The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

being elected one of the counsel for the University
before he filled his present situation. lie had had the
honour of defending their interests on many impor-
tant occasions, and he considered that one of the

greatest feathers he ever had in his cap. He also had
the gratification of belonging to the sister foundation
to Trinity Hall, namely, Caius College, which
had a common founder, and which celebrated its five
hundredth anniversary three years ago; that founda-
tion was only a little older than their own, and in no
respect better.—(Cheers and laughter.) He remem-
bered the connexion which bad existed from the
earliest time between Trinity Hall and Caius College,
and which, he believed, had always been kept up with
good faith. He remembered also that they had one
very close connexion when be was at the University
—they had the same cook.—(Laughter.) He did not
think for a moment that he or any of them should live
to see the next five hundredth anniversary.—
(Laughter)---but he _would venture to prophesy that
if they did they would not have to discuss the c, n-
duct of a silly elderly gentleman in the city of Rome,
who chose to imagine himself Gregory the Great in-
stead of Pius IX.—(Laughter)—or his conduct in
doing something very absurd, as Pius IX. had done,
and by which he had created so much excitement in
his country ; though for himself he must say that he
did not participate in the general alarm.—(Cheers.)
The MASTER said the next toast was one that would
be received with great cordiality. He gave "The
Members for the University, Mr.:Goulburn and Mr.
Loftus Wigram."—(Loud applause.)
Mr. GouenuaN said it was impossible upon such
an occasion not to remember with gratitude the work
of those founders to whom we owed that and kindred
institutions : it was inpossible not to be thankful to
those who bad, through so many successive years,
administered the affairs of those institutions, so as,
combining in this instance a legal and a religious
education, to send men into the world qualified to
serve the State and their fellow men. It was im-
possible, too, after what had fallen from the Master,
not to recognise that the Master and Fellows of
that Society were acting up to the principles of
their foundation, and showing, by the good work that
day executed, that they were disposed to keep pace
with the spirit of the times, and extend, as addi-
tional learning was required, the means whereby it
might be obtained.—(Hear.) It was impossible not
to feel assured that after that institution and others of a
like kind had been preserved through a succession of
ages, for so long a period as 500 years, amid conflicts
in the social system, under changes of dynasty, amid
the madness of revolution and attempts to obtain ab-
solute power; when, through such scenes, they bad
retained their primitive form, and contributed to the
dissemination of sound learning and religious educa-
tion, it was impossible, he said, not to suppose that
they were so far favoured by Providence that we
might look forward to their long continuance in the
same course, and that those who celebrated the next
500th anniversary might be able then, as now, to
thank the founders, and the Heads and Fellows, and to
look forward to a still longer period of prosperity and
honour.—(Cheers.) He concluded by thanking the
company for their toast.
Mr. LOFTUS WIGBAM was also called upon to re-
turn thanks, and was received with considerable
applause. As a member of the legal profession he
claimed a special interest in the well-being of that
foundation. University education always had a strong
bearing and a beneficial interest upon legal education ;
and it might be said that to a great extent success in
the University was one of the best stepping-stones to
success at the bar; and for his part he regretted that
symptoms had appeared—increasing symptoms, that
an university preparation was not so necessary as a
step to the bar as it used to be considered. He was
persuaded, however, that if that preparation came to
be ever generally neglected, the glory and lustre of
the bar and the bench would be seriously impaired.—
(Cheers.) The educational work of the University had
his best wishes, and might a blessing attend it.
Mr. Justice TALrOURD had to propose a toast,
which would always be received with the greatest
cordiality—" The Master and Fellows of Trinity
Hall."—(Loud cheers.) It was enough for him upon
this occasion to mention that he (Mr. Justice Tal-
fourd), like the Master, was a Reading schoolboy ;
he had trodden in the same steps, sat on the same form,
and learned, as a boy, to honour him for the affec-
tionate remembrances that he had left behind him.—
(Cheers.) He also had the pleasure of knowing the
Fellows, and these things, he thought, gave him some
claim to propose the toast. Adverting to that devious
vocation which be himself had sometimes followed amid
the pressure of more onerous occupation, he spoke of
the lyrical poet, Robert Herrick, as once a member of
Trinity Hall ; and passed on to pay a compliment
to the genius of another member, one of the greatest
novelists of our age, whose last work gave promise of
enduring fame—he meant the author of " The Car-
tons," Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.—(Cheers.) He
then referred to many delightful visits he had made to
Trinity Hall, dwelling upon its social comforts, and
complimenting one who had not then won the honours
he had since obtained, who voluntarily resigned them
last Christmas, and gave up his fellowship in order
that others might partake of the pleasure which he
had enjoyed for twenty years. He gave " The
Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall," and he ven-
tured to say that, looking through five centuries
hence, no Master more worthy of reverence, no Fel-
lows more deserving of affection than the present
would be seen.—(Cheers.)
The MASTER returned thanks in a few brief sen-
tences, and took the opportunity of supplying omis-
sions in a former speech of his, by naming Bishop
Hallifax and Bishop Horsley as among the eminent
men educated at Trinity Hall.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL bad received the com-
mand of the Master to propose the next toast, " The
Law Faculty, and the Regius Professor of Civil Law."
He commented upon the position of Trinity Hall as
the connecting link between classical and legal
studies, and hoped that a place for civil law might
ever be found in the tesselated pavement of the acade-
mical course. With the toast of the law faculty was
appropriately connected the name of the distinguished
individual who filled the chair of civil law, upon whom
he passed a high eulogium for his classical acquire-
ments.

