The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-22 00:00:00

MUSTS NOSPITAL-TRI ANNUAL ORATION&

Yesterday being St. Matthew's-day, according to
annual custom a eerier of antics were delivered by the
seeker echelon of Christ's Hospital, in the presence of the
Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, Alderman Sir Francis Moon, the
Weeddier, &e., and a Legg wipsey el Wien and gentle-
men, bt, whom the Ise obi hall was waled. As must,
oration on the benefits of the Royal Hospitals were deli-
vered in Latin, English, Greek, and French prose. The
Latin oration was rendered by Mr. Charles Victor Merri-
man, Third Grecian and Exhibitioner of Queens' College,
Cambridge, in a satisfactory manner ; sod an, in woe-
wows of the Wales of Mr. John Webb Hickson, the First
Grecian, who is proceeding to Worcester College, Oxford;
Mr. Merriman undertook to speak the English oration also,
his doontiosary powers were sufficiently tested, and on the
whole he may be pronounced to have been the most enoosiful
dedaimer of the day. The Greek ration was spoken by ]fr.
Nbenieser Moira, Fourth G rearm, who is proceeding to Trisity
College, Cambridge, and that in French (with • very fair
went) by Mr. Arthur Feoning Mullett, Second Grecian,
Noutaliore priseman for this year, shd Fahibitioner of
'trinity Hall, Cambridge. A tradition from " Troths
WI Cressida" into Omsk Whim was delivered by Mr.
*word Stafford Caries,( Fifth Grecian and classiad medal-
MK of the year, who having also gained the prise foe ,
~" Richards' Composition," in Latin hexameters, in his own.,
right twios presented himself on the rostrum to &debar
am audience. Mr. Robert George Glenn, Eighth Grecian,
dad the duty oft speaking • tradition of " Napoleon at
$e Kremlin," into Latin elegiam ; and Mr. James Collin
grads Moron, Math Grecian, having been successful in
Marrying some ot Macaulay's sounding lines from the
!'.Battle of the Signets" to equally sounding Greek iambics,
delivered them with great ,nutty, and entitled himself,
is we think, to the second place among the speakers. A
translation of Byron's " .Dentruetion et Idenne-
cherib " into Greek hexameters by Mr. Arthur
Thornhill Waugh, Ninth Grecian, and of the "Ode to the
Mavens," into Latta sleeks, by Mr. Hyde Edwards
Walker, Seventh 'Oreelan, were the remaining rations.
There is so doubt that all the youthful orators showed
marks dean and training ; but, at the same time, it was
sot • little surprising that out of eight young men, necessa-
fily poosessing qualifications above the average, Dot. one
danld have exhibited any trace of natural, impulsive, and
Naotional elocuthraty powers. Nevertheless, the occasion
& thew orations is one of great interert, and is ' suggestive
of away pleasing and even useful associations ; and it would
be unfair to the exhibitors of the day not to state that they
were none of them deficient in seal and animation. At the
'oomilusioa of the speoch.rnaking the custom of sending round
the glove for contributions from the company was duly
carried out, and we trust that the results of this gentle
brignadage was satisfactory. The precision and tide, corn-,
mibei with vigour. with which " God MVO the Queen" wit
snag by the junior boys, deserves especial mentico. It
was admirable.

