312 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Among those present were the Duke of Montrose, Lord 

 Rossmore, Lord Kinnaird, Marquis of Douglas, the Earl 

 of Rosslyn, Lord Clements, Lord Blantyre. Lord 

 Kinnaird proposed the Agricultural Society of the Sister 

 Kingdoms. With the Royal Society of England he coupled 

 the name of Mr Loft, and with the Irish Society, Lord 

 Clements. Mr Finnie, Swanston, acknowledged the toast 

 of the tenantry. The Duke of Argyll made several speeches, 

 giving promise of future eminence. Mr Torr of Aylesby, 

 who returned thanks for the Judges, repeated his counsels 

 as to purity of breeding. Referring to the fact that some 

 of the prizes for Shorthorns and sheep had gone to England, 

 he said he thought it not unlikely that, ere long, Scotchmen 

 would beat the best animals that England could produce. 

 At all events, he should consider it easier for Scotchmen to 

 beat the best English beasts than it would be for English- 

 men to beat the fine Polled Angus animals which had that 

 day been exhibited. 



