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to thank you for the very handsome and complimentary manner in which you have carried His 

 Excellency's commands into execution." "Immediately," the narrative of this ceremonial con- 

 tinues, "the hand, who were stationed on the bridge, struck up the heart-stirring air, 'God 

 save the King,' during the performance of which the gentlemen of the Corporation, followed by 

 a large number of the inhabitants, passed uncovered over the bridge. Three cheers were then 

 given respectively for the King, for His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, for the Mayor and 

 Council of the City of Toronto, and for Capt. Bonnycastie. The gentlemanly and dignified man- 

 ner in which both the addresses were read did credit to the gentlemen on whom these duties 

 devolved ; and the good order and good humour that prevailed among the spectators present 

 were exceedingly gratifying." We take this account from the Toronto Patriot of August 2Sth, 

 1835, wherein it is copied from the Christian Guardian. Mr. R. B. Sullivan, the functionary 

 who represented the city on the occasion just described, was the second mayor of Toronto. He 

 was afterwards one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. The bridges thus ceremoni- 

 ously presented and received had a short-lived existeuce. They were, a few years afterwards, 

 seriously damaged during the breaking up of the ice, and then carried a,way bodily in one of the 

 spring freshets to wliich the Don is subject. 



NOVEMBER METEORS— 1868. 



"We are informed by Professor Kingston, that some errors occur in the extract 

 from the Globe, which appears on page 86 of our last number. The summary, 

 there given should be as follows : — 



Number of meteors counted at the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto, on the 

 nights of November 13-14, IBS'? and 1868. ' 



Before midnight 



Midnight to 1 a.m. of Noveinber 14 . 



1 A.M. to 2 " " 



2 " 3 " 



3 ■' 4 " 



4 " 5 '• 



5 " 6 " " 



Totals 2287 



