The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

DULWICH COLLEGE.

Mr. T. DIINCOMBE asked the Storetory of State for
the Home Department if it was t►e intention of the gOWlftl-
mint to introdac• soy I ill during the present "Won to
carry out the lest ichi me of the Charity Commissioners in
nforeato to Dulwich College ; also, whether the commit-
sioners poems, say autt miry to prevent in the interim the
filling op .f three • icaacies, v s., of *se poor brother and
two poor scholar. belonging to the parish of St. Lake, Mid-
dlesex ?

Mr. BAINES ►aid it eras the lateatlon of goveromeat to
introduce a bill on the ►atjeet. With reg►rd to the
veeenries to which his hon. Mead had referred, the Charity

Commissioners had bit it their duty to recommend that
they should not be filled up while the nemeses was pending,
►at in point of law they had ao right to deprive the
parishes ef the benefit.
TUE WELLINGTON MONUMENT.
Vistiouret CllELfilik wished to ask a question of the
Chancellor M.A. Etch/quer. It had been stated a Short
time ago that a hab,ma.. of 26.00 W. remained in the Bache
quer out ef 'ha sum of 80,0001. voted for the funeral of the
Doke of Wellingtoo, and that it was intended to apply It to
the ereciiioa of a monument to Me duke. He wished to
known it was intended to bring forward any estimate oa the
suhject la the mum of the present mealoa, as it was Imp r-
Mat that artists should have full aotice

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said thut
inch a Wears old remain, and it could not be appropriated
to any purpose without the authority cf parliament. In-
stroctioas tad been gives to his right bon. friend the Pint
Comuladouer of W..r►e oa th• subject. The matter was
sot quite matured, and it was cot likely that any estimate
would he required Mil seselos, but no time would be lost in
'skim for designs.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. WILSON having as,,Ted that the house at its rising
do adjourn till Monday,
la mower to a question of Sir F. Titzetouit.,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated he
intended to take the civil 'mice intimates on Monday, bat
he would not trll..ng the committee beyond ton o'clock, in
order toe's the Lord Adv it..to an cpportanity of bringing
on the Scotch Educatioa

