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V Übe press: (STAMPED.) Per Annum t 1 6 0 .. 0 13 0 Quartady 0 6 6 Parasitic is adsaset. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders tbroughtbeir News Agent; if direct to the °Moe. accompanied by a remit• MAO& Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance Watley Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRID Iva, 110 Stra• , 4 London. ID -0- 1 TOIL LONDON, SATURDAY. MAY 81, 1858. PosTsoiti PT. The following telegraphic despatch has come to hand.— Berlin, May 29. The journey of Baron Seebach to Germany has no poll. tical signification. That diplomatist will accompany Count de Nesselrode his father•in-law, to Kissengen, and will remain there for some days. The Prince Royal of Sweden made his solemn entry into Christiana. as Viceroy of Norway, on Tuesday last, amidst the enthusiastic acclamations of the people. The Swedish Minister of Finance has given in his resignation. King Otho of Greece is expected to visit Vienna on the 14th of the ensuing month. The Imperial Prince of France was vaccinated on Tuesday. M. Binet, of the In'titute, one of the most eminent geometricians in France, is dead. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria has left the Palace of St. Cloud for Havre, from whence his Imperial H.ghness will go to Cherbourg on board the steam frigate the Queen Hortense. From the latter place the Archduke will return by Brussels to Germany. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRWAY. PLACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND) BILL. The motion for going into committee on this bill gave rise to a preliminary conversation, in the course of which various comments and explanations were offered by Lord Donoughmore, the Earl of Besbo rough, Lord Campbell, Lord Redesdale, the Earl of Wicklow, Lord St. Leonards, and other pears. The motion was then agreed to, and the bill passel' through committee, a provision being added limit ing the duration to a period of five years. APPELLATE JURISDICTION (HOUSE OF LORDS) snu— On the motion of the Loat, CHANCELLOR, this bill was read a second time. The noble and learned lord explained the provisions of the measure in detail, observing that it was based up n the reports lately presented by a committee of their lordships' house. The statement was followed by some discussion, in which many noble lords took part. commenting chiefly upon the proposal incorporated in the bill for creating life peerages. The National Gallery Bill was read a second time. Other bills were advanced a stage, and the house ad journed at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Famir. DULWICH COLLEOZ. Replying to Mr. T. Duncornhe, Mr. RUNES mated that a bill was in preparation, and would be introduced during the session, relating to Dulwich College. THE HILITIA. On the motion that the house on rising should adjourn to Monday, Colonel GILPIN called attention to the conditions under which the militia regiments were to be dis embodied, and the various amounts of bounty, pay, or allowances which the Government had offered to the paymasters and non-comniissioned officers of that service. He contrasted the conduct pursued towards the militia with the terms granted to the men and officers of the several foreign legions, and oomplained that the foreigners were treated much better than the Englishmen. Complaints of similar :enor were urged by Colonel DUNNE and other members, and elicited a reply from Mr. F. PEEL, who explained in detail the regulations provided for the disembodiment both of the militia regiments and the foreign legions, and justified the pnimpl.• on which the War-office bad arranged the Unas offered in the several oases. _ The subject was resumed and pursued fat 101149 THE PRESS. time, and a further explanation given by Lord PALMERBToIi. Ultimately the discussion ceased, and the motion was agrerd to. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. BOUVERIE made an explanatory statement, no discussion upon the principle of the measure having taken place on the second reading. The income of the University, he observed, including the salaries of the professors, was 24,54101. oerantitun. This, however, was much exceeded by the aggregate incomes of the several colleges, which amounted to 185,0001. a year. Comparing this large revenue with the educational results, the contrast, he urged, was ludicrously small. In tact the number of students► who had in recent times been sent forth as well educated men was not greater than it had been in 1632. Neither was the quality of the education imparted of so superior a degree as to make up for the deficiency in the number of students who availed themselves of the advantage. At a time when brain and not blood carried away the palm in the struggle of life, it was of the utmost con sequence that the education afforded at the