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into office ; no impressions have been made on your mind, or irritation produced by attendance on these meetings. With these advantages then, added to your own personal qualities and conciliating disposition, I sincerely trust and believe that it has been reserved for you to bestow that boon on the community over which you preside, of restoring peace and tranquillity on a firm and lasting basis. I know, my Lord, I am touching on dangerous ground; but having been engaged in these hostilities, ay, and fought in the hottest of the campaigns, I know something of the nature and object of the warfare and characters of the combatants. I know, Sir, there are honourable men on both sides, who have acted as they thought from conscientious motives, and from a regard to the public weal, and I do not believe there is one of them who would not now enter on negociations for peace on fair and honourable terms.(Cheers.) All that is wanted, in my opinion, is a zealous, impartial, and able negociator; that, I trust, my Lord, they will find in you; and before you lay aside that badge of distinction which has been conferred on you by your fellow-citizens, you will have the happiness of seeing peace and tranquillity restored to the community over which you preside-a blessing, I am sure, which will be gratefully received, and be a distinguished feature in your mayoralty.-(Loud cheering.) From the regret your Lordship expressed at not meeting the Magistrates of Leith here to-day, and the social and convivial spirit you have evinced in your toast, I cannot help remarking, that the unhappy discussions to which you have alluded, commenced soon after the system of economy was introduced into the management of the city funds, by which the convivial meetings that took place formerly in Leith were abolished. The first time I ever had the honour of dining with the Magistrates of Edinburgh, was when the late Provost Creech was Admiral of Leith. I had an invitation to meet the Admiral and his crew, not in the Shore Dues Office at one o'clock, but in the Ship Tavern at four o'clock, and a happier meeting I never attended.—(Applause.) Whatever dissensions might take place in the forenoon, nothing but harmony existed in the afternoon; and when peace and harmony

are again restored, I do not think it would be any great misapplication of the city funds to appropriate a small part of them to enable the gentlemen who bestowed so much time and attention to the management of the affairs of Leith, to enjoy themselves at a plain dinner and a few bottles of Leith Port, after the fatigues of Dry Dock business.-(Laugh.) I shall then be most happy to resume my duty as their collector. May I ask a bumper to the toast- -"Success to the Magistrates of Edinburgh, and a speedy restoration of concord between them and the Magistrates of Leith."-(applause.)

The LORD PROVOST briefly replied, and stated that he would meet the Magistrates of Leith in a friendly spirit, at any time and upon any occasion-either at three or four o'clock-before dinner, at dinner, or after dinner-with dinner or without it-and he trusted that this consummation, so devoutly to be wished, would not be delayed to a very distant day. -(Cheers.)

The LORD PROVOST then gave-"Sir Alex. Hope and the Freeholders of Linlithgowshire."

SIR ALEXANDER returned thanks for himself and the freeholders of the county which he had the honour to represent.

Bailie BLACKWOOD gave "Dr. Brunton and the Clergy of Edinburgh," for which the Rev. Doctor returned thanks.

The LORD PROVOST, in proposing the health of the Solicitor-General, pointed out that learned gentleman as a proper model for all who desired to rise to eminence and respectability in the legal profession. The toast was received with great applause.

"The Magistrates of Edinburgh"-by the Chair.

Bailie BLACKWOOD then proposed the High School of Edinburgh-one of the most venerable and most valuable institutions in our far-famed city-and whose teachers, for diligence and profound erudition, would bear a comparison with those of any seminary in the empire. "The Rector and Masters of the High School," was drunk with universal applause.

Dr. MACLAGAN gave-"Mr. Wood and the Sessional School of Edinburgh." (Applause.)

