The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-14 00:00:00

NEW STANDARD.

Miss Glyn'a engagement has terminated here,
but • " legitimate " programme still prevails. Shake-
speare's play of the Tempest has been revived, with Mr.
Henry Marston in the character of Prospero ; and an addi•
tional attraction has been provided by the production of a
well-known nautical (Dams, called Ben the Boatiamin. in
which the proprietor of the theatre, Mr. John Douglass,
an excellent reprt sentative of stage sailors, appears in his
original character.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.

The boys of the Duke of York's School, by the
permission of the commandant, Colonel E. A. G. Muller,
attended the morning performance at tile above place of
entertainment yesterday. The boys were accompanied by
their band, who, under the direction of their able band•
master, Mr. John Wilson, opened the programme by play-
ing several selections of music, which were loudly ap-
plauded, and thrice encored. The equestrian and other
portions of the programme gave the lads unqualified
amusement, and the audience generally was provided with
an unexceptionable entertainment. It may be mentioned
that the morning performance at the Holborn Circus on
Wednesday and tilturday is the only one of its kind in
London, and affords an excellent opportunity, to old and
young alike, of spending a really pleasant afternoon.

REPRESENTATION OF LONDON UNIVERSITY.—Laat
night a meeting of the liberal party of this university was
held at the Freemasons' Tavern, to receive a com-
munication from a committee of their body with reference
to the election of a member to represent them in parlia-
ment. Mr. T. Smith Osier, the chairman of the com-
a mince, who presided, announced that there was now no
prospect of any serious conservative opposition. In fact,
the conservatives had failed to put forward any candidate.
They had only spoken of one. arid that one happened to be
a member of the liberal coui_ittee. Since November last
106 new members had been added to convocation, and of
that number 63 had actually signed the liberal declaration,
while .15 of the other 41) would certainly vote for a liberal
candidate. Mr. Winterbotham, M.P., moved, and Mr.
Cozens Hardy seconded, and it was unanimously resolved
that, as no conservative candidate was in the field, it
was unnecesa.,ry to adopt any scheme for selecting a liberal
candidate. Mr. Shaen, in proposing that it was desirable
that the liberal committee and the present organisation
of the liberal party should be continued, hoped it would
be understood that the committee and their officers would
be at liberty to support whichever liberal candidate they
individually thought proper. Mr. H. IL Hutton, in
seconding the proposal, trusted there would be only one
anxiety in the matter, and that was to return a man who
would heartily support Mr. Gladstone's leadership of the
liberal party in the House of Commons. (Hear, bear.)
The resolution having been carried, avother was added. to
afford the freedom suggested by Mr. Sheen. On the
motion of Dr. Down, seconded by Mr. J. M. Solomon, it
was further resolved that the liberal committee should
consider in the quite unexpected event of a conservative
candidate being brought forward, the propriety of recom-
mending the adoption of the scheme already proposed, or
sonic other, for the purpose of selecting a liberal candi-
date. It was intimated that Sir John Lubbock,on learning
the feelings of the liberals of the university in his favour,
will no doubt not persevere in his candidature for West
Kent. A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and Mr.
IL Pete, the acting secretary, concluded the business,
and the meeting stood adjourned.
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—This
institution, which was founded by the medical profession
as an asylum for those of their brethren who from ill
health, want of professional success, or other adverse in-
fluences, have sunk into poverty, and for the widows of
medical men in reduced circumstances, celebrated its fif-
teenth anniversary yesterday evening by a dinner at
Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of Earl Granville,
who was supported by Lord Campbell, Sir J. H. Max-
well, Sir Wm. Ferguson,ir Henry Thompson, Messrs.
Hancock, Erasmus Wilson, Can', Purnell, C. Burrows
J. L. Propert, George Cooper (Master of the So-
ciety of Apothecaries), H. Stcny, and others. There
are at present resident in the college at Epsom twenty-
four pensioners, being aged medical men or their widows,
each of whom is provided with three comfortably fur-
nished rooms, a supply of coals, and a pension of 211. a
year, and 200 boys, the sons of medical men, 45 of whom,
being foundation scholars, are educated, boarded, clothed,
and maintained entirely at the expense of the institution.
The chairman, in introducing the toast of the evening, re-
ferred to the loss the institution had sustained during ,
the past year by the death of Mr. John Proper!, its
founder. As to the future, owing to the dangers to
which members of the medical profession in the con-
' ideational discharge of their duties were exposed, there
was a great temptation for those who represented the
charity to provide in any possible manner for the child-
ren of medical men who had been left in a state of desti-
tution, but to make the institution worthy of the in-
tellectual protection by which it was founded, the object
should be to tumble young men to attain the position
to which the efforts of their fathers had been directed.
To have a scheolof the very first 'order such conditions
must be imposed as would prevent its being made a
mere charitable refuge for any child who happened to be
the child of a medical man, and who happened to be
destitute. During the evening subscriptions were an-
nounced, amounting to about 80y.

REFUSING TO ACCEPT A FINE-ART COLLECTION.
—The Liverpool Town Council yesterday refused to accept
a collection of pictures and works of art, left, on certain
conditions, to the town by Mr. Gower, an English mer-
chant, who recently died in Marseilles. A deputation of
the council, who had inspected the collection, reported
that none out of about 400 pictures was worth more than
5/. ; while the bronzes—described as old classic works—
were of the coarsest modern manufacture, and not even
" aged" artificially to imitate long buried works of Boman
and Greek art.
A meeting of the Senate of the University
of London was held yesterday, in their large hall
at Burlington-house, for the purpose of the presen-
tation of these graduates of the University who ob-
tained their respective degrees in the course of the past
year. Certificates of honour and of scholarship and ex-
hibitions were also distributed to those graduates and
undergraduates to whom they had been previously awarded,
as were also the numerous gold medal to which the re-
cipients had been recommeaded by the examiners.
For thirty years Horniman and Co. have oo-
oPersted through agents to supply tea on more advantageous
teems than by the ordinary channel their tea reaches the con-
sumer in the seine pure state as ft leaves the grower, as It la
secured in packete.—LAdvirthuonent.l