the kid which my father bought for two zuzim.' As before, the substance of the whole story is embodied in the last paragraph, which we transcribe:And the Most Holy Blessed-be He came and slew the Angel of Death, who slew the slaughterer, who slew the ox, which drank the water, which put out the fire, which burnt the stick, which smote the dog, which bit the cat, which eat the kid, which my father bought for two zuzim.' The only kid is Israel, whom God ac

quired as His peculiar people by means of the two tables of the law. Judea was conquered by Babylon, Babylon by Persia, Persia by Greece, who in her turn was overthrown by Rome, while Rome was sacked by the Goths and Huns, and so forth. In this way the story of Israel's deliverance is impressed on the memories of the young, and so the torch of tradition is handed down from age to age," and is not suffered to become extinguished.

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HE Standard, in describing the honours paid by the "city fathers" to Lords Alcester and Wolseley, in

April, 1883, gives the following interesting summary of the previous occasions on which like favours have been granted:

"This mode of doing honour to successful soldiers and sailors has the respectable antiquity in civic annals of over two centuries. The earliest recipient of a sword of honour was Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who, shortly before embarking for that famous Egyptian campaign in which he fell, was accorded in 1801 this token of admiration for the soldierly qualities he had shown in the West Indies. Five years later Sir David Baird, who after distinguished service against Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib in India, had captured the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, had this guerdon of merit bestowed, justifying his claim to the distinction hortly afterwards by his distinguished

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service as second in command under Sir John Moore in Spain, leaving an arm on that glorious field where his accomplished chief lost his life. In 1812, the most glorious name of all was added to the list of warriors in the person of the great Duke, then fresh from some of his Peninsular triumphs, and with his reputation for generalship firmly established. In the same year the fiery Graham and the gallant Beresford, the victor in the bloody struggle of Albuera, who had been in more pitched battles than any of his fighting confrères. Two years after, when Napoleon was safe in Elba, and men were looking forward to peaceful repose after the incessant fighting that had marked the opening years of the nineteenth century, the good citizens gazed with admiration not unmixed with wonder at the strange foreign generals whom they honoured in the English fashion for their share in finally extinguishing, as all devoutly hoped, the arch disturber of European tranquillity. In one mayoralty swords of honour were awarded to the famous Blucher, the stout old Prussian warrior, who had endeared himself to his English allies by a

love of closing with his enemy, and an inability to recognise defeat, with which they had a most hearty sympathy; to the famous Hettman Platoff, chief of the Cossacks of the Don; and the veteran Austrian General Schwarzenberg; and the Russian, by adoption, Barclay de Tally, a Scot by paternity, and a German by birth, to whom men gave the credit of having lured Napoleon to his destruction by the tactics he adopted in the ever memorable Russian campaign. The crowning glory of one hundred days added no one to the City; but when, after thirty years of peace, our supremacy in India was rudely challenged by the Sikhs, Lord Gough, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Harry Smith were the distinguished recipients of the honour which had so long lain dormant. A year later Sir Charles Napier was begirt and enrolled for the conquest of Scinde, while Pollock was added to the roll for his great service in avenging our Afghan defeats and disasters. decade later the Crimean campaign had been fought, and Sir W. Fenwick Williams, of Kars, was honoured for a display of endurance in withstanding close investment, starvation, cholera, frost, bombardment, and misery that will be remembered as long as heroic qualities are honoured. In 1859, Lord Clyde, who had stamped out the Indian mutiny, forced the recognition of his services which might well have come long before. He was shortly followed by the chivalrous Outram, whose great qualities the same trying struggle brought out into such grand relief. Lord Napier of Magdala was honoured for his Abyssinian campaign, he being the immediate predecessor of Lord Wolseley in 1874. To naval men the honour was not accorded quite so early as to their brethren of the sister service. The City roll begins in 1740 with the name of Vice-Admiral Vernon. He was followed, at an interval of twenty-one

