The Press. — London, England, 1856-11-22 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 22, 1856. before the arrival of the clergyman who had been sent for. The passenger carriages of the down train, which con tained about twenty persons, fortunately were not mingled with the ruins, but the su lden collision caused great con sternation among them. They were dashed about in the greatest confusion, injuring all more or less, but the following were seriously wounded: —M. ill'lntyre, labourer; J. Hunter, driver ; John Snow, fireman ; and Dr. White, inspector of lunatic asylums ; all of whom, as soon as assistance was procured, were removed to an adja- cent public-house and their wounds properly attended to- Dr. White was removed insensible, in which state he re mained up of the time we left the scene of the catastrophe• It is deserving to remark that only for the indisposition of Sims Reeves that gentleman, with a troop of other artists, announced to appear in the Town-hall, would probably have been in the train. Statlanb. THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD &LIVER LYTTON, Bart., was on the 15th instant elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University for the ensuing two years. Three candidates were nominated :—Sir Edward Lytton, Lord Stanley, and Sir John Herschel'. The latter gentleman retired early from the contest, which was keenly sustained on behalf of Sir Edwnrd Lytton and Lord Stanley. Sir E. Lytton was supported by the Conservative students as well as by an influential section who desired the election to rest upon purely literary grounds. Lord Stanley, on the other hand, was supported by the Liberals. The result was declared in the Com mon Hall on the forenoon of the 15th, when it was found that Sir Edward Lytton had obtained a considerable majority in all the Nations into which the students are divided. The following was the state of the poll: . Lytton. Stanley. Ratio Glottiana —.- Londoniunn -- Transforthana B2 .. 21 -- lioatsayttua et .. 22 242 134 Majority for Lytton lO9 The installation will take place on a day to be fixed by Sir Edward Lytton. PROFESSOR BLACKIE, in his introductory lecture to the Greek classes recently, at Edinburgh, alluding to the great advance made of late years in the cause of education, asserted that Scotland re mained behind the age. Learning was especially low iu the Scotch universities, and he attributed this to the miserable encouragement offered in Scotland to men of ability : He would refer to Sanscrit, Hebrew, and Oriental learn ing generally, to archeology, history, philosophy, and the tine arts, ethnology, comparative philology, Greek, Latin, and theology, and he would fearlessly assert that in none of these departments had Scotland come forward and asserted its due position in the learned world. He held that the professors had done a great deal more than could have been expected, considering the scurvy manner in which they had been treated by the powers that be. Here we had a Government—the richest Government in Europe —doling out 71. 10s. per quarter to the professors of Greek and Latin in the universities of Scotland. The teacher of the language of tee Sacred Scriptures was paid with a smaller salary than many a mere copier of papers in a Government office. Then as to archeology ; the only great archeologist Scotland had produced—Dr. Daniel Wilson—was obliged to expatriate himself to America be cause no one wanted or asked for him here. Then take history, philosophy, or the fine arts, where were they re presented in any Scottish university ? The learned professor then alluded to the undrilled state in which youths were sent to college in Scot land. The Scotch professors, he said, were called on to do a kind of work which was done in the German burgh schools four or five years before the pupils went to the university 7 Here the professors hail to do the schoolmasters' work besides their own. The whole system tended to the degra dation of the professorial staff Ile himself felt that, by the present system, he was a degraded and injured man. It was not reasonable that he should come down from the sphere of Aristotelian science, and from the starry heights of Platonic philosophy, to flounder in the flats and shallows with a congregation of smooth•cheeked little boys—with boys only hall tired of their peg tops, and not yet even dreaming of the possibility of a beard. He wanted to de vote himself to the higher classes, and let the town council get some tator with 1(1W. a year to teach the first. And he claimed that relief on the ground of his services in carry ing on the third class, which he was not bound to do, which yielded him less than he might make in two weeks by writing light conceity articles for some review; but it was a class that he would stand by, even if but half a dozen students remained in it. He claimed a higher status, too, for the professors. He asked why should a professor be thought inferior to a sheriff substitute ? In fact, he looked upon himself as great a mall as the Sheriff of Edinburgh. But how dill the country• mark the two positions? Why, by giving Professor Mackie w 1. a year from the Queen's Exchequer, and by giving Sheriff Gordon 100/. or 1,800/. a year. Dr. Blackie then came to the remedy. The first