October 10. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
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CocniN-CniNA (\Vlilte). —Cock and two Hens.—First, Mr. Wra. : 
Dawson, Hopton, Mirfield. Second, Mr. Edwin Ash, Old Malton. Mr. 
Henry Beldon, Eccleshill Moor, Bradford, was highly commended, and 
Mr. Alfred Ilawxwell, of Thirsk, was commended. In the class for j 
Chicken there was no entry. 
Game (Black-breasted and other Reds).—Cock and two Hens.—First, 
Mr. J. Watson, Chain Lane, Kuaresbro’. Second, Jlr. C. Holt, North¬ 
allerton. 
Game (White and Piles).—Cock and two Hens.—There was only a ; 
second prize awarded in this class to Mr. John Stainthorpe, of Carlton 
Miniott. I 
Game (Duckwings and other Greys and Blues).—Cock and two Hens. ! 
—Second, A. D. Lacy, Esq., Hall House, Knayton, Thirsk. 
Gasie (Black).—Second, Mr. M. Ridgway, Dewsbury. 
Game (Any variety).—Cockerel and two Pullets.—First, Mr. Wm. 
Gill. Second, Mr. John Watson. White commendation, Mr. John 
Craven, Wakefield. Highly Commended.—Miss Tutin, Northallerton. 
Hamburgh (Golden-spangled).—Cock and two Hens.—First, Mr. 
James Dixon. Chicken, —Cockerel and two Pullets.—First, Mr. James 
Dixon. 
Hamburgh (Silver-spangled).—Cock and two Hens.—First, Henry | 
Tetley, Esq. Chicken. —Cockerel and two Pullets.—First, Mr. Henry i 
Beldon. Highly Commended.—John Hutton, jun., Esq,; and a com¬ 
mendation to Mr. James Dixon. 
Hamburgh (Golden-pencilled).—Cock and two Hens.—First, Edwd. 
Pease, jun.. Esq. Chicken. —First, Mr. William Horner. 
Hamburgh (Silver-pencilled).—Cock and two Hens. — Mr. James 
Dixon. Chicken. —Mr. James Dixon. 
Polands (Golden). — Cock and two Hens. — Mr. James Dixon. 
Chicken.—'M t. James Dixon. 
Polands (Silver). — Cock and two Hens. — First, Mr. Ridgway. 
Chicken. —Cockerel and two Pullets.—Mr. James Dixon. 
Polands (Black with White Crests).—There was no entry either in 
this class or the Chicken class. 
Class for any other distinct breed.—C ock and two Hens.— 
First, for Brahma Pootras, Mr. James Dixon. Second, Sultan Fowls, 
or Serai T’Aook, Mr. Wm. Dawson. Third, White Polands, Mr. James 
Dixon. 
Bantams (Laced).—Cock and two Hens.—First, BIr. R. C. Titterton. 
Second, Mr. James Dixon. 
Bantams (Any other variety).—Cock and two Hens of any age.— 
First, Mr. John Nicholson, Lowther-street, Groves, York. Second, Mr. 
James Dixon. 
Geese.—G ander and two Geese.—First, Mrs. Wooler, Ingleby, 
Berwick, Yarm. Second, Mr. Hattersley, Abel Grange, Thirsk. Com¬ 
mended.—Mr. John Stainthorpe. 
Ducks (Aylesbury).—Drake and two Ducks.—First, Mr. Robt. 
Thorpe Field, Thirsk, Second, , Miss. Morton, Leake Hall, Thirsk. 
Highly Commended.—A. D. Lacy, Esq, and Mr. John Rhodes, Villa- 
place, Thirsk. Commended.—Mr. Lacy, Edwd. Pease, jun.. Esq., and 
Bliss Swarbreck. 
Ducks (Rouen).—Drake and two Ducks.—First, Mr. James Dixon. 
Second, Edwd. Pease. 
Ducks (Any other variety).—Drake and two Ducks.—First, BIr. 
James Dixon, for White Call. Second, Miss Swarbreck, Black East 
Indian. 
Turkey.—C ock and one Hen.—First, Lady Payne Gallwey. Second, 
Lady Frankland Russell. 
Guinea Fowls.—C ock and one Hen.—First, BIr. John Stainthorpe. 
No competition. 
Pigeons.—F irst, BIr. John Clarke, Sowerby, Thirsk, forsix Croppers. 
Second, BIr. R. C. Titterton, Yellow Turbits, Blue Fan Tails, Silver 
Bald Pates—one pair each. 
Dressed Geese.—F irst, BIrs. Blorton, Leake Hall. Second, BIrs. 
Fryer, Kirby Wiske, Thirsk. Third, BIrs. Hattersley, Abel Grange, 
Thirsk ; and the remainder were all commended,—namely, BIr. Peter 
Ascough, Knayton j F. Wailes, Esq,, Husthwaite; BIrs. Wooler; BI. 
