The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MQNDAY

y. Now, suppose
fc7liVed by many other
perty to receive enormous
the lapse of ycars—suprea
fur the time being efused
number of recipients of - file
from the bequest of the fe
separate income arising to
tageous to him to remain on
ing passed through the cot
leave it—suppose this increase k
residence near the seat of study gave them such in-
fluence with the boarder examiners, that they gra-
dually acquired the power of deciding who should
or who should not become candidates for a
medical diploma—suppose all this, and you

have supposed—'— a case which presents testicle
similar to those recognisable in ono halt of
the university histories. To complete it, you
mud make one er two morn suppositions. Yon
mast sawse that the lite-tenants et these Limit-
able& boarding howne. having acquired the Pore
dalermining who shell or shall not study amaisme,
degree that they themselves alone shall be the legal
teachers. Nay, farthw, you mot pess that they
mast that no one shall perms medial stadie. s, stakes
they themselves be the teachers, and that no one
shall receive a medical demo makes he pays foe
board, lodging, sad tuition, at an endowed
Lent-street boarding house. This. allowing for the
necessary imperfection which secompanies all similes.
is a good illustration et what has token plume ia the
universities. The gestations from the statutes rat
Oriel College, Oxford, whisk appeared in our co-
lumns, is a case in point. The colleges were for-
merly endowed boarding houses. They now usurp
the whole functions of the teniversity.
It is gratifying to see the earnestness with which
the University Commissioners endorse the opinion
which we were the int to pcsmftens. After care-'
fully summing up their they add—" Of the
proposals which ailed the university, the most im-
portint are those which we have mode for remodel-
ling the (mutilation end for mediating the existing
monopoly of the colleges and halls by allowing stu-
dents to reside at Oxford without the expense of con-
nexion with those bodies."

Now, if the reader can imagine the effects which
would arise from vesting the whole power of Guy's
and St. Thomas's in the tenants for life of our ima-
ginary Lent-street boarding-houses, he will with his,
mind's eye see results which arc completely analo-
gous with those which have flowed from the neutpa-
tion by the academical boarding-houses of the
power of the university. In the first place,
the Lent-street done, relieved by their fixed
incomes from the necessity of practice, would
confine their teaching to the limits by which
teaching was bounded in their day. They would
look with horror at the mad race after scam* which
the world outside their walls was pursuing. They
would make a dead stand at CUL/6.'4 and GREGORY,
and ignore with disdain all that bad been done
since. They would shrink with horror from new
modes of treatment and operation. They would
anathematise chloroform—as, by-the-bye, many have
done—as an impious interference with the natural
law ot pain. They would in short go to sleep over
theold authorities, while the world outside was taking
giant steps in the knowledge and cure of diseases. The
consequence would be that they would be gradually
abandoned by the world. A few would visit them
indeed in the hope of participating in the wealth
and honour of which they had made a monopoly, but
the great majority of students would abandon them
to drink at living streams of knowledge. The
numbers attending the schools would be gradually
thinned, snd they would be left in a gloomy unscien-
tific isolation, while the world outside would be
making every day fresh progress in the realms of
science.

This has been the downward course of the univer-
sities. In time past tradition tells us that Oxford
alone contained 30,000 students. This was when
probably the whole population of England did not
amount to the number now contained in London and
its suburbs. At the present time the number is about
1,300. What a tale does this tell. The edwation at
Oxford is not a natural education. The commission-

ers well observe—" These results appear small *Men
the !taw endowments of the colleges are considered.
The education imparted does not conduce to Me ad-
vancement in life of many persons except those
intended for the church." They might have added
that even this is not on sesoust of ths eadatisatieal
education received at the university, but simply
because the bishops have made a rule that a university
degree is an essential for ordination.
There is a great deal to say on the subject of the
report of the commissioners • it is enough, however,
at present, to hue pointed out the cream of the
whole. The college.usurpation is the peat
will
evil. Attack that successfully, and the rest will fall.

FRANCE.

