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OXFO#PUNIV;ERSITY COMMISSION.

the proctors, all professore and public lecturers,
tlgether with the senior tutors of all colleges and
halls; that] he members of this,,body should possess the
right of originating measures, that it should be con-
vened by the Vice-Chancellor to discuss measures only
on the written request of a fixed number of its mem-
bers; that it should be empoweied to appoint delegacies
for discharging the functions usually belonging
to the committees of deliberative bodies • that its
members should be allowed to address the house in
English; that measures, after being passed by this
House of Congregation, should be proposed to the
House of Convocation simply for acceptance or rejection
in the same manner that measures emanating from the
hebdomadal board are now proposed; that these changes
being made, the hebdomadal board should continue to
discharge its executive and administrative functions,
and-sbould also retain its present right of originating
measures.

39. That, if necessary, the visitor should have power
to issue a commission for the re-examination of Vandi-
dates for fellowships, on appeal from rejected candidates
who can give prima facie evidence of higher merit than
those who have been elected, and to reverse the decision
of the electors. _ _ ,

(From the Times.)
The Report of trio Oxford University Commission,
which has so tang been feared or desired, was published
on Friday, and now lies before. us. For the benefit of
the numerous persons interested in this report, but not
likely to see it till their annual visit to. OStfOrd or the
metropolis, we may as Well dei,cribe the outward fea
tures of a dtecupsept which has hitherto been anticipated
in some quarters as a spectral bugbear rather than •as
a solid reality. It is a bulky volume, running to nearly
800 folio pages, of which more than 250 are devoted to
the report itself, arranged under the several heads of the
state, the discipline, the sturlies, and the revenues of the
University and the several Colleges and Hails, summed
up with a very compendious " oonelusion." The remainder
of the volume consists' of souse; legal and historical
statements, corrispondencee tables : of fees and other
documents, and the evidence of ninety prelates, dig-
nitarmai professors, distinguished men, and University
and "College officials-4he .so-called evidence assuming
in some instances the character of considerable pam-
phlets, and in others boieg confined to .the formal
receipts of the circulars issued by the Commission.
This superficial account of .-the volume will Wigy the
most sceptical member of the University that the Com-
missioners have made a report, and that they have not
been entirely paralysed by the 'scruples which 'led do
manfrespectable men to withhold the information. at •
their command. The Cointeissinners express their re-
gret that, owing to these.icruplei, the report, is not quite
so complete as might have been desired, but no one can
turn over tly leaves without perceiving that there is
quite enough, not merely to satisfy a large curiosity, but
also to supply the necessary materials for legislative dis-
cussion. After all, those palpable facts of the case that
are before the eyes of the Whole world, and which con-
stitute the operation and results of the University sys
to m, are the moat important,: and,, to far barvite can see,
s i
they are fully brought out in the pages before us.' As t
is, the Commissioners feel it necessary to apologize for
the length of the report.
Though it is the object of- many of the recommenda-
tions rather ;PO.emancipate the University and Colleges,
and enable them to extend their utility themselves, and
though it is rather a beginning than a complete system
which is euggestede yet the Commissioners•have gone
quite as far as was desirable,- or perhaps possible; in fill-
ing up a scheme of reform. That proposed, reform is
serious, extensive, and partiCulate Indeed, there is not
an office or an institution, ore practice in the University,
from the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor to the
debts of the Undergraduates—from the government of
University to the time of the long vacation, which is not
affected, The mere summary of the proposed alterations
ex'ends to 47 heads. The careful attention which has
been given tOsevery point fully explsins the increasing
assiduity
,with which the Commission has held its sittings
from October 19, 1850, to April 23, 1852, seldom with
more than the interval of a week, and generally with
less. Whatever difference of opinion there will be as to
the merit of this or that proposal; there can be no differ-
ence as to the conscientious spirit in which the Commis-
sioners have' discharged their sacred trust.
