The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE

EDUCATION.
Yr. WHALLEY called attention to the report of the
Cossmittee,of Council on Education (1860 and 1861, p. 195),
so far as respects the reports of the Roman catholic in-
'pesters on Roman catholic schools receiving grants of
public massy and asked why the reports of certain in-
spectors had Leen omitted from the reports presented to
parliament, and moved for further papers. The hon. mem-
ber complained that 184,000/. was voted to Roman catholic
schools over which government had no control, and that the
money was applied not only to purposes of education, but
to the extension of the Roman catholic religion generally.

MR. DUNLOP'S DESPATCHES.
Mr. GRIFFITH moved for copies of the deepatchee of
Mr. Dunlop, from Pesth, when acting lately as diplomatic
agent cif the government in that lomdity ; and asked what
part bar Itaitstys government took in the differences be
Austria and Hungary.
Lord PALMERSTON, in declining to produce the papers,
which could not be given up without prejudice to the pub.
lac service, mid that he was of opinion that Austria should
be preserved as a great empire in the centre of Europe ; and
an to the differences between that empire and.Haaprh
they left them to be settled by the parties themetives,
whatever might be their opinion as to the right' of the
one or the other.
Motion withdrawn.
CITIES AND BOROUGHS.

On the motion of Mr. B. Semi, a return wan speed
to showing the population within the parliamenniry
boundaries of each city and borough returning members to
partiament according to the cenrua of 1861.

ANNOYANCE JURORS (WESTMINSTER) BILL.
The Londe' amendments to this MI were wood to.
The Coosolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bal. But India
Loan (No. 1) Bill, Militia Pay Bill, and Militia Ballots Sus-
pension Bill pissed through committee.

