The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

DECEMBER 10, 1853.. 1. WITH IREolkly To STUMEs. EXAMINATIONS, PatzEs. Aso SCHOLAKSHIPS.—The board decide that things should I•es left precisely as they are. They refuse to allow any part of the students' time to be devoted to to elementary professional course. They refuse to institute a University matriculation, and the only alteration of oily ttoportouee to which they consent is the proposition to hold the exa minations, as far as possiltie.in vacation. There are some changes with regard to Vetiver:My scholrships. .k . e. 11. letse irt.m.—The report pt.:Tose:: to abolish pro. missory oaths to observe Unirerxily stallite4. It retnins the distinction of gentlemen conuuouora. Oil the ilOpilirt ,ant subject of extravagemee and debt, the authors of the report coneur in the obserrat • of the. Coutmiseeione•re, ; but they have no practical measure at present to propose. Tie; tOlggest . of the Commissioners, that parliament should be' applied to for an act to limit credit at the %unity, is lwtore the University counsel, but their answer has hut yet been received. It is proposed, in accord:owe with the recoinmentlation of thet'ommissitin, to assinO• Into the practice and fees of the Vice-Chancellor's Conti to those of the county courts, and to throw it open to all pro. fessional "lemmas. 111. l7Nlytitsrry ExrENsios.—Privsfe l o d g ing-h o uses and private halls are rejected. Nally affiliated to the ex isting colleges are approved. And it is mem ttttt ended thy the majority of the committee) that the Universill sl ll vote 111,0110 L, to found au "independent " hail for NI poor students; the grunt to he united with ‘oho l aney con. triluithanc ..... Sections IN. and V. contain some suggestions regarding the University revenues, accounts. librari e s, and muse VI. I'itOrESSIIItS ANP TEM. 11Elcs. — The report prolsoses some professors of raddern (triton's' languanws, 81111 11.:Irti• elderly a professorship of Chino... Some alterations in detail are suggested with refill-nee to the mode of election and stipends of some of the existing chairs. All applies. tion of college funds to the 'imposes of University instine tnm is condemned. Of the University or professorial system of instruction generally, which the et) 11111 l issioners recommend ill contradistinction to the exclushe eullegiatio or tutorial system, it is said that " it tends to substitnte information fOr education, and xciolisw for religion." It is proposed to give professors so me v o ice i n the attectiou of their own studies, by including them in eon 1 1 1 l itnies o f the hebdomadal board for thud special purisose. V 11. CoNSTITUTION.—The ttli left as it is, in the absolute nomination of the Chancellor, and confined to the "leads of Houses. Tlw proctors are to he elected for two yea's, instead of one, one going out at the end of each year. In other respects, their office Is to remain much as it is. All plans tending to supersede, or oen materially to alter, the powers or constitution of the hebdomadal I s oara, such as the " congregation" of the C ' ' ors, are rrjected. Two plans of utufklicolion am, however, 'opposed. lif these, the scheme which was apprioved by the majority of the committee recommends the addition of eight mem bers of Convocation, elected annually, to the hebdomadal lam-do—two of the eight persona retiring, and their places being supplied moll year. No power of amendment is to be given to Convocation, but an interval is to be allowed alter the first promulgation of important messures, during which individual members of Convocation may send in snggestions " to the hebdomadal borml. VIII. STATITTEs. — It is decided that, in spite of all opinions to the contrary, the University has undoubted power to alter the Landian code. But power to alter the three Caroline statutes, which are supposed to lest on 11 different foundation, is to be sought from the Crown, The last den ',ages of the renal are devoted to the etilliveg. The Commissioners admit that the 111011 e iii which they applied for evidence was ealcolated to lead per -11.01114 to suppose that they did not intend to go into this poi of the subject. They have, however, leeched sow. evidence on the colleges, lint of a very partial Lind ; and they have