They propose to give the University, with proper re-
serves, full power of self-government. To carry this
power into effect,' they propose to create a Senate, pre-
serving the name of the " Congregation," consisting of
all Heads of Llousss, the Proctors, all Professors and
public Lecturers, together with the senior Tutors of all
Colleges and Halls, and to give this body authority to
originate measures, and power to appoint Delegacies, or
Standing Committees, for special purposes. This body
is proposed rather: as as addition to the existing
branches of the academic legislature, the Hebdomadal
Board still retaining its executive powers and its right
to originate measures, and the Convocation still having
that veto. into Which prescription has narrowed its func-
tions. Such an 'addition, however, has long been re-
quired, and till recently its place was supplied by a spe-
cies of mired committee or confsrence, that mediated
between the Hebdomadal. Board and the Convocation—
the Lords and Commons of the University. It is
proposed to give the most important functions
of the University, the supervision of studies, the
appointment of Examiners; and the management of
professional body alone, that
extensively remodelled. It is
body,the p public
ewlvi.ebri:tisn,g to
very the
also proposed that the Proctors shall severally hold office
for two years, the first year of the one coinciding with
the last year of the other; the duties of the office being
confined to matters of discipline, and the election being
vested in-Congregation without the restraint of the Ca-
roline Cycle. Among other proposed changes affecting
the state and discipline of the University may be men-
tioned the abolition of promissory oaths, the discontinu-
ance of the distinction between noblemen, gentlemen
commoners, and commoners; a check on the credit given
to undergraduates by' the early presentation of bills, and
the recovery of debts hi' open court, and liberty for the
foundation of halls as .well as for residence in private
Jo 3gings, utt_ r doe superintendence, without connection
with :toy eollege or hall.
The alterations affecting the studies of the University
are equally extensive. The Commissioners propose a
public examination before matriculation; the option of
some special branch of study in the latter pert of the
academic cousse; four professional boards for the regu-
lation of studies, viz , for Theology, Mental Philosophy,
and Philology, Jurisprudence and History, Mathemati-
cal anti Physical science; the pntite reconstruction and
re-endowment of the Professorships, partly by the
ap-
plication of college felloWships to the purpose; the elec-
tion of Professors by the. Crown,. or
,the proposed Con-
gregation instead of the Convocation; the removal of
restrictions from University scholarships and prizes, and
the formation of libraries and museums of physical
science under the entire management of the professors.
With regard to the revenues of the University, it is pro-
posed to publiih all accounts, including those of the
press; to equalise fees; to confibe the funds of the Uni-
versity to University purposes,
and to remit the stamp
duties on matriculation and degrees.
The changes proposed in the constitution and Govern-
ment of the colleges are equally extensive and of much
the same character. Time will ,not allow us to go into
details, but they amount to the abolition of every unnes
cessary rule which may interfere with the true interests
of the Collegie -
A
utilizing of tellovrtushoinpsg obtyhearttPa9cihnitnsg' we may instance the
professorial duties;
- the creation of scholarships tenable for a limited term,
the opening of all foundations to the whole university
except in special cases;
the election of heads of houses
from the whole body of Masters of Arts; the regular
and effective visitation of the colleges, with annual re-
ports to the Crown, mid the power of making and re-
pealing statutes. But here we must stop. The com-
missioners, after carefully summing up their labours, add,
" Of the proposals which affect the university, the most
important are those which we have made for remodelling
the constitution and abolishing the existing monopoly of
the colleges and halls, by allowing students to reside at
ilnan
immediate
necessity the colle goefs,
Ox-
ford without the expense of connexion with those bodies..h
Cwpeenwing would
especially
the
leges, of increasing the number and value of scholar-
ships, of granting to the colleges the poser of altering
ceiclioawllyshi upr.ige
de
scholarshipi, of attaching professorships to certain co
their statutes, and, above all, of prohibiting as unlawful
, the oaths to observe the statutes."

40. That all scholarships should bo thrown open to
your Majesty's subjects under the age of 19,. of what-
ever lineage or birthplace ; and that in those colleges
which have at present but few scholarships, or a
number not proportioned to their wealth and re-
sources, the number should be increased. That the
only . exceptions should be that (1) at Jesus, College
certain scholarships should be reserved for persons born
or educated in Wales; and that (2) of colleges in con-
nexion with ..particular schools, certain scholarships
should be reserved for-persons educated at those schools,
subject to the provisioes specified .in the body of our
report.. , • , .
41. That no seholarships or exhibitions in the gift of
colleges should be tenable for more than five years; and
tbet in-no caseahould a scholarship lead to-a fellowship
without fresh competition.
