The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-22 00:00:00

THF EXPRESS,

sandy, the teaching of religion in preference to all other
isenalem If they Wilk the university s pleas for persons
not rionoseted with the chtrcb, they might make it a One
for free thinkers, but they would make persons =plaices
of sending their sous there, and it would be
necessary for those who were la favour ef ditia
ties religions teaching to look elsewhere. He be-
lieved if they passed this bill they would destroy
the character) of the Yniversity of Oxford, sod instead
of an usiveraity for religious teaching they would have an
university for that sort of secular learning which might be
as wall karat anywhere else. (Hear, beer.)
Mr. 00SOLIEN, having Ind the honour Last year of bring.
lag in a bill almost identical with that of the hoe. member
for Exeter. wished to say a few words simply expressing
his individual opinion upon the subject, He believed there
would be as many voluntary churchmen in the university
after the test had been abolished ea there were now of
those who were compelled to subscribe, (Hear, hear.)
Churchnianship was not produced by tests at all, and hie
belief was that if the bill passed the university would
be quite as orthodox as it was now. Hoe. mambas
thought the effect would be to put ea end to the
lectures on the definite theoleo the church of llogleed.
Where did they all learn theology at Oxford! It wee at
the colleges, and as long as the c nosh of England bad •
majority in the university those lectures would not be
given up, for they could not expect that if the university
remained full of churchmen that they would mese to exer-
cise that general supervision which they now exercised over
the education. The introduction of a few, or even of a large
number of dissenters, would not in any way weakest the
hold the universities had upon the church, while the
church would be strengthened by the removal of
the test ; and if the religions bashing INSS
continue in the University of Oxford, notwithstanding
the admission of dissenters, then bon. members opposite,
upon their own admission, would be ready to vote foe the
bill (Hear, hear.) He aid not know what the intention
el the 1100. member for Exeter might be, but he trusted he
mould adhere to the principle that the privileged given to
dissenters must be given in their full extent, and that they
should be entitled to the degree, and all the privileges inoi
dent to the degree. (Cheers.)
Lard CEARBORNE thought the right hon. gentlenisa
might congratulate himself upon having secured the aid of
the hon. member for Exeter, wboee eloquence was unsur-
passed, while his ch irchmanahip and affection for the
university were beyond goodies. Bat • decoy deck
might be more dangerous than say other seimaL (A laugh.)
He would express his opinion epos this bill. It was one
for the abolition of all religions education in the University
of Oxford. He wished to ask hoer gentlemen opposite what
they mend by unsectarian religion He would nominate
• committee to inquire and report to the house--(bler,
hear) —and they should consist of the bon. and lea
ned.
member for Dusdalk (Sir G. Bowyer)—(Lag—both the
hon. members for Sheffield (Mr. 'buck and Mr. Hadfield),
as he believed thee represented two schools of religion ;
the hon. members for Birmingham (Mr. Bright), Leeds (Mr.
Babies). Exeter (Mr. Coleridge), sad Westminster (Mr. IL
Mill) ; sad they should have for their chairman the hen.
member for Canterbury (Kr. Butler-Johnstone). (Laughter.)
He would ask them cot to allow their proocediop to be
in private, for be believed they would be very amusing.
(Hear, bear.) Bat be feared that inch • committee
would scarcely repressed the quarrels and disputes whisk
would take place at Oxford. The only result of all these
, differences would be that religions teaching at the noire:-
city would be got rid of *Reptile', and in its place there
would be a sectarian system. He had been in hopes that
some settlement of this question would have been smiled
at, but now it must be fought out in that Mose. (Hem,
hear.)
Mr. MORLEY said that in dealing with this *quertirm
they should not forget that the endowments at Oxford
were intended to be not exclusively for the church of Eng-
lard. Some of the colleges were founded before the Rotor-
=then, and there were few which required any declaration
of religious belief ; but they did require in most Mennen
prayers for the souls of the founders, showing that
these colleges were in the highest and strictest sense
national endowments, and that they were amenable to
the views of that house. This was not in any
sense a dissenter's question. (Hear, beer.) There were
large bodies of churchmen crying loudly for an inquiry
into it ; and quite apart from any sectarian prejudices it
was, is his opision, • question which ought to be dealt
with in a large spirit. Hs hoped that in the result of that
discussion there would be found means of meeting the
difficulties of all parties. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. COLERIDGE replied, and said he should be untrue
to his own convictions, and to those who had allowed him
to be their spokesman, if he held out any terms of eon-
promise—(hear, bear)—which should be in opposition to
the simple principle of the bill, which was to make the
University of Oxford a asthma institution for all the sub-
jects of the realm. (Cheen.) He was seen that that appeared
to the right hoe. member for Caine (Mr. Lowe) seek a
contemptible measure. It was a short, a simple measure,
but by no means unimportant. (Hear, hear.) As to its
being a non-religious bill, his answer was to refer to the
feat that the existing teaching, though distinctive, did not
prevent controversies. With the views which he had ex-
pressed he should go to a division.

