The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

UNIPZESITI LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.

Yesterday a meeting of echoolmeetses who have I
out in osadidafro for nom ourniastion wee hold st
Bony c 4 Arlo, Jobe-strut, Adsll44 leaks Yde earlias-
tits Os proud state of the whets issetian doivemity local
emminstione, with the view of prensOn BIM silloPteeds
bon, en the Usionitiss et Oaken and Osmbeldin se On
Ones mim Its only ces ezmoindos cantetts soh bad
maim n• Rev. H. R. Orman al ILM(Mderod
prosidadrsud laniael. those poen wee the
ed Wallesey;amill ; fdr.Xeiry, Ron.
et the ; ILL O. B.
illaeriler, allow of 15115.1tiliCollsw.liiroordwMge (those two
are imanialleo; Masers. 0. A. Fenn d Talons Pia,
Mseditalar• G. R. Pane; Tampion, Ron; K. J.
Tatra, I htaa J. R. Mores, Rts Dr.
; Pans, Llonened ; CAP. ; Dun-
n* Deno.
The lie. R. WALL sated.-" That this mosting is of
ennui that it is desirable that than nada Is may tat
mmatiestimi annually st make, mad st oil ammo st
its same date."
Mr. PAM, of Leatitsrlissd, soccodid the resolutioa.
After a dOcenslon,
Mr. RAIZ midst Os words—. and at an oaten at lb.
NOM time," to most mann= made by Mr. Davis, ht the
wording of the rooludos.
The motion sa so amended wss pond ..nosey.
The Rev. W. C. maw moved—." That ibis waseng
considers that this of inlaid bs bastaima%moied by aas
awaination jointly, In which the 11 of Ozford
*mid take the =don sad the fflinatalej Cum bridge
the juniors, and Wee versa for the next yam
The Rev. Mr. WALL socomiell the ranntlitaire forma.
Mr. linos repos! ma anandmen, le saw the
words " best " by a &Odom el thu anstry into
two pare ono wash Ins se on from the Wen to the
of eb• s adritslibirms
era el both seder sad =MI/6W be hat .hy
ths two universities that
Orford and Camiardge nod& bolsist=rfor the
endsatione at theirreopoutive
Mr. Fano wounded the
Mr. RDllOll$Ol moved sailmf which Mr. HOW-
OM, who wel not point, bad shun , viz.,." That this
roasting outsiders Ow* t slam weala be beet Promoted by
as ezatainatka conducted by s joint board appointed by the
two weivereltioe."

The asosad saadesent was pot ad last, three hands
ouli Wig Mid up Isr
Tha bet fasuMila was sat pot, for which eve hands
Waft ►vii up, all That ale wee lat, sad the original reale-
*a wee pat ad carried by nibs votes to eight.
Kr. Tiusarrou then sieved " That this meeting is of
opal's that religiose knowledge distill receive marks, and
Upload au the rums
Er. PINCUS seconders 11110116..

Yr. Wyx.ne, of Coventry, moved to WM by way of rider—
"d that the addition of bouts Me SS • Whately'a
Chrittlen Ev.dancee,' Paley'a Mora Pouliot° ' to be
taken optionally, thigead of the Church *Dateable:a and
of Learn, wield remove tha presento=at to the entry
dieloatea flar thatoSirtio
.in the ethane
of univereigr of
• ' Tab the never tad agreed M.
Mr. Monsen, wafts es a direartegnied that the
I mit= of fflutarks -pereied by the V of Caked
duronnged the toribbe religien in Se
Mr. Tam, Loren MlisOtaeea+thNlt helot
aterly
Wooded to show, by evagialagibs reunites/1M with MN,
to regard to the camber i[a<ilatas who went In for reli-
gions examination, that the eyelets utopia by Oxiced did
not mond aha sepia to veggies as in ether subjects
el standnados.

Mr. Kolas.'" objected that Mild= eleadd sot be plated
as • different tooting to the oast soldeste el esmoinatio,
but egged that it ahoskl be lelt to the emulates.
Mr. Tour Linos would alter Ks reeolatka to the fellow-
That tide mamas is et *ales that religfiene know-
ledge should reads, seerlmj sad be pteast la atom respects
os the same loods as at Cambridge
♦ OIXTLIVAN preset, who said be wee • dismater, gave
• desided prolamin to the Onf cod seheme, width gave the
optics to the outbids, of eacepang or declining the religions
. . .