• 42.: That college revenues should be made to a certain
extent available for the education of the university;
and • that for :this purpose the three lectureships
founded by Fox at Corpus Christi should be restored
and endowed with revenues from the college funds, suffi-
crept ;to maintain two professors; that at Magdalen,
where thrhe similar lectureships were founded b:y Wayn-
pete, 'six should be created and endowed for ihealiaiate-
nano° of six professors; . that at Merton two, and at
All Soels four or more, similar endowments Should
be made, to which might be added, if necessary, one
at New College and ouesa Queen's. That these colleges
should be empowered to suppress, either for a time or
altogether, a, sufficient number
,of their fellowships, in
order to provide these endoWments withoutl too much
giosSagaatieg the emolumenti; of the remaining tellows."
a-eitfir-Tilet-theie profeesorefelltrive should not be geotted
by the college electors, but that such fellowships should
follow the professorships to which they may be respec-
tively attached.
44. That the heads of colleges should lie elected from
any persons who have taken the degree of the master of
arts; and that the election to these offices should, if pos-
sible, be left to the fellows of the college; but that, in
Me abuses in these elections should continue, provision
to abate them should be made by an alteration in the
mode of election.
45. That in all cases the visitors should be empowered
to visit their colleges, and to correct abuses; and that
the head of each college, under the seal of the- college,
should transmit annually a report on the state, disci-
pline, studies, and revenues of the college, according to
such a form as the visitor may think fit, and that the
visitor should be called upon to lay a copy of such re-
port before the Sovereign, with such observations as he
may think fit to make.
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ay Ttl
applied
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in the body of our report.
47. That the head and fellows in each society should
have power, under such control as may be thought expe-
dient,stataeits aoss ooltercaosion may require.rabrogatesta
statutes, and to frame new
In drawing up this summary of our recommendations,
we have not attempted to make any distinctions between
them. It must be manifest, however, on a cursory
survey, that these recommendations are very
different both in kind and in importance. Some
the university and the colleges have not the
power to adopt without assistance from superior
authority; some they have power to carry out, though
.they-are not likely to avail themselves of that power;
some we hope they may be induced to consider and to
carry into effect of their own free choice; a hope which
is strengthened by the fact that several important
changes have been made since your Majesty's Commis-
sion was issued. It may be thought doubtful whether
those which involve alteration in the Leudian Code re-
quire external aid or not; but even a doubt on such a
point renders it necessary to refer the question to supe-
rior authority. But no doubt can exist as to the neces-
sity of legislative interference, if the principal measures
which we have recommended for the reform of 'the col-
leges are to be carried into effect.
Of the proposals which affect the university, the most
important are those which we have made for remodel-
ling the constitution, and for abolishing the existing
monopoly of the colleges and halls, by allowing students
to reside in Oxford without the expanse of connexion
with those bodies. In regard to the colleges, we would
especially urge the immediate necessity of opening the
fellowships and scholarships, of attaching professor-
ships to certain colleges, of increasing the number and
value of scholarships, of granting to. the colleges the
power of altering their statutes, and, above all, of pro-
hibiting as unlawful the oaths to observe the statutes.
The evil of these oaths will be much increased after the
publication of the statements which we have felt it our
atinstitu-
tion duty to make.
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has over been. Our object has been to lay such pro-
laced to place the University of Oxford at the head of
the education of the country, to make its great resources
more effectually serve their high purposes, and to ren-
der its professors tit representatives of the learning and
the intellect of England.
All which -we humbly submit to your Majesty's
gracious consideration.
Witness our hands and seals this 27th day of April,
1852. • S. NORWIC
A. C. TAIT.
FRANCIS JE UNE.
HENRY G. LIDDELL.
JOHN Lucius DAMPIER.
BADEN POWELL.
G. 11. JOHNSON.
A. P. STANLEY, Secretary.

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3. 'That the standing delegacies intrusted with execu
tive 'functions should be composed partly of official
members, and 'partly of members approved by congre-
gation on the nomination of the Vice-Chancellor and
Proctors; one-third of the persons thus nominated to
retire every year, but to be re-eligible; and that 03(5
professors should be formed inissea standing delegacy,
wholly official and not liable ttealtfiafion, for tho super-
vision of studies, the appointment of examiners, and the
management of the public libraries. The official mem-
bers of the other standing delegacies to be determined
by the House of Congregation.
4. That the Vice-Chancellor
8124111 d be appointed sb-
sOlutely by the Chancellor from the heads of eSolleges.
and halls, and that the passage in;:the Laudian Statutes,
which seems to give convocation ii:veto on the appoint-
ment, should be removed from theitatute-hook.