The LORD PROVOST proposed the New Academy. He believed he was the only member of the present

Council who had attended the opening of that institution, and he wished it all prosperity, for he was convinced that it would prove an excellent stimulus to the High School, and enhance, in place of lessening, the usefulness of that valuable and deservedly cherished seminary. With sincere wishes for its welfare, he would crave a bumper to Mr. Williams and the other masters of the New Academy. (Drunk with applause.) Mr. WILKIE, R. A. requested, before the Lord Provost should leave the assembly, to express the satisfaction all present must feel at the good-humoured, dignified, and gentleman-like conduct of his Lordship in this his first appearance in the civic chair. In doing so, he begged leave to give a toast calculated to unite with the Chief Magistrate the prosperity of that city the interests of which would now be his peculiar care -the Modern Athens itself.—(Cheers.) He said that though a native, as they all were, he now saw Edinburgh as a stranger, and as a traveller who had seen all the admired cities of Europe; but what the tour of Europe was necessary to see elsewhere, he now found congregated in this one city.-(Cheers.) Here are alike the beauties of Prague and of Saltzburgh-here are the romantic sites of Orvietto and Tivoli-and here is all the magnificence of the admired bays of Genoa and Naples-here indeed to the poetic fancy may be found realized the Roman Capitol and the Grecian Acropolis. -(Cheers.) Still to him, and to those who count this the home of their youth, it is the ancient rather than the modern beauties of this metropolis that excite their warmest sympathies.-(Cheers.) The Auld Town, which was but now claimed by the Lord Advocate with enthusiasm as the place of his birth, is what is most treasured and longest remembered by the true Scotsman, and the interest attached to which every true friend to Edinburgh must hope not to see diminished. The recent improvements unite only the improvements of other cities, the grandeur of the Old Town is unique---as seen from Prince's Street, the range from the lofty citadel to the ancient palace of the Stuarts is the wonder of habitable cities. The massive lands and lofty gables, surmounted by the lengthened and undulating vertebræ of chimney tops,

here telling harsh against the sky, and there lost in their reeky eminences, form, with the crown-like tiara of St. Giles's, a spectacle worthy alike of the poet, the architect, and the painter. Such an aspect in such a vicinity might well suggest the heroic exclamation of "Who would not fight for such a land!"—(Loud cheers.) He concluded by saying, that a similar exclamation may probably suggest itself to the breast of the Chief Magistrate, as well as those associated with him in his high trust, of

"Who would not deserve well of such a city!"

a city to the prosperity of which he now called upon them to drink, by the homely and familiar appellation of "Auld Reekie." (This toast was received with loud cheering.)

The Lord Provost left the chair at a little past eleven o'clock, and was succeeded by Bailie Blackwood, who kept those who remained in spirit and good humour till a considerably later period.

The evening passed off with that harmony and conviviality which good wine, good humour, and good fellowship among all present could not fail to produce. The dinner provided by Mr. Steventon was elegant and sumptuous, as will be seen by the following bill of fare:

15 soups---8 real turtle, 4 clear rump soup, 3 green pea; 15 fish---3 turbots, 3 salmon, 5 cods' heads, 4 stewed haddocks; 15 joints, to remove fish---5 roast beef, 4 roast mutton, 2 roast veal, 4 roast lamb; 15 dishes game to remove joints---black-cock, partridges, grouse; 8 tongues, 6 hams, 9 dishes boiled chickens, 3 boiled turkeys, with white oyster sauce; 6 stewed beef, Harricot sauce, and Spanish onions; 6 boiled legs lamb; 4 boiled do. mutton, 2 roast beef, 2 roast mutton, 40 made dishes, 40 dishes of vegetables, 9 jellies, 9 creams, 18 tarts, 6 cream pastry, 15 lobsters--salads, 8 puddings to remove game. In all 250 dishes.

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INSCRIPTION BY BISHOP LOWTH.

On the south side of the Chancel of Cuddesdon Church, near Oxford, is the following beautiful inscription :

Maria,

Roberti Lowth, Episcopi Oxon.
Et Mariæ Uxoris ejus filia
Nata ximo. die Junii, A. D.
MDCCL, Obiit vto. die Julii

A. D. MDCCLXVIII.

Cara vale! ingenio, præstans, pietate, pudore,
Ut plusquam natæ nomine cara vale,
Cara Maria, vale, at veniet felicius ævum,
Quando iterum tuum, sine modo dignus ero,
Cara, redi! læta tum dicam voce paternos,
Eja age in amplexus, cara Maria, redi!

TRANSLATION.

Dearer than daughter, paralleled by few,
In genius, goodness, modesty, adieu!
Adieu, Maria! till that day more blest,
When, if deserving, I with thee shall rest!
Come then, thy Sire will cry, in joyful strain,
O! come to thy paternal arms again.

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