R. Frank Breckenbrough, Catterick; Miss Hattersley. 
BRIDGNORTH POULTRY EXHIBITION. { 
We have frequently directed the attention of committees 
of Poultry shows to the inexiiediency (where it can possibly 
be avoided) of holding such meetings out of doors. We 
can, too, scarcely call to mind a single instance, in our some¬ 
what extended experience, where the dangers ever atten¬ 
dant on so doing were more forcibly illustrated than at the ' 
Pridgnoi'th exhibition, which took place on Thiu’sday tlie 
4th instant. About three o’clock in the afternoon, when the I 
greater portion of the company were assembled in the 
I’oultry tent, enjoying the opportunity thus afforded them ' 
of viewing Poultry from many of the best yards in the king- i 
dora, the heavens became suddenly darkened, and, from 
hailstones of unusual size droiiping sparingly around them, ^ 
the visitors hurriedly congregated within the tent, until it 
was impossible more could be admitted. 
The parties who were thus compelled to remain outside 
suffered most severely ; for at, this moment the rain com¬ 
menced falling in torrents, whilst the almost continuous 
flashes of lightning added much to the annoyance of those 
thus exposed. The heavy peals of thunder reverberated 
from the Castle hills, and many were the remarks that met 
our ears, expressive of regret that the desire of sight-seeing 
had led the speakers to abandon the comforts of their oivn 
iiresides. Considerable numbers of persons, thus disagree¬ 
ably drenched through the whole of their clothing, were 
compelled to give up all further thoughts of attending the 
public dinner to be held in the Town Hall, at four in the 
afternoon; and, upon the partial abatement of the storm, 
numbers, drippingly wet, were to be seen endeavouring to 
make the most speedy homeward route possible, to avoid 
the ill-consequences sometimes ensuing from like misadven¬ 
tures. To the committee, in this particular instance, no 
blame w'hatever can with justice be attached; the tent was 
more than sufficiently capacious for the Poultry exhibited, 
and the avenues between tlie competing pens, under any 
but unusual circumstances, all that could be reasonably 
desired. It was, therefore, entirely owing to the undue ac¬ 
cession of numbers, from the peculiar circumstances above 
narrated, that the insufficiency of space (in case of sudden 
exigencies) became so distressingly apparent; and also 
proved to demonstration what must inevitably have been the 
result to every individual present, had not so extensive a 
coveiing been close at hand. We will not add more to what 
has been already stated, than the expression of our opinion, 
that no step taken by a Poultry committee can possibly 
pi’ove itself more all-important than the taking of every 
reasonable precaution to provide suitable accommodation, in 
case of stress of w'eather, both as respects the visitors them¬ 
selves, and also the (in many cases, really valuable) Poultry 
that may be committed to their care. 
The Poultry were, all of them, exhibited in the same 
open-work wicker baskets that were used on the hke occa¬ 
sion last season. With some extra stock (not included in the 
catalogue), the number of pens slightly exceeded one hundred. 
It must be borne in mind, also, that no trifling drawback 
to the success of such an exhibition, in this locality, arises 
from the impossibility of forwarding the contending speci¬ 
mens to Eridgnorth, without incurring a tedious journey of 
either eleven or thirteen miles by omnibus, from the Shef¬ 
field or Wolverhampton railway station. The Poultry ex¬ 
hibited was, on the whole, tolerably good, many of the 
Hamhurghs being unusually excellent; the Game classes wei-e 
also very good. The Bantams (more especially the Sehrights) 
were superior to those of late exliibited. The Cochin 
Fowls were sadly deterioi’ated, indeed, the want of charac¬ 
teristics here manifest, and wdiich are always so especially 
striking in this variety, when well-bred, made one of the 
universal topics of comment among the amateurs present. 
This is rendered more remarkable, from the fact that only 
three years since the neighbourhood was proverbial for 
most excellent strains of this variety. 
The Dorking class was numei'ous and superior ; not one 
indifferent pen competed, and the condition of many of the 
Dorkings far outvied what we are accustomed to meet with 
at such trials for prize-taking; indeed, not a few of the 
simply “ commended ” pens, looked, at first sight, “ very 
promising as winners,” until contrasted with birds that only 
two yeai’s back would have caused unbounded astonishment 
to parties interested in such matters, and secured immediate 
pmehasers at prices far beyond those at which they were 
now offered. The sales, however, proved exceedingly 
limited. The Turkeys and Geese, exhibited by the Countess 
of Chesterfield, and which took first prizes in their respec¬ 
tive classes, w'ere exceedingly fine birds, and caused much 
jiublic admiration. 
The present exhibition of Poultry was instituted some 
few' years since, in lieu of the annual races that had 
hitherto taken jilace at Bridgnorth. We are informed 
it is exceedingly well supported, the contributions to the 
Race Pund being almost invariably “turned oyer" by sub¬ 
scribers to the funds of this society. The prizes ivere, on 
this occasion, satisfactorily awarded by Mr. Edward Hewitt, 
of Spark Brook, Birmingham, whose fulfilment of the same 
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