iv Report to the General Meetivg. 
The Council have elected Sir John Villicrs Shelley, Bart,, 
M.P., to fill the vacancy in the class of Trustees, occasioned by 
the lamented decease of the Honourable Robert Henry Clive ; 
and they have taken measures for extending to the Principality 
of Wales, and to the counties of Lancaster, Warwick, and Mon- 
mouth, that representation in the Council to which tliey would 
seem to be entitled on account of the large proportion of Members 
of the Society residing within their respective districts. 
The invested capital of the Society consists of 10,764/. Stock, 
in the 3]r per Cents ; every claim against the Society presented 
in a complete form for payment has been discharged ; and the 
arrears of subscription have assumed during the last few years a 
much more reduced and manageable shape. The subscriptions 
remaining unpaid from the 1st of January, 1853, amount to 840/., 
and are now in the course of collection ; while those which remain 
unpaid from the 1st of January in the present year, amount to 
2994/., and will no doubt in a short time be duly paid up and 
available for the current purposes of the Society. The Council 
appointed in February last a Special Committee, for the purpose 
of conferring with the Finance Committee, on the best means to 
be adopted for placing the financial arrangements of the Society 
under a more economical system. Tliat Committee having insti- 
tuted a searching inquiry into every branch of the Society's 
expenditure, has this month made its report to the Council ; who 
have the satisfaction to find, that no unnecessary outlay appears 
to have been incurred in carrying out, under the orders of the 
Council, the various operations of the Society. As a large 
amount of sliedding, however, has frequently been provided, at 
great expense to the Society, for the express accommodation of 
Stock and Implements which have not been sent to the Show 
according to their original entry, the Council have adopted the 
special recoinmendatiim of the Committee, that all persons who 
sliall neglect to pay in due course the stated fines incurred for 
such non-exhibition, shall be debarred from exhibiting at the 
future Country Meetings of the Society. 
At the Lincoln Meeting, to be held in tlie week commencing 