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Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, in 1761. The next admiral was the Hon. Augustus Kepple, in 1779; the following year saw another presentation to Sir G. B. Rodney, for his victory in 1780 over the French fleet in the West Indies. In 1782, Lord Hood, Admiral of the Blue, and Admiral Sir Francis Samuel Drake were made freemen and received swords on their return home for the same distinguished service. In 1794, Lord Howe received the same distinction for his victory over the French fleet, and in the following year Vice-Admiral Lord Bridport was honoured for the same service. In 1797, the recipients were numerous, and all for the same great and signal victory. They were Vice-Admiral Thompson, Vice-Admiral the Hon. William Waldegrave, grandfather of the present Earl Waldegrave, Rear Admiral Parker, Commodore Nelson, Sir Robert Calder, Viscount Duncan, and Sir Sir Richard Onslow (Vice-Admiral). In 1798, Captain Edward Berry and Sir John Borlaise Warren won the same distinction. In the following year, Admiral Andrew Mitchell and Sir Sidney Smith were honoured for the defence of Acre. For the first year of the present century, Captain Sir Edward Hamilton, Admiral Lord Keith, and Admiral Sir James Saumarez were added to the list of worthies. In 1805, Lord Collingwood was voted the honour, though he was never able to come and receive it; Admiral Sir R. J. Strachan being received in the same year. Captain James Marchmont Hardy, Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth, Admirals Cochrane and Louis, and Commodore Sir Hine Popham, were all received and honoured in 1806, after the crowning naval victory of Trafalgar. In 1808, this distinguished honour was granted to a right worthy recipient, albeit not in the naval service of his country, viz., to Mr. William Rogers, captain of the Windsor Castle packet, not only for defending his ship against a

ALL, the chronicler, when speaking of the causes which led Henry VI. to found Eton, and King's College, Cambridge, says of him, "He was of a most liberal mind, and especially to such as loved good learning, and those whom he saw profiting in any virtuous science he heartily forwarded and embraced." Henry seems principally to have followed the magnificent foundations of William of Wykeham at Winchester and Oxford, resolving that the school which he founded should be connected with a college in one of the universities, whither the best of the foundation scholars of his school should proceed to complete their education, and where a permanent provision should be made for them, and it was a wise resolve on his part, in the words of the charter, "to found, erect, and establish to endure in all time, a college consisting of, and of the number of, four clerks and six chorister boys, who are to serve daily there in the celebration of Divine

worship; and of twenty-five poor and indigent scholars, who are to learn grammar; and also of twenty-five poor and infirm men, whose duty it shall be to continually pray for our [health and welfare so long as we live, and for our soul when we shall have departed this life, and for the soul of the illustrious Prince Henry, our father, late King of England and France; also of the Lady Katherine, of most noble memory, late his wife, our mother; and for the souls of all our ancestors, and of all the faithful who are dead, (consisting) also of one master or teacher of grammar, whose duty it shall be to instruct in the rudiments of grammar the said indigent scholars, and all others whatsoever who may come together from any part of our kingdom of England to the said college, gratuitously and without the exaction of money or any other thing."

The works were commenced in 1441 with the chapel of the college; and to expedite the building workmen were procured from every part of the kingdom. The grant of arms expressed this noble sentiment: "If man can be ennobled on account of wealth, much more

is he to be preferred and styled truly noble who is rich in the treasure of the sciences and wisdom, and is also found diligent in his duty towards God." God." Henry appointed Waynflete first provost, who, with five fellows of Winchester and thirty-five of the scholars of that college, became the primitive body of Etonians in 1443. The works of the chapel were not completed for many years, and the other parts of the college were not completed till Henry the Eighth's reign.

the college buildings, and at the college's expense. There are two quadrangles, built chiefly of brick; in one are the school and the chapel, with the lodgings for the scholars; the other contains the library, the provost's house, and apartments for the fellows. The chapel is a stately stone structure, and externally very handsome. The architecture is Late Perpendicular, and a good specimen of the style of Henry the Seventh's reign. In the centre of the first quadrangle is a bronze statue of Henry VI.,