The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-12 00:00:00

THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES•

THE SILVER SCULLS.
The great contest for the championship of the Thar°,4
took place on Saturday, the result of which we hastea,v
communicate to our sporting readers. It is unnecessary
for us to enter into any lengthened exordium on the Of
,feet of this great race, as those to whom it will be of 01Y
interest must be acquainted with the fact of their having
been given for competition among gentlemen smilers.
The race was expected to be something approaehi%
to first-rate, from the well-known prowess of the
gentlemen engaged in it. Mr. Chapman, who held I,t
honorary distinction in 1839, 1842, and 1843, had in
contest of each year exhibited such extraordt°l7s
power and pluck as a sculler, that it required a
good man to dispossess him. Mr. Bumpstead, of
Leander, the winner of the challengers' trial heat 1%
'l,
Monday, as his opponent on the present occasion, wlet
person of no mean skill or ordinary game, as was eyirlero
by the fact of his having defeated all the best acilla
of the day, save Chapman, who was not a compeitiwg l
reed
the Great Thames Regatta and at Henley. .4%,„
race was, therefore, reckoned upon; but unfiirtutlav— I.if
bo
was at such a time in the day as prevented mall?' "
would willingh have subjected themselves to a trifli°P
nconvenience from witnessing it.
Mr. Bishop officiated in lieu of Mr. Lewis, $:
umpire ; and about half-past ten was rowed by
A
crew of picked watermen to the starting place, follow
by the Leander, the Royal Academy, and other
clubs, and a considerable number of other gentle"
in boats of different denominations. Mr. Chapman wo
the choice of station, and took the outside place, ha
presume from a feeling that there was more tide to
found there.
The start was taken very evenly, and,, after $ fel:
strokes, Mr. Bumpstead gradually drew in advancel,tici,
labour on the part of either gentlemen being beautlho
Mr. Chapman, as they neared Lucas's-road, which tßho
passed outside of, made a plucky spurt to overhaul roo
opponent, but the other putting the steam on at the
moment no change took place. Mr. Bumpstead 00 hill
Horseferry just contrived to draw his stern clear of
vi,
opponent's head, and in rounding the point off the re,,o
tentiary, went further in advance. On entering the d
nthe
reach Chapman again made a powerful spurt, an oti
other following his example, they went by the lead 0,0/1
at a rattling speed, but Bumpstead having a clear itb,
of about four lengths. At Battersea, at WandsOod
and. indeed, to the very goal of victory, Chapman r° is
as fine a stern wager as ever was seen, but was unabl
catch his opponent, whose sculling was the theo3'det
general admiration, and Mr. Bumpstead passed nnAr
Putney-bridge the winner by half a minute. Both b 7
ticmen appeared to have had enough of it.

641
CRICK ET.—Friday a match of cricket was PlO. air
at Garratt's- ground, Copenhagen-house, between eleell;of
tlemen of Old Lincoln's Inn, against eleven gentleineqrsat
New Lincoln's Inn. The match created much 01/
among the legal profession, and the ground was nuine,""atcri
attended ; after some excellent play on both sides the
terminated infavour of Old Lincoln's Inn winning by ,S 0