5. That the tenure of the procties office should be ex-
tended to two years, one proctor going
out of office at
the close of each yeW, WI '4ll qt,, few limitations with
arlttftlaY'tOs'itittOk isiainitt - , htk-ho longer'intaittesli"
that the proctors should be elected by congregation,
without regard to the cycle issued by Ring Charles L;
that they should be re-eligible; that they should no
longer have any share in nominating examiners, in ad-
judging prizes, in electing certain professors, or in ap-
pointing the select preachers; and that their power of
veto on acts of convocation should be abolished.
6. That the imposition of promissory oaths for the
performance of academical duties should be prohibited.
7. That all distinctions between noblemen, gentleman-
commoners, and commoners should be discontinued.
S. That, in order to place some check on credit, no
debt whatever contracted by a minor while an under-
graduate of Oxford should be recoverable, unless the bill
shall have been sent in to the undergraduate within three
calendar months after the date of the earliest item, and
unless, in case of non-payment, a copy of the bill -shall
have been sent within six months from- the same date to
the parent, guardian, or college-tutor of the debtor; and
that no such action should be brought after the expira-
tion of a year from the date of the earliest item.
9. That for the recovery of debts froth members of
the university, the Vice-Chancellor's Court should here-
after proceed according
e to the forms of the County
Courts, and that the practice of the court should be
thrown open.
10. That the provision of the statutes, by which all
members of the university are obliged to belong to some
college or hall, as also that by which colleges and halls
are obliged to have all their rooms accessible through one
common gate should be annulled; and that liberty be
given for the extension of the university, as well by the
foundation of halls as by permitting members of -the
university, under due superintendence, to live in private
lodgings, without connexion with a college or hall.
11. That there should be a public exaMination for all
young men before matriculation.
• 12. That during the latter part of the academical
course, all students should be left free to devote them-
selves to some special branch or branches of study.
13. That the professors should be distributed into
four boards for the regulation of study:-1. Theology;
2. Mental Philosophy and Philology; 3. Jurisprudence
and History; 4. Mathematical and Physicl Science.
14. That a scheme should be framed by competent
authority to provide for the requisite number of pro-
fessorships, partly by amalgamating some 'of those
which belong to the same department, partly by sup-
pressing those which are not wanted, partly by creating
new chairs; that the endowment of the professorships
should be increased, when, inadequate, further endow-
ments being obtained by placing professorships in cer-
tain colleges, according to the precedent set by the foun-
ders of Magdalen and Corpus.
15. That restrictions on the appointment of professors
should be removed.
16. That the appointment to newly-created chairs
should be given to the Crown, but that the appointment
to existing professorships should be left in the same
hands as at present, except that those vested in convo-
cation, in the graduates of divinity, and in the heads of
houses, should be transferred to congregation,.
17. That to assist the professors, assistant-professors,
or lecturers should be appointed (whenever necessary),
by boards, to which they would respectively belong, sub-
ject to the approval of congregation; that, in case inde-
pendent endowments cannot be supplied, a limited num-
ber of fellows of colleges, it appointed to such lecture-
ships, should, while holding them, retain their fellow-
ships though married; and that congregation should
or the sulpension of those
i.isch.thTmehy y
may
yt
required._
18, when-
authorize thheaveesteaebals,isehdmtoenbteorfe
should be allowed to
mparofebsesowrsaanntedd l'ecot
receive fees.
19. That the long vacation should commence aLd ter-
minate on fixed days. .
20. That examinations should be conducted (as-far as
possible) in the vacations. .
21. That steps should be taken to remove the restric-
tionsscho-
larships and prizes. • •
22. That the Bodleian Library should be placed under
which limit the usefulness
the management of the professors. That 'although no
full Berm. ' '
of the university
general permission to take printed bookser manuscripts
out of the building should
be granted, the professorial
lshouldhat htahvee powerhours tofo
rgive a
reading
a reading-room provided, with
due aebommodation. That the visitation of- the library
smd
neiolsesugiloadne delegacy
in special
extended, encgitel gscases.t i
n
sihnould .be made for trans-
; oh
r2or3ui
r.l 1 clgTnthohae t longerar
departmentr
arrangements
nt g
ea k
me placeao
otst.
