SCOTLAND.
The meeting of the Highland Society at Glasgow, last week, passed off very well ; and it was really a most striking display of agricultural activity. The Society met at the Black Bull Ta- vern on Wednesday ; and in the evening, besides other attendant festi- vities, there was a dinner at the Trades Hall, at which 200 gentlemen and noblemen sat down. Next day, the exhibition was opened to the public, with a more general dinner in the City Hall, comprising 1,200 guests. The number of lots of stock was 1,404; including 222 Ayr- shire cattle, 55 West Highland cattle, 160 horses, 117 sheep: the total list of exhibiters' names filled eighty-seven closely-printed octavo pages ! Among the animals were a pair of alpacas, accompanied by a little one aged two months, shown by Mr. A. Gartshore of Cray- barnet, near Stirling ; a pair of aboriginal white oxen, exhibited by Lord Belhaven ; and a very wild ox, bred between a dwarf Indian bull and an Argyllshire cow, exhibited by Sir John Powlett Orde. The Duke of Richmond, who presided at the Thursday's dinner, remarked that the exhibition was the most numerous that had yet graced the meetings of the Society, and that nevertheless there were fewer bad animals.
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