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Tour in England, 
Mersey seemed about the fourth of a mile wide, 
is a muddy stream, the tides rising some thirty 
feet, and was alive with steam vessels, ships, 
and all sorts of small craft. The docks, both 
wet and dry, are of immense extent, and sur¬ 
rounded by lofty rows of warehouses. Some 
of the churches are a beautiful gothic, and the 
Cemetery of St. James is a rural gem in its 
way, being a deep extensive rocky excavation, 
in the heart of the city, from which the 
stone was mostly quarried to build the town. 
It is laid out with great taste in grass plots, or¬ 
namented with tombs, grottoes, winding walks, 
flowers, shrubbery, and trees, and so completely 
retired from the world, that it would almost 
seem a pleasant thing to die, and be buried 
there. In the centre of this Cemetery, the re¬ 
mains of Mr. Huskinson lie interred, and over 
them on a rustic basement, a tasteful circular 
building, with Corinthian columns, is raised, 
enclosing a fine white marble statue of seven 
feet nine in height, in the dress of a Roman 
Senator, and holding a scroll in the hand. We 
thought it no less beautiful than appropriate. 
Its cost was about 3,000Z. 
The Royal Agricultural show ground was a 
large square, four hundred and ninety four by 
five hundred and fifty feet, in the outskirts of 
Liverpool, fenced in with a high close board 
fence, made especially for this occasion. We 
think the arrangments admirable, and subjoin 
a rough ground plan, and also a partial view 
of the stock yard. 
Ground plan of the Show Yard. 
494 feet 
The first day of the show, a temporary fence 
divided the stock part of the yard from that of 
implements, seeds, &c., so that the judges of 
cattle should be undisturbed by the public, and 
♦hough many of the best implements were out 
at the plowing match in trial, the tickets for 
seeing this part alone were charged 5 shillings, 
($1 10,) which was altogether too much. The 
second day the temporary fence was removed, 
and all was thrown open to the public for tick¬ 
ets at 2s. 6d. each. The third day admission 
was obtained for Is., and the fourth, which was 
the day of sale, the same, and we think this 
would have been ample for admission through¬ 
out every day of the show.* A board card 
about eighteen inches square, was hung up over 
the head of each animal, specifying its number, 
breed, age, owner’s name, and if it had taken 
a prize, which, and the amount of the same in 
sovereigns. This at once told its story, and 
saved the asking a thousand questions. Printed 
catalogues in addition, were for sale, refering to 
all the animals, with numbers, as also seeds, 
roots, implements, &c. 
The show was not as great as was anticipated, 
open as it is to the whole world, but the cold 
wet, untoward weather, and the epidemic that 
had been prevailing for some time among all 
kinds of stock, we were told were the reasons 
for this, yet about five hundered animals were 
present, and it proved to us a highly gratifying 
sight. 
Class L 
Short Horns, 66 entries, 100 sovereigns in 
prizes, (nearly $500.) Messrs. Bates, Booth, 
Forest, and Etches were the successful com¬ 
petitors. 
Class II. 
Herefords, 27 entries, 100 sovereigns. EarS 
Talbot, Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Messrs. Mor¬ 
ris and Walker. 
Class III. 
Devons, 8 entries, 65 sovereigns. Messrs 
Gibbs, Umbers, and Turner. 
Class IV. 
Any breed not qualified to compete in the 
foregoing classes, 13 entries, 145 sovereigns. 
These were nearly all Sussex, two of the old 
long-horned breed, a Wyersdah cow, a Scotch 
black Galloway or two, and various crosses of 
the short-horn. 
Messrs. King, Daniel, Stace, Eliman, Elli¬ 
son, Woolf, and Hey wood. 
Class Y. 
Cart Horses, 19 entries, 105 sovereigns. 
Earl Talbot, Earl of Derby, Mr. Crisp. 
Class YI. 
Leicester Sheep, 52 entries, 110 sovereigns. 
Earl Talbot, Messrs. Bennett and Inskip. 
Class VII. 
South Down Sheep, 36 entries, 100 sovs. 
All of which was awarded to Mr Jonas Webb, 
except one of 10 sovs. to Mr. Grantham, for 
the second best Ram. 
* This difference of price, however, is made to al¬ 
low such as are willing to go in undisturbed by the 
crowd , who are kept in abeyance for the lower price. 
