The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-07 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 7.

IT seems that the changes prepaid to be intro-
duced into the University of Orford Mill isoeupy some
share of public attendee, foe se late as Friday last
Mir JOHN PAILINGTON put a question to Air Gleam
GRAY touching the superior chime to filowehips of
what are called issAgenfer. !Ts some peruse, indeed,
the whole question of the HAM of oar older Utii
verities seems issignifleant. According to them, the
ideal University is a thing so utterly unlike the URl-
varsity of Oast d, even se reformed, that it tie a rows
waste of time to discuss the details of the Imposed
ehangsa Fe as, however, this view seems not a lithe
extravagant. Without doubt, the Univenk of Oxford
does, in Out, send forth a hest of um who, by
their talerts and elsoatioa, are enabled to ooeupy
positions of oonsiderable importance, sod, so fee, to
intones the destiny of this amity. It is
impossible to believe that the moms of these'
sea is entirely doe to their natural Caul-
lies, er to the place which they wimpy
by virtue of their birth. That susses sand in MOM
-degree at least be des, to the 'rim el alsreeise
under which their faculties have bum devolved.
It is imperials, therefore, be doubt that the

torten parasol at Oxford is of vary conaidoratolo

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oresequenee twills cosimaity at large; sad, however
that system, es reformed, ay fall short sf perfsetios,
still it is of importance le the public that I. the pro.
posed cheeses as mask Arabi be doss es 4811 be
*se, la cads, to moist these situps as whet Is
peseiWe.

War sea abort time ilia e'a'ses of moral Cello's*,
as sanatioaed by the Osessiedsaers, have been lying
•apn the We of the Home of Osomoests; sad it
usents that, in conseguesse e/ soave devils, these
•statute. have beam referred by do Goverment to a
tribunal in which, se we nadeestond, the Amoy=
and dominos Otutenat, ass to set es asseesere.
'The ditty of that tribead WI be te deter.

.alee whe.tiper the statutes is vodka see legal,

.and each 41 mist to reedy; s deal aseetroa:
Now, assay* the gentians which haws arises
upon thaw •zew ordinances fa tie question whe-
ther, la the . Wooden for sehelenhips awl Sallow-
- air, the powdery circa fuse= of the ass&
Aistee ought to be °outdated—whether, is aborts
the isdirales ought toes Joy a pelbonee over their
rivals. A esewswiel, it stems, bee bees draws up,

wirier disown of the poor ass. sad this asswariii
will probably be refereed far sessidersdoe to the
taunt is CoeweiL We will eot Narrator a newest
that the prayar of tbe memorialists will be treated,
4•111 altboogit It be soppleted by SW Jowl PAKOIO-
- sod the Oppodtioa. Nevertbeisee. it say be 1
waoresiset to state the ems of times memorialist% Ii I
order that task sew, sash sr it is, nay be widow
*food.
It is arpd that the objector the Mt et Parllaweat

WAS sot to downy bat to Fonds the wain later
doss of the Maisano; that the dame pumas whom
• them handers latooded to basolit were sot rich masa
who amid supply thiamine with adaoatioa, bat

peer men who were deprived of this advantage; and
' that it rich men si persitted to compete it evil
toms with poor emo, sot only will poor meta be
placid at a diaadvaatap b 7 Wag is. auntally ba-
mboos/1 and therefor* less completely prepered, bet
the Colleges, being filled with rich rasa who need sot
the pecuniary aid blipped by Meg the Oa* of
tutors, will be deprived ei their staff of tutors. loth
are mug the grounds opts which it is vehemently
and even pathetically urged, that in the elution he

a seholanisip or for a laloWship Poverty aboald, if
poseible, be an essestial validation. Bat in trath
wbole of this kind-hearted theory is Aber
founded as mistaken fasts or most preen Wooly
impraetleable to practise. In tbe firm plasm it is
obvious tbat so as sax give a rational definition
et an indlipme. What is a pose w? Mist he be
a person in absolute want t or a man whom though
blond with a wanitby bat Iliastanai beim 11 finial