Kr. Dams t►ought U Orford 'nomad the ntatinetiut of
Ps*, or moo other book, tot the Liturgy, It woad he ea
good or batter than that of Cambridge.
Kr. Montauk submitted ea an amsedmeut .0 That this med
iae le at opiaim that the marainagan VesdigMne hnowlvdP
Mould be voluntary, but if taken, that it should realm
marks as other subjects, but that Palsy's Evidence,' or
soon other similar book, should bs meshed fewest of the
Liturgy." He wished to put the question cm the Woad ground
of voluntaryism.
Mr. GRIFFITHS esessded this ammtbant.

A conversation essesd, is who the question wse am-
visaed wheihat it wad delrable that if the religions examine-
thin INTO declined, some Ohm uubject should be antedinted,
which it woe urgedignseseliansear ol oomptgeorlsers to the
preceeding. Ultimately the resolution was put in this forts :
" That the meeting Si of opinion that rdligioim knowledge
should receive matte sad be placed on the roe Noting at
Oaford as at Cambridge."
The amendment proposed by Yr. Morgan was put and
lost, and thd original monition was put and carried by 16
votes to 2. _ _

iliell;v. E. H. GIFFORD (who as the mover of a resolution
vacated the chair, being suoceeded temporsrUy by Mr.
Payne) moved . • That it Is ementtel that she moiler juniors
should be the mane in both soh. men." While there were two
eternisationa a year for junior candidates there was an ad-
vantage in a different standard of age being lied by the two
universities; bat with only one examination, if the different
standard were retained every boy who wee lifted to go Into
the Oxford exuninetions in 1861 would have been fitted to go
in for the Cambridge examinations in 1810; so that both
univerettise would he practically baba la the sm. walers.
The owe university would thus have smug* its ceadidair
atom who might hays gone up la the previa= to the
other university, or those who had dome so sad
!Several gentrmcn spoke in favour of the resolution, which
was c.M,d
. . .

Mr. no then moved that the age be Mktg& They
could not expect than boys, who ens for com-
mercial penults, to welt for the aseke immeithalke, sad it
would be unfair to deprive thens of the opperleatty of peer
tag the junior nuirainatten lad with reseed to them who
least tip he the make =mink% It was an advaatage to
then that the theanial between the junior and senior ex-
antlaallthe sheald be as tag es possible.
Mr. MOILOAN seconded the reeolution, which was sup-
ported by Mr. Flaws.
Mr. Poctun rained, as ea useadiniat, that the age be
akters. He believed that boys intended ter business were
kept at school mini they were between ahem end instals,
sad he had to doubt that the opportunity of going up for
the examination would be • sufficient inducement to death
them boys at school wadi they were 16 yeah old. He did
not baileys that, as a rale, boys mead be qualified to pass an
examination at fifteen, paler private or special instruction
beyond that which they received in ohmage m common with
the whole school were glven—• practice which he strongly
obJecied to.
Mr. Wyles, Mr. Kama, sad others spoke is father of ex-
tending the age far the mandnatlea of junior candidate to 16.
Mr. TEreLneue supported the original motion. It was
the opinion of the delegates that, If the age was raked, the
standard most be raised very considerably ; end
Mr. DAVIZS, who took the ems view, observed that one
grist aka was to bring in boys from the lower schools, as
the Naurnal and Eintieh Schools, which they would scarcely
do if they adopted the higher age.
Mr. WALL suggested that every candidate should be ad-
mined to the junior examine' los whom fifteenth birthday fell
within the year of the examinadon. This would practically
extead it to 14 years; sad be would recommend it ea •
compromise between what appeared to him an irreconcileable
difference of opinion.
Dr. PINCUS& seconded the oomprornim.
Mr. 01,7011 D said that in Birmingham the age at which
boys left school and went to business was 14, end, however
moth they might lament it, they most deal with the San as
they band it. By the report of the simians fee the year
1869, just issued, it was nand that the failures woes more in
propene amongst the senior than the junior omlidines.
Mr. Pucntin olnerved that that mom from the higher
comes of the examination.
• show of Made being takes on the amendment the
numbers were 'Taal, 9 and 9; end the chairman having
given his Toth against it, the amendment, which proposed 18
as the ago, was declared to be bet.
The original motion was next put, sad also bet; and Mr.
Weirs suggestion wm pat as • substitutive motion, bat
altered la terms so as to make it mere elem.
1 The meeting then adjoarated till to-morrow.

