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*This toast was given at this early part of the Meeting in compliment to Mr Morris, who had been personally acquainted with the Poet.
†After a most affecting reply, Mr Morris, who through the increasing infirmities of age was unable to continue longer at the Meeting, was escorted home by two Members of the Club.
This was the last Anniversary Dinner attended by Hugh Morris; he died in March, 1874.

I. The Queen; Prince of Wales and other Members of the Royal Family; Army and Navy; Volunteers with Capt McCosh and Both Houses of Parliament	The Chairman
Song. "Rule Britannia"	Mr Cameron
Song. "The wee German Lairdie"	Mr Logan
Song. "Widow Malone"	Mr Kerr
II. The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns	The Chairman
Song. "Corn Rigs"	Mr Cameron
Song. " O' a' the airts the Win' can blaw"	Mr Logan
III. Jean Armour and the Family of the Poet	The Croupier
Song. "Jean's Lament for Burns"	Mr Mitchell
IV. The Memory of Tannahill*	Mr Morris
Song. "Gloomy Winter's noo awa'"	Mr Cameron
V. The Health of Hugh Morris, First President of the Club†	Mr McCosh
VI. Our Living Novelists	Mr Comrie
VII. The Modern English Poets, with Tennyson	The Chairman
Song. "The Pilgrim Fathers"	Mr Cameron
VIII. The Biographers of Burns, with Mr McKie	Mr Roger
IX. The Living Song-Writers, with James Ballantine	Dr Sloan
X. The Irish Poets, with Moore	Mr McCosh
Song. "The Meeting of the Waters"	Mr Cameron
XI. Deceased Members	The Croupier
Song. "I'll tell thee the Hour"	Dr Blair
XII. Deceased Novelists, with Scott	Capt Paton
Song. "Bonnie Scotland, I adore thee"	Mr Mitchell
XIII. The Press	Mr Aitken
The pleasure of the Meeting was greatly increased by a number of comic songs given by Mr John Kerr in excellent style.
The usually-given complimentary toasts, "The President" and "Croupier" being proposed and responded to, "Auld Lang Syne" concluded a most enjoyable meeting.