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Colonist, Volume II, Issue 107, 29 October 1858, Page 4

,A Professor, forgetting Himself .—A professor of Cambridge, whose name it is,l hardly necessary to mention, when we sayj that he is a. walking encyclopaedia and the first v mathematician in England, albeit. aj pious divine and a man of staid character, and devout habits, happened to be taking his constitutional on the banks of the fiver at the time of the boat race. The river is harrow; a dextrous movement of the tiller,: when, the boats are side by. side, will often, decide the, race, by driving one ofthe competitors too near the bank. Well, this learned and pious churchman having! sauntered to the side of the river just as the boats were passing,' watched them for a; moment with a calni face. : Soon old memories of bygone contests rushed into his mind—the struggle fired his blood—he was seen to clench his fi§|, and to walk with firmer tread. He fbl'ovyed the boats a few paces. As they canie to a turn in the river, he actually ran, in full collegiate costume as he was. His cap blew off—^ he never noticed it. He began to wave his1 arms. A crowd around him, unconscious of his presence, were shouting " Go it Trinity!" "Yoieks, Cains!" The boats were approaching a very narro v part df the river, the Caius men half a length ahead. The spectators were -.shouting- in a fr6hzy of excitement, when above the tumult arOse the sonorous and stentorian voice 9? the venerable professor, "Pprt, : Caius, you scoundrel ! ])-• ■■ : ..n it, port your helm man.!".and as the/sh re w,d order was instantly obeyed, in. a still more .-energejtic voice; " Optime Johannes, Y)_ then,suddenly 1 recollecting yhimself,; said, .'vGrpd blessyme; gentlemen, I have .forgot myself.-;" and the! old gentleman walked: off at a round Ipace, blushing like "a-girl, amidst the vociferous applause of the students.-— English Paper. ■■.

The Graves at Sebasfopol.— ln the Tims of the 24th June, we find the following; in the form of a letter to the'Edit6r,'sighed "James Fergussqn :"—Haying lately visited the Crimea, in, the course of a tower in the East, I think it will be interesting to those who have lost relatives or^friends during the war there, to know, the; Condition of their graves and monuments.; It was with great pleasure that I found theSei without exception, carefully respected and preserved. Not a stone even of the enclosing walls is loosened, and it is evident that the good feeling of the inhabitants has seconded the strict orders given by the authorities for the preservation of the memorials we have raised to our gallant dead. The anxiety manifested by the authorities both at Odessa and Sebastopol, that we should' observe the condition of-the burial-grounds of the allied armies, proves that their good preservation is the result of genuine solicitude oil the part of the local Government to gratify what theyiknow to be.the earnest wish of nnmbprs of every class both in this country and in France. That it is not only the result of the orders given by the Russian Government, was proved to us oh visiting the battle-field ofthe Alma, where we were much gratified by finding that even there every grave, no matter what the nationality of its tenant, is even tended and repaired. A lady, the proprietress ofthe ground and,of the neighbouring,village of Burliuk, takes a, pleasure in preserving these traces of a bat.tle in which she justly considers the honour of her country is not sighted by a remembrance of the gallantry of its enemies. This lady, Madame Beilavodsky, will, I am sure, be rewarded by the gratitude of English wives and mothers for the kindness' of heart* which prompts her to care for the honoured graves of those they have lost. It is somewhat disgusting to one's national pride to find one monument in the whole of the Crimea defaced, and that by the hands of Englishmen. On the monument erected by the British army in front of the Redan; to their fallen comrades, it seems to be the' fashion for English visitors to exchange obscurity for notoriety by cutting their names on every side. Can any barbarismequal this.

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