The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-19 00:00:00

WELLINGTON COLLEGE.

Yesterday was speech-day at Wellington College,
sad, according to custom, a special train left Charing-cross
Station in the morning laden with visitors to do honour to
the occasion. Amongst the earliest arrivals upon the
platform, almost unrecognised, were Prince Arthur and
Lord Derby. The boys were assembled in the college hall,
and the visitors were so numerous that dozens bad to
remain standing during the meeting. Amongst the visitors
were the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Lord
Mulgrave, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Colonel and Lady
Louisa Spencer, Lady Gilbert Kennedy, Sir John anat.
Leidy Heron Maxwell, Colonel the Hon. A. F. and Mm.
Liddell, General Sir Augustus Spencer, Lady and Mies
Wilshire, Lady Augusta Onalow, General and Mrs.
Ysldwyn, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. RAikes Currie. the Hon.
and Rev. S. and Mrs. Talbot, Admiral Sir R. L Baynes,
Admiral Stopford, the Hon. H. Legge, Colonel and Mrs.
Paget, Mrs. R. Wellesley, Mr. Howard, M. and Madame
Bartholeyna de Fosselaert, Professor and Mrs. Chas.
FiKerey, Colonel Vansittart, the Public Orator of Oxford.
aimes Kay Shuttleworth, &c.
The Rev. Dr. BENHON, headmaster, prefaced the biusi-
nem of the day by reading an extract from the colleges
statute, setting forth the virtues which the students were
expected to practise in emulation of the distinguished per-
sonage after whom the institution was named. The prizes
were then delivered, each recipient walking from the end,
of the room to the table at which Lord Derby, Prince.
Arthur, and the head-master, were sitting, and returning
amidst the plaudits of his fellow scholars. The (queen's
medal, which is the chief prize,was given to Mr. Buchanan,
son of our ambassador at St Petersburgh, and the heed-
s master said the medal had never been received by a
more deserving student. Prince Arthur gave away
the rise. Mr. 8. T. Irwin ehriarl Lord
prize (value 601.) It was given, as the noble
earl explained, not so much for brilliant talents,
as for uniform good conduct and unswerving per-
severance in the pursuit of studies. This was the Ant
occasion upon which the prize was given, and it was stated
by Dr. Benson that it bad been founded by the giver out
of the proceeds of his translation of Homer. Lord Derby
told Mr. Irwin he had additional pleuraee in handing
him the prize, as be had not only earned it honourably,
but because its presentation gave him (Lord Derby) the
opportunity of paying a tribute to the recipient's father,
who was a distinguished officer. Mr. Nugent obtained the
Priam Consort's history prize (presentedbyPrinos Arthur),
for an essay on " The simultaneous advance of monsrchical
power and religious liberty under the Tudors." The
young gentleman read an extract from his paper. The
remaining prizes were as follows :
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Prize for Divinity,
Walker ; the Earl of Derby's Prize for French, A-erten ;
Governors' Prizes—Greek Verse, Southey ; Latin Prose,
Irwin and Giles • Latin Verse Master's Prize), Wade ;
Fifth Form, Lain Prose (Masters and Mr. Carr's Prize)„
Harrison tat ; Fifth Form, Latin Verse (Master's and Mr.'
Cam's Prize), Moyle; English Poem, Verrill; German.
Prize, Wade ; Modern Language Prize, Middle School.
(Mr. Payne's), Spencer ma. ; Mathematical I'rize, Upper
School, Paget ma. ' • Ditto (Mr. Griffith's Prize), Mann and: ma. ; Chemical Prize, Paget ma. ; Drawing Prizes,
I, Alexander mi., 2, Talbot; Reading Prizes, Lawrence,
Talbot, and Paget ma. •
During the presentation of these prizes portions of
Latin, Greek, French, and German plays were acted by
the prizetakers, and extracts from the successful wive-
tithes were recited. Mr. Verrall's English poem was en-
titled " The Black Prince," and the prevailing feeling
during its admirable delivery must have been one of
wonder that so yaung an author could have written ro
sensible and graceful a poem. With the exception of this
recitation, the elocution displayed in the rendering of
English pieces so perfectly partook of the sing-song style
common to all colleges, that it was at times difficult to
recognise the language being used. Although the
rh neighs
bouood abounds in rare and splendid wild flowers and
plants, the botany prize offered for the best collection of
wild flowers was not competed for. During the year the
Wellesley Scholarship has been awarded to Giles ; the
Modern Exhibition to Ponsonby and Foster • the junior
Wellesley Scholarship to Smith, ma, and Aare Akeis
and Teesdale have been elected into the college by open
scholarships. After the prize list was exhausted the com-
pany took luncheon in an adjoining tent. The health, of
Prince Arthur, Lord Derby (as representing the governors,
and the head-master, were cordially drank. In respond-
ing Lord Derby explained that it was generally thought
the education given at the college was peculiarly a mili-
tary one, but such an idea was an entirely mistaken one.
A special train brought the visitors back to town in the
afternoon.

