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MAG NAY, MAYOR,

A N ESPECIAL COURT of LORD MAYOR
and ALDERMEN, held in the Inner Chamber of the
Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday, the 9th • day of
August, 1544, and the eighth year of the Reign of Victoria, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen,
Resolved unanimously,—That a humble, loyal, and dutiful Address
be presented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, upon her de
and happy Delivery, and the !firth of another Prince.

'SYRIAN PRIZE GRANT.
'SECRETARY'S OFFICE, ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA,
Auousx 2, 1844.
The LORDS COMMISSIONERS of her MAJESTY'S TREASURY
haying authorised the issue to this Hospital of the amount of the
ARMY PORTION of the GRANT to the SEA and LAND FORCES
employed In SYRIA in the year 1840, tinder the command of Admiral
the lionourablee Sir Robert Stopford (1.C.8.
Notice is hereby given, that PAYMENT of the SHARES of the
ARMY PORTION of the GRANT to the TROOPS entitled thereto,
viz., Artillery and Engineers, will commence on the 2d day of SEP-
TEMBER next, and be continued at this °Mee on each succeeding day
(Sundays excepted) between the hours of Ten and TWo.
RICHARD NEAVE, Secretary and Registrar.
FAMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
Loudon, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
little trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only 118. per
annum, and many during the last nineteea years have realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.
Application to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above.

ISLINGTON.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD ESTATES, near CANONBURY.

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, but 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 " 'ram 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
pitt. out In wood. At theli

SQUARE.
MR. MASON (of 13ucklersbury) has received
instructions from tl e Assignees of Mr. H. Lancefield, to
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on WIIDNISDAY, the 14th of
August, at Twelve, in THREE LOTS,
A desirable LEASEHOLD ESTATE, comprising fifteen newly
and substantially brick-built Houses, of uniform elevation, with
stuccoed frcrt.ts, iron balconies, and gardens, situate in Spencer.
street ; and Two Houses in Sebbon-street; near Canonbury-square,
Islington, a genteel and improving neighbourhood, which will al-
ways command respectable tenants, of the estimated value of
0201. per annum, and held on lease from the Marquis of North-
ampton for seventy.four years, at a trifling ground-rent. Also, a
vacant piece of ground, with a frontage of 200 feet, in Spencer.
street, nerrly equal to freehold, being held for the same term at a
peppercorn, and adapted for ten houses.
The houses and land may be viewed ten days previous to the
sale, and particulars obtained at No. 15, Spencer-street, on the Es.
tate; of Messrs. Veuning, Naylor, and Robins, Token-house-
3ard ; T. M. Alsager, Esq., Birchin-lane; at the Mart; and of
Mr. Mason, 33, Buck leisbury.

MEREWETTIEIt.

MAGN AY, MAYOR. .
ACOMMON COUNCIL holden in the Chamber
of the Guilhall of the'dity of London, on Friday, the 9th day
of August, 1844,
Resolved unanimously,--That a loyal and dutiful Address be pre-
sented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, on the auspicious
occasion of the Birth of another Prince.

MEREWETHER.

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In consequence of the DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION elf BRIGII-
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yield to the generally expressed wish that Dr. RYAN should adapt
one of his Lectures to the subject of EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS.
This Lecture,!illustrated by interesting Experiments, eo far as tkey can
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Institution.

Fish Cross, the flag ot GAL/I.IIGU,
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 landscape 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 Ails!' full in view,
O'erlooking, many a league, the ocean round."

THE BURNS' FESTIVAL.

