The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

cumrs HOSPITAL.

Yesterday being 13t. Matthew's-day, the Lord
Mayor, accompanied by the Sheriff's!, several Aldermen, and
• large number of ladies, went in state to Christ Church,
Nuncio-street, where • sermon was preached by the Rev.
W. Haig 'Brown, M.A., Fellow end Tutor of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. an alumnus of Christ's Hospital. At
the conclusion of the service the Lord Mayor, the civic
authorities, and the visitors proceeded to the Grand tall,
where the Grecians delivered their orations on the benefits
of the royal hospitals—in Latin, by C. G. Foster; in
Boglist, by Henry J. Tebbutt; in Greek, by R. G.
Pullover ; in French, by Rowley Hill. Four translations
then followed—in Latin sleeks, from Longfellow, by W.
S. Foster; in Greek iambics, from Shakespeare, by E.
Montage ; in Latin elegiacs, from Ossian's " Hymn to the
Sun,' by T. C. Pallett; in Latin hexameters, from
Dryden's " Palmists end Arcite," being the Richards'
prise poem, not yet adjudged; concluding with en English
poem on the Queen's visit to Paris, by C. G. Foster. At
the close of the oration the glove went round, and a liberal
sum was subscribed towards the expenses of the senior
Grecians who are about proceeding to Oxford and
Cambridge. The National Anthem, which was sung with
the greatest enthusiasm by the general body of blue coat
boys is the gallery, closed the proceedings, which were
throughout of a moat interesting character.
The following is the striking peroration of the French
speech of Mr. Rowley Hill:

PRRORAISON DU DISCOURS FRANCAIS.
La revue de la little terrible, dens laquelle nos braves
oompatriotes sent engages, nous mane inisistiblement aux
defilements saw& qui nraplissent le monde de lent eclat:
l'alliance de la France et de l'Augleterre ; Psalms intim.
de den: grands p.uples jedis masa. Pour non. jaunts
elves dont Ile devoirs paisibles sant bien Coignes do haute
faits d'aruses qui en se moment mese /stiffens eats saints
adieus* devant renamed, et reafennent 80/ fiords. barbsres
dans lea regions glacial.. du Nord. et is. tristae ntrutes
d'ua despotisms quo Sebastopol in 'nines ne defend
plus, sous us ponvons pas cependant raeconnaltre
its battements de no. man a l'acaonee d'un sou-
vein combat, Wan fustian sacrifice, d'an nouveau'
I/J=9U. Maki qua' trioaspbe pent egaler en importance
ce progrts immense de la raison bumaine qui recant enfin
deux pays glean. Hyalite deplorable, use Ignorance
streuql., nue jalousie absurd. oat apart% si langtemps ? La
positive giographique de l'Augleterre et de la Franc*, la
disunite de lotus productions naturelles, les caramel's qui
distinction* le genie de burs peoples, prouvent qua la main
divine qui a fermi us deux pays, lea a formes pour Vanier'.
Miaow. en est residence. Toutea les agitations,
tout Is. malbenes tprooves par @bacons de cu nations
oasis's ant en dans tons it. tamps des suit.. funestes pour
Funs et pour l'autre. Le diz-neuvieme eitle volt eau
elpniser leers queridles fratricides. Mali quill spectacle
insposant au alnico de co beau pietas 'lent de frapper lean
✓egards! La reins Victoria, 'us bards di la Seine, eon-
temple le sambas* du grand Napoleon, et rend hommage a
as memoirs' Assisi les peoples en oat treenail, et plains.
despair dans l'avenir. la Francis et l'Angleterre out pro-
dame devant Dieu an paste de/entitle, d'La vontdependrent
la march. de la eivnisatioes, la secnritii de l'aeavis social., et
la kberti da Ramada I