The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

rooms'', satisfied. A modification of thia nil* would effect
all that is wanted. In plaoe of requiring all bills to have
bjen paid, lot the senate only demand that debts incurred on
amount of necessary expenditure shall be liquidated. These
wing wan adjusted, lot there be no farther obstacle to the
&sue, on the score of debts incurred in the purchase of
awes of extravemusce. By admitting the claims of the
b„„ jockey, the wine merchant, the tobacooaist, et Acre
wow ease, to become a bar to the degree, the senate
jokes itself virtually the protector of their interests, and
rims at the same time • direct sanction to all their arts of
'flipping silly youth at the outset of their university Clire*r ;
and this, notwithstanding that at matriculation the student
4, en reed to have nothing to do with such persons. At
, but recently, the student, on being ma-
, took an oath that he would net have
the
to do with tradesmen of this description.
ill, wan is, I believe, abolished, as inconsistent with the
ameequent practice of the student; and it would be well if
me practice were also discountenanced.
la addition to this practical discountenance of extmvs-
pas expenditure by the senate, au additional and equally
effectual mode of putting a stop to the nuisance would be,
Out the Vice Chancellor's Court should refuse to grant
my summons for debt against a student which is not
anal, on account of necessaries supplied. As the pron
tiaa of this court now stands in both universities,
it forms the stronghold of the *harping trades-
man. Not that his cause very often goes there, the threat
slsae being sufficient to act upon the fears of the student, as
,Goa the establishment of the debt, be knows that he mast
, once pay, or quit the university. To pay, would be in el-
gime 'Buses impossible, as the creditor well knows, and the
etudentis driven to the money-lender to save him from pm-
ant diagram, thus iuvelving himself in fourfold futons
embaressement. The student is now fairly caught. In most
Nisi, few hours elapse after the threat of the Vico-
Chancellor's Court by the tradesman, before the
mast'-lender makes his appearance with proffers of assist-
ance. They are accepted, and bills, promissory notes, post
asoskfic., are the shape which the previousquestionable debt
has now assumed, fa in many cases the usurer and the
titanium go hand in hand. There will now las no bar t•
gaa degree, the bills will be paid sometime, and the enor-
mous profits of both can afford to wait. All this is matter of
taltulttion. In nine cases out of ten the money leader is as
well informed as to the future expectations of the student
me bs himself is. This worthy is sometimes demised, and
tau when he finds, too late, that the expectations
ae kis victim are nil, such cases as those of Jen-
*, come before the public. The hundreds of cases,
Mmeseled from the public eye by the affection of re-
lams for the extravagant youth, and their anxiety for his
More welfare, which prompt them to pay his debt* at any
sacrifice, would be appalling, were they to become known.
The family privation and misery thus exposed, would of
itself, were it possible to make it apparent, accomplish a
speedy cure fur the evil.
The effect of the measures just noticed would be, that the
respectable dealers in articles necessary for subsistence, and
even those who supply articles of moderate luxury, would
invariably it paid, whilst the proprietors of " ruination
shops" would as invariably not get paid—both results being
highly desirable. This would only be placing the latter in
the same position in which the law now places them. The
dealer in extravagant articles cannot now recover the
amount of his bill by law, provided the party indebted is a
minor, as is generally the ease with the student when he
takes the lint plunge in dissipation. Why should the heads
of the university place the supplier of extravagances in a
better position than that in which the law places him, by
making the degree conditional on the discharge of such
debts by boys in Watts pupillori? Much less should they
lame the degree to a man who has paid all neces-
sity demands, and who has, in his unnecessary ex-
penditure, been solely hampered by the machinations
atm:pies, who have coolly calculated upon the long em-
barrassment which he must undergo, in order to free himself
free their trammels, even with the advantage of his degree.
The cry of the tradesmen is, that they would be ruined by
itch strictness on the part of the university. Be it so—whose
affair is that hut their own ? I have yet to learn that trades-
men possess a vested right to prey upon the inexperienced.
Good-natured clergymen have not been wanting to defend
the tradesman, forgetting that their own prudenee
has been the cause of their escape. Let such look round
upon the career of students contemporary with themselves
at the university, and then say if the credit system has not
dons its work. How many amongst them will they not dad
still embarrassed in circumstances in consequence ? And
bow many whose prospects have been totally blighted ? Talk
of the ruin of tradesmen, who are thriving upon what they
know to be • vicious system—what ie their ruin compared
with that of hundreds of promising youths, entrapped In
boyhood into their snares, and thus incapacitated both ha
body and mind for those studies which are the objects of a
university education ? This is a national loss—that would
be a national gain, as a means of breaking up the system by
which such national lois is engendered. The Calor* of
tradesmen, under such:circumstances, would be purely the
result of their own devices ; and of this they would certainly
have no just ground of complaint.
