He resorted to the same tribunal to set him right in regard to his apparent defeat at Chelmsford, in 1856.

Next year he presented the ram beaten there to the Salisbury meeting, and another jury gave the animal the highest meed of merit.
It was at the zenith of his fame as a sheep-breeder that Mr.Webb "assisted," as the French say, at the Universal Exposition at Paris, in 1855.

Here his beautiful animals excited the liveliest admiration.

The Emperor came himself to examine them, and expressed himself highly pleased at their splendid qualities.

It was on this occasion that Mr.Webb presented to the Emperor his prize ram, for which, probably, he had refused the largest sum ever offered for a single animal of the same race, or 500 guineas ($2,500).