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all aware of the benefits which that Society had confer- 

 red. It had been the means of spreading a spirit of im- 

 provement and enterprise through the country. They 

 all remembered the circumstances which had led to the 

 origination of the Society. The father of their guest 

 was the one who had first prompted the friends of agri- 

 culture in Scotland to commence a system which had 

 done so much good. He was happy to say that the 

 Society's prospects of usefulness were improving every 

 year. The results of their Shows at Glasgow, Inverness, 

 and Aberdeen, held out such promises of support as led 

 to a reasonable expectation that the resources and useful- 

 ness of the Society would increase tenfold. He was hap- 

 py to say, that at a general meeting in Edinburgh, on 

 Monday next, there was a list of 172 candidates for ad- 

 mission to be balloted from. (Cheers.) In conclusion, 

 he begged to return them his best thanks. 



Viscount ARBUTHNOTT proposed the health of " Sir 

 Thomas Burnett," for whom, notwithstanding the differ- 

 ence of opinion between them on some subjects, he en- 

 tertained every respect. (Air My boy, Tammy.) 



Sir THOMAS BURNETT said he was at a loss for 

 words to express his sense of the kindness of the Noble 

 Lord and the meeting. Nothing could give him greater 

 satisfaction than to be present at a meeting of this kind, 

 where every feeling of hostility was buried, and they 

 were all united in one object. 



The CHAIRMAN proposed the Sheriffs of the County, 



