The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

The annual distribution of prizes in the faculties
of Arts and Law took place on Wednesday, in the
theeere of rh C .11ere ne-ler tl- eessi a.. '' ' •
Right Fen. the Eael or Carlieie. Arnoege, . ute,e
present were the Lord Mayor, Lord Fortescue, Sir J.
Graham,
M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Taylor, and a
large number of the friends of the students.
The proceedings were opened by Professor CLOUGH,
M.A., Dean of the Faculty, who read the report of the
council for the last session. The professors then an-
nounced the names of the successful candidates in
each department, who were summoned separately
before the chair, and received at the bands of the
Noble Chairman prizes, consisting of books, certifi-
cates, and medals, accompanied by a few words of
congratulation and encouragement. The following
is a list of the prizemen :
Andrews Scholarship (100/.)—Scholar, J. C. A. Scott,
2d payment, 501.
English—Prize, Richard Gaskell.
Latin—Senior, Ist prize, George Waugh; 23, Alfred
Smith. Junior, lit prize, Henry John Manning; 2d,
Francis Edward Fox.
Greek—Senior (not yet awarded). Junior, Ist prize,
Frederick Hall Roberts; 2d, Henry John Manning.
French—Senior prize, H. Paddison. Junior prize, F.
R. Daldy.
German—Senior prize, Samuel Ralph Asbury. Junior
prize, Frederic Hymen Lewis.
History—Prize, Edward Howley.
Philosophy of Mind and Logic—Prize, Frederic
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John F. Deck. Experimental, Ist prize, Frederick B.
Edmonds; 2d, H. Paddison.
Architecture—Fine Art, Ist year, prize, Frederick
Austin; 2d year, Charles Hayward. Construction, Ist
year, Thomas A. Briton; 2d year, Charles Hayward.
Civil Engineering—Prize, William Sherring.
Botany—Junior, silver medal, John D. Scurrah.
Zoology—Silver medal, Clement Sconce.
Analytical Chemistry—Gold medal, James Bell, lit
silver medal, James Spencer. 2d silver medal, Thomas
Welburn.
Drawing—Prize, Bryan Donkie.
After the ceremony of presenting the prizes.
The Earl of CARLISLE rose and said—l believe we
have now come to an end of the necessary business of
the day, except that I am told that lam bound by
custom to address a few observations to you respect.
ing the very pleasing and instructive exhibition in
witnessing which we have all now been associated. I
can with truth assure you that it is the only portion of
that business with which it might be well for you, and
would undoubtedly be most agreeable to myself, to dis-
pense altogether. Nevertheless, assuredly, I bear no un-
willing homage, nor do I wish to give any scanty ex-
pression to it with regard to the display we have now
witnessed, of youthful exertion and ability here meet-
ing with their appropriate and well-deserved rewards,
and the promise they afford to the community of
further increase and development. It would be
most churlish and ungrateful in me if I were not
frankly to mention how very much I per•
sonally feel honoured by the invitation which I
received from the council—not being one of the
members, not being one of the founders or patrons
or benefactors of this institution—to be present,
and even to
preside, at this its solemn anniversary
meeting. It is true that I have known the society at
the anniversary of the renowned hospital which is at-
tached to it, and I have now willingly taken the oppor-
tunity
of meniiesting my gratification at the success
and progress which it has achieved by general con-
fession in its faculty of arts and law —(Applause.)
If it were consistent with the dignity of the tack you
have imposed upon me to pause for a moment longer
upon personal topics, it might well add to the diffi-
dence which I now most unaffectedly feel when I
cast toy eyes back on some of those by whom I have
been preceded in my present functions. I find among
them some of the most prominent names in the ser-
vice of their country, as well as in the more univer-
sal republic of science, art, and letters. To say
nothing
Brougham (Loud applause)—who daily shows
of your most eminent president, Lord
that his unequalled energies can still wear almost
all their original freshness whenever there is an op-
portunity presented to him for amending the law or
improving the jurisprudence of the country-.I find
among you such names as Lord John Russell—
(Applause, with some disapprobation)—whose con-
sistent worth has been so often proved in hard-fought
struggles fur civil and religious liberty; and, not to
mention others by whom I am even surrounded at the
present moment, 'I
will only recall to your memory that
on the very last occasion of this ceremony these walls
echoed to the clear and manly eloquence of Sir J.
Graham.--(Loud applause.) I also see beside me one
who may truly, and I hope without offence, be called
a veteran in the public service—Mr. Hume.—(Hear.)
