The Highland Society of Scotland had a great agricultural show
at Perth yesterday week. The show of cattle, sheep, horses, seeds, and agricultural implements, was very extensive and satisfactory. More titan 5000 persons attended the meeting ; among whom were several noblemen and gentlemen of large property. Lord Kinnaird was Chair- mail of the Committee; assisted by the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Stormont, the Marquis of Breadalbane, and Mr. Fox Matile. After the business of the meeting was concluded, and the prizes were distil- kited, about eleven hundred gentlemen and farmers .dined together in the Riding-school of the Perth Barracks, which had been fitted up for the occasion ; Lord Breadallame in the chair. The company seem to have been very jovial ; Sir George Clerk, Lord Stormont, and the Marquis of Tweeddale, with Mr. Fox Muffle, Sir John Campbell, Mr. Handley of Lincolnshire, Lord Kinniard, and Lord D. Gordon Rally- burton, mixing together as happily as if agriculture and good fellow- ship were the only things in the world worth caring for. In the course of the evening, Mr. Josiah Parkes gave an interesting description of Mr. Heathcoat's steam-plough, and dwelt upon its applicability to the drainage of bogs in Ireland ; and Mr. Handley invited a deputation of the Society to witness its operation in the Lincolnshire fens.
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