The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL.

Yesterday being the Feast of St. Barnabaa com-
pleted the 299th scholastic year of this admirableschoid, on
which anniversary the President and Senior Fellows of St.
John's, Oxford 07 Fellowships at which are appropriated
to the Merchant Taylors' School), appeared at Me wheel to
select the most deserving madiclatee to till vacancies in
their body.
In the evening the annual dinner took place at the Mer-
chant Taylors' splendid hall, at which the Muter sal
Wardens of the corporation entertained • most 041-
tinguithed company of guests to dinner. To the toast of
the "Sister services," General Sir John Burgoyne replied
for the army, and the Earl of Hardwieke for the nay/.
The toasts of " the President and Fellows of St. oho's,
Oxford," "the lion. members of the Corporation," &c.,
were next given and acknowledged. The Duke of Man-
chatter in 14 few wont' replied for the House of Lent.,
while the Bishop of Oxford spoke for the Church, and
(lief Justice Erie for her Majesty's Judges.
In reply to "the health of the House ofrommons,"
coupled with the name of Lord Stanley,
Lord STANLEY said—He rose with great pleasure to return
thanks on the part of the House of Commons, of which he
hail been for nearly twelve years a member. It was a duty
which he always willingly undertook, and it was a duty
certainly not lege agreeable, and no less appropriate on the
resent ocassine, when withiu the last few hours they hail
Peen informed that it was the intention of the government
of the day—prompted, as he believed they bad been, and
supported as he was sure they would be, by public opinion,
to grant them a new—it might not lie a protracted lease—
but still, for the present, to grant them a new lease of life,
constituted as their house was then. Certainly no rational
man hail ever denied that the House of Commune
11.0INeR4e11 many theoretical defects and some prac-
tical faults ; but be those faults or defects what they might,
it was not the less a duty of every Englishman, who looked
with respect upon the past or with hope to the future, to
regard the Howe of Commove he would not say with
resiset only, but even with veneration. For the House of
l'ommone had been the origin, as it wee still the centre,
of all free representative institutions. It had the weight
and the authority which alone hail saved them from the
fate of those countries in which despotism bad only been
controlled by revolution. It had been the
moot powerful, as it must jbee henceforth the most emi-
nent of thole public amemblies which had ever influ-
enced the destinies of nations. It was not his duty
to enter there into the causes which had given to the
House of Commons the influence and the power it pee-
seise& Those causes, however, really resolved themselves
into this it had the support of the country because of
the deep sense of Personal end conscientious responsibility
which at all times the members had brought to the con- ,
sidenstion of public affairs, and it had the trust of the
country became, of the independence it had always shown—
an iadependeuce, on the one hand, to check the power
and influence of the crown, and au independence, on
the other hand—he did not say--(;od forbid lie should say,
of public opinion, but an independence of public clamour,
and the cry of those who only misrepresented and distorted
the public opinion of the day. (Cheers.) Before any
legislative body could possees power they must also poe.eu
and show that they possessed independence, because 130
body of men would be respected unless they had proved
first that they respected themselves ; and if the stature
in its collective capacity could show itself independent, the
public would place confidence is the individual indepenilenee
of those who composed its component parts. (Hear, hear.)
He believed that the influence of the House of Commons in
England was in a great nieseure due to the fact that those
who sat in it had not been mere delegates returned to repre-
sent the opinions, or, it might be, the prejudices of any set
of men whatever, but that tney met as the representatives
of the whole constituencies and to represent the wants and
requirements; of the empire at large. (Cheers.)

CALLS TO THE Bas.--kite ronowing calla to the
bar were made on Wednesday :—lnner Temple : Henry
Peter Pisani, EVA 1. B. A. (certiAcitte of honour of the drat
claw) ; John Wm. Mellor, Eaq., M.A. ; James TisdallWood-
rode, Eaq., B.A. ; Robert William Kirby Martin, Esq.;
Julian Robins, Esq. ; Arthur Paul Stone, Esq. ; William
Richard Woolrveh, Esq. ; Richard Temple Rennie, Esq.;
John Alfred Burideyoung, ELI.; Robert Henry Bullock
Marsham, Faq., M.A.; Francis Thomas Platt, Erg., M.A.;
awl Henry O'Hara Moore, Faq., M.A. Middle Temple:
Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Esq., of 3, Essea.court, RA.,
Loodow University (holder of the studentaliip nwiirtled by
the Onuscil of Lege' Education); Freak Cockburn, of 40,
Hertford-Ars* May Fair, Faq.; Etienne Pellereau, of
Maori Sm.; Jcseph Deakin, of 5, Prick-oourt, Esq.;
Edward of MO, Clemiland-square, Hyde-pat, Esq.:
sad Edward Sickness Idastwiek, of Merton College,
Oxford. Lq.. ken Ilairety's fdeardari of Legation at
Tabora&