Pe 1,
Ysioal science to the Rad-
cliffe Library; that for this purpose the curators of the
Powered to make over
b Joks in that department to the. trustees of the Rad-
cliff.; Library; and that, if this division of subjects be
effected, the Radcliffe Library should . e
b placed under
Bodleian Library should be ern
the supervision of the professors
of
Thst a special library of arcbm)logy physical science.
and art should be
forraed in the building, celled the " University Gallery."
24. That a catalogue should be etsupple-
mentary to that of the Bodleian Library,
, rar for the purpose
of indicating such books as exist in de' other libraries
in Oxford, but are not to be found
in the Bodleian.
25. That the university should proceed with the plan
lately brought forward
.for building a great museum for
all departments of physical sciene,
rooms, laboratories, and apparatus for lectures.p That
the trustees of the present collections
the revenues of the uni-
with proper
various
l ekc
it
ou rdes-,
should be empowered to transfer their collections to this
museum, and that the curators of the
the professors of physical science.
museum should be
balance-sheet of
printed annually for the use of convo-
cation; themselvei should
be accessible. That a statement of
the proceedings of
the delegtates of the press shouldt be made annually, so
far as could be done without injury.
cv ae rt2is6oCnt Y;Tsahl anaodtu ald
that the
27. That the table of
tfees exacted
by the university
should be revised, so as o_eqtrlize all fees demanded for
"aol
abolish
all those which are ex-
acted for no service, or which are untiecessary, due regard
beiDg paid to vested interests. .
the same purpose,
28. That the funds at the disposal
liversit , of the university
should be applied to in i
clay PurPosea only, due re
Matriculations on
gard being paid to the loca ms of - Property belonging
to the university. and b
degrees, and on certificatesott!eme
egrees, should be duties levied on
re-
mitted, and that the Statute
should be re-
laxed so far as to allow the-universit
29. That the stamp
university to invest its
funded property in land.
sed i
30. That all oaths impY. college statutes, and
all declarations against changeo b
in statutes, should be
prohibited as unlawfuL .
should be
31. That all fellowship s
barn, open to all
;
members of the university
wherever
have taken the degree of bachelor.
ofarray and can pro-
duce a proper certificate of
tcharacter.a That, for reasons
stated in the body of our rep, nTaePlion to this rule
should be made in regard to Now College and St. John's
College.
elected to fellowships 32. That persons elshould
be
on the tenure re-
leased from all restrictions . _ or their fellow-
ships arising from the obligattontoenter into holyor-
ders, or from that of proceeding to degrees in the facul-
ties of theology, law, or medicine; but that it would be
expedient to modify rather than remove the restriction
arising from the possession otbperoaperty property; and that celi-
bacy should still continue. to necessary condition
with certain specified. -
for holding fellowships,
~ exceptions.
33.' That steps should be taken to tnevarious colleges
to prevent' the swm! vale e o '
ii ly. fellowship from
i amounting; to more than 3001, or falling below 1501.
' 34. That no portion of the funds of colleges; except
those specifically given for that purpose, should be ap-
plied to the purchase of advowsons.
35. That any surplus remaining, after making due
provision for the fellows, should be
. applied to increase
the number and value of scholarships, and that no scho-
larship should be of less amount t. an 501. a year.
36. That, in
colleges where there is more than one
foundation, all fellows should be placed on the same foot-
ing. both as to rights and duties. ,
37. That for the election of fellows and scholars in the
4. larg.:r colleges, bo'ils sh f, s
euld be aim d, consisting. of
not less thm 12, and e inclutoe
..., the, head aLI d all
all fellows
engaged in education; that in . cases the election
should be made by the suffrages of the whole board, or.
of the whole society, es
the case might be, and not by
nomination; and that all elections should be determined
by the merits of the candidates, us tested by examination.
38. That r. certain numb er of fellowships should be,
for the present at last, appropriated for the eencourage.
raent of the new studies introduce.d into the academical
tiyetera.

