The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

Srotlanb.

THE LAST SERMON BEFORE THE COURT AT BALWARAL.
An incident which, now that the Prince Consort has
been taken from u*, a sprciai intereat, occurred
WIWI Pi% ur ;even weeks ago. The Rev. Hr. Stewart,
of Edinburgh, • young and exceedingly popular
preacher, loot engaged to officiate in the pariah church
close to Balmoral, and where the Court invariably
Attend Divine service when at tlalinoral. On this
occasion Om rev. gentleman diaeovered, to his great die-
comfort, just as he entered the pulpit, that he had
Tuft at home the manuscript of the pennon
which he WWI to 'leach before the Queen Alla the
Prince Consort. It happily occurred to him, in the
embrassing situation in which he found himself placed,
thst he hal recently written • sermon from the text,
"Prepere to meet thy Gush" which lie had closely corno
nutted to memory. He aocordiegly preached the
sermon in question with groat fluency and power.
Her Majesty and the lava Prince Consort were so much
atruck with the discourse that they sent a inessage to
the preacher, expreoring the pleasure with which they
had listened to it, and recjitestiug to be favorite., with •
sight of the manuscript. The manuecript was of course
at once forwarded to the Court, and iminediatoly sfts:r•
wanl• • second inessoge was sent to the preacher by
the (levet; roel the Piiime, doviring that the rei men
aimuld be publielied. It him boon so, and is iii extensiv•
circulation in Scolleu.l. What an awful appropriate-
mem tlmre wa• ii; the text, "Prepare to meet thy God,"
so for as regards the late lernenlel Prince.
Tog THAW:AIR Pet.RAGIC—It is ru red that Sir
ullmamm Urn ttttttt I See wart imoiels to claim the
poerage, altliongh • very distont relatite
the late cerl. The estate., worth 1:7,0110 or Ed.ooo •
year, have bton detained to Illoxwell, (Jr Terrenglee, •
Catholic gent'ein•n hating extoesiteeatstee oi Dom-
frie;.liire. The overeat male heir of the late earl resides
in America. and though not s distant relstive,
cut off. The marriage of his Ancestor a ith one of the
Tromairs seems to have ;wen considered • low match
forthe lsly, soul Gms led to his exclusion. L .rly Loam
&coast, sister of the last earl, still lives, at a very ad-
vance! age.—Norte
DEATH or A GiNEKIIr..It sky or ROBERT WRNS.—
Walter Glover, known as the carrier bereft-13 Dumfries
end Faluibumghi in the time of Berns, diet ./11 Sunday
list, at Ferneyside, iii lea native p trial; of Liberton, an
extraordinary example of longer ity, being in ha* lottli
year, having been born on the leth July. MS. When
Ilurns was excisemen at Dumfries, ruin wo extensively
imported there, and Glover was frequently employed
to cenvev it to Elltiburxh. The permits on these occa-
sions requiredto aigued liy the port, and contingent
on the arrival fit tlllt yealiela tlase dOCUltlellts
"lien reqnired either at very late or very early hour.
was wu.uih to ati4o, la a 1.1001 it BUM'S regu-
larity aud busieess habit,, that, sometimes when lie
used to epologiee for dmturbing him at these uutimely
hour,, the poet said, " Wslter, it is but rey duty, mei
never lieaitate at any hour to call on me to do it."
Glover anti his connection with Bunts were thus
alluded to at the Great Centeear• Meeting in Edin•
burgh, 2351 t January, 1859 : The Chairman (Lord Art.
within) *aid —" 1 uuilerotand that we have elow present
among us in this great •sseinlilege the only man who
saw the day which thir day celebrates —one man alone,
when generations have been swept to their graves,
bees to be present now who heed when Burns was
born. Thcre is • nmit in this room who is re than
100 years of age, who was alive when the poet Burns
was born, and who person-illy knew that iminortel
HMO. He is here in this room—Mr. W•lter Guyer
who was the carrier between Dumfries and Edinburgh
in the days of Blithe, who has bergS Buren, whims eye
has net the eye of Bores, whose voice has ;net the voice
of Burn*, whose ear hiss heard the words of Burns."
Mr. Walter Glover then ascended the plotform suoilst
loud cheers, •n-I, to the amazement of the audience,
recited " Tam o'Shanter" f begitinieg to rod with a
mining voice, end with " Inc direction."
Till within the hut twelvemonth, this memorable 1411
luso waft in the habit of walking froquoitly to Edin-
burgh—a distamve of bet.voen three encl fem. iniles ;
and hia chief einjoymeet was witting Inc the fireside
',baying his fiddle, which he did with considerableskill.
Within the last two years lie wrote out the poem of
" Tam o'Shanter" le a bold, steady, legible had, mama.
ingly like the haedwriting, and this was done
without the aid of •pectecles. For the last few months
Tune has bean laying his inexorable hand upon him,
but very gently, and he retained posecasion of his
faculties, his memory especially, to the very last. It is
only a month ago that it was hoard to relate with great
unction some of his humorous stories, and to make
Mime shrewd observations on recent and passing
He was • great reader—an enjoyment of which his
failing sight nearly deprived loiti during the last year,
and he had the rare gift of remembering every remark-
able event he had seen, heanl, or read of since Ire was
three years old. —Seuisnan.