The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

RICHARD SAVAGII LEAVLS

SCHOOL.
I ha I been . four years under the tutelage of Bur-
ridge, when one day Ludlow made his appearance before
him, with a mournful seriousness of aspect. I was called
into the room.
" Come hither, Dick," said Burridge, beckoning me
towards them. "Here's your friend—friend? ah, well!
no matter—here's Ludlow come to take you away
from me."
" At Lady Mason's command," interposed Ludlow,
" but mush against my will,—had I a right to express it."
" Humph!" grunted Burridge. " Why, Sir, I haven't
half done with him yet. I want to introduce him to a
few Greek gentlemen of my acquaintance, very reserved
people, who require much respect and attention before
one can become intimate with them. I don't think I'll
let him go. Look you, Ludlow: I designed him for
Cambridge, by way of compensation for a certain block-
held they were troubled with some five and twenty years
since. I'll tell you what ; I'll lend him—mark, I'll lend
him to Lady Mason for one month ; if, at the expiration
of that period, he be not forthcoming, look to it ; or
rather, look for me ; to London up come I, trundling •,
whip him under my arm) and away with him, to be heard
of once aTain"—here Burridge nodded his head signifi-
cantly—" when his father appears to claim him."
Ludlow was greatly distressed. "I am sure, Lady
Mason," stammering—" the friendly interest you
take in Richard's welfare—the uncommon—a—a—the—
but I must obey my orders." This last he brought out
hastily, but with an effort.
" Ah well!" returned Burridge, " must—ugly word ;
f never liked it. Can't' and must' are the two devils
.hat claw out the eyes of will.' "
" Servants are not free agents," returned Ludlow.
They are not, Mr. Burridge," he repeated, almost ve-
hemently, observing. that the other shook his head.
"Ah ! well—a pity !" said Burridge.
" Let me entreat," cried Ludlow, " as well for the sake
of Lady Mason as of Richard, that you will take no
steps at present to discover what it is so necessary should
remain concealed. Why do I ask this? not for myself,
but for his sake, first ; for Lady Mason's, second ; for
my own, last."
" Glibly spoken," remarked Burridge. " What say
you, Richard—Freeman?"
I answered that I had the fullest confidence in Lud-
iow ; that I was assured he meant all for the best ; and
f suggested that vary likely Lady Mason had recalled me
so abruptly for the purpose of disclosing all she knew of
toy birth.
This speech had a sensible effect upon Ludlow. He
was embarrassed.
"It is but for a time," he said. "I, at least, design
~,hat all shall one day be explained."
" Enough of this perversion of the gift of speech,—a
-.race to this mySterious mouth-work!" exclaimed Bur-
ridge; " ThiS boy will prove an CEdipus for your
Sphinx, I doubt not. Should you require my assistance,
Dick, you know where to find me. I leave you to him,
.air, for the present," turning to Ludlow, " and indeed it
is no business—although I make it a concern—of mine.
Go, and take leave of your friends, and of your enemies
—for I suspect you have acquired both in this our micro-
cosm."
" Here, Dick !" exclaimed Burridge, as I re-entered his
study, " Ludlow and luggage are waiting for you. Let
me see ; you are now upon fifteen years of age : four
years have you and I been very good friends. Four
times forty—one hundred and sixty. Surely I can
spare you two out of one hundred and sixty guineas.
Buy a Horace, Dick, with one of them. Horace! so
easily construed—so difficult to translate I And, mark ;
don't listen to what the fools tell you about Sallust ; his
style is a fine one. And never believe that Virgil was
so much greater than Ovid. Nosey had as much poetry
in him as the Mantuan. And always think for yourself
—and do think, and think of me sometimes. And—
There, go!"
I kissed the good man's hand reverently, and grate-
fully expressed my obligations for his care, his kindness,
and his affection.
44 Pish !" said he, looking up at the ceiling. " Away
with him, Ludlow. Dick, you take with you the last
corner of my heart. You have a right to it, you dog !
You found it when I thought I had none left. I shall
see you when I come to' London during the holidays."
He shook Ludlow warmly by the hand. "My honest
Friend, let this boy be fairly treated—fairly—openly
What the deuce ! Y Who is his coxcomb of a father ?"
" He will be treated well, Sir," said Ludlow.
Burridge pointed to his heart.
" Upon my honour, all will be done for the best—al
is for the best!'
"There I believe you " returned Burridge.—
Savage," in Bentley's iliscellany for July.

-" Richard

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

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CAMBRIDGE, JOLT 17.—Yesterday, the Norrisian prize
was adjudged to John Samuel Howson, M. A., of Trinity
College.—Subject—" Both in the Old and New Testament
eternal life is offered to mankind through Jesus Christ only."
The honours in Civil Law for the year 1840-41 have been
this year adjudged, at Commencement, in the following
order :
First Class.—Hows, Trinity Hall ; Stones-street, St.
John's.
Second Class.—Jenner, Trinity Hall; Caldwell, do.
Third Class.—Roche.
On Tuesday, July 6, Alfred Williams, of King's College,
was admitted Fellow of that Society.
On the sth instant, Francis Hildyard, Esq., Barrister at
Law, Junior Fellow of Care Hall, in this University, was
elected a Senior Fellow of,that Society.
On the 7th inst. the Lord Bish,p of Peterborough insti-
' tuted the Hon. and R3V. John Sandilands, 1\1.A., of Trinity
College, in this University, to the Rectory of Coston, in Lei-
cestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Kipling,
on the presentation of the Queen.
The Rev. Joseph Taylor, M.A., of St. John's College,
in this University, has been preferred from the curacy of Taw-
stock, Devonshire, to the perpetual curacy of St. John's, the
Evangelist, Dukinfield, Cheshire.
The Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., of Corpus Christi College
in this University (in conjunction with the Rev. Robert Eden,
M.A., and the Rev. W. Stone, hl. A., of Oxford), has been
appointed by the Board of Control Examiner of candidates for
Haile bury College for the ensuing term.
The Rev. S. J. Gambier, M.A., of Trinity College, in this
University, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of
Grinshill, Salop. Patron, John Wood, Esq.
The Rev. H. Owen, of Magdalene College, in this Univer-
sity, has been appointed to be one of the domestic chaplins of
the Earl of Stradbrooke.
The Rev. W. W. Foley, of Queen's College, in this Univer-
sity, took his M.A. degree last week. The name was acci-
dentally omitted in the list we published. •