confidence. For the third time within a period of little
SKIM than two years I have now the honour of taking my
mat is the Commons house of parliament as the representa-
tive of this ancient and distinguished city, and as the choice
of your undivided election. (Cheers.) I return my warmest
thanks, not only to the cordial friends who have given me
that earnest support which secures me my place in the great
council of the realm, but I also desire to make my
acknowledgment. to all those fair opponents, of what-
ever shade of political opinion, who allow these
elections to pass without putting as to the trouble
of any needless and unnecessary conflict, knowing,
as I believe they do, that we, even when we
differ from them in opinion, are animated by the single de-
sire, in harmony with them, to promote the common great-
nem and the common welfare of'that great country to which
it is our privilege to belong. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I
appear before you now in consequence of • peat calamity
which ha occasioned changes to be made in the constitution
of the government. I allude to the serious illness and oon-
=t retirement from an arduous office of one of the
and most honoured, and most distinguished of the ser-
, vents of the crown. (Hear.) Of the personal qualities of that
most eminent man I will notisermit myself to speak, because
it has been my privilege to be associated with him in the
domed friendship all the period of my political life ;
bet of the public services which he has rendered to the
coonlep, in limit is probably the most arduous of all the
rem el the slate, every &shaman—nay, ev person
conversant with the public affairs of Europe and ery
the world
—is • wilmens. (Cheers.) The but great service he ren-
dered was is se ding to Chime that noble expedition which,
sizsald with all the heist faplemeata of warfare
disseessisa have placed at our disposal, was
so tbaree and prudently prep red es to be en-
abled Memos half over the globe without in-
carringestopiest sacrifice of life, and was fur-
Aber in seneert with our allies, to vindicate
the homer d earthy, and to establish relation, of
amity and see mere whit the Chinese people. (Cheers.)
Lord Herbert will be lemeeded in that office by a most able
end distiligniehed man, and lam sure you will feel that the
policy of this reentry will be maintained by all the servants
of the crown--a policy which requires that both the sister
sinless should be maintained in that high state of efficiency
switabie to the power, to the position, and to the
=sis d ow country-00k la my hived Mr.
bas mid, from distrust of any other
country, not from any desire for aggrandisement
au our part, but from the single feeling that a great oaths
lih&,Spored. which has a right to be heard in the console
el the wletilk nsd whom example is looked up to by the
=Mow et the world, ought to mdmiras herself in that stets
of mese sod conscious power that she need-her mkt tegive
ber iadepeudent opinion, and to express with a voice of
just autnority those counsels for freedom lied independenon
which ere dear to the heart of every subject of the Queen.
(Cheers.) My friend Mr. Castle has alluded to the
foreign policy of the country. That policy, whether it be
European or whether it be American, is the same policy
with that of the English people, of which it is indeed but
the just reflection. It is the love of freedom, the love of
program, and, as regards America, a sincere sorrow for every
calamity that affect& our brethren across the water, and •
sincere desire that, under the guidance of Providence, the
blessings of pearls and tranquillity may speedily be restored
to them. I have, gentlemen, by your favour, from spend-
ing the last two years in the government of the sister king-
dom) associated with • lord. ieutenant who, from the day when
be first gathered his early laurels in this place down to the
time at which I speak ha yearly grown in the esteem and
affection both of England and Ireland. During that time
many of the measures that have been brought forward have
been subjects of the deepest interest to that people. I sin-
cerely hope that they have been dealt with by the present
government in a spirit to promote that cordial attachment
and that diminution of ancient feelings of an opposite kind
which are chiefly wanted to promote in that country
the growing spirit of industry and improvement
which is so remarkably manifest from one end of that king-
dom to the other. There is now growing up there a spirit of
industry and improvement most creditable to the energies
and character of that people, and most conducive to the
Clhappiness and tranquillity of the realm. (Hear.)
ose, in that office I am about to be succeeded by the
Inheritor of a name which than all otter names is more dear
to the Irish people--by the sou of that great man who,
called from us by a premature calamity, bequeathed
to his countrymen the invaluable inheritance of com-
mercial freedom and of civil and religious liberty.
I am quite sure, indeed. I know it from
himself, that my right hon. friend Sir Robert Peel
goes to Ireland with the warmest affection for the honoured
m of his father, with the most sincere desire to walk
inehniV , and with an earnest determinetion to leave
the name no Lr honoured sad no less enshrined in the
ha affections of
s the people than be found it. (Cheers.) Wherever
doe and bewill ...a on sumo•PosAigo kb, /.»,d. we.
&Wert power, and I earnestly hope that he
commences his career under auspices which will lead tosigoal
and satisfactory results. (Cheers.) For my part I shall
always feel in everything that concerns the welfare of that
generous and warm-hearted people a grateful sense of the
unvarying kindness I have experienced from them on every
occasion, and the warmest and deepest interest in every
measure which Mods to promote their welfare and
But, gentlemen, it is to you, the citizens of Oxford
owe the privilege of having been permitted to take part in
any of the public councils of the country. It is to
you that I son indebted for the power of ex-
pressing my • sentimenta or of giving effect to my
("Woos. My hon. friend Mr. Castle, in his excellent speech,
spoke to yon of the progress of legislation. He has only
rendered a just homage to that great public opinion which,
after all, is the highest court of appeal in this free and
intelligent country, by which measures are matured, by
which measures are agreed upon, and without which no
great change in the government or constitution of
the country will ever be permitted to be car-
ried into effect. Of that public opinion the
press in the first instance is the agent, and after
your opinions have been sufficiently ventilated by that greet
organ of the public mind, then come the more deliberate
and formal discussions of the two houses of parliament in
the settlement of those measures by which your interests
and destinies in future are to be governed. I will not
fatigue you by entering at any length upon questions of
domestic interest But this I will say, that that successful
expedition to China, to which I have adverted before, being
at an end, we have been enabled, while still maintain-
ing our estatdishmente in that state of efficiency
in which you are all determined they shall be maintained,
to reduce the public burdens and relieve the pressure of
taxation. That relief we have given, I believe with your
entire consent, partly to direct and partly to indirect
taxation, and I know of at least one citizen of Oxford, my
excellent friend Alderman Towle, who sincerely rejoices
that as in the last session the last protective duty
was removed from foreign imports, so in the
session which is now expiring the last duty is
abolished which pressed upon any article of domestic fabric
in this country. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, for this unanimous
election I return ou my sincere sod cordial thanks. I feel,
gentlemen, that Dam speaking, out in the presence only of
constituents, but to a great extent of personal fronds, and
I cannot but feel that the ties which attach me to this an-
cient city are so numerous and so strung that they must
endure to the latest hour of my existence. I cannot say
this without feeling deeply—and I am sure you will
scmps atthise with me in that feeling—that one of the
and the dearest of thiae ties has lately been severed
by the will of Providence (referring to the death of Dr.
Cardwell, Priocipal of St. Alben's College). But while I
fee, that, and express it, the convictions and sentiments
which attach me to you and to this city are stronger as they
are earlier than those of politha ; and should—as I hope it
never will be--my coonexiou with you be severed in its
political relations, feelings of attachment to this place, and
to those to whom I am so much indebted, will survive to
the latest moment of my life. Gentlemen, I beg to return
you my most cordial thanks for the kindness with which
you have treated me. (Loud cheers.)
The proceedings were then brought to a close by a vote of
thanks to the mayor.