BURNS'S ANNIVERSARY.

Evening Star, Issue 4031, 27 January 1876, Page 2

BURNS'S ANNIVERSARY.

The dir. ctora of the Caledonian Society met in Waiu’s Hotel on Tuesday to celebrate the 117 th anniver-ary of the birth of Robert Buros. Owing to; the unavoidable abpiencei of the deut, Mr >.obe;t .Wilson, (onp of the .vice-presj fc dent-*), occupied the chaif. The chairman the : proceedings by, delivering j the! f»llowi g cha,racterratio grace written,by .the poets— ~.. ■ . . , :

. . Some hae meat an* canna,eat, , Some hae none that want it, i , But wfehaempat'an’ weeaneai, ‘.... • .Ahforiyiibrd.'be tßacddtl. ? ; The toast pf jthe evening waa given by Mr, - in an able and.eloquent which, wfia, enthusiastically' received, and" fre- i gently applauded during its dehyeiy.,; Mri Bevkbidgk specially-, dwelt -bn the poets three great '‘charms' of. sensibility;simplicity,4&cft reality, ‘and stated that Buma had secured the' universal admiration of mankind because'liehad given utterance "to the'noblest sentiments; hainelyy M bf love,; tanderntob) 1 ' J genbrb4%' f ' f p^- > trolt.jand t< ub ' piety, 1 in maiw., simple, and intelligent. Thepbet ahd'fnbdialect are pre-eminently . Scottish, but the Sentiments belong to the whole ( hutoan . race; and - bjjr stirring anid 'Sympathetic;action-, Whatfteningbbthe' ‘glad'Hmbi.w^bh-^r ! ~ ‘ V' V< - Man to man the world o'er, _BhaUbritbecßbean<aVtb^t r .-, #- Tp ; shpw that time mellowed bis influence, and extended it ,tp.' ail/dashes of society, there was the testimony of the American Quaker poet> (J. G* ’ W., 'Outtierbwhoi toys —The world 1 has newer known a truerSinger. We wse loye him. As the day of his birth comes round. I take down his. well-worn volume f in gtotofol com* v memoratipn-and feelthat Xamconvening.tvith; one whom living I could hayp loved as <muph l for his t ue manhood and native nobility of soul as for those which shall;sing themselves for evpr,- In the shout of enfranchised millions'aa thpy lifted the nntitled Quaker of Uochdale into tne British Cabinet, I seem to hear the voice.of tiie Ayrshire gobtlr - For a’ that an a’ that It’s coming yet for a*, that ; When .sense an .worth o’er a* the earth; . Shall bear the gree an a’ that. ' " “ Our Native f-and,” “ The land we live in,” and a number .of other appropriate toasts srere proppsed and duly honored. ,