LORD MORPETH AND LORD
HOWICK.
(From the Spectator.)
Crotchety Lord Howick was like himself to the last. His
speech consisted of a jeremiade over the " short notice" of
Mr. Baker Cresswell's having stolen a march upon him,
and over the corruption and tyranny of the county, and
the treachery of Northumberland's Duke, who first let
him understand that he meant to tolerate him still, and
then patronized Mr. Cresswell instead. Lord Howick,
in language peevish to a pitch of incontinence, exposed
the tactics of committee-rooms to vulgar gaze, chaffered
retrospectively for individual votes which had been
filched from him, and betrayed himself into a squabble
about some letters of Lord Ossulston's which he had been
reading at a meeting of electors. All this hysterical
gossip, the scandalmongering of the hustings, accounted
to Lord Howick for his defeat. Naturally enough, it
never struck him to seek the cause in the " Votes and
Proceedings," where his name figures so strangely : in
the divisions on the Irish question last Session, in which
he skipped from side to side like a pith-ball, between
the opposite poles of Lord Stanley's and Lord Morpeth's
electrics. With undoubted intelligence, much right
feeling, and more honesty of intent than consistency of
purpose, Lord Howick sometimes has done and said
things that have procured him to be rated as a states-
man ; yet, impatient of a certain sequacious dependence
of mind which reduces him to the second rank as a copy-
ist, his egotism has a morbid craving for originality ;
and that awkward condition of mind has placed him
more than once in a ludicrous where he sought a digni-
fied posture. To stick to the Irish Bills : he was then
seen to fly away from his friends in order to propound
certain inventions of his own, and was supported by the
Opposition, who used him as a blind tool to break up
his own party ; and again, when he had been used, was
flung aside, noting loth—for he courted rejection by,
new allies whom he in turn spurned as people with whom
he differed in all things; he talked against the Whigs
and voted against the Tories, carried his own proposi-
tion yet refused to follow it up : he seemed to take plea-;
sure in inscribing decrees in the Parliamentary book of
fate negativing all other things. and themselves to boot.
And that was his last act in general statesmanship : yet
he can only account for his defeat in Northumberland by
Mr. Cresswell's cunningly surprising him as he was.ean-,
can-
vassing in all the ease of an uncontested county, or by,
the frowns of Lord Tankerville or the Duke at the
castle. In striking contrast with his brother-legislator
is Lord Morpeth's demeanour under defeat.; though he
did not affect to conceal his regret, it could not subdue
his manly temper. Casting aside all petty eleCtion-agent
cavil, he broadly admitted the extent of his discomfiture ;
delivered the conquered county with dignified fortitude •
into the hands of his opponent, asking merely the privi-
lege of surrendering to the more worthy of his foes.
And if Lord Morpeth has won his meed of praise, it may
be observed in passing, perhaps his successful antago-
nist, Mr. Wortley, has scarcely received his for the ful-
ness of generous feeling which distinguished his bearing.
Adverse parties have vied with each other in rendering
honour to the manner in which the rejected Member for
West Yorkshire turned defeat into a victory over circum-
stance, and made his last act of surrender one of the
most imposing of his career. Turning from personal
considerations, with a statesmanlike glance at the fiiture,
he asserted the damnatory effect which the conquest of
West Yorkshire would have for the time ; looking be-
yond to the reaction which must come hereafter. Thus
two of the most remarkable young Nobles who have
taken a part in public affairs retire for a while. Both
will be missed. Lord Morpeth's growing power of ge-
neralization, the habit of mastering his subjects, his force
of language and happy knack of illustrating, will be
wanting to the friends who have counted upon his sup-port. Lord Howick, uncertain, perverse, and fantastical
in his impulses, still brought to bear upon most matters
which he handled great ingenuity, much solid informa-
tion, and, rare quality in the irresponsible legislator, per-
severing industry. Even antagonists will miss two men
who gave substance and soul to the party contests cf the
day.

EMIGRATION. Three emigrant ships have
lately sailed from the West Highlands with no less than 1,500
persons, for Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island. 'I ho
emigrants are chiefly from Lord Alacclonald's estate, and part
are from Raasay. To the most needy of the adventurers, Lord
Macdonald gave 1/. each, young and old.' Most of the poor
islanders have taken their nets with them, in order to prosecute
the fishing in the distant country, whither they have gone for
an as)lval.
The first stone of the Infant Orphan Asylum is,
tobe laid by Prince Albert, atWanstead, on Tuesday next.