The first idea of a Festival on the Banks of the
Doon in honour of the memory of Burns was sug-
gested, we believe, by the entertainment given in
September last year to Mr. Mainzer on that classic
ground. It was upon a small scale, no doubt, but it
showed how effective a larger demonstration would
he. The visit of Colonel Burns to Ayrshire about
the same period naturally prompted the feeling that
some mark of respect should be paid him while so-
journing in the land of his father. Cogitations to this
effect were going on amongst individuals, when a
letter from a gentleman in Edinburgh, with whom
Mr. Auld had been in correspondence, recommending
that the three sons of Burns, all of whom were then
in the country, should be invited to an entertain-
ment of welcome on the ground rendered classic by
embryothei r t father'sho uan impetus to the
thought; oncecoungatevneaneed by the ready
acquiescence of the Earl of Eglinton and Winton to
preside on the occasion, it was immediately resolved
to put the suggestion into practice. A little reflec-
tion, however, convinced Mr. Auld, and those who
were taking an interest in themmatter, that the season
was too far advanced to overtake it upon a proper
scale. The idea was consequently abandoned for the
time, but with a full determination to realise it next
year. The first meeting called with the view of
forming a committee, took place in Ayr on the 17th
of May last. The subsequent progress of the ar-
rangements we need not repeat. They have been
regularly chronicled in the Ayr Observer, and other
journals, and are well known to the public. From
the enthusiasm with which the announcement of the
festival was everywhere greeted, and the interest
taken in it by so many persons of rank and talent,
the Committee found it necessary greatly to extend
their original plan, and the result has been the
ample accommodation provided for the largest assem-
blage ever witnessed—not even excepting the tourna-
ment itself—in the west of Scotland. The pavilion,
erected in a field of twenty-two acres, adjoining to
the monument, is a magnificent building. It measures
not less than 120 feet by 110, forming nearly a perfect
square. It has three roofs ; the centre one—with two
ventilators—rises proportionally higher than the
others ; and, surmounted with numerous flags
waving in the wind, presents a picturesque and im-
posing object. The roof, supported by two rows of
pillars, is covered with waterproof felt, and the
building inside is lined with white cloth, variegated
with crimson ; and, while wreaths of flowers taste-
fully adorn the walls, and the daises of the chairman
and croupier, the centre of the roof is beautifully
wrought in imitation of the sun dispensing his rays
over the expansive area beneath. The tables and
eats are arranged in parallelograms from the head to
the foot of the apartment, rising with a gentle in-
lination from the middle on both sides. The com-
pany, seated as in a church, have a fdll view of the
chairman and croupier. On each side there is an abut-
ment—one for the band, and the other for the press. It
was deemed better by the Building Committee to make
provision in this way for the gentlemen of the broad-
sheet, than that they should be scattered throughout
the body of the meeting, where they could not have
the same facilities for writing : and it was also con-
sidered they would hear the better for being elevated.
Immediately under the reporters' gallery, a !platform
is erected for Mr, Blewitt , the conductor of the vocal
music, and the glee singers. The architect of the
building was James Miller, Esq., of this town, and he
certainlydeserves the utmost credit for the design, which
is elegant, substantial, and economical. Mr. M‘Nab and
Mr. Pickle, the contractors, also merits very con-
siderable praise for the efficient and expeditious man-
lier in which the work has been executed; while,
in the ornamental department, the Messrs. Wilson,
upholsterers, have shown equal taste and neat-
ness" of handicraft. The Pavilion is connected
with the "Auld Brig
of Doon by two rustic
bridges. In the centre of the field an erec-
tion has been made for the band of the 87th
Regiment, and in other parts of it four tents for
refreshments are put up
at proper distances. A
splendid Gothic arch is erected over the New
bridge at the monument. Another spans the para
pets of tne " Auld Brig," with a painting of " Tam
o' Shanter," well mounted on his " noble Maggie,"
at the critical moment of his gaining the key-stone of
the arch, when

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4. -Ae spring brought aff her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail."
Another arch of evergreens and flowers marks the
cottage of the Poet's birth, where
" The gossip keekit in his loof,
Quo' she, wha lives will see the proofs
This waly boy will be nae coot;
I think we'll ea' him Robin."
The line of march for the procession by the High-road
was well chosen. To the right the line of the old
road from Ayr through the borough moor, which was
then unenclosed, and which the Poet no doubt had in
his eye when he composed the poem of " Tam
o'Shanter," can be traced. It must have passed, on the
west of the farm of Slaphouse, by St. Leonard's
Chapel, now entirely demolished, throught the ford of
the Curtecun,

