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COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANfON. 
or more comfortably protecteil, than a glass straclure 
connected with the dwelling-house, ft is our object, in a 
few lines, to set afloat a few ideas on what we consitler 
the many useful ))urposes to which such structures may 
he aj)plied. A glass structure, to form a wing to each of 
our public hospitals, would afford to the ])atients the 
facilities ot recreation and exercise without exposure to 
the inclemency of the weather. 'The same ])riiiciplc 
could he a])plied with advantage to all the ])ublic and 
private medical establishments in the country ; to all 
the houses of the aristocratic and commercial classes; 
for playgrounds in connection with public or private 
schools; and for workshops of various descriptions it 
would ho invaluable. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
Ekdfokd. November 7Hi and Stb. Sers., .f. T. R. Allen, Esq., and F. 
A. Lavender, Esq. Entries close October Kith. 
Birmingham, nth to 14th of December. Ser.,J, lMorgan,jun., Esq. 
Entries close November loth. 
Durham and North Yorkshire, at Darlington, 6th and /th of De¬ 
cember. Ser,, J. Hodgson, Esq. Entries close November IQth. 
Lancashire (East). At Colne, Oct. nist, and Nov. 1st. Serx. 
Messrs. T. and E. Booth, Marsden, near Burnley. Entries clos 
October lyth. 
Nottinghamshire, at Southwell, igth .and 20tb of December. Sec 
K. Hawksley, jun., Esq., Southwell. Entries close November 20th. 
South Durham and North Riding of Yorkshire. At Darlington, 
December 6th and ytli. Sec. .Ino. Hodgson. 
Taunton and Somerset. Nov. 2.'lrd and 24th. Sec, tYm. Buncombe, 
Esq., Taunton. Entries close November 3rd. 
—Secretaries vnll ohlit'e us t>y sending early copies of their lists. 
A Poultry Show, like every other competition, will 
excite such feelings as pride, envy, and anger, and no 
man should enter this or any other arena where there 
must be more or less of such excitement, without first 
weighing whether he can bear the disappointment of 
defeat with equanimity equal to that with which he 
enjoys a triumph. Every one knows how easy it is to 
find good winners, and how difficult to meet with good 
losers. Human nature is the same in everything, and 
we are always prone to attribute defeat to anything, 
rather than to the demerits of ourselves or of our pets. 
The importance of self, is, in every man, a too-prevailing 
reality, and measures affecting millions are meted by 
I many precisely as they touch themselves. The desire 
to excel is common to all, but all competitors are not 
alike. "While some few cheerfully submit to defeat, and 
admit they are beaten, and would consider themselves 
in that predicament, even though some nice point, or 
some old rule, might disqualify the first pen, too many 
I others would remedy their inferiority^, or want of judg¬ 
ment, by seeking how they can disqualify worthier 
I opponents. 
j Again, while all admit, and justly admit, that nothing ^ 
' should pass with their knowledge that would he an in- ; 
i fraction of the strictest honour and integrity, yet, how ■ 
' liable are exhibitors to forget that any charge brought 
^ aga^st gentlemen who take on themselves the onerous ' 
; duties of committee men should not be lightly enter- ! 
' tained. i 
j Exhibitors are too often disposed to treat a committee i 
as though it were made up of paid servants, whose only : 
duly should he to listen to grievances, often ima¬ 
ginary, and to have unworthy motives imputed to them 
if they fail to satisfy complainants. Yet so far is this i 
from being just, that it should never be forgotten that 
no Poultry Show is undertaken for personal profit. For 
the love of the pursuit, committees undertake an arduous 
and unthankful office, and it is not a rare event for 
them to make up losses from their own purses. They 
have cheerfully done this in many instances, and have 
laboured zealously for the gratification of all who are 
interested in the pursuit; hut if they are to be tormented 
by those who cannot submit to he beaten, and to have 
I their feelings sacrificed to an injurious hut well-sounding 
! sentence, who, wc ask, will undertake the office ? 
Then, as to the exhibitors, if gentlemen of standing 
and high feeling are to be accused of mal practices and 
deceit, they will withdraw from exhibiting. 
It is yet time for those who are now introducing 
asperity of feeling into a kindly pursuit to pause; hut, 
if they continue to talk and to write as if committees 
were dens of thieves, and exhibitors were their accom¬ 
plices, they will only sacrifice the pleasure of others to 
their own feelings of disappointment, and will deter 
every man who does not choose to incur an imminent 
risk of being misrepresented and abused, from under¬ 
taking the troublous and troublesome office of a com" 
mittee man, and from ever filling an exhibitio7i pen with 
his poultry. 
Entertaining these opinions, we approach the ex¬ 
pression of our judgment upon the conduct of the 
Anerley Committee, in the matter of Mr. Lewry’s 
protest, without the slightest asperity of feeling towards 
them. Not losing sight of the rights of exhibitors) 
and of a committee’s duties—for it has duties as well as 
immunities—we think they adopted a wrong course 
when they refused, or neglected, to hear i\lr, Lewry per¬ 
sonally, and the evidence he proposed to produce. We 
think they had no right to consider or to guess at Mr. 
Lewry’s motives. What those motives were, signified 
nothing. Even a disappointed confederate is admitted 
as evidence in Courts of Justice, for however unworthy 
his motive, that is of no moment compared to the im¬ 
portance of establishing truth and securing the rights 
of the honest. 
Nor do we think that Mr. Davies or any other ex¬ 
hibitor ought to complain if called upon to produce ! 
proof that chicken are of the age assigned, if competent 
and trustworthy Judges consider it doubtful. Noble¬ 
men, and other members of the turf, continually have to j 
prove that their horses are of the age specified at the | 
time when they are contending for the prize.- | 
We have reason to believe that gentlemen of good 
standing as poultry exhibitors, were of opinion that Mr. j 
Lewry was correct in his assertions as to Mr. Davies’s | 
chicken; and, if so, we think they should have stood ' 
forward as protesters. High position always will have i 
an inlluence in facilitating such enquiries; and though 
the duty of protesting may he unpleasant, yet it is a ' 
duty, and those who complain as much as Mr. Lewry, . 
