The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-25 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
re, wile fa Vico, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, will ba gna4c.up on the morning of August 27.
The mails for the British Nonh America and the United
Wave will be mode up on the evening of Aug. 31.
The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Havanna,
sums, Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and excluding
same for Madeira, St. Joan.do Ntearogito, New Granada,
Chili, sad Peru, will be made up on Sept. 2.
The made far Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres,
will be made up on Sept.
nit mails, coo Merit'llea, to the Mediterranean, Baypt„
coke, lona, Heng-bong, So., will be made up on
the oozing of Sept. 7.
The made for o.twaltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
go pt. Ceylon, India, mad oia Southampton, will
%made up on the morels' of Sept. 20.

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;OYDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23.

Tile mums dthe new provincial colleges in Ire-
we will issiely depend on the fitness of these who
ace appeased to tee& in them, and the fitness of that
tibias is taught. Of the former we have already in-
timated our general opinion. Nothing that we have
es yet heard in deprecation of the recent appoint-
ments appears to us entitled to much, if any, consider-
glom A crave accusation has been put forward he-
ave lie. HINCRS, the professor of botany in Cork, is
a Unitarian—as if treachery to the faith of the
shamrock larked in dissent from the Athanesian
efed! Murmurs have been likewer heard at history
Wine been 'wrested to the didactic care of au ac-
complished scholar who happens to be a member of
the eetablished church. But unless the priestly prin-
ciple be at altC9 admitted that no man is fit to Need or
think or teach save one who acknowledges the
athority of the propaganda, we cannot comprehend
the re usonablene4s of such an objection. If the alle-
gation were that Mr. BERWICK or Mr. DARLRY were
tats-liberal or anti-catholic partisans—had they. like
Dr. LORGYIRLD, been distinguir_ed by their
sivocley of the principles of political and I
Wades ascendancy, and thereby rendered
themselves justly obooxious to the great =L-
ofty of their fellow countrymen—we could appre-
ciate fully the justice of the complaint, and, as in the
me just named, we should feel no hwitation in
riding our strongest protest agaiest such an abase of
rower by the executive. But tea the instances before
as there is no tinge of fair or genuine colour in the
imputation. Mr. Dettetr and Mr. BERWICK
are by religious faith protestant.. Is that •
Grime? If nor, what is it that they are m-
aul of? Not of big try : for they are pereon-
ally esteemed wherever they are known, by men
ef all creeds, for the truly catholic sprit of their
iseial and intellectual character, and their absolute
Woo frost narrow or metarian tendencies. Not
he political exclusiveness, for they have both
Ix years aided in the promotion of popular old en-
lightened views, in nuostentatious but nut unrecog-
mode" unvalsed ways. We only wish to be assured
that so pep Antmc nts lets worthy and utexception-
able may ever be made in the Queen's colleges ; and
until we have some inculpation more deserving of re-
pel than those which have been made in too in-
stances alluded to, we shall think it mere justice to
believe that none can be adduced.
A more difficult question' however, is that of the
course of instruction which it is intended shall be
pursued in the new institutions. In other words,
what are the colleges a'. C3rk, Belt st, and Galway
setualy to be ? Are they to be big schools for big
boys; or dingy seminaries, of the collegiate class, for
provincial dullards? Neither, we li ape and believe;
bat if neither, then what eke are they to be, and how
is their beiog rendered something different and better
to be insured? In the first place, manifestly, by the
sperm of education which shall be prescribed and
adored ; and in the next race by rendering the com-
petition free and fair between those who graduate in
them and those who graduate in the elder nni-
vanities.
With respect to the course of instruction, it is un-
deniable that new grammar school+ are not what the
country or the time demand+. There have at all
times been facilities enough fir the acquisition of
Greek and Latin in Ireland. It is not more of the
dead languages that Deland wrote, but a more inti-