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FOR FISH, GRAVIES, HASHES, STEAKS, &c.
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most respectfully to caution the Public against the daily frauds and
impositions practised by many London and Country Oilmen, who are
offering for sale their own spurious compositions as Reading Sauce.
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Kingdom. Be particular in asking for
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~ Whore n the snow the chapman smoor'd;"
len - -- - -

the
past the birks and meikle stane
whichWsthoenree disruwckiethniCnhaarslhieobrtradkisL nneckee o bane,"f
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public
road. From thence
" through the whins and by the cairn
Where hunters fend the murder'd bairn,"
west of Greenfield-house, and onwards to
the thorn aboon the well,
Where Mango's wither hang'd horsey;"
till at length
" -•••••••• when glimmering through the trees,
Kirk Alloway seemed in a bleeze."
All these objects are near at hand, and can be pointed
oft by any one acquainted with the locality.
The sons of Burns, accompanied by a large party
of friends, arrived early at the Crown Inn here, from
Dumfries. Yesterday they spent the greater part of
the day with their aunt, Mrs. Begg, at Bridgehouse,
where the two younger brothers remained last night
—the eldest and his friends returning to the Crown
in the evening. Lord Eglinton reached Eglinton
Castle yesterday, and Professor Wilson arrived
here in the evening. He spent the night at Castle.
hill. Many other distinguished individuals arrived
in the course of yesterday. Ayr, indeed, has been
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. Woinbwell's caravans of
wild animals have been exhibiting since Friday,
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.

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what gallant prows are these, steaming along, with
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 Coils'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 Coils. Now do we turn to the north,
by Arran's mist-clad summits, and behold other
steam-driven galleys emerge from the horizon,
cleaving the surgy bosom of Clyde as if proud of the
living cargoes which they bear. These are some of
the rich burghers of St. Mungo and St. Marion,
forsaking their counting-houses and their factories
for the time, to worship at the shrine of genius, and
to show that in the laudable enterprises of commerce
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,
Largs, 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 bodies having
arrived at an early hour. Amongst these were
the Foresters of Kilwinning, the Odd-Fellows of
Glasgow, the Yeomen of Cumnock, the Burn's Club
of Dalrymple, the Shepherds of Straiton, 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 assethbled
by the chivalrous, but foolish monarch, prior to the
unfortunate, though well-fought field of Flndden..
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 at half-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 bad 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 hoar 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 hanks and braes o' bonny Doon," 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 pliying 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 Doon. 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 ti

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the poet ; Miss Begg, niece of the poet ; Mr. 11. 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 I). 11. Blair, Bart., of
Blairquhar. The croupier, Professor Wilson, of Edin-
burgh, was supported on the right by Mr. A. Alison,
Sheriff of Lanarkshire; Colonel Mure, 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 .1.
Campbell, Glasgow; Provost Miller, Ayr; Mr. J. Bal-
lantine, of Castlehill; Mr. J. Campbell, of Craigie.
The Rev. Mr. CUTHILL, of Ayr, asked the blessing in
language brief, impressive, and appropriate. The Rev.
Gentleman also returned thanks.
Lord EGLINTOUN 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.77-(Cheers.).

- The CuintmAithen 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 am 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 have now the honour to address, but to all
whom genius is dear, that I could have 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—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—that I have ven-
t.

Irlaretarra o e Onerol4:l9-"ilibio---giaontit'sfyiiiirlitasyiootn,
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, beside the Old Kirk of
Alloway, which his verse has immortalised, beneath the
monument which an admiring and repentant 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 already done that justice to the me-
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 Wblllngton,
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 toe n
and every district, every class, and every sex, and
every age, 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' Montgomerie" 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 dwelt in yonder cottage—
with his " lyart haffets " o'erspreading his venerable
brow—when he read the " big ha' Bible "—could hal e
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 Mosagiel—might hare lightened the dark
days of his pilgrimage on earth.—(Cheers.) Well does
he deserve our homage who has pourtrayed the " Cotter'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 hand 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 lam
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 " banks 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 hraes 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, tis 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—(Cheersl—that we rejoice
to meet in thousands to honour him who has delighted
each single one of us all at his own hearth.—(Cheers.)
But this commemoration expresses, too, if not a pre-
founder, yet a more tender sentiment ; for it is to wel-
-1 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,
attoop,netatss.tedonf
grhee,
syuocuhkonvoawtfoninhofonromuererdtimouers,
btsordcr;own yet
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 cam t
doubt that he would have preferred the posthumous, be-
cause the finer incense.—(Cbeers.) The honour and its
object aro 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
es
born, and near it, within the shadow of his own
monu-
ment, be welcomed for his sake by the lordsand ladi
of the land ; and dearer still, far dearer to his manly
breast, by the children and children's children of peop e
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 l
and dbound holly
round his forehead—the lilac-leaved
crownn 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 j