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best mare was given to John Findlay, Springhill, Lanark- 

 shire ; and that for the best entire colt to Lawrence Drew. 



Of sheep there was a fair show. Of Blackfaced, the 

 prize for best tups was won by Thomas Robertson, Cairn- 

 muir, Peeblesshire, who also won the prize for best gimmers. 

 The prize for ewes went to James Milligan, Kirkhope, 

 Dumfriesshire. The exhibition of Cheviots was extremely 

 small, there being only six entries among all the classes. 

 Of Leicesters there was a fair muster. The first prize for 

 tups was won by James Moubray of Cambus, that for ewes 

 going to John Brodie, Amisfield Mains, Haddingtonshire. 



At this show prizes were awarded for wool, curing 

 butter, and making cheese. 



Not the least gratifying feature of the show at Glasgow 

 was the very large sum drawn at the gates — ^^849 19s. i id. 

 — more than double anything yet received from that source 

 of income. 



At the dinner which followed, and which took place in a 

 pavilion in Hope Street specially fitted up for the occasion, 

 1700 persons were present. The Duke of Sutherland, 

 President of the Society, was in the chair, and the croupier 

 was the Marquis of Tweeddale. Amongst the strangers 

 was Mr Stevenson, the American Ambassador, who in his 

 speech referred to the common ties that bound together the 

 two nations on each side of the Atlantic, having a common 

 ancestry, speaking the same language, following the same 

 forms of worship, and looking up to the same God. Loud 

 cheers followed these references ; nor were they less cordial 

 when the speaker expressed his sincere conviction ' that no 

 greater evil could befall the world than a rupture between 

 the United States of America and Great Britain.' Mr 

 Stevenson's speech made so great an impression that Sir 

 Neil Menzies said that, if the American Ambassador had 

 not left the hall, he should have proposed that gentleman as 

 an honorary member of the Society, and expressed the hope 

 soon to see the day when it would take as little time to come 

 from America as it formerly did to travel from the West 

 Highlands. The Rev. Dr Macleod, in returning thanks for 

 the Church, made some fehcitous allusions. He spoke of 