Music AND DANCING LICZNARR. —Tile Court of
Quarter Sessions for the County of Middlesex will hold a
sitting et the Sessions House as Clerkenwell-green on the
11th of October for the purpose of hearing applications for
the grant of licenses for said. and for music and dancing, I
under the statute 25th Geo. 11., a 36, and for the renewal
or transfer of licenses formerly granted. In the year 1846
the total number of licenses granted by the court was but
69 ; lad year the number on the list was 395, and this year
there will be about 70 new applications. The list will be
taken in the same order as last year, vin., by divisions and
parishes. Opposed cases and new applications will be taken
on the 12th. The 11th, therefore, will be devoted to the
renew ala simply. Petitions in opposition must be sent in
ten days clear before the commencement of the 'maims
sad 'ethics' for renewals three clear days. The admirable
arreagements far the convenience of the public and the
tranmetion of the business adopted hitherto by the chair-
man, will be again carried into effect, and will no duubt give
awl malefaction.
Tin Nis Smarr Acr.—On the Ist October the
now Spirit Act will take Sleet. The statute is the longest
el the late sermiem, twinning as as/ as " 103 "sections
sad ensuedealiedides It is entitled, 'As Act to reduce
into one act and to amend the Exciasiegulations relating to
tke distilling, rectifying, and dealing in spirits." Some of
the provisions in thuiact are of a very stringent character.
Any pesos my seize and detain a pen= hawking any
spirits fir sale, sad give hies into custody. By the 196th
amitioa, either of the offending parties informing against
the other is to be acquitted of he own penalty ; and by the
next provision informers may be rewarded by the commis-
, sawn If the penalty is not paid and cannone levied, or if
the offender is sent to prison. The reward is sot to =Nei
501. in each case. Farther the act provides that aimed'
peaces 'ng or violently rescuing offenders, or a-
saultiog olitcers, informers, or witnesses, are on conviction
to be deemed guilty of felony, and liable to seven years'
penal servitude. Any constable or other pewee dhow not
assisting in the execution of the act alter noting or on his
own view is liable to forfeit 201. The penalties are to be
enforced in a summary manner, and the act is to he enforced
throughout the United Kingdom in rapid to the distilla-
tion and dealing in spirits. It received the royal assent
OD the day of the prorogation, the 98th kopek
MAODITTatIAL CHANOII2.—Mr. Cache, of the
Clerkenwell police-court, will, it is mid, sassed the lass
Mr. Jardine at the BOW 414,11•4 pdbe..oset Mr. Conies
suocemor his not been amid. It has bees rumoured that
Mr. Yardley, the sesisirsmagistrais at the Thames pollee-
court, will succeed Mr. Oasis, and that a new magistrate,
sot yet appointed, will succeed Mr. Yardley. Such an
atna hue been paid*, had mabiag definite baa
les urech..,
ifirrefrestimarr UNDO:W.O6OI7ND RAILWAY.—Re-
poet, lave reached on of costly errors in re-forming the
aware a wrong level, but we lea no certain informatics
oo the subject. The railway, it is expected, will absorb a
million and a half of money at the least before it is opened
for Creek. The heaviest part of the line is at King's-sees.
Straightforward tunnelling, or even going round a eerier
at a amp carve, with nothing, to all outward appearemos,
to guide you as to the spot at which you may oome out, is
simple and easy to those who understand the business ; bat
leek a ouniplication as that at King's-cross seems thoroughly
bewildering. At King's-eras there are two branch lines
riming up to the station, one on the east, the other on
the wed side. The two lines ran in on a curve, the one
from the west remain in ea sisterly, the other from the
east is • westerly diredios mad they therefore cross each
other something in the form of a letter X. At the point of
intersection the arch of the tunnel his in 000sequeuee to be
vaned. As the main tunnel is 28 feet 6 inches in width,
and the branch Hue, about 14 feet, the necessity premeds
itself to combine in nos arch at the point of junction two
arches of a different radios. The brickwork of the tassel
is 2 feet 3 lathes in thickness, and some idea of the
astest of the work may be judged from the fact that 10,000
bricks are swallowed up for each yard formed as the tunnel
advances.—raider.

Amax or )(mom %—A British captain, whilst
wanders ea the quarter deck of his ship at the Beitleof
the Nile, wan struck on the head by a Ad, and immediately
became seaseleas. He was takes boa" awl semoved to
Greenwich Hospital, What* for fifteen neenths be evinced
no sign of intelligence. He was them and Memo.
matiately upon the operatiou gemediellemen
returned, and he immediately begenbutglng sarls see
the orders carried oat that he had given *elm the Wale
fifteen mouths previously. The cleave* ef the belga,
unaware that it Lad stopped, upon being sit
pointed to the exact minute at width It fie. lley
sudden revivals of a lost intelligens* almost rival In their
dramatic sled the offset of the Besee's allesat is tb•
palace of the Pimping Beauty, where at the met M a kiss.
the inmates of the royal household, wise had gone I. dem
for a hundred years temps/iced ia their old attitudes, IGO
suddenly into life and motion, IPA threghthey bed only for
• moment slept. —Owe • fleet.
CZTIPTAL PA LOS ONO 8111ILLING DA/.
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ADMIRALTY, Barr. 21.—ArroENTm mfrs. —Lieu-
tenants C. de B. Brook, to the Indus; W. M. Dalben, to
the Curlew ; the Hon. V. A. Montague, to the Foxhound ;
A. Bagley (additional), to the Edinburgh, for aer►ios in the
coast guard.
Mates W. G. Scott, to the Tartar ; H. M. Ammany, to
the Royal Albert.
Promoted to Masters: T. Leatham and R. M'Curry.
Midshipmen : C. H. Hawkins, to the Royal Albert ; G.
Hank to the Edgar • T. V. Williams cud P. A. Davies, to
the Tartar ; F. Waller, to the Diadem.