New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-18

boys. Hear, hear] Let the gentlemen of the press
then try to devise some scheme which shall benefit
Them as you have undoubtedly benefited by what
YOU have accomplished for Yourselves will not
allude the educatory process through which YOU put
Your children and which spoken of last wear BY
the distinguished who filed this chair in terms OF
most just praise, except to say that you appear to
teach the pupils modern languages, mathematics
music and the various other branches of instruct ion
needed to fit them for the encounter of life which all
are obliged to enter. We are all travellers and
vOyagers who must embark on life ocean and before
You send your boys to YOU teach them ~ swim TO
navigate the ship, and guide her into poa. The last
time visited America, two years ago, / sailed on
board the Africa Captain Harrison, officer who has
how received much larger command-the Lsviathau;
and all that say is, heartily wish him and his
employers well out Of the fix" A taught The
Afrca, however, was steaming out OF Liverpool one
line blOwy October day, and was hardly over
the bar, when, animated by those peculiar sensations
not uncommon to land-men at the commencement
OF a sea voyage, l was holding amidshps. IA
taught Up comes quick-eyed, shrewd-lookiDg little
man who holds on by the next rope TO me and says:
Mr.. Thackeray am the representative Of the house
of Appleton Co. of Broadway New-YOrk-a most
" liberal and enterprsing publishing firm who will be
most happy to do business with YOU" don't know
that we then did any business in the line thus deli
catey limited at because at that particular uncture
we were both of rs called, by heavy lurch OF the
ship to casting up of accounts of far less agreea-
Die character. [Laughter.l But, gentlemen there
are but few Of Us who not travellers parted to-
day from a near DegbOr, and "a famous and intelh-
gent traveller any that / could name-l mean Mr.:
William Howard RUSSELL the traveller for celebrated
publishing finn in Prnting-IIouse square. Hear,
hear and laugh.] We all know he Travelled three
years ago when he went out for his employers to IN
spect the shot and shell and bayonet market Of
French grape at the MaakoG, of British beef
at Baaklava, and of Russian hides at In
hermann. lCheers and laughter He is now on
his way TO Darsecs. In another month he will be in
India cheers ard he will the shattered gates
around which the brave young engineers died at their
duty, and through which Wilson and his gallant com
rades passed over hsaps OF enemies, until they reach
ed the Imperial Palace of Delhi in which, amid shouts
of victory the health of Queen Victoria drunk
lie will see the battered walls through which Haveock
ard DURAN, and, lastly, Sir Colin Canpbcl and mis-
relieving army, marched to rescue our women and
children, crushing hosts OF foes before them, and f.
naly planting the glorious old flag of England
LuckLows walls. lCheers.l That, gentlemen
melancholy dinner of his yesterday-his Christmas
dinner-the last meal he was to take at home. The
little children sat around the table that sad evening"
and the poor wife must have gazed at them with
wistfu eye. But the parting is over, and this
day he has taken his first step on his long journey
Many and many time in the solitude Of travel in the
loneliness of the desert; shipboard at the morning
watch, when sea and sky flushed with the
golden sunrise; at midnight, amid the rush
will think with inexpressible tenderness of the
dear beings he has left at home. Cheers.l But
for his children he might have been among US now,
gentlemen, he was last year. He separates from
them iii order to do his dutyin order to toll that they
may be comfortable-in order to earn the means of
one day coming back to Them and seeing them grow
ing up around him educated and happy. Hear,
hear And you, gentlemen, in your several degrees
also support tell privaton, travel and separation, in
order to make YOU young ones happy; and you COM
mlserate too the cause of your brethren in distress
you compassionate the poor and the unfortunate, re-
menbering His divine ordinance who made the title
children come unto him. Cheers Mr.. Thackcray
concluded by giving Prosperity to the Commercial
Travellers Schools" Drunk amid loud applause
Various complimentary toasts followed, and hb
era subscription in aid of the charity made by the
company present. The Treasurer lNIr. Geo. Moore)
stated that the building erected by the Society at Pin
ner which contains one hundred boys and tortyseven
Girls has now been paid for and freed from mort
gage; but that while the annual expenditure of the
Institution amounts to $4,000, the gross income is
only G4,3&.
The musical arrangements of the evening were
under the direction Of Mr.. Lawler, assisted by the
Misses Wells and Mr.. Peuen. Mr.. Halker acted "a
POSTMASTER.