The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam.
ship Simla, transport No. 118, Captain T. S. Russell,
will embark at Southampton this day the A troop of
Royal Artillery for conveyance to the Crimea, consist-
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Colonel Gough, 33d Foot ; Captain Pocock, 30th
ditto; Captain Sergeant, 95th Regiment ; Assistant-
Commissary-General Midwood, and the Rev. H. M.
Wheeler, chaplain ; the Rev. Mr. Corke, officiating
chaplain ; and the Rev. 11. Robinson, assistant ditto,
besides six hospital orderlies, will he passengers to Con-
stantinople. Ten privates of the Royal Marines, volun-
teers as hospital orderlies to the Black Sea, are also to
leave in the Simla. The whole of the ordnance appoint-
ments arrived at Southampton yesterday, and were ship-
ped. The Simla takes her departure to-morrow (Sunday).
The Bacchante, steam-transport No. 12, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday morning and steamed into har- The following is a copy of &letter from the
ity of Cambridge, addressed,
mbridge University to the Lord Chan-
hour from the East. She left Constantinople on the 9th of Royal
May. On the 10th she saw the steam-transport No. 186
C ommisstoners for Inquiry ilito the Univer-
- ("Etna) steering up tee Dardanelles ; on the 11th, saw :eller; on the Subject of the Ca
as amended in the committee, dated May,
°Brhteinsawpothrne PsaaiTisnagg-6t-r;anosnp'utrhtse Nl2otlis., off
Bill,
'e(CaNLYy9Anß.:geass7eogfpl), 41 (Kent), 223 (Hollander steamer), and 1855 :-
251 (so reported, but there is no such number in the "My Lord,-We, the undersigned members of the
transport list as yet) ; on the same day she saw the late Commission for Inquiring into the State of the
General Screw Steam-Shipping Company's steamer University of Cambridge, beg respectfully to convey to
Emu, towing a ship. The Bacchante arrived at Malta, your lordship the following observations on the amended
May 14. On the 15th, the Great Britain arrived, towed bill for the good government and extension of that
into Malta harbour the transports Saldanha and Blun- University. Our remarks will have reference to the
dell ; left. Malta on the 16th and arrived at Gibraltar on several sections of the bill as they now stand seriatim.
the 23d, heard there that the Medway steam-transport "Section 5. We greatly regret to find that the duty
had passed through, and had lost 65 horses ; the Lance,- of the new Council of the Senate is defined to be the con-
shire Witch, with cavalry and horses, arrived at Gibral- sideration and preparation of Graces. Its functions,
far on the 24th, on which day the Bacchante left ; saw therefore, will be legislative only. It will have no power
a transport (No. 46), steering eastward ;on the 29th of administration. It will be known to the Senate only
spoke her Majesty's steam-frigate Odin, towing three m.'r- by the Graces which it may propose. It will nut be the
tar-boats ;on the 30th saw the steamstransport No. 103 body whom the Vice-Chancellor would naturally consult
teerine 'south west, Tae following passengers arrived in cases of difficulty or emergency. It will not have a
at Portsmouth in the Bacchante :-Captain Marsh, R.N., single power or privilege which is now exercised by the
Capt. Burnett, R.N., Mr. Prichard, R N., Ensign Gill- Heads of Colleges. This latter body will still retain the
more, of the 40th ; Mr. G. A. Bates and Mr. John S. power of nominating to the Vice-Chancellorship and the
Lynch, Engineers ; Mr. R. Waterstone, Messrs. Wm. other statutable offices of the University. They will
Rice, John Bellman, Henry Denman ; and Mesdames, he the assessors and administrative councillors of the
Lynch and two children, Fitzpatrick, and Margaret Vice-Chancellor and the authorised interperters of doubt-
Shaugness. After landing them she left for Deptford. ful statutes. In short, the Heads of Colleges will con-
The screw steam transport Australian (No. 120), Capt. tinue to possess, under the present bill, all those powers
Mason, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the and privileges which, under the statutes of Queen Eliza-
East. She left Scutari on the 12th of May ; Malta, the beth, have enabled them to become the actual governors
18th ; and Gibraltar, the 24th. On the 25th, in lat. of the University.
