The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CCXCIV.
THE STOURBRIDGE MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Nest week is equally prolific of race meetings
with the present, not less than nine fixtures being
marked to come off. Stourbridgo is en the list for Mon-
,

day and Tuesday; Eccles, Monday, Tuesday, and Wed-
nesday; Lincoln and Westbury, Tuesday and Wednes-
day; Morpeth, Wednesday
and Stirling, Thursday and Friday; and Bridgenorth
and Marlborough on Friday.
The only meeting I shall touch upon to-day is that of
Stourbridge, which commences on Monday at two
o'clock with the Prestwood Stakes, which has not yet
closed.
The Stourbridge Stakes over the mile and a quarter
course will probably be contested by five or six, inclu-
ding Forester and Bess of Hardwick. Ethelwolt's run-
ning, considering his engagement at Lincoln on the fol-
lowing day, is very dubious. Butterfly's chance at Est
?lb is not remarkably good, although not altogether out.
Prime Minister, with the top weight up, if he runs will
finish forward, but not as th,.? winner. In the absence
of Ethelwelf, I think FORESTER and BESS OF HARD-
WICK will occupy the first and second places.
The Ladies' Purse, a mile run, must terminate, to my
thinking, in placing GREENOAXS and Ludy Bibina first
and second; with May-day well up.
The Gold Cup, two miles, I think may be booked
a certainty for that sticking son of Simoom, AARON
Ssirru. Waterfall and Gholab Singh may possibly be
his nearest attendants.

Last night, and again this morning, a good deal of
business was transacted on the Warwick and Doncaster
events. For the Leamington Stakes, the favourite of
the early part of the week, Terpsichore, was somewhat
shaky; while, on the other hand, Lady Evelyn was very
firm in the market. Russborough came with a rush and
left off with takers at 10 to 1. Madeline, Hugo, Hirsuta,
and Trickstress were also inquired after. For the War-
wick Cap Little Harry was in great force; nothing
else mentioned. The St. Leger betting was all in favour
of Daniel O'Rourke and Lapidist, scarcely any other
being mentioned. Repeated offers were made to back
The Reiver against the field for the Champagne Stakes,
and to take 4 to 1 about Vindex. Offers were also
made to take 8 to 1 about Kingston for the Doncaster
Cup and risk the entry. The closing prices on a large
field of stakes that were speculated upon were no fol-
low :—Stourbridge Stakes-3 to 1 each agst Ethelwolf
and Bess of Hardwick; 7 to 2 agst Forester, 4 to 1 agst
Butterfly. Gold Cup-3 to 2 agst Aaron Smith, 2to 1
taken freely. Lincolnshire Handicap-2 to 1 agat
Ethelwolf, 3to 1 agst Haricot. Lincoln Triennial-
-2 to 1 agst the Maid of Lincoln. Leaming-
ton Stakes (Warwick)-6 to 1 agst Lady
Evelyn; 7 to 1 agst Terpsichore; 10 to 1 each agat
Russborougb, Hirsuta, and Hugo; 10 to 1 agst Made-
line; 15 to 1 agat Trickstress; 20 to 1 each agst Cleve-
land and Leap-year. Warwick Cup-6 to 4 agst Little
Harry. St. Leger-9 to 4 agst Stockwell, 7to 2 agst
Daniel O'Rourke, taken; sto 1 agst Songstress; 10 to
1 agat Harbinger; 20 to 1 each agat Lapidist and
Trousseau.

In accordance with my notification yesterday I here-
with attach its probable field for the St. Leger, with the
jockies' names. The list is as complete as I can obtain
it at the present time; and I lay it before the readers of
The Sun with all its imperfections on its head. Daniel
O'Rourke (Butler), Stockwell (Norman), Harbinger
(Nat), Trousseau (Templeman), Caracara (Holmes),
Claverhouse (Marlow), Ilex (J. Mann), Alfred the
Great (Bumby), Longbow (Simpson), Lapidist (G.
Brown), Sackbut (Matson or Sly). Doubtful Starters—
Songstres, King of Trumps, King Pepin, Bermuda,
Kingfisher, Maidstone, and Bold Boy.—l am Sir, &c.,
Aug. 28. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TIVERTON RACES.—THIIRSDAY.
The Tiverton Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and only 5
if declared; the second saves his stake. Two miles.
(10 Subs., 6 of whom declared.)
Lord Palmerston's Buckthorn, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b
Mr. Hopgood na Madame Wharton, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 2
Mr. Wills's Miss Talbot, 4 yrs, 7st 41b 3
Won by half a neck.

- - _
The Borough Cup Stakes of 10 sovs, each, h ft. Three
miles.

