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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 652, 5 February 1859, Page 5

of?NeSon AIo NOw A7 BB7IMONUI^^"^ Bishop p?. JNBLsoN.-jQn Wednesday afternoon* Oct f 27 a IQ ,f f >!r nb? r of> I rso'«" assembled in, the beautiful ha 1 of Merton College, Oxford, forithe'purpTse o witnessing the presentation of. a testimonial tVthe S^ COTS ?i?h°P of Nelson, New ZeaS the Rev. ,E. Hobhouse, Fellow of Merton cTS and formany years vicar of the parish oflS m-the-East Oxford. • The testimonial wa^osl£ by the late Vice^hancellor, the Revi Dr..WiSs Warden of New College, and there were alsapS the Provost of Queens, the Master of UniversUv the Principled Magdalen,hall, Dr. DaubeneyX. The Jestimomal consisted of a silver gilt communioh plate valued at £120, manufacturedl by Mr Carte? silversmith High Street, accompanied San S work. The plate was enclosed in a large box.ion the id was engraved in church text, iHuminated\tte rs the following inscription:-» This set of communion oJ aiaVrSlS^° f \ MP n ' a Pftir of chalicesVa"S of patens, offertory desk, and two collecting plates was presented by the parishioners of St.Pe S m-the-East^Oxford, to their vicar, the Rev, Edmund Hobhouse, Bishop, of Nelson, New Zealand as a testimonial of their appreciation of his inSteria* services^ during 17 years, as an expression Se Sn infT St the^ take in his welLe, an dasa means of requentlyremindinghimirihis larger and !S fhls Pastoral care-" 'A handsomely engrossed scroll of vellum, containing the- names of the sS scribers, accompanied the testimonial ' * Scientific Jaw. Breaking.—«l marVel» said aw " rJ o'l^ fthy master hath not eaten theeJor ■ '1™. thoXl art so lon S the head a^hbnorifi cabUitudinitatibus." Honorficabilitu-dinlaSSus _ That word.stands for a cudgel with whicli many 4 poor students brains have been cruelly beaten J? a gimlet of the sociar bore. It is a bludSn of thefscien^ific jbully. >Yho shall venture S to smell English plants with such names aisSch^ nomyces Tetragonotheca, Sysmalobium, ZuSa Schivereckia,Pogogyne,Helminthostachys,ChamS mespilus, or Ampelosicyos; if plant* can KwS the disgrace of such names fastened to them-ifsuch words can Represent any living thing of beauty in thegloryof^ the creation^ through which we walk The flowers of the field have never injured us we * have no right to behave as if we^ bore them a S grudge, and t^oyerwhelm themwjth ouSTcfeS Billmsgate. Ndther have we any right to seal un against children-our own bldssoms^-ScbShS St°J£ °, f, *c lives of their kindred in theSdens a"^ S' Be shore maklsSds with the sea-nettles is introduced to them $We scientific master of ceremonies'as the Pho^horidffi wiS,?i P°Po^n- atu^ weakVdeiicPte™ beautiful are. Pesmidiacae, Xhsetopterina, and Amphmomacese, ,; Pycnogbnida, Tenth^dineta Twentysyllableorfeetar Md . ill W ; th^Eo^of science; or rather.not for ;its honor; but for^ its hononficabilitudinitatibus.. Almost every book of science is^a stream alive with ldng-jawed iS& r ? ZSSo^ n°T^ *T U m^ g^erajSaS "arestoswim. We declare war against these alii _'LOEI> Jomf^USSELi, AT I^NCHESTEI&iWd J. KussellleftKnowsley^n Octeber^Ofc^Man. Chester, fext day^siorashVpresidfdWthe £S eT m; d «oire> in the %c TrfelialL oihl he™lt e ?r^ al IPeaker.^ I tf th^fcoursl £ . s.P ee(JT"s lordship defended novelreadinff ' deprecating «,e d,spara f eraeht of English^stil: tions expressed his conHdence then?, and paid !^Son^P.™emO^^^