SCOTLAND.
The meeting and show of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland was held at Dundee, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, last week. A number of strangers arrived to take part in the proceed- ings. The place selected for the show was a park to the North of the town. The stock exhibited consisted of 326 cattle, 74 horses, 334 sheep, and 30 pigs—in all, 764. This was the largest exhibition of cattle at any show of the Society except that at Glasgow in 1838. There were 29 exhibitors of dairy produce, and 17 lots of poultry— a new feature. Professor Johnston, the newly-appointed agricultural chemist, delivered a two-hours' lecture, in Bell Street chapel, ma Tuesday : in the evening there was a dinner, at the Thistle Hall in Union Street, the Earl of Mansfield in the chair ; and after it a ball in the Exchange Rooms. On Wednesday, there was a grand dinner, in a pavilion erected for the purpose, and capable of holding 1,800 persona; the Duke of Richmond was Chairman, Lord Kinnaird Vice-Chairman ; and among other individual names, we observe those of the Earl of Mansfield, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Mr. Fox Maule, Lord Duncan, Lord Arthur Lennox, Professor Johnston, Mr. Coleman, of New York, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir M. Menzies, and the Provost of the Dundee.
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