The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1847.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 9.

IN the House of Lords yesterday the subject of the
Wellington statue was brought under the considera-
tion of their lordships by Lord BROUGHAM, and that
of medals to naval officers by the Earl of HARD-
WICKE.

At the morning sitting of the House of Commons,
on the order of the day being read for going again
into committee on the Health of Towns Bill,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated the reasons which had
induced the government to consider it enadvisablo
to proceed any further with the measure in the
present session. The Compensation for Damages
(Ireland) Bill passed through committee.—Sir
J. C. HOBHOUSE, in answer to Sir R. INGLIS, stated,
that the government had received a voluminous report
on the subject of idol worship in India, and he was
of opinion that the government was net bound to
continue the payment hitherto made in support of the
Temple of Juggernaut. —Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer
to Mr. V. SMITH, replied, that the grant for educa-
tion in the next session would be extended to the
children of Roman catholics.—Sir Q. GREY, in answer
to Mr. FORSTER, described such information as he had
received with respect to the accident at Kirklese Hall
Colliery.—Mr. SPOONER gave notice of his intention
to bring a charge against Mr. Hustu, but declined

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r stating its nature or purport —The CHANCELLOR of ,
the EXCHEQUER, in a speech of details u to the
operations which had been had with respect to the
relief of Irish dishrag, moved that a further grant of
300,0001. be made in furtherance of the measures for
effecting that object. Atter some discussion the reso
lotion was agreed to.

Iv must be confessed that the withdrawal of the
Health of Towns Bill, after all the expectation raised,
the alarms excited, the twelvemonth's pother, and the
ultimate blowing hot and blowing cold upon it, is a
result highly discreditable to the government, and
seriously calculated to injure the once high character
of Lord MoaPern u a politician. We need not spare
a remark whirl► every one will make, and which we
make with regret
Here is a measure, imperatively and immediately
called for, strongly seconded by public opinion,
uniting in its favour a large majority in parliament,
and having tor antagonists merely half-a-dozen of
odd representatives of local interests. And yet so
badly timed, and prepared, and managed, is the mea-
sure, that its opponents, the greater part of whom can
merely complain that it does not go far enough, are
still able to triumph over the ministry, over the
country, and over the majority of parliament itself,
with such ease and success, that really tempts one to
despise the whole machinery and formsof constitutional
legislation, as tardy, trivial, inefficient, and inept.
If there had been any great antagonism between
principles, any great struggle of interests, if any
powerful class were banded together to protect their
interests threatened by this reform, one might be
satisfied with having agitated and advanced the
question. But the opposition is nothing: local
interests have not a champion more formidable than
Col. Siernoar. Whig and tory are not divided on
the question. The failure is simply owing to our
legislators having entangled their feet in their own
web of law-making, and not knowing how to extri-
cate themselves.

One would think that a simple law might suffice
to give power for the cleansing of sewers and gutters,
the removal of cesspools, and the opening of drains.
But it seems that the sewers through which legislation
runs, are completely choked, that the statute-book
wants draining, and that there exist standing and
stagnant pools of acts of parliament, idle, mephitic,
unfathomable, and irremovable, except by some
legal scavenger of more brains than the country pos-
sesses or the government can command.
What a tremendous mistake we and the govern-
meat have made ! We have set a lord, and a philan-
thropist, and a most able man in general politics,
about a task that seemed one of philanthropy,
whilst in truth it was a work of legal astuteness and
cunning. Nor is this the first time the mistake hes
been made. The Poor Removal Bill is a sample of
the utter Motility of attempting philanthropy in legis-
lation, unless the philanthropist condescends to wear
a powdered wig, and cram his head with the thoughts
and cares and knowledge which accompany such.
The French are better provided in this respect than
we are. They have what they call a state-council,
composed of eminent men in all branches and pro-
fessions— the legal of course predominating. To this
council all bills and laws are submitted in secret by
the ministers and the cabinet. The members of
the council, undisturbed by political considerations,
examine the bearings of the new law, its relation to
the old law, and they concoct, and consider, and
mature all such proposed laws; so that ministers are
I never forced to come forth with crudities, of which
they are utterly ignorant of the scope or consequences.
1 Such a council is no doubt an expensive business,
and a great objection prevails to the creation of boards
and places. As it is, however, what an immense ex-
pense there is of the time of parliament, of public pa-
tience, as well as neglecting and deferring the reme-
dies of pressing evils, and the removal of the most
glaring abuses! To this we might add, the expendi-
ture of political reputation, slap cast upon most noble
parties and the most intelligent men, who are pre-
sented to the public as having failed and as being in-
capable, when the real fault lies in the system, which
a plain gentleman cannot hope to deal with.
The public, however, will not enter into this appre-
ciation of causes. It sees such measures as a sanitary
law withdrawn. It will not accept the common-place
excuses of lateness of hour, factious opposition, multi-
plicity of details; and it will inevitably throw the
blame upon the want of resolution and foresight in
ministers.