PARIS, throzoat
I have to-day to sail your attention to a saes
3L de Haupes, the misleter of police, 11111111 le Wig
to mks some noise. In consequence et the imemem
amber et pereons deported for armed redeems. to
the goverment is the days of December, many had.
lies et venom and children have been thrown ate a
etas of destitution. To relieve as mach u potable
the distress of snoblamilies at Paris, • wady wu
formed far pneremg enhariptions on their behalf.
The opas, at Ms little elmalablo hod were
gang on matielosterily, visa sudienly some ammo
de 'ills Wen sent by 31. do if to Ant op the
ofiloe and dissolve the safety. The persons who hod
set the @herby so hot roprimental is vain be the mi-
nister et polies dist thaws landlies bed bees bereaved
of their say mem of support by the. transportation
of their male menhen. They so tested in vain that
it es the day et lbw govorosamt to make • provi-
des he these peer mown sal children whom at had
tedneed 40 Mum ; instead et tig abhors them
Om eleateis ef private no.l, and forbidding the
adoption
ref some mthe obs
emdialiy M. mean he vain sabscrip-
densilleheaft womb .
Mopes would set heir el mg gram hr helpin ri
ngs
the wives sad dmightore et mink Raising sob.
seriptions ter sale. abject was taatamonnt to agita-
tion of a enemas bad ; with ether sleuth= of
the like nature. $4llO and there isialie was a little
be: be Tatielag sentributioso be these onliappy
victims. All these homes bans been removed bv orients
atthe polies. Whoa yen tionsiar sobs estentatisa with
whisk the punt at trumpets itemsa for
the ,and the dis play with "Ma it devoted 10
asgldoss of banes out of the Orleans spode to the
construed= of eitis otiorieres, the act of M. de
Mapes proves bow little the *At of real clarity
even into any of those showy and ambitions same&
At the lest reseption at the Elypee, limier de
Camegnac was observed to converse for a eassiderable
thee with the Presided. Leas Napoleon openly
limes the article attasidng the generals. Re has
written a letter to the blighter of to to anacenes
that the reheal of the banished generals to take the
oath will set memion any change in their pukka.
The will primps appear an the Menaces in the shape
of a esommiestod note.

All the ionise* of the ministry of finance took
the oath yesterday, without a single defaulter. By
the general hilarity that prevailed among the official
squadrons as they were called up before the minister
it was evideot that them gentlemen did not attach
any very solemn importance to their oaths.
I observed yesterday that several leading members
of the committee of the budget frequented regularly
the Wes of M. Moetalembert. If I am rightly in-
formed the most impotent amendment to the budget
will be moved by IL de Montalenibert, in the shape
of a proposition not to allow the proceeds of the sate
of the Orleans property to figure among the re-
cn
The marriage of M. de Parsing with Madlle. de
la Moskowa has been postponed for six weeks.
The mental health of the Minister of the Interior
seems to have been seriously affected by his close
application to business. During some time peat it
is said that he hoe been subject to fits of mental
aberration. Being lately at his house with M.
Romieu, the latter observed • fit coning on, and
advised him to take the air. They walked oat toge-
ther in the Chauge-Elysees, and during their stroll
M. de Posigny suffered serious attacks denoting
mental weakness. M. Roinieu, alter conducting hi.
home, proceeded to inform the President of these
symptoms. The Prince answered that he knew that
hie minister was subject to these tits, and that there
was madness in his family, but that the attacks soon
passed off.
The high price fetched by the picture. of Marshal

