The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-29 00:00:00

THE JOCKEY CLUB,

A general meeting of the Jockey Club was held at New-
market, on Wednesday, Sept. 27 : present—Mr. Alexander,
Mr. W. G. Craven, Hon. Admiral Rous, stewards ; Mr.
Barne, Col. Bailie, Mr. Batson, Duke of Beaufort, Marquis
of Hastings, and Sir F. Johnstone. A ballot took place,
and H. Chaplin, Esq., was elected a member of the club.

A general meeting of the Jockey Club will be held at
Newmarket after the races on Wednesday in the Second
October Meeting, and the following notices of motion have
been given :—lt will be proposed by the stewards to alter
Rule 24 (Rules of Racing) as under: after the words "never
won," to add " a registered prize in any country." Also to
add the following to Rule 17 :—" When a horse has been
struck out of an engagement by the person legally entitled
to do so, if the horse shall be permitted to start by mistake
for the said engagement, he shall not be entitled to receive
the prize though he comes in first, and if he has been
allowed to start in consequence of fraud or misrepresenta-
tion on the part of the owner or other person having charge
of the horse, that person shall be warned off Newmarket
Heath, and the horse shall be disqualified from running for
any public race thereafter."—Racing Calendar.

Sir P. Kelly, M.P., and Working Dren's
Colleges.

The fourth annual meeting of the Ipswich Work-
ing Men's College was held in the Town Hall, on
Wednesday evening, Sir F. Kelly, M.P., the presi-
dent of the institution, in the chair.
The Principal of the college, Dr. Christian, read
the report, which was very satisfactory, as it showed
a considerable increase both in the number of mem-
bers of the college and of students, there being now
653 members, and in two of the terms of the past
year the students numbered 149, nearly all attend-
ing two classes. In May an examination under the
auspices of the Society of Arts was held, and 21
certificates were awarded, four for excellence and
nine for proficiency in book-keeping, one for excel-
lence and one for competency in English history,
two for competency in French, three for competency
in arithmetic, and one for competency in geography.
The report was adopted, on the motion of the.
Mayor (Mr. S, H. Cowell), and seconded by Mr.
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distribute the certificates to the successful students.

The PRESIDENT said it was now his duty to ad-
dress a few words to them upon the general subject
of the report. He need not say it had given him
the highest gratification, seeing that this was only
the fourth year of the institution, that they had
made their way under many difficulties and dis-
couragements, and advanced to the position de-
scribed in the report. He must say a word or two
upon the report, and first, he must say something
upon the circumstance that it contained no mention
of the name of Dr. Christian. The reason for this
probably was that Dr. Christian had some hand in
drawing up the report, and he was the last man to
speak of himself in the terms he so well deserved.
But for Dr. Christian this institution never would
have existed, and without him, he would not say
it could not continue to exist, and even to pros-
per ; but if it was to attain a high position among
similar institutions it must be owing to Dr.
Christian more than to any other individual.
(Cheers.) He could not proceed to the business of
the evening without alluding—and he did so with a
melancholy feeling, but, nevertheless, almost of
satisfaction—to the sad mention which the council
had been able to make of the name of the late Mr.
Robert Ransome. He (Sir F. Kelly) ought not to
say more than that, as Mr. Ransome had been taken
from amongthem. It was some consolation to know
that he must have felt in his last moments the gra-
tification of the internal conviction that he had spent
his lifetime—alas, too short a lifetime—in doing
good to his fellow-creatures. In reference to the
position of the institution he would not go into
details, but let him just say that this was one of the
many societies—he was glad to add amongst the
most successful of them—which had grown up partly
from the suggestions and encouragement of the
worthy man (the Rev. F. D. Maurice) who esta-
blished the London Society, and of the secretary of
the society, the Rev. Mr. Solly. The London Work-
ing Men's College had contemplated establishing a
circulating library, to the benefits of which local
institutions might be admitted by a subscription of
£2 a year. If this was established he hoped this
institution would subscribe to it till they had a
library of their own. From the mind he would
turn to the body, and he hoped that a cricket
club would be established and a suitable ground
found. As to the pecuniary part of the business it
was a very important matter, and he was rejoiced to
find they had a balance in hand, and he was glad to
find it was a small one, because, as he knew, that
every shilling that was expended was well spent,
it appeared that all that had been contributed to
the funds of the college had been applied to the
objects for which it was intended. He rejoiced
to see that their numbers had increased and
multiplied, so that really though he and the
members of the higher classes of society had
done what they could to help them in the for-
mation of the society, they had done very little
compared to what the members had done for them-
selves, and that was the very essence of institutions
like this ; it was one of the fundamental principles
of such institutions that the honorary subscribers
should only seek to help the working men so far as
to enable them to help themselves, and though he
trusted the honorary members would go on to the
end doing what lay in their power to assist them, he
also trusted that they would increase in numbers,
and redouble their efforts to further their own cause
and to do that for themselves whicti he desired
to see them do, and in which he desired to help
them, but which after all, to be well done, must be
done by themselves. (Applause.) He hoped that
that those who had belonged to this institution for
a year or two had felt that the expectations they
ventured to hold out at its establishment had been
to some extent realised. The working men, and
perhaps the humbler portion of the middle class,
must, in order to pass their long winter evenings,
resort to some place of amusement, and there was
no such place in this town except the public-house ;
those who would not frequent the public-house had
to remain at home confined in a little room; perhaps
12 or 14 feet fiquare, postiibly with a bed in it, with