runs.
m (1011.
NORWICH THEATRE.—Mr. Webster and ---a co.
Celeste have been performing with the greatest st.:ficior
at Norwich. The favourite pieces of Suzanne, 'diem
and Hortense, The Trumpeter's Daughter, The Vivasolea
and the Pretty Girls of Stilberg, have drawn ore rare
houses. These pieces, says the Norfolk Chronicle, „ogi
afforded an opportunity for the display of the 1906
intellectual qualities of Mr. 'Webster and
asull
Celeste. Nothing can be more elegant, more -tete
graceful, more playful, more feminine, or bilo/
fascinating, than the comedy of the lady ; Leo
the energy and force with which she _deli° tore,
the stronger or more tender passions of our 13ficast,
are equally vivid and impressive, and her Lod
unconquerably French, serves only to render her rocio
more piquant. Mr. Webster has abundant livii.its)
with an ample share of happy, buoyant, animal sPceti•
but he has also deep feeling ; and the power of co ems'
trating his emotion, till it bursts forth in an over*Poslai
ing torrent of passion, which shows how the 1100;000:
and makes the audience feel also. It is a greStarsclf,
treat to witness such acting ; and, in every ens
which this lady and gentleman represent, there, ;dr
same display of the most accurate taste and correct
ment, united with the talent of personation, thatonies.,
them to seem really to be the characters they 11550f...,P.
COPIES OF PAINTINGS, &C., FROM TllSrrhe PP°
PALACES, FOR THE KING OF THE FRENCH.--'7Frea
of the French, upon the visit of her Majesty to iretore:
in the autumn of last year, having expressed a clesostehe
permitted to employ artists to copy some of the for l'ed
brated portraits in the royal galleries in Englar!
purpose of formirg an historical gallery of distll4l',o,
warriors, statesmen, prelates, &c., at the Chatealls;e',), so;
Normandy, the request of the French WI. CPIs
most graciously and promptly acceded to by by w"
Victoria. The selections which have been ollsoltiert,
King of the French are from paintings gdCon
ham Palace, Saint James's Palace, IlanlPtes, be!eis
and Windsor Castle, where artists are ilOof cOl3lO
engaged in making the requisite number upwa%
for his Majesty, which will amount t° in Pia
of fifty. Copies of the following painting wokP•e
Waterloo Chamber and the Throne-room, a. c, of
Castle, have just been completed for the lillijard.-11:
be for' wifits
French, by Mr. G. P. Healy, which will ty t.be
Louis Philippe in a few days:—His 3,19t5i loess to
the Fourth, by M. A. Shee; his Royal P"Att, by
Duke of York and the Right Hon. William x'
late Sir Thomas Lawrence. The -, pej
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAT% cis
on this line, for the week ending Saturday isger, ao lei
the enormous sum of 22,0671. 16s. 5d., Of wslone• ir
of
than 17,8901. were derived from passengers
,„e spas Of
is the largest amount ever taken in the. trtbe rstere,
time upon any railway in the world. :21 Ih Otal scot
185/. per mile. The nearest approach .(Ls., sines
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ceipts was on the Great Western Railway h
whet's' '
week ; but then the Great Western and it_sebbreancpt-reiroil3s;
upwards of 220 miles in length, 120.-4411
ham, with its Aylesbury branch, is on rt
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DUDLEY ELECTION. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.- -BALANCE-SHEET
,ND :`3D. -stze -- RAILWAY.
each, with Mr. Mr. Benbow has been returned fur Thelley by a On Friday the Proprietors of the London and Birmingham. ..s.
ie. Three
vlako.e.rde.ma)_ority—rnore than two to one out of 563 who Railway held their general meeting* at the station, Euston-
squ.are, for the purpose of receiving the report, and the trans_ An Account of the Net Public Income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended the sth day of July, 1844, after abatino. the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several
; 71b i fi"
Revenue Departments, and of the actual Issues or Payments within the same Period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and
fhe numbers were—for Mr. Benbo,v, 388 ;
A winner for Mr. action of business for the last, half-year. The meeting was
[owed 31b. The (R, Rawson 175. The result was fully expected. most numerously attended, it being generally known that a Repayments for Local Works, &c.
rill not be Government press will, we trust, remember in piece of plate and a purse, of money were to be presented by
Other Public ..
to Mr. Richard Creed, the Secretary to the • Applicable to
coed horse its exultation, that Mr. Benbow goes to Parliament, the Proprietors -------
---..... EXPENDITURE.
80i, if de' having disavowed under compulsion on the hustings Company. George Carr, Esq., the Chairman, in opening the
" business of the day, said that the affairs of the Company INCOME OR REVENUE. ...Consolidated
.cTotal.s.
d.
use on the Personal attachment to Sir R. Peel, and tracing Lfe-
. were in a most prosperous condition, and that the various Fund. Services.
Funded Debt.—lnterest and Management of the Permanent Debt .
ante.
_, tral depression of trade in his new constituency to branches of the line from the present trunk were rapidly ap- — ---_____ ' X a. •d. X s. d.
with 24 l'lr It- Peel's tariff. Mr. Benbow then is one snore preaching to completion. The report was read, from which
ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. £ s. d. £ s. d. 24,648,421 211
stance the added to that band of "generous supporters" of the it appears that the balance in hand on the 31st of December
GCustoms . 18,781,676 14 2 3,000,000 0 0 21,781,670 14 2
... ... 143:019337:456157
199
71 Terminable Annuities
Total Charge of the Funded Debt, exclusive of 8,8841. 3s. OvL, the Interest 3'988'513
27
) start, orlast was 383,9041. 14s. 5d., and the cash received from- that . 13,033,467 9 1
I,,°%lerel.llnFnt, between whom and the Government the Excise
Unfunded Debt. Interest on Exchequer-bills
than five, time up to the 30th of June last was 750,674/. 4s. ld., making
7,046,501 10 10
f 'tut Minister has confessed that there are a ids dif- 7,046,501 10 10
Ike. Ani -ereneos in the whole 1,134,578/. 18s. 6d., of which sum 469,373/. 16s. Stamps .
• 4,197,515 19 7 on Donations and Bequests.
4.__ -on fundamental principles—another recruit sd. had been expended on the London and Birmingham line, Taxes (Land and Assessed)..... ••• •••
lures and 4ur,,," Atles's boy." 22,124/. 13s. 11d. on the Warwick and Leamington branch, Property-tax 5,247,663 19 10
.4 • ... 5,247,663 19 10 511,812 3 2
e entrance 638,000 0 0
There is another thing which the Government press 147,8541. 3s. 9d. on the Northampton and Peterborough Post Office 638,000 0 0
3SACiainivisaniclrielilieLitasi einssaetnoadunsdACPihleoanwrsgaions for Civil, Naval, Military, and Judicial Services, • 29,048,746 9 8
- • •••
branch, 100,000 L on the Chester and Holyhead Railway— Crown Lands 145.000 0 0
145,000 0 0
&c., charged by various Acts of Parliament on the Consolidated Fund
15 added Will do well to bear in mind. The number of rem-
° making a total expenditure for the six months last past I s and 64 and 4s in the di on Pensions and Salaries.... 5,216 19 3 ••• ...
••• .. 5,216 19 3
st. Heats, tered electors in Dudley is 911, out of which number
of 722,392/. 145., and leaving a balance to be divided33,7s9 7 10 564,653 12 3
e taken inthan
1(411Y 563 have voted in all, and only 388, less among the Proprietors of 405,226/. 4s. 50., on which a Small Branches of' the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown 33,759 710
Surplus Fees of Regulated-Public Offices 53,865 16 8
trt, or the irif the whole number 67, have voted for Mr. Ben- dividend of tive per cent. was immediately declared,
••• •••
.53,865 16 8 Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions --
ensceosn the Consolidated Fund 180,752 10 2
---..
ive horses Courts of Justice
i•°w• Mr. Benbow then has been returned to Par- leaving 15,000/. as balance in hand. An important
la 49,182,667 17 3 3,000,0 N 0 0 52;182 667 17 3
,
name and ment by the votes of a minority of the electors of part of the day's proceedings was the presentation of a
242,063 12 10
in 1844' Dudley. splendid piece a plate, in the shape of a candelabrum, and .
two large dishes, all of solid silver, value 300/., in addition to OTHER RECEIPTS. -
6,086,394 5 1 2,353,026 10 8
[l3. . ~, fr,That 348 electors out of 911 should have abstained Army
a purse of 2,100 guineas, to the secretary for his services. Money from China under the Treaty of August, 1842... 184,802 7 8 ..• .., 184,802 7 8
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,ach, lellp .. In votinglos,4o2 0 3
I distances Lon altogether, admits of only one explana- Colonel Alcock, as Chairman of the Committee appointed by Imprest.and other Monies
60,000 0 0 ••• ... 10:5,402 0 3
1,977,267 12 2
—influence, If so many have stayed away from the Proprietors to manage the subscription list, presented Money received from the East India Company
Unclaimed Dividends more than paid
nor of the tohfett,p_o_li to avert Lord Ward's displeasure, how many 14,635 16 92,849,837 3 2 ..
the plate to Mr. Creed, accompanied with a high eulogium,
• . ••• 14,635 16 9
sto start,Opium Compensation 1,257,616 11 3
than nwee t.,..,"u5e who have voted for Lord Ward's agent may hi
upon which Mr. Creed replied in a very feeling manner for the
high compliment paid him by his employers. The candela- _________
China Expedition
49,547,508 1 11 3,000,000 0 0 52,547,508 1 11 - 821,020 0 0
take. i° 'i4le given the direct lie to their convictions ? bruin excited the admiration of every person present, being Canada Insurrection
Who will 25,300 0 0
ng of the ency like believe that a manufacturing constitu- executed in the highest style of art, and representing Peace,
19,375,654 11 11
ol if de' Dudley would have sent a man to Parlia- Plenty, and Britannia
.at the base, in addition to a view of
the Euston-square station. On the different pieces of plate
rnent to vote for denying foreign markets to its ma- 50,777,427 12 3
15 added. nufact
de ures, and cheap bread to its artisans, are engraved the arms of the Company, and of Mr. Creed,
if. with the following inscription engraved on each :—" Pre-
,52,54'7,508 111 Excess of Income over Expenditure ••• ••• 1,770,080 98 ,
the Trig
_,,, pendent voters had been protected by the ballot sented to Richard Creed, Esq., together with a purse of 2,100
lb extra'
ear renoxsosnii►it intimidationiteyerr,proof,
iey added Proprietors. of the London and Birmingham Company, in ac- 1
added to the recent Salisbury, Hastings,
Exeter - cordance with a resolution passed unanimously, at a general . .
start, the
meeting held on the 9th of February, 1844, as a testimonial
rise before Iltdhett-ilott.Lancashire elections, of the ne-
.An Account of the Public Money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth day of Jpnayl3lglBo4tT3;t.hthe:eAmount of Money raised by the Additions to the Funded Or Unfunded Debt in the Year *ended the sth Day
of their high appreciation of the indefatigable zeal and dis-
of July, 1844 ; the Money applied towards the Redemption of the Funded or Unfunded Debt ; the Total Amount of Advances and •Repayments on Account of Local Works, &c., with the
!es. The
Cirencester—where
took the occasion of the late vacancy for tinguished ability manifested by him for fourteen years, in
Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances in the Exchequer on the sth day of Juty, 1844.