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We endeavoured, in a leading article on Saturday, to
describe the principal -; recommendations of the Oxford
University ComMissiat.' The following `• conclusion"
will prhaps.kive 'the best idea of the effect of the " re-
port,' whieWofiteelfloo long for publiatitioa, and al-
most for abridgment
We have poly gone through all the subjects .proposed
by your Majeiety for our consideration, and have given
our opinions on each of them, as by the terms of ,our
commission was required of-us. -Our report has: run to
a length greater ' than 'we -expected, but,- •if we have
employed many pages in giving an accoent of obese-
lete customs and laws, this has not been done
merely for the purpose of recording curious
facts or indulging in antiquarian research. The great
aim and purpose of -the statutes, both of the univer-
sity and of the colleges, was to perpetuate What seemed
expedient at the time of their enactment, by means of
laws intended to be unalterable. If we look only to their,
statutes, the colleges of Oxford are now what they were
in the times of the Plastagenets and Tudors, and if the
Laudian Code be binding, the University of Oxford is
new .what it was in the time of King Charles I.; but,
in fact, almost every distioct purpose and every par-
ticular object of the founders, almost every detail
of _government and, administration has been neglected
or superseded; therefore the peculiar character of the
university and colleges of Oxford made it necessary to
give some account of their ancient• condition, in order
to show what their present condition would be if the
statutes were still maintained.- The contrariety' be-
tween the state of thinks presumed by the statutes
and that produced by the lapse of time could not be
made ;clear without some inquiry into the ancient
state of the several academical bodies, and for' this
reason we have deemed it necessary to enter into
such inquiries at some length. Our report has also been
swelled by the extent to which we have quoted evidence.
We have thought it-necessary to do so, partly because of
the eXcellenee of the arguments which we have quoted,
Partly because we were anxious. that the advocates of
particularase
sh ua pv pe oer
ot -efmd e:t great
avvteea with uS-
wishedat e ut t by
,plans should be heard in their own words, es-
Peekelly when we were -coustrairied to differ from them,'
partly h
o shth opinionsewothatou oorptihnoiolirotsi:rigt
to our duty
e:p the chief recemmendations which
we have thought
We will new sum •
to lay before your
Majesty, with a view
colleges to a sounder. cr oestore the university and the
great resources more serviceable
Won,. and to render their
learning. •• • teeable to education and to
We are of opinion,—
1. That the university should receive
a n
indemnifica-
tion incase fit has exceeded its-pow e t
r -
Laudian Code, and should henceforth hay,.
alteringrull
eily to make, abrogate, or alter statutes,
With autho-
On of a few fundamental articles not to bee aelLcie.er),-;
without the consent of the Crown or some other
superior
authority. ' •
2. That the right • of. initiating measures should be
confided to a bodycomprisine professors and other aca-
demical teechersi as well as the-members of the hebdoL
medal beard. For this purpose• it may be expedient
that the body 'callcia congregation ' should be re-
modelled, so as to consist of all heads of houses,

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BANQUET AT FISHMONGERS'-HALL.
Last night the Fishmongers' Company entertained
large party, consisting chiefly of the honorary members
of this distinguished guild, at a most sumptuous banquet
in their noble and spacious hall.. The Prime Warden,
Mr. J. Weston, presided, having on his right the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, Earl Grey, and the American and
Persian Ministers. On the left of the chairman sat the
Earl of Clarendon, Viscount t'almerston, M.P., Lord
R. Grosvenor, At.P„ and Sir C. Wood, M.P. There
were also at table Major 111irzi Ibrahini Malcolm, Admi-
ral Sir C. Adam, Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, Aldermen
Sir J. Duke, Musgrove, Efumphery, Cnbitt, and Finnis,
Sir. R. Ferguson, Bart., M.P., Mr. L. King, M.P., Sir
W. Clay, Bert., M.P., Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. B. Hawes,
Vice-Chanceilers Turner, Kindersley, and Parker. Sir
D. Davis, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the
Bank, Mr. Thornely, M.P., Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, Mr.
Bacon, Mr. R. Gurney, Mr. Cocks M.P., Mr.
Henry Drumond, M.P., Mr. Mitchell, M.? r. C t4l y Mr. Fowles. &c.
:The dinner was served by Mesers. Ring and Brymer.
The arrangements were excellent in every department.
When the cloth bad been cleared, Mr. Harker, the
toast-mastor, made the usual Rociamatiott of the " wel-
come," and the 14:piing-cup went,rottnd.
The Pawn Yjr.a.nnxii then gave the usual loyal and
constitutional toasts, , prefacing each with appropriate
intrOductorY remarks. - The toasta were received with
much enthaiiiiiii; and the National Anthem was very
efficiently piifornied after: the health of the Queen had
liseoll:cArtinlF. •
The.toast of " The Navy and Army" was very neatly
aatnowledged by Admiral Sir C. Adam.