gone into certain portions of the subject, but iu a very partial manner. The tone of the report ix throughout strongly hostile to the Cotmnissionerm, whose (guidon' . and accuracy it ituo peaches in stroll; norms. TIIE Jinx. HENRY liEolt(iE Hewitt') Secretary of Legation at Vienna, has been appointe d Secretary of Entbassy at Paris, in the room of the Hon. 6. Staf ford .lerningbant, now her Majesty's representative nt the Court of Sweden. . . . THE ELECTiIIc TELEI.RAVII is now extended to 4)sherne, the marine residence of her Majesty in the 'lsle of Wight, and telegraphic messages to and from London and Osborne are transmitted whenever necessary. AN ENTENS4VE SALE OF Ltrtnxur Pnocrurr, Cum prising nearly half a million volumes, and the copy rights and stereotype plates of numerous illustrated rind other popular works, was completed on Tuesday by Mr. Hodgson, of Fleet street. The following may be classed among the most important :—Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 2 vols. folio. 1.01)0 parts and 11,000 numbers, with copyright and stereotype plates, sold for 600/. The Pictorial Gal lery of Arts, also Knight's, 2 vols. folio, stock, copy right, and plates, brought s3O/. The stock, copy right, and plates of Kitto's Pictorial Sunday rook were knocked down at 5410?.; ditto of Pictorial Ball mars, 4 v ols., 1051. The stereotype plates of Mr. Knight's shnkspeare sold for 324 g., and those of South's Household Surgery for 2101. The copy• right and plates of some of the most popular of Knight's shilling volumes were disposed of at the same sale, and realised a good market price. The copyright of " How to Observe" was sold for 2/. Ins. The sale attracted a very general attendance of the trade. THE PRESS. TERMS OF FOR Ebe Per Annum .. lluU•Yrarly Qua►terly .. a► 6 0 0 16 0 0 6 6 P,lyable in adranee. Sutowribers are requested to fiend their (lidera through their News Agent; tr direct t.. the °Mee, aecoutrattlea by a Ileum. M c Order* to bo made payable to Mr. Ai.rati:u Ito, straw!, ludou. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our SUMIIIUg frIPIIO JACksio: mu., I. thanked for Isis letter, which chiedy our want of .I , t4tst . pli outs u. 11..111 inserting. It hi Intposaible to a.•knowledge the mass of letters we recede. Their insertion ie often delayed, owing to a press of uutl.•r and whets omitted, it is frequently froin reasons quite iude• pendent of the merits of the eon 1111 l We ca n not undertake to return conualinicatione of w huh wit do not mail ourselves. iestions shintl.l always he legibly written, end on one aide of the raper only. If long it increases the difficulty .4 finding spare for them. Tebaterer is intended for iii.ert ion must be onflientieeted by 111.• name and address of the writer, not neceieniril) for 1 .1 1 1.11, 4 . ton, but we 111 guarantee Or fur 1 1 01111 faith. rtt 1 6 rrOg+ - LONDON,SATURDAY,DECENIII It it), i m 53 POSTSCRIPT. LATEST FROM TURKEY. Tl►e last nOvices from the seat of war affirm that the Turks had attacked the enemy between lialafat and Krajown, but sere compelled to retire to ...... Accounts from the Danube state that the Russians have made several demonstrations to cross that river, but their forces have not been sutlicientl) strong as yet to accomplish so hazardous au enter prist% Letters from Constantinople announce that the Turks had taken AkliaWe, the capital of the pachalie of that nanw. The ilttstrian Idowtts has the following : '• Lord Stratford leas declared that England desired to uphold iwiwpxited the rights of the Porte, H t the mho. • that she wished for peace., without prejudice to the and sovereign rights of the. I'en•te. Several ship wrecks ha% c occurred in the Mack Sea. The Russian% have takes' a Turkish war-steamer... Yesterday's Mottiteur announces the agreement (accord) between the tour p 4 TTr. 4 1 11 the Eastern question. A protocol to this eircet was signed at Vienna on the sth inst., in a conference at which the repreentatives of France, England, Austria, and l'russia were present. The basis is to re establish peace between Russia and the Porte, on conditions honourable to the two parties ; to maintain the ter ritorial integrity of the ottoman empire ; and to acknowledge beforehand (curistater &armlet.) that the present war can in no manner