New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-05

fREtDoh OF SPEkob AT almost every session Of the
pre- tent Board OF Educa,on its organization hours
and hours have been spent useess debate aud Ban-
combe speeches. to the great detuent Of the educa-
tiona interests entr used to the care Of the Board
Reports Of various committees which were laid on
the table at the time Of their presentation still remain
on the ebe 81 likely to occupy tha, position for
months TO come, unless the members of the Board
should pursue some other than they have for
the past FIVE months
Last evening, Mr.. Baldwin, Chairman Of the Com.
Dittee on By LAVE succeeded after desperate effort
in presenting report, the purport Of which was 10
30 amend the BY Laws as to prohibit any member
from spesking on any subject longer time than ten
minutes without the perInisso Of majority of the
Board. The motion to adopt the report having been
seconded, member, whose differs not materially
from that Of our great progentor obtained the oor,
and in rather lengthy speech endeavored to show
that this was base attempt to prohibit the freedom
ofspeech. Many matters were fixed outside. and
if th. report adopted they could be brought into
the Board and rushed through without the members
being afforded opportunity Of expressing their opia-
ons. In the of his remarks he found consdera-
bic fault with the Committee for presenting such
port.
member sf the committee, in defending the report,
the committee Wis stutifyiDg himself
There were some members who ma ie long speeches,
trng the Board and driving many away, when just
enough Of clique would rush through favorte
project.
Another member having obtained the floor, called
for the previous question: remarkng that he had head
enough from the first speaker to satisfy him. lively
time was about ensuing, when Of the disgusted
membt r. moved to adjourn, which motion was finally
carried; rot however, without one or two Buncombe
speeches on the subject.
CHI Psi AssIvERsARY.-The Anniversary Of the
Chi Pei Society held yesterday. In the afternoon
there business meeting at the s.. Nicholas, aud
in the evening oration and poem delivered in
Hope Chapel before toer$lay large audience of la
dies and gentlemen.
The orator was W. P. c. Whiting of Buffalo, and
his subject the founder of the Society of Jesus, g
natus Loyola. Mr.. Whiting took a very apprecistive
view Of Loyolas life and labon, and did him full
justice for bis earnesness and zeal in the propagandsm
OF bis faith.
The poem, entitled Romance vs.. Cash, which
was read by Mr.. Mortimer Thomson (Doesticks
cudea the exercises to the serious detnmen of many
a pair of sides TIE poem, in showing that Romance
wouldn't pay now -dsys, translates knight to New.
York, and describes a supposable encounter between
an omnibus and this imaginary Don Quixote with his
accompanying SanchV erding most automatically in
the Court of Sessions in this way:
"Ther bodies prisoned for their dire oGense.
Their rets led pay he courts expense.
Their chargers harnessed into carts and wagons
And they. who thought to nd the land Of dragons
And slay oil monsters Of the sea and dcyland.
For all theii pains get six months on the Island"
This sketch of the decline and fall of chivay is fol-
lowed by another of the similar decline Of the spirit
world until has fallen under the table, which position,
as it pays well, it is supposed may prove perma-
nent situation in this sge Of Supreme cash. 1t closes
az follows:
For noble virtues traDscendAnt worth,
Now find in SHADOW Land their just reward
This gracious privilege the fstss accord,
To dance attendance Q " hcdum's nod
The shade OF him call country sire,
Zach night loudly for his paltry hire
The holy martyrs Of the earlier times,
" ith speoter hands wv grab for Yankee dimes
Bill Poole and Shskespeere. In union strange,
Now ,kn their knuckles, rpping for snoll chsnse"
After the Grafton and Poem, collation. was spread
at the Brevoort House, of which about one hundred
and fifty members of the Society psrtook.