tsual waY' karencester—vvbere the Government have achieved promoting, under the auspices of the Court of Directors, the
tiled to *
17. another triumph in the return of Lord general interest and prospectsof the Company,of their esteem
and respect for his private character and an evidence of the
carrying £ s. d. X
v illiers to -represent Lord Bathurst and the
manner in which they appreciated his courteous and gentle- s. d. X s. d. I I .£ a. d. { X s. d.
.a. i twice' loe IBALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the sth day of July, 1843
••• ••• ••• so. 1,835,014 19 6:1
nd a dis' -a- hanker's overdrawn accounts —to call manly demeanour upon all occasions." ISSUED. 1
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Mr. Benbow has been returned fur Dudley by a
lar.re majority—more than two to one out of 563 who
voted. The numbers were—for Mr. 13enho,v, 388 ;
for Mr. Rawson, 175. The result was fully expected.
The Government press will, we trust, remember in
its exultation, that Mr. Benbow goes to Parliament,
having disavowed under compulsion on the hustings
Personal attachment to Sir R. Peel, and tracing ge-
neral depression of trade in his new constituency to
Ste R• Peel's tariff. Mr. Benbow then is one snore
added to that band of " generous supporters" of the
u?nvernment, between whom and the Government the
4ime.:Minister has confessed that there are u ide dif-
ference.s recruit
for on fundamental principles—another
,w," Wes's boy."
I.here is another thing which the Government press
will do well to bear in mind. The number of regis-
tered electors in Dudley is 911, out of which number
Only 563 have voted in all, and only 388, less than
half the whole number 67, have voted for Mr. Ben-
tow' Mr- Benbow then has been returned to Par-
ament by the votes of a minority of the electors of
Dudley.
That 348 electors out of 911 should have abstained
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voting altogether, admits of only one explana-
tion—influence. If so many have stayed away from
the poll to avert Lord Ward's displeasure, how many
ot' those who have voted for Lord Ward's agent may
have given the direct lie to their convictions ?
Who will believe that a manufacturing constitu-
ency like Dudley would have sent a man to Parlia-
ment to vote for denying foreign markets to its ma-
nufactures, and cheap bread to its artisans, if
pendent voters had been protected by the ballot
from intimidation ? The Dudley election, then, is
,another, proof, added to the recent Salisbury, Hastings,
xixeter, and South Lancashire elections, of the ne-
cessity of the ballot.
We took the occasion of the late vacancy for
Cirencester—where the Government have achieved
another triumph in the return of Lord
Villiers to represent Lord Bathurst and the
local banker's overdrawn accounts —to call
attention,
to another class of recent elections
for small boroughs, where the ballot by itself could
not be a sufficient remedy. In Abingdon, Buck-
ingham, Christchurch, Cirencester, Devizes, Horsham
Huntingdon, Launceston, and Woodstock—in all of
which the constituencies are under 500, in all but one
of which (Cirencester) under 400, and in one of
which (Abingdon) under 300 —wholesale bribery and
intimidation might still neutralise the ballot. The
Government purse might still afford to furnish a sum
to be divided among the bulk of the electors of Abing-
don, if the Government candidate were returned.
Thel Duke of Buckingham might still sway the 380
Lenettsorshoafvße
number is sufficient
utheekmingham with his own band of depen-
o callers
ensure together r
return
ot oolfd,m"yYoooour.
didates—*f they arenotreturned, will all have
you
notices to quit:
ca
nn it ,
Besides, whether improper influences exist or not,
a. be said that constituencies of two, three, four,
1.. five hundred are sufficiently large to give anythinglli the attainable security for a proper choice of re-
presentatives !
all • If the 225 electors of Harwich were
spotless as the milk-white hind, would it not yet
be monstrous that so small a number should choose
two Members of Parliament? If the 170 electors of
be aine and the 190 electors of Reigate—we wish to
Impartial—were entirely independent respectively
of I
_Lord Lansdowne and Lord Somers, would it be
rrie right for such miserably small constituencies each to
number a member to Parliament, when so large a
of men possessing the qualification of the
ualne and Reigate electors are without a voice in the
Presentation ?
We have
of the derived our information as to the numbers
_ different constituencies from a return of regis-
&erect electors, moved for by Mr. Hume. The same
return
urnfurnishes us with the following facts :
rtw
t there are forty-four boroughs in England eoing each one member to Parliament, and thirty-
iese returning each two members to Parliament, with
e'
than hundred electors ; making in all ninety-
A;' -c• oish members elected by consituencies under
e nundr,led.
in
That IV
turniales there are three boroughs, each re-
-800
en,g (me member to Parliament, with less than
raarissectors. Indeed, they are all under 400 ; Beau-
Th' 315; Brecon, 330; Flint, 270.
at in Scotland there is one borough, Ayr, re-
turningeount one member, with 440 electors ; and one
eooYo Bute with 420 electors ; while another
hav!_‘3', aithness, just exceeds the number 500,
Zgotfi2B registered electors.
for Ire] er Parliamentary return of registered electors
boroughsd, Moved by Mr. Butler, shows us sixteen
'OO electors c returning one member, w
, e h with less than
The r
..the .esult of the whole is, that 119 Members in
undertnted Kingdom are elected by constituencies
Liber 5100.
Of these-72 are Conservatives, and 47
eons:. alembers. In tngland the proportion of the
small rvative Members to the Liberal Me nbers for
In / bi °roughs is larger, the numbers being 64 to 34.
by fri,e'and, where the Liberal party-could- only gain
rits'e enlargement of constituencies, there are 10
eral and 6 Conservative Members, for boroughs
wlth l •
less than 500 electors.
11_41(jd to the Conservative majority in corrupt and
dnunlation boroughs, their majority in landford-rid-
ZFuunties ; and what would become of the Govern-
tecta 111 the House of Commons, if voters were pro-
large the ballot, and constitnences were uniformly
ennu
'on im-
Praet• „gu to render bribery and nomination Jeanie?
There
1,000
electors.libuuld be no constituency with less than
a It does not follow from establishing
throughout ninnn ef electors, that we should also establish
l the representation a uniform proportion
t 'leathers to 1
men to eh e •ectors. If the thousand electors are
`e,mpted to ),?se, and can choose freely, and are not
cnoice
as
a•-; eor
ruPt, they may make as good a
the twenty th°nstituency of 20,000 ; at any rate
as good a thous
uti will not make twenty times
then, that choice. There would be no reason,
thirty the Mr
thoosa d est Riding of Yorkshire, with its
the choice ofd electors, should be intrusted with
another oonst, more than two members, because
Laa•ncl, returns
either one member or two mem-
ther it
s, _ considerations would determine whe-
choice
ortuid have one Member or two ; but its
with members could be depended upon,
were its choice of one.
eortunor,:tutrhat Mr. Duncombe has not had the op-
ing the mistsession, of bringing forward
ti -..oLton for .
borouols kjommittee of inquiry into nomina-
first mots It will, we trust, be one of the very
when, e n.s of the next session. The time is come
or: ?Plg clear of wild and impracticable schemes
slasNanic change, the Liberal party must look the
ti °n defectsof
(min the f the present state of the representa-
sent nuro:ce ; and without ballot, and with the pre-
enrll-14w, hi' of nomination boroughs, neither can
la othe repealed, nor justice to Ireland achieved,
ulk of er object, in which the hopes of the great
tPtne acei",,,e. People are embarked, attained, unless by
12... r. the cre`nt to which no statesman would trust, or
Rise aro
honest of a popular excitement which every
tokver,Q. statesman would do all in his power
‘--0/obe.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-
WAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of this
Company was held on Friday, at the terminus, London-
bridge, William Nash, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, in the chair,
for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report for the half-
year, and also a statement of the accounts of the Company.
The meeting was also made special, for the purpose of decid-
ing the means of raising the money for constructing the rail-
way from Brighton to Chichester, and from Brighton to
Lewes and Hastings. The report stated that the receipts
for ordinary traffic during the half-year ending the 30th of
June, as compared with the corresponding period of 1843,
showed an increase of 10,1181., while the expenses of working
the line (exclusive of toll and rates and taxes, as contrasted
with the same period) exhibited a decrease 'of 1,8801, the
result of the whole account being an increase on the balance
of net revenue of 10,2151. The agreement which had been
entered into with the Greenwich Company, by which that
Company were to receive a fixed sum in lieu of toll, having
terminated on the 30th June last, the Directors had entered
into a fresh arrangement, by whi-...11 the Brighton Company
would in future pay for the first-class passengers 4d., second-
class 3d., and third-class 2d., so long as the whole Brighton
passenger traffic to and from London should pass over the
Greenwich line. The Directors had given unceasing atten-
tion to the necessity of improving the communication with
France, a subject on which their powers were very
limited. After several interviews with the General Steam
Navigation Company, some improvements had al-
ready been affected, and the Directors were enabled to
state that for the month of August the departure of steamers
from Brighton to Dieppe had been increased to six in the
week. If either of the projected railways from Dieppe to
Rouen should be executed, the advantages of improving the
sea passage would be still more important to the interests of
this Company. The report having been adopted, the follow-
ing resolution was agreed to :—That the London and Brighton
Railway Company be authorised by the Proprietors, present
at this general meeting, to purchase an interest in the
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, to an
extant not exceeding 3,500 shares, and in the Brighton and
Chichester Railway Company, to an extent not exceeding
1,195 shares. That in order to complete these purchases the
Brighton Railway Company be authorised to raise by the
creation of new shares in eighths, at 6/. ss. each, a SUM not
exceeding 234,7501. That such shares be offered to the pre-
sent Proprietors of the London and Brighton Railway Com-
pany in the proportion of one-eighth share for every original
share registered in the books of the Company. That the
time for taking up such shares by the Proprietors be
limited to the Ist of September. That 2/. shall be paid on
each such eighth share, and that each share should bear in-
terest at the rate of five per cent.
A dividend of 1/. 2s. 6d. per share ;vas then declared, and
Mr. Cooper having been elected a Director of the Company
in the room of Mr. Parsons, who had retired, the thanks of
the Shareholders were voted to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.

MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR ENDING THE STH DAY OP JULY, 1843, BY To the Commissioners for the reduction of the National
THE CREATION OF FUNDED OR UNFUNDED DEBT.
Debt, to be applied to the redemption of the Public
-
Debt :
UNFUNDED DEBT. By issues per Act 10 George IV., c. 27 587,961 2 7
Exchequer-bills 18,407,3001., charged on Supplies, per Act 7 Victoria, c. 14 9,333,800 0 0 By interests on donations and bequests 8,884 3 0
Exchequer-bills charged on Supplies (in part of 11,132,1001.), Act 6 and
7 Victoria, c. 87
18,348,300 0 0 Deduct sum applied not in redemption of Funded
Exchequer. bills, charged on Consolidated Fund, for Opium Compensation, Debt, but of Consolidated Deficiency Bills.
and in part of the above Fund of 11,132,1001., Act 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 87 ..,
••• 2,000,000- 0 0 96,845 5 7
To the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills for payment of .
Exchequer-bills for Public Works.—lreland, per Act 1 and 2 William Unfunded Debt :
Money out of the Consolidated Fund for payment
IV., c. 33
Exchequer-bills for Shannon Navigation, per Act 2 and 3 Victoria, c. 61 65,000 0 0 of Public Works and Shannon Bills 55,750 0 0
96 700 0 0 Money out of Ways and Means, Grants applied
,
Exchequer-bills for Public Works.--Great Britain (charged on the Conso-
for payment of Supply Bills ll,BOO 0 0
500 0 0
Exchequer-bills issued for payment of ditto 18,348,300 0 0
lidated Fund), Act 3 Victoria, C. 10 ••• ... 4,
20,449,500 0 0 18,415,850 0 0
FUNDED DEBT. Exchequer-bills delivered up to be cancelled, per
Exchequer-bills issued for the promotion of Public Works, and held by the Corn-
Acts 9 .George IV., C. 92, and 5 Victoria, sess. 2,
•
missioners for the reduction of the National Debt, on account of Savings' C. 9
Banks, and delivered up to be funded, per Acts 9 George IV., c. 92, and 5
Balances in the Exchequer on the sth day of July,
Victoria, sess. 2, c. 9
1844
••• ••• 5,687,497 7 31
. • ••• •••
••• ••• 14,000 0 0
for Local Works, &c., under authority
. Total amount of Re-payments
~..
of various Acts of Parliament ... ... 1,447,900 7 7
- -
-- '
Total amount of Advances for Loco: Works, &c., under authority of •
various Acts of Parliament ... ... 1,302,303 311
-----
Excess of Re-payments over Advances
145 5
... ,
Excess of Income over Expenditure 97 3 8
...
••• ••• •
••• ••• 1,770,080 9 8
_ -•
124,214,192
__----
1 12 10i 24.214.192 12 10J

