ST. ANDREW IN CEYLON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 159, 22 March 1872, Page 6

ST. ANDREW IN CEYLON.

. ; *[ TJjjw&jrds; of' forty ■ Scotchmen assembled in Colombo 6n\the anniversary of St. Andrew tq celebrate the is tbeir usual custom,- by a dinner. In proposing the toast of the evening "the chairman said:— - o.

I Wherever Scotchmen are gathered in large numbers they,meet" *to celebrate their patron Saint A ndrew, whose J-his-tory was somewhat obscure. There possibility of St; Peter havlihgvb"some :or ' ot;her visited Tfome>: but ever, heard-the ques-tion-raised as toSt. Andrew's being-in Scotland, : for he never was. there, (liausrhter.) He;liad been piizMed lor a lime to know why;it was Andrew had been chosen as the patron saint of tlie -best part of Great Britain. After consulting various authorities, and looking iift 6 sundry big books, he found the reason was threefold : St;; Andrew was the patron Saint of Scotchmen (1) .because of his modesty—(laughter)-—(2) on account of his foresi*ht,°and (3) on account of his perseverance. He had looked into Smith's /Bible Dictionary, and there he found St. Andrew waa a particularly modest man,, always keeping in the back-ground, and everybody knew that was what Scotchmen always did. (Loud laughter). Scotchmen, who are all over, the w'prld, keep themselves obscure, and then when one of them became very great and las Macaulay and others, people asked with amazement, "Was he a Scotchman,?" So,, being invariably modest men,'is the reason why Scotchmen have chosen St. Andrew. (Renewed laughter);. • Thea as foresight— (the Ghiirremembered reading'; in the' best of books that when a' number of people were gathered together, far from the : dwellings ; of men, there was one man who kept his eye on the lad' with two barley leaves and. five small fishes —(laughter)— and 'that was St." Andrew. He keot his eye on.the right spot at the right time, and that was another reason why Scotchmen chose St. Andrew. Then again, loak.at his perseverance. He-it waswho induced the Apostle. Peter to become a Christian. And what persevering men are Scotchmen. From their ranks come civil servants' and district judges. Who cut down the trees in the jungle and planted coffee ? Echo always answers Scotchmen. -Wlio : was it came to Colombo, and jrnade ,the merchants houses/ connection^the almighty;.rupee,';the .banks,: &e.;but Scotchmen ? Who was his predecessor, A Scotchman ;ji and who were .the rising young men but all Scotchmen ? When a criminal gets into gaolit; is a' Scotchman who takes him in and—and Dr.' Coghill. And, again, St. A ndrew did his Master's work faithfully.and' well, e%n though -t led to a painful; death in a foreign land. They, too, came to this island as more than merchants— as more/than bankers. Those by whom they were surrounded must be benefitted by them; and if they, like St. Andrew, would do their work Well, they'must ..ot content themselves with attending a dinner on St. Andrew's Day. (L jud applause.)

..Delane, a.native of/. Ireland,, is 1 the editor of the London 'Times.' He is one of the hardest worked men in London. He was preceded by Barnes. Delane s real name is for .toreign" purposes he transposed it to Delane. The city editor is a Mr. Sampson. It is well known that the 'fim-s' city article never opposed a loan of the Baron Rothschild's. Mr; Walter is one ot the chief proprietors of the f Times' and: a justice of the peace m 'Essex. /The reader of the 'Times' gets about £IOOO per year, but is fined Is.' for every misspelt word. Some of the printers get pensions. It is the only threepenny paper in England with an undiminished circulation. But the ' Daily Te ' has the latest circulation in Kndand, perhaps in the world. Its chietleader writer is J. Herbert' Stack George Augustus Sala.. No man improves in any company tor which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraiuV .Some one, feeling, that actions are better than,words, has said—,'We read of the acts of the apostles, but never of their resolutions,"