Lord Palmerston's Buckthorn, 3 yrs, 7st 61b, walked over
The County Stakes of 7 sous. each, 4ft, and 2 only if
declared. Twice round, (9 Subs., 7of whom pay 2
soya. each.)
Mr. Wills's Miss Talbot, 4 yrs, lOst 12Ib ...walked over
The Ladies' Plate of 20 soya., for three years old and
upwards, gentlemen riders, twice round, was won by Mr.
Symon's Fsaeley, aged, l lst, beating Captain Russell's
Cinderella, 6 yrs, lost 71b; Miss Talbot, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b;
Plate of 101 was won by Mr. Oxenham's
and
The Cygnet,
Hack 5 yrs, 10st.
Black Bess, 5 yrs, lOst 21b, beating Weaver, lOst 71b,
and Wire, 9st 71b.
The Hurdle Race for 10 soya, was won in two beats by
Cinderella, I Ist, beating Mountain Dew, lOst 71b, and
Cygnet, lorstA7
IIbS.LEY RACES.—TIIIIRSDAY.

The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, and 15 added
(4 Subs.), were won by Mr. Taylor's Miss Lawson, aged,
9it llb (Adams), beating Gipsy Boy, Bst 71b; Bou Maza,
Bst 121 b; and Miss West, 9st 11b.

The Burgh Members' Plate of 50 gs. Heats. Two miles.
Mr. Redfern's Testator, 9st 51b ... (T. Halliwell) 1 1
Mr. Jolly's Swaledale, 6 yrs, Bst 111 b
Mr. Merry's The Cure, aged, 9st
The Tradesmen's Cup of 40 sovs,, added to a Sweepstakes
of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft. Two miles. (4 Subs.)
Mr. l'Anson's Haricot, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b ...(J. Holmes) 1
Mr. A. Johnstone's Jenny Lind, 6 yrs, Oat
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, and 20 added,
once round and a dis. (4 Subs.), were won in three heats
by Mr. N. Buchanan's Doubt (late Tiny), 3 yrs, 7st 41b
( Waldie), beating Bou Maza, 5 yrs, 9st 41b, and Seclu-
sion, 3 yrs, 7st 41b.
The Paisley Cup of 30 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each, 3 ft. Heats, once round.

Mr. Redfern's John Dory, 9st llb (Halliwell) 1 1
Mr. l'Anson's Haricot, 5 yrs, 9st 3lb ............... 2 2
CANTERBURY RACES.—FRIDAY.

Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, with 25 added; three yrs
old, 7st 111 b; four, Bst 91b; five and upwards, Bst 121 b.
The winner to be sold for 701,, and allowances, if to be
sold for less. Round course, about one mile.
Mr. A. Sait's Ventre a Terre, 7st 12Ib (R. Sherwood) 1
Mr. James's Malmesbury, aged, Bst 71b (Eatwell) 2
Mr. liornby's Joc-o'-Sot, aged, Bst 41b (Hornsby) 3
Mr. Wootton 's Will Watch, 4 yrs, Bst 9lb (Collins) 4
Mr. Drew's John Ball, 2 yrs, sst llb (T. Sherwood) 5
Mr. C. Formby 's Young Lochinvar filly (Sherrard) 6
Betting 7-2 to 1 each agst Ventre a Terre, John Bull,
an aged , s t
dl 1.1
8f i a
length. b
and Joc-o -Sot. Will Watch, with Malmesbury and
Joc-o'-Sot in waiting, made the running to the bottom
of the hill, where Ventre a Terre and Malmesbury
went up,
of 100 guineas; three yr 01, s t
thejoc former_o,.
ot
Her Majesty's Plate
as
fine,bad at:sgitor
9 doi.db race
si winning by ha
xd
21b; t
• four 9st 41b;

Two miles-
Mr. W. Halo's Merry Peal, 4 yrs
(W. Abdale) 1
Mr. Wootton's Marchioness, 6 yrs
(Sherrard) 2
Mr. Reeves's Abdallab, 5 yrs (Reeves) 3
Hon. G. Ongloy's Bird of Paradise, aged (Chorman) 4
Hon. S. R. Lushington's Union Jack, 3 yrs (Hornsby) 5
Mr. Falbeser's Ingratitude, 4 yrs (Simmonds) 6
Betting-2 to 1 each agst Abdallah and the Mar-
chioness, and 5 to 2 agst Merry Peal.
Merry Peal made all the running, and won easily by
two lengths; three lengths between second and third.
A Plate of 301.; three yrs old, Bst 41b; four, 9st 41b; five,
9st 81b; and aged, 9st 101 b; winners extra. The
winner to be sold for 80 sovs., and allowances if to be
sold for less. Heats, about a mile and a half.
Mr. Formby's My Mary, aged, Bst...(Collins) 0 1 1
Mr. Sherrard's The Friendless Boy (Sherrard) 1 2 3
Mr. Marsh's Prospect, aged, Bst ...(lionisby) 3 ID 4
Mr. Lushington's Harriett, Bst 71b (Eatwell) 0 0 2
Mr.Sait'sVentre a Terre, 9st4lb(R.Sherwood) 2 0 dr
The first heat was won in a canter by six lengths, and
the others by a length.
The Garrison Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 10 added, one
mile, were won by Captain Cartwright's Florence Dora-
bey (Mr. Blackett), beating Mr. Leslie's Speculation
(Owner), and three others.

