(Great applause.) To him I applied, and with the repetition of his advice I shall cease to trespass upon your time--( hear, hear)--"My dear William, fear not.

Integrity and assiduity must prove an overmatch for all difficulty; and though I approve your not indulging a vain confidence in your own ability, and viewing with respectful apprehension the judgment of the audience you have to act before, yet be assured that judgment will ever be tempered by the feeling that you are acting for the widow and the fatherless." (Loud applause.) Gentlemen, those words have never passed from my mind; and I feel convinced that you have pardoned my many errors, from the feeling that I was striving for the widow and the fatherless.

(Long and enthusiastic applause followed Mr.Murray's address.) Sir WALTER SCOTT gave "The Health of the Stewards." Mr.VANDENHOFF .-- -Mr.President and Gentlemen, the honour conferred upon the Stewards, in the very flattering compliment you have just paid us, calls forth our warmest acknowledgments.

In tendering you our thanks for the approbation you have been pleased to express of our humble exertions, I would beg leave to advert to the cause in which we have been engaged.

Yet, surrounded as I am by the genius--the eloquence--of this enlightened city, I cannot but feel the presumption which ventures to address you on so interesting a subject.