Boylston Prize Speaking.

The preliminary competition for the Boylston Prize Speaking took place in Sanders Theatre, yesterday morning. The programme of the final trial on Thursday evening of next week will be made up as follows (the names read alphabetically by classes). One or two names may be added.

Burnett, Liberty and Union; Daniel Webster. Hutchins, Donatello's Statue of St. George. Rogers. The Puritan Principle; Wendell Phillips. Santayana. The Prayer of Achilles to his Mother; Homer. Von Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker, The Death of Garfield; J. G. Blaine.