The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

The annual recitation by the scholars of this ancient
foundation, better known as the Blue Coat School,
takes place usually on the 21st of September, marked
in the calendar as St. Matthew's Day, but as that
festival fell this year on Sunday, the more secular
business of the recitations, Sac., was postponed till
yesterday, when a large concourse of the parents and
friends of the pupils, to the number of at least 2,000
persons, assembled in the finely antiquely decorated hall
of the hospital. The boys, to the number of 700, were
ranged at the east end of the hall, on either side of the
great organ ; and as every other part of the building
was crowded to excess with the company, consisting
chiefly of ladies, the effect of the scene was unusually
animating.
The Lord Mayor presided on the occasion, attended
by the Sheriffs, Aldermen Farncomb, Sydney, Carden,
and W. Hunter, and the Common-Sergeant.
About one o'clock the business of the day com-
menced, when recitations o❑ the following subjects
were delivered by the under-mentioned scholars :
Latin Oration, on the Benefits of the Royal Hos-
pitals—Henry Dove Sweeting, third Grecian and
mathematical medallist, 1851.

English Oration, on the same Subject—Gilbert
Wilson Brown4first Grecian and Times scholar, who
is proceeding to Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
French Oration, on the same Subject—George
Charles Bell, second Grecian and classical medallist,
1851, who is proceeding to Lincoln College, Oxford.
Latin Alcaics, on " Columbus"—Claude Hubert
Pare; twelfth Grecian.

Greek lambics, translation of the Chief Justice's
Apology and King Henry's Reply, from Shakspere
—Henry Bawden Parkin, sixth Grecian.
Latin Elegiac; on " Lucretia"—Hadarezer Henry
Stone, tenth Grecian.
Greek Sapphics, on " Queen Elizabeth"—John
George Gauntlett, seventh Grecian.
Latin Hexameters, translation of "Scepticism," from
Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope"---John Wilberforce
Doran, eighth Grecian.
Latin Sapphics, on " England's Invitation to the
Nations"—Henry Rogers levers, eleventh Grecian.
English Ode, on "Rome "—Henry Ludlow, ninth
Grecian.
We may mention that there was also to have been
a Greek oration on the benefits of the Royal Hos-
pitals, but the young gentleman who was to havo de-
livered it (R. A. Lloyd, fifth Grecian) was unfortu-
nately absent from ill health. The orations that were
delivered were given with great effect and animation
and it was evident that the young reciters entered
heartily into the spirit of their respective themes.' In
the English oration, Mr. Brown made a graceful allu-
sion to the Christ Church scholars, who, proceeding
from the school last year, had burne off the following
honours from Cambridge University during the last
session there :

Williams-sth of the first class of the classical
:ripos. _ . _

Searle-10th Wrangler.
Hammond—specially mentioned by the examiners
for Davies's University Scholarship, as nearly equal
to the successful competitor.
Townsend-2d Rell's scholar.
Ha also alluded, as did several of the other reciters,
to the lamented death of Mr. Hotham Pigeon, the
treasurer of the school, who had died within the past
year.

After the recitations, according to time-honoured
custom, the "glove" was sent round among the
visitors, to collect subscriptions for the young gen-
we believe there
tlemen proceeding to college, and