The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-30 00:00:00

HARROW SPEECH DAY.

Yesterday was the speech day at Harrow, on.which oc-
casion there was a very large assembly of noblemen and
ladies and gentlemen.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, and the
Prince of Wales was also present, and appeared to take
great interest in the proceedings.
Their Royal Highnesses arrived at two o'clock, and were
received by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. the head master.
The company having assembled in the school-room, the
following speeches, or ! prolusiones" (to adhere to Harrow
phraseology), were delivered :
Hope, sen Latin Alcaics :
" NATURA IrsA DE IMMORTALITATE ANIMORUM TACITA.
JUDICAT."
Locock
Hudson ............
Earle, pen
" RELIT DICTIS ANIMOS AC rECTORA MULCET."
(Lamartine to the
_Red Republicans, February, 1849.)
Wigram, max.
Mr. Ellis, sen. ... Speech at Plymouth
Sergeant Greek prose for the Hope medal :
(TRANSLATION FROM BURKE'S SPEECH AT BRISTOL.)
Trotter, maj. Caractacus
Locoek
nor Mason.
Kenyon
(TRANSLATION FROM MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.)
Maclean, sen j Martins Galeotti ...... }Sir W. Scott.
Harcourt, sen. 1 Louis XI ................
Earle, sen.
Harcourt, sen.
' EFFECT'S OF A STATE OF marl CIVILISATION UPON THE
INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER."
Earle, sen 5 Lo Maitre de Philosophic
1 Moliere.
Ashley, see
Latin Hexameters :
Hope, sen.
" PONTUS EUXINUS."
Chaplain maj. ... Muster of the Guards...F. Lushington.
Hope, sen. Greek lambics.
(TRANSLATION FROM SHAKSPERE.)
Sergeant i Mr. Sneer
Sheridan.
Digby 1 Mr. Puff 1
Wodehouse, seu., Neald Medal for Mathematics.
M'Call, second prize for Mathematics.
Bothamley, prize for Euclid.
Tollernaehe, prize for Arithmetic.
Mr. Ashley, sen., Botfield Medal for Modern Languages.
Waller, Ebrington prize for Modern Languages.
1. Barnes
2. Harter
Stuart, prize for Proficiency in Military Studies.
Sergeant English Poem ;
"THE -CATACOMBS OF ROME."
The company then separated.

IRONMASTERS' MEETING,

STENSTONET, Thursday Evening.—The usual midsum-
mer preliminary meeting of the ironrnasters of South
Staffordshire and East Worcestershire was held to-day,
at the Foley Arms, and was most numerously and in-
fluentially attended. So large, indeed, was the assem-
blage, that the company, instead of being cooped up' in
a room, took advantage of the weather, and met and
discussed the affairs of the trade upon the bowling-
green. A more agreeable or more pleasant party could
not have been met with in the Midland Counties. Mr.
Philip Williams, of the Gospel Oak Works, was elected
chairman of the trade, in the room of the late Mr. M.
Grazebrook. As a matter of course, the late extraordi-
nary advance in the prices of raw materials, the increas-
ing demand for manufactured iron, and the future pro-
spects of the trade were taken into due consideration. It
seemed to be agreed on all hands that an advance to the
extent of 21. per ton, which by some masters bad been con-
templated, would be unadvisalle. Still the great rise
which has taken place in the price of ironstone and
coal required an advance, if not a corresponding. rise,
in the rates charged for first-class iron.
Ultimate}}'
the following resofuti on was adopted, "Thattli
epric:
of iron remain the same,
viz., bars ill., hoops 121., and
sheets 131. per ton."

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At the last quarterly meetings in April the prices
were 1/. lower, and the advance, if it can be so called,
is only to the amount which since' that period has been
obtained by the principal houses of the district. A
declaration of an advance to the amount of 2!. per ton,
which some people were sanguine enough to expect,
did not meet with the slightest encouragement:
It may be mentioned, as in some degree connected
with the trade and manufactures of the district, that
in the course of the day a deputation from the Mid-
land Scientific and Literary Institute (an act of Par-
liament for the establishment of which has just been ob-
d
tained), consisting of Lord Lyltelton, Mr. A. Rylan,
Mr. J. B. Herbert, and Dir. P. Hollins, waited upon
the assembled ironmasters, • with • the view of obtaining
their pecuniary support and influence. The matter
was, however, postponed fur after dinner consideration.