or tn. —_
Nicuwekerke will receive oidere to bid for them.
The Patric enlarges upon the virtue of a minister
who retires from office ea peer that he is obliged to sell
his pictures. This humbug is a little too gross, con-
siderieg that M. de Morny entered the ministry on
Desember 2, overwhelmed with debts. During his
abort term of aloe he paid, it is said, three miffing
hams of debts, and now remains one of the sob
enterprising capitalist, in France.
It was decided, I hear, yesterday, in the esan et
'ministers, that the Monileur shall be pahliehed at
the low price of 40 francs per enema. This is ow
'Wend a terrible blow to the other pew% which
chiefly subsist hy Saving a cheaper edifice of the
contents of the Monsieur.
The Journal des Chemists de Per says that the al-
ministration of the Marseilles and Avignon Railway,
wandering the guarantees offered by the Lyons and
Avignon Company to be insufficient, have deolinedie
proceed with the contemplated arrangement.
At the Howse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closei without change at 99.75; the Three per Ceuta
rose 5, and dosed at 70.65. The railway market was
Ggenerally weaker, although some lines rose. Bt.
ermain rose 12.50; Orleans, 5; Tours and Nantes,
3.75 ; Rouen, 2.50 ; Bordeaux, Lyons, and Dieppe,
1.25 each; Northern, Strasburg and Bile fell 1.25
each. Havre and Central were not quoted.

PARIS, SVNDAT STUDIO.
I have obtained to-day a copy of the letter ad-
dressed by General Bedeau to the Minister of War.
It has not been as yet published by any journal,
either French or foreign, so far as lam aware. The
letter is as follows :

kibre,—,llstseme fixes the delay within
white dm esib Ingesed aped soldiers ought to be taken.
Deprived of tbe Isms& of tke law since the 2nd of Decem-
ber, I might abstain Ilrem simpemilag to this injunction.
lea aawtlllag tbat arg slime ebeedd be misinterpreted.
My Mine halm bad deer flsepriseiple and aim the m-
esas are &doss at the ism I. have been for this cause
aloe vlaiestly aneeeed. Implemsed, and proscribed. In-
t= persecuting da nut Asap the convictions of ea
man. I setae the cede.—Banana, Deseret.
M. Heckereen, the seers& envoy to Vienna, has been
met with at Stanger& There this new-fledged diplo-
matist talked of his minima with a publicity which ins-
tines the opinion amplest Paris as to his discretion.
He said that Freese-Whirs were sadly mismanaged oa
the German side et the Rhine, whether at Vienna,
Berlin, or at the sumac spurts. That was all owing
to the Czar. But he inlaid shortly see Nicholas,
and bring him round to *ore reasonable sentiments.
He knew his man, and how to work upon him. By
the latest advices we learn that Baron Heckereen
had arrived at Berlin, and that he was preparing to
open his diplomatic campaign by soliciting an au-
dience of the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
It is thought here that the Czar will not receive him.
The following communicated note appears in the
Moniteur :

A groat number of persons approach the Prince President
idiom be goes oat in a carriage or on horseback, to present
to him. Accidents result from this. In future
maw Ilion, will only be received by the adjutants of
=They will bs brought under the eyes of the
and will be the object of a special examination.
Two captains of chuseurs have been placed on the
retired list for refusing to subscribe to the fête given
by the army to the President. One of them is the
son of General Apgar. In answer to questions offi-
daily addremsed to him on this subject, he replied
that his father was an aide-de-camp to Louis Philippe,
that he himself owed much to the Orleans princes,
for whom he continued to have much sympathy, and
that he did not feel called upon to pay for the mani-
festations of a contrary feeling. The subscription
for General Changarnier goes on swimmingly.
Many rich people have put down their names foe
large sums. M. Pourtales has given 4001.
The well-known phalanstertatt bookaelling esta-
blishment ea the Qusi Voltaire has been closed by
seder of the ipmemed. The way in which this sup-
plies et ties smart iegmbree social theories
has boss eibeted, hes bees to refuse the license
whka sn booksellers are obliged by the recent de-
ems on the press to obtain am the minister of
police. the managers of the "Librarie Phalans-
terienne" intend, however to dispute the point be-
fore the tribunals, as they hold they are not book-
sellers, bat manufacturers of books; that is, they sell