COURT CIRCU LAR.
OS BO
his
Royal
lE;
aFRIDAY.
Highness
Yesterday being the birthday of
Prince Albert, the band of the Royal Marines assembled
on the terrace at Osborne at a quarter before seven A.m.,
and played a selection of favourite airs.
The Queen and the Prince rode on horseback in the
afternoon. The Royal children took their usual exercise.
Colonel and Lady Katherine Harcourt, Lady Caro..
line Barrington, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps,
and Baroness Speth had the honour of being invited to
ho a pro_
of
dinner.
even
The of vocal music took place in the
The band of the Royal Marines played during dinner.
At half-past nine o'clock the Royal yachts Victoria
and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin, being moored off Osborne
fusion Pier, wereo of rockets
brilliantly
other
fireworks
raenwdorks
discharged i
n
the day.

The Earl of Lonsdale arrived in town last night from
Lowther Castle.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office rester-
day to the Governor-General of Canada.
Dispatches were received yesterday from the Gover•
nor of Van Diemen's Land.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
27,
—ISLE OF WIGHT. G
COWES,
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
As usual at this period of the year, numbers of our
fashionable visitors are leaving us, in pursuit of tho
poor partridges. Lord and Lady Charles Clinton left
Cambridge House yesterday for town ; Lord and Lady
Rokeby on a tour of the island. To-day the Marquis
and Marchioness of Ailesbury le!t Grantham House fur
Tottenham. Tho Marquis and Marchioness of Angle-
sey leave to-morrow, as do the Earl and Countess of
Wilton and family. On Monday Mr. Baxeodale and
family leave Whito Rose Cottage, and on Tuesday Earl
Fitzhardinge leaves Townshend House, and Captain C.
bearrnalYnda(c Williamsr
families generally arrive about the first week in Septem-
ber, and fill the houses for the bathing season (Septem-
to about half w4tretnutesyguetneeiruat
July
fulling inA thoseust months
and ug •
The Vestal, 26, Captain
on shore on the 'shingles, was C.
got off this B. Hamilton, which was
morning, and
has proceeded to Portsmouth.
Aldo' - Carter S- ul

rman garter, . ,heriff elect for London
,ant
Middlesex, has appointed Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Len.,
uader-Slieritt far the year of hie el,rieyalty.

