The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

MUSSED lUCTUALLSSW SCHOOLS.

Yesterday evening, the flfty•flrat anniversary
festival of the Liceesed Victuallers' Schools was held at
Illithbury Tavern, Hil/WOILTH Hand ere limen the
chair, who was supported by Mr. J. Locke, MP .., `Sr. Bet •
Smut Ballantine, Mr. Alderman Wire, and over 1,500 person.
connected with the trade. This is perhaps the chief charity
of thin trade, and one which mato the 'reshot interest
among them. The foundation is extremely liberal, Wore
being some 134 boys and girls in the institution; who ere the
children of decayed or darned member. of the trade. They
are not necessarily orphans, but most of them ate without
Lathers. In the course of the evening, the recipient. of the
charity were introduced, and excited general admiration by
the neatem of their appearance; care being taken that in
their dress there is no wominvent costume or badge suck as
L usually attached to what are called charity children.
The CHAIKILLX advocated the mum of the charity in
more then one speech, enlogioing the management of •the
schools, to which, Irene his own experience, having recently
visited theta, he could bear his testimony. lie stated that
many of those who was now rnectibers to this institution
were themselves brought up in the schools. He congratu-
lated the sulocribers on the fact of a sum of 1,0001. having
been devoted to the permanent hand from the profits of the
Morbioty Advertiser. He also congratulated them on ano-
ther fact—namely, that the land on which the magnificent
building stood an which the schools were conducted was
about to be enfranchised, and to become the freehold prupurty
of the charity. He Mated that the absolute income of the
charity was but 1 3001. front all ammo, to meet an
expenditureof 3,d001. a year. For this he must
appeal to the liberal mostributions of the trade ; for it least
not be forgotten that there was accommodation in the schools
fur 150 scholars, whereas. the average during the put year
bad not recorded 125. It was only by a ready and liberal
mbectiption that the committee would Le enabled next
February to keep np the present number of sebotirs. Be-
side. this, a large sum, amounting to about 4,0001., had to
be provided fur the enfranchisement of the land on which
the school. stood. Half of that had to be provided from
the capital of the charity ; and he hoped that the trade
would exert all their energies in order to replace that sum
so withdrawn from their capital. He busted that the he-
nournlcle rivalry which existed in all trades would uow be
turned into the channel of charity for this institution.
The 81:CRETAlef read the list of avaloeriptions, among
, which was the chairman, 110 guineas ; Barclay, Perkins, and
Co., 100 guinea. A. K. Barclay, Esq., 20 &nem ;
Thomas G. Barclay, Esq., 20 guinea. ; Alexander C. Her-
, clay, Ks' q.„ 20 guineas ; Robert W. Barclay, Esq., 10
guineas ; Frederick Perkins, Earl., 20 guineas ; C. J. Bann,
Rut., 20 guinea. ; and with other. of the firm the total con-
: tributed by them was 3411. Towards the cuhmehirement
fund the MI. firm and its differtm members contributed a
. total of Pt'. 10s. The general subscription to the charity
. woo announced to be about 1,50 W., and 300/. to the en/ran-
i thisement fund.

MR. TILACEERAY'S LECTURE ON "Wild 141 r
PREACHERS."

IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR. JERROLD.
The entertainments which have hitherto been given
semembrance of Mr. Douglas Jerrold have admitted of no
personal ►llu'ion to him for the benefit of whose family they
have been organised. An exception may, perhaps, be made
In the case of Mr. Lucas's address, spoken in the course of
the evening at the Haymarket by Mr. Phelps, but this was
merely incidental, the theatrical performance being the staple
attraction of the evening. The lecture delivered last night
by Mr. Thackeray before a crowded audience at St. Martin's
Hall afforded the wished fur opportunity, for perhaps no
week day preacher" ever excelled Mr. Jerrold in the
dextrous manner of addressing his realer, or of inculcating
wholesome truth in short, pithy, ii.estie sentences. This
opportunity WAS not lost eight of by the lecturer, but every
phase of Mr. Jerrold's life, and of those magnates who pre-
ceded him in his vocation and who aided him as contempura-
rice in his mission, was touched upon by Mr. Thar-hemp in
the must genial spirit and the moat effective manner.
On his entrance Mr. Thackeray was most cordially welcomed,
and in his first sentence, " Walking yesterday in the Attests of
on ancient and beautiful city"—the allusion to his recent
electioneering experiences at Oxford—was received with
thunder., of applause. He then went on to inform hie
audience, that in contradistinction to those clerical preachers
who purchased ready-made immune, be would not shrink
from aiknowledging that a portion of the lecture ho was
about to deliver hid already been given in London, on one
occasion for the benefit of the fatally of a literary nom, pre-
maturely cut off while in hie prime (Mr. Angus Reach) ; on
another, to seat some benevolent institution of the Jews.
Dilating upon the merits of those men who in their pub-
lished writings daily preached lessons of sound, wholesome,
and kindly doctrine to the world, Mr. Thackeray proceeded
elaborately to discuss the piety of the gentle Christian Ad.
dime, the jovial Dick Steele—(who first taught his readers
that there was more real pathos in ample domestic details,
than in the tragic woes of high-heeled and beerigged kings
and empresses) ; the genial, kind-hearted Goldsmith, and
the recently-departed Bi•ranger. Any person who attended
the lecture. on the English Humouriets of the Eighteenth
Century," or who has read them in the since-published book,
will be able to understand how moat of the above-mentioned
authors were treated of, and will also imagine that Law-
rence Sterne, with hie mock tenderness and maudlin mouth-
ing., received a severe castigation at the lecturer's hands.
Among more recent week-day preachers were named Charles
Lamb, Thomas Hood (a portion of whose " Bridge of Sighs"'
war reed with admirable effect), Gilbert A'Beckett, and
Charles Dickene, upon whom Mr. Thackeray bestowed an
eulogittm conceived in the meet excellent taste, and couched
lit the most beautiful language, dilating upon the sweet,
softening effects of Mr. Dickend works upon the human
heart, end upon the affection borne to him by women end
children, and ounchuling by remarking that he felt Mr.
Dickens enjoyed a mission from Providence for the diffusion
of Christian love and clarity upon earth. In connexion with
thia subject, the lecturer defended himself againet the objec-
tion which had been raised to the sombre, crave' tone of his
own works, remarking that he wrote in ell honesty, and that
it would be bees and contemptible in him to endeavour to
represent life in any other colour than that in which he saw
it. The editor and writers of Fano% received a well-merited
compliment at Mr. Thacharey's hands, and be read a portion
of one of his own amp, "The Curates Walk," which ap-
peared in that periodical. Of Mr. Jerrold and his weeks Mr.
Theckeraydidnot army much, but what he did was in terms
of the highest landatim, dwelling upon the deceased writer's
real kindness of heart and supposed bitterness, and Blue-
, Mating hie meaning by a quotation of Jerrold's epologue of
the lemon nasechsat, who, finding his trade fail, endeavoured
to sell oranges, but mold not persuade the public that he
could deal in anything but bitters.
Such is a mare sketch of the lecture, the brilliant details
of which it is impossible to give any notion of ; butthe moat
striking " bits " were perhaps the description of a drama at
a penny theatre, a ludicrous version of the Lady of Lyons,
in which, when Claude Meluotte produced his cocked hat,
"that plumed end ornamented headpiece," the lecturer
slimy.. to& refuge in his pocket handkerchief," and an ac-
count of a pathetic song, sung by a painted nigger at an
American theatre, the real pathos of which drew more Mare
from Mr. Thackemy's eyes " than ever had been dropped
into tragedy's Femme old urn."
The audience, who were apparently thoroughly well reed
in each subject spoken of elteored enthusiastically through-
out. Among them ware Mr. Charlie Dickens, Mr. Clarke
Knight, with many litmus, sea of eaniasace, and several
well-known metropolitan clergymen.
Mr. Dickens will reed his " Christmas Carol " to-morrow.

LONDON CiaNYMAL ONNIBUF COMPANY.—Traffic
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SPORTING.

THE STAMFORD MEETING.
TO TUE EDITOR OP THE TIMMS.

