The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

is penile lelra ellppqr away. If tl e princes of
Germany purist is prescribing local liberty, as d de-
katiag every attempt at imperial unity, then we can
ealj say that Warn c'!on becomes a duty, and the
eat, Alines ta the country's safety sa F nrope's
asa situertly wial, united,
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movement if towed upon the Orrin IPUt&setWeodsoue,at
ileillomont of P.roenle sympathise with a n- own move-
matte of 1640 and 1688. Toe middle and enl.ghtened
eleme most everywhere he prepared to demand and to
defend, with arms, if it be necessary, the main prin-
ciples of constitational freedom, for these, as ih- ex
ample of France sufficiently thaws, fuem the true
belwark spinet red repoblicanism and social anarety.
Bat indeed in suck dee.) rations and in frach prin-
ciples we are gamely critic,. There is n thing
whatever in the struggles or in the state of the con-
tinent that can have the least reference to u'. What-
ever may be the abases of government in oar islands
or their clopendenc es, all hive ample amens of set king
redress and reform without es: ling a thought up
violence or physical farm. In other Europsn
countries, on the contrary, some of them two et uteriva
behind aa, the very means and elements for
working oat freedom ere wanting. Toe en-
Shumate Rowels have to struggle for the
libsaty of learning, reading, toink-ng, and speaking.
Tree poor Viet wee has to bethink himrlf how to K. t
the gag oat of his month and the fetter from his limb.
In Hungary, in Prussia, in Italy, in Poland. the
ppreoo le are at their A, B, C. in the task of political
And tory writers gravely tell us, that tees
children I. politics are infected with those di. saes
only poseib's in the advanced ages of whir ty. Inland.
where the sail is occupied, where capital has been for
ages at work. where the energies of ma rave been
developed, where the spring of population has been
active to fill and Mir-finch, lower ranks of life—there,
isdetd.the Breit **chigoe ton of how a I've' &god is to
be enured, and the poor kept from being trodehn out.
esquires a prominence and • serious iitetast. But in
eountries half peopled, quarter cuttivat d, where all
that is wanting to make the serf happy is to eamaci-
pate him—when all wanting to make industry theirs
is to set it free—where all requisite to content politi-
cal and national longings is a moderate degree o
iseastitutional liberty—to irk of such c mu-tries
es se, Musty menaced b' socialism or Jaeo.
binism, is nonsense. It es as absurd as th-
prudish hypocriay which ateetches one hand forth to
ipatranhe the Hoeg piens as patriots, and which
repel' them daintily with the other as anarchists.
I Instead of giving sympathy or any one warm I. cling
to the ruble struggle of the Hungarian people, the
tory writer puts on his spectacles to &mein how
may of them are marred* and bow !teeny 'ltalia&
As if in • struggle inch as this, moderate and im-
moderate did not unite their petty diff emcee. and as
if the TIMMS and the Harnesses d d tot breathe
the self-some ardour with the Kossiirrin and tett
Deals, to prevent their country's jibe ties tros being
suppressed, and its very name tread.' out.
in this absolutist onside ageing Hwerrian irde-
peaderce and German coostatutioceiro, againet the
bstions of the Romans to be religiterelv free, and
efthe Sicilians to preserve their old moistures". y, their
otaiits, and their charters, of course the Memcheater
roe comes in for its share of vitnp ration. It is
stigastised as a had prop:,et, bowies. it all- g d that
the popular sentiment throughout Europe was soh st
wan whilst the governess ts and dynasties of Europe
bed far Looms& to think of and to do, to permit their
retain warlike polity or schemes of aggression.
