The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-23 00:00:00

St. Paul's School.

Winter speech-day, yesterday, at Sr. Paul's School, though
second in the fasts to that day on which prizes are de-
livered, is yet an occasion of some interest, as, indeed, was
manifested by the very numerous attendance of the rela-
tives and friends of the scholars. The chair was taken, a
little before two o'clock, by Mr Shuttleworth, surveyor-
accountant of the Mercers' Company ; and there were pre-
sent Canon Blakeley, Mr Fitzgerald, and Mr Watson,
members of the court.

Dr Ky naston, the head-master of the school, commenced
the proceedings of the day by calling up the three boys who
had successfully competed for the Thrushton memorial
prize for Latin lyrics—a special mark of distinction con-
ferred at this period of the year. Three_ candidates are ad,-
mitted to participation in this award; and the names of
those who yesterday responded ,to the summons of the
head-master, and stepped upon the platform to receive
the marks of their meritorious endeavours, were C.
M. Cos ie, E. A. Knox and E. w. South. Dr Kynas-
ton, in distributing the prizes, spoke in the highest
terms of the three young men who had so deservedly won
them, and said that none of greater promise had ever come
bezote him, _ _

After th;) brief ceremony of delivering the prize books into
the hands of the successful competitors, the recitation of
speeches, or rather dialogues and scenes, began. It may be
stated, by the bye, that the lyrics which had won distinc-
tion, and which were Latin versions of Wordsworth's " To
the Daisy," were not spoken, but were " taken as read."
The following is the programme, which was carried out with
great ability add spirit by all concerned in it :—Aristophanes
"Knights," 85-284—Nicias, E. A. Knox ; Demosthenes;
E, W. South ; Sausage-seller, ; Cleon, C. M, Cowie ;
Chorus, Mills. Shakspere, "King Richard III.," act. i.,
scene 4—Clarence, Mackenzie ; Brackenbury, H, C.
M'Carthy ; First, Murderer, Pccock ; Second Murderer,
Seaman. Terence, " Andria," act iv., scenes 3,4, 5 —Mysist
J. R. Illingworth ; Davus, Seaman; Chremes, Hinson.
Shakspere, " Taming of the Shrew," act iv., scenes 1, 3
Petruehio, J. A. Kempo ; Katherina, Mills ; Grumio,
M‘Gill ; Hortensio, C. M. Cowin; Tailor, E. A. Knox;
Haberdasher, Seaman. Moliere, "Le Medecin Malgre Lui,"
act I.—Sganarelle, J. A. Kemps ; Martine, Mills ; M.
Robert, Mackenzie; Lucas, Hinson; Valere, H. C
MiCarthy.

The llon. Mrs Fitzroy, widow of the late Right
Hon. Henry Fitzroy, and daughter of Baron Nathan M.
Rothschild, has left in tier will a legacy of £lOO to the
National Lifeboat Institution, to be applied in the purchase
of a lifeboat, to be called the Arthur Frederick, after her
late son.

SIC TRANSIT.—To ,see the sights of London
thoroughly we should put ourselves implicitly under the
charge of a country cousin; if we should desire at the pre-
sent time to find some particular and once well-known street,
we should ask a navvy, " Where it was ? ' What a change,
indeed, have twelve months effected in the metropolis, and
what will Ludgate-hill be in another year with its concen-
tration of traftl3 throughout the four quarters of the globe ?
The iron vertebra of a railway bridge already throws its
shadow across this remarkable thoroughfare, and Osborne
House, for the first time for years, ceases to wrest the at-
tention of the pedestrian by its
,well remembered annual, to
which our children, and, indeed, many of ourselves, have
gazed with delight, as the precursor and epitome of the good
things around it—fit mental associations of plum-pudding
and pantomimes I Mr Oaburne, however, ,deserves every
thanks for thus du riving himself of what must have proved
a very pleasing mode of attracting customers to his far-
famed provision stores, and it is to 1)1 hoped that the ab.
senco of the gazing crowd without will not affect the elute-
wary buying throng within.