, any more than my commission, does not cover such a 
digression, and so I refrain. Returning to the bestial depart- 
ment, I commence, as the Catalogue does, with 
HOKSES. 
Agricultural. — The classes of Agricultural horses other than 
Clydesdales or Suffolks were probably the best filled in the 
equine department. It was, however, very difficult to see much 
difference in type and character between many of the animals 
competing as Clydesdales and those confined to the " Shire " 
horse classes. This was not the fault of the agricultural horses, 
but of the Clydesdales. There was a perplexing variety of form 
and features in the Clydesdale ranks. It has often been asserted 
that there is a great deal of English blood in many of the best 
Clydesdales of the present day. That there is much English 
blood in many of the animals called Clydesdales, whether in the 
best ones or not, was never more manifest than at Liverpool. 
Many grand animals were exhibited, yet I do not consider that 
the representation of Clydesdales at Liverpool was so satisfactory 
as it might have been. Not that bone, build, and, in some 
instances, beauty were lacking, but there was too little similarity 
of type, and a positive want of true Clydesdale character about 
many of them. The agricultural Classes carried the palm for 
the symptoms of early maturity in the younger specimens. It 
is worthy of remark that, since last year, the breeders both of 
Clydesdale and Suffolk horses have resolved to form Societies for 
the purpose of superintending the publication of Stud Books, 
and otherwise endeavouring to improve the respective breeds. 
These are steps in the right direction. Some opposition was 
offered in Clydesdale circles, chiefly by those who infuse English 
blood extensively with, or who deal in, Clydesdales. The 
selfishness of the opponents, however, was easily perceived, and 
practically the opposition was never felt. 
Five of the twenty-six agricultural stallions over three years 
old which formed Class 1 were absent, but little missed. The 
Judges had evidently enough to do with twenty-one such 
animals as were paraded before them. To select the first horse 
could not have taxed their skill. Lord Ellesmere's magnificent 
six-year-old bay horse, " Young Samson," bred by Mr. Richard- 