lend to noslitien tions in the slat! of possession' whi c h hinin serrated in the East. L 0111) STANLEY AT I'ItES47“T: Tin: inauguration of a working-men's library at Present, near Liverpool, was celebrated on Thursday in the presence of the Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley, the Rev. It. L. Samson, sicarof Present, and a num ber of gentlemen from the neighbourhood. The in stitution has been set on foot. chiefly by the aid and co-operation received from Knowsley, the Earl of Derby and Lord Stanley having each contributed Pont as the foundation of a fund, which further subserip tions from persona residing in and near Present iii creased to an amount large enough to purehase about 2,1101 i volumes of well.selected work'., and es tablish a library wherein these vohunes are to be circulated among subscribers of four shillings per annum, or a fraction less than one penny per week. Such an institution had been long wanting in Present. Lord STANLEY, who had consented to take the chair on the occasion, was warmly cheered when he rose to address the assembly. De characterised in stitutions similar to that which they were met to in. augur ate as forming one of the principal agents in the practical advancement of society. Their increas ing number was also a source of eeng raiiihdi u n. Hi s bordship proceeded : " There meal-rely any town in any pail of Englund in which sonic institution of a. • •lar amino:hi ha, not been 1 have been it coniputed, and 1 belicvc the calculation is comet, that there are now between 7,0 and '159 FlllO iticeliailies . institutions throughout the rariona towns all of which have libraiii•ei, larger or smaller. Hilltelle , l to then'. Anti this it nut the ease ~my i n I.itgl.inpl. I maw it *tans' the other elan that in lianiee there were P 47 towns. in epoch of which their ei,i..te,l iatblie library colitsining not less t hnn that there ale 111 - : towns in which, eolleetnely, the 14 . e of volume% emit winced in the rublie librat it. 04 tteeellh{ truer (• • ear. hr.rr.l 111 the I 111101 Stil tot itgain—althotialt there. Alan the population not being gathered together in %melt ileuse iiim4ses an in this 111111e11211 ththe allies present theniselres--the movement in favour of loathe Minnie* is l atently rely dittit, , .. 41 . tutu 1 believe that they are now being established iu alinowt ever) large wan tif the Vinton. it it Ilittkillt to gay how ettensier n COIII4IIOII of 110011 uuut I. 1.1 . 0% 0141 6 , 1 11 111.nily whi r l' is nitenileil to contain the 11.1•011.4 elementary' Iltiovilvilge in all the branches of human lan I sumsise I 'nay 011Y•"- - HMI I lake the sett lowest rstiinatr.— that cannot hale a ieally good Illusory, of Meru eleinelintry usseks, that shall not clmhlin big% vett :t.INNI and AO II ‘ 4 .lnmeg. NOW, 1 hardly need say that 14 00111'1411M of that tAtt.to is true which %et% les . 15.1.44 , 11% lIMI e the 111111' or 1.% en if they hail the inelmation. to collect ; oust oar ell,le et Illerefolt• is. 1.1 111114 t 10 Ill). 1 1 11,441 RM of oibile i iisl Illvlll.ll the 11141111 . 1/1111e1141' • 111111 1111 1 1 aheudy berth 111 1111111 V other matters— I mean the principle of association. ( 11440 r, hmr.l It is oulv I.y e oissisinatissu 111 this tui ttttt er--it is only by cstablislinig a lilssey %do s h shall not be the property of ..111 . 111111 V limlild. list the pill. !telly of all of you, awl uets . sonble to all- -to all, that is to say, who desire it, tool will. chtm,..e to qualify them , elves tot 11111111n•l1111 the IM tank by that 1111'N1114 that yen con bring tog. tiler such a voile...lion of works as shill satisfy the rettuirententa of the student. ((Avers. I Timms i'. tins' remark %Mel 1 sin nations to make on this head. I hoist it to 104 . 11 matter of primary necessity that, in regattl to any iiistitutitai of his kind, when once fairly .et all 1'444, it should f o r the flllllll' be self iouppt%ttilig. V olt Duty rely upon it that 1111 iiistitut of tall ethivational ellt111101•1 I'llll be 11 . 5411 y well conducted—emit IWC4.lllll , lthh Ihr 1,11j1.11P4 for which it was 15 0,.r hist taitlat , sitler the torigioal expense of its chtablis.h• hold is &frayed, the people tOr •hose benefit it has becii established ate SO Mt 111.1111114 e a the tolvaistßgub. 