The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-02 00:00:00

IG, JANUARY

guidon of superior education, but I will content myself
Tmend that I trail) we 'WE see those matures which
aal my honoarsble colleespe have advocated for an
artesian of the system 4 education in this university
further 'atoned, and that we shall have the good for-
ame of seeing them pseud into law, and I believe they
.WW redound to the honour, dignity, and re-
Tiltin which this university is held. (Cheers.)
respect to the Abysainian question, I be-
lieve it was impossible for us to leave our
countrymen in the demise of a sanguinary despot without
doing something to relieve them. But I regard the matter
as a solvent man regards • pauper, or as a person decently
clad regards • man in inferior clothing ; for instance, •
chimney-sweeper. (Laughter.) In private life, whenever
a contest of this kind begins, we get out of it as soon as
we can, and regret that we ever got into it at all. The
moral of this is that we ought to look a little a-head, and
not get so near either the pauper or the chimneyoweeper
as to haveocusion to go to fisty-cuffs. (Cheers, and laugh-
ter.) With regard to the affairs of Italy there is much
to excite the anxiety of thou who are responsible for the
**laud of our foreign affairs ; but I see no reason to
doubt that the foreign policy of the country will be re-
gulated by abstinence from undue interference with the
affairs of other countries, and I think in that policy is to
be found the only guarantee for that retrenchment which
diminishes the burdens of the people. (Cheers.) In my
opinion, the year which has just expired will ever be
memorable in the history of our legislation. In old times,
before the first Reform Act, there was a bishop who
threatened the House of Commons, and said that the
people had nothing to do with the laws but obey them.
After the passing of the Reform Bill the policy of the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel was that the
government, it not by the people altogether, ought at
least to be for the people. I feel that the legislation of
1847 has initiated the term of government by the people.
(Cheers.) It was my privilege to enter the House of Com-
' mons in 1942, at the commencement of that series of
commercial and financial reform of which the foundation
I was laid by Sir Robert Peel, and of which the capital
has been crowned by Mr. Gladstone. During a great
portion of that time I have been able to take
Imy pert in promoting that result ; and so long
as I can continue to pursue the same course,
' and so long as I have the honour to be your member, I
shall endeavour to promote the honour of our common
country and the welfare of every class of the oommunity.
Mr. Naafis, who was most cordially received, expressed
his concurrence in the sentiments of his right Lon. col-
' league. Alluding to the extension of the franchise to the
working classes, he expressed his hope that no one would
attempt to restrain the exercise of their rights either by
intimidation or corruption. (Cheers.) At the same time
he hoped they would use with moderation the privilege
which had been conferred upon them. With regard to
education, he thought those who had been most neglected
were the middle classes, to whom he thought the benefits
of • university education ought to be extended. There
was no body more distinguished for the liberality. of their
views than the University of Oxford, and he wished to
give effect to their views. He wished to see university
education extended, not merely laterally', but downward,
so as to make it a bond of union between the different
classes of the country. He trusted that the reforms which
were now going oa in the university would tend not only
to its greater usefulness, but to the greater prosperity of
the city of Oxford.
Several other touts were afterwards given and re-
-4.1 to.