36.30 N., long 7.50 W., she spoke the American ship "And here we cannot but observe that the provisions
John Briant ; on the 28th, in lat. 45.20 N., long. 8.30 of the measure of last session for the good government
W., passed a large steamer, supposed to be the Orinoco. of the University of Oxford were entirely different in
The Australian has brought 164 military invalids, and this respect. There the Heads of Houses had by a
thefollowingcabin passengers :-Lieut.-Col. Haygartb, of distinct statutable enactment to that effect long been
the Scots Fusilier Guards ; Battalion Surgeon Bostock, the irresponsible governors of the university, yet we find
M.D., of ditto; Capt. Simpson, R.A.; Assistant-Surgeon all their powers at once transferred to a new council,
Lynch, of the 7th Hussars; Lieuts. Savery, Ives, and liberally constituted and freely elected. If such a mea-
Rason, R.N., on promotion from her Majesty's ships sure is proper and expedient at Oxford, why is it not
Princess Royal, Agamemnon, and Leopard ; _jetzt. equally so at Cambridge? Why should we erect a new
Lambert, 41st Regiment, in charge of the invalids ; Council of the Senate, and still leave the old government
Messrs. Newsome and Morris, Engineers (the former standing by its side ? Why should we leave two bodies
.ittached to the Royal Sappers and Miners and the lat- in the University with corporate rights and distinct
ter to the navy) ; Messrs. Hooper and Brookin, Gun powers of government, thus sowing the seeds of intrigue
ners, R.N. ; Mr. and Mrs. Mason, and upwards of 150 and divided councils ?
invalids from Kululee, Scutari, and Malta, comprising "We earnestly hope to see this section of the bill so
10 of the Royal Artillery, film- of the Grenadier Guards, modified as to vest in the new Council of the Senate, not
one of the Coldstream Guards, five of the Scots Fusilier only the powers of the Caput, but also all those powers,
Guards, two of the Ist Foot, eight of the 4th, two of the privileges, and functions which are now possessed or
7th, two of the 9th, three of the 14th, three of the 17th, exercised by the heads of colleges in their collective ca-
three of the 18th, four of the 19th, six of the 20th, five pacity, by virtue of any statute of the University.
of the 21st, one of the 23d, five of the 28th, six of the " Sections 6to 17.-The amendments which have
30th, four of the 33d, 11 of the 38th, two of the 41st, been introduced into these clauses, though they provide
three of the 44th, five of the 46th, seven of the 47th, for the enfranchisement of all the present members of
one of the 49th, five of the 50th, four of the 55th, two the Senate resident in the University, leave no
of the 57th, two of the 62d, one of the 63d, two of the room for the introduction of those persons who may
68th, three of the 77th, three of the 88th, three of the 89th, hereafter graduate at the private Halls to be erected
five of the 90th, five of the 95th, six of the Ist Battalion under the provisions of the bill. Moreover, 'that system
'if the Rifle Brigade, two of the 2d ditto, one of the 11th of what has been called sectional election, which was
Hussars, 12 seamen and marines. Thirteen of the worst deliberately rejected by Parliament last
,aession in legis-
cases, who were unable to help themselves, and in a very lating for Oxford, is retained here in an pe,ravated form.
ickly state, were removed to the General Military "For Oxford it was proposed that the Council should
Hospital at Portsea. The rest disembarked to temporary he elected by three separate bodies-=the Howls, the
quarters in barracks until removed to invalid depots. Professors, and the remaining Members of Congregation.
Major-General Breton, Assistant-Quartermaster-General But Parliament determined that there shoilkpl be only
Dalgetty, and Lieutenant Parks, R.N. superintended one electoral body for all parts of the CouncilllF At Cam-
their disembarkation. They came home in medical bridge, under the present bill, we shall not only have
charge of Dr. Hutchinson. The Australian left Eng- the electoral body divided into 19 parts- •e., the 17
land in August last with siege guns, ammunition, &c. Colleges, the Professors, and the Heads, but we shall
She towed the re:ere° powder vessels from Varna to have this additional inconvenience, when the turn of a
Balaklava, since which time she has been employed con- College to nominate, arrives-it will 'be limited in its
veying sick and wounded from the Crimea to Conbtrin- choice to either a non-regent or &regent, according as it
tinole. ma:-stand first or second on the cycle. And when it is
The Royal yacht Fairy, Master Commander Welch, remembered how strongly the inducements to nominate
had her masts taken out yesterday preparatory to going one of their own members operate in our Colleges at
into dock this morning at Portsmouth to undergo a few Cambridge, and how unlikely it is in many cases that
repairs and a thorough re-embellishment. The Falcon, the College, when its turn arrives, should have at hand
14-, screw-sloop, Commander Pullen, was ordered to leave the most suitable candidate, it cannot but be admitted