It is useless to talk of the interference of the legislature la
the matter, unless we are prepared to admit that our univer-
sities are incompetent to maintain a wholesome system of
discipline ; in which case the sooner the whole system is r•-
modelled by the legislature the better. But why should the
legislature be called upon to interfere, when, as has beim
shown, the remedy is already in the hands of the university
itself i
It would also be productiveof worse evil if, as has gene-
rally been recommended, the accounts of students should
pass through the hands of tutors. This course, to a consci-
entious tutor, would impose on him a charge to which he
has no time to attend ; with an unconsmentious one, it
would become • matter of additional abuse. The " tutorial
system," as it is called, has been tried at Cambridge, and is,
unless recently abolished, in operation there at this moment.
Certain college tradesmen are appointed, and these " send in
their hills to the tutor," as the phrase goes, at the end of
lick term. And what is the consequence ? The tutor
does not pay the respective amounts to the tradesmen for a
year or two atter he has received them, and prices equally
'sermons with those of the Oxford tradesmen are, in conse-
quence, charged. There are to doubt exceptions to this
practice amongst the Cambridge tutors, butthat the generality
set thus I state of my own knowledge, as asserted by the
Indeamen, in reply to complaints of" exorbitant charges.
And when the large amounts thus accumulated every
bra in the hands of tutors are taken into consideration, it
must be confessed that the use of such sums, even for • year,
to stock-jobbing and other similar speculations, in which
Cambridge tutors are usually considered adepts, forms a
Wreaths to withhold them from the rightful owner for
that, or a longer, period. In somo colleges in Cambridge
*seise of tutor ie thus of itself a fortune, and there are
those, now high in the dignities of the church, who have se-
emulated fortunes by these means. I speak of Cambridge
tutors a dozen years ago ,- but am not aware that the system
be& been in any way altered or amended.
It is riaht, also, to state that the Cambridge tutor may re-
Nine bills from the tradesmen for necessary articles, and
beam it is that I consider the " tutorial system" an addi-
tional evil. Reckless expenditure goes on there precisely as
at Oxford, being conducted by the sharper and the money-
leader. Nor is the Cambridge student compelled to deal
with the college tradesman. If he be prudent, and have
mousy in his pocket, he selects his own tradesman, and, as
as be imagined, is vastly the gainer by such • step. Ox-
W has no " tutorial system' of this kind, and will Nei
wisely not to adopt one, but to rely upon her power of mu
forting discipline. It sadly lessens the importance of a tatere
under such circumstances, to become the bursar of his kW
tare-room; and the more so, as the college tradesmen do net'
fall to impress upon the student, if he complain, the cause
his high prices.
The hints here thrown out are quite in the power of
drier athersity to act upon. They are, as to their ste-
aks lad courts, absolute, and can make what regulations
alei laws they please within their own boundaries. It will
banwise on their part to permit the legislature to interfere,
viewing, ss they do, any such interference on its part with
a jealous eye. Bat the evil must be met. Reform, even
is their case, will one day come, and they will not act with
fair usual acumen if it be hastened by any neglect on their
piety:. provide for the governance of their own household. The
Want of wholesome regulations in pecuniary matters gives
vise to almost all the vicious disorder of either university.
What that disorder is, is well known even to those who have
Mie participated in it, but under whose observation it must
amemarily have fallen. Such disorder is alike a discredit to
the university and the church.—ONE TAUGSIT HT ALTZ-
LIMB.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JAW. 18.
The whole tribe of solicitors and receivers is
alarmed at the judgment pronounced yesterday by
the Mester of the Rolls in the cue of " Reynolds
and Reynolds." A receivership in the Court of
gencery was almost certain ruin to the property sub-
jected to its destructive influence. Solicitors ran up
outs with gourd-like rapidity, while their receiver
generally filled the post of contributor. The more
the estate fell into arrear the longer was the bill, and
the chances of extrication to the unfortunate pro-
Prietor the more distant and evanescent. You will
ere in the last number of the Edinburgh _Review an
authentic table, showing the progressive growth of
this ruinous system to which the Master of the Rolls
hla given the first effective check, by fixing the re-
elver in the cause with upwards of 9001. arrears.
Ike will operate as a warning to a very numerous
and by ao means painstaking class, recruited largely
from both professions, who live and make gains on
the crumbling property of the country. The judg-
ment, which has been much admired for its severe
reforming spirit, you will read below.
The peaceful citizens of Belfast are all in arms at
the convict invasion from the south. The order of
the Lord-Lieutenant in council, appropriating the
Belfeet House of Correction to the humane purpose of
criminal reformation, is deemed " a fact equally mon-
*ens and outrageous," and " the results cannot be
contemplated without dismay," when Antrim, Down,
and even the entire northern province is to be inun-
40cd with the whiteboys and terry alts of Tippe-
r4rYi Clare, and Limerick. There was to have been a
meeting to-day to remonstrate with his excellency.
certain Mr. Davison sounds the tocsin, and
doobtleas the Earl of Clarendon may expect a depu-
tation from the alarmed burghers at the close of the

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