thing was to get money, and then— lint, create tutorships and fellowships—not fix the sake of tits professors, but of the students. In the second THE PRESS. place, lel them put their burgh schools on the footing which was contemplated by John Knox in his admirable scheme, which they would find in the First Book of I►is cipline. In the third place, give respectable endowments for those chairs now existing in universities. but which were on a starvation footing—he alluded especially to the Hebrew chair, and was even content that his own should be the last. Then, in the fourth place, create addi tional chairs for all those branches of learning and science that had been added to the intellectual training of the present ege. THE REV. DR. ROBERTSON, Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical Hi-tory in the University of Edinburgh, will be proposed as Moderator of the next General Assembly. LORD ARDMILIAN, the new Judge of the Court of Exchequer, presented his commission to the Lord President on Saturday last. elution nttliirsturt, LANCASTER.-Mr. Robert Gladstone, in conse quence of the announced intention of Mr. W. J. Garnett, of Bleasdale Tower, to become a candidate for the representation of Lancaster on the resigna tion of Mr. Greene at the next election, has issued a second address to the freemen and electo:s of the borough. In this address Mr. Gladstone states his intention of refraining from personally soliciting the vote a each elector, but announces that he shall from time to time give public expression to his sentiments when called upon to do so. The political opinions of Mr. Gladstone are expressed in the following passage : First of all I would declare that I belong to no party, that I am resolved to support those men who bring forward measures which in my opinion are best calculated to promote the welfare of the country, that I deprecate hasty and violent changes, that there is much which requires alteration as well as much which it is desirable to retain, that it is necessary to establish a policy of wise and careful retrenchment calculated to mitigate the pressure of taxation, and the removal of those burdens which press with undue severity upon the industry of the country, that we require thorough administrative army and law reform, a sound heral and religious system of education connected with the reformation of juvenile offenders, measures for the preven• tion of crime, and the educating, training, taking care of, and redeeming from hopeless destruction those swarms of destitute children who crowd our streets, and from whom a large harvest of crime is reaped, and further the prevention, by legislative enactment as tar as practicable, of that amount of intemperance and intoxication which is the cause of so much crime, and which is so destructive both of body and soul. While admitting the principle that no Government has a right to interfere with the internal affairs of other States, I consider that cases may arise where the exception to this rule may become equally a duty and a right. I am opposed to vote by ballot, and I am not aware that it has in any country been found to promote well-ordered liberty and political morality; I look upon the franchise as a trust which the country at large has a right to know that its possessor exercises faithfully and properly. I am in favour of an extension of the franchise, but am opposed to any reduction of the qualification of voters. I am opposed to the continuance of any grant to the college of Maynooth, my opinion being that, although our duty enjoins toleration, it is wrong to endow and thus na tionally to recognise the extension of Popery. EAST SUFFOLK.—Lord Henniker is spoken of as a probable candidate in the room of the late Sir Ed. ward Gooch, whose death will cause an election in about a month from the present time, the Speaker being empowered to issue his writ during the recess after fourteen days' notice in the Gazette of the death of a member. HULL.—Mr. Clay has announced his positive de termination to go to the poll, notwithstanding any doubts which might have before existed. Mr. Edwin James, on the plea that a contest would divide the Liberal party, bas retired to try Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Weguelin, Governor of the Bank of England, and the Hon. Sir Edward Butler, of Harefleld, will pro bably contest this borough. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Chadwick have retired. Mr. Edwin James addressed the electors on Thursday, and made a declaration of his political principles. No Church rates, free trade in law and commerce, an extended franchise, admission of Jews to Parliament, and the ballot and Lord Palmerston, were Mr. James's prin ciples. The meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, when Mr. Weguelin will address the electors. BANDON.—The Hon. W. Smyth Bernard, brother of the present Lord Bandon, will stand as the Con servative candidate. CLONMEL.-Mr. Bagwell will, in all probability, be returned in the room of Mr. John O'Connell. DJWNPATRICK.—No one has come forward for the representation of this borough, vacant by the suc cession of the lion. C. S. Hordinge to the peerage. Rabat and itlititarg THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION.—Sir James Outram, K.C.8., left Southampton on Thurstlay, the 210, for Bombay, in order to take the command of the British force destined to operate against Feria. 11.13 MAJOR GENERAL SIR HOLIES SCIIOEDDE, K.C.8., has been gazetted to the colonelcy of the 2nd Regiment, vacant by the death of Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Rolt. H.M.S. " RALEIGH," 50, bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Keppel, C. 8., went out of Portsmouth Harbour, on Saturday, under canvas. So tare a sight is this in these days that the authorities of the port, alarmed lest the frigate should be run ashore, sent a couple of steam•tugs to see her safely to Spit• head ! THREE HUNDRED OF THE GERMAN LEGION em• barked on hoard H.M.S. Vivid, at llarwich, last Monday. When safe on board the men were paid. As soon as they had got their money they want, d to go ashore and spend it. The officer in charge, and the captain of the Vivid, refused; whereupon the men knocked them down, thrashed the crew, and getting into the shore boats made off. A number were afterwards arrested on shore by a detachment of artillery, returned on board, and the Vivid soon after put to sea. SOME EXPEP.IMF.NTS were made three days ego at the Grand Camp, at Lyons, with a new gun, ret e illy invented by a French officer in the Belgian service named Ben. Although this gun has only one barrel, two shots may be fired with it as with a double.barrelled one, without the necessity of re loading. It will carry as far as a Minie carbine. THE PROSPECTUS OF THE NEXT EXAMINATIoN for admission to the Loyal Military Academy at Wool wich has been issued by the War Department. The examination will be held in London in the month of June, 1857 : Provided a sufficient number are found competent, thirty admissions will be made to that institution ; candi dates must be between the ages of seventeen and twenty years. Those, however, who have not exceeded twen y years of age on the Ist of January next will not be con sidered disqualified. The successful candidates will re main under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced in scientific knowledge to pass a satisfactory examination, and they will then receive commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum of 221. lOs. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform, books, &c., and a contribution of 621. lOs. for each half year of the time during which they remain at the academy. The half-yearly contributions, however, for sons and orphans of naval and military officers will be regulated at rates, as heretofore. The admissions will be determined by the result o a competitive examination, the subjects of which will be as follows : Pure and Mixed Mathematics—i.e., Statics, Dyna mics, and Hydrostatics .. 3,500 English Language, Literature, Composition, His tory, and Geography .. Language, Literature, Geography, and History of Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece .. 1,750 Ditto ditto ditto of France .. 1,4N10 Ditto ditto ditto of Germany 750 (The examination in French and German will be both written and vied voce.) Experimental Sciences—i.e., Chemistry, Heat, Elec tricity, including Magnetism .. 1,000 Natural Sciences, Blineralogy, and Geology .. 750 Moral and Political Sciences Drawing—i.e., Elementary Geometrical Drawing, including the nse of Drawing Instruments, and either Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Landscape Drawing .. 1.000 No candidate will be allowed to be examined in more than five subjects. of which one must be mathematics, and no one who does not obtain at least one fifth of the allotted tuuiber of marks in this subject will be eligible fur au ap pointment. From the other subjects of examination each candi date may select those in which he desires to be examined ; but no one will be allowed to count the marks gained in any subject, unless those marks shall at least amount to one•sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that subject. No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military Academy unless be obtain an aggregate of 3,01 0 marks at least. 1250 Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing among the subjects for his examination will be required to satisfy the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least of the elements of those two subjects, as shall afford reason able expectation that he will perfect himself in both during his residence at the academy. Notice will be given a month previously, in the public repels, of the place and days appointed for holding the examination. THE 10TH CG:IPANY OF THE 110YAL ENGINEERS, under the command of Captain F. Brine 11. l: , has proceeded to the camp at Curragh, Kildare. A company of this corps, together with a proportion of the staff officers and non-commissioned officers, will also proceed at an early date to the camp at Alder shott, for the purpose of forming an establishment of the corps at that station. THE REDUCTION OF TILE ARMY is proceeding at Chatham, and, in addition to the number of troops who have already received their discharge, nearV 300 men were discharged on Thursday morning, and the same number were inspected by the Commis• sioners of Chelsea Hospital at Chatham on Friday. About 1,000 troops are still veiling at Chatham to receiye their discharge,