The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1857.

grants? In the coarse of things many spoor friend-
less boy of 15 or 18 in oar remote village* and thronged
manufacturing towns will come before them, whose
genius may thus have the means of attracting the
attention of those who can assist to reward it. Is mach
cases the hundreds of echolarsbipe and fellowships
now open at the Uninmities would tarnish an obvious
resource. The Examiners would naturally point out 1
the course to be pursued; and thus many a youth
may be reserved to do honour to his country.
who, under other circumstances, might have passed
a life of obscurity or discontented neglect. We do
not assert that a benefit each as this will be the ordi-
nary benefit of these examinations. The substantial
result will be found in the fact that every middle elan
school throughout England will be praotically placed
under a strict inspection. Many schoolmasters will,
no doubt, at once submit themselves to examination
in ceder to obtain a connexion with the Univer-
sity, and that status in their profession which such
• connexion implies. But beyond this, the allealle
of candidates at these examinations will operate
as a sort of test of tie education which they
have received, just as success at the Universities
themselves is claimed as • test by the various public
schools in England. In short, the parents in the
middle climes will by these examinations be furnished
with a cheap means of knowing whether their
children have been well taught; the able teachers
sad the able scholars will be enabled to show their
abilities to the world ; sad a stimulus will thus be
given to middle clue education which moat be of
the utmost advantage to the country.

THE

INDIAN MUTINIES.

VERSATILITY OF A FRENCH
BTATZSMAY.

In 18,52 M. Dnpin, who has now accepted the
office of Procureer-Genend at the Court of Caseation, on
tho appointment of the Emperor, addressed the following
letter to M. Louts Napoleon, than President of the Republic.
It announces Ms resignation of the °Moe of Procurear-
General on amount of the confiscation of the Orleans
property:

"PARIS, Jan 23, 1852.

"To the President of the Republic,l-1 regret exceedingly
that, previous to the publication of the decree which I have
read this mouing in the Noniteur, you had not heard my
opinion with the lame kindness you have sometimes maid-
betel towards me. I should have tried to demonstrate to
you, not merely in the private interests of the children, the
greater part minor', of the late king—of whom lam one of
the testamentary executere,—but in the interest of your own
government, that those who suggested that measure are not
acquainted with the facts, sad that they have disregarded all
the roles of law end equity. In fact thank an extreme exag-
geration (getout to the amount of half) to the enkaate made of
the property of the Orleans family. In law the decree violates
in its essence the very principle of propertl. This right of
property was recognised, after a &elven discussion, in the
pawn of the late King by the 22nd end 23rd clauses of the
law of March 2, 1832 ; and in the person of his children by
the very acts of the revolution of February, by the decree of
the Constituent Assembly of the 25th of Oct. 1648,and by the
law of the National Assembly of Feb. 4, 1850, promulgated
by your government, and authm:sing the loan of 20,000,000
on that property by you Minister of Finance. Thus, public
right, will, epode] laws, contracts, all have recognised in
the hands of the peaces of the house of Orleans their
right to the property which the decree of January 22
deprived them of all at once, and in a manner me absolute
that the sacred t:ghte of the tomb, the be-ill-ground of
Deena, ere not even exoeptcd. If the constitution of
January 15 was in operation, the senate might be appealed
to, in virtue of the 26th article, which permits that body to
make opposition to the promulgation of laws which are cow
Leery to the inviolable character of property. In the preset
state of thiuge the orly course is to appeal to you, Prince,
end to Invoke pons wisdom and the magnanimity of your own
Beans when they ere again consulted, and more delibe-
lately listened to. Bat if these rigorous matures are to be
maintained, a great scruple arks from the depth of my con-
science. As Procureer-General to the Caret of
Cessation for nearly twenty-two yeare—sa the prin.-
4'l organ of the law in that high branch of
jeriedidion, charged as I am by the government
to proclaim the constant respect to tight, end to require the
reversal and the :annulling of acts which violate the
law' or whichproceed from exam of power by the govern-
ment, how shall I be above henceforth to exercise the mar
&mum if acts are introduced in ow legislation white see
in contradiction with these principles ? I feel mystlf broad,
therefore, to tender you my resignation. But I pray you,'
Prince, and in an earnest manner, nut tor:Misunderstand my
motives. The resolution I have adopted has nothing to do
with politics. As president of the late Assembly, I
rigorously kept myself apart front parties end their
fatal division, end limited toyed/ to the task
of maintaining, as much as I individually we'd,
the legal and morel doctrines on which the emended
order of civilised society reposes. After the coop decor of
Dec. 2, against which it became my duty to protest as I have
done, I walks' the judgment of the people, appealed to by
you. After that solemn judgment I adhered frankly to the
im-
mense powers which were the result of that appeal,conaidering
them as the strongest guerantes that could be presented to
preserve or re-establish thoeo principles which a wild
sodalism had enlinger, l and menaced; and, es a public
functionary, my 00-operation was loyally given to you. Bat
at the present moment, and on a Tunica of civil right and
of private rights, of natural eqrity, end of ell Cr-istian
notions of what is jut and tinkled, and which I cherish in
my soul for more than fifty years as a lawyer and a magis-
trate, I feel myself absolutely called on to resign my tune-
dons of procurenr-general. Be pleased, Prince, to accept
the sentiments of my respectful oonsideration.

