The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

Rao/high without modifications of the manners of
oar free and euy ancestors.

The difficulty will doubtless be to take care that
no slightly rubbed and faded fruit be" vouched" for,
on an occasion when all that le genuinely led and
all that is indifferently good ought to be rejected
with impartial severity. There will be much in so
unusual a proceeding specially attractive to ladies
who are living on recollections; and, indeed, to many
younger ones vv.ho are not in the habit of following
husbands, brothers, or cousins to a spot surrounded
with a halo of unquiet mystery and vague allusion.
The idea is worthy of an epoch of revivals and re-
habilitations, and it seems to us that whilst
Mr. SPUZOZON is preaching from the plat-
form, the Hermit of the Vale might appropriately
be replaced by a Belgravia!) Curate and an autho-
rised Confessional. The truth is that the good
people who have been moved, no doubt, by namely
generous and kindly impulses, to devote the talkie
of a night to the funds of an hospital, represent un-
consciously enough the temperament of a somewhat
palled society, which can do nothing, good or evil,
with direct simplicity : which can neither pray,
nor dance, nor listen to sermons, nor fall into tempts.
tion, without some stimulant of doubtful mixture ;
and which, equally averse from energetic vices and
energetic virtues, is for ever dallying between dull
decencies and duller sins.

THE readers of Soon's novels will recollect
Advocate Pleydell's explanation of the principle on
which the ignorant (and often tippling) Meters of
the Cowl of &aloe were selected to decide on un-
portant questions of succession to landed estates.
The Commissioners for remodelling the Scotch
Universities, whom names were announoedyesterday
by the LORD ADVOCATZ, appear to have been selected
on the same principle. With the exception of "the
" travelled Thane Athenian ABERDERN," there is
not one of them who has a name in literature or
science. The Loan PRESIDENT is an able hard-
headed lawyer, but if Scotland had been searched,
from Berwick-on-Tweed to John o'Groat's, a man
more utterly devoid of literary and scientific tastes
could not have been found. Mr. ALEXANDER HATTIE
is a most respectable merchant, but it has yet to be
ascertained whether his studies have extended
beyond an acquaintance with the rules of English
grammar and book-keeping by double-entry. The
Earl of MANSFIELD and Sir W. G. CRAIG are
amiable nonentities. But there are graver objections to
the remaining members of the Commission. The Duke
of ARGYLL owes his political position (his rank being
kept out of view) mainly to hie being a zealous pro-
fessor of a kind of Broad Church puritanism. The
late LORD ADVOCATE and Lord ARDMILLASI owe their
political and professional positions mainly to their
Free Kirk sectarianism. The present Loan ADVD.
CATS and Mr. STIRLING, of Keir, are ripe scholars,
but they, toe, are uncompromising partisans of the
Residuary Kirk of Scotland. With five members
of the Commission, clerical influence will be all-
powerful ; and of the other five, there is only one
who has even a taste fur literary and scientific pur-
suits. Now, for more than a century and a half, the
Scotch Universities have had a difficult battle
to fight against clerical domination and en-
croachment. The independent rights of science and
literature were established in the early part of the
present century by the result of the great LESLIE
controversy; but a Commission composed like that
which was last night announced to the House of
Commons is likely to undo all. Professors will be
elected not for their genius or leaning, but for
their theological conformity. Was there not one
man of science—of intimate personal and practical
acquaintance with the higher education—to choose
from in Scotland ? The Commission is to be com-
posed of three noblemen, four judges and barrister.,
two country gentlemen, end one representative of
the illiterate class of nonconformists. It is like
every act of the DERBY Government, an at-
tempt to conciliate incompatible factions, religious
and political. Not one of its members has devoted
any particular attention to the noes or wants of
academical institutions, or evinoed any lively in-
terest in the subject of education. The authority
of the Town Council of Edinburgh over their Univer-
sity is to be restricted, and the organisation of all
the Universities of Scotland is to be handed over
to a body not one whit more competent to the task.
Throughout the debates on the Loan A DVOCATS'S
Bill the speeches have displayed a petty spirit of
feassal regulation, and an utter ignorance of the inner
life of the Scotch Universities. The speakers have
dreamed of cutting and clipping them into formal
shapes, unconscious that they might by the moue
arrest that self-development of its Universities to
which Scotland is indebted for its IPLAIENS, PLAY-
Fates, and Lewes ; its I:Wrenn:some, Slams,
REID& BTEWARTI, and BROWNS ; its BLACKS,
CULLEN& and GREGORY& It will only bis nesemery
to instal the proposed Commission in power, and
the Literature and Science of the Scotch Universities
may exclaim—Nswoc

JEWS BILL.

