The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-21 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

ONLY A FANCY.—Thomas Rogers was charged before
Mr. Burcham with being drunk and endangering his life.
One of the guards of the North Kent Railway said that
last evening when' the train was approaching the New
Cross station the prisoner opened the door and was very
near falling out, and if he had done so he would unques-
tionably have been killed. The door was smashed to
pieces. He was the worse for liquor, but not very drunk.
The prisoner said ho had been drinking for three days,
and his opening the door was only a fancy.
Mr. Burcham said that as the damage to the carriage
was not entered on the charge-sheet he could not make
the prisoner pay for it, but ho would fine him 10s. on
the other charge.
THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY BY A NEWS-
PAPER PROPRIETOR.—Mr. Burcham this morning referred
to the case in which a summons had been obtained on.
Tuesday by the secretary of the National Ho rse Insurance.
Company against the proprietor of the Joint Stock Reporter
and Insurance Review for threatening to publish an article
calculated to damage the company in question. The facts
have already appeared in The Sun. The worthy magistrate
said that in tho wurao of the-proceedings the term "scur-
rilous" was applied to the article, but he had read it, and
considered it very well written and a fair critique.

Christ's Hospital.
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VISIT OF THE LORD MAYOR AND CORPORATION.

THIS DAY.
This morning, it being St. Matthew's Day, the Lord
Mayor, Sheriffs, and other members of the Corporation,
proceeded in state to Christ's Hospital, Newgate-street, for
the purpose of hearing the annual orations by the Grecians
who are about leaving Oxford and Cambridge. Divine
service was performed in Christ Church, prayers being
said by the Rev. Prebendary Gibbs, and a sermon preached
by the Rev. Claude Hubert Parez, M.A., Fellow of Pem-
broke College, Cambridge, one of her Majesty's inspectors
of schools.

