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ho hoped to remain in the St . James's Chapter for many years to como . For the compliment paid to the P . Zs . he thanked them , as Avell as for the honourthey had done him personally . The healths of tho visitors , Comps . F . Slight and Major Beard were most cordially drunk for which Comp . Slight returned thanks , saying it ahvays afforded him great gratification to attend the St . James ' s Chapter , the premier Chapter of England , where he bad ever experienced great hospitality , and had been gratified at the manner in which the work had been performed . He sincerely wished continued prosperity to the St . James ' s Chapter . After a very pleasant evening the Companions separated about half past ten o ' clock .

Scotland.

SCOTLAND .

THE BURNS CENTENARY .

GLASGOAA . PROVINCIAL GRASD LODGE . Os the 25 th of Jan . about five hundred Brethren of the various Lodges in the province of GlasgoiA' , met at the Trades Hall , in honour of the Ayrshire bard , Bro . Donald Campbell , Substitute Prov . G . M .. occupied the chair , supported by Bros . John Deucharof MorningsideGrand Bible Bearer ; Councillor McC'nllocli ; J . AV .

, , McGregor : David Sutherland , Prov . G . Treas . ; Rubenstein ; N . B . Dalveen ; George '" McLeod , M . D . ; James Cruikshank , Prov . S . G . AV . ; R . E . Simpson ; F . A . Barron , Murray , Stout , Muir and Park . Bro . A . R . McDiarmid acted as Prov . J . G . AV . The Lodgo having been opened in duo form , the Brethren AA'ere called from labour to refreshment . An excellent banquet ivas served by Bros . McCorkendale and Macree .

The usual loyal aud Alasonic toasts having been duly honoured , Bro . JleCullccli sang " There AA'as a lad ivas born in Kyle . " The Chairman then rose to propose the toast of the evening , " The Immortal Memory of Bro . Robert Burns . " He said— " The song AA'hich has just preceded my toast was , as you no doubt are well aware , one of the earlier effusions of our brother , and alludes to his birth , which took jilace exactly ono hundred years ago , on the banks of the Doon , closely adjacent to tho ' auld Kirk Alloway , ' both of

which places have been rendered so famous by his poetical descriptions . It would , my brethren , I am sure , be considered out of place wherol to attempt any sketch of his life , the more especially so , AA'hen that has been done so often , and by so many distinguished aud able biographers . But , brethren , there is no biographer , hoivcA'er exalted bo his position in literature , poetry , or eloquence that I Avill yield tho palm to , in honouring the name of Bro . Robert Burns . " The R . W . brother , in a speech of great length , characterised by eloquence aud apt illustration , sketched

tho early life and struggles of tho poet ; and after some critical remarks upon the wit , pathos , and beauty of description which abound in the works of Burns , proceeded as fblloAvs— "Having , brethren , thus made some remarks on our departed Brother , as a man and a poet , I have IIOAV to advert to him ns a Brother of the mystic tie . From the records of St . David's Lodge of Tarbolton , Ave learn that liro . Robert Burns first saAV the light on tho 1 th July , 1781 , and ivas passed and raised on the 1 st October of the same year . He ivas initiated by Bro . Alex . AVood

, of Tarbolton ; and from the fact of his having been the means of enli ghtening the poet , the probability is that his name Avill live iu the remembrance of the Craft , AA'hile others , possessed of far higher titles , honours , and distinctions in the neutral world , are alike forgotten and unreniembered . Bro . Burns has ahvays been associated in name with the St . James Tarbolton Lodge , and I think it