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MR THACKERAY'S LECTURES.
Mr. Thaekeray delivered the third of his series of
lecteres on Thursday, to an audience more numerous
end distinguished than ever. The humorist he
dealt with this time was Sir Richard S:cole, Addi-
sou's friend and fellow-labourer in the " Spectator."
Steele is less known and read now•ts-days than any
of his famous contemporaries. His comedies are
grown as obscure as his predecessor poor Otway's al-
most—which is saying a great deal. His lustre as an
essayist has been outshone by that of Addison. But in
his own style of writing he is unrivalled; and his peculiar
character and his strange history made him a very good
subject for Mr. Thackeray's lectures—lectures, be it
no:ed,.not so much intended to be literary as social—
discourses of social philosophy. Thursday's one was a
kind of sermon, as picturesque as a historical novel—a
charitable sermon on & loveable sinner.
Ile began by showing us that such a being as a perfect
man would be, to us, intolerable, and, as regarded him-
self; a kind of anomaly. He would have no joy, because
no sorrow; no repentance, because iccapalde of fault. He
could not, as perfectly wise, love one person more than
another; he would have no other emotion when on the
mountain than on the plain. Our faults were our condi-
tions of existence. From our pain came our pleasure. So
much we derived from what we called, tor instance, our
selfishness ! We did not love people for their virtues
only ; nobody's dearest friends were the greatest and
highest people ho knew.
Why did the father like his
little Tummy better than other people's children—his
far cleverer school-fellows 1' This variety of senti-
ments he referred to what may be called our selfish-
ness. The deduction he drew from this opening was
the propriety of a charitable construction of men's
shortcomings. He tidied sympathy with Dick Steele as
one of the most kind-heartvd of men. So fond
was that man of seeing happiness everywhere about him
that in his old age, when, having outlived wife, fortune,
fame, and almost everything but his good heart, be was
living down in Wales on the remnant of a property, he
used CO have the people of the village dancing before
him, and give a gown to the best performer. It was
beautiful to think of such a life ending in such a calm,
glorious sunset.
He now reviewed this chequered career. Steele was
the son of an Irish gentleman, and was sent an orphan
to the Charter house School. There Addison was his
head boy. Perhaps there was nobody of all the great
men one met in life that ever inspired one with such
wonder and reverence as one's head boy at school;
Steele had Addison for his head boy for lite—loved and
reverenced him from first to last. In all probability
Dicky Steele at the school was the most good-for-
nothing amiable little fellow there—contracting pecuniary
liabilities with sellers of lollipops, and borrowing
money from every boy who had any to lend. Ail this
might be presumed from his subsequent proceeding;.
and also his castigation, perhaps by the very instrument
of torture which he (the lecturer) had (as an amateur)
some time since inspected. Steele went to Oxford;
left it without taking a degree; became a private in the
Guards, and got a • ' •
and had places and various great successes. But he la-
boured under a fatal incapability ofcare of him-
selfapa o taking
or anything.
criec;a lanndai'vete, "a theologian in
commission; became Captain Steele,
The various scenes in Steele's life Mr. Thackerey left
and returned to at intervals, as suited
He alluded with much humour to the " Christian Hero."
Steele used to be laughed at while engaged on this pious
he fitted up a house very elegantly
Then Dicky
for a wife whom he adored, but the landlord
could not get his rent. Having, failed in keeping
alw,nabdsa
cakiew raayy edifyings,
iwn
tpdhee performance;
his
mhs
up one establishment, the worthy man and moral teacher
opened a still finer one iu Bloomsbury-square. There he
liquor is not a very respectable
gavo high loyal entertainments ; and on one occasion,
having been carried home and taken up stairs by the
chairmen, insisted on politely accompanying them to the
door, after which he at last went to bed. He had, of
course, fits of great penitence. But the worst was that
besides other duns—Duty and Virtue had to knock at
Dickey Steele's door, and go away finding it in vain.
Mr. Thaekeray particularised Steele's letters with em-
phasis. Most of our epistolary remains, he remarked,
from Cicero's to Walpole's, were written with an obvious
eye to posterity. Steele's were clearly genuine private
letters, intended only for the eye of the person to whom
they were sent.
object!"
jletneccidtere:adi;, resfiaiedctiomns:

