Famous Old "blues."

Many tejera of oh! London will resrret tliat Christ's hospital, as a building on its present site, is dooined by the reorganization scbeme of the charity oommissioners. Row many old blues, soattered throngliont our colonies aad serving her majesty in all quarters of the globe, will al'so hoar with a pang thut thoir time-honored school has come nndertlie auctioneer'a tammer, and vanished in tliu w.Jce of Temple bar and other relies of tho past, to be remembered hereafter only by antiqnaries! Fitty years ago its requiem vvould huve been sunr in fitting verse by Coleridge, who loved the old school so dearlv, or by Charles Lamb, whose "Éeoolleotions of C'hrist"s Hospital" are amonj the most delightful of h is papers. "These two are. not the ouly old blues who have made a name ior themselves in the world. Of its earliest scholars, mention inay be made of Joshua Barnes, the editor of Anacreon and Eurípides; Jeremiah Markland, an eminent critic, particulatíy in Greek üteraturc; Thomna Mihihel), thetranslator of Aratopèanes, and Samuel Kichardson, the autiior of "Ciarisaa llarlowo." Charles Larab and Coleridge belonged to a later era, and were there in company with Leigh Hunt and Tiiomas Biirnes, tor many peara editor of 'lita 'lïmes uvspaper. Actors of sote may bo mentioned in Leigh Murr.iy and Wright, of the Adelphi, both old binen and m the same room. Of Anglo-Indian blues ne can cali to rninri Sir Louis Car:iïari and 6n. Cunninghjim, with hls brothur, C.1. CuuDinahaia, of The 'irday Review staff.-