The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

Alttrorolitan.

Tim Or.n HARROVIANS eat their annual dinner at
the Freemasons' lavern on Wednesday, when Lord
Palmerston presided. In the course of the speeches
and toasts, Mr. H. Drummond, M.P., who proposed
the health of the chairman, "as a sample of a
Harrow boy," spoke as follows :

It is not as we have heard of him in his public character
that we ought here to speak of him ; neither is it for the
many years that I have known him and received and
valued his friendship, that I propose his health this day,
but it is as a sample of a Harrow boy. And I say that it
is your wisdom, and the wisdom of all of us, to uphold the
principle on which the school had been conducted ever
since I knew it under the management of Dr. Drury. I
say that the first thing to make a boy is to make him a
gentleman. Let the boys be treated as gentlemen, and
gentlemen they will be. My advice is, stick to your
clerical education, be not led away by neologies, zoologies,
and all such trash from Germany—stick to your longs and
shorts. Stick to school education as the foundation of
everything, and as long as you do this, let manufacturers
and other people of that sort come in with their competi-
tive examinations, but still the boys of Harrow, Eton, and
the other great public schools will be the ruling classes in
defiance of all others. My noble friend near me was an
eminent scholar both at Harrow and Cambridge. What
he has since proved himself to be you are as good judges
as I can be; but 1 say that such as he is, he was produced
by Harrow. He is not only an ornament to Harrow, but
an ornament to the Government of the country, the House
of Commons, and the nation at large. therefore propose
" The Health of my Noble Friend who presides over us
to•day."

Tun Mumma LAW SOCIETY hold their anni-
versary dinner at Greenwich last Saturday. Lord
Brougham presided, and, in the course of his speech
of the evening, referred to the satisfactory progress
of the society during the past year. He paid a high
compliment to the exertions of Mr. Napier towards
the establishment of a regular Department of Justice
and a system of compulsory examination for bar-
risters, which he (Lord Brougham) was certainly in
favour of as an almost necessary measure, and cer-
tainly one well calculated to raise the status of the
profession. With respect to legal reforms, Lord
Brougham expressed the following opinion :
During the present session he expected that a great deal
would be done in the way of legal improvement ; and the
measures for a reform in the law of marriage, and in the
proceedings of the probate and ecclesiastical courts, were
in a forward state, and stood a fair chance of being made
law this year. A much•needed legal reform, for simplifying
the laws relating to the transfer of real property, he feared
would not be brought forward this year; and it was a dis-
grace to our code that the transference of an acre of land
should still remain a process in which the greatest legal
difficulties were encountered. He believed a Government
bill would shortly be brought in with a view of obviating
those difficulties, but he (Lord Brougham) fancied he
would have to do what he bad done with regard to the
13111 for the Improvement of the Patent Laws, when, after
waiting some time for the Government measure, he was
at last obliged to bring in a bill on the subject himself, on
the provisions of which two bills respectively one very
good bill had ultimately been enacted.
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AT THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL on Wednesday,
Mr. Anderton gave notice of a motion that the free-
dom of the City be presented to the Duke of Cam-
bridge, with a sword or other testimonial of the
value of two hundred guineas. A letter was read
from Mr. Locke, M.P., resigning his office of
Common Pleader of the City. The resignation was
accepted. The Lord Mayor informed the court that
Prince Frederick William of Prussia would meet the
corporation in the Guildhall on Monday next, to re-
ceive the freedom of the City.
THE HUME TESTIMONIAL FUND COMMITTEE held
a meeting ou Thursday, to decide upon the applica-
tion of the 1,3001. in hand out of 1,0581. 7s. 2d.
subscribed. It was resolved that the fund be placed
in the hands of the Council of University College to
establish a scholarship for jurisprudence and political
economy. under the title of the " Joseph Hume
Scholarship."
IN THE WEEK that ended on Saturday, July 4, the
total number of deaths registered in London was
1,029, being less by 49 than the average rate of
mortality at the beginning of July would have pro-
duced. The deaths arising from zymotic diseases
exhibit an increase, chiefly in consequence of in-
creased prevalence of diarrhe3a. The births amounted
to 1,004.