ADDRESS 



Gentlemen : 



We have been assembled here this evening for the 

 purpose of electing ofHcers of the Society for the en- 

 suing year. This should certainly be a season of con- 

 gsatulation, for it carries with it the conviction, that 

 we are preparing our energies, and renewing our zeal 

 for its successful promot|on in the future. It should 

 also be a source of congratulation that, amid all the 

 melancholy and trying vicissitudes through which we 

 have passed — amongst which has been the cholera, 

 that dreadful scourge of our race, which has thrown its 

 dark shadow over our beautiful city ; and blighted the 

 hopes and happiness of many who were looking to the 

 future with joyous hopes and flattering expectations 

 — still we are here to-night, rejoicing that it has ilot 

 found a victim in our ranks ; and it should exert our 

 piety and awaken our gratitude to the great dispenser 

 of all our mercies. We have quite recently lost one 

 member by death, and one on board the ill-fated Arc- 

 tic, which is all since the existence of the Society. — 

 The first I refer to is the much respected name of Mr. 

 Z. Griswold : he had arrived at a time of life — several 