TILE OXFORD UNIVERSITY COM-
MISSION.
'rho temperate advocates of academical reform have
not unreasonably congratulated themselves on the tone
of the Oxford University Report. Among the panic-
stricken alarms so industriously fomented at the citadel
of the High Church party on the birth of the Commis-
sion, not the least ominous and seductive was the imputed
centralizing tendency of the measure: academical and
collegiate indepedence, presumably the vital principle °full
sorbed in the vortex of Parliamentary management;
that was great and good in Oxford, was about to be ab-
and
the authors of the report before us were magnified by the
jealous eye of a sinister fancy into a perpetual Board of
Control, encamped under the presidency of a Minister of
Public Instruction, in the heretical regions of White-
hall. The enormous increase in the value of capitular
estates, under the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion, and the prevalence of the mischievous system of
tines in the administration of college property, not un-
naturally cherished the suspicion that the latter was
destined to a similar reform; and, indeed, wo ourselves,
though far from apprehensive of a permanent aliena-
tion, were not unprepared for the suggestion of Parlia-
mentary facilities towards the adoption of a scheme un-
attainable by the colleges save at a large immediate
sacrifice; and,
single instance, and that merely on a partial scale. Yet,
initiated as yet, we believe, only in a
in spite of these dismal auguries, there has been, with
a few seeming rather than real exceptions,
no violation
of the municipal privileges Englishmen so dearly prize.
The government of the University and colleges is still to
be internal, and administered by its constitutional ma-
chinery; the dignity of the Chancellor is unimpaired,
and the powers of the visitors, whom the founders estab-
lished, have been raised from the sphere of an extraordi-
nary to that of an ordinary jurisdiction. Otherwise,
too, the report breathes little in common with the spirit
of radical innovation. It is no dreary scheme of artifi-
cial uniformity, dictated, like a Greek constitution, by the
tyranny of single principles, and modelled on one-sided
views by the obliquity of sectarian caprice
Framed in a
spirit of Roman comprehensiveness, and imbued with a
truly English endurance of casual anomalies, it bends with
elasticity to the varied sway of antecedents, and gra-
duates its measures with a discriminating deference to
special claims, and exigencies, and permanent obliga-
tions. True, in the main, to the temper of the people
whose reforms exemplify the proverb, " The nation that
has no yesterday has no to-morrow," in the most im-
portant of its changes we see the hand of Renovation,
not of Revolution; and many an institution, undermined
by age, has been remodelled on its ancient base, and re-
stored to its original idea.
The scene opens with the constitution of the Univer-
sity; and a well-known figure, long the butt of acade-
mical artillery, the Hebdomadal Board, is the first vic-
tim paraded on the arena of reform, amid the all but
unanimous acclamations of the authors of the evidence.
We cannot but applaud the sacrifice; yet the substitute
is surely capable of amendment. The Commissioners,
indeed, have rightly declined to expand the powers of
upon the University
Convocation, and thereby inflict
a democratic legislature, the worst possible govern-
ment for an academic community. Doubtless,
also, Convocation will find in the house of Cou-
gregation, thus adroitly restored to its original func-
tions, a more congenial superior than " the board," and the admission of the professors and senior tutors, within
the narrow oligarchy of the ancient Senate, will give to
the Initiative Council, many " of the valuable elements
for legislation which the place can supply, intellect,
practical habits, the feeling and opinion of the time, a
knowledge of the subjects which the University pro-
fesses to teach, of its state, moral and instructiotal, and
and practbal ha-
of its trusts, property, and finances." But—so strong
the heads of houses
isni
bits,"
rapport
between
from
seniortheir vertutorsy
aangde
—such a council must ever lack the cardinal virtue of
antagonism; the principle of progres will be very im-
perfectly represented. The report itself supplies a hint
upon which we may venture an amendment. The mem-
bers of the committees are to be partly official, partly
elective. Surely an election, perhaps trienially, of a
fixed proportion of members from the most eminent of
the collegiate staff, would contribute not a little to
quicken the pulse of academical energy, and to keep
open the avenues of a friendly and reciprocal feeling, a
point of indefinable consequence, between the two houses. '
In other respects, the happiness of the suggestion ,
seems unimpeachable. The executive character of the
Council, itself not unmanageably large, will be mate-
rially aided by delegacies and committees; end the
danger of its sinking into a debating society, or of the
growth of organized parties, are at any rate partielly en-
countered by the caution that it shall only be convoked
by the Vice-Chancellor whenever propositions for dis-
cussion are signed by a fixed majority of its members,
or are introduced by the Hebdomadal Board, which,
though shorn of its ancient supremacy, is still to share
the right of initiating measures, and may safely monopo-
lise the transaction of ordinary business and the main-
tenance of discipline—its sole legitimate province. The
Constitution of the proctorate has also been amended; nor
will the effusions of juvenile essayists and poets any
longer be subject to the ordeal of elderly gentlemen,
who, though models of respectability in their own
sphere, occasionally test their classical proficiency by
exhorting the House of Convocation to brand the hour
of the Commission's issue, " nigrissimo u) carbone."
Much difference of opinion exists on the subject of
University extension. In the inferior colleges many a
vacant chamber fruitlessly solicits the patronage of
candidates denied admission, for lack of room, in the
more reputable houses; so that, if the colleges were
equal in the confidence of the public:, the supply of ac-
commodation might probably answer the demand.
Again, the sons or the aristocracy, the squirearchy, and
the higher section of the middle classes are at present
the life-blood of Oxford; directly professional instruc-
tion, whatever the expansion of her system, the Uni-
versity can never give; and solicitors, merchants, and
general practitioners, alive to the value of an early
initiation in their own pursuits, will pause ere
they prolong from the age of 19 to 22 the term
of a merely general education. Yet, with every
allowance for such considerations—and it is probably in
deference to them that the Commissioners incline
to that project for University i
extension which is
most susceptible of rapid contraction, and least prodigal
of original outlay—there can hardly be a doubt of the
desirability of rendering the blessings of academical
training at any rate available on a
wider scale. ne
reduced average of expenditure, not exceeding 2001. for
'
a degree, at which the report computes the liabilities of
students living in lodgings unconnected with the col.
_
col-
leges; the opportunity thus offered of
giving as Univer-
sity education to a larger and a poorer class, the expe-
diency of rekindling the energy of the colleges by come°
the
University and the professoriate, are the
petition, and of counteracting their absorption l'"
attractions
to this scheme in the eyes of the
nd
Commis-
sioners. The competition between its advantages a
those of independent or affiliated halls mainly hinge
on the efficiency of its safeguards for discipline.
and morals ; and with these we are by no means 13a
fied. The report appeals to the example of Cambridge,
but this is at best a double.edged argument, for every
Cantab will admit that if the industrious flock to loges
fogs to study unnisturbtd, the e fast" man is
of license.
anxious to secure them for their opportunities 0' "e the
The wealthier students, indeed, are to be boarded tars ;
houses of professors, or to live with responsible tutors a
but the poorer scholars are invited to dispense
_wl k
trolled by " tutors or guardians of the students,o
make
resident master in their house, and only remote!ya esopne-.
spe-
cies of wandering University police, who
themselves acquainted with their pupils,
them, morally and religiously', " so far as the,,ClLh an
permit." And the comparative isolation„or °"'
Unur home
existence is no slight objection to the plan.
and
nullus homo," says the adage; education in its
largestand the
must liberal sense, the formation of character,not mere
culture of manners and moral sentiments, ande_
d all such
instruction, is the work of the University ; ace,
f and the
training demands an intercommunity of 1
erste
healthy action and reaction of social interco
weed Voss
The subject of college expenses, and the
and to influence
them,
Commis-
sioners has been handled by her Majesty'sconsiderable time of academical debt, so often aated 111
aioners with tact and moderation. No
enerality of
re-
duction, they admit, can be effected in the
generality
avowedly
bursar's bills, the chief sources of expenditu
arising from the private amusements of undergraduates.!together to
They are above the folly of attemptingdf,s these co-
arageraent
level distinctions of fortune. There is no .
ith the ex-
abortive suggestions for encountering debate
gent prohi-
ploded armoury of sumptuary laws and
string
influence of
bitions, they mainly trust to the increasedl
y of reason-
of Inaaly sports and exercises: and, rejecril
University authorities and tutors, the
"PP - themselves,
able wants within the walls of the colleges
extravagant students,
the summary removal of idle and
extraeferms will offer
the multiplied incentives which their r
area of acade-
mical honourable exertion, and the enlargedentente with a
crude and
mical studies; and profess themselves
law that shall enact, " That no debt
by a minor in
recoverable which has been contractedo
been sent to the
state pupilari, unless the bills shall have
the articles were
young man in the same term in whichy a second
supplied, and unless, in case of non-
or
within a given
bill shall have been sent in to the tutor
the suit to be corn-
time after the delivery of the first;
of the earliest item
menced within six months of the date whatever ;shall be
in the bill."
It has long been felt that
without a corresponding
recent expansion of
academical studies would be
change in the tutorial staff
littlelbe better than a dead
ff
letter. The Commissioners, accordingly, invoke the aid
e
colleges have so
of the professors whose functions t
long absorbed; and also, of emancipating stu-
among four dis-
tinct of the
classics, after their
dents from a further study o" a redistribution of
first public examination recommend
the subjects of the final examination
1 philosophy and
tinct schools—viz., theology, el end political economy,
philology, jurisprudence, historys,c_e
i nee. We sincerely
and mathematical and physical e. Poets and orators
deprecate the contemplated ()hangar°
usually read for the
only, under the existing system,
first examination; so that,this amendment is to pass,
if Plato, and Thucydides
the immediate study of Aristotle,plan is quite at issue
will be vitally discouraged. The e of all such ls i -
eata_
with facts that must be the basis . . gs
I at i •
oat it assumes a in the sphere
nothing but agreat
of the first examination, which of schoolboy advance in the standard
But we cordially
pro-
ficiency can render feasible.
the extension of the pro-
fessoriate,
and its endowment on a
1
in the severe departments of
duce men of real eminence
heir home for life. Oral
learning to regard Oxford as
topics as political economy -- t requisite from the be-
lectures are in these days no less
were formerly from the wilderiag multiplicity, than y
the literature on such
poverty of books. Even standard
is s 0 °n comparatively anti-
wide expansion
reform of
(Plated; nor can all our magazines
Jurisprudence, an
for the want of a Reader in General
urger de demanded for the
°es of law books atone
institution that has long been f
students, the law and the better education o its