No twee esaiplete proof could be afforded of ,he jug-
tise of these sear:tone, than is to be found he eh,
events at the Imet year. Their declarations were
mode in answer to the arguments of whig and tory,
which represented France es going to invade, and all
Europe to combine against us. That even the French
red republic:los hate no animosity to us, has been
pretty. well proved. There are a set ot police
eampugns going on in Europe, struogles ot princi-
ples and civil wars • snare. But ter tin=
those being the soars, which the Writes ep ke of, and
which Mr. COBDEN de i. e precast stati, ot
Swope is the most complete antidote anc negation of
any rah wars. The Tunes sees in the break up of
the great European monarchies and the total destruc-
tion of their old principle. of governess, t, a t. wails
hiow and bar to free trade, sad the sundering of
eounisicial intercourse. We beet to we the direst
cottrary. In the satisfactory contemplation of the
grandeur and prospeeity of the United States. sad
of our increased relations and amity with
them, the Manche-ter school does ce, Misty
exult. The 2v., however, turns as ay from a
spectacle so vast and so node, to fix its critotal at'ee-
ti
un upon a speck, upon • theatrical row in one of
the populous cities of the union; as if monatchy neve •
had riots a, aimless and as fo dish. Englin , upgat
as well be blotted from the hat of orderly nat ors,
beetati-e HAMILTON burned a pennyworth of powder
bet ere the Queen, as the Unit d States and Mr
Posner Massed with the Red RTublicaas because
sift riots of New York.
Whoa the ehempionc of toryism and reaction are
sans' te we arguments as these—when they can
dad no Wier reproaches agamet America, Man lees-
%crime. and Hungarian., than them trivialities and
this twaddle, we may confidently pat trust in the
jostles and the proem ity of the one rest and rod
ease all over the world, the emancipation of the
political serf. and the universal establishment of ge-
m I nutue representative government.
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MIL. MiTWOOD has given notice that he will
move an address to be presented to her Majtwy,
that she will be graciously pleased to issue her
royal commission of inquiry into the universities
of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin with a view to the
extensi al and improvement of n%tional education.
lkidw u mew persons, who have not graduated at
these institutions, are well informed as to the precise
nature of the corruptions which stand in need of re
medy, and as a very large number of members of the
House are mon particularly obnoxious to the charge
of knowing very little about the matter, we think it
right to do something towards putting the question
in its proper light.
In the tint gaps, let it be borne in Wad that it is
the college system with its abuses wltitiliebssidl be
chosen as the grand point of dusk. This spites is
avowedly founded on an unrepation of rights which
were owe the collective property of the university ;
and it is this undoubted ism of usurpation which ren-
ders legislative iatielsrence not only lawful, but
necessary. The allege system may be cheesed with
the evils el—
l. Mimpplyieg immense funds which would other-
wise be available for the purposes of education.
• '>L DePriving the *mat body of the nation of the
lemma right to the advantages of the universities,
by iserping those advantages unjustly.
& Net fulfilling those dories which Am the only
piss tee establishueset orthe untineassesof the gets..
Without taking these charges in their order, we
shall be able to produce abundant evidence of the
trath death.
For the sake of greater precision, we will confine
we obeiseatiess at preset to one only of the
Ihrivereities—that of Cambridge. There is every
nes= to believe, that before the reign of Edward 1.,
this Indemnity was entitled is the appellation el a
01: ligeF repaid*" bestowed upon it in the proud
such solemn faertioossese by the " Cue;
Weeder." The withoritiee examined etu-
des% admitted them to the various
thee of
allowed all those who proceeded to the el
Master of Arts a share in the legislative anew
tire power. There is no reason to suppose that
one who presentedhiumelf as a student, and oom
with certain regulations, would be refused.
this time, however, rich and pious mesons who had
waived benefits from the courts of education, left
Inds for the endowment of certain lodging-houses to
weak chapels were attached, for the use of students
"Wm skims to admission to the benefits of these
--sate were poverty, relationship to the
Moir, &e. The udaniable utility of these hostels,
bay sr oolleges soon led to an Weems* in their nun-
einr. Thevalneof theendowsents angmented—the poe-
t NOM w rich—they were always on thespot—they
see privilege after another, until at last the
etheilematherity of the university was eoncentered in
theni.e-they beams the university Itself No person
is now a member of the solemnity =Weise lea unt-
bet of one of them collegsa--Librinsely kdakeilsion..
Our readers have men what a college- were is its
beriaaing—let them rudder what it is now. It is
an institution with a large revenue. This revenue is
administered by the master and fellows, who are its
bona jig's possessors, with every right once pt that of
alienaton. To it, or to some caber college, must
every one belong who wishes to obtain a degree at