"Durix,

THE INDIAN Dna" FUND.

The committee of the above fend having received
many generous offers of homes, education, and, in many in•
stances, of the entire adoption of orphans of sufferers by the
mutiny in India, express their sense of the great assistance
they shall derive from these Mien, when the whole of the
eases arising oat of the mutiny, and the exact circumstances
of the children, shall be fully known. Already, in England
alone, eighty-11a children who are more or less in need of
essistanee, have been brought to the notice of the committee ;
bat the seeeente from India show that by far the greats
number are still at the different stations in that country.
From an authentic document recently received, no lees than
2,500 females and non-adulta, many of whom are doubtless
erphans,are known to have been at that time in the fort of Agra.
At Lucknow there were a great many ; end the Hill &Mims
of Nam Tat, Muasouree, and Simla were crowded with
futitive familia from Onde, Robilcund, Delhi, end the
North-West provinces. Our recent heavy lower at Delhi
end Lucknow will also add considerably to the number of
orphan,.
The attention of guardians of children, whose f 4•ndlees
condition and diatreseas err directly tractable to the mutiny,
is requested to the following gement statement of offers at
the dial nal of the committee. Further information (if re-
quired) will be supplied on application to either of the how-
ray acrobats' of the Belief Committee, on proof being
given that the MOB are such as justify the grant of aid from
this fund.

EXETER HALL.

THE REV. Ht7OH (STOWELL BROWN.

Last evening the second of the course of lectures
intended for the members of the Young Men's Christian
Association was delivered in this hs'l, Mr. Samuel Morley
in the chair. The Rev. Samuel Minton having offered up
prayers, the chairman called upon the Rev. Hugh Stowell
Brown to commence his lectors, the subject of which dis-
cussion was "Manliness." The rev, lecturer without any
preliminary remarks entered at once upon his subject. lie
said that " Mealtime" properly understood was the one
thing needful, for that manliness and virtue were Men-
tical ; if, therefore, we knew what virtue wee we know
what was manlineas. Its essential conditions were truth-
fulness, temperance, chastity, fortitude, good temper, bow
volence, and godliness. The Romans for moral excellence
of ewe y kind used the word " virtue," the root of
which was " (men), and we had the equivalent
to it in the word " manlinien," which had the same root.
Every teen, them, who was virttents was manly, and every
man who was vicious wee unmanly. Many a man who stood
six feet high, and who was generally looked upon as manly,
was frequently a mere pigmy, while many a dwarf was a
real giant. if the conditions of =climes were physicist
form and intellectual power, none but the very strong or the
very wiser or witty could attain it ; but it was within the
tomb of every one when it was considered as everything that
can beautify and adorn and glorify human nature. In the
lighter part of his lecture the reverend gentleman approved
of fencing, wrestling, cricket, rowing, coursing, hunting,
yachting, chess, end billiards, end such games, as way
exercises, but ridiculed end denounced as brutalising, effe-
minate, and demoralising, hores-racing, dancing, and play-
going, excepting musical entertainments, which are soothing,
animating, cheering, and altogether humanising. He wee
particularly humorous in describing the characteristics of
"fast" men, and in giving specimens of their slang, but
yoke seriously and strongly against every form of limn-
newness. In adverting to manliness in relation to religion,
and in meshing of the Mom mesa, Mr. Brown said that he
had read many religions tracts, published at • penny or two-
pence, which had no spark or ray of light unless committed
to the gamer. Ile should loathe to place any of them in the
hands of a sceptical mechanic to teach him that Christianity
was a truth, for he should be very much surprised if they
did not confirm him in his opinion that Christianity was
weakness and erldtion. Religion, however, had no ma-
son to be ashamed of its literature, for it wee relicion per-
'adieu the mind that gave to the world Milton's "Families
Lost," and Bunyan', " Pilgrisn's Progress," and Butler's
Analogy," and Paley's "Heideman," awl " Horn
Pauline'," and Foster's " Emays." In conclusion, he re.
commended good manners united with good morals, and en-
forced truthfulness and sincerity. Ho ended amid loud
cheering, which, throughout his lecture, had been frequent