The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Mr. BOUVER,IE, in moving the second reading of this
bill, explained its nature and effect. It proposed to repeal
the seventh section of the Act of Uniformity of Charles
IL, requiring from certain dignitaries of the Churn, and
fellows and tutors of colleges, declarations of conformity to
the Prayer I3Jok. At Oxford and Cambridge there was
some difference. At Cambridge there were no oaths or
declarations of any kind on admission, and there were none
on taking the ordinary degree in arts, but if an undergra-
duate obtained a scholarship who won a mark of distinction
he had to take the oaths. He had to take an oath of obe-
dience to the college statutes. He did not intend to interfere
with that oath where the statutes required it, but he objected
to the Parliament or a mere taking the oath of conformity
to the Church of England, whether the statutes required
it or not. Secondly, ho had to take the oath of allegiance,
supremacy, and abjuration; and, thirdly, under the Act of
Uniformity, he had to make a declaration that he would
conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England. It was
this he asked the house to assist him in repealing. The
universities were not merely seminaries for the education of
priests ; on the contrary, they were essentially lay corpo-
rations, and the fellowships were the prizes for literary and
scientific energy. The system was injurious to the Church,
to the men who were excluded, and to the universities
themselves.

Mr. WALPOLE said the bill was not of the little im-
portance the hon member seemed to admit. He saw no
reason why it should be pressed upon the house when there
was so much opposition to it out doors. The introduction
of the principle laid down in the bill would lead to religious
confusion to the promoters, end it would draw many from
secular education, the foundation of religion on which the
education stood, and on which the country was determined
it should stand. whatever may be the nature of the educa-
tion determined upon. He deemed the proposition of the
hon gentleman that the present system was unjust to the
Dissenters, and injurious to the Universities and the
Church. A University had been established in London in
which all who did not conform to the Church of England
might receive a university education, and by the establish..
ment of the college the grievances of the Dissenters was
almost entirely removed. Ho moved as an amendment that
the bill be read a second time this day three months.

Mr MONSELL complained that Mr Bouverie, by his
bill, would inflict a serious injury on Roman Catholics. In
a matter of civil rights it would put Roman Catholics on a
pinnacle where they might be pelted at by all who differed
from them. The right hon. gentleman (Mr Bouverie) had
come down with professions of liberality on his lips
while perpetrating this monstrous injustice. (II ear,
hear.) He contended that in the National Univer-
sities education and religion should not bo depreciated
but he should advise the person who differed from the Esta-
blished Church might be at liberty to found colleges in the
University, where their peculiar system of religion might
be taught, while the students might have ell the advan-
tages with regard to examinations and degrees which the
University had to bestow. The right hon. gentleman
wished to affirm that religion ought not to be the founda-
tion of education, and if he succeeded he would go on to
something else. He (Mr Monsell) advised the house to
resist the, introduction of the bill, and to maintain the great
principles which the universities were founded.
Mr WHAIL EY said, the object of the Church was to
make its boundarie.: as wide as possible, and supported the
second reading of this bill,
Mr NE ATE was sorkT to differ from those with whom
b,ed the bill, which he thought
he usually acted, and oppo
unwise after they had rejected the larger measure of throw-
ing open the universities.
The house divided—
For the second reading .. lOl
Against it..
aj ority
The bill was therefore lost.

[LEFT SITTING.]

The Price of Gold.

The tilsestn42.ll gnld nt Po..Z i. eaLouu zi per mine pm., and
the short exchange On London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rated with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 100 per ounce for start.lard gold, it appears that gold is
.
rather more than 1-10th per pent. dearer in Paris than in
London.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 ff per £1 stcrlin4
standard gold at the English Stint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in hamburg.
The eourse of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 260 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 140 per cent. • At these rates there is probably a
small prat on the importation of gold from the United
Mates.

LYNCH LAW.-0a Friary morning last an Irish•
man named Anthony Sween;..e died from severe in-
juries which he received in a collision which took place be-
tween the Scotch and Irish inhabitants of Crofthead on the
previous Saturday night. On the night me:.
ntioned half a
dozen Irishmen were drinking in an upper roo2l in Mrs
Wyper's publichouse, and they refused to leave at II o ,clock,
when desired by the servant. Tho policeman having bat.in
called in he was attacked, knocked down, and kicked by the
Irishmen. Ultimately the policeman obtained assistance
and put out the Irishmen, but on leaving the publichouse
he was furiously attacked: knocked down, and kicked by the
Irish, who had by this time increased is numbers. The offi-
cer's cries brought assistance, and he re-entered Wypees,
bleeding from the face and much injured from kicks
about the ribs. It would seem that this cowardly and brutal.
treatment of the (nicer had got wind among the Scot.ntient:
habitants, and that they had concerted measurest foortiEix
of
ing summary justice upon the Irish, for a p
the latter were on their way home about midbnuigratihr:
where the
ee v eAd severetho y
were set upon, on the road leading to Gr
men said
ywhen they
d
to number 30
Irish principally reside, by a band of mdeown
with pokers and
or 40, who attacked and knccked thembm
other weapons. Four of the MX IriS
wounds on the head, and one of them,natn
Sweenie, aged 30, notwithstanding medical attention, died,
as we have said, on Friday morning last. Two men have
been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the
attack on the Irishmen, and committed meantime to prison.
The Irishmen who assaulted the policeman are said to have
abseonded.—Scotsenan.
SINGULAR OBITUARY.—In the burial register of
Lymington, Hants, there is the following entry :-12,
august, 1722. This forenoon the body of Samuel Baldwin,
late inhabitant of this parish, was, conveyed in a vessel off
to sea, and was committed to the deep off the Needle rocks,
near iho Isle of Wight." " This appears to have been
lone," says a Hampshire paper, "in accordance with the
wish of the deceased to prevent his wife from dancing over
Ale grave, which the threatened to do:',