ROYAL GIOOMPIGOAL homer T.—At the evening
o• Monday nen, the loilowiegiepore will be nal
—l. Jimmy up die Whits Nis to the eater, and Travels
in the laterite of Africa itinerate 1867- By J.Petberick,
11m. F. 11.0.8., her bieJeny's °weal at iberteat. 2. Pr.,-
&LT:slimy Ruts same the Andes hes Gilder& to
, via Cordon'. By Wdlinn Wbeeiwrlght, Esq.,
7.R G.B.
AN ELOPIIIIENT DEPUTED.— Is the village of
Gitm, mar &rhomboid, • meg mama Wily soceived
as appolatnent as Sairma terier, end diis eseeri in
the dudes of his can IMINSIdid la himing• arintionial
mgagnment with s ring lodyol the aolgltheveheeil; but oot
inatiat with this, he alms the entente
ale Liverrol woilbroltre es Ostsa-ball.
Warr &awl be persesded to math Id= at Saturday
lest. Information of the affair bed, limner, beta ma to
the rang lady's father, mil whoa the raawr nasbtd the
ygebtad ilitreh they fogad the " west" tuft, elm this.
Ti. lady yea pet fete • ear, bet she seaweed to map hen
tt, sad tbs Uhst was oblipd to easeme blood( vrldt
thrash*/ hie would-be seminlew. TM &I OW his bet
re returned Is bar parents, mg
*sort nu*. eft, we
gen."46let the pew elebalaws'tharithe,"filhineed Iredimr=Valial
Owe Aisle hot tatrestlesthe.

ROMAN CATHOLIC 81H1:11111 WITH
THE POPE.

A public nesting to adopt an address to the Pops,
esinand by
_the_ entail° Aid Aelooinien, Illocawbory-
= waiThr=y e
wuV; et the Hesever
Large, probably 1 -equen
Cadre 'sad Tana hundred, end In yea aka* eciesieted
of melee sad worlds, VIOL The chair ern token by Mr.
Itecie.uue Kinnay, end ca the platone wen :—The Rey.
Ina Doherty, Rey. Clary, Item T. Bank Rey. 1.
Caddis, Mr. Y.W. Prewar, Mr. Iltuert UM, Yee. Cairn,
Mr. G.W. Hapenwth, Xt. 8. B. A. Harper, Rev.,. Dentea,
Mr. F. &Joky.
The CuAranow, is opiates the proesedtags, add they
wen seesabied se rein their yokes sad exert thin Wanes
la ahem of the Isesperelities se the enersign of Roes
attacked ha ehe penes of their Haly Fenn, Pope Pte eh,
Math. They nut an her tbe eavencmsd nine of eon
sada as Lard Bbeheebury, Mr. Mass; Popish, end tee
Taw. (Load greens.) If they showed timidity now they
wand be despised; but if they hued boldly under the ban.
as of the Cites, they would gain supra.% for the ones,
which was le het the OMNI of England, of true liberty, od
dygatka, end of God. _