univer sities should be of the highest class. So low was the repute into which Cambridge University had fallen, that multitudes of parents who could well bear the expense cared not to send their sons thither. The tests applied to students who were candidates only for an ordinary degree, after three years' resi dence in college, were of the lowest kind, and such as a boy of fifteen or sixteen could prepare himself to undergo in six weeks. The antiquated consti tution of the University almost precluded reform from within ; and here arose the necessity for the changes he designed to introduce. These changes Mt. Bouverie proceeded to describe. He proposed to establish an elective senate, who would have power to originate a plan of education more conso nant to the exigencies of the present times. The bill would also sanction the establishment of private halls, and do away with the restrictions against the admission of Dissenters, so far as the University was concerned, leaving the colleges to act for themselves in this matter. There was besides a provision for a parliamentary commission, with extensive powers, which, however, he hoped and believed mould be only exercised in the way of advice or control, and not in any objectionable manner whatsoever. Mr. WALPOLE thought the right hon. member had been led into exaggeration when disparaeing the character and results of the education afforded at Cambridge University. The object of the bill should, he contended, be to impose as little restriction as possible on the colleges, leaving them w►th the freest action that could be found cons►stent with the improvements which it was deemed desirable to carry out. Judging by what had been done by the University itself within the last thirty years in the way of improvement, he submitted that the point was very doubtful whether a more rapid and effectual progress would not be accomplished by continuing this voluntary process than by imposing any external authority. He VMS opposed to the establishment of private halls as in the case of Oxford, but would not now resist them, believing that it was of great import ance to render the two universities as similar as possible in their constitution. There was no provision in the Oxford Act for a parliamentary commission to control its action, and he could see no necessity for such a power ►n the case of Cambridge. He enter tallied the strongest objection to this feature in the hill, as calculated to interfere with the peace and tranquillity which it should be their object to main tain undisturbed. Intimating his intention to pro pose amendments in committee, with the view of altering the provisions on which he had remarked, Mr. Walpole conclu'led with a warm eulogy upon the University, and cited the names of many eminent men of the present and previous generations who had received their education within its precincts. Mr. POLLARD-URQUHART supported the bill. Mr. HZYWOOD remarked upon the antiquated character and obsolete purpose of various college endowments. Mr. J. G. PUILLIXORE defended the existing system of oollege education. After a few words from Mr. Wmittaw, the house went into committee, and proceeded to discuss various amendments upon the successive clauses of the measure . Clauses 2 to 20 having been agreed to, the chair man WHR directed to report progress. The West India Loan Bill was passed through committee. The Police (Counties and Boroughs) B:11 was read a third time and passed. The Pour-law Amendment (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. The Reformatory and Industrial Schools Bill was read a third time and passed. The Factories Bill was read a third time and passed.___.... The Williams Annuity Bill went through com mittee. The itAiuttrued at one o'alockl SATURDAY ..........._. 1 ESCAPE OF AN AU": MILAN POLITICAL PRISONER. DELICZ °RUNT, who lately so happily effected his escape from the Castle of St. Gregorio, Mantua, has, in a letter to a friend, glv.•n an account of the mea ns by which he contrived to get true. Arrested at Hermanstadt in December, 1854, Orsini was carried reavily chained in a cart to Vienna. After numerous examinations, in which it appeared that the Austrian Government knew everything concerning him, in March, '55, he was sent to Mantua, and, with sentence of death passed upon hint for revolutionary intrigues at Milan in '54, he was confined in the Castle of St. Gregorio, iii a cell six feet long by three broad. The window, barred in with a double row of iron bars, was six feet from the flooring inside, and about ninety feet from the ground outside. Nevertheless Orsini determine d upon attempting an escape. By some means or other he bad possessed himself of six fine saws. About the end of January, '5O, he • writes : I was put into ce ll No. 4. athiee to escape worstinth ; e t c h a e st w le ind a o n w d I despaired of ever being able was