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LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 24.

WE are not run that we should have called atten-
tios to an unfortunate misendermanding which has
arisen between the resident chief of the University I
of Cambridge and two of the officers to whose oar.
its moral discipline is confided, bad not the principal
facts otherwise obtained considerable notoriety.
Both at Oxford and Cambridge a supervision is ex-
ercised over the conduct of the students, individually,
such as could scarcely be maintained in any other
University, certainly such as would be impossible in
any large city. There, however, the prescriptive rights
and customs of ages lend a power to the authorities
which would in any other city be regarded as incon-
sistent with the liberties of Eagliahmen. No person
is regarded as a student of either of the two Vein,-
allies who is not a member of some particular Col-
lege, and each College exercises a paternal guardian.
ship over its pupils. They are amenable to • do-
mestic discipline. If they reside within the walls of
the College, they cannot pus out after &certain hour
of the night, and the hour at which they return to
College after nine or ten o'clock is strictly noted.
A collegian who is out after midnight, or absent all
night, must give • satisfactory account of his time to
the proper College authority. The reams of the stu-
dents are, moreover, subject at all times to the •isits-
tion of the Tutors se the Dias el the College, if
suspicion should arias that any improper person is
harboured therein. The Mediate who may reside
out of College receive in like manner the strictest
attention of the authorities. They may lodge only
in licensed houses. The landlords of these houses
most snake a strict return of the hours kept by
their inmates, and any irregularity of which they
may be guilty, upon pain of losing their license.
But in addition to this surveillance, which of course
could be exercised by any other educational body,
Oxford and Cambridge extend their supervision over
their students in all parts of their respective towns
and for some miles around. For the purposes of
this oversight two officers are appointed every year
as Proctors, and each Proster has so amistant,estled
• Pro-Proctor. These gestlemen, who are reddest
Mestere of Arts, and obsess from the Colleges i• a
fixed cycle, ass invested with great and summary
power.. They may eater Ley haw when they
have roman to sweet that • student is gambling
or guilty of any act of immorality. In Cam-
bridge there is a sort of Home of Correction, raid
the Spinaing•holm. If the Proctors or their moist-
ants, is their perambulations, should meet as the
streets of Cambridge any frail creature of inspected
virtue, her mere presence within the boundaries of
the town, although she might be conducting herself
with propriety, would be sufficient to ensure her resi-
dence in the Spinning-house. In the town of
Cambridge it would be impossible for any house of
ill-fame to exist without being at once suppressed
by the authorities. There is a village, however,
about a mile distant, where unfortunately such
places are not wanting. Their dangerous proximity
is, however, checked by the power of the Praetors,
who have the power of entering and swelling
them, when, if they find a student than, or even
near each a house, they have the power of punishing
the offender against good morals, or of reporting
the matter to the higher Collegiate or University
authorities.

It moat strike every one on teflection that the
Proctors, being armed with powers so inquisitorial,
so contrary to the genius of English laws and liberty,
ought to exercise them with temper and sound die-
cretioe. On the whole, we believe that in both
Universities they have done so, and hence the towns.
men both of Oxford and Cambridge have sub-
mitted to this extraordinary power with good grace,
knowing that it was exercised only for the good of
the students of the University.
Se much it seemed necessary t o premise for the
information of those who are not conversant
with University usages. We may now notice
the cause of the recent misunderstanding.
One of the Pro-Proctors at Cambridge lately
found a student of one of the Colleges in a house of
ill-fame at (keen o'clock is the evening. The stu-
dent, at once gave his name and College, on the de-
mand of the Pro-Proctor, who very properly reported
his offence to the authorities of his College. Hitherto
it has been the cuetom of the University fur the
Proctors themselves to punish the delinquents found
by them, or, if the gravity of the ease demanded it,
to hand them over to the College authorities for
punishment. We believe that the punishments so
inflicted have ►een severe, but, while chastising the
offender, a door for reformation and amendment his
generally been wisely left open, especially for a first
offence.

The Pro-Proetor who discovered this offender,
instead of permitting the Collegiate authorities to
punish him, brought his offence before the Court of
the Vice-Chancellor of the University. He gives SI
a reason fur departing from the octal custom, the
fact that the Statutes of the ['Divinity have lately
been altered, that one of the Statutes so altered
compels the Proctors to being all offences of greed
parity before the Vice Chancellor, and that the oases
being one of great gravity, he is compelled to take the
matter oat of the hands of theCalleae authorities and
transfer it to the teiversity. Now, though this is
the plea of the Pro-Preeter, it seems that previously
• dispute had arisen, or that some negotiations
Lad taken place, between the Pro-Proctor and the
Collegiate authorities, as to the punishment of the
*Seeder. The College were willing to rusticate--
that is, banish their student ben the University for