Spithead last evening for Sheerness with supernume- that the mode of election is singularly ill-adapted for
raries for the blockships at the Nore, and others for securing the services of the most distinguished or the
passage to join the Baltic fleet. The Imperieuse, most efficient members of the University. We would
51, Captain R. B. Watson, was not docked until yes- respectfully ask, why are the resident members of Cam-
terday, owing to the foul weather. The Seamark, bridge to be deprived of the privilege's of free election
naval instruction brig, Lieut. Lowther, returned to Ports- which are conceded at Oxford ? Why embarrass the con-
mouth yesterday morning from a cruise in the Channel. -titution of the Council of the Senate With the obsolete
By letters from Bombay Dockyard, dated the 30th of and inconvenient mediaeval distinction of regents
April, we learn that an important and powerful eapedi- and non-regents ? Why not resort to a Congregation, as
tion was ready for the word to proceed to the Persian at Oxford, instead of a mode of appointment by Colleges,
Gulf and commence the offensive against the Shah of singularly complicated and inconvenient, a Bich will not
that territory. "We have now," says our letter, " ready only exclude very frequently men of eminence from the
to embark 15,000 men, and only wait for the word Council, but will make it the representative of the narrow
' Go.' There are eight heavily-armed steam-ships, six interests of the Colleges rather than of the Univers
smaller ones,lo river boats well armed, and 12 gun-boats. sity, thus tending to perpetuate one of the worst evils
This fleet will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir H. of our system ? We feel satisfied that there are few per-
Leeke, Commander-in• Chief of the Indian Navy, who sons really acquainted with the University, and not in te-
will hoist his flag in' the steam-frigate Assaye, which rested in the maintenance of 'the privileges of the Heads
mounts two 84-pounders on pivots, and ten 68's." of Coll:ges, who will not be ready to admit that themode
The Geyser, 6, paddle-wheel steam-stoop, Commander of appointment to Council at Oxford is greatly superior in
R. Drew, reported yesterday from Woolwich, is from the simplicity, and in the prospect which it holds out of hat-
Baltic. She left Elsinore on the 23d ult., with eight monious and efficient action, to that which is proposed
prizes in charge, towing six of them. She passed the by the bill for Cambridge.
Scaw on the 27th ;on the 28th, during a heavy gale, five "But it is said that Cambridge differs from Oxford in
of them parted their ,tow-ropes, the other was cast off, having two large Colleges with a predominating influ-
about half sea over, it blowing at the time a heavy gale ence, and that with the Oxford system of election the
from east-south-east. The Geyser has brought home the smaller societies would be in danger 'of being excluded
crews of the late brigs Commodore, of Montrose, and the from their fair share in the representation. This objec-
Ophelia Mary, of South Shields, except the masters, tion, it may be re lied could only find place in the event
who remain by the wrecks. The Commodore was of the non-residents as well as the residents being in-
wrecked on the Lessee Island, and the Ophelia Mary on eluded in the electoral body. No such objection could
the coast of Sweden. Both crews, 16 in number, were apply to a Congregation constituted on the model of
landed at Sheerness on Thursday afternoon.
that of Oxford ; for the united number of residents be-
The following officers have taken up their commissions longing to Trinity and St. John's forais but a small frac-
aod joined the, Glutton floating battery at Sheerness :- lion of the whole body of resident members of the
First Lieutenant Richard Dawkins, Lieut. Nares, Mr. Senate. We believe the whole number of resident mern-
Richards, master, and Mr. W. C. P. Grant, Paymaster- hers of the Senate is now about 250. Of this number
A court-martial assembled on board the Waterloo, at not more than 60 altogether belong to Trinity and St.
Sheerness, yesterday, to try Mr. William Lane, a first- John's.
class assistant-engineer, supernumerary on board the "It may further be observed that the word 'resident'
Hastings, for desertion. There were other charges in the seventh clause will require a definition either in
against him, but he was tried on the one charge named. the bill itself, as was done for Oxford, or by a by-law of
Di addition to the officers who sat on the former court- the University. We shall thus have in effect all the
martial to try Lieut. Packwood, were Capt. James J. machinery requisite for the construction of a Congrega-
Stopford, of the Calcutta, and Captain Arthur Cum- tion, am dno additional change will be imported jut° the
ming, of the Glutton. The charge of desertion was fully academical system beyond that which is already contem-
proved,' and the prisoner was sentenced to six months' plated by the bill, in order to give effect to our recom-
imnrkonment in Maidstone Gaol. mendations.