The house divided :
For the mood reedier 217
Against it lO6-114

On the question that the bill be read a sewed time
Sir S. NORTHCOTE wished to explain that in the
course of thedetateagreat many members on that side of the
house—l" Oh, oh." and " Hear, hear I—bad left the house,
under the impression that there would not be any division.
He did not accept the result of the division as the conclu-
sive opinion of the house upon the principle of the bilL
At any rate the house would have a fair opportunity of
expressing its opinion on a future occasion, for the prin.
1 ciple of the bill would be challenged again in some form
or soother. (Cheers.)
Ifr. COLRRIDGE understood that the observations of
the hon. baronet equally applied to that side of the bonne— 1
I (bear, hear)—for many hon. members in favour of the bill
1 bad left under that impression. The oonchurion at which
the house bad arrived was so far satisfactory, and the boo.
baronet end his friends could take what course they liked
when the bill came before the home litiiio. (Hear, hear.)
The committee on the bill was then fixed for the 16th of

Xa.
The New Forest Poor Relief Bill wee road • assead
that.

BOSTON ELECTION PETITION.

Kr. E. &MILTON, the chairman of the Boston election I
committee, brought up the report of the committee, which
was to the effect that they had unanimously determined
that the election of Thomas Parry, Eq., was a void deo-
don, and that Ifeaburn Stanilsad, Eaq., was duly sleeted.
The committee bad struck off the poll for Thome Parry,
Esq., the names of Harvey and other peados who bed ne
right to vote, and they also reported that several persons
were bribed by sum. of i 1., 61, and AL respectively, to vote
at the election for Thomas Parry, Esq., but there was so
evidence to show that Thomas Parry, Esq., or his agent,
was guilty of that baibery.
The Clerk of the Crown was ordered to attend to-morrow
at the bar, for the purpose of amending the return for this
borough.
The Eccledastical Leases (Isle of Kan) Bill was read a
emend time ; and the following bills were reed a third time
and passed :—Dockyard Extensioas Act Amendment
County Courts Bill, and Sheriff Coact Houses (Scotland)
Act (1860) Amendment Bill.

The other business was disposed of, sad the house ad.
Joni-sad shortly before 6 o'clock.

FOUND DYING ON ♦ RJILWAY.-Mr. Bedford, the

coroner for Westminster, resumed hat evening an isquiry
at St. Ciecesteh Hospital, which lasted several hours, rela-
tive to the death, under very extraordinary eraumstaricea, of
Henry Wells, aged 34 years. Mr. Church, solicitor, appeared
for the Loudon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com psay, and
Mr. B. Hutchipeon represented the widow and children of '
the deceased. The facts elicited oo the previous occasion
have been already reported. It will be recollected
that the deceased was at the Victoria station at a
quarter to 9 o'clock p.m., and wee found lying with
both legs broken user the metals at the railway, close
to the Stevrart's-lane station, at 1 o'clock a.m. Yes-
terday Mr. Church said he had present the guards of all
the trains which went from Victoria to Stewart's-lane on
the night in question, but not one of them had observed the
der/amid or saw any carriage door open. Mr. Britaiiinsem
said that the inference was irresistible either that the pre-
sent was another Muller case, or that the railway servants
were not speaking the truth. Not only the hat butthe great
coat of the deceased were missing, and no trace of them could
be found, and be bad reason to believe that a railway accident
had happened oa the night on another part of the line, bat the
company hushed it up. Mr. Blackett, superintendent of the
Victoria station, said that if any accident had Mkss place
on that night he must certainly have heard of it. Ha heard
no rumour of the kind. Several of the persons employed
on the railway were severely cross-examined respecting the
affair, but no light was thrown upon it. Mr. T. Hughes,
M.P., who interested himself in the case for the family of
the deceased, also suggested questions, but without any re-
sult. Mrs. Wells said that her husband left her at s .
quarter to 9 o'clock os the Saturday evening to go by
the railway to Wandsworth-road statics. He had s :
return ticket, and he said be would go and see the.
the children were all right. He Iris sober, and was
always steady. Be wore a greet coat and a hat. He
sever used the expression " mate " to anyone. Inspector
Hank, of the railway police, said that be had not ben
able to trace either the hat or the great coat of tha de-
emed. Neither could It be ascertained where he was
from 9 o'clock until he was found near 1 o'clock in the
morning. Sergeant Whyman, metropolitan polio', said
that none of the men on duty near S tewart's-lase bad
observed anything peculiar on the night in goodi Mr.
Hutchinion said, that if the railway people really found
the dammed on the spot mentioned, it was manifest that
be must hare been robbed and dung out of a railway car-
riage. His bat must otherwise have been found. Mr.
(litre& nil obit the pleat wee emperatively open. and
diets epe might Immense is and steles it. Mr. Butehie-
imei mid thdit Obi ire& ipoist Dodd not have bole stoles is
the mate ow. Thcfayiey wee adjoenied for thew
le give tine le the pekes to trace the miming roperrillyit
the desveasi.
LONDON GINIRAL ONNIBITS CONIPANY (LZmTD).
—Trade reocipte foe tie week ending Nara 18,10,6881.
19'.114.