MES•

124,214,192 12 10}
I CLERK.

TEI.E COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
The following is a copy of the petition of the medical
officers of the Horse and Foot Guards which was lately pre-
sented to the House of Commons :

" TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE-
LAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

" THE PETITION OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE HORSE

qv.-,
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Followed
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AND FOOT GU.ARDS

" Humbly showeth.—
" That the recent charter granted to the Royal College of
Surgeons of England, a copy of which was lately laid on the
table of your lion. House, presses with peculiar severity on
the officers of their department, nearly the whole of whom
are by it deprived of those privileges they have hitherto en-
joyed, in consequence of an undue precedency granted to
surgeons in civil life, whilst they will also be deprived in
future of the hope of succeeding to offices of honour and profit
in the College, whatever may be their ability, or the eminence
they may have acquired in the service of their country.
" Your petitioners now appeal to your Honouable House,
in full confidence that their claims will be fully and favour-
ably considered.

" Your petitioners, whenever employed in the service of
their country, either at home or abroad, have always endea-
voured faithfully to discharge the duties of their station,
and have used every exertion to improve the practice of their
profession.
" Your petitioners respectfully, but earnestly, submit that
they should not, in consequence of being employed in the
public service, be considered to have forfeited by any subse-
quent enactment, their civil rights as Members of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
"Your petitioners humbly pray that your Hon. House
will not confirm any measure depriving them of their hitherto
acknowledged rights and privileges, without giving them an
opportunity of being heard by themselves or counsel, either
at the bar of your Honourable House, or in such other way as
your Honourable House may please to direct.
"And your petitioners will ever pray."

somewhat in a bustle for a day or two, stran-
gers dropping in daily during the whole of the
past week ; and great numbers came with the trains
on Saturday and yesterday. All the accommo-
dation of the inns and private lodgings were speedily
secured, and high prices were obtained for very
indifferent apartments. Wombwell's caravans of
wild animals have been exhibiting since Friday I
so that, with various other minor amusements, the
noise of preparation, and wandering minstrels innu-
merable, a continued buzz has been kept up. The
celebration of the sacrament on Sabbath, with the
usual services on Saturday and yesterday, which,
notwithstanding the prevailing excitement, was ob-
served with all the solemnity due to so sacred an oc-
casion, tended, no doubt, to moderate the flow of
public feeling. The restraint, however, had the
effect of rendering the outburst this morning all
the more exuberant. The unsettled state of the
weather for some time previously had cre-
ated fears that the day might prove bois-
terous ; but, fortunately, yesterday continued
dry, and though now very blowy and threat-
ening, we trust no great fall of rain will be
experienced. At earliest dawn the union jack was
floating from 'Wallace Tower, and the ships in the
harbour and building-yard were decorated with their
colours in the gaudiest manner. The banners of the
various masonic bodies were also exhibited from their
respective lodges, and the hum of a constantly increas-
ing crowd moving along the streets, indicated, in a
manner not to be mistaken, the important character
of the day. On the New Bridge, the main entrance
from the north, a splendid Gothic triumphal arch
was erected, beautifully ornamented with shrubs,
and surmounted with a model of the arms of the
burgh. On the " Auld Brig,"
now only used by
foot-passengers, an elegant gateway was constructed,
having a tasteful decoration of boughs, hut without
any device. With the " Hermit Ayr' rolling peace-
fully beneath, the classic " Twa Brigs," as they
sported -their gala-day bravery, seemed to have for-
gotten their ancient bickerings in the jubilee about
to be held in honour of the bard whose muse had
given tonge to their feuds. At the Townhead, oppo-
site the " Tam o'Shanter" Inn, believed to be the
veritable house referred to in that inimitable tale,
the landlord of which was a person of the name of
Shearer, a magnificent Gothic structure, spanned the
causeway. The whole, exquisitely interwoven with
branches of trees and evergreens, was surmounted
with the appropriate device of " Tam o' Shanter" and
" Souter Johnnie," seated at their " reaming swats
that drank divinely,"
cut out in wool At the
Fish Cross, the flag of the fishermen was exhibited,
having a sign-board portrait of Burns attached.
.
With these preparations, "auld Ayr" was in ex-
cellent mood to welcome the thousands of visitors
expected to honour her by their presence ; while
Coila, proud of her Bard, unfurled, like Fergus of
Morven, her " banner from the standard on high,"
and, delighted, surveyed the boundaries of her ancient
province spreading wide around the ancient capital.
Hill and dale, sea and isle, smiling in the luxury of
approaching autumn—
" Now, from the summit to the plain,
Waves all the hill with yellow grain;
And o'er the landscap as I look.
Nought do I see unchanged remain,
Save the rude cliffs and chiming brook."
The change, however,
is not the change of desolation,
but of improvement, and therefore calculated to
heighten rather than depress remembrance. Towards
the west, over the dancing wares, where rises
stupendous Ailsa full in view,
O'erlooking,
what gallant prows are these, steaming along, with
many a league, the ocean round."
crowded decks ? They come from the shores of
"merry England ;" and eke from the "Green Isle,"
which though unhappily disturbed by faction, has ne-
vertheless a keen relish for minstrelsy : they
come, the warm-hearted admirers of " Scotia's
Bard," not, like their ancestors of old, with spears
in their hands, to combat with Lochlin on Morven's
or yet on Coila's plains. But there are other barques
breasting the wave not less swiftly under the beetling
cliffs of Carrick. These are the men of Galloway and
the adjacent coasts, whose ancestors were always
ready for the fray ; they come, not with weapons in
their
_hands, and headed by a Black Douglas, but
hastening onward to pay their peaceful allegiance to
the genius of Coila. Now do we turn to the north,
by Arran's mist-clad summits, and behold other
steam-driven galleys emerge from the horizon,
counting-houses their factories
cleaving the surgy bosom of Clyde as if proud of the
living cargoes which they bear. These are some of
and St. Marion,
for the time, to worship at the shrine of genius, and
forthes a rki ricking
to show that in the laudable enterprises of commerce
burghers
their
co
uonf
they have not forgotton what belongs to their country.
Turn we again eastward and south, what a panorama
meets the view ! There lengthened trains of railway
carriages shoot onward with the speed of lightning,
bearing thousands upon thousands from Dunedin,
" Scotia's darling seat," the " Metropolis of the West,"
and from every other conceivable quarter of the
country, as well as the intermediate districts through
which they pass. Here, at all points round to the
west, gay masses approach from every defile, many
of them in marching array, with music and " banners
bravely spread." Cunninghame, Kyle, and Carrick
are pouring forth their bands of stalwart men ; but
not, as ,of yore, to repel invasion at Laight Alpin,
Large, or Loudoun, or to assert their civil rights at
Pentland or Drumclog, but to rally round the poetic
standard of the Bard who has added to the escutcheon
of Ayrshire a name well worthy of being associated
with those of Wallace and of Bruce. The Streams
converge to a point—now they meet—now the tide
rolls densely through the streets, where King Cris-
pin and his gallant train, the Masonic bodies, the
burghers and the trades—all are busily preparing for
the business of the day. Men, women, horses, car-
riages, flags, bands of music, all are borne onwards,
amidst the ringing of the bells, to the place of ren-
' dezvous.
Long before the hour of meeting, the Low Green
was thronged with people, numerous bOlies having
arrived at an early hour. Amongst these were
the Foresters of Itilwinning, the Odd-Fellows of
Glasgow, the Yeomen of Cumnock, the Burn's Club
of Dalrymple, the Shepherds of Straiten, with
their piper, &c. By ten o'clock, or shortly after-
wards, it was literally crowded; while the sands

