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PP # '7•+ •••• •-•-•-••••- • • • •-•:•_, _ • MAY 13, 1854. " A CHANCELLOR'S CHEQUERED With hand aloft and waistcoat doffed He paced the lonely room, And trippingly he tried his speech To seal Oxonia's doom. Portentous syllables were there, And phrases fresh to common ear, With syllogisms bold ; He seemed to taste them on his tongue, As forth the fluent sounds he flung. He paused, that Chancellor—he smiled ! Oh ! crocodileau smile ! What daring sophistry beguiled— What new Gladstoniau wile? Sudden a step was at the door, A voice, a form known long before— 'Twas Alma Mater's own; And quick his recreant visage took The colour of his bluest book. " Oh tui euratiseime The classic dame began, Alieni profusiesinte Thou cold ungrateful man. For all my anxious hopes and fears, For board and lodging, cares and tears, Is this thy gratitude, • To doom to pixand book and bell The dear mamma who loved thee well? " Is't not enough I've seen thee keep 11l company and low — Enough to make thy mother weep If she had tears to flow? The Grseme, and he ' qui, units lunno Nobis perpetue cunctando Destituet, quickly, rem.' Jones, Smith, and Brown, thy bonds who sign, Were trusty names to these of thine. " And wilt thou with thy motley crew Thus carelessly condemn Systems in all else good and true, But that they fostered them? Look'st thou to see by Isis' strand A ' Coalition' college stand, With ' Coalition' creed ? Take courage ! so it shall be soon, When latter Lammas falls in June. " I took thee for a son, alas ! Of wit and promise good. Hen ! Sero venit veritas, I blush to think I could. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. THE Return issued of Stamps supplied to Newspapers in 1853 exhibits the following comparative results : NEWSPAPERS. Atlas Britannia Examiner John Bull Leader PRESS [From May 7th to December 31at—Eight Months.] Spectator i Viit _],rxxig• LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRmAY. The house met at one, to suspend the standing orders, and put the Militia Bill through its several stages. This, with several others, received the royal assent. In the evening sitting the Church Building Acts Bill passed through committee, when Lord HAR ROWBY alluded earnestly to the want of church accommodation throughout the country. An amend ment moved by Lord NELSON, to confine the opera tions of the act to the city of London, was rejected by 28 to 27. Adjourned at half-past seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. In answer to questions from Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr. Otway, Sir J. GRAHAM said that no news had been received by the Government of the taking of Cronstadt- The fleets were, at the date of the last advices, which were up to the sth, on the coast of Sweden. Some Russian transports had been taken, but they con tained no soldiers—nothing but munitions of war. Some Prussian midshipmen were allowed to serve on board her Majesty's fleet, who were at liberty to quit whenever they thought proper. On the second reading of the Scotch Education Bill, Mr. STIRLING moved that it be read a second time this day six months. Education in Scotland was favourably progressing, and could only be thwarted by so searching a measure as the present. Lord DALKEITH, in a maiden speech, seconded the amendment. The present parochial system had worked very satisfactorily, and only required to be properly carried out. Lord /Auto said that the deficiencies of the pro sent system were admitted, and it was now urged that they were to be supplied by its extension after it had already failed. The schools of Scotland must be brought back to their original intention—schools for the general body of the Presbyterians. He com pared the various schemes proposed for education, and concluded that none would meet the difficulty but a secular education, founded on the basis of a religion which was that of nine-tenths of the people of Scotland. He quoted returns to show the imperfect education still prevalent in the country. Mr. CUMMING BRUCE opposed the bill, remarking upon its irreligious character, and arguing that it was framed in antagonism to the Established Church. Mr. J. MACGREGOR denied that the measure tended to dissever religious from secular education. Mr. G. DumpAs objected to several of the changes in the existing system which the proposed bill would accomplish. Mr. G. DUFF considered the measure to be pecu liarly adapted to the wants of the people of Scotland. Mr. Mum, dilated upon the extreme want of __ ~ _ .