'The PRIME WARDEN' then proposed " The health of
the Foreign Ministers," cot:peeling the toast with the
names of the American Minister and the Persian Envoy.
"The toast was drunk amid much applause.
' Ills Exeillbooy the Aatorcirt ti INISTER, who was
very: trardialif sedived,..std—M ime Warden; my
Lords, -and Gentlemen, in behalf of the corps to which
I belong, I beg to present their thanks and mine for

the high honour yon have done them in drinking their
health on this occasion.—(Hear, hear.) I can only
regret that some others of my colleagues are not here
to return thanks to you, Sir, and to this ancient

corporation, for your kind hospitality, extended to
us on this and many other ocoasions.—(Hear, hear.)
My friends upon my right represent the extreme east,
and I have the honour to represent the extreme west; I

am only sorry that there are not representatives to fill
up the chasm between us.—(Cheers.) I will venture,
. .

however, on behalf of my colleagues, to express to you,
gentlemen, what I believe they all feel,—a sincere desire
to maintain peace and amity with the British empire.—
(Cheers.) For myself, I hope I may be pardoned for
saying a word, not on my own account, bat on account
of nay country, and of my countrymen, several of whom
I notice here to-night.—(Hear, hear.) I feel highly
honoured in being called upon to return thanks on
this occasion, standing in the midst of one of the ancient
corporations of this old, this extraordinary city of Lon-
don. I stand here in the midst of a corporation 250
years older than the country which I have the honour to
represent—(Hear, hear)—and a corporation number-
ing now nearly 500 years of existence cannot,
I think, have anything very bad in it.—(Hear, hear.)
I know the origin of the companies of London, the
twelve great companies—and this among the most an-
cient—having control at one time not only of the
commerce of England, but of the revenues of the
Crown; and I know that not only England, but the
world, has been deeply indebted to these corporations in
early times for their commerce, for their liberal spirit,
for their promotion of constitutional liberty.--(Hear.)
This Corporation has the honour of numbering among
its members the man who blew Wet Tyler.—(Cheers.)
Your Corporation has now, Sir, turned from the arts of
commerce, from trade, to something else; it has turned
from the occupations and professions with which it
started, and has become a great charity.—(Hear, hear.)
You are now educating the orphan, sustaining the widow
in her distress, carrying light and knowledge and virtue
and religion through your country and the world.—
(Hear, hear.) I hope that the prosperity of this Cor-
poration may long continue, and that you may add to
your numbers, as you have done to-day, great and glo-
rious names, which we feel proud to speak.—(Cheers.)
I cannot sit down without expressing my gratification at
meeting here many of those excellent friends with whom
I have been on terms not only of amity and international
comity, but with whom it is more than that—(Hear,
hear)—and I hope they will respond to the idea—we
have been personal friends.—(Cheers.) But I know you
have a long list of toasts, and some of the eloquent of
England are to follow; I will therefore take up no more
of your time, except by stating that my friends on my
right charge me to say how much they are gratified in
meeting you—(Cheers)—and let me add, that I wish this
Corporation and alt its members prosperity and happi-
nese, and another five hundred years of as much useful-
ness and honour as the lass.—(Cheers and laughter.)
The PRIME WARDEN then proposed " The House d
Peers." coupling with the toast the names of the Mar-
quis of Clanricardo and Earl Grey. The House of Peers
recruited its ranks, occasionally, from the body of Vie
people, and the commonalty might almost be jealous of
that noble House for absorbing such a large portion of
the wealth, and intelligence, and dignity of the country;
but it was gratifying that those who had so distinguished
themselves should be raised to honour.—(Hear, hear.)
The Marquis- cf Clanricarde had carried out very nu-
porta:it improvements in an establishment in the City—
the Post-office,—(Cheers)—and the company would
delight to honour Earl Grey for his own excellence as
well as for that clarnm et venerabile nomen which he bore.