Those v;ho have made it their habit to attend at
these anniversaries have had the gratification of
listening to the genius which sheds so much pictu-
resque life and animation over every page of Mr. Ma-
caulay ; and another historian of our day, Mr. Grote,
has here taken the opportunity of instructing the
youth of England with the same enlightened discri-
mination with which he has developed the institutions
and explained to you the undying glories of an-
cient Athens.—(Hear, hear.) It is not merely,
however, from feeling my utter disparity with respect
to such names as these, but also no less from the
consciousness that at the period of my owa education
—mainly, no doubt, from my own fault, and partly
from the fault of the time, when the same care and
attention was not bestowed upon many of the more
practical and useful objects with reference to which the
prizes have been this day delivered into the hands of
the respective competitors—that I must feel myself
utterly disqualified from enlarging upon by far the
great majority of these subjects. I sometimes think,
particularly
with reference to such studies and pur-
suits as these, that we are apt, in a public and general
point of view, to do that which, perhaps, we have too
little disposition to do in our individual cases—that is,
to underrate ourselves ; for very often, perhaps, the
era in which we live may not appear to us so
brilliant and to august as that to which I have just
referred, as illustrated by the able and discriminating
pen of ~ •
Grote, when Pericles uttered his master-
pieces
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of eloquent wisdom under the porticos which
Phidias bad built, or that in which the verses of Virgil
and of Horace celebrated the victorious wars and the
pacific domination of Imperial Caesar. But when we
consider the influences and the elements of our
modern society, which have extended themselves,
still further than our arms—when we follow the
devious tracks of that commerce which finds no re-
gion
• too vast and no inlet too sequestered for its fer-
tilizing
traffic—when we transport our name and
power to the midst of tribes and nations which
Alexsnder left unconquered, and visit islands and
continents of which Aristotle never dreamt—when
we are helping, in conjunction with our Transatlantic
kinsmen, to spread the language of Shakspere and
the faith of the Cross to the sources of the Missouri
and the Ganges—when we remember the instances of
mastery which man, even in our own day, has acquired
over nature, the steam-engine, the railway, the
electric telegraph,
besides all the improved ap-
pliances for the comfort and enjoyment of life,
all a opiates of pain—and inferior to none will I
ever consent to rank that blessed one of chloroform—
when we ponder upon the whole of this splendid cata-
logue, Who does not feel his ambition kindled and his
energies braced,
if perchance in any degree he, too,
Inly contribute to the relief of man's wants, and to
extend the limits of his intellectual empire.—(Loud
applause.) In the course of this day's proceedings se-
veral prizes were delivered for proficiency in the
classical languages' Now, even though these may
have been made the
object of too exclusive and indis-
criminate pursuit elsewhere, yet I do rejoice to find
that in the heart of modern London, and surrounded
by the din and competition of its multitudinous life,
the classical languages have still here met with
their appropriate place
and honour.—(Hear, hear.)
For ifexcellence the immortal• even the intrinsic of
compositions of which
should fail to be re-
garded, I think we all ages
ether from the attempts
occasionally made
theya re the organ, if the con-
curring testimony of
a
rndleyorgeciate their value and to
to
adhering to a contrary
. course.—(Hear.) Indications
wanting, in more than one
draw them from the r"iblain-,
have not of late been
a of a desire to with
of contempurl'r-7 -
Europe,.
discourage their cultivation sufficLent inducement for
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gof youth. I lately met
with a work published
ecclesiastic in that country,
Worm ;" and what do
insect which was there described,
all
and blasting the produce of y entitled " The Gnawing
French gentleman, an
think was the destructive
modern society ? It
Popular ignorance, it was
was not crime, it was nottile
tyranny of despots, it
you
uas sapping the vitality
not Socialism, it wee not.
the
multitudes, no—it was
was not the madness of h
aganism propagated by
more than this—it was t
classical learning.—(Laughter.)trung your harps by the
of the violet chaplet, that 8.
mphs, that haunt the
Hear this, ye muses
cool Ilissus ; hear
nysloping ridge of Tivoli, it
sunny shores of Baia, or the
that modern society
is from your shrines and ;titersto recoil. Bat I think
finds, too late, it is instructed
to be rebuked, and re-
it is no wonder if inquiry is
and
liberty to be fettered,
re-
monstrance
to
be
silenced' -Ischolars to be banished
and authors to be gagged, and
nder, I say, that an
this,yeep.
—(Loud applause)—it is no we
attempt should at the a
close those oracle, which through time be made to
gh
tones the sanctity
genera-
tions have proclaimed in undyinghear, _
____(elear, and
of freedom and the divinity of lavv• .
illustrious exiles
renewed applause) Some of those.
succeeding
be called
this country hag already received ;
Its
maytiat she may
upon to receive yet more.
long continue a home both
may long maintain
literature, end I hope that she •
for these victims the inviolable rights of asylum.—
(Hear, hear, uhd applause.)