The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

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IUNIYILISITY AND CLERICAL
1111 Zaire& Callataitall.
CallalllDOlt, MAT It —Tbe Vkr Caerse•lter. ea Sitar-
pv• Irene thee • special eitagregaelea world be hides
thfelaj. Blink% be woutd nal • sommnieseiesi addretred
es his loyal II shams the Chanieller by the Right Mew
Lied John R.esU ea the lir of • royal awnings pee
pees& oppelated he into the nate sod aninnes
el the Universities of Ox and Cambridge. At the esa
day the letter rehired to wee read by the
riiire-Cailie tate
heasellor. bat u it is cot at planet to be printed, in
hathorhativs request has beta aids that an hireling as
Nast of it be not published in thh co. Ia ess-
nixiea with the shun subject the Vise has thi.
day easeeneed that he Ms raw Med the frilowin address:
to ttraseenee,—We, the nedenigeed resident
stembms of the senate, beg Immo to espies to yes. as Om
acting reardian of the interns of she llanersity. the mad-
men§ which have bon excited is by _a recent declining
of the Prime Waken mode in the B olos of Cosamoes.
The First Lord of the Treasury is reputed to have
announced that it is the intention et ministers to advise
her Majesty to issue • royal samansion to inquire
into the revenues ad enemies of she two aniveratl.e
of Oxford and Cambridge; declaring she that oat, object of
seek inept:ry was to be, to ascerta in mesas hy whin the in-
struct's gives in the colleges should berendered serviceable
preparieg sinews for the eausisatioas is new eabjetra
of lately instituted by the sale. retry. We have no
wish to dray that such a harmony and consents between
tke subjects of college surly sad cf university examlnetion
should fret, u in fact such emenexion always has existed,
and is likely to ;exiet under the change of studies, if time
med epporiunity be left for its growth by the natural opera-
tion of university honours, and the advancement of thaw
who have obtained them to the position of tutors and
ountiam. But we cannot help looking with the greaten
alarm at the prospect of having attempts made to establish such
a coesexion of 'allege and university subjects by the action
of at poser eztrueoas to the university and the colleges.
We encases that any attempt to comrel the colleges to ap-
point teachers or to reward profi:ients, by external agency,
would be an interference with their Wurzel freedom of a
kind utterly unheard of, except la the wont times, and alto-
gether destructive of their just and ancient corporate rights.
The First Lord of the Treasury is reported to have fur-
ther said that there exist in the foundation and
return of various colleges restrictions which pre-
vent the colle,ies from making proper arrangements
for the teaching sod encouragement of new studies, such
as three above referred to. Tnis is certainly a mistake with
regard to the colleges in this university. There is nothing in
the foundation or statutes of our colleges which will provost
them from changing their practical system so far as to include
such hewer winces in their gnome of tuition and reward.
We do not trick it lieff WACO& that the government ehould
give the university and the einem credit for a millineries
M seeks ran clinges,"io nos as they en be made *flee
tunny. For the university hes ia the use of the last
few years made many important changes, to which,
io suecesaion, the colleges have generally adapted their
mums And the great change recently introduced, by
which the moral strains and the natural sciences are ap-
pointed to be subjects of examine in and grounds of academic
knour woe made spontaneously by the university, and has
been fot.owed up by • great increase of the interest taken in
the lectures which beer upon the subjects thus encouraged.
The effectual operation of such changes as those recently
made necesserliy requires some time. The new studies
could be impaled with estrous upon those only who came to
the university after the law was enacted. And consequently,
the Ant enmisatione under the new system have not yet
been held. A few years wi.l be required to give the tone to the
auxiliary tuition which may be sup,lied on the new subjects
and 11l the new honours have been actually attained, they
cannot operate upon elections to fellowships or other offices
of emolument. But there is no reason to believe that such
a Min of mutual operation of one part of the university
system upon another will not, in time, eke place in this case
se it has done in other cases, if the university be left to
itself. The interference of • COMMillisoll, and the consequent
introduction of legislative measures in parliament,
would prevent such a natural progress; foe it would
then be expected that the remit of every stet
should be brought about through the agency of
the commission and of parliament, not through the usual
influents which operate in the university. If there be any
cases in which • change of the StibtlatEe of any twinge is ne-
a/wary in o-der to conform its tunics to the recent im-
provements in the university system, the legal and customary
mode is that the college should apply to the crown as well
as the visitor, for coofirmation of such change. In this
mum many changes sad improvements have lately been
made is college ranites. Several of the colleges, as..
prising a large majority of the members of the university,
have thus obtained new bodies of statutes, with the full ap-
proval by the crown of the changes made. In some cases
such improvements hen been made when it was
knows that they would lead to sacrifices of • pecuniary
interest on the part of those who promoted them. Moreover,
members of the university officially appointel have long
been laboriously and assiduously employed in peening a
revved body of university statutes for confirmation by the
crows. We conceive therefore that there is no ground for
suspecting either the university or the colleges of any un-
endings's, to obtain an alteration of their statutes by legal
means, whin the better administration of their Main re-
quires such alteration. We believe that it is acknowledged
by the best lawyers that a 'cyst eommission sent to colleges,
or to satin of the universities, and claiming power to regu-
late the seen of those bodies in • way differout from
that preeeribed by their statatn as illegal and
unconerataticaal. We would outran to you that
the whitened/meat of this illegality—one of the
fruits of the rev.)lution of IGBS—will no Inger be of any
value to 'Wren:its and colleges, if the ministry be the
time being en. after sending down • royal commission,
as is sow proposed, take occasion therefrom te introduce
into parliament bills interfering with the revenues sal in-
terest swangements and altering the statures of universities
sat I colleges in a manner diff rent from that which is con-
formable to the law of the land, and has hitherto been
practised. The commitsion, es is rer to have been
officially declare 1 in the Bonn of itasem, would be
without power to compel evidence. This Wages, penms in
pulling of trust in the university, sad in 'onsets, may
think it their city to decline giving evidence before the
cemmiesie• on the matters committed to their trait. Mid
if this should (COLT, the shots "widens brought before the
commission will be that of venous who have ao official
knowledge of the slate of the ease, and may vary possibly
be coloured by partial Wags tad opinions adverse to the
uttiver.ity sod its meat preempaian. Then being our
grounds of alarm at the annseereent above referred to,
we moist you, Mr. Vice-chancellor, to take nth steps
u the emergency may appear to require; sad to madder
especially whether it may not be proper to represent to his
royal highness our Chancellor the interfenue with our
freedom, right., statutes, mansions, and sages which
appear to be threatened ; and also the in which
the issuing of • commission of inquiry and the expestation
of legislative measures consequent thence wield sadoubt-
edly occasion in the prosperous and pragralaar nadition
which we have of late stjoyed.
Thee follows 155 signatures.
Tie Tsie-Cheacellor concurs in the sentlms.ts ex
la the above address : sal he be to anus the theaterof
the somata that be has taken sad will tentless to take inch
step la tin matter as the interests of the Univenity appear
tle him M main.

