The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORD& -410NDAY, APRIL 11.
The LORD CILOIOILLOR took kb seat oa the woolsack
eit 5 o'clock.

PRTVATK BUSINFSS.

The I,lnivi Valley sad Ogmore Valley Railway Cam-
pania* Bill wes mad a third time, acid pawed.
THE GREEK PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD.

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The LORD CHANCELLOR. said—My lords, I rise for
the purpose of presenting to your lordships a bill which I
sincerely trust will most with a favourable reception from
the house. It is a bill for the better endowment of the',
regina profeasorship of Greek in the University of
Geoid. By lords, you are aware that in the tame of Sing'
Henry VIII. five royal professorships were founded in that
university. The region professorship of Greek was one.
Similar foundations were made in the University of Cam-
bridge. The holders of the other four rerun professorships
which accompanied the resins professorship of Greek have
leen more fortunate than the occupier of that
chair. To every one of them has been attached
either a canonry or some eceesiastical preferment,
or some mastership, or other endowment. For the
Greek protector, there remains nothing but the original
stipend of 401. a year, a sum at that time adequate, and
which still continues the only remuneration for his labours
and exertions in the cause of Greek literature. To each
of the resins professorships of Greek and Ilebrew
in the University of en..b7idge a statute, passed
io the year 1440, annexed a canonry at Ely.
Year lordships are aware th►t in the ecclesiastical patronage
of the Lord Chancellor are included several canonriee ; I
think t' iey are twelve in number, and are in the cathedral
churches of Norwich, Rochester, Bristol, and Glou-
cester. The avenge vacancies are generally about one
every six years, and there has not been a vacaucy, I think,
for four years. There would, therefore, according to the
average, be a vacancy in somewhat more than &twelvemonth
from tl:e present time. I °consequence of receutcircumstances
to wb;.!ii I will not further allude, it appears to me that
it wont' be an ►ct of justice, and also an act of general ex-
pedien-v, to annex one of those canocries in the patronage
of the Lord Chancellor to the Greek professorship. But is
brieging in a measure of this kind, I do not presume for a
moment to attempt to come to any understanding, much
leas to make soy bargain with the University of Oxford. Is
that body and in its sense of justice I have the
greatest confidence ; to it I bear the highest possible
revenue and gratitude. I have no doubt that a bill which
proposes to ►ccomplish this eadownruent will'be received by
the university in the ems spirit in which it is offered by
the crown and by the ministersof the crown ; and I may be
permitted to express a hope, and even an expectation, that
the University of Oxford will, if this measure passes, beaten
to provide for the present professor of Greek au adequate
endowment, until that canonry shall have fallen vacant,
which, under the provisions of this Lill, I treat be will
receive. In conchnioa I beg leave to move the first reading
of the hill.
The bill was thee read a first time.

CHARITABLE ASSURANCES ENROLMENTS BILL.
Lord CItAN WORTH, io moving the second reading of
tbn bill. maid the object of it was to extend the period
allowed for enrolments for two years longer.
Lord REDESDALE hoped that if the bill were pasted no
further extensioa would afterwards be sought.
The bill was then read a wood time.