*lmeisey aid Unrolls k wastior asian who,
having say some 2,00 W., hes bees asiblod to ge
the thsiverety by spending his NOW is hopes el
getting a tooting in the world; or s sea who,
although he has nothing at preset, yet has meets
dome, se a tsonsiderobis Stomas at mesa
hen hie father or his /rise& P How is it pos-
sible to determine this condos except by per-
seal knowledge of $ tinily, shit& say be
side the mans of perpetrating infinite irdastise
*Nothing, surely, tea be more aims thea Set the

prtuste-elremitseess of familia should be part of
dm 'videos, to be Lid before eximiasra ia ardor to

alibis them to sons to a onolosion es.tothe COS:

land,' merits of the candidates. Mtkieg the world
as it is, there ma be no doubt that a poor man will
always practically enjoy as advantage over his fisher
sompotitor. Moo may mike what laws they plies%
bar, so loot as generosity or harmoity 'oboists, then
swill also be • natural deers to promote the interest of
die poor mils who, by hie industry sad fatelkeees,
km provod his (Wert& 130 for we admit that the plea
of
poverty ought to peva bet to admit it further
would be neither trine nor even postimbio.
' Abstmetedly, °famine, it is impossible to saintala
that mere poverty is soy reams why eso wee should
he poised la a Emmy cempetftion to ssother. Is.
deed. there is ao more reason why the qualifisation
of
poverty.' should be considered Ilea the pleas of
birth or the phew of education I and yet, all nab local
polemist have by Act d Parliament been expressly
abolished. This lamentatios over the rights of
the poor is only another form of lamentation
over tige righted the sooopolist. It is a part of the
ems selfish system. Nevertlielesi, it is may to so.
dentand the feeling which prompt' men, sad toped.
ally admiral Fellows of Colleges, to emboss" the
par studentemose. These asstimestsledvusatssbye
tome day or other to settle is some soontry &log,
to way, to beget aces sod daughters. Thane mos
nee be edusated, bat still they may be rather diall.
Plot having led the "dummies of a patine school
sioosties, it of the routine "ram, they will
/abase wader disadvantages compared with those
who have bed the benefits of the best pubis wheel
sad the beet private tato.. It mood, of seam.
be espostri that their ambitious trod clorisel sires
shoal& misty 'equines is their eons' isJedoety, and
Et case isterealao to mod thous—met late ordain—
bat isiee mese inferior peefemiem Ia moo
lest it is doer that snob ores of qmoadass Fellows WI
be worsted. The only plus, thanionb b, that pm
vasty, that the matiogensies of whet the key weal&
have teased oat if be had bed every Nkomo. of
edesseirm, shell be taken late sostmat. Thus them
amiable men hope that the son may be ambled to tallow
the career ot tb parent, end moy net be essepolisd to

dowsed in the wale of society. Bat all this gentian-
tality is not only singularly weak but singalarlyesllish.
University scholarships and fellowships are too vale-
able to be abused in this fuhion. There is no KUM Irby
the son of a clergyman, of a laiewr, or of a physisinel,
because his father proved blond/ worthy of • superior
eduatios, should be entitled to the same grivilege.
To encourage meritorious poverty is an excellent
thing, but to encourage meritorious wealth is not
less excellent. Indeed, as the Mins of doing good
within the teach of a rich man are more extensive
I than those within the reach of the poor man, it
would almost Ism as if the encouragement of lite-
rary industry among the rich might be more im-
portant than the encouragement of the same industry
among the poor. At all events, seeing the terrible
abuses to which the principle of favouring poverty.
as poverty, may lead, it is impossible to sanction the
principle advocated by Sir Jonw PAILINOTON and his
friends.

As for the practical dialculty, that by electing to
fellowships, without regard to pecuniary einem-
stenos, so many rich men will be elected that the
Colleges will be left without tutors, it is sufelent to
lay that the danger contemplated is simply imaginary.
As a matter of fact, neither is it true that the men
who are eo wealthy as to decline residence will absorb
all er even a majority of tie fellowships ; nor is it
true that sea of independent means do in foot de-
cking the Ace of tutors. It is well known that each
men, whom bent of mind inclines them to education
and to study, even covet such situation's. One thing,
at all events, in char, that, if there be any troth in
the payer of those who advocate the image of
the eedigenter, the clam who Roder the present
open system will obtain scholarships and fellewehips
will be superior to the clam who would obtain seek
prises if the plea poverty were to be considered.
It is clear, therefore, that as ability and industry
mast be the sole test of merit under the present eye-
tem, the poor men who an the object of so mock
solicits& will be encouraged and oven compelled to
improve their fanlike to the fall, and to abandon the
degrading privilege of piecing out the imperfection
of their Waldo by the poverty of their estate.