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Report to the General Meeting. 
city of Carlisle, in the week commencing Monday, the 23rd of 
July next, has just been issued, and the arrangements are nearly 
completed. At this Meeting, so favourably situated in refer- 
ence to the south of Scotland and the north of Ireland, additional 
prizes are offered for reaping-machines and steam-cultivators, as 
well as for Scotch and Galloway cattle, Cheviot and Herdwick 
sheep, and for Clydesdale and other horses. 
The entries for implements closed on the 1st instant; and 
though the number is not equal to that of either of the last two 
years, it has been ascertained that the covered shedding, 20 feet 
wide, engaged by exhibitors in that department, will extend to 
very nearly three-quarters of a mile in length. The entries for 
live-stock, which will not close till the 1st of June, are already 
numerous. 
The Council have again to acknowledge the liberality and 
ready co-operation of the Railway Companies in promoting the 
objects of the Society in the transit of live-stock and implements 
to the Country Meeting. The principal Companies have already 
signified their consent to a renewal of their concessions of last 
year in favour of the exhibitors at the Carlisle Meeting. 
The Council have decided to hold the Country Meeting of 
1856 in the district comprising the counties of Bedford, Buck- 
ingham, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, and Huntingdon, at 
Chelmsfoi-d, the county town of Essex. 
They have also determined that the Country Meeting shall be 
held, four years hence, in the central district, which will com- 
prise the counties of Oxford, Warwick, Northampton, and Berks ; 
and thus, after a circuit of twenty years, the Society will return 
to that part of the kingdom in which, at the city of Oxford, 
under the most favourable circumstances, it held its first 
Meeting. 
The Council have viewed with much interest the progress of 
measures adopted by the Government of France to stimulate 
and improve its agriculture. At the request of the French and 
English Foreign Departments, the Council have taken every 
