Encouraged by his last effort, Mr.Binnie now proposed Sir Brian Newcome's health; and that Baronet rose and uttered an exceedingly lengthy speech, delivered with his wine-glass on his bosom.
Then that sad rogue Bayham must get up, and call earnestly and respectfully for silence and the chairman's hearty sympathy, for the few observations which he had to propose.

"Our armies had been drunk with proper enthusiasm--such men as he beheld around him deserved the applause of all honest hearts, and merited the cheers with which their names had been received.

('Hear, hear!' from Barnes Newcome sarcastically.

'Hear, hear, HEAR!' fiercely from Clive.) But whilst we applauded our army, should we forget a profession still more exalted?
Yes, still more exalted, I say in the face of the gallant General opposite; and that profession, I need not say, is the Church.
(Applause.) Gentlemen, we have among us one who, while partaking largely of the dainties on this festive board, drinking freely of the sparkling wine-cup which our gallant hospitality administers to us, sanctifies by his presence the feast of which he partakes, inaugurates with appropriate benedictions, and graces it, I may say, both before and after meat.

Gentlemen, Charles Honeyman was the friend of my childhood, his father the instructor of my early days.