The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-26

Celebration In this City inner OF the Burns
/. Ciub at DelmoBico's Inst Evening" DC.
tho memory OF Robert Burns, scotands favcrito
child OF enus, whose imperishabe legacy o. song hs
eonntrymen 70 well how 10 cherish and appreci-
ste was ceieoraed last evening by the Burns Club
all that nstraned e.uberance OF national feel
log which the occasion invariably draws forth
AT Delmonoos corner OF Broadway and Chambers
street at hafpast seven O'Clock last evening,
hundred gentlemen sat down TO dinner and fof few
hours the catie knives and forks formed The nos
agreeable melody to those OF sastronomc tastes Pro-
Marine opened the proceedings with grace aer
which Mr. John McInnes rected address 70 tne
baggs, species Of diet, the luxury which very soon
after followed The hung with appropriate
Commentator In which the poet himself more espe-
oslly figured. Burns waving s gay Glensarry cap TO
the girl OF his early affections formed very ccnspcu
feature picturesque display OF artistic pfoduc-
2 lions around the walls
After the cloth had been removed Mr. Nicholson the
President of the Club responded follows 70 the toast
Of THE day We ceebrate:'-The birthday Of Burns,
The day so happily described by the poet himself 'when
the spaewife keekt in his oof" and seeing by silka
score and line' that little chubby hand that .the
willie boy would be coof." that he would not only
make his mark among the asses-her frat thoughtbut
that he would ssbe credit TO an she decided
''ca him Robin y That prophecy has been fulGed; he
has become "a credit to a. honor all, and
chat plain. commonplace, uupoetical name, ROBIN has
been engraved more deeply on the hearts Of men, in
characters Of love, than any other name high low
whether given the clay built cottage the gded hail.
whether waited through the open lattice in gentle whs
pers on the perfumed zephyrs Of summer night, or
whsed ha rshy his was through chink and crevice
BY the cold blasts Of January wind. That is pecu
liary dear every Scottish heart-every Scottish
worthy OF the name must love Burns when he thinks
hoy much scotland owes to him who has embamed her
heroes in immortal song who has digned rustic toll by
exam Ie-the muse found him at the piough-whO has
done homage the beauty and virtue of her daughters
and the honest manhood OF her who has clothed
with new beauty the 'banks and braes and streams
around" not only "the Castle o. Montgomery and
s'boDnie Doom" but every bank and brae and stream
IN his much loved land Yes every Scottish stands
at the thought that he born the
soil; every Scottish asse smiles sweetly. and her
bonnie blue eye beams more brightly whep under the
white blossomed hawthorn, her lover brsathes his love
tale in the language of Burns her thistle mods more
proudly the breeze because he turned the weeder
clips aside to spare the symbol-s'Remo impune tdc
ser'-her ssltle harebc on the Leap and her 6AIsn,
companion of the lark look more modestly s~ ha
because dear him. Her bills neighboSs OF ,av az"
stars raise their cress more proudly, and ner S;s
smile invitingly because they have nec~o,,and
strains everything animate or inanimate ~ ~ 40
suust love him, for the ambition OF his IL ~ .h, =.
something grand for his country, or, fails = nav