Prize day at Queen's College took place on the 3rd inst. when His Excellency Sir Henry Blake presided and presented the prizes to the scholars. The Governor then: addressed the boys, but naturally, owing tothe brevity of his acquaintance with the Colony, had not much to say to them of an original character. He said he had not: yet mi himself sufficiently aeg with the Es institution to criticise it or its curriculum, but he gave them one piece of good advice—namely, not to leave the College until they acquired more than a mere smattering of the English language, as that, while fitting them for some minor posts in shops and offices, debarred them from rising in the world. He trusted that there would be no: falling of in the present large attendance, and especially prayed that it would be spared an visitation this year of the plague. 1
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