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The A division of police were engaged throughout the week, 
and, as usual, discharged their duties with tact and discretion, 
and it is a real pleasure to have to record that there was not a 
single case of disorderly behaviour brought under my notice. 
The office-bearers of the Society will always retain a grateful 
recollection of the kindness they received from all with whom 
they had business relations at Newcastle-on-Tyne. It is a 
pleasure to serve under Mr. Jacob Wilson, the Honorary Director, 
to whose energy, close attention to details, and powers of 
administration, the success of the meeting is largely due. 
Considerable pressure was put on the railway companies, and 
their resources were severely taxed, by the large number of 
visitors pouring into the town, for it was computed that 30,000 
passengers arrived by the ordinary and excursion trains on the 
memorable Thursday. Mr. Reid, the station-master at the 
Central, was equal to the occasion, and he is entitled to credit 
for the adroitness with which he handled the large crowds. 
In conclusion, I can only say that for my part I shall always 
look back with gratification upon my term of office ; and, in 
offering my sincere thanks to each and all of my brother 
stewards for their kind assistance upon every occasion, the 
regret which I feel in taking leave of them is tempered with 
pleasure in knowing that I shall still continue to be associated 
with them in the ordinary business of the Council. I am 
especially grateful to Messrs. T. H. Miller, M. M. Reynard, 
and J. G. Fair, since it is to their unremitting assiduity in 
marshalling the men that any success which may have attended 
the parades is to be attributed. Nor must I forget to express 
the cordial thanks of every one connected with the exhibition of 
Stock to Mr. Henry Wallace, of Trench Hall, who was kind 
enough to undertake the onerous office of Steward of Forage for 
the year, and who was always at hand with assistance and advice. 
XXIV. — Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle. 
By James MacdONALD, of Edinburgh. 
Taking all in all, the Newcastle Meeting of 1887 was the best 
of the dozen Royal Shows which the writer has attended. Never 
before, excepting at the great Battersea Meeting in 1862, and at 
the still greater gathering at Kilburn in 1879, has there been at 
the Royal Show such a completely representative display of 
British breeds of farm live-stock as at Newcastle this year. In 
the fullest sense of the term it was a British, and not merely an 
English Agricultural Show. There is not in the United Kingdom 
a variety of farm live-stock of importance, not one worthy of 
the designation of " breed " (if we except, perhaps, the once 