" Let the Vinerian Professorship of Law," says Arr.
Stephen Deni.;on in his evidence, " be made a working
reality, and Oxford a ill soon become a school of juris-
prudence, which will not only invigorate youth for the
more practical and severe studies of the inns of court,
but will gradually infuse into the English law a more
healthy, sensible, and scientific spirit, and thereby do an
dMiddle Temple, where,
incalculable service to the nation."
e
Ranged on the same side are the authorities of Lords
Brougham and Denman and Baron Parke; and it can
interests of the University
hardly admit of doubt that the banks of the Isis will offer
boat with those of the law
tahmore genial soil for such a study than the regions of
months ago Lord Brougham
amalgamating the inns ()t'
maleDr
.3 US, it will be too late to recur to theory after im-
mersion in the details ofpractice,
compa-
tible. regularTh The
plan le lectures t ure
couldsandthe manifold
amid
distractions of the metropolis.and
are
rndatd
embarked
enmrtoeht
nbcoocea
enr
ark tleeeeddgxapa country.e
nsrci
tmhh scheme
Amn
steaf rmfe
university,oewer-
And in this cause the
l
hwaordue
thdoweu
nshac
oec.mor contracting cr clerical
Futurenetgroi c
be
esi
With such an arraneni an academical probation of
three or four years eat
hardlyedstatesmen,"
, yb et
principleshe C m
o mp a
.-
vantages of the academic scheme wilalre
wider scale. It is not only the miniseterosf
law,oovfte. rjtrihirteibysypl
airnuwt
educa-
tion, and the Church, by degrading;
available on a
her favourite Uni
k:gutehtlitehrealauthorsßut the ad-
missioners, " and that important class of say
-en who are
to administer justice, as magistrates, and to exercise
great influence, as landed proprietors, may reap much
benefit from these studies, combined as they will be with history and political economy."
The merit of these suggestions is unhappily obscured
by the very indefinite terms in which the functions of
the professors and the lecturers are alluded to. The
lecturers are described as subordinate to the professors,
but are evidently destined to address classes; and, if so,
we are equally at a loss to discern how they are distin-
guished from the college tutors; how the Commissioners
propose to find room for both in their system, and how
they are to defend themselves against the private tutors,
who have long triumphed over the very best efforts of
the college staff, and whom the new lecturers can in
nowise supersede; as they will not be able, being called
upon to deal with classes, to graduate their instruction
according to individual capacities and needs—the very
essence of private tuition.
Bo fertile in fallacies is the field of historical parallels:
such is the tendency of the mass to fancy affinities
rather than distinguish contrasts, that a stupid cry of
Germanism has been raised, though from no very,
formidable quarter, against the recal of the profes-
soriate. Certain sages gravely, but rather blasphem-
ously, argue that sciences sophistically handled abroad
must needs be essentially sophistical. It is almost an
outrage on common sense to remind them that it is the
et
trained
rytedbcamai,
amfsainilattioonisnibfoerrudilezgeretehse.
very absence of professorships in England that consigns
our youths to the mercy of foreign manuals, histories,
and editions; that, to use the language of Professor
Vaughan, " Had we a professorial system of our own,
the spirit of our own institutions, intellectual character,
domestic life, and moral qualities, would necessarily be
at work in the minds of our professors to form a litera-
ture and philosophy independent, native, and, in the
truest and most valuable sense, genial; it would there-
fore not tend to make us copyists of foreign systems,
either in form or spirit, but would open for us a new
source of independence in these things."
The vesting the majority of appointments to professor-
distasteful to the University, and certainly
palls
ships by the Commissioners in the Crown will be ex-
a protest in favour of sharing nomi-
gsoyrbetween the Prime Minister and limited
eminent men, a mode of election avow-
edly successful and strongly recommended by
the evidence. Public lectureships having been
established by former founders and visitors, and having
bodies
e el
dt di
nations
nns
fl f
only become obsolete through the neglect of their heirs,
the endowment of the professorships from the corporate
revenues of those colleges which can bear the charge
without impairing their educational functions, is rather
an act of reconstitution than of appropriation. But the
cardinal reform recommended by the Commission is un-
doubtedly the opening of the College Fellowships, of
course with every security for vested rights, to the free
competition of industry, character, and talent; it is the
keystone of the arch; the vital principle, the determin-
ing element of the practical value of their amendments.
Any candid imagination may be left to infer the inten-
sity of the evil, and its mischievous operation in at once
robbing undergraduates of their legitimate stimulus
to study, and in abandoning their education to the
sheer caprices of chance, from the simple fact that
out of 542 fellowships only 22 are free
from multitudinous and tyrannical restrictions of
birth, parentage, and school connexion. Space forbids the
citation of more than a summary of the very able and
elaborate argument whereupon tho Commissioners
ground their appeal for the removal of these limitations,
to Parliament—to Parliament, because, although the law
will permit changes to be made with the joint consent
of the college, the founder's heir, and the Crown, there
is but faint hope of the colleges taking the initiative, espe-
cially in the teeth of the oaths which in many statutes
solemnly denounce every innovation. The right of the
Legislature to interfere:with the University scarcely need
discussion, since it is very questionable whether it has
not already sacrificed its legality by exceeding its powers
in altering the Laudian Statutes; but the right of inter-
ference with the colleges is implied by the very nature
of corporate property and of trusts; by the illegality of
the founders' attempt, by stringent provisions, to
attain a perpetuity in the laws affecting pro-
perty, a proceeding disallowed in courts of
law as " contrary to public policy ;" by
the definitive principle that, in the construction of testa-
ments, a general and paramount shall prevail over a par-
ticular intent; and from the daily precedents of the ali-
enation of private property on compensation similar to
that tendered by the Commissioners; even if we were to
f aavvoeu r
been o f schools
modified;
an d,
in
behalf wit h
of l
put out of court the many venerable authorities—among
others those of Coke and Hallam—cited by Mr. Dampier
in his " Statement." In subjoining the summary alluded
t
to above, it is only just to glance at the limitations in
interests are maintained while their subordinate relations
Wales, to which f
a part o its exclusive right at Jesus
College has been reserved, on the ground of its poverty
scale and long arrears of England in theale of intellectual
advancement.tehg ee sp, r iwn hc
:sae! i vital
y of