Orders have been forwarded to the detachment of the " Sections 27and 28.-Although theiUniversity is em-
94th Foot, doing duty at Aldershott Camp, for the men powered, and in the event of the University failing to do
to be held in readiness to join the head-quarters of the so, the commissioners are required, to make statutes for
regiment at Portsmouth, previous to its embarkation at the regulation of private halls, no power or direction
Gibraltar. It was expected that the head-quarters at is,given by the bill for the repeal or revision of the uni-
Windsor and the detachment at the Tower would have versity statutes now in force. The University of Oxford
proceeded to Portsmouth yesterday ; the departure, had only two permanent statutes ; one constituting the
however, has been postponed ; and at a late hour yes- hebdomadal board, which was repealed by the act of
terday evening no order for the march was received at last session • the other constituting the cycle of proctors,
the Tower. It is considered probable that the regiment which is still in force. All other matters are within the
will not embark before Thursday, the 14th in-t. competency of Convocation to regulate at pleasure. At
The new large screw steamer Oneida will leave Green- Cambridge the case is widely different. The cumbrous,
wich to-day for Liverpool, with the following officers on and in many respects obsolete, code of Queen Elizabeth
board :-Lieut.-Colonel Stratton, of the 77th Foot ; is still in existence, and no power is given by the bill to
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. H. Hancock, 97th ; Lieutenants enable the university or the commissioners to revise or
M'Donald, Makinson, Durand, Allen, M'Nore, Crauford, to repeal it. It is well known that considerable progress
Cleather,, M'Murdo, Bryan (Royal Artillery); Mr. Les- has been• made by the university itself in the labour of
lie and Ensigns Campbell, Allayne, and Hankys; Major amending its statutes, and it is expected that before long
Weylen, of the Turkish Irregular Cavalry; Captain For- a petition, which has only been delayed on account of
rest ; Drs. Scott, Morton, and Ford, will also proceed ti impending bill in Parliament, wj ll be presented to
by the Oneida. the Queen, for the Royal sanction to a new code of uni-
On Wednesday the depot of the 3d Buffs arrived in versity statutes. The executive Government would
Cork from Buttevant, en route for Winchester, num- probably refer such a new code of statutes to the com-
boring about 300 rank and file, under command of Major finis Toners appointed by the bill, for their, opinion and
Green, with the following officers :-Capt. Cole, Capt. approval ; and yet they will have no power whatever to
Kains, Lieut. Coussrnaker, Depot Adjutant ; Lieut. deal with the question.
Pope, Depot Paymaster, Lieut. Henry, Lieut. Suttie, "If a Council of the Senate were statisfactorily consti-
Ensign Breedon, and Assistant-Surgeon Day. A strong tutted, it would probably be found suffiyient to define by
draught of the Buffs is to embark from Cork for the the bill the order of the proctors' cycle; and to leave all
Crimea in the course of a few days. other matters to be regulated by bye-laws of the uni-
On Sunday 13 invalids from the 41st, 63d, 30th, 77th, versity, as occasion' may require, from time to time,
and 88th regiments, arrived in Cork per the London subordinate to the provisions of the bill.
)te Act
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boat, from Chatham. The appearance of these men, "Section 29. The preamble of this se Lion is borrowed,
heroes of Alma and Inkerman, was deplorable, some with slight alteration., from the 28th section of h
having lost legs and arms. They have been discharged for the Government of the University of Oxford As t
h it
on a pension of Is. a-day, with travelling money to now stands, it becomes the basis of all the powers (
enable them to proceed home. ferred upon the colleges and the commissioners oin tl
It is in contemplation to establish a "Medical Staff for the regulation of a great numbeit of veryimportant
Corps," to be made up of volunteers from the regular details, which are not afterwards enumeratedin
e
army or from men lately discharged, to consist' of nine enacting parts of the bill. Bearing in mind the import-
companies, and to be composed of-Purveyors' Dep4rt' ante of avoiding frequent appeals to our courts of law
ment, 1 steward, as sergeant-major ; assistant- in matters regarding the exercise of special powers, we
stewards, as sergeants ; 6 issuers, as privates; cannot do otherwise than express a wish that the Se
2 washermen, as corporals ; 1 cook, as sergeant ; ral points which require the revision of the colleges aVned-
-3 assistant-conks, as privates. Surgeons' Depart- the commissioners may be more distinctly defined, lest
ment -1 warclinaster, as colour sergeant ; 8 as- there, should be any miscarriage on putting the powers
sistant-wardmasters, as corporals ; 2 barbers, as privates; ipf the act into operation. As nothing can be done in
50 orderlies, as privates ; total, 73. The corps will thus these respects under the bill, except with a certain con-
consist s.f 9 stewar Is, as sergeant-major, pay ss: a-day ; cureenc'e of the colleges and the commissioners we ap-
-9 wardmasters, as colour-sergeants, 49.; 36 assistant- prebend that no objection can be made to a detailed
stewards, as sergeants, and 9 cooks, as sergeants, 3s. 6d.; j enumeration of the subjects in which a change may be
90 assistant-wardmasters, as corporals, 2s, 6d. ; 549 I either necessary or desirable. The following are the