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the exception of the Burleigh Stakes,
them in no event to be titeidlAl at this little meeting to cause
the least speculation, and if there should be an average of
about three starters for each race the stewards may consider
themselves fortunate. and the unprecedented incurrence would
demean to be placed on navel. Lim year the average was a
little over that mark, but that was accidental, wo will
say, out of charity; it wag in 1868 the gathering
was in its glory, fur there were nine event, de-
cided in two days, four of those being walks
over, three of them matches, and the remaining two
were contested by the extraordinary large number of three
horses each ! These fate will preys how much the meeting
has advanced (?) in favour within the last few rem, and it
will soon become so popular that • racehorse will hardly
deign to present itself to the stewards, unless they can mus-
ter one or two between them. But,,i.eti:ttalj speaking, it is
• great pity to see so little energy in an under-
taking that ought to prove sum* ul, for there is alt the
naterie I at Stamford fur a Met-slams meeting, the course
being fine-rate, and the position so central that it only re-
24res • little active agency to render it one of the beet-
uentid gatherings in the tilidlend counties.
he Burghley handicap. nearly two miles and • half, will
be worth something like 400 sous. to the winner, and nearly
antise ten acceptors may, consequently, be expected at the
' poet, the chance of mob being worth upwards at 40 soar.
whilreeksie liallamire Is bat 116 amp. The weigtrts have
been before the world, and since they were published Panto-
mime. hillock, Vandal, Prince of Orange, and Neva have
meit lemeW 51b penalties. Pantomime, aged, has Oat 31b,
lite name weight that he carried home so encemafidly in the
Newton Gold Cup ; and I think there is little to prevent him
taking it home again, for he holds most of his opponents safe
em public running. For the affair just mentioned •he gave
Lawn (who could never get nem hint), 161 b; then Lawn
ran with Vulcan at Winchester, while receiving 316, and was
beaten by half • lengthi so that, &lowing 31b for the defeat,
Vide= is but 81b superior to Lawn • while if we give Pan-
tomime 1211, for hie defeat of the latter, he is 28th superior to
him, and by consequence, Z 2113 better than Vulcan, who ran
with Fulbeek at Iliimpton while in receipt of 716, and was
beaten rather easily by about • length. At any
rate, if wo allow 71h difference, to put the two
together, Fulbeck is but 141 L superior to Vulcan. Seeing
then that Fulbeck meets Pantomime at level weights, the
latter has some Bth the best of it, trusting to this calculation.
Looking at Turbit's running with Lawn and Velum fur the
Railway Plate at Meet, where the former gave him 31b and
teat him by a heed for second place (so that if Pentomime is
181 b superior to Lawn, he is at least that weight better than
habit, who le only made to receive 19th from him), Pointe.
mime has tills the bent of him. Vandal, 5 yrs, Bet 1316, is
Jest aa effectually put in the sheds by Pantomime,
emending to their running for the Northumberland
Plate, whore the old hone gave 181 b, and ran
home before bin, while he now gives but 41b. The
Prince of Orange, 4 yrs, ftet 71b, appeals to be running into
a superior form to that he has exhibited of late, his defeat of
Courtenay. while in receipt of but 716, over the latter's
favourite distance, not being at all in accordance with his
previous performances this semen, if I except that with
Poodle fur the Queen's Plate at Newmarket Craven, where
he raced with the old horse fur victory. He is only winning
by "heads" lately, it is true ; but it requires a good horse to
do that two or three them in succession, and a horse that has
been so dead amiss as the Prime need not be used tee freely
just as he begins to get round. Ito is the Beet I have come
&crime° shako my coufidence in old Pantomime. Tame Door,
4 yes..7st 11b, ran with Lawn for the Visitor"' Plate at Hamp-
ton, giving hint elb, but was beaten off, while the lamer won
and if the 9th were to make them equal Pantomime would
hold him as safe se he would Lawn were he engaged here at
let 1216. The Gossamer colt, 3yre, 7st 111 b, I 'mew nothing
shout, more than that he Is • Mille companion of the favou-
rite, Neva, and has never yet shown in public; while the
Old English Gentleman, 3 yew, 1216, exhibited so wretch-
edly at the Newmarket Craven that he aught just m well
have remained "dark." Beechnut, 3 yrs, ist, is the best I can
End among the light weights, but no nnicrtain that I do not
like to entrust her with may cordidenm ; and in the event of
her playing the jade, Neva, 3 jet", Get 1116, mast do battle for
that chum. She comes with a loud flourish of trumpets
front Newmarket, but as it is impossible to get ether preten-
sions by commence, she never having run over • mile but
once, when she rut up most ignominiously, I shall trust to
one whom I consider to have every chance of winning, that
one being Pantomime ; and I only fear his being upset by
the Prince of Orange or Beechnut.
There are bet km engaged in the Stamford St. Leger
Stakes, foe 3-yr-olds, one mile and *quarter ; and the
penalties and sweitees make the question look set open one
a. regards three of the competitors, Sir Colin and Loyola
having Bet 1014, and Turbit and the Goammer colt Bst 41b,
each. Perhaps I shall not come to llama if I place Turbit
and Sir Cohn first and second, the firmer being the most
certain starter of the pair.
The Beam' Stakes, for 3-yr-olds, one mile and three-
quartere, may provoke • contest between Turbit sad the
Chevalier d'industrie, the latter being the superior animal of
the two ' • but should Gamma di Vergy put in an appear-
ance, he will put them kill in the simile.
The Geld Cup, four tailm, woo won last year by Pretty
Boy, and it stay go to him again, there being nothing but
Sir Cohn and Polestar foe him to fear. Should he fail,
Sir Colin will ho just about the nark.
July 22. METEOR.

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