text:  We all recollect the words of our immortal bard when in alluding to the manner in which nature had finished this fair creation he says-- "Her 'prentice han' she tried on man And then she made the lasses O!" I am sure every man in this assembly will join me in an enthusiastic bumper to the health of the "Countess of Eglinton and the ladies who have honoured this meeting with their presence