WE directed the attention of our readers some time
since to the election contests at Oxford and Cam-
bridge. We intend now to bring under their notice
the singularly interesting straggle going on at the
University of Dublin.
Much to the surprise of many persons, the supre-
macy of the old tory party in Trinity College, Dublin,
is likely to be successfully disputed at the general
election. The present representatives have not given
satisfaction to the university electors. In addition to
the sitting members, five other candidates have been
brought under the notice of the electors, so universal
is the discontent with the present members. But of
those five gentlemen, there is one whose opposition to
Messrs. SHAW and HAMILTON is especially formida-
ble. We allude to Mr. M'CuttAort, a fellow
of the -university, and professor of natural phi-
losophy. His name is known wherever science
is cultivated. In conjunction with Professor LLOYD
and Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON he has wiped off the
slur of " The Silent Sister" from the University of
Dublin. He is probably the ablest man in Tnnity
College, and much is still expected from his future
career in science. The reports of the British Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, and of other
learned societies, have sufficiently registered the fame
of Professor M'CULLAOII. There is hardly an eminent
mathematician in Europe of whom he is not the 00r-
dent. Nor is he merely a scholar. Mr.
WCIILLAGEI is a man of practical talents, and of
strong common sense. He differs much from other
men of science, who are too apt to become isolated
and purely abstract in their habits of thought. He
pommies an ample fund of good sense, and is well
adapted for the business of the world. In addition
to all these valuable qualities, his private character is
estimable, and he is personally popular with the fel-
lows and scholars of the house.
The ostensible ground on which Mr. WCULLAOH
claims the votes of the electors, is the fact that he is
a member of the university, while Messrs. SHAW
and HAMILTON, its sitting members, are both gra-
duates of Oxford! " A representative of the um-
versity," says Mr. M‘Cuttaon, in his circular to the
electors, " ought really be a member of it, a person
educated within its walls, formed under its influence,
and familiar with its working. A more reasonable
principle could not be laid down. The uni-
versities have received the right of returning
members to parliament for certain high mo-
ral purposes. Wealthy corporations and large
aggregate bodies have been left without special
aiirect representation. But the legislature
has given two members to each of the three great
universities, on account of their important connection
with the education of those classes which supply the
senate, as well as the church and the learned profes-
sions, with men of learning and ability. When,
therefore, the universities are so specially favoured, it
is only right that their privileges should be exercised
in the same enlarged spirit as that in which they were
conferred. And there is something absurd in Oxford
graduates representing the Irish university. What
can be a greater disgrace to that learned body, than
the fact that it has been obliged to endure representa-
tives educated in an English college, as if amongst its
own members there was neither learning, talent, nor
eloquence ?
Mr. HAMILTON is a very respectable Irish squire,
who obtained his present seat for Trinity College on
no other ground than because he had contested the
representation of both the city and county of Dublin,
at the :general elections of 1832 and 1834. He had
been the ally of the late Mr. Wiser, the Irish bar-
rister, who spent a noble fortune in disputing with the
liberals the representation of Dublin city. For having
shown so much Tory zeal, Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER
HAMILTON WaS chosen by a learned body as its fit-
ting organ in the legislature ! He was neither an
orator, -like Lord PLUNK arr,who formerly represented
the university, nor eminent for political talent, like
Mr. WILSON CROKER who aspired to the same
honour ; neither was he a successful barrister like Mr.
LEPROY, or Mr. JACKSON, who preceded him in the
representation. Both these latter gentlemen, unlike
either Mr. HAMILTON or Mr. SHAW, had been pupils
and graduates of Trinity College, and had won its
academic distinctions.
Mr. SHAW'S Mae is worse than Mr. HAMIL-
TON'S. The latter gentleman is an elder eon, and