In his literary capacity Steele was to be considered
as the founder of that style of sentimental humour
which delighted us in Yorick, in the Caxtens, and in
little Dombey. Mr. Thackeray quoted a delightful
passage, in which he describes his going into the
room where hia father's body lay, as a child, and
meeting his mother there. And he took occasion to
compare him here with Swift and Addison. He showed
how when Switt inspired terror and melancholy, and
stamped with disdain—when Addison, too, was sad in
his different way—Steele's lesson was human love and
pity. These were what he gathered from the contem-
plation of the mysteries of the grave and the future.
Mr. Thsckeray drew, in concluion, a satirical and
facetious picture of the manners of fashionable people
in that time, founded on Swift's " Polite Conversation,"
&c. He concluded the lecture—perhaps the most philo-
sophical he has yet delivered—by calling for a sympathetic
consideration of Steele ; a kindly view of one of the
kindest-hearted men that ever lived.

The lecture was heard with great attention and applause

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JUNE 12.—1 n a Convocation holden this day
the following gentlemen were nominated Masters of the
School:—The Rev. Frederic Fanshaw, ALA., Fellow of
Exeter ; the Rev. Thomas Henry Sheppard, M.A.,
Oriel; and the Rev. Henry Hayman, M.A., Fellow of
St. John's.

In the same Convocation the Rev. Samuel Masterton
Walker, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, was ad-
mitted ad eundem.

In a Congregation held at the same time, the following
degrees were conferred:—
Doctor of Divinity—The Rev. Francis Minden
Fellow of Magdalen College.
Masters of Arts—Rev. Frederick Darling and/Rev. .
Peter Henderson, New Inn Hall; Rev. Robert Napier
Sharpe and Neville George Alurray Lawieac.g,
Queen's; Charles Arthur Molony, Lincoln; •RE v.
Joseph Tico Gellibrand, St. John'.; Isaac Gre-
gory Smith, Rev. William Hart Smith, Rev. Heirry
Septinius Pig,ot, Rev. John Edmund Booth, Thomas
Henry Rothe Shand, Charles Luko Parkinson, and Re v.
Rennell Francis Wynn Moleswetth, Brasenese; Rev.
William blolyneux, Christ Charch; Rev. Charles Wi ck:
ham, Wadharn; Rev. Augustus William Green and I Lev.
John Sheldon, Trinity; Rev. Robert James ‘zimp,ion,
Rev. Augustus Newland Delefosse, and Rev. J'ohn-ki t-
eat, Oriel; lion. Charles WrottQley, Fellow of All
Souls; and Rev. William Rice Stuart Williams ,Jesus.
Bachelors of Arts—John Archibald Stewart Nicol-
son, Christchurch, Grand Compounder; Frederic Mar -
ton Eden, Roddam Spencer Stanhope, hristopher Ha 3 -
gard, end Thomas Baugh, Christchurch; Henry Frede-
rick Hue', Edmund Hall; James Matthew Robertfoi,
Charles Gerrard Andrewes, and Henry William ll•iy-
earth, Magdalen Hall; Isaac Brock idol Gibbes JorOatn,
Qleen's; John Holino Dixon. Tabedsr Quet n's;
John Stedman, Scholar of Pembroke;
.Joseph Howell
Salter, Pembroke; Frederic Tainton Tamen,
city; William Wright, St. John's; John Hodgson, Wad-
ham; Wyndham Hugh Helyar, Trinity; John Owen
anti Edward Pemberton, Jesus.
The election at Morton College terminated yesterday,
when Mr. Currer and Mr. Kers,ake, both Bachelors of
Arts of Balliol College, where chosen Follows of Mer-
ton. Mr. Currer and Mr. Karslake were wroth in the
first class of Litirm Humauiores; the former in the
second chtss also of Mathematical and Physical 'Science.