adjacent were thronged with carriages, and the
masses who were taking no part in the demonstra-
tion. As the procession was in progress of formation
it required no great stretch of fancy to convert the
rendezvous into another Borough-moor of Edinburgh
—where, as Tytler so beautifully describes the gather-
ing, the whole feudal array of Scotland was assembled
by the chivalrous, but foolish monarch, prior to the
unfortunate, though well-fought field of Flodden.
The number of banners—the military and picturesque
garb of many—with the kingly and warlike display
of Crispin and his followers—imparted to the whole
an aspect highly interesting and imposing. It wanted
but little to realise the description of Marmion's view
of the Scottish camp:—
" Nor marked they less, where in the air
A thousand streamers flaunted fair;
Various in shape, device, and hue,
Green, sanguine, purple, red, and blue,
Broad, narrow, swallow-tailed, and square,
Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol, there
O'er the pavilion flew."
After the lapse of more than an hour, during which
Mr. Thwaites, and the members of the Committee ex-
erted themselves with great activity in arranging the
procession; the immense body was at length mar-
shalled, and began to move off atbalf-past 11 o'clock.
At a given signal the various bands struck up in-
spiriting tunes, and the magnificent pageant commenced
its progress to the monument, through the principal
streets of Ayr. The procession was extremely nume-
rous, while the crowd surrounding it was so dense that
the road was completely choked up. Perhaps the most
pleasing feature in the whole procession WAS the vast
assemblage of ploughmen and shepherds, who, dressed
in their plaids and broad blue bonnets, afforded a noble
representation of that humble but independent and
industrious class from which the poet sprang.
During the formation of the procession the pipers
played round the field, greatly enhancing the scene by
their music. When fully marshalled the immense body
moved onwards, the bands striking up the well-known
air of " A man's a' man for a' that" along the south side
of Wellington-square. The procession was formed three
deep, and extended to nearly a mile in length. It had a
very imposing effect.
After leaving the Town-head the procession moved on
at a quicker pace. The road all along was greatly
crowded ; so much so, that it was with difficulty the mass
could keep moving. The walls, houses, and gates, were
everywhere lined with anxious observers ; and various
platforms were constructed for the accommodation of
ladies. The procession occupied at least an hour in passing
from the new bridge into the field, on entering which the
band played " Duncan Gray," followed by " The Birks
of Aberfeldy." A large circle was then formed round
the platform for the musicians in the field, and the whole
company, led by professional vocalists, joined in singing,
" Ye banks and braes o' bonny noon," and." Auld Lang
Syne." The bands were afterwards stationed in various
quarters throughout the field—the Regimental and Glas-
gow St. Andrew's bands in the centre of the field, and
the Kilwinning and Cumnock bands at the cottage--
the bagpipers playing at a distance from the pavilion.
There were two enclosures for dancing ; one towards the
head of the field, and the other at the brow
overlooking the water of I)oon. • The company began to
enter the pavilion almost immediately after the close of
the procession, and the chair was taken shortly after.
The pavilion, when all were seated, had a splendid ap-
pearance—more like a banquet in fairy land than a thing
of real life. The chairman's and croupier's seats were
of oak, made of the rafters of Alloway Kirk; and several
splendid silver vases decorated their tables.
The Chairman, the Right lion. the Earl of Eglintoun,
was supported on the right by Mr. Robert Burns, late
of the Stamps and Taxes, Somerset-house, London.
eldest son of the poet ; Major Burns, youngest son of
the poet ; Miss Begg, niece of the poet ; Mr. H. G.
Bell, Sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire ; the Rev. Mr.
Cuthill, Ayr ; Mr. R. Burns Begg, teacher, Kinross,
nephew of the poet ; Miss Begg, the younger niece of
the poet ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, of Dumfries (the Jessie
Lewars of the bard) ; on the left, by Colonel Burns, se-
cond son of the poet ; Mrs. Begg, sister of the poet ; Sir
J. M'Neill, Bart., late Plenipotentiary at the Court of
Persia ; the Right Hon. Lord Justice General; the
Countess of Eglintoun; and Sir D..E. Blair, Bart., of
Blairquhar. The croupier, Professor Wilson, of Edin-
burgh, was supported on the right by Mr. A. Alison,
Sheriff of Lanarkshire; Colonel Mum, of Caldwell; Mr.
W. Aytoun, Advocate; Mr. A. Hastie, M.P. for Paisley;
Mr. J. Oswald, M.P. for Glasgow; on the left by Sir J.
Campbell, Glasgow; Provost Miller, Ayr; Mr. J. Bal-
lantine, of Castlehill; Mr. J. Campbell, of Craigie.