Professor MAINE, in acknowledging the toast, com-
mented upon the services rendered to civil law by
Trinity Hall, and pointed out circumstances which
he thought guarranteed the future prosperity of the
faculty, and contended that unless the University
which had provided three-fourths of the judges at
present on the bench was prepared to desert the
office of training English lawyers, it must provide the
means both of studying law, and of studying it early.
At any rate, the peculiar position of that college,
combining the classical and legal elements, was suffi-
cient to secure for it a long vitality ; and he was
sure it was no hazardous prediction to say, that when
the six hundredth anniversary was celebrated, the
college would be then, as now, a symbol of the union
between the English Church and the English bar, and
of both with the English Universities.—(Cheers).
The MASTER proposed " The Professors and Uni-
versity Officers," and coupled with the toast the name
of the Master of Trinity.—(Cheers.)
The MASTER of TRINITY (Professor of Moral Phi-
losophy) returned thanks on behalf of the Professors.
Mr. GOULBURN said the Master had confided to him
a toast, and he was sure that all would join with him
with great cordiality in drinking the health of the
bar, and paying a tribute of respect to the ability and
talents of his Hon. Friend, her Majesty's Solicitor-
General.—(Applause.)
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL said, SO far as he was
personally concerned, he trusted he should stand ex-
cused if he hardly said a single word beyond express-
ing his gratification, for he felt that it seemed but as
yesterday when he took his seat at that table as a
young student, and had now to return thanks for the
bar of kngland as the occupant of a position which
was then as much beyond his hopes as he felt it was
now beyond his merits.—(No, and applause.)
After a toast to Mr. Townley, one of the Members
for the county, and the lion. W. F. Campbell, M.P.
for the borough of Cambridge,
The CHAIRMAN gave " Our next merry meeting."
The party broke up, and after partaking of coffee,
a large proportion retired to the College Combination
Room.

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S lIOSPITAL.—A quarterly
general court of the Corporation for the relief of seamen,
and the widows and children of seamen in the merchant
service, was held yesterday at the offices of the corporation,
in Birchin-lane. Mr. Lindsay presiding. The minutes of the
last general quarterly court having bean read and confirmed,
receivers of dues for the outports of Inverness, Strangford,
and Stranraer, were appointed. The general court then ad-
journed, and the committee for the consideration of claims
for relief was constituted, and met for that purpose. Tho
number of applications for relief submitted to this COMMitte3
were 35, and after duly considering the same, the committee
ordered relief to be given to the applicants. It appeared
from a statement submitted to the meeting that during the
past year 1,100 applications for relief have been made to the
cseoerpmoerdattiooiir,e(ainudiret,hhatme inv almost the whole of these cases either
permanent provision or temporary relief, as the circumstances
been
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vestry the poor account, which amounted to 2,4001., of which
,• 300/ was required by the guardians. After allowing for
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contingencies there remained a sum of 1,857/. to be provrided
for. He stated that a shilling rate on a rental of 39,0001.,
would produce 1,944/., and 1% hich would leave a balance in
hand of about 87/. Mr. Heaps moved, and Mx. Cole .se-
conded a shilling rate, which was unanimously agreed to, &Ad
the vestry separated.

We have to record the demise of Lord Talbot, de
Malahide, who expired on Friday last, at his seat, _-Evar-
croich-house,Somersetshire, at an advanced age.