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London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

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future day the felicitations of the
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their marriage, and the expression , 4er--/Ttkiete-Ae"
wishes for their future happiness. ThiraecisioitS
come to by the Court of Lieutenancy of the City of
London on Friday was communicated to the Recep-
tion Committee, and was acceded to, with the ex-
ception of that part of it in which the commissioners
claimed precedence over the officers of the corpora-
tion, it being very clearly shown that there was no
foundation whatever for this. claim on the part of
the Court of Lieutenancy.
It will be satisfactory to the public to knoW that
such arrangements will be made as will admit of
the Princess Alexandra arriving cifGravesend on
Friday night, instead of at noon on Satnrday as
previously announced. Her royal highness will thus
be enabled to have a night's rest before commencing
the fatigues of the long and brilliant reception
which awaits her. If this arrangement is carried
out the princess will probably land at Gravesend
about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, and. will
thus be enabled to reach Windsor before dusk. If
her royal highness were to land at Gravesend at
noon, or one o'clock—for the state of the tide will
not admit of the Victoria and Albert coming along
side the pier at an earlier hour—the royal cortege
would have to travel at a rate of speed which would
c.use much disappointment to the thousands of
spectators. Both for the youthful princess, and for
the people who await to give her a sincere and
hearty welcome, it will be very much butter if the
voyage from Antwerp could be so timed as to admit
of the arrival off Gravesend on the Friday evening,
when advent, ge could be tAten of the early tide to
bring the yacht up to its moorings.
The volunteers will muster in considerable force
lon different parts of the line. The Kentish volun-
teers will form a guard of honour at Gravesend;
the Ist Surrey will be stationed in Southwark ; the
City of London Rifles and London Artillery Com-
pany will be massed in the open space opposite the
Mansion House and at King William-street; and
in Hyde-park there will be a very large muster of
the metropolitan and provincial corps, who will, if
time permits—and we have no doubt sufficient time
will be afforded if the arrangements we have just
referred to are adopted-- march past the illustrious
lady in grand division. It is understood that there
will be no show of the regular army upon the whole
line of route, and that there will not even be an
escort of the cavalry of the Household Brigade.
The whole demonstration will be as thoroughly
popular as it will be hearty and sincere.
With the sanction of the War Department the
fireworks which have remained in store at the Royal
Arsenal since the peace rejoicings atthe termination
of the Crimean war will be used for a grand pyro-
technic display, which will take place on Woolwich
Common on the evening of the wedding day of the
Prince of Wales. During several nights of the past
week a number of these fireworks have been tested,
and, notwithstanding the time they have been
manufactured, they are found to be in excellent
condition. Other fireworks of a magneficent
description are now being prepared at the laboratory
department, and it is stated that a considerable
number will be forwarded far a display in Hyde-
park, and also at Windsor. On the morning of the
wedding day royal salutes will be fired by batteries
of artillery and from the Fisgard, flag-ship ; and a
review of the troops in garrison will take place on
Woolwich Common.

DULWICH COLLEGE ABUSES.

Old foundations are historical bugbears, and
little else than perplexities for contemporary wis-
dom. The world itself is probably as young as
when created, but all its oid charities are rely
old, decrepit, and, in two many cases, useless.
Dulwich College is an example of what founda-
tions come to by the process of filtration through
successive centuries ; and if we look forward a
couple of hundred years we may anticipate that
by that time its revenues will barely suffice to keep
a cat. Our readers no not need to be informed, at
length, that in Alleyne's gift we have a &st-
rait) grievance. These columns have long borne
testimony to the fact that between the sources and
objects of the charity there has for a long period
been a great gulf fixed. It had at one time, in fact,
become a nuisance, and an Act of Parliament was
framed and passed with the object of purifying the
nuisance and turning its elements to better account.
But the fatalities of charity appear to have settled
hard upon it, and it seems almost a pity now to dis-
turb the petrefactions that encrust it, so admirably
do they harmonise with the corruption that reigns
within. But as there are fidgetty people in the
world, we must fain face this Dulwich business and
agree with the deputation of gentlemen who re-
cently waited upon Sir G. Grey with the object of
asking for a Parliamentary Committee to inquire
into the working of the charity. Our report of this
proceed:ng will show that the argument for a Com-
mittee is based on the representation that the Act
under which the charity is managed is altogether
inadequate to the purpose, for there is not one
single department of the charity which appears to
be working in conformity with the intentions of the
founder or the Governors. There have been reduc-
tions in the number of boys in the lower school, re-
ductions in the number of poor pensioners and alms-
people, reductions, in fact, everywhere in those
features of the charity which especially affect the
poor; and augmentation in those features which.
affect the rich ; and, of course, augmentations in the
revenues of all the principal officials. Dulwich
College is going to the dogs, and that seems to be the
way of all ancient foundations. There are too many
parochial interests connected with the disposition of
its revenues ; it will always be closely watched ;
and if there is nothing tangible gained by the pre-
sent agitation, it will be the prelude to something
else worth waiting and working for. One reason
why an amended scheme is required is to reinstate
out-pensioners in the position they held before Lord
Langdale's judgment went so bard against them.
These points have been ably expounded, and we
may expect that the whole subject willbefmreaedlye
" ventilated," now that a beginning has been
with so much earnestness.—City Press.