PARLOUR MAGIC.—TH E FEATHER TRICK E.
PLAINED.—Few of the illusions performed by M. Houdin
caused more astonishment than this 'one, yet no trick ever
exhibited is more simple or easier of performance to the
merest novice in the magic arts. A large cambric or white
silk handkerchief is produced, and given to the company
for inspection; on its being returned to the magician the
immediately brings from it several large plumes of feathers.
The trick is performed thus : procure three or four large
plumes of feathers from the military equipment warehouses,
such as are worn by the officers or those of the Foot Guards
at the side of their caps; take off your coat, then holding a
couple of the feathers in each hand so that they
towards the side of the arms, put the coat on again • this is
easily done, as the feathers s • to very
squeeze up a small' com-
will tall
com-
pass. Thus equipped, you advance to the audience, and,
taking the handkerchief, throw it over the one hand and cuff
of the coat, and with the other hand draw out the feather
from the sleeve ; the feather resuming its original bulk-
entirely misguides the lookers-on as to its previous position.
One feather produced, the handkerchief is thrown carelessly
over the other hand, and another brought forth in like man-
ner,. which can be repeated four times without causing sus-
picion. _
picion. This new and ingeniously simple illusion is worthy
of the inventor's magic renown.
PARISIAN EXAGGERATIONS.—M. Jules de Premary
I
is scribbling some off-hand nonsence about Eng and and the
English, in the Patrie. W e never .T see the sun inLondon,
every morning from
arisesand at times allows it-
selfht
bees ariyhsa:l—li
'Thames,
Nespreadsilof bolla,cerkthcera p e
town,No one lives in town -
and I wager that at night
~ontlyo bt
he e pierceddead
iinhabit
t red
London,
ond, bullet."nL
o Paulus to stretch
, In this metropolis of misery, more-
over, they leave Westminster and St. .
in the adjacent parks.'
his inkstand
his window—" it is economical." Eng-
lishmenM. Jules. de Praiary fills -
ofr\o•emr,
theit
sp rainso
spout
ink.
at
bow when they address ladiei. "If
never
shop , you are
you
your
iuthr bliaadt
gornace.entseormingetimaes
even
served last and w
be-gar, and are turned out of doors, or have a
taken for a _ ;ou.
take off
That actually happened to me in a glove
penny offeredyou are
Regent-street. One of his chief •
shop in Regen complaints is, that
‘ y stop in a bath more than half-an-hour, the attend-
" if
attend-
ants turno off the water, and leave you like a fish on dry land.
And yet people talk of the comfort of the English /ettY of
living!" In the refreshment room at the Exhibition, " ani-
mals of all countries take their food with ferocity, the mere
sight of which is too much for people of delicate nature.
Rost beef, roast mutton, roast lamb, roast veal and ham, and
even roast pork, only appear to disappear; and the English
call that taking refreshment !"

DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday as the Queen
of the Thames steamer, running to Southend, was proceeding
d
down the river, a man was observed to jump overboard
between Oldhaven and Shellhaven. He was first observed
by a lady, a passenger in the same boat. The life-buoy was
immediately thrown out, but the unfortunate man had sunk.
He wore a dark coat and a drab-coloured waistcoat. Two
of the crew, named Leach and Sparrow, who observed him
in the water, stated that lie was about the middle age, and
in height about live feet eight inches. When the steamer
stopped and lowered her boat to search, nothing was observed
but his hat; the name of the maker being wanting this af-
forded no eltici to his identity. It appears
that the unhappy
man entered into conversation with one of the crew during
the voyage, and observed that about this time last year a
titan jumped overboard, which marred ail the day's pleasure.
In a few minutes afterwards he followed the melancholy
It was blowing hard, and in more than forty feet
water.
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The latest arrival from Naples has included an
importation of poultr
the vessel Levantine.
y, to the extent of eighty packages, by