The civic procession then moved into the great hall,
which was well filled with visitors, the Lord Mayor and
his party taking their seats at the western end.
The prologue was delivered by Mr. John Elliot Hewi-
son, second Grecian, Thompson Mathematical Medallist
and Montefiore Prizeman, Somerset Exhibitioner of St.
John's College, Cambridge.
Mr. Rlclimui. LEE, 4th Grecian, Rustat scholar of St
John's College, Cambridge, delivered the great oration on
the benefits of the Royal Hospitals. He thought there was
no occasion to point out with minuteness what benefits
were composed by such noble charities as those, for instance,
which provided for the sick and dying, or by those which
offered a refuge to the poor creatures whom Providence had
visited with the fearful affliction of madness, or lastly by
those that aimed at the reformation of the criminal and the
stained with shame. The blessings which charities like
these produced, and the benefits which they brought about
were so plain and apparent that they were immediately re-
cognised by all, but the good which Christ's Hospital did
could not be fully made known or duly appreciated but by
those who had had personal and practical experience of it.
And why ? Christ's Hospital did not receive those the very
sight of whom was an appeal to their sympathy—did not
take those who were a burden to the world, but re-
ceived and provided for such as had but few on
whom to depend for support. Again, Christ's Hos-
pital was distinguished above the other royal hos-
pitals by the fact that she fitted her sons for every walk
of life, and this to such an extent that were one to say that
the object in view in founding Christ's Hospital was that
it should benefit not a single sect or land, but indirectly the
o
world at large, he would but be uttering the truth, in proof
which he might state that there was scarcely a land where
art, and science, and industry flourished in which it was
quite unrepresented. All honour then to the memory of its
royal founder. By this one act he had shown to all succeed-
ing ages what kingly qualities he possessed. Need he tell
them how that school had outlived the prosecutions of malic,
and bigotry, unharmed by all the changes of more than
300 years. Need he point out to them how it had never
experienced ruin or decay—how it had only gathered fresh
strength from the lapse of time, and even gained both more
influence and power from the attacks which had, from time
to time, been made upon it. It would be superfluous to
remind them of this, for it had stood, and by God's help
would still stand—for it was founded on a rock, a spiritual
rock, and that rock was Christ. The orator passed a high
eulogium upon the Rev. William Webster, who has been 3b
years mathematical master of Christ's Hospital, and who
has recently been presented by the governors to the rectory
of
Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Dr. Greenwood, eformerly Head Master. The oration was
Co li ie
n
delivered in excellent Greek, and was loudly applauded.
Mr. JOHN EDWARD, First Grecian, Thompson Classical
Medallist, and Richards Medalist, 1865, Scholar of Wad-
ham College, Oxford, proceeded to deliver the English
oration. After dwelling upon the merits of the school, he
said :—lt was almost needless to point out how the original
character of the school had been in reality sustained
throughout all the changes and improvements which had
been introduced from the time of the first foundation until
now, how bountifully it still supported those who most
needed, and who could best appreciate the education which
it offered. How when its noble objects became more
fully end more justly esteemed, it advanced
in one
uninterrupted course of prosperity to the high
recognise, d
position which it new occupied, and how throwing off the
trammels with which a narrow prejudice would hamper its
exertions, it strove to follow out in the spirit, rather than
in the letter, its first founder's royal liberality. It was
eminently iu its objects and early institution a Protestant
school. Founded by the first Protestant King of England,
admitting only Protestant boys, using in its services the
prayers that an eminent Protestant bishop composed, it
was a meet emblem of the religion of the reformer estab-
lishing itself, and flourishing upon the foundations that
the Romanist had laid. There yet remained a cluster whose
walls were said to have echoed to midnight masses and to
solemn requiems, and which in later times had been lighted
up by the flickering torches of the sad procession, chaunting
the Burial Anthem at night behind the bier of a dead com-
panion. Closely, however, as Christ's Hospital had followed
her early traditions, she had not suffered them to stand in
the way of improvement, or to blind her to the necessity of
such changes as the times demanded. She had now her
library and her gymnasium. The education she bestowed was
from time to time so improved as to keep pace with the
progress that other schools were making around her, and she
had reason to boast of some of her sons that had done her
honour in the eyes of the world He would not now go
through the long list of distinguished children who had
passed away—the list that began with Camden and ended
.with Leigh Hunt—but could point to some that were even
now winning themselves a name. At the late commemo-
ration at Oxford an honorary doctor's degree was conferred
upon a former scholar of that house, famous for his high
university honours, for the dignified position he now held
in India, and for the extensive reforms that he had effected
in the tangled mazes of Indian law. Others there were less
known perhaps to fame, but occupying useful and honour-
able positions in their several paths of life. These should
never amid their success forget what Christ's Hospital had
done for them—should never forget that it was there
they learnt not only their first rudiments of knowledge,.
butindependence and self-re-
liance much to gain them their
high positions. After a compliment to the Lord Mayor for
his services in the cause of education the orator passed to
a ls
wo h thoset oh m early lessons
done of
so
public affairs, referring especially to the death of Mr. Cobden
and President Lincoln. Then, after adverting to home
affairs and the retirement of the Rev. W. Webster, ho bade
the masters and governors a hearty farewell. The orator
retired amidst loud cheers.

Cambridge.
The Latin Oration on the same subject was delivered by
Mr. Alfred Edmund Hodgson, Fifth Grecian, who is p
Mr.nin 8 4, u
g Scholarltasro-
d
Grecian, French Prize-
mCambridge, de-
livered the French Oration.
c eaelgD6tooS.Jso Leehn's
of
Scott,st. p College,
eTt Peter's
College,

The following were then delivered in the Order in which
they stand :
Latin Alcaics, translation of the Druid's War Song, by
Mr. William Keymer, Sixth Grecian.

th Grecian.
JuurleiticisanC.msar," by Mr.
Greek lambics, translation fErioafmrhot:h
" Horatius," by Mr.
sAiudLgiett
ysi
Latin
Augustus Lawrencemapppshoni
csl i Allen,
translationFn Francis, asneci
1,1
Greek Hexameters, translation from " Childe Harold,"
by Mr. George Alfred Green, ninth Grecian.
Latin Hexameters, " Helium enter Americanos,"
Richard's Pry Composition, by Mr. John Edward Parnell,
first Grecian.
Sheppard Oakley Morris, tenth Grecian.
Greek Elegiacs, translation of " Death," Mrs. Hemans,
of "Alma," by Mr. John
Sharkey, eleventh Grecian.
English Poem "M by esers."
Mr. John Edward Parnell,
byLMatriu SaEmleugeilacs, translation
first Grecian. . -

A subscription was entered into to defray the expenses
of the Grecians at the University, after which the National
Ant!aeut lya# Nun, and the 9iyie party retired.