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Report on the Worcester Show-yard. 
WORCESTER, 1863. 
Prices of Admission. 
Days of Admission. 
PereonA 
Amount 
Received. 
Received for 
Catalogues . 
£. 
s. 
d. 
£. s. d. 
Wednesday, July 15 
63 
15 
15 
0 
Thursday, , , 
16 
97 
24 
5 
0 
Friday, , , 
17 
60 
15 
0 
0 
Saturday, , , 
18 
49 
12 
5 
0 
Monday, , , 
20 
811 
404 
19 
6 
96 9 0 
Tuesday, , , 
21 
7,683 
960 
12 
1 
162 12 0 
Wednesday, , , 
22 
9,293 
1162 
2 
0 
104 7 0 
Thursday, , , 
23 
38,282 
1915 
18 
5 
107 7 0 
Friday, , , 
24 
19,469 
974 
13 
9 
28 13 0 
75,807 
5485 
10 
9 
499 8 0 
Trial Yard, 5s. 
Implement and 
Yards, 10«. 
Implement and 
Yards, is. &d. 
Implement and 
Yards, 2s. Gd. 
Implement and 
Yards, Is. . . 
Implement and 
Yards, Is. .. 
Cattle) 
.. ../ 
Cattle I 
Cattlej 
CatUe| 
Cattle 1 
Total : Number of Persons, 75,807. 
Amount received for Admissions, 5485/. 10s. 9rf. 
Aih Aug'jst, 1863. 
Charles Wadtweight, Superintendent of Admissions. 
It ttus appears that there was a larger gathering at Worcester 
than on most former occasions. 
The district, indeed, was iii many respects happily chosen, being 
sufficiently rural, and removed from the chief centres of English 
life and bustle, for its inhabitants to enter with zest into this 
agricultural festival, sufficiently connected with the great arteries 
of commerce to afford the necessary facilities for locomotion, and 
not inexperienced in the conveyance of holiday folk to places of 
amusement. On the other hand, we must remark that this lesson 
had been but imperfectly learned, and that, either from defect 
of " rolling stock " or of organization, long intervals and delays 
occurred in the despatch of trains, during which throngs of 
passengers were allowed to accumulate, which, from the inade- 
quacy of the railwa}' staff, soon seethed into a mob. 
This remark is made not as a reproach, but as a hint, that, in 
fixing the site of meetings dependent for success upon a large 
influx of visitors, not only the existence of railroads should be 
ascertained, but the extent of their experience and connexions. 
With respect to the Show-yard, the site, a sloping airy down, 
was at a convenient distance from the city, and afforded a pros- 
pect of the Malvern Hills, which are so striking a feature in our 
western scenery, (irumblers were hard pressed to find a defect, 
when they complained that the area was too spacious. Their 