The toast was much applauded.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said,—ln performing
the task which your. kindness imposes upon me, I beg
to express my sincere conviction that the House of
Peers are deeply sensible of such compliments as that
which you have been pleased to pay them.—(Hear,
hear.) They know the value of such tokens in up-
holding and maintaining and extending their au-
thority and influence and means of being useful to
their country.—(Hear, hear.) The House of Lords is
indeed, as you have said, Sir, constantly recruited from
the ranks of the rest of the community, and especially
from the noble services and professions of the country;
• and therefore there can be little doubt that it will retain
that sincere love of liberty and national iedependence, as
well as order, for which that assembly has been distin-
guished. It has always shown the most strict and jealous
regard to the rights and privileges of all classes of the
community; and if at times that assembly may have ap-
peared to be less prompt or 11258 eager to adopt reforms
or innovations, the Lords have never shown themselves
insensible to the requirements of the country, or to the
feelings of their fellow-countrymen.—(Hear.) I think it
must bo allowed that they have fulfilled the duties al-
lotted to them with advantage to the country. For my-
self, Sir, I thank you for the very flattering manner in
which you have been pleased to speak of me. It is very
gratifying to me to be admitted to the splendid hospita-
lity of so respectable and honourable a corporation of
the greatest metropolis in the world, particularly a cor-
poration so distinguished for maintaining those principles
of civil and religious liberty which I have always en-
deavoured, to the best of my power, to promote.
..._mr.
Earl GREY, who was received with cheery,
Prime Warden, the manner in which you ;menu
es upon methe
name in connexion with this toast
duty of adding a few words to what fins
gi dr
a by
y-
my Noble Friend. While I shit:Boom hbimeenthesa
plinieut you have
tube which he expresses for th
Sir, and to the company, for
paid to the House of wh
en, w
are both members, I also
feel deeply indebted toy aid
m principal claim is that
the compliment which hyaosubeen paid to myself--a com-
pliment for which I feel that Y
e been pleased to
hereditary one one to which you
hav
lathe—Olean) Indeed, when I recollect that the con-
nexion of my father with the card London and with
I believe, nearly sixty years
this company dates from
I compare the situation of
ago—(Sear, hear)—when with what it was in that
a:tvri„al history, and when I this great country
dark period of our
great iceprovs
re-
flect how much of tLusitg
was his "ner'• is due
to the measureswhich. fortune, having
l fto livel to carry to a successful
advocated in early
boar)—when reflect upon this, I
I feel proud of the name which I have
issue--(Hear,
cannot deny that
the honour to bear.—(Cheers.)
. Gentlemen, for myself
I will net venture to say anything except that 1 feel
most grateful to you for the very great indulgence and
kindness with which you have been pleased to receive
the tosst.—(Cheers,)
The .s Health of the Prime Warden" was proposed
by the Marquis of CLLNRICARDE, and drunk with much
cordiality,
The PRIME WARDEN then proposed " The Health of
the Earl of Clarendon," who had that day permitted the
company to enrol him among their honorary members,
and whose health they would drink as a brother Fish-
monger.—(Cheers.) The Prime Warden briefly reviewedlre
and eulogised the Noble Earl's administrationin
Ire-
land, and tendered to him the acknowledgments of the
company as Irish proprietors; noticing the rapidity with
which what was alarming in that country passed away,
and tranquillity was restored.
The toast was very much cheered.
The Earl O. fo
„LARENDON was received with much
cheering as he rose to address the company. He said--
Mr. Prime Warden, my Lords and Gentlemen, I beg.to
offer you my most cordial thanks for the honour which
you have done Inc in drinking my health; and, although
I fear I am compelled respectfully, but I can assure you
sincerely, to dissent from the praise which the Prime
Warden has had the goode.ess to bestow upon me, Set.
speaking, as he does, as the representative of a col:1)1)913Y
possessing, and administering admirably, great property
in Ireland, I do feel pleasure in finding that he could
allude in such flattering terms to my administration in
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it was a period of diffi-
culty: during those five years Ireland passed through a
r. riod of no ordinary difficulty.—(Hear, hear.) There
was agrarian outrage; there was constant. agitation;
there were pastiknee and famine of unoxamplea extent
and duration—durnig which, how.arer, to the best of
my
knowledge, not one parson died of starvation upon your
property—(Cheers)—and, in addition
mto this,
ind there wethe
lt+
revolutionary tendencies which, to ym, and
minds of others, savoured strongly of rebellion, though
it has silica been the fashion to ridicule or deny that
idea.—(Hear hear.) But the care and anxiety
which such accumulated disasters, of necessity.
brought with them, -were make than- compensate,
by the improvement which etilmecitlently took plaah Ana