more than two yards from the ground, and to wor k at it I was obliged to stand on the back of my chair. The rows of iron bars were a yard apart: the outside grating being one-tenth of the distance beyond. The liars were extremely thick, especially the inside ones, and the height from the window to the level of the ditch was thirty yards —I myself measured it with a string. could not work at night, because the noise of the saws, though very slight, would have been heard by the sentinel, who after the hair-past nine o'clock visit came every hie minutes to the door. I worked therefore in the daytime, and my ear had become so accustomed to the step of the sentinel that before he opened the door I always contrived to get down and put my chair in its place, and some Mies I woull he walking up and down humming I covered over the marks of my work with brick powder mixed with black wax and bread. By thus working in the deytims in the intervals of the visits, in twenty.four days I had cot away seven of the outside him, and one of the inside ones, where they were tixel into the wall, and from the wall I hail extracted eight bricks, which I hid in 0 e straw of my mattress. As for the cord, 1 had thought of that before. On the let of Febraary T kept back, without their knowing, the sheets that I ought to have sent rway to the wash, and on the Ist of March I kept hack the towels, which were as wide as the sheets and a little longer, and by cutting these in strips I was able, on the 27th of March, to make my cord, fastening it with sailor's knots. I let it down in- o the ditch to try its length, and found it even longer than necessary. The 28th slid 29th I passed in great fear of discovery, being more than usually persecuted by the attentions of the sentinel, so th it I could not attempt my escape. I therefore pretended during those two days to be ill, and did not rise from my bed, for fear they might chance to examine my straw mat. tress. They had ceased, in my case, to examine the bars. half-past nine on the evening of the 29th, at the usual visit from the cap() oustode, I pretended to be asleep ; but the moment they were gone, and while they were going the round of the other visits, and so making some noise, I rapidly removed the iron bars I bail cut—made up two little bundles of necessary clothing—fastened the cord to one of the remaining liars—let it down all its length —hid in the straw the bars I had removed, and then lay still again till the second visit, at. half• past one. I again pretended to be asleep, and the instant they were gone I rose, and quite calmly proceeded to let myself down by the cord. When within six feet from the ground I felt I could no longer sustain myself. I looked at the depth below me, and let in”ielf drop. A sort of swoon came over me. I however moistened my month with an orange I had had the precaution to have upon me, and lay for some moments quiet, to recover myself. I then dressed myself, and wandered round and round the castle, seeking some means to get out of the ditch, but I had so hurt my foot in the fall that I could scarcely walk. I hoped to escape from the ditch into the lake, but the entrance to the lake was barred by a grat.ng. I then endeavoured, with the help of two nails, to scale the wall of the ditch, about six feet high, and had almost reached the top when the foot I bad hurt failed me, and I fell to the bottom. Fortunately there had lately been a little water in the ditch, and the soft mud prevented the sentinels hearing the noise of my fall. I remained there in the dread of being retaken till five in the morning, when the city gates were opened, and then some people went by. I called to them, saying that the night, before I had been drunk and fallen into the ditch. and begged them to help me out. Sonic retuned, but at last some bolder ones helped me, and I was dragged out with much difficulty, as I 3nuld scarcely help myself. My hands were cut in many places. I was very lame, and covered with the mud of the ditch above the waist, yet in that condition I had to cross the bridge within gunshot of the castle. What happened after that I must not tell. In eight days I was in Switzerland, sod able for the first time to attend to my foot. What the Austrian* would have done or given to get me again You can imagine. Police circular followed circular, and tele graphic despatch followed telegraphic despatch. All letters were indiscriminately stepped and opened at the post-office, and perquisitions made in every part of Mantua. but this did not prevent the citizens from openly rejoicing over my escape. We shall now soon meet. May 20, IMO, Feuer: Oasts!. In this interesting account a remarkable fact strikes one in evidence of the popular feeling of Italy, as evinced in Use assistance given to Orsini by the people in Lombardy, in spite of every oder of reward or alrost of ptui4aaltcpeut,