Quoin's Coxxxon, Dimino'um.— The Rev. Dr.
Worsened has paid over to the Rev. Chancellor Law, the
Via-Prineipal, the Rte. Vaughan Tooau Osford, and
William Seeds Cox, F.R.S., Dean of the Faulty, the mind-
&est ram of 1,0001, tower le the endowment of the warden-
ship, to which afire the Ray. Horace Gray, Y A., Pre-
beaded of Wrlls and Mil of Pekes, was apvinted at the
last ansal 'nesting of the renown.

&V. Clerks Jabs ifraerood,iii., to Billiogfeei R.,
Norfolk ; velar, 3061. ; pat , Eorl of LNeeeter.
Rev. George Ambrose Bader, of Colebrook, Becks ; Rev.
Idward Pawkier" Glanville. X A., Rector of Whra,fiekl,
Owe; Rev. Mule" Maud Gray, P.C. of Priores Raba
week, Beaks; sad the Rev. William Wilms, jun., Vicar of
Biabgary, to be flerroiatee, die. Oxford.

Cialby 11, , LeicestershirZZO7iTarborwagh ; value, 2761,
with madam, ; pat. 0. A. Legh Keck, Eq.: Bev. W. B.
Havretorae, prom.
Wiafeed R., Somerset, dlo. Bath and Wells; value, 6261.
with residents ; pets., Woresster College, Or:ord : Bev. B.
Dent, des.
Ironbridg• P.C., Illedellq, Salop, dio. Hereford; pat., V.
el Madeley: Bev. W. H. Hill. Prom.
NAVAL.
DITOETORT, MAT 19.—The Goodwill, lighter,' Pledge
master, arrived with stores hem Sheamese, on Wednesday.
The Lively, lighter, Hertheld =mar, sailed with mores for
Portman:l. on Friday. The Gossamer' cutter, late Mader
to the Crceodile at Cork, having bees waling at this port
for orders, his been unarmed to the Impregnable, Cigna!'
Sir Thomas flatland, and is to be employed Co the turn,-
lag amide. The Hibernia, 104, has teea takes into dock
for VESTS! repair. The Bosnia, brig, Lieutenant Dolling,
weat out of harbour us Thunder. to exorcise the Revel
wreatioes, and returned 'gala the following day. no
Wired, 6, has been taken into dock to have defects made
good. In the Sound, the Nautilus. In harbour, the Im-
gregaalra, Arrioeourt, Seagull, Sylph, Onesamer, Fearless,
amasses, Devon., Hums', and Goodwill, lighters.
MILITARY.
DEPOTS NTH AND 64TH Itrotamme.—The 16th depot,
laving bees relieved at Guernsey by the 64th depot, dis-
embarked at Portsmouth= Saturday, remained at Poetess
on Saturday end Suaday, and preoesdim yesterday hem
Portsmouth to Hythe, Kent, to be there statiosed.
Renew Or MNROLLED Putman's AT BLACKHEATH.
—The Woolwich divides of Barolled Pessimism will
enable oa Saturday next (sad not sa Tawriay, es mammal,
stated by • contmeporary) at their quarters in the Hiyal
Artillery Barracks, and mush under the sommead of Major
Forbes, the stiff offset, to Bleaches* where they will mem
the Deptford division, and the whole will be reviewed by
Cel. Tolled. Oa Friday, the 14 of June, the whole of the
of the London district will be marched to Lowden
Cris arvie ewed.
It is sow settled that Lind General Sir William Goma.
X•CIL. ipso to Btallsty, to slimed Lieut-Genenl Sir
Willeeibby Cowes, 0.C.8 , ea Coramandir-iii-ChIM there.
--Nam* Ckmarcle.

TIM IIaUTIWIELD Norsexch,--The eomuniimioure
19=*burs loft the U,. sad dead seat markets of
epelik leave oreed to WIN meet, wkieli will pee-
Dahl, be pesermesd seem Or the re-weembliwg et
semi. Mugs ether menu which iteve waived their
asmaidereliek Ile eammeademen will reassumed, we soder-
slued, Ilie ellioldisid Market Ms s erOltste the
mew^ lig awl ilik—Otissrar.