" For many reasons, therefore," snch is the conclusion
of the report, " and among others because the property
of colleges is not, and cannot be applied as the founders
directed; because it is now often made useless, and some-
times worse than useless; because experience has shown
that the efficiency of a college and the services which it
renders to the University, are in direct propor-
tion to its freedom from restrictions; because
the particular restrictions imposed by founders
now really defeat their paramount objects, and
are wholly unsuited to the present state of the em-
pire; because the changes proposed aro by no means
greater than those which the colleges have already ad-
mitted in almost all respects; because such changes are
essential to the success of almost any attempt to increase
the numbers, to extend the studies, or to improve the
instruction of the University; and, lastly, because the
colleges cannot remove restrictions without external as-
sistance; we are of opinion that the Legislature should
relieve college foundations from all limitations in the
election of their members, whether arising from birth.
place or parentage."—Times.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-oflie
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in From what
PLACES. GeneralPost-office' port die- When
due.
London. patched.
ab y . .II .S . .. pkt.)
..
31 51 ' . . ---...
America (by Brit. pkt.) N —_.........1
)
Aug. 27 .. .. Liverpool .• Sept. 2
America (by U.S. pkt.) N, .. ..
.. • . Liverpool .•iAug. 31
• •
Americampt o n.. Southampt. Arrived
Australia (via South-
.. .. .. Southampt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N .. _ ,Dover ..
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N .. .. . 'Plymouth.. Nov. 30
Africa (West coast).. N,l4th of the month 'Plymouth Aug. 26
Alexandria* ...... I,Tl9th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Aug. 28
Belgium • . .. .. N Daily .• .. .. ,Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. .. M 9th of the month [Southampt. Sept. 16
Buenos Ayres .. .. M 9th of the month Sonthampt. Sept. 16
California(viaChagret)M 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Sept. I
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of the month Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Cape de Verde .. .. N2d of the month (Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Constantinople* ...• N,7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Aug. 30
Central America .. 20d & 17th of mon. 'Southampt. Sept. 1
Channel Isles .. .. NIMon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th• Sat
Chili .. .. .. . 2112 d & 17th of mnth Southampt. Sept. 1
France .. .. M t *Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* • • .. . • N'7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover .. Aug. 30
Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tnes. Sat.
Holland .. .. .. M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mon• Thur
Honduras .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 16
Ireland .. .. M& N Twice daily .. .. IHolyhead .. Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Sept. 28
India (via Marseilles) 1713th& 24th efmonth 'Dover ..
..
India, via C. of G. Hope N 15th of month Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Mauritius .. .. )7 15th of month Plymouth.. Aug. 26
Mediterranean (via
!Sept. 16
Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southampt. Aug. 28
Mediterranean (via
Mexico
.. .. N Bth& 24th ofmontb Dover ..
aleXieo .. . .. Mld of the month.. Southampt.,Sept. 1
Malta* .. .. 1 Dover i Aug.
g. 8
1 & 30th of month
Madeira .. .. .. Mc 97thth,orifthth,ei,mtho,n2t7hth Southampt.
I,
Naples* .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover •• wept. 2
Papal States* .. .. N sth 15th 25th of mo, Dover • .
~Sept. 2
Peninsula .. .. .. 111 7th 17th 27th of mo; Southampt. ISept. 6
Peru .. .. .... m2d & 17th of mntb Southampt.lSept. i
Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover . ISept. 2
West Indies .... 31 17th of the month Southampt. Sept.' 1
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .• Southampt.
French packet
* The mails to th
arsei ose c
lles ountries the marked
(*) are conveyed b 3
via M.