~.~~1 :.. ' -4.4 44k.. THE PRESS. VISION." For thou this very week hast shown That Cooker is to thee unknown, Unlearned the rule of three. And dost thou proffer me instruction, Grandmothers !—and ovarian suction ! " When Francis and Henry Their banners unrolled On the fam'd field of Guines, With its carpet of gold " (I hope that the Commissaires Managed to find A shed for the English That kept out the wind)— " Their serfs in the sunlight With fear saw the glance Of the roses of En gland, And lilies of France." ('Ti: plain that the weather Was somewhat more clear Than the sky of the East At this time of the year.) " Whether much longer they will bear Thou jisci conturbator, Thy tricks I know not, but I know You've done with Alma Mater. Speak double at St. Peter's chair, Spin syllogistic budgets there, And win the scarlet hat ; And, thinking whither words have brought you, Teach not again the head who taught you." A. E. MINSTRELSY OF THE WAR. SCENE.—.I Second-Fluor Front.—Martial Poet of the Musical Publishers, and Cynical Friend. Poet reading a New Song fur the War. Spoke the bondage of England, The serfdom of France !" (Egad there's no longer Such equal distress, If We credit the tales Of (Gallipoli's nuns.) " But a dawning far brighter On Europe hath come, And the standard of France Is the eagle of Rome." (Don't you think 'Was more likely We neer had had war, But that some people's shuffling Gave heart to the Car!) "'Tway the pomp of a pageant — The pride of a day ; 'Twas the plaything of kings, 'Twas the pastime of sway." (I'll bet that the money To Henry was lent At less than poor GLADSTONE'S Small twenty per cent.) " Each trumpet's shrill flourish, Each charger's bold prance, [The Poet indignantly ce " And the nations in rapture And pride see advance The Lion of England, And Eagle of France." (Now what will you wager The Premier still hopes That there's no word of truth In your flights and your tropes ! That in each new despatch He most hopefully seeks The advance of the Czar, Or success of the Greeks?) r, and the Cynical Friend disappears. education, especially among the city population, in both sections of the kingdom. He thought the Government proposition for Scotland altogether in sufficient to cope with so gigantic an evil, and in tended to vote for the amendment. Mr. BOUVERIE believed that the bill would tend to improve the moral and educational state of Scotland, and, although he disapproved of some of its details, was anxious to give it a general support. Mr. J. MACKIE eulogised the existing system, and deprecated change. Mr. HUME said that it was impossible that the general education of the people of Scotland should be any longer in the hands of a minority. The separation which had taken place in the Church of Scotland rendered a radical change indispensably necessary. Circumstances and opinions had altered, and for that alteration the Government were bound to provide. Colonel BLAIR protested against the unfairness of throwing on the opponents of the bill the odium of opposing education. He enlarged on the efforts made for education by the Established Church. That. Church maintained double the number of schools over all the other sects put together. Mr. COWAN complained that the supporters of the bill had been characterised as destroyers of the parochial schools and abettors of godless education. An eminent minister had said that he would rather see the Russians in the country, and the streets deluged with blood, than see the bill pass. He strongly reprobated the tone of the opposition to a measure so diligently prepared. Mr. NAPIER objected to the bill, because it super seded, instead of being merely supplemental to, the schools already existing in connection with the Church of Scotland. Mr. COBDEN considered the bill deficient, inas much as it did not sever secular education from religious instruction. He hoped to have it amended in committee. The great problem of separating the functions of the clergyman and the schoolmaster pressed for solution, and Scotland was the most suitable country to try it in. The Hon. F. SCOTT supported the amendment. .. i mil I Albliti Average Stam p s W Issued eekl Y • Circulation. 76,500 1,470 105,508 2,029 241,525 4,664 95,000 1,826 120,700 2,321 123,000 3,514 146,500 2,817 . ~'~ j 1