Mr. Janis Bnithz, who actd as secretary. mid lettere
had been received from tea of the venerated Whops of Eng-
land, esnotioning in warm term, the objects of the meeting ;
and the bishops who had not written were prevented from
doing so by Moses, their hearts being with the meeting.
(Cheat)
Mr. H. .1. PRIXDIIO/ ST' barrister-at-law, who wee an-
nounced se one who began hie political life fore, years ago
with Daniel O'Ccesell (a remark which called forth several
rounds of chases to the memory of that celebrated orator),
111171101 tb first remeindiria, Vii. That the temporal power
'of the Pope hes been the seam of numerous bless ato
mankind, by the crateerame of the catholic faith, the
el knowledge. and the =motion et the eras end ealmess."
Dr. Xmas, la ascoadber the Illellatkik add W•liaawl"
coat these not merely to sympathy es the of
the ohm,* bat also to Ere thatthey would support him.
j The teraaa wee then pm sad amnia.
Mr. Bawrr, of North Audley-rareet, Gromenoemnare,
11110•1114 the and resolution, viz. : 'That although, an =Mr
lice, we firmly believe the spiritual authority of the Flepeteot
to be of necessity dependent on his temporal , we yet
consider that the diminution of auch power would
be diorama= to established government sad inyurionseethe
best interests of religion."
Mr. YOUNG seoonding the resolution, Mood= the
' larttaihcii priesthood against the charge of having w
the Emperor of France, observing that .5:872
nothing against him till he had manifestly set himself =it
the Pope. It was said that the Italians wanted
What, however, was the kind of liberty which mazy DAM=
wand? Why, they wanted such liberty as was =relied a
few wpia en ago the asseseinstion of Comet Rood at Mime
and recently is the atrocious murder Of Count Aerate ei
' Parma. (Hier.) • great deal bad hoes said ef late above the
' solidarity of peoples. There was now a real solidarity among
catholic*, and all Christendom was riskg as ems men te pro-
test spasm the =option on the Bates of the Churl.
The resolution was then pat and tarried.
Mr. JANIS Home moved the following moieties :
" That as Leedom la the source whence emanate so many
attache on the Pops, we deem It the epee= duty et the
=holies residing in thie metropolie to empress their em-
pathy with his Holiness, end that an address be adopted."
Signor Diary's!, who was announced by Mr. bake es •
real live Italian from Rome, end who 'peke very cornet and
intelligible English, moonded the resolution. After
that every catholic must fed very proud of melt a d==ig
te-
Son as that on behalf of the Vicar of Christ, he said, having
reed in the English newspapers great calumnies against the
Papal government, he would assert that the Pope. govern-
ment did more for the people of Rome than the Reglithso-
vethresett did for the people of London. The government of
the Popeeapportad In the metropolis of the world 19 hospitals,
and Is those there were 4,672 beds. He had found that in
Lowden there were 63 hospitals containing 6,000 lads. In
Rome there were only 170,000soule, whereas in London there
were 2,600,000; es that the comparison was greatly In
favour of Roma. There were also 60 dispensaries in Rome
for those who could not go to the hoepitala. In feet London
with all her wealth did not do so much for the poor as the
Pope did for his subjects. He did nut think there wee one
perms in 6001 a Rome who could not reed. if that were
the ow it was certainly the fault of the people theamelves.
There were 26 colleges for the adoration of the upper dense.
end 27 ter the education of the middle dames, sad there
was also a =loge for the education of everybody. Did
this protestant empire do m much for the educa-
tion of prottetente? He them dwelt at some length
on the Missionary College at Rome, and on the
feet that wren= were constantly delivered in forty-
four language He compared the protestant church to
the Tower of Rebel, where none of the people could under-
stand each other; eddl.g, that whereas you could never tied
three peotestanes who peed on the subject of religiee, oatho-
Hca whether they wire white, or black, or red, ortratz
other colour, were all of one mind. Having
the history of the temporal authority of the Pope
from the earliest period, he appealed to the meeting
whether, after the Popes had held that authority for
' 1,200 years, it should be handed over to Sardinia, in order
' that missionaries from that country, and from England,
might be able to disseminate protestant doctrines. Not, he
added, that there was much chance of their nooses, for there
had been circulated among the Italians of London 40,000
bibles, and there had sot been a single instance of oonveralon
to protesteetiani.
The resolution was then adopted.
Oa the motion al the Rev. Mr. HARPER, who wee stated
to have been formerly a =am of the church of Ragland, the
following reaolutioe wee also a/reed to :
"That the title of the Holy Father to his temporal domi-
nions rests upon stronger ground than any other prince can
advance in support of his sovereign rights, end that we regard
any attempt against the temporal power of the Pope as also
an attack directed against hie spiritual supremacy, and, as
each, against the Catholic church."
The following resolutions were subsequently adopted:—
'• That this meeting calls upon all catholic and =a=
members of parliament to oppose by all wane In their power
any consent on the part of the British government tolielkiirell
involving the diminution of the Pope's temporal authority.
" That the address now adopted be forwarded for proem-
tadon to the Pope, to the care of the Cardinal Archbishop of
Weatminsb-r,with the expression of our deep regret at the
Ulnae of his Emisenos, end of our 1141111114 hope that it may
please God soon te restore Wax to health.
" That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby
given to the Catholic Aid Association tor having taken the
steps which have afforded to the assembled oraholles of
Landon the meant opportunity of giving, in public meeting,
expression to their sentiments of devoted attachment to the
Rely Father."
The proceeding' did not terminate till near midnight.

