164 Notes on a Report of the Kilburn Exhibition 
of sheep and some American oxen. The trade is so important 
that there are here two markets each week. At the last there 
were 5500 sheep sold. The director told us that he was 
expecting the arrival of about 2000 American oxen in nine 
ships, and that a still greater number were on their road to 
Liverpool. 
" The measure which placed American cattle under the regu- 
lations for slaughter has not arrested their importation in the 
same manner as it has that of the French. We could only have 
found out if it had had the effect of slackening the importation 
by a comparison of the statistics of two periods, which we have 
been unable to do. We have been able to obtain the informa- 
tion, which we here insert, that the freight of cattle from New 
York to London varies from 65 francs to 100 francs each beast. 
The issue of the slaughtering regulation and the consequent 
provision of compulsory markets for American cattle has had 
the effect of increasing the importance of the London depot 
at the expense of that at Liverpool ; and that we can easily 
imagine, because the London market is near the principal 
centre of consumption. If the French trade in cattle with 
England should again become active it is to Deptford that it 
must gravitate." 
The quarantine station at Southampton does not appear to 
have impressed the foreign visitors so favourably. This is 
described as a small stable or shed of planks, without any 
troughs, and in which were half-a-dozen wretched Normandy 
heifers, separated from one another by hurdles. 
Proceeding to the Show at Kilburn the writer seems to have 
been most impressed by our draught-horses, and disappointed 
with the hunters. He eulogises the high quality and the uniformity 
of breed and of shape of the draught-horses ; and he seems struck 
by the desire of the Judges to reward the distinctive character of 
each breed, rather than some ideal standard of excellence in the 
animal itself. I fear the members of the English Cart-horse 
Society will not agree in his division of the draught-horses into 
three classes — Suffolks, Clydesdales, and those which belong to 
neither of these races, but appear to arise from crosses of all 
races. 
The Suffolks are described as of immense height, heavy, slow, 
of a common type, and very like the Flemish. Their bulk is 
greater than their strength, their limbs not equal to their car- 
casses, only fit to draw drays, and of no use as crosses for French 
work. The Clydesdales approached more nearly the type which 
the French writer admired. He thinks them less over-done 
with fat, better shaped, with limbs clean, sound, and in better 
proportion to the body ; which is short, thick set, and very 