THB MILITIA.
Colonel GILPIN ran, pumthat to unties, to all the
attention el the hone to the empeesatios proposed to be
given to the stills. The pinion had bun m-
enet Mese raised is the hone, and It was now
understood 'hit it was intended to give the
surgeons a parity of twelve months' pay, sad the subal-
terns three ; it rad also been stated that the paymasters
wend mein twelve menthe pay. Under the original re-
gulation, issued by the right hon. member for Wilthire
' (Mr. 8. Herber) when Seentary at War, neither surgeons
nor pinniaaters wen to be entitled to nythios on the tree.
meet being disembodied. He thought that the subaltern
had every nun not only to be satisfied, but to be thankful,
for the esy in ehii h nip were Mated, but he would re-
sted the house that the paymasteis had to give muddy to
the goverment, and were put to mach serene in organising
the fleansiel system of their regiments, gad after they were
disembodied they would be obliged to remain is this country
for perhaps twelve months natal all their anoints were
audited, sad he theistic they ought not to be
placed he • worse rod,ioa thee the surgeons. He
hoped @smithies would also be dome for the nee-
commissioned colleen end privates. To give them the
bounty was man to give that to which they already had a
right; and many of them were now slider stoppages for the
summer clothing tench bad only Just been Omen. At the
cod of the last oar the militia received S 4 T. ral cloys' pay.
Daring this war they bad done more than =nineteen did be-
fore, and they ought not ti bra worse seated.. They had given
3:1,000 volunteen to the line, sad, beide that, they had
turnahted the Meditatoonosn isntroa. It the itomsalmil
erined,they wield helve got 10,000 of them to go to the
Cdl.llll, Mai due'piiued wit rend, lOC any SISTICS. The
only retina made to the °Man for their steno= in in,
deicing the men to +(Austen was to reduce them until the
regiments gaup their fell complement again. It was stated
that the foreign legion westo get twelvemonths' pay sad a
grant of lead. Dlr. FEM.—A street et land only.] if the
expense wee hilly .rated, he believed it would be found
that every one of these foreigners net so much se three
militiamen. The noble lord at the head of the Wet Dentin
mut had lately said, that ohm the Monne for dismissing
these legions, be hoped die oouatry would not forget the
seal with which they had rallied resod our Miner. Be
(Colonel Gilpin) hoped the house would not forget their
own countrymeo who had rallied round their banner, and
Shot when war broke oat spin the bead of the government,
whoever It might be, would not at the diet sign of hostilities
nth into the foreign market for men, but rely on the tangy
and enrage of his own enmity's's.
Complaint. of • almilar tenor were urged by Cat. MINNS
sad members, and elicited a reply from
Mr. F FEEL, who 'spatted In detail the regulations
provided for the digerati-aliment both of militia regiments
and the forego legion, and jostled the principles on
which the War-face had arranged the terms offered in the
' several am.
The neject ws• resumed and pursued for some time.
Lord PALMERSTON—Sir, I am sure tits house will not
expert me to asp anything now on those Swann matters
whieb have ben retried to ; bat I cannot allow the coo-
'mann to god without enuring the house inn no nen
can be more sensible than her Majesty's government are of
the extreme value of the militia force. I quite serge with
the right hoe. gentlemen (Mr. Waiwle) that with reference
to the security of the country upon all ecescons of ewe,-
gently. the militia is • moot invaluable force to the publis
envie, ; and nothing could be farther from our intention
or with than that *analog should be done which
slight ludwpose either the °Moen or the men
from pursuing ois nitre oecasione the same honourable
course that they have ;tinned recently, and coming forward
as they have done, In the most gallant and bendense mea-
ner, sad sacrificing all private cosalderatioas, to the public
aortae. With regard to what hes fallen from the right
hoe. gentleman as ti the probable period of the return of
the d. fungi regiments from the Mediterransa, I wish to
say that arrangements will be made which will, I hops, en
cure their return long before the harvest. it will probably
take place by the early part of July. I wish also to observe
that a mater distinction has bees nenkoked between the
*million of militiamen sad that of the men of the to
Mins. The militiaman after returning to his
matey is liable to be Mai oat for further training, and,
moreover, when he Marne home, he naturally falls back
again into hie ordinary pasha. On the other hand,
the tonne legionaty having bees takes away hoes
kb own amain when he is discharged is is a much more
helpless conditios than the militiaman. He teapot very
well return to his ulna nanny; and therefore when an
attempt was to be made to persuade foreigners—O•roms,
Swiss, and Italina—to leave their country, is order to be
employed In the Crimea, or wherever their serviette might
be required, it was natural to suppce• that mime tenon
mint beyond that of mere pay for the time tee service must
be held rat to them. Let it not be supposed, however, that
there was or has been intimated, any distrust of British sub-
jects at the period whet it was determined to rule. Lodge
mope. The eine of that determination wee simply
that we have no c )nsoriptiou. (Roar, boar) We
do not throw a nestle' net over our population
and sompol than to come into the reeks the moment
they are waited. Our army and our militia are, I sea
happy and pseud to my, both formed by mesas of
voluntary enlistment; sad as that le a slower proems,
though an inflation better one when the week is iiii•0111-
PlidiSta, than • soescriptit n, we bad meowed tee t-reignon
for the emerpnits of the ear.
CAMBRIDOR UNIVERSITY BILL.
Oa the motion for plug into committee on the shove
bill,
Mr. BOUVRRIE explained the astute and motives et
the changes which the bill was designed to effect to the
eoustitition of Cambridge University. Stating that the
revenue of that institution was 24,6001. in middies to en
aggregate Mom of its various "alleges amonatiag to
186,0001., he contended that for this Inge neon* so ado.
quote advantages were returned Neither in the somber
of the studinits, nor to the quality of the educating 'forded,
wen the Jost espeeteti-si of the mantry adequately rel-
ined by the results. The cooseeimence had bran that the
university bad mood to be sought as a plea of ohiestioa
even by members of the glass who could well afford to bear
the *spews. The right honourable member then pro-
vided to detail the provinces of the bill as divested
towards emodellieg the governing authority of the
asininity, and removing the obstructions which
sew barred aeons to its potions spied a large seethe
of the community cn amount of their religious opinions.
Is them *hasps the model est by the Act relating to Oohed
wee chiefly followed, an elective masts being proposed, by
which body island totem ..raid be originated, and a
now curriculum of educate* framed, more sem -rdant with
the wants sad ideas of modere society. Private halls to
whisk Demesnes were admissible were also seeetioned by
the measere, bat their est•Mishaseut would be left to the
discretion of the mend genera. This septennial% of •
parlimestary commission we. provided for in the bill, bet
the interfareees of this *sternal authority would, he and.
Mooted. mans se obasetiosabie shape, bat he limited to the

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emeridee of some slight cootrol or the proffer of advice lu
matters of detail.
Mr. WALPOLE, without opposing the measure, argued
that the faults and dr ficieocies charged against Cambridge
University were much exaggerated. flemsrkie ft upon the
lug. inipravriner.ta accomplished during the last thirty
years, by the internal action of the unsversity itself, and
°Wog many mimes of distinguished men who bad received
their education within its walls, to urged the esp.diency of
leaving the collar a as hr as pointers unh►mpered by any
isiterfereace and free to carry out the reforms welch had
been so well begun. The ►dl, he argued, should be rendered
permissive rather than Inactive.
After some remarks by Mr. Pollard-Urquhart, Mr. Hey-
wood, and Mr. J. Phillimore, the house sett into committee
upon the bill; but before all the clauses were agreed to the
eman was ordered to retort •0 pit .gain.