FORRIGN•OPTICE, JAN. 3.—The Queen has been
to approve of Mr. Samuel W. Talbot as mogul at
pie seal
Dublin for the United States of America. The Queen has
also been Omni to approve of Mr. Robert Phillips ea morel
at Sydney far his ikon, the Lag of the •
Gantt*.
ALLEGRO RELIGIOUS TAMPERING WITH WORK-
Rouen Instavne.—Yeetaiday, at the weakly meeting of the
directors of the poor of St. Proems, held at the Vestry ball,
Camden-tows, Mr. Mortimore Tampson In the chair, the re-
port at a eommittee appointed to consider the alleged intro-
Murata' Into the workhouse of Puseyite and Roman cartholio
books by a committee, of ladies, who had been permitted to
visit the Inmates he the purpoes of affording to the aged and M-
ann inmates religious education and spiritual consolation, was
brought up. The repur t stated that the oommittes found that vari-
one books bad been latrodoted amongst the inmates hawker a
tendency to support idolatry, denouncing the &mink church,
and advoomiug the use of images to stop temperas, and many
other such books, of which the committee could not procure
a oopy. The charge wee made obiedy against Mr. Chain-
herr, the husband of one of the ladies, and that he had in-
troduced a book entitled " Brief Devotions on the Holy Com-
munion," by a Roman Catholic AhU, maintaining the reel
mesenne, and with prayers for the dead. Out of seventeen
ladies of the visiting committee but Eve had received
'the mutation of the board. The committee fully
admitted the kindness and sympathy exhibited
by the ladies towards the poor, and fully appre-
damd it, but could not help expressing their surprise and
condemnation of those who, under the guise of protestants,
had distributed such hooka as those named. The report re-
commended that for the future all ladies wishing to set as a
committee to afford religious consolation to the tamales,
shall forward their Lamm to the chaplain and the places of
worship they attend, for the purpose of being sanctioned by
the directors, and that the mamas be directed to admit in
' future those only who have been thus approved of. To the
report was appended a number of letters from the honorary
secretary of the ladies committee and individual members,
repudiating and denying their complicity in the proceeding,
and one from Mr. Chambers defending himself, and declaring
he only gave the books referred to to touches be believed to be
Roman cethollos. Mr. Turner moved the adoption of the
report; Mr. Reernden seconded the motion, and Mr.
Churchwarden Cameron denounced the whole proceeding am
one-sided and bigoted, as well 1141 being founded in error.
Atter s wean debate the dimmed= was adjourned.

HETIIIMINT 01, ML MANSYIILD FROM TUG
Livearout. Bagoa.-11r. J. 8. Maasfleld, who for
up-
wards of sir years has filled the office of stipendiary magb.
Inks at Livwrpool, was yesterday presented with addrewts
from the Liverpool bar and fellows of the Liverpool Law
. Mr. Asptnall, to an eloquent speech, assured Mr.
rilat7eld of the high esteem in which hie personal character
sad Isgal tptalificastons wars held by the gentletnem of the
bar who had 0004aUll to practise in his court ; and the
address of the Law Society was equally cordial and flatter-
lag. Mr. Mansfield, in replying, void that hie desire to
change hie peonies arose twat tits fact that Liverpool did
sot agree with hie health. He regretted much the swoon' y
to take this st for he should be coinpaUsd to aeperate
Iltem valued MmAe, away of whoa he sight asst meet
WI&