dianguwntlrrelt
!ranks high amongst the commoners of Ireland. A
highercustom
01:tunas for
thlinixishe timgeintrpyre,vofailsened
son to Cambridge or Oxford, and the younger bro.
there to Dublin, for graduating. Thus, a great many
of the mod distinguished public characters of Ireland
I have been educated at our English colleges. Nearly
all the statesmen who aided HENRY ORATTAN it hi
revolution of 1782, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. DENTS DALY, and
Mr. GARDINER (better known as Lord MOUNTJOY),
were graduates of our English universities. The
Irish nobility never graduate in Dublin; the only
exception, of late years, to the rule, being the present
Marquis of DROGHEDA. But, on the other hand, thow,
young men who are intended for the Irish church, er
bar, almost invariably graduate there ; the practice of
Irishmen taking degrees in England being almost ex.
elusively confined to the nobility and the commons,
Mr. SHAW, however, thought proper to come over to
Oxford, and many members of Dublin University are
asking the question, " Why Mr. FREDERICK SHAW,
the third son of a Dublin banker, need have tamed
up his nose at the national university, like the Anglo.
Irish nobility and great commoners?" Mr. SHAH
has lost all his popularity amongst the Irish comer.
vatives, and he is now begianing to find that his
claims on the university must undergo rigorous exa-
mination. Half of his party look on him as a telt.
versator ; the other half consider him a failure. Re
has not realised his own hopes, or the expectations of
his friends. It is very certain that he is a disap.
pointed man, and that he acutely feels the indifference
of Sir ROBERT PEEL.

Nor is that the whole state of the case. Of late years
there has been a great progress of opinion in the Uni-
versity of Dublin. The late Provost LLOYD intro.
duccd changes which are new beginning to produce
much moral effect. Previous to his time, the studies
of the university were chiefly confined to mathematics
and classics; but he reformed the course, and intro-
duced ethics, for proficiency in which honours are
assigned equally as in science or the classical course.
A reflective and philosophical spirit is gradually
developing itself in the Irish university. A more
enlarged mode of thinking, and a more liberal esti-
mate of society in Ireland, are beginning to prevail
within the walls of Trinity College. A sense of
national reputation ; a patriotic desire of doing credit
to the island ; an anxiety to remove all just causes of
opprobrium are very visible amongst the fellows and
resident graduates.
Mr. *Cum, tcH is admirably calculated to repre.
sent the rising spirit in the university. Speaking of
the qualifications of a candidate, he says, " He ought
to be a person having sonic pretensions to represent
the interests of science and learning, and capable of
giving them something of their due weight in the
public counsels."
Neither Mr. HAMILTON nor Mr. Slum are such
men as are here described. Two years since, when
the character of Dublin University was discussed in
parliament, neitherof its representatives distinguished
themselves in reply to some bitter attacks on Trinity
College. Mr. HAMILTON, on that occasion, read
out monotonously a list of the eminent men
who had graduated at Dublin, and Mr. &DIM
was very tame in resenting the affronts offered
to the university. Much more zeal was dis-
played by Mr. SHELL, who indignantly cried—
It is in vain for you to disparage Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin ; the names it has produced are multi-
tudinous and bright. So far from censuring the
college, I can only express my wonder how a handfd
of men like the protestants of Ireland can have pro.
duced so many men of scientific and literary reputa-
tion." Mr. SHELL spoke with no ordinary zeal ; but
then he was an alumnus of the college, and naturally
was urged to vindicate his alma natter. But Squire
HAMILTON and Recorder &taw were only members
for not of the university. Hence they were not
directly interested in the fair fame of the attacked
college.
The presence of such a man as Mr. !il'Cetuce
in parliament would be the best vindication of
Dublin University. We trust that it will coo-
fer honour upon itself by doing justice to
the claims of great science, united with prac-
tical talents, and calmly conceived views upon
Ireland. Mr. M'CULLAGH is proudly identified with
the university. Neither Messrs. SHAW or Hammon
confer upon it any credit. Mr. SHAW'zi name, if it
reach posterity, will be numbered only with those of
the factious and intemperate partisans—the Wm-
NANS and DROMGOOLEB of Irish politics—Mr. Wet-
LAGH will be enrolled amongst the Htrrenesons,
BERKELEYS, and BIIELKES. Whatever may be thought
of reviving Irish manufacture, there is one branch in
which we hope the Irish will not fail—the home pr-
duction of men of genius. The pride of educating
and forming such men as Professors M'CuLtaca and
LLOYD, Sir W. HAMILTON, and Sir R. KANE, may
only be equalled by the shame that Trinity College
should feel, if, at the next election, one of her fore-
most sons be spurned, and a pair of undistinguished
Oxford graduates preferred.

