Troy.

" Acropolis " of the district , the central " Palladium , " so to say , of many allied nationalities and friendly tribes and tributaries . What may yet be buried beneath the Troas Avho can say ? or Avhat further

discoveries may yet be made , who of us can pretend to decide ? That Ave are now in possession of Priam ' s diadem and have found Priam ' s Palace , Avho of us , five years ago , say , would have dreamt ? and therefore

there is no possible limit to be placed to the fulness of other discoveries , or the energy of later discoverers . Who the Trojans really were , and Avhat their language Avas does not seem at all certainbut Ave should not be at all

sur-, prised if they turn out to have been an early Phoenician Colony , or even an offspring from some early semi-Grecian tribe .

Dr . Schliemann has done a great work , and , deserves , as does Mrs . Schliemann , the greatest credit and KVSOS for their Homeric sympathy and zeal , for a courage ivhichnothing could daunt , and a devotion which nothing could

repress , and Ave thank them heartily in the name of all lovers of Homer , of archaeological enquiry and historical truth , for their invaluable acquisitions , and their undoubted discovery of Troy Divine .

Lecture By Bro. Emra Holmes On " Tom Hood."

LECTURE BY BRO . EMRA HOLMES ON " TOM HOOD . "

A short time ago Bro . Emra Holmes lectured ( in connection with the Ipswich Working Men's College ) in the Lecture Hall of the Mechanics' Institution , which had been kindly placed at the disposal of the kindred Institution for ' the

occasion . The subject of the lecture was " Tom Hood . " About 300 were present , including the Mayor , ivho presided ; Dr . Christian , Principal of the Working Men's College ; Mr . G . M . Douglas , Collector of H . M . Customs ; Mr . J . B . Lakeman , H . M .

Inspector of Factories ; Mr . W . Gould , Supervisor of Excise ; Mr . J . Walker , Surveyor of Taxes ; the Eev . F . H . Maude ,

Vicar of Holy Trinity ; the Eev . E . Cookson , Curate of Burstall , & c . We have thought Avell to give to-day the interesting lecture of our able brother . Bro . Holmes said that nature stamped Hood as a genius , as a poet , when , the

world Avould have it he Avas only a comic writer , a mere punster , AVIIO could make you laugh aud nothing more . From Hood ' s earliest years , Avith the : exception of a feAv bright but transient gleams , his life Avas a hand-to-hand struggle Avith straitened means and adverse circumstances —a practical illustration of LongfelloAv ' s noble lines ,

sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong . With the distinct and even minute foreknowledge of organic and moral disease , liable at any moment to a fatal and sudden termination , it must indeed have been a brave irit to bear so cheerfully and

sp courageously as he did that life , which Avas one long sickness . Of Hood ' s birth and parentage they could glean but few particulars . His own joking account was that as his grandmother ivas a Miss Armstrong , he Avas descended from two notorious

thieves , i . e ., Eobin Hood and Johnnie Armstrong , which reminded one of the gentlemen who said he was named John after his aunt Sarah , ( Laughter . ) His father , who came from Scotland to London , was a bookseller of tho Poultryand died

, of malignant fever at Islington . Having married a Miss Sands , sister to the engraver of that name , his famous son Tom , who was born in 1799 , was articled to that gentleman . The lecturer exemplified Hood ' s devotion to bis widowed mother

by reading with great pathos the sweet verses he wrote entitled "To a child embracing his mother , " as well as another poem , " The Deathbed , " in allusion to her dissolution . Hood ' s first introduction to the literary world was when he was about twenty-oneas a sort of sub-editor of the

, London Magazine , although he had contributed productions to the Dundee Advertiser . In connection with the Magazine he amused himself by concocting humorous notices and answers to correspondentssome of ivhich Mr . Holmes

, quoted . His connection Avith the Magazine led to his introduction to Mr . Eeynolds ( son of the head writing master of Christ ' s Hospital ) , Avhose sister he " afterwards