250 Particiilars’ of Lord § omer ville” s late Cattle-lbew 
larly infifted on, as the il: effets. of laying 
down land with rubbith have been lament- 
ed in fome very late publications. 
The company prefent:at the thew andi the 
dinner were of high-diftinion for rank and 
profefficnal knowledge, and colle Ged from) 
every quarter of Britain. The Dukes: of. 
Bediord and Montrofe, the. Marquiles of 
‘Titchfield and Slige, the Earl of Egre- 
rront, Lords Wilham Ruffell, Heary Pitz- 
gevald, Villiers, Pofioheluis Talbot; 
Grimftone, Sackville, Aylefbury, Count 
Potocki, Sirs Henry Vane Tempeft, Wm. 
Elayton, J. Riddell) Ty Carr, \Mefirs. 
Coke, Northey, ‘Tyrwhit, \ Symmons, 
Wright, Byng, Harcourt, Knight, Tat- 
terfa |, Lawrence, Garrard, Boys, Ellmany- 
_Welicar, Giblet, King, Hudfons,. Wace, 
Robinfen, Barclay, Bee &c. 
On Tuefday-alternoon, the exhibition 
having clofed, the. company adjourned to 
Bresmalaats Tavern,’ where upwards: of 
two hundred perfons fat dewn to a repaft,: 
which, for the profufion, elegance, and.the: 
order and regularity «with which it was 
conducted, did the higheft honour ta the 
Hberality of Lord) Somerville, at whofe 
expence it was provided. It was trulyva 
eaft in the ftyle of old Englifh hofpitality, 
to which the parties were convenedicn 
matters of real Englifh intereft. Various: 
appropriate toafts were drank; and the 
Duke of Bedford having propofed - the 
health of Lord Somerville, with three 
times three, it was echotd from every part 
of the room with the warmeft enthufiafm. 
The company feparated ‘about eleven 
o'clock, apparently with the heartieft jin- 
clinations to meet again afiother years, 
The prize of thirty pounds, in the firk 
clafs of oxen, was adjudged to the Duke 
of Bedford, for the beft yoke of Devons. 
The prize of twenty pounds, in’ the’ fe- 
cond clafs, to Mr. Edmunds, for the beft 
yoke of Herefords, on condition that they 
were not difqualifed (which was fufpect- 
ed) Ay proving of greater weight than the _ 
articles allowed ; in which cale, the prize 
to. revert to Mr. Webber, whole pair of 
Devons were adjudged next in goodnefs;: 
Mr. Warren, of Knightfbridge, falefman, - 
undertaking that the weight of the former 
oxen fhould be faithfully rendered. 
Tn the firft clafs of fheep, the prize of 
thirty pounds was given to Mr. Edward 
Snith, and that of twenty pounds to the 
Duke of Bedford, the South Downs carry- 
log both the prizes. 
‘The two filver cups, propofed for un- 
fuccefsful candidates, deemed next in me- 
rit to the winners, were prefented to Mr. 
Byng and Mr. Webber. 
pofleis a great. and extraordinary advan- 
“April, 
‘ Regulations for the énfuing year, and a ~ 
Profpeétus of the approaching theep-thear- 
ing at- Woburn, were then diltributed: ; 
and Lord Somerville gave a moft initeattter | 
ing account, of the progrefs of the im- 
provement which had been made in the. 
cloathing wool of this country, by the in= 
trodgdtion of Spanifh rams, asa crofs for‘. 
our fhort-wooled. fheep. His» Lardthip 
alfo fuemitted te the company the prepo- 
fal of Mr. Nichols, of Hare Hatch, for the 
eitablifhment of a depot of the eanenved 
implements, and of an agricultural library 
in London. A depédt of agricultural im- | 
plements in every county-town throughout 
the kingdom, at the expence of their re- 
{pective focieties, had already been pro- 
poted in a late edition of the Farmer’s Ca-_ 
lendar. » Thissgentleman (Mr. Nichols) 
it appears; was the fame whe lately pub- 
lifhed a. Plan.of Farming Lectures to be 
‘ 
given in Spring Gardens. 
With refpetét to the merits of this nc 
cies of exhibition, they feem not to sadmit | 
of doubt. Such meetings ferve the .im-. 
portant purpoie of bringing together, in.a, 
itate of decorous’ familiarity, the great. 
land-owner and the tenant, two,clafles, | 
between whom, both for their own) and 
the public intereft, there ought everto be, 
a good underftanding. .The farmer, too 
hier a reclufe and indif{criminating being, ‘ 
is tempted trom his home,, and objects of, 9 
comparifon placed in his view, by. which” 
he is at/Jaft compelled to difcover, that his, 
own are not the bef ofall poflible animals 5 
and thence he is led, by the fpirit of emu-; 
ation, to real.improvement. That the 
improvement of live-ftock is not a vifiona- 
ry {cheme—that one fpecies or breed may 
tage over another—and that, quantity of 
ficfh, at leaft, depends on fhape and make, 
Anglicé, jut propertion, was furely never 
better exemplified than in the prefent thew. - 
Take the example of the Devon and Here- _ 
ford oxen, contrafted with the Glamorgan. 
The {ame age, labour, food, and circum- ‘ 
i 
ftances of every kind, pradaded a fuperior . » 
weight of carcale, by probably full twen- 
ty tone in each individual of the former, 
notwithftanding a fuperiority of ftature in 
the latter. It ought to be obferved, that 
thefe Glamorgans were by no meansa fa~ 
vourabie fample of that county produce, 
being very high and long-legged. Two — 
remarkably fhorttlegged and {fubftantial 
Kentith buils were exhibited, and the por- 
trait of one of them taken on the fpot, to- _ 
gether with that of a beautiful heifer of 
the fame breed, by Mr. Ward, for the 
National Cattle Plates. We beg leave to 
hint, 