Before this committee yesterday,
John Jogai, snows deatlat of Regenkroad, Great
Yarmouth, was swore, sod, is reply to Kr. Grippe, said
that on Yu evening before the election Yr. John Resistor'
sailed epee him mod placed a parcel =Mire* 24 half-
eeveralgos
.osi the mouthpiece of his room, sayiag, " Hind,
Ido not give this to you." Witham replied,_" If I do
not vote for you I will return it to you. (La bter.)
aterhad asked him to vote for Sir Edmund
Goodson. &Oates then left. He went out the
hack way. Eagleton, when going out, put a handker-
chief to kis month, raying he did so Y ao many people
wereaboot. He held the handkerchief to hie mouth, ea if his
were suffering from an excraciating molar. (Laughter.)
Hint day be met Eagleton, and went with him into the
Boyd Standard Inn, and be there banded him back the 24
helfoovereigne, stating that he had been offered 31. 10s.
more by Mr. Foulsham—(laughter)— to vote for Vanderbyl
and Breeden. Witt ess.voted for the liberal candidates, for
a esosideration.
Mr. O'Malley—How much did you get I—Fouleham gave
me 161., and I returned him half a sovereign for hie trouble.
(Laughter.) •
You expected more from the conservative ?—Yea, I ex-
pected 201. Mr. Eagleton said he oonid command my vote,
and I felt indignant with him. (Laughter.)
Edward Marton examined—Saw Hr. Eaglet= before the
election. Promised him to vote for Lama and Goodson.
His principles were that way. Before the day of polling
Mr. Fogleton give witness 101., saying, "Mind, this bee
nothing to do with anything—(laughter)—it is my own pri-
vate money." Wittier did not consider it a bribe. He was
not influesieed in the least by the money, as he would have
voted with his own aide whether or no. He took the money

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for loss of time. He did hot koe much time.
James Smith examined—ls a tailor, and an elector of
Yarmouth. Before the alestion Mr. Cooper, the prfuter,
said if he voted with him ha would get LK, and if there
woe no contest he would receive 101. No name was men-
tioned, bat witness guessed who was meant. The day be-
fore the polling winner went to the Star Hotel to see Ns.
Cooper, to know would it be all right. (Laughter.) Asked
Kr. Cooper would it be all right, and he said it would be.
Witness said he should like to have it at once. (Laughter.) •
Mr. Cooper said he could not eve it then sod witness went
away, and voted for the Shand oardidatel.
Orose-examthed by Nr. Clarke—Roosived money feta the
blues fer his vote. (Laughter.) Does not know the man
who pre it. Itimeived it at the shop of Mr. Wright, a
shoemaker. Saw Mr. Bostwick last week. May have told,
him be would like to come to Leedom. Witoess does mot
remember having said he did not care which side he mate
up for. Would not swear he did not.
Tin Chairman—How much did you get from the blues
for your votel-201. (Laughter.)
Who from 1-1 solemnly swear I do not known the person
who gave it to me.
William Smith, beerhonse.keeper, deposed that Mr.
Witshark, prior to the *bootie*, asked him for his vote.
Voted for the sitting msmters. W lishark gave him 151.
Voted for the liberals at the former election. Could not
tell what the 15/, was for.
The Chairman—Do you mesa to Swear that you do' not
know what the 151. was paid to you for I—Well, I assure
you no envereatiou passed cm the sit. What be said
was, " I have brought you this," alluding to the 151.
Bdmund Clarke examined—Beceiv 151. from Wil.
shark, less 10e. Voted the other way. (Laughter.)
Cromexamined—Reoeived 101. from a stranger and voted
for the liberals.
The Chairman inquired whether the *Naomi thought it
consistent with right ideas of morality to take 151. from one
aide and 101. from the other.
Witness—Wen, I took the money, air. (Laughter.) I
always vote on the literal side.
Itobt. Hobbs deposed that he received 151. from Wm.
Myth to vote for the conservatives, and then he took Mt
froth the other. He pocketed 301. in all.