The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-13 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Yesterday afternoon the annual distribution of
medical prizes and certificates in orgetedint with this col-
lege took place. There was • large attendant* of professor
and students ; and kr. Hexer AVMS Bayer., M.P., who
presided, was supported by Sir P. Go!amid, ALP.. Mr.
Juliaa Ooldmnid, M.P., tre. The report of the profaners
of the faculty, which was read by the Dean, states that the
college still maintains it. high reputation among the
medical schools of the metropolis, as ahownby the sum
bee of entries—those for the current session amounting'
to 721, of whom 70 are new students—numbers nearly
corresponding with those of last year, and showing • cos- !
aiderable increase over many years previously. As regards
the means of improvement in methods of instruction,
the faculty regard with much satisfaction the recent addi-
tions which the council has made to the hospital. Some ,
tions of the new building will, they trust, be shortly,
made more available for chemical purposes. The enlarge- ,
moat has also effected great improvements in the aeons-
modation of the resident staff, who are selected from the
students of the college. The faculty trust that the liberality!
of the public will soon permit yet further additions to be
made to the hospital. The report concludes with an es-
preseion of profound regret at the lose which the college I
has to deplore in the death of Lord Brougham, the presi-
dent of the counciL His lordship's interest in the welfare
of the college continued unabated to the close of his life,
and to his strength of intellect and unvarying support the
institution owes no small share of its high politico, and
marked swoon in promoting liberal education in this'
country, and not the least in that of the medical profee-
sion. At the oonelusios of the reading of the report ILL
Bruce proceeded to distribute the medals and cart:afloat°. I
to the successful oompetatots.
At the ekes, Sir P. GOLDSMID, M.P., proposed a vote of
thanks to Mr. Bruce for presiding, which the right hon.
gentleman having suitably acknowledged, tbe proceedings ,
terminated.

A lecture on Savages was delivered last evening
at University College, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. Before
aommencing his lecture he mid it was impossible to speak
in such a Owe upon any ethnological subject without re.
ferrieg to the great loss the scientific world had sustained
during
the day in the death of Mr. John Crawford, the
President of the Ethnological Society. Ile (Sir John),
who had been so intimately connected with him in scien-
tific intercourse for many years put, and who Mill so
mush indebted to him, could hardly find it in hie heart to
speak at length upon the painful topic. Although Mr.
Crawford Wallin lug eighty-amth year hisheart was so warm,
hi. spirit was so active, and his mind wee so clear, that
it was impossible for any one to regard him ae otherwise
than young.. Is was nut too much to say that there was
no man in the country who had done more for ethno-
loecal science than Mr. Crawford. Pealing un to the
subject of the lecture, Sir John Lubbock reminded hie
auditors that, at the last meeting of the British Aseoeis.
then, he read a paper maintaining that the savage", who
I even at the present day covered a large portion of the
earth's sedan, were not toles regarded as the degenerate
descendant' of civilised ancestors, but rather as human
beings who bad yet amended but a little way in the uphill
week of civilisation. That view had been recent)* awe- I
batted in Good Word+ by the Duke of Argyll ; but that
he (the lecturer) should not now consider, because
it was not yet fully presented. The lecturer
then proceeded to strengthen hie opinion+ ad-
vanced at Dundee, by entering into u scientific
description of the religion' of savage nations. It was stated
over and over again, that there was no one of men so de-
graded as to be entirely without a religion, but such state-
ments were op to the evidence of the moat trust-
worthy o Several authorities Were quoted to
show tint the religion, so-called, of the lower nom been a
resemblanoe to that of higher races in the mime manner
as did astrology to astronomy, acid alchemy to chemistry. I
Our inknionariss, the lecturer thought, would have eirs-
bably been more succasatul if they had endsavoure4 to
understand the religion cf the enrage" as well se their
own, whereas they were geverally profoundly ignorant of
what Way went err to attack.

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TSB ROYAL IRPLY.
The T: les describes her Majesty's answer un the.
of the Irish Church as the only ono which could be
even under the circumstances. The minister who refused
Ito advise the concession would he bound to resign his trust,
as a minister. The ministry, indeed, have recomniended-•
a reply which goes further Mimi the address itself. for the
use of the term " united Church of England and Ireland" -
gives Mr. Gladstone license, If it please him, to in--
troduce a bill for suspending the appointment of -
all bishops. On the Suspensory Bill, which Mr.
Gladstone introduces to-day, the government can
scarcely divide unless it ocestalm some unexpected
clauses and provisions. The Hones of Louis will also bo
ill-advised if they exalt a matter of such infinitesimal im-
portance as the mere suspension of appointment: into a
subject of grave dispute. There could not be a more
disastrous preliminary to a general election than the sum-
mary extinction of the proposal of the Commons.
The suggestion that, instead of ministers acting as cos-
stitutional advimrs of the mown, the mewls sate as the
eonstitional adviser of ministers, receives some plausibility
(says the bail, News) from what has passed in parliament.
end what is rumoured to have passed outside of it. The
Queen possibly counsels her servants as to the counsel
which they shell give her. If this be we, the etnistr, hem
every reason to be grateful to her Majesty for her advise.
The bill which Mr. Oladatose will ask team to introds.
to-day will probably pass with rapidity through its sever it
elates unti' it is seat up to this Homed Lords.
The cotinsel of the Standard to the conservative party
is to leave Mr. Gladstone alone. Their duty is to prepare
for the great election struggle which is to determine the
question which Mr. Gliulatone's resolutions and his bill
have only :shied.