(,LIE GL,
throu,-,,..0:, or other, it has unfortunately
--- otnet, -SE AND TUE CUSTOM-HOUSE
bOFnFIiCnEyRISo.t
Oafnp,l` 'lre to pay smartly for my little reesce.arche.isa,i,ne
hui•'l- I,l„ist°l7, when business or inclination.
country.l
-aie inlrt •-e back to the shores of my
be Unit ate" zeal-subduing affair at Livenrapt"ivo,el, l_vrailnl,.neor_t
ings ,11I3wn to those who shall have read the Vt
netts o'f• "4 latterly at Hull, through the pig headed-tleti,
1:111baltt
va
,-,0 rn Custom-house officer, and thfetliiittausgahmtya
tstablishr,, -,. another in a higher station o _
"el I ,—,"t, rhy ornithological views w
"ad nivra-*/ gay I lost, at one go, my time, my
patience.
Hay-
ere frustrated;
lIIR ' "e)% You shall see how this happened. WidgPeounreitersed two pairs of Bernacle geese and four
iamper,
4ad i a, at Rotterdans, I got them put into a 1 "elm; took them with me on board the vessel which
We hadBklY het•vi t that town and the port of lull.
aeh • x .
our mil,
, .
thingarmi passage, short and suloo.th; and. on
tokkh at Ina Hbe, I informed t
nd four
Widgeons°e officer that I had four geese a
he visitins
118 tin the hamper which stood before him. " They
tellst,Ra
of tt seid I, "if they were dead geese,the purpose
to the Custom-house," said he. " I know they
t'rued I,
ii iteaktneree ; but they are living geese,"
c°ll
ifeasant
for
eppitn'tioS course out
law from such an
.uny
• to the
etlatnn., I. NO matter," said he, obstinatel) ; ,.,,
Aug ,74-uoUse they must and shall go, alive or 11.(_ao t
aprin ko the Custom-house they went, on a truck withou
into 8, trotting all the way over the rough pavement,a
the the heart of the town of hull. On our arrival ,t.
voi 14410 t-house, another officer, in a harsh tone )t.
mace% asked me why I had brought living geese to that
Irk. ?„*.• (.„' By peremptory orders," said I,
tin $y
officer in the river." "He is a
41,1' Y, ' said this offiiier; " let, the ge se ly, removed ;
~ from the
Nil dit/Ift PV duty." My geese and widgeons were
the inilly withdrawn from lics haughty presence, through
be 4raeetS of Hull to the water-side with some fears on
,
144_ P rt that they would not forget in a hurry their
, iii Ig, ittusbled they so rudely in the performance of
tea hest epedition. We steamed up the Humber, and
Lttul4ed Walton Hall that night. The Bernacle ganders
~, QI, borne their journey well; but it was otherwise with
.the two geese, and three of the widgeons. They
ow-
alit of sorts, and died in the colirse of the follow-
11iriverton, Ess„y, ou
...,v,if,,,i iii.of,..y.
~,,,,,IvtETRopoLiTAN ImPROvEmENTs.—Tii A.mi,:s EM-
/ ' e"t,.l'.--oti Friday the (liv,Tninent measure to ein-
riaocw r leer nujesty's connnis,ieners of Warn to form a ter
e embankment, with convenient lanitin,4 places fir
the andPitw_ con the Middlesex shore of the River "'navies, be-
,risT_Westtninster-bridge and Blacktriars-bridge was
'Li ::d• It contains no fewer than eighty-four sections, with
ii.„7"edllle annexed, giving a full description of the intended
Ipeiniaticitivnvekeetinrubeeit;s,eisnhtei(iehtoartehepl9anueneend reportv,tliiceh othfeerrtrhal‘ecreatj
est.oai
nn c-i.
sanction. It is proposed that 1
On
dthten
tient ia,,. Imi:iota be completed in two
,wears, with conve-
-4,4 "'Ling places and piers for the public. Money is to be
urerB._ ced for the purpose, under the direction of the Commis-
. The Bill has been printed for consideration before
u utter is Nailer dilicw"el