511'1141' fl'olll it 11 4 (5 5 be willing 1,1551 al.le In maintain it tor themsel.s.s. 'h, Anti it %I Id be placed at. 11111141 as 1400.114 V in the 11111111 S tit thiltue who 1411,4.61141 us' 11 , 41111 mill is. es.,slll') 1111 11111 . 11.14. I 11111t1 . 1' 111 • cos. like this it is indispensably netvbsary to pl . ,,tchde the first outlay incurred in the establishment, but after that lust outlay 1 shall 1114 Is. 111111ittell- -I think we who pro to the establish lit sit' this institution have is. right tss be satisfied unless it is limn.' that the local .41.1, the loyal awaits slot o 111111 . 1 . h. 1111• colter the working expense% of the institution, RIO to prel cid this or any application nor funds to any lollies whitlow. (rte,. rs After alluding to the litintivial position awl working details of the institution, Lord Stanley added s o ma remarks upon the ehiiroieter of the works which lis wished to see provided for its subse9iher'l :- 1111111• us. HIV desirous dint • library should essiltom .fork sit • 111 Lis l'Ille11111t1•11 tli supply 141.111111 11e11( . 1 al know• iii almost every department elf Mostly, we tire wipe• rinlly anxious. al the •411111. thine, 1144 to ow ls ' s& wor k., s d • %4.111.1‘11141 lighter eiliinietet-- I 1111 l Imilietit is writ Ns )cork% which tiri. 114,1 pciliaps 1/11 well eal• etilateil to 'Mad pritetieal know kilo. and instruction, but whieli will at Nil 1*1 . 1•11114 hale' 1111 . silent of inducing peisplf, to I's thills4• in find plensiii 4 . in reading who found no. pleasure 111 11'0111111g bliOre, and so is s lu u l la g a Mendes% awl intellertmil ti a• those less and perhaps less harmless. plasismes whirl' we all klllOll all' he 114. 1'4,111141 11 . 11.1•%6/ . 11 . . 'he co ..) Yl4l ll'e I. 1•1 1111141 1111 nro that, ill man) of the liLrurie. 1111 elo lour.• Lee es t a bjs s .hyd us Ow large towns. very careful ritirmi have been drawn out. showing what boolia are takel out, and what class of la m 11.4 PIN' most valued and atitsliel. From thi.se retlnna its . .%1 itueliestcr I believe it 1111111 hewn found that • very largo propoi t of the works token out, and therefore, we rte. runic 1111 1 works of a somewhat grate and iie• tire elitirneter. 11 I.i‘erlstsl I atlt it states% in the lr.st return publisheil that one half •if the works taken tint were ws•rku of H11111 , (1111 . 11, Illostcly. Now, I don't think thin is *1 /111 a 1010 hivli. l lf coMtio it is very right Mid vo.ty 111.4i1111111' that men should sooty. n fader to improve t h e in• wives ; Ltd MTH reading for the new papoose seniuse• shunt is tl great plen.iirs• it is a ilenstur which t. 110 a to improvement, soul it is is phloem. which we lire 115.vr •Icsiroi l / 4 of putting within the refill of all classes of the iishisl•itant s 4,f this town. ('//fir, hem.: "Is. era. Ahritlgvtl. from, thl• /.leery 1 lferrwey. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, bre. 6. HANK Wiodvor, lisweiilimper—t:bwAith 11E510 STIII.ItT, 11.111.er - .10 , 1111 111.0(.11511 JOMAIIIAS P 1111.11.1.14, TOlkabir(o. .1 0 . 111, 1 11 ' 104 Illakert.—WlLllAll Ni'l • I'10Ix mid .1%111 I*o 140 (051 I: Itirrx, Liverpool, Cl/111111151,4411/11 11111111111111. , 111'11.1 I.AI liAlt• MAIM LiArloool, 11111 , 10111 T 1.1 French PIM g :ragging% goody'. NKHUPTCY ANNI'I.LEIII.—Jumg SAyr.nl+, Wieo•kvo•rlb. Murry, • htIfrMtIgWESTIIATIONs.—JAvt:k 11Exorutoot, gow• grmin gicrgimat—JosiN 1111. 1111151, courar Align., will. 44511(.1*. . . P'ritlap, lir,. DANT 9. ItANKRITUCV .1,. 11\ J AI ° )4 , 4),G o ,,l4treet, tnm{,un.k•r. 1 4 N yrs PlAtd.i.m. Vol rosArcet. 1 lorrissart. chollolltr-4.‘1;1 1.1. 11.1,14111. , 1 i.wlN, 1111 gluon. livrtped i.loullr-1'1111.11`1 1 11%1 It, Pr. r ili :wiling whir.% old :..1.1111x)- 'I so4.m.sh I oN. Uri Lisal•gl.4ll roliti. Woo • A> lls 1 4 A1.11 It, olvvrti • •-•11 , 111 r, clod, Ndhrrwr)--.IUI I UN% 11. I ANIN, MNI k •Inow, lAirflo nl W %ill, lullrpr. I.6lsruoliirs.. 4 . 01.11 ►1.11.11x1•-1 11 AIII.PA SA MI 1.1. T'A 111, brictsismka— .1 A 1.% tot K, Maccivelickl, ilroptr. TO ADVERTISERS. Fhe abolition Of the Indy on .I,lrertisfiftenta friable* ri* t o ingert at the pri,se of Three Shilling* the Advertisement* ;or trhieh we hare hitherto charged Fire; and Ailrer timerrr generally will reeeire the full hen ;fit of the change in the lair.