MUSK OF LORDS—LAST NIGHT.
Movek-Altat the Bine sow Ma 9"--(1%. Earl et Lama);
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the P Contents (a f 6; (Proxies 64 ;
Total-143; Not-Costasts (Preteat) 64; (Proxies 33 ;
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The Earl al Enniskillen was awidentally shut out hem
the division, or he would have voted against Lord lAICOVS
bill

—flu Berl of Xlmeere's leery vu given by mistake, be
laving paired dirt the bin.

The Doke of Bedford since his arrival at
Rodeisigh has bees reosivhig a succession of visitors, end has
also paid matey vials to the village of Milton and the neigh-
bourhood. Oa Monday last hie Grace visited the public
school in that village sad presented the master with ea
Mewl solaiatare nudellion of the lets Joseph Lenceeter.
The aisdallloa beers the following inscription:—" Joseph
Leneertar, the sera whom Wags and Princes delighted to

The Bishop of Exeter is now in residence At
DRUM as Caws at the Cathedral.

The Earl sad Goasteee of Mortar Edgeniabe have
left Plymouth in his lordship's steam yacht Abe a plasm*
trip slang the ocest.

A subscription ball was given last evening, at the
Castle Hotel, Richmond, under the di:sot:lon of severs/ die-
thardehed leaden of hothks, the most prominent of whom
was the Decimal of Ifeadowese. The oxspany was com-
ma of the he of the leolituabis lurid. The noble
callirroon of the betel ems Need up as a ball-rope. The
Lora erns thersied le a pomeode for the piers, sad ea the
swells took of the Aver a spondid dieplay of ftrurcets wee
rens fa the enures of the eusing.
AlMaCieerneee will be another of these
fashkoable rigosism es Monday next, at which all the
ladies pauses= pupae being planet—thin hall
Weems te • dew the soaks ler the punnet ewe&
The hilooleg lea list of the babes piecemeal hese whew
venchers wbe &tamed :—The Duchess of Rimmed, the
Merehlowes of Aborems, FTSIIOI.I Marabous et Leedom-
bony, the Morehienese of Outrider* the Oseatens et
Derby, the Comities of Mohr bury, the Copetess of Jassy,
the Ceentess of lisusull, the Camases of Seib* the
Comte. Dumps, of Lichfield, the Lady Charlotte Egerton,
the Viesounises Pslonnese, the Viscountess Combormere,
end As lady Awaited. Theme revived balls have peeved
more succustal than say shiner Mellow for many years
put, sod It hes been tally determined that they amill
fatale ha kept up Rely every season.

The inauguration of the Newton statue on St.
Ps 's-6111, Grantham, is arpsetod to take rhea on the 21st
of liartstator nett, the day before the mostiag of the British
Amortiation at Uric

We have musk pleasure in announcing that the
Terkiah goverment Me made ample betide:atom for the out-
rage arm Mr. Pcselemgee, the Comma- Omani! at Heigrarle.
na regiment to which the soldisr who made the attack epos
Mr. Fosblaagas belaseoi has ben withdraws. the WOW
and his /Akers bare been mat to Conateatteople for ALL
the Teat has meemally upremed the regret of the Bute
to the ereasl, sad Weir lam ►em Orel la ►osoer of the
DM* flag.— Mem

EVENING, JULY

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PORTUGAL.

An incident of some significance occurred in the
Portuguese Chamber on the 21st ult. The deputies
whose election had been proved valid were taking
the constitutional oath when the turn arrived of M.
Pinto Coello. This gentleman said he thought
it his daty to state that he complied with the for-
mality under certain reservations—that is to say,
while preserving his attachment to the cause
of Dom Miguel and to absolute monarchy.
The announcement produced a sensation in
the chamber, and a deputy ascended the tribune
to demand that members who refused to take the
oath unconditionally bo expelled. The majority
having acceded to this motion, the President invited
M. CoeUo to leave, and also another deputy, M.
has, who had made a similar declaration. Both
derides refused to move, adding that they would
only yield to force. In order to end so embarrassing
a situation, the President closed the sitting. '1 he
next day a liberal member urged that the two
deputies be heard, but ultimately a committee was
appointed to consider the whole cironmatanoeet

The Migueliats, on their part, have written to the
President, ukiog whether force will be need if they
present themselves at their posts. The President
will make no reply until the decision of the
committee is known.

FALL OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY.

A telegram from Madrid has been received in
Paris, which announces the fall of the Isturits Cabi-
net. O'Donnell is appointed premier; /*regret°,
minister of justice ; Corbero, minister of public
works; Maceda, minister of marine; and Herrera
retains his portfolio u minister of the interior. The
new ministry belongs to the party called the
" Liberal Union."

MADRID, Juxa 30.

General Concha has complained to the Spanish
government of insults from the English on the
occasion of the question about the slave trade.

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