A meeting of the Trades' Unions Commissioners
WA held yesterday at 1, Park-prost, Great Queen-
street, Westminster. Present : The •ht Hoe. Sir Wil-
liam Erie (chairman), Earl of Lichfield, rd Moho, M.P.,
Right Hon. Sir Edmund W. Head, Bark, K.C.8., Mr..
Herman Alerivale, C. 8., Mr. James Booth. C. 8., Mr. J.
A. Roebuck, Q.C., ALP., Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr,
Frederick Harrison, and Mr. William Mathews. Mr.
J. H. Patteson, secretary to the commission, was also
present.
FOREMN-OFFICE, JUNE 17. —The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas K. King as Consul at
Belfast for the United States of America..—au cite.

THE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AORICULTUNT—Yee-
, terday the following resolution was unanimously agreed
to after a long and vigorous discussion :—" That this
chamber, while strongly sympathising with any efforts
for the improved and increased education of the la-
bouring dames engaged in agriculture, considers that
Mr. Fawcett's bill would not accomplish this object : that
' the measure is impracticable in its details, and totally in-
, applicable to rural districts ; and that no legislation on
the edncation of children engaged in agriculture should
take place until the commission appointed to inquire into.
• the subject shall have given in their report." A publis,
meeting of the members and friends of the chambers
will be held at Bury St. Edmund's, on Tuesday, IJuly 16,
for the purpose of urging the legislature to enforce the
slaughtering or effectual quarantine of all imported arri-
vats at the ports of landing.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INsrrrorlow.—A new and
interesting feature was introduced last night into the
. entertainments at tibia popular resort, ie the form of a
lecture bp Professor Pepper, entitled, " A Visit to the
French Exposition," illustrated on the disc by numerous
pictures of the building and its contests. The lecturer
who has but recently returned from Paris, supposes his
audience to be on the point of starting for that delightful
, city, and advises those who have the time, and do not
object to the long sea passage, to take the Newhaven and
Dieppe rout* as affording the most picturesque attnictinna
Arrived in Paris he introduces them to the pi:ucipal
entrance to the building, and the first illustration is a gene-
ral view of the exterior, which, after a rapid explanation
of its main features, gives place to a section or ground plait
of the buildings, over which the Professor lingers for
some Sine to give directions as to the best mode of
becoming familiar with the most attractive parts of the
different departments. Lle maps out the walks to be
taken, but before entering be lingers on the threshold to
exhibit the Emperor's pavilion in the new park, accom-
panying it with the intimation that the Empress's,
though somewhat less gorgeous in decoration and smaller
in its proportions, is built upon the mine design. We are
then fairly introduced to the interior, and conducted step
by step through the many courts or rues named after the
nationalities which they represent beginning with France
and closing with our own country. The lecturer dwells upon
each picture to indicate the precise spot when the greatest
sights are to be found, and those who center:white visiting
the reality would no doubt find it to their advantage first
to see its mimic representation. The lecturer vouches for
the accuracy of the pictures, being copied from photographs
taken upon glass by the finest and meet perfect jeocess
yet discovered. The representation of the Italian part of
the Exhibition, abounding in gigantic and beautiful sculp-
tural figures, is very striking, and the lecture promises to
be the Polytechnic attractiou of the summer season.
Tug HEALTH or LONDON.—It appears front the
return =rued by authority of the Registrar-General that
in the week that ended on Saturday, June 15, the births
registered in London and 12 other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,4;0; the deaths registered,
2,567. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000
persons living. In London the births of 1,121 boys
and 1,041 girls, in all 2,162 children, were registered in
the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten sears,
1657.66, the average number, corrected for increase of
population, is 1,9611. The deaths registered in London
during the week were 1,094. It was the 24th week of
the year,- and the average number of deaths for
that week is, with a correction for increase of po-
pulation, 1,256. The deaths in the present re-
turn are leas by 162 than the estimated number.
The mortality in the metropolis was lower last week than
in any week since that which ended on 12th July, 17,62,
when 1,065 deaths were registered. The deaths from
symotic diseases last week were 210. Twenty-six deaths
were caused by small-pox; of which 12 occurred in
the South districts. The deaths from whoopingrough
were 33—seven in the west, 6 in the north, three in the
central, ten in the east, and seven in the south districts.
Thirty-three deaths from typhus, 19 from merles, 16
from scarlatina, and 31 from diarrhea were recorded.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 19 per 1.000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dublin ; in
Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 26 in Liverpool, 27 in Mane
cheater, 24 in Salfoni, 23 in Sheffield, 25 in Leeds, 25 in
Hull, 28 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 24 in Glasgow. The
rate in Vienna was 30 per 1,000 during the week ending
the Bth inst., when the mean temperature was 11.7 degs.
Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 19. .
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—SUEZ, JUNE 10.
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to-day.

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