The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL.

THE RATE IN AID BILL.

The following is the bill brought into the House
of Commons by Mr. Villiers, Sir G. Grey, and Mr.
Gilpin, to enable boards of guardians of certain
unions to obtain temporary aid to meet the extra-
ordinary demands for relief therein :
" Whereas by reason of the closing of mills and
factories in certain parts of the country great num-
bers of the labouring and manufacturing classes
have been thrown out of employment, and, having
become chargeable to the unions and parishes
wherein they reside, the ratepayers within the same
are likely to be subjected to very heavy and extra-
ordinary burdens, and it is expedient that means
should be afforded whereby temporary relief may
be rendered to such ratepayers : Be it enacted by
the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and
temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same.
"1. That if after the passing of this act the
guardians of any union situated wholly or partly
in the counties of Lancaster or Chester shall find
that the expenditure of any parish comprised in
such union on account of the relief of the out-door
poor for auy current week shall exceed by two-
thirds the amount of the average cost of such relief
for the same week in the three preceding years, the
guardians shall charge upon the common fend so
much of the cost of such relief as shall be over and
above such excess until the Ist day of March next.
" 2. The guardians may from time to time make
any orders for contributions from the several
parishes comprised in such union to the common
fund, in addition to their ordinary orders, and shall
have the same powers for enforcing such orders as
in the case of the usual and ordinary contributions.
" 3. If the guardians of any such union shall
find at Michaelmas or Christmas next that the
amount of the common charges for the quarter end-
ing at either of those times shall exceed by two-
thirds the average amount of such charges for the
same quarter in the three preceding years, the said
guardians may apply to the Poor-law Board for a
contribution in aid, and thereupon the Poor-law
Board may, if they shall think proper, upon being
satisfied that the excess of expenditure is as afore

said, make a representation to her Mejesty in
council, and it shall be lawful for ber Majesty, if
she shall think proper, by order in council, to give
authority for the application of the powers here-
after provided.

" 4: Upon the issuing of such order in council the
Poor-law Board shall make an order upon the sove-

ral unions and parishes under a separate board of
guordians or select vestry in the county wherein
such union shall be situated to contribute a sum of
money to meet the excess, in proportion to the
amount of the expenditure of the several unions and
parishes for the year ending on the 25th day of

March last, and the several sums so apportioned

shall be paid by the guardians and select vestry
of the said union and parishes respectively out of
the common fund of the said unions, and from the
funds of the guardians and vestry of the said
parishes respectively, to the treasurer of the union
on whose behalf the said order in council shall have
been issued.

5. The Poor-law Board shall exclude from con-
tribution any union or such parish aforesaid Where
the excess of the expenditure for the same quarter
shall be half at least of that of the average guar •
terly expenditure for the said three preceding
years.

46 6. Where the union applying for aid shall ex-
tend into two or more counties, the contribution in
aid shall come from Viat, county in which the
greater part of the union shall be situated ; and
where the union required to contribute shall be
situated in two or more counties it shall only con-
of it shall be situuted
tribute in that county in which the greater part
"7. No order of the Poor-law Board
shall be
issued under the authority of this act after the first
day of March next, nor be liable
to be removed
into the Court of Oa certiorari or
otherwise. Queen's Bench

" 8. Every order in council issued under this act
shall be laid before Parliament.
" 9. The several words herein contained shall be
construed in like manner, as in the act of the 4th
and sth William IV., chap. 76, and in the subse-
quent acts extending and explaining the same, and
all the provisions contained therein now in force
shall be applicable to this act."

CRYSTAL PALACE.—A concert of Welsh national
music was given recently at St. James's-hall with so much
success that a repetition of it in the large Concert-room of
the Crystal Palace is announced to take place to-morrow.
One great feature in this performance is that the accom-
played by a band of twenty harps, on which paniments are
the principal players in this country perform, directed by
Mr. John Thomas. Miss Edith Wynne (Eos Cymru) and
Miss Lascelles will sing the solos. The choir has been 60-
looted from the Vocal Association and the Royal Academy
of Music, and will be conducted by Mr, Tienedict,

Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer pre-
sided at a meeting for the distribution of prizes to
those pupils of King's College School who especiallydistinguished themselves during the past academi-
cal year. There were also present Mr. J. Wyid,
M.P., the Rev. Dr. Jeff, the Rev. Dr. Major, the
Rev. J. Fearnley, the Rev. W. Hayes, &c.
The proceedings, as at Eton, Rugby, and other
public schools, commenced with dramatic recita
tions. The following is a programme of this por
lion of the pi oceedings :
1. Hermes 1 iEsch. Prom. V.. ( Adamson.antsburY •
Prometheus
2. Horatius Macaulay Duggan.
3. Euclio
Staphyl a I Plautus, Aulul .. 1 Fynes-Clinton.
Megadorus Friend.
I. English Prize Poem Sicily ' Salntsbury.
i. Tell
Hedwig
Walther
Wilhelm
King Henry V....... Adamson.
Scroop .............
Cambridge .......... Sarntsbury.
Grey............. Shakspere, Henry Fynes-Chnton.
Bedford . ~. .. , . V Platt.
Westmoreland . : ....
Duggan.
Exeter ............::
Rosenzweig.
Patelin ...
Madame Pate Hardy.
llit.::::
Guillaume De Braeys, Leehertier.
Bartolin L'A vocat Patelin. Archer.
Agnelet .. Morgan.
Wescomb.
. Defence of Peltier
. Dionysus
) (Adrian.
Xatithias... i Heath.
Lacus Fetrfstoph. Ram ../ Duggan.
Thera aura ......
Pandoceutria (1)
Pandoceutria (2) ..• ) k Platt.

' I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then said
that other engagements would prevent him from
Witnessing the remainder of the ceremonial. He
could not, however, yield the chair without ex-
pressing the great gratification he had derived from
witnessing the admirable state of efficiency which
had characterised this portion of the arrangements
of the day. Many years had elapsed since he had
heard the recitations at King's College School, and
he could not but 'warmly congratulate Dr. Major on
the high points
of excellence to which he had
brought the scholarship
of his pupils. The manner
in which the pupils performed the parts assigned
them distinctly proved that they not only studied
the words, but entered into the spirit of the great
writers from whose works they recited. It was
much to say, but it could be said with perfect truth, '
that under his direction the school had proved itself
a worthy appendage of tile College. He could not
leave without giving utterance to the warm and
heartfelt wish that both might continue to be foun-
tains of the greatest social intelligence and of the
highest religious blessing to the community for
whose benefit they were founded, and whose confi-
dence they had always enjoyed. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. JELF expressed his regret that
public duties should deprive them of the presence
of Mr. Gladstone, especially as the value of the
prizes would have been enhanced by his presenta-
tion of them.