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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
THE METROPOLITAN MEETING 
OE THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The great demand made oil our space this month, through 
the Metropolitan meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
and also by the proceedings of its Council on the subject of 
Splenic Apoplexy in cattle, has called for the publication of 
a double number of our journal. This, we trust, will prove 
not unacceptable to our readers, while it is to us a source of 
gratification, seeing that so much important matter is at 
our disposal. The meeting of the Society may, in every 
respect, save one, be rightly described as a great success. 
Never were so many valuable animals, or such splendid 
specimens of implements of husbandry collected together 
in one focus. The exhibition was, indeed, the wonder of 
the Foreigner, and the pride of the Englishman. 
Strange to say that, in the centre of our national wealth 
and industry, the exception to complete success should have 
been in the amount of money received from the visitors; not 
that Londoners lacked interest in the exhibition, but that 
the site of it was reached with too much difficulty, and at 
the expenditure of too great a proportion of their time. The 
total expenditure of the Society was not less than fifteen 
thousand pounds, while the receipts only amounted to about 
twelve thousand, so that the going south of the Thames has 
caused the loss of a very large sum, although Battersea 
park was in itself all that could be desired for the show, and 
every one was more than gratified when once he had arrived 
within its boundaries. It is satisfactory, however, to know 
that this loss will in no way damp the ardour of the Society, 
nor impair its future usefulness, and next year we hope to 
record that its coffers have again been fully replenished by 
its visit to Worcester. 
As our readers are aware, the meeting was not only Me¬ 
tropolitan, but International; hence in addition to our 
English breeds of horses cattle, sheep, and pigs, Scotland, 
through her “ Highland and Agricultural Society, 5 ’ sent the 
best specimens of her stock, which were in themselves a 
