The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

TUE EXPRESS, WEDNESDkr

tively tumeskied conteellpAation public quhettoos.
Dr. Bitowial is perfeiSly aware 11/0 the 011
advanced Ihiversity reformer Aim Over simrat
Jews, Talks, es unbelievers, as epeeist claws to
be benefited ; and that such men' 'as .Profilssor'
HUXLEY, Professor TYNDALL, and Sir Caguas
LULL are disqualified from filling positions
for which they are eminently fitted,
because they will not subscribe to the tests.
That the ablest men shall be chosen as teachers
and rulers in our Colleges, irrespective of
their religious opinions, is not such a dread-
ful proposition after all. But the phrase
" Jews, Turks, and unbelievers " had a
good heathenish sound, signifying religious
' darkness and theological desolation, and was ir-
resistible to the episcopal pen. If it be true
that the Reformation " purified but did not
" change the Church," all we can say is that Dr.
LITTLKDALE'I4 aversions, LATIMER, CRAMMIR, and
RIDLEY toiled and suffered unmeaningly and unne-
cessarily, and that some strange delusions have been'
abroad for centuries respecting • " development"
called Protestantism, which our High Church-
men may ignore, but which they ciumot alto-
gether repudiate. But the Bishop of ELY ex-
ceeds himself when lie puts imaginary words
and sentiments into the mouths of College
founders. That these venerable dignitaries
should be made to fight the battles of men whom
they would condemn as heretics shows a forgetful-
ness of sober fact which Dr. Br.owNs would
he the last man to betray in unprofessional walks
of life. " Your religion," we can almost hear them
say, " means the religion we hated most, and our
" 'pious purposes' would be more nearly corumlted
" by the purchase of stakes and faggots for you
" all, than by elevating one branch of heresy over
" others more or less pronounced."

MR. BERNARD CRACROFT writes a paper in the
Fortnightly Brrin”, criticising the "Isabel" of
Mr. HOLMAN HUNT. Of this picture he speaks
as a miracle of labour and technical re-
source, though in his opinion a total
miscarriage in conception of the beauti-
ful poem of lizars, which is quoted by the
painter as the foundation of his work. A
fact mentioned by Mr. CRACROTT in connection
with the composition of the picture, incidentally
illustrates Mr. HOLMAN Huars conscientious in-
dustry. He could not, it seems, find a majolica
vase to his taste. Accordingly he de-
signed a vase, had it cast, painted it him-
self, obtained a fragment of majolica, to study
the glaze, and then painted from the model
so created. This vase is exceedingly beautiful and
original. Mr. CaAcaorr says that Professor
OWEN c msiders it of 5..) exquisite a design that
MINTON MIAt well buy (lie patent and produce it
for sale.

THE Chinese Embassy now at New York com-
prises the Hon. %ANSON BURLINEAME, accredited
Envoy Ex'roriinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Chinese Government to the treaty powers ;
CHIN TAJEN and SIN TAJEN, Ministers of the
Chinese Empire with Consulting and Advisory
Powers ; J. KteLavv BROWN, First Secretary of
Legation ; Monsieur EDOUARD DE CHAMPS, Second
Secretary of Legation, sit native interpreters (two
speaking English, two French, and two Russian) ;
a native physician and two writers to the Embassy.
Added to these are some score of native servants,&c.,
making in all nearly 40 souls. In the course of a few
weeks this remarkable diplomatic body will arrive
in Europe, where they will visit in turn the nations
with whom treaties are already in w.istence. It
seems that they include in their number some
literary Chinamen who are preparing narratives of
their travels, to be disseminated on their return
among millions of readers. The Japanese, it is
said, will not be behindhand, though, as they take
to the rest of mankind with more alacrity than the
Chinese, they will probably send a native as their
en% oy extraordinary in preference to an American.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The 7';n/P.4 traces to the necessity of bidding for
the Irish vote the resolutions of the Chicago Republican
Convention affecting foreign policy and encouraging immi-
gration. As to the equalisation of taxation, which is in-
sisted on as an indispensable reform, it is simply impossible
under a system of protective tariffs to satisfy people that
burdens and favours are fairly distributed. The weight of
debt and the pressure of taxation can on 'y be endured on
conditions of judicious distribution and unrestricted enter-
prise.

In another article the Times argues that the compro-
mises which the select committee on the boundary ques-
tion recommend are merely temporary, and that in a very
short time, probably neat session, the question of the
limits of boroughs must occupy the attention of parlia•
meat. The present system, by which large urban popula-
tions are divided from the places of which they actually
and undeniably form part, and are added with a different
franchise to the county constituen ries, must in the
end lead to an equalisation of county and borough
franchises, or, in other worth, to electoral districts.
The recommendations of the Neutrality Commissioners
greatly increase the powers of the government, but this is
a matter in which the Tim's would rather make the law
too strong than too weak, believing that the governa.ent
would have no possible inducement to abase its powers,
and that what is chiefly to be feared is its inability to cope
with. the cunning and pertinacity of offenders.
Probably, says the Dade Xeici,, so far as the Jamaica
Committee is concerned, the case against Mr. Eyre will now
end. It is difficult to say what useful purpose can be an-
swered by persisting in prosecutions which are not likely
to have any practical issue. The committee have scattered
the seal■ of a sound public sentiment— seeds which,
though they tray seem now to have fallen on barren ground,
are sure to germinate and to bring forth fruit. Mr. Eyre
is now in a position to appreciate the advantages of that
trial by jury in default of which, after the insurrection
in Jamaica had been suppressed, three hundred and
fifty
persons were put to death, by court martini.
with his sanction, on testimony admitted to Le wholly
insufficient. If they had bad the benefit which he has
enjoyed of the laws of Esgland and the lutes of evi-
dence, they might be at this moment as safe as ho is. In
the meantime the tom against him remains as it was.
The finding of the grand jury yesterday conc'udes no ques-
tion of public or private right. It simply Mope investiga-
tion. It is to be regretted for Mr. Eyre's sake that this
is the highest service which his friends can entreat for
him.
Other subjects discussed in the D•tify News Ire Mr.
Disraeli at Halton, the settling fee the Derby, and the
public business of the House of Commons.

In the opinion of the Post the gran.l jury h& threads*
out the bill preferred against Mr. (tyre acted as 'TOT
rational being moat hams anticipated. No one, our eon.
temporary believes, ever deserved better of his country.
The recommendations of the Neubality Comm
seem to the Herald to sin in the direction of exalt=
to be harsh and repreesive.

The Star does not wonder that the grand jury of Middle.
sex felt little inclination to trouble with the formality
a trial s man who, according to the reiterated d
ration of the judge on the bench, had at word
only been a very littlo irregular in Lis way of
extinguishing a pestilent firebrand. Julio,
otl
as declared, the royal commbidoners did, that
%was no party to the outbreak at Rt. Thomas's, so that
wt• have an English judge formally declaring it as his
ton that a politician who metely agitates for whebt
bkiy or wrongly conceive. to belnorlor, and whew
Im Nrnaelf acquits of say Awn in ineurrectlon, *
jjeldtient Srehrand—and this in a ease wit& tgrng sail[
owner ixx which this pootiient forma war deg to
;death.

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