I2d of the month .. t Southampt. I
.onntries thus mark' ' (4) are conveyed by
-1.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.--THE BUSINESS OF THE
Common...-We understand that the Speaker of the House
of Commons feels no slight anxiety lest the unprecedented
number of new Members in the approaching Parliament
should prove the source of very serious inconvenience in the
transaction of public business in Select Committees. The
number of new Members is 260, and of this number only
about twenty were Members of Parliaments which preceded
the last. The Speaker is, therefore, apprehensive that the
great majority of the new Members will be so unacquel 41
with the forms of procedure that serious inconvenience
ar
ad.
result to the public business, when the session is I
h, Clinittees
vanced, that it will be necessary to employ —at be able to
nearly all those Hon. Gentlemen who
will
e'd Years or
establish their their right of exemption by
de-
health. In the meantime, the Rightadvanne
ii°
ihat the general
rives no small consolation from the fact, of the late
Atenlbera • commit-
entleman
election has left him upwards of 100, basin in
Parliament who are first-rate men 0, he mean
to draw
the
tees; and on the good offices of 5.
ti
called the bus e
largely in the beginning of what is
"'ltrecruits may
to acquire allhave me
of the session,
which
the knowledge in order that the raw
can
iness part
be attained before
i/e._Advertiser their services become indispensa
,
The owners of' the Cleopatra steamer have con-
eluded a contract with the Post-office for the conveyance of
or P t Philip, and Sydney..
a mail to the Cape of Good Hope,
This vessel will sail from London on the 4th, and from d letters are to be potted on
Ply-
mouth on the 7th, proximo; fla
the evening of the 6th.