are acquaintance with the living truths and rcalitiee
rf thirgi. So likewise in the exact sciences.
Toe rep do of Trinity College has long stood
high in mathematics and optics ; and the
names of LLOYD, M`Colaemeei, and Lord Rosie, aro
amongst those whereof their countrymen may be
most justly proud. Bat a people whose country
studs in need of practical development of every kind
re much as Ireland does, crave intellectual guidance
empbatically in the practical and the combined utili-
Mum of knowledge •, and this is peculiarly, there-
fore, the function which the new colleges will have to
d wear: c. On the otter Irma, it mast be borne in
mini that if any aspect of inferiority of aim or tone
to that of the established university should be
popularly conceived, the best and most ambitions
spin's will still continue to seek the cold and
condescending smile of " old Trinity," rather
than the mot o frank but less coveted recognition of
the provincial academies. It will Lever do to suffer
them at starting to lose caste, or to admit their com-
parative inability to supply their students with any
and every species of instruction which can be ob-
tained in Dublin. A choice of studies is one thing,
and a most impertant thing. But a choice in effect
prtchtermaised by a peculiar devotion of the strength
of the system to one or two reticular coursees
of s uily, to the practical neglect of others,
would be quits another, ard, we think, a most
nolortim‘te thine. Engineering is to be added,
but Greek is not to be forgotten; agricultural
chemistry is to be placed within the reach a all who
choose to learn, bet logarithms and enthymems are
to have their teachers, and we hope their learners,
too. It :s only by such means that the lone desired
spirit of competition in the higher walks of national
education can ever be called into active being. Tne
three provincial elle gee, for the purposed conferring
formal degrees of B.A. and M.A , are to be federated
ander the cam of "the Queen's University.* But,
if the close of instruction be not such as to qualify
its Rraduates to vie with those of the " University of
Dublin," the degrees will soon lose all value, and the
local seminaries will sink into mere provincial
esbeas.
To preveat this, another guarantee, however, must
ferherrh be seemed. We mean the equalisatien of
the sew degrees with those of Trinity College in all
mews where their possession is made essential as
seciaery to the obtaining leave to practise in pro-
fusion,. The Scotch neiversities have long experi-
enced the benefit of such regulations. The Univers-
ity of Lotdm his long felt the ill effects of its de-
grees not being recognised like those of Oxford and
Conbriege. This partial and unfair exclusion is
part of the old tyranny which all ecclesiastic il
worretioes love to exercise whenever and spinet
whomsoever they ars permitted to do so. Yet, surely
nothing can b 3 more monstrous than that the ablest,
scholar who has graduated in the university of
London is compelled to spend two years more and to
pay FO many pounds more at each of the inns of court
previous to hero g called to the bar, than the greatest
dance that ever scrambled through a " little-go "at
Oxford.
We have yet to learn whether any measures have
be,n taken to prevent the uprise of this invidious dis-
tinction in Ireland; bat, if not, we earnestly com-
mend it to the attoetive care of those on whom the
re-ponsinility rests of seeing that the new coileges
have, in every way, a fair trial.

Tat Retina Association are very unreasonable if
they desire any hi4her compliment than is nue"-
wtously expressed in the number of articles which
the sot:genitive and obstructive press have devoted
to their Drury-lane meeting. Day after day the
, Standard, and Chronicle, reverted to this sore
rlliltet. They affected to be witty at the expense
of the meeting; they affected a supercilious patron-
are of it : they changed their tone and gravely
ftproSated its objects. They alternately scolded and
sneered at it. But ttey cm:Aim:mat to write about it.
People do net take all this trouble with an affair
witch they think of little importance.
lisanwhie the assoeiation, u regardless of the
welds wasted upon it as the fair and gallant princess
who, !Masud the exploit of the golden water, and
tue loodleg tree, and the talking bird, by closing her
ows ti all the anonymous and invisible voices which
iteP' hooting unit tbreatenin4 around her, has
kept the quiet, earnest tenor of its onward way.