The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

A great discussion took place, at the Quarter
lies held at Oxford on Yoaday, as to whet shield be
does with two Sebastopol guns now la pommies ef the
Oxford Corporation. It may be reeolisetad that cm the
capitulation of Sehestopol a bogs amber el goes weer
sant to England. Lord Primers, who was Orr flecretery
at War, offered them for clisirbetlige tiredesset tier
country, and as teeny other plasm Oxford bosom asr
cipieut Two of the guns were lest there as ml6OOlOl el
the sideman who woe then the Mayor, but from the date
of their arrival in that city a series of mishaps sad delays
have been their fate. At dead there was a dispute
about the payment of the oast of their earrtegN the
gam being directed to theef Oxford, wliMsei&
applicant for them had rel. that Ake.
quentthe Town Council to NO to the exposes of
mount them, and the gems were art into a small shed
in the Mown-hall yard, geese* brown by the areal
the " City Ocal.hole." ♦ pussy sabreptioa woe Aura
in order to defray the cod of moualdeg, and a comeldrable
sum was collected, though net wariest ter the perms.
The gone have remainedim their emission until a few wades
ago, when the newly elected Mayor of Oxford seat thew
to a foundry in the city, and now asked the Court al
=fiessios to allow them to be placed io hunt al the
AO. Mr. Hanley, M.P., the chairman, mid the
0040 ft could deal with the application as they thought
fit The chief question, however, which they would
bare to coosider was whether they thought it desirable
that each Shipp should be plemed anywhere. Ostend
North. ILP.. said• that he understood free the
Mayor's' speech the other night at the Druids' &soar that
4,000 inhabitants of Oxford bad sakearibed for the wpm
of putting up theme guns. He felt that it would be av
maroons in him, and he should met erseiltriy be my
one word which should prevent the wishes cd the brebileate
of that city arid the especial purpose of the mayor himself
from being tided. But at tie ease One he could out
help to the quarter warm what be knew to be
the feeling of the army and navy at large with regard to
eon Busman guns. There wombat one f
sad be iCoL
North), as a member of the United Service gab had had
every opportunity of ascertaining that feeling. That feeling
was one of disgust at the meaner in whisk these gum had
been scattered over the; country. It wee perfectly without
precedent. Notwithstanding the warcorrieten tiv the Duke of
Wellington in the Peninsula there wee net a Preach gas to
be seen in this country. They new ow the Horse Guards
raEra gun which was *cod there idler the tampers
ypt. That gun, however, wee plead there as a work
of art and a great curiosity. If it was a thin of which they
should feel proud, no porter of her Marry% salrecte ought
to feel a greater peide in the pommel= of Or Rineman
guns than those branehes of our fellowarretrymeo. the
army and eery. But, wiliest eacepera, every see be wham
he had spoken bed axiom* the 'rarest eistemer and
dimwit, at their 'abilities. In the Mt phi" the
Remise army which wen append to Asa was as Ise an
slug es the world err my. They did their day allerisedy
lemmas their era sews_ and wedisy,
believed that there was not a wee to shirr Or easy
or the navy who emberboi to sores to tide esesery who
was sot impressed with harp el the greatest admiradea
for the Emir army and for the near in Ada Ory
upheld the berm el their ermitry. If *see gems bed
beam melted awn end hared dateseratlieg to be essebil
ia Nome such yobbo plan es the Pres IWeese, be maid
have untleeeteed the thing. They bed amid a
lira bridge oil earn prom slier their gser
sow se
be genosero owaldge to wheat geseseis geed.
Heel bet lb belly war Waked by seeing
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in by rgerset Mr some time. mid dseissi
that in B
se iimiley was rode of the Tigsr's gm" sal
that the Emmet bad ear derlaidea the seiebratise d
Crimean termisa, so maim was be that everylliwg
should be forpless. Ilene sonverastra eased. bat the
, court were usisissms la raw* to allow the pre to be
placed in front of the Coady Hell.