no boib but their own.
The VII now before the Corps Legialatif for en-
Wrthe jurisdiction of hem= caste of law
emosst to crimes and midemum sseamitted
he heap countries, contains ma inmeellsat pro-
By the exieting Me • illelinil who in,
a country oWN a elm onatat maw
FsiiSieemlbey et lis GM
if he return to bremyht to trial. WI
neither =.14
_per anal by Prenehems
=oh moue by ms moo
reran:miss lopokol roso he the French state, I
nor oar alas at alohatmaik semitted &breed
by a haiiver against Frenchmen, or the French
state, um now be tried in Fru= In 1842 a bill for
empowering the marts to try Fremeinen accused of
crimes er misdemeanours sokst insigners abroad,
was pamented te the Chambers. This bill was
blest= with mow for the rehabilitation of con-
=rg CI Ile
benCi ft d to the principle of 'a-
te reject the whole bill.
Ills yeemslipeleet pee mach further, and proposes
to met ovally OW the above cases now beyond the
mask of dis law, wield to certain exceptions dic-
tated by s cans regard-le the indepenhence of foreign
ammtrism The compasies of the French courts is
to be embhied to cm where no final judgment shall
here be.. jpreacaned in the country where the
Atm kW have boa smutted. With regard to
shiseneMses, these only can be prosecuted which
Ng be Railloil in diplomatic conventions. Another
zeej=hemiles,
is taeczernsaweliiiereme
noran aumtisseumnisheanaobuler
in the 'sentry gime it may be committed. Bo far
as this bill proms to supply the unavoidable want
hattin of power a tribunals where a criminal may
have fed free , it is worthy of praise and
imitation. But eau be no doubt that the main
eldest it duo Mt= at this bill is to strike a blow at
Possi sehysee and exiles who write politica.
=Wok Pstaphlet, and newspaper published in
or Brum= by Frenchmen will be carefully
scene= by M. is Maupes' lawyers. There will be
few in which seminal matter may not be found, ac-
cording to the 'monstrous pre= laws enacted by dic-
tatorial decree. It is stated that the principal object
of the clauses relating to foreigners is to repress pi-
racy, whether of books or manufactures.
A first warning has been given to the Coneiliaterr
de 1' hire for having in one article blamed the ne-
cessary act of Dec. 2, and qualified the present law
of the pram as a formal attack upon the most ele-
mentary principles of public right and liberty, and
in another article protested against the government
consecrated on Dec. 20 by more than seven millions
of suffrages.
The oath has been refused by M. Benjamin Doles-
sect, ex-representative, mumcipial councillor of
Pansy i and M. Genie, councillor-general in the
Meuse. M. Oscar Lafayette, ex-representative, has
reamed the oath as a captain of artillery, and conse-
quently loses his commission. M. Base, the ex-
questor of the Leralative Assembly, has written
from the place of his exile to the prefect of the Let
and Osronne, to refuse the oath as a eouncillorie-
neral.

--fiately mentioned that the Patric explained away
the fact of the non-admission of the Charlemagne into
the Dardanelles, as a matter of little consequence.
The Constslestionnel now says " The entrance into
the Dardanelles has been decidedly refused to the
Charlemagne. By letters from Smyrns, of the 9th
of this month, we learn the arrival of this vowel
before that port.

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s that MC ipample." Ito I%terminai'lietin law;
,7tlke
persons—auffSeo thoN. bz- ,to ,advanttigis di the farMitable
I inert* ne Nabs, `fate pastket, . get riaof kb ereateik.whlab
ir; i thee: the - are not
gliz ve as hallwitshares. M. de
"ea„ 0.,,, .\ illerift )I°lc er7 Itali e*PO4lll, k rink! view
or lii• - laws wowing to-datt will 14•Tien to the`puho-morrew.
founder—suppose that the The Paris of tis evening w contain a tre-
o each made it move advan- mendous puff of the pictures, which were visited to-
m the foundation after hay- day by the President and M. de Moray totether.
course of studies than to The latter indicated several works which he,affinabol
muse of wealth and constant to be worthy of the Louvre ; and •no doubt Ir. do
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