Wz shall limit ourselves, for the resent, to merely
calling the reader's attention to a tnal which appears
at length in our columns, and which concerns not
merely the press, but is of importance to the public
in general. We shall, on a future occasion, recur to
this trial and its result.

At a late hour on Wednesday afternoon, too late to
affect the operations of the Bourse, the Minister of
Finances presented to the Chamber a project of law
authorising the government to raise a loan of three
hundred and fifty millions of francs.
The flight of M. Peilaprat, and the consequent
acquittal expected for his co-accused, was the subject
of conversation in all circles in Paris. This, put in
junta-position with the previous cases of M. Benien
and M. Oudin, the latter aide-de-camp to the Duke of
Nemours, has excited observations in every quarter
on the corrupt administration of justice, which
favours the evasion of offenders who are in the more
wealthy and influential classes, while the poorer and
more bumble, even in cases of infinitely less aeries
charges, are subjected to the loss of liberty and all the
severity of convicted criminals for many months, Ara
sometimes even for years before definitive trill sr
judgment. Why, it is asked, were.MM. Pellapest arid
Cubieres, one a wealthy receiver-general, and
the other a peer of France and ex-minister, allowed
the option of standing their trial or withdrawing to
a foreign country, under an accusation which would
undoubtedly have subjected any persons in the or&
nary ranks of life to previous imprisonment, to pie-
vent the possibility of escape?
The journal La Prase was seized on W
for copying an article which had pry. iously ap
in La Democratic Pacflure, which had preview`,
been seized. An application will, it is expected, be
made to the chamber to sanction the prosecution of
M. Ensile de Girardin fur this offence.
The weather in Paris, which for the season biz
been lately of an unusually low temperature, and*
went an extraordinary change on Tuesday. At
six in the morning the thermometer stood at 65 deg,
at noon it rose to 82 deg., and at two o'clock it wiz
above 86 deg. The evening and night were owes-
sively close and hot, and a thunder storm and betel
rain ensued.
Le National says that the government has received
important news from Athens, which it withholds free
the public. General Grivss, it says, is at the head el
a serious insurrection which has broken out in ths
province, and has rendered himself master of several
strong places in Ammonia. Difficulties ales have
arisen about the performance of the conditions *
wards the Turkish Minister, prescribed by Paso
Metternich.

MADRID, Jar 1.
The Heraldo is quite radiant with happy omem
The recluse of the Pardo is relenting ; the solitude, ,10
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protected state of the youthful Queen, inspire his with
compassion. There are hopes of reconciliation. To'
terday the moderados painted the King Consort
martyr to persecution. His saddle-horses, his muslamo
were taken away from him. To-day he remembers lus
siege tows ; he seeks to throw himself at the quiet's ba!-
Ah, what virtues there are in persecution ! If the Herelaf,a
hopes are realised, one good at least will follow—.• soar
hear less about the frock-coated and white-trowsered "
fluent'," which sets so much goose-dander a-hissing, ..101
It would seem that the poor old uncle was not dial-,
hem the palace without much obstinate atruggls.
clung to the society of his little Isabelita, ai be do'
her, in familiar lutoying style. His lapsur lingressala,
the secret society he belonged to, whether the mesnaill.
badinage of half-witted brains, or the serious avowal 011,
fact, was peculiarly ill-timed at a moment when the sAZ
attributed to La Rica was in everybody's mouth. His
and Moderado enemies made the most of his blunder.
Concerning Don Francisco de Paula's colt from
palace, I hear that the day before yesterday the presidiat.
the council intimated to the Infante the propriety of tehig
advantage of the remaining light to betake himself