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January meeting of the following year, when it was 

 voted to retain the original motto of the society 

 without change. 



On St. George's day, 1857, the dinner was at- 

 tended by over two hundred members and their 

 friends at Delmonico's, Chambers Street and Broad- 

 way, Henry Eyre, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 There were present as guests Lord Napier, Lieut. 

 Col. Dawkins, Cold Stream Guards, and others. In 

 response to the usual toast of Her Majesty's Repre- 

 sentatives, Lord Napier made his first public ad- 

 dress in this country, which was listened to with 

 great interest, there being at that time some impor- 

 tant diplomatic differences between the two Gov- 

 ernments. He spoke in the most conciliatory man- 

 ner, evidently intending to convey the impression 

 that England's Queen, and England's Government 

 earnestly desired that the most amicable relations 

 should subsist with the United States, concluding 

 with this remark : 



" Finally, gentlemen, I have received these senti- 

 ments as a faithful trust from the hands of my 

 Sovereign, and I will not lay up this profitable talent 

 in a diplomatic napkin." 



The seventy-second anniversary of St. George's 

 day was celebrated with more than the usual enthu- 

 siasm. The morning opened dark and gloomy with 

 a thick fog, which happily gave way at noon to a 



