The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF COMMON&WIDNUDAY, Fla. 6.
The How mot et too riehtelt, betas Asit Wadaesday.
The mend ?fathom' of tho Low of Partnership' Amon&
mist BM sad of the Joist Stack Computes Bin, mhie
mow o ms paper of Insinsu nor* severally postponed 10)
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was a‘s erdsrod to snail fee amend tunas on the 25th
imam.
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do =Wee et 84 O. Gnu, met sodand So be committed
this day.
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HIGH WATII AT LONDON BAIDON.
lb DaT—aleneime. IL. 40m.--.Aloonses. 311,. Ss.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

Iv= amid the din of war, and the happier masers
of pesos, we need not apologise for ailing attendee
to our old Universities. Whatever men may say,
Oxford and Cambridge are the places from which, is
feet, we derive" that doe supply of wise, well quali-
fied to MVO GOD La Church sod State;" and, their•
tae, anythiag which affects their progress is of
cardinal importaace to the nation. Indeed, we
have only to look to the Hommel Parliament, to the
Bob,en to the Bar, and to the scientific world, in
order to ascertain the induces of our Usiversities
as the well-being of the empire. It is a curio= fact,
that at the present moment there are so lase than
three distinguished public men who may a few years
ego were actually engaged in the pried/al Wins. of
University tutors—Sir EDMUND Elms the Goveroae-
General of Canada; Mr. Lows, the Vies-Precideat of
the Board of Trade ; and Sir Riau= harms., the
Solicitor-OeseraL Facts such am them are seldom
knows by the public, but it is notorious that at the
University of Oxford at Wet there has of late been
developed a spirit of bold and liberal philosophy,
which promises the most splendid fruits.

Th. Oxford University Reform Act has not yet,
we hops, been quite forgotten. That Act, besides pro
Tiding a new constitution for the University, sad debug
away with tests, appointed Gerais Commissioners for
the purpose of superiatsediag the minims of the
statutes which regulate the various Colleges in the
University. These Comm imamate, consisting, &maga
ethers, of Lord Bu.matins, Mr. Judo, CoLnimes,
Bir loam AWDIT, the Mum of WILIA, and the
prevent Casnott.Lea of the Exotica/ma, who has
Maly bees replaced by Mr. Twmazrom, applied
themselves to the task of swigs, the statutes
of the Colleges with commeadable diligemos. Ice
this task they have: been seated by two seem
tans see of whom, Mr. GoLDWIN Blum,
acquired coasiderable reputation by hie active
genes under the Co——,esissi the snort of which
was the foandation of an Act of Pulisassit. At
the time when the Oxford University Before' Ant
wan passed the great majority of the Col-
leges—excepting Bawd and Oriel—were eased
with sloes fosadaticas and the nasal re-
mit, a body of incompetent scholars and follows.
To remedy this groat evil was cee of the
peed objeste of the friends of reform. Bat knowing
the views of some of the Commissioners and the weak
projudise in favour of founders' with, it was a pave
quotas amongst thinking men whether the farrow-
askidasees of the Commissioners would net Ms.
bathe the statism:Galas* purposes of the Act of

The sapplessat to the &matte published sat
sight pub is in pthesosisa of the Let fruits el
the Mean d the COSlldilliell ; sad we *Dies to dad
Set, although there may se desk be some leaf-
ier Mill discernible alter the bald's' of the
pet. there are very may *lags worthy if the
warmest sesusesdatire. The Colleges whose revised

statutes are sow eomplete are Breter College, Lin.
cola Oellege, ead Canes Christi College. These, we
believe, were amongst the Colleges whose fonadadeas
were the elosset—ia other wads, the emehimeate of
which ware by noomity applied he the moppet of
ass, sot because they were the ablest el their mos-
isseparerise, bet herow they happened le be ban
In sees partiseler diet:lot, or hew they were sow
meted with erne pertisalar family. or Means they
were ideated at inn pertinent school. Award.
tag te the three genial odes of law manned in
the Oeseffs, it is tree that the seembers of the
throe mensal Colleges mast Stead chapel ; end
snit, therein, is assay, if set in most, ones. be-
ing to the Church of Bugled. But is all el the
three it I. expressly presided that the esholare--er
at hied meet ef them—aad that all the fellows shall be
elided by epee sorepetitios The fellows are thew.
meant members—the raven */ body el the College;
and it is, therefore, dear that the prise ri a fellow-
ship being laid opee to esspetities, everything ales
`the way of referee most assisemmily follow. By
this llamas the shiest University men will obtain the
ran power in the College, and hung obtaned that
power, we may fairly ocelots that they will env
eke u assonting to the meet ealightesed pia.
Spies. Indeed, eo strongly do we feel this
that the elaborate bill prima by Mr. Ousevoirx
fro the Baena of the University of Oxford always
emend. as It sill seems te mistake. Mr. GLAD.
wow; with that lens for chisanery, amid for elaborate
isle% which men all his projects, tottered the Einem
of Cassese for meads with a thonend sabisties,
is order to teeth a esselosin which sight have hems
seethed by a bill of mediums. If the tortuously sea.
privation member for the University hadiatrodesed a
bill, by the Snit eines et whisk oaths sad note were
*WSW, and by the second elms of which Fellow-
ships sad Scholarships were opened to competition,
be weld have achieved every perms. Te this
might perhaps have hen added • elms sesperrertag
alOsilege to alter its owe statutes. The sus
thing, however, has now bees assomplished through
the iastrerseatatity of the Cassimitesre, sad to
these distinguished sea we toads es thesis. liar,
is giving them credit for their week, least we forget
the pert which the Colleges themselves have skew.
The same embodied la the sew rodeo wee sot
the mere ianstles of the Cammiesiesers. It was
seggreted by the College Wolf, mind was then approved
by those eathorities. From those salightensd men,
therefore. who, ahboegh themselves elected wader a
narrow system. have rises superior to the prejediess
of their erneatiost ad to the thiernad essesiations
sad prejediess which are nee more eateneliag, we
assist withhold oar medial adadmaties The sit.
esaistesse is as wittiest its wake. Far if, era ist
the dimes. of local prejediee sad preosal feeliass,
see of sea solightemeest have hese trained. we
may andidently anticipate tbat leader the sew eyries
the dews el this liberality will seas nosh the priest
day.

At Otthod, It to au diem to say to those who law
It that osytitiog Oa hotoottdook or amortise
alioogot ocoolaws is a Wog aboard et Illosoo.