5. FORSTER

6. SHERLOCK.. Peroration of Speech on concilation with America...

7. LONSDALE HOLDEN..Marmion at Tantallon Castle

A night at Drury lane (A burlesque on Crabbe)

9. HETHERINGTON... Battle of the Lake Regillus

10. PRIDDEN

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.The Immuring of Constance

The double transformation

Goldsmith

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1863 Epilogue

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Speeches of Busham Schere from Nawrastle Cronicle.

Report.

THE DUE

(From the Newcastle 1

Yesterday, was Speech Day at this ancient school, is now three hundred and twenty years of age, hav founded by King Henry VIII. in the year 1541. ceedings took place in the large school room, v decorated with flags, evergreens, plants, and flowers occasion; and there being a raised dais or platform north end, from which the speeches were delivered. ceedings had been looked forward to with great inte the school room was crowded with ladies and g many of them being parents and friends of boys in t and having come, some of them, from great distan present on the occasion. Amongst those present Very Rev. the Dean of Durham; the Rev. Dr. Ven. Archdeacon Bland, and other members of the the Dean and Chapter being the governors of th the Hon. and Rev. F. R. Grey; Rev. Walter Irvi castle; Rev. R. G. L. Blenkinsopp; Rev. E. H. Windy Nook; Rev. H. Stokoe, formerly second ma school; Rev. A. Greenwell; Rev. G.IT. Fox;

Too true, indeed! There's many an absent Iace"
That used our past performances to grace.
Where's he who wore the spectacles, and told
"How well Horatius kept the bridge in the bra
old;"

Who taught us, too, how Marmion should die?
Where's he who waved his waterpipe on high,
Crying "A fireman, and afraid of bumps?"

Or showed what friends are made of. "Dead!

What's trumps?"

Where's he who spoke the Razorseller, "Poor B
And the Newcastle Doctor's rhyming dodge?
Both these were masters too of tragic power
In Brutus, Cassius, Hotspur, and Glendower.
So with good cause, kind friends, we're full of f
To think the show was better far last year;
To think of all your criticising eyes
Gazing, alas! with looks of sad surprise;
To picture some fair critic shake her head
And slowly say "Before, I always said
These schoolboys did their parts so very well,
But this time 'tis what they would call a sell.'
To think of that small boy presuming now
To lecture ladies what they ought to do!
He ought ere 'transformation' he began
To have transformed himself into a man.

RHAM SCHOOL.

Daily Journal of Saturday, June 20, 1863.)

Instead of all that Latin about peace
They'd better have discussed the throne of Greece;
I don't believe e'en they themselves could know
What they were saying-'twas so very slow.
Jack Falstaff, whom we all remember well,
Last year his exploits tried in vain to tell-
Why, here he is -no better than before,
He rants, and roars, and blusters even more;
While the shrill hostess, with affected squeal,
Ill feigned the anger which she meant to feel.
And what a prince that lad who calls himself
The lion-aye, and thinks it--not the whelp!
Poor Constance, for the second time to-day,
Was murdered by him; for I'm sure the way
In which the little urchin told her doom
Was worse than all the Abbot's living tomb.
Then he who said the battle of Pegillus

Stamped, screamed, and glared as if he'd like to kill us.
Queen Mab in character should have been drest,

Had stood in all her littleness confest

Burke sentences and periods all were los

which the school has attained, by reason of the distinction which its scholars have gained at the universities, and which has certainly been greater in proportion to its size than that attained by any other school in the kingdom. The Durham School speeches, also, which were established two years ago, have contributed to raise the reputation of the school. The school is certainly of the highest class. It is essentially a school which prepares boys for the matriculation examinations of the universities; and, indeed, most of the boys go from it to the universities. At the same time, what is commonly called the modern department is by no means neglected, and the school gives a good sound English education. In addition to the studies necessary for preparing the boys for the universities, there is a course of studies for preparing boys for the army, the navy, and the civil service. Altogether, the school has become the most important seminary in the North of England; and, from what we see of it at present, we do not think it has even yet attained its highest eminence. At the conclusion of the epilogue, yesterday, three cheers were given for the ladies-of whom there was a very great number present-three for the Dean, and three for Dr. Holden, and immediately afterwards the assemblage dispersed.