THE TOWER OF LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 824, 27 September 1877, Page 2

THE TOWER OF LONDON.

There has been quite a run, we understand, upon the tickets for admission to the Rev Mr Clark's lectures, to be delivered t. -aiorrow and Saturday nit;hfcf>, at Le yuesne's Hall, and this not so much by those upon the spot as by people ir .m a distance, so great is the anxiety oot to be crowded out from an entertainment which is not to be met with every day, even in the capital. Nor do we wonder that such is the case. In every place where Mr Clark has delivered these leotu es, the fame of his eloquence has n.leil the buiidiugs large, night after night, and many have been unable to obiain admittance, while the criticisms of the press fully explain why it has be j n so. In the Town Hall, Melbourne, when Mr dark last lectured on the " Tower of London," no lees than 3500 persona crowded the body ol: the Hall. Yet, dense as the thioDg was, so wrapt was the audience in attention to the words of the orator, that beyond the tone of his magnificent voice not a sou'id was to be heard. Speaking of this lecture, " Tahite," the celebrated critic in the ' Australasian,' at eke time, said : —"His peroration was something more than nusterly, it made mj feel prou.i to be an Englishman. It does 010 good to huve one's patriotism now and then stimulated by this kind of triction ; so that if Mr Clark's lecture had no other l'esult than to make one feel satisfied with thu place of one's birth, it would deserve to be looked upon as a very fine institution. For it seems to me as if, in these latter days, everybody were aliowe I to boast of bis couutry "but an Englishman* To be sure it is so grand a country that it does not need a boast to proclaim its pride of place. . Neveitlieleis, I feel none the less grateful to Mr Clark for evoking this glow of national enthusiasm, and he merits his thronged audiences if for no other reason than this.' And again the ' Australasian ' speaking of the lecturer himself says, • The Rev Charles Clark has made a hit, a very palpable hit- He has made lecturing in Melbourne not only a success, but a triumph. The large room of the Town Hall has proved iusufficient and hundreds have gone away disappointed, without finding room.' The lecture for Saturday ni> ht is on an equally popular subject, *'Charles Dickens.' These are the only two lectures that Mr Clark will deliver in Waiksto, as he is announced to appear in Auckland on Monday, and will leave for the South on the following Thursday.