Several matters of public interest were under
discussion yesterday at • meeting of the Leeds Town
Council. A resolution was moved authorising the pane,
mentary committee to take such steps as they might
deem desirable to prevent the proposed division of the
West Riding on the government plan, and after some
opposition by the conservative members, who contended
that the proposal had reference to • political subject with
which a municipal body had nothing to do, the proposition
was carried.
As chairman of the Stafford quarter sessions, the
Earl of Lichfield yesterday offered a word of advice to
employers of labour. His lordship had heard, he said, that
many persons in that county had dismissed Irishmen whom
they had previously employed, for no other reason, we
suppose, but that of their nationality. Such a course be
deprecated am being both unjust and calculated to rouse the
spirits of loyal Irishmen.
The Prussian Government had announced a few
days ago to the Hanoverian refugees in Switzerland that
they could return freely to their country on condition of
serving out their time in the Prussian army. The Popular
Ga:rtle, of Hanover, states that it has received a declara-
tion from these men in reply to the appeal, but that certain
expressions in it prevent that journal front publishing
the document. The aoulte merely extracts this de tail,
that the signatories protest against the language which the
Prussian government has used with reference to them.
Thus, far from consenting to be considered as " misguided
men," they declare that they acted deliberately and as
soldiers who wished to remain faithful to their oath of
fidelity.
M. Salamanca not only intends to build a second
Italian Opera in Paris, but has jest secured the concession
of a railway to Val d'Andorre, on the frontier of Spain.
The novel feature about this is that M. Salamanca pro-
poses to create on this delightful spot a gaming Kumasi
and Casino, with theatre and concert rooms. Nothing of
the kind exists in those regions.
DEATH OF BARON MAlCOCHETTl.—intelligence
has just been received from Paris that Baron Marochetti
died in that city on Saturday last. The deceased sculptor
was in bis 'Lira year, be, ing been born at Turin in leo.l.
Re received his education at Pais at the Lycie Napoleon,
after leaving which he was placed with Bodo, a Parisian
sculptor of some eminence. While studying in his atelier
be obtained honourable mention from the Eooles des Beaux
Arts, but was not awarded any other distinction, and his
journey to Italy to complete his studies were undertaken
at his own expense. In the year Dr 27 be returned to
France, and in the sonic year exhibited • group, " A Girl
Playing with • Dog," for which • medal was awarded him.
This group he presented to the King of Sardinia. In 1101
he exhibited his " Fallen Angel," and somewhat later
he executed for the Academy of Arts of Turin •
statue of Monsignor Mori. He presented to the capital
of Sardinia an equestrian statue of Emanuel l'hili-
bert, which is by many esteemed his rhef-d'werre,
and which was his sole contribution to the Paris }lipoid-
ti .11 of 1e.5:5. Many of his works are well known in Paris,
and among them are one of the bas-reliefs on the Arc de
l'Etoile ; the tomb of Bellini at Per. la Chaise ; a maitre
d'autel in the Church of the Madeleine ; three equestrian
statues of the Duke of Orleans ; a St. Michel, end a statue
of the Emperor. Shortly after the revolution of ISIS,
Ifferochetti cauie to England, where be soon became known
in art circles. Many of his works give evidence of genius,
and name will deny that they are of his own creation. The
spirit and vigour of conception aisplayed by souls of his
productions are sufficient to entitle him to the fame which
he LAI acquired, and his decease will be mourned by all
true lovers of art. Among his fellows, and thole who
knew him personally, his loss will awaken a sincere regret
that they can no more on this side the grave meet and
commune with one whose urbanity and aaruirfairs, made
him welcome to all. These will mourn not merely the
artist but the gentlemen.—Post.
MISHIONARY WORK IN THE NEW HEBRIDES.—
The difficulties in the way of walkway work in the New
Hebrides are infinitely greater than in any other islands
in the South Seas ; and nothing but a partial and uncer-
tain suocess could be expected, unless the work were
undertaken by • society possessing great resources, having
• regular executive, experienced in such business, and
able to grapple with difficulties of no ordinary nature.
The natives of the New Hebrides, with the sole exception
of Aneiteum, are cannibals to this day ; they are low in
physical and mental development, cruel superstitious, and
treacherous, with a natural dislike to white people, con-
sequent upon the disgraceful outrages which lawless
traders committed here nochecked in former days. In
scarcely two islands of the group is the same language
spoken, and in some of the Liser ones several dialects
prevail To mown all, they are very unhealthy—Dot only
to Europeans, but also to the native teachers from Samoa
and other places. It is obvious that in such • field, more
than all others, • well-organised system fie neceesary, with
a coherent body of labourers working under an efficient
controlling power. Bat, instead of this, the minion
consists, as we have said, of members of dif-
ferent denominations of the Presbyterian Church
in Scotland and Nova Scotia. while Canada awl
Australia are about to join in the work as well.
There is no went-al association whatever: each
church sonde out lie own missionaries with but scanty
resources, and they are responsible only to their own par-
tattler community, in whatever part of the world it may
be. The cone/queues is that each individual missionary
fellows his own views in all matters, without previous
consultation or reference, and hence grave questions occur,
seriously compromising the prosperity of the mission, but
depending upon the discretion or the peculiar views of •
single individual Such a ease occurred very recently,
when, from the persistence of a missionary, the re
inter,
of the moral force was invoked to chastise the
natives for DOMe wrong inflicted upon him. In this ease
the natives had behaved very ill, and the chastisement
indicted had the effect of greatly improving their manners
towards whit* people ; yet the awkward fact remained,
that the seasioseries bad reeorted to the cannot of a man•
of-war in order to maintain their footing is the islands
And taboo& the pitities to the naval authorities wassig. need
by Waldenssie,
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