mory of the bard which a brother poet can alone do—
Christopher himself is here—(Great applause)—anxious
to pay his tribute of admiration to a kindred spirit. The
historian who has depicted the most eventful period of
the French empire, the glorious triumphs of Wellington,
is here—(Cheers)—Clio, as it were, offering up a gar-
land to Erato.—(Cheers.) The distinguished head of
the Scottish bar is here—(Cheers)—in short, every town
and every district, every class, and every sex, and
every ago, has come forward to pay homage to their
poet. The honest lads whom he so praised, and whose
greatest boast is to belong to the land of Burns, are here.
—(Cheers.) The bonnie lasses whom he so praised—
those whom he loved and sung—are here ; they have
followed hither to justify, by their loveliness, the poet's
worth.—(Great applause)—while the descendant of
those who dwelt in the " Castle o' Montgomerio" feels
himself only too highly honoured in being permitted to
propose the memory of him who then wandered there
unknown on the banks of Fail.--(Loud cheering.) how
little the pious old man who dweit in yonder cottage—
with his " lyart haffets " o'erspreading his venerable
brow—when he read the " big ha' Bible "—could have
guessed that the infant prattling on his knee was to be
the pride of his nation—the chief among the poetic
band—was to be one of the brightest planets that glows
around the mighty sun of the Bard of Avon--(Cheers)
—in knowledge and originality ; second to none in the
fervent expression of deep feeling, in the genuine per-
ception of the beauties of nature, and equal to any
who revels in the fairy-land of poesy.—(Cheers.) Well
may we rejoice that Burns is our own—that no other
spot can claim to be the birth-place of our Homer, ex-
cept the spot on which we stand.—(Great cheering.)
Oh ! that he could have foreseen the futurity of fame
created for him this day, when the poet and the his-
torian, the peer and the peasant, vie with each other
in paying the tribute of their admiration to the
humble but mighty genius of him whom we hail
as the first of Scottish poets.—(Cheers.) Such a fore-
sight might have alleviated the dreary hours of his
sojourn at Mossgiel—might have lightened the dark
days of his pilgrimage on earth.—(Cheers.) Well does
he deserve our homage who has pourtrayed the" Cottar's
Saturday Night"—not in strains of inconsiderate mirth,
but in solemnity and truth—who breathed the patriotic
words that tell of the glories of our Wallace, immortal-
ising alike the poet and the hero ; he who could draw
inspiration from the humble daisy, breathed forth the
heroic words of " The Song of Death"—strains the in-
carnation of poetry and love, and yet of the bitterest
shafts of satire and ridicule—obeying but the band of
nature, despising all the rules of art, yet trampling over
the very rules he set at nought.—(Cheers.) At his
name every Scottish heart beats high. He has become
a household word alike in the palace and the cottage.
Of whom should we be proud—of whom should we pay
homage, if not to our own immortal Burns ?—(Cheers.)
But I feel I am detaining you too long in the presence
of a Wilson and an Alison.—(Cries of " No, no," and
applause.) In such a presence as these, I feel that I am
not a fit person to dilate upon the genius of Burns. I
am but an admirer like yourselves. There are others
present, who are brother poets, kindred geniuses—
men who, like Burns, have created a glorious immor-
tality for themselves—to them will I commit the agree-
able task of more fully displaying before you, decked
out with their eloquence, the excellence of the poet and
the genius of the man, and to extend and welcome his
sons to the land of their father—(Cheers)—and I will
now ask you in their presence, on the ground his genius
has rendered sacred—on the " hanks and braes o' bonny
Doon"—to join with me in drinking one overflowing
bumper, and in joining to it every expression of enthu-
siasm which you can, to " The Memory of Burns."
(The toast was received with the most rapturous and
enthusiastic bursts of applause.)
Mr. Templeton sang with admirable effect, " Ye banks
and braes o' bonnie Doon," which elicited the warmest
plaudits of the meeting. •
Mr- ROBERT BURNS, on rising to return thanks, was,
with his brothers, received with enthusiastic cheering.
He said—My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen, of course
it cannot be expected, at a meeting such as the present,
that the sons of Burns should expatiate on the merits
and genius of their deceased father. Around them
were an immense number of admirers, who, by their
presence there that day, bore a sufficient testimony to
the opinion in which they held his memory, and the
high esteem in which they held his genius. In the lan-
guage of the late Sir Christopher Wren, though very
differently applied, the sons of Burns could say, that to
obtain a living testimony to their father's genius they
had only to look around them.—(Cheers.) He begged,
in the name of his sister, brothers, and himself, to re-
turn their heartfelt and grateful thanks for the honour
that had that day been paid to their father's memory.
Professor WILsoN, who was received with enthusias-
tic cheering, spoke as follows :—Were this festival to
commemorate the genius of Burns, and it were asked
what need of such commemoratives since his fame is co
extensive with the heroes of our land, and inherent in
every soul, I must answer that, though admiration of the
poet be indeed wide as the world, yet we, as compatriots
to whom it is more especially dear, rejoice to see that
universal sentiment concentrated in the voice of a great
assembly of his own people—(Cheers)—that we rejoice
to meet in thousands to honour him who has delighted
each single one of us all at his own hearty.—(Cheers.)
But this commemoration expresses, too, if
it not a pro-
founder, yet a more tender sentiment ; for is to wel-
come his sons to the land which their father illustrated
—it is to indulge our national pride
.in a great name,
while, at the same time, we gratify in full hearts the
most pious of affections.—(Cheers.) It was customary,
you know, in former times, to crown great poets. No
such ovation honoured our bard ; yet he, too, tasted of
human applause—he enjoyed its delights, and he saw
the trials that attend it. Which, think you, would he
himself have preferred ? Such a celebration as this in
his lifetime, or fifty years after his death ? I cannot
doubt that he would have preferred the posthumous, be-
cause the finer incense.--(Cheers.) The honour and its
object arc thus seen in their just proportions ; for death
gives an elevation which the candid soul of the poet
would himself have considered, and that honour- he
would have reserved rather for his manes, than encoun-
tered it with his living infirmities.—(Cheers.) And
yet, could he have foreseen the day when they for whom
his soul was often sorely troubled, should, after many
years of separation, return to the hut where himself was
born, and near it, within the shadoW of his owncadies
monu-
ment, be welcomed for his sake by the lords and
of the land ; and dearer still, far- dearer to his manly
breast, by the children and children's children of people
of his own degree, whose hearts he sought to thrill by
the voice of his own inspirations, then surely would such
a vision have been sweeter to his soul even than that
immortal one in which the genius of the land bound holly
round his forehead—the lilac-leaved crown that shall
flourish for ever.—(Cheers.) Of his three sons now sit-
ting here, one only, I believe, can remember his father's
face—can remember those large lustrous eyes of his, so
full of meaning, so full of melting in melancholy, or
kindling in mirth, but never turned on nis ebildrert,
the mother of his children, but with one expression of

The Rev. Mr. CUTHILL, of Ayr, asked the blessing in
language brief, impressive, and appropriate. The Rev.
Gentleman also returned thanks.
Lord EuratcrouN said—There is one toast which
never can be omitted, more especially at an assembly
such as this, consisting of loyal Scotchmen; and it is a
toast which I am sure will be received here, as it is else-
where, with respect and joy. "The health of the
Queen."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—We will drink
" Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family."
The CHAIRMAN then rose amidst the most enthu-
siastic applause. He said—Ladies and Gentlemen, the
subject of the toast which I turn now going to bring be-
fore you is one of such paramount importance on this
occasion, and is so deeply interesting, not only to those
whom I hare now the honour to address, but to all
whom genius is dear, that I could hare wished it com-
mitted to more worthy hands; more particularly when I
see the enormous assemblage collected here—the distin-
guished persons which grace our board to-day.--
(Cheers.) It is only because I conceive that my official
position renders me the most formal and fitting, though
most inefficient, mouthpiece of the inhabitants of this
county—(llear, hear, and cheers)—that I have ven-
tured to intrude myself before you on this occasion,
and to undertake the onerous, though gratifying duty of
proposing in such an assemblage the thrilling toast,
" The Memory of Burns."—(Great applause, the
company rising to testify their approbation by the waving
of handkerchiefs.) This is not a meeting for the pur-
pose of recreation and amusement ; it is not a banquet
at which a certain number of toasts printed on paper are
to be proposed and responded to, which to -day marks
our preparations ; it is the enthusiastic desire of a whole
people to pay honour to their countryman ; it is the
spontaneous offering of a nation's feelings towards the
illustrious dead, and, added to this, the,desire to extend
a hand of welcome and friendship to those whom he has
left behind.—(Tremendous applause.) Here on the very
spot where he first drew breath, on the very ground
which his genius has hallowed, bosi,le the Old Kirk of
Alloway, which his verse has immortalised, beneath the
monument which an ad:niring and t epentant people have
raised to him—(Great applause)—we meet, after the
lapse of years, to pay our homage to the man of genius.
—(Loud cheers.) The master-mind who has sung the
" Isle of Palms "—who has revelled in the immortal
Noctes"—who has alreatly done that justice to the