HER MAJESTY'S JOURNEY to SCOTLAND.
1 GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.-1 he necessary ar-
rangements for her Majesty's reception at Gloucester, on
Monday nex', on the occasion of her passing through
this place on her journey to Balmoral, are now nearly
completed. Her Majesty, who will leave Osborne early
11 the morning, will reach Gloucester by the Great
Western Railway, at absut a quarter past three o'clock
in the afternoon, The town council of Gloucester have
held three meetings within the week on the subject of
her Majesty's reception. At the third meeting held this
afternoon, a correspondence was read between the mayor
and Mr. Walpole, from which it appears that the Queen
has expressed her willingness to receive an address from
the corporation. On the arrival of her Majesty at
the Gloucester platform, therefore, Lord Malmesbury,
who will be in attendance on the Queen, will present Mr.
Clutterbuck, the mayor of the city, to her Majesty, and
his worship will then present the loyal and dutiful ad-
dress of the corporation and citizens.
It is arranged (in consequence of the coarse behaviour
of the assembled multitude on the occasion of her
Majesty passing through Gloucester in 1849), that the
platform shall be kept entirely clear ; but accommoda-
tion for the public is to be provided at the extremity of
the platform, on both the " arrival" and "departure"
side. Admission to these points will be obtained by
tickets only, issued by the officials. A number of rail-
way trucks are to be placed on the line, near the station,
in which the children of the city public schools will be
placed—an arrangement not at all likely to contribute
to their safety, and where it will be utterly impossible
for the juveniles to see more than the outsides of the
carriages as the royal train flits by them. Her Ma-
jesty, on alighting at Gloucester, will walk across the
Midland 'platform, and step in►o the narrow guage
train, which will be in waiting for the reception of the
Royal party.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This is the second and last week of the engagement of
Madame Celeste and Mr. Webster.
It is not a few
years since the former obtained special favour here, and
her reputation attends her still—and deservedly so,
for
celebrity we bear in mind that melodramas open a field
celebrity almost equal with that of tragedy and comedy.
We rank Mr. Webster, too, very high in the profession,
and in one of the pieces played on Tuesday—Flying
Colours—nothing Could have surpassed the excellence of
his performance. Considering the celebrity the former
has amaired in the Green Bushes, it was natural that it
should form a leading feature in the repertoire, and in it
Madame Celeste opened with her wonted touching and
truthful delineation of Miami. The French Spy fol-
lowed, and as it has been familiar to all for twenty
years, we need say no more than that its freshness was
preserved b y the superior acting of the company. On
Friday Mind Your Own Business was produced for the
benefit of Mr. Webster, and very successfully. It is to
be repeated to-morrow. Last night Belpheyor was re-
vived. The attendance was good, as in fact, with but
a few exceptions, it has been for a considerable time.—
Liverpool Standard of Tuesday.

THE INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES.
Sir,—ln the Times of yesterday there is an excellent
article on; the evidence before the Committee on the
Income and Property-tax, and it will not be an easy
matter for any person to dispute the figures, or refute
the conclusions they lead to. I trust, by public discus-
sion, that the real advantages of a property-tax, as re-
commended by me, will be fairly shown; and
'although
it may be said to be impossible to propose any scheme
of taxation that will be free from all objections, yet I
venture to state that the direct property-tax that should
be payable by all persons and estates, in proportion to
the amount of property in their possession during the
year, for the protection given to them by the Govern-
ment (for whose use the proceeds of the property-tax
are to be applied), will be found more consistent with
justice, and with promoting the industry of this country,
than the present system of finance, by which 56 or 57
millions sterling are annually raised from the people of
this country. My object in now addressing you is to
inform you that no part of my report has received the
approbation of the Committee, nor has it come under
their deliberation; and you will, therefore, be pleased to
consider me as alone responsible for the whole of that
report, with the assurance, on my part, that I consider
myself able to support the several principles and points
therein advanced; and I feel confident that by discussion
in your columns, and in the other public journals of the
country, Parliament will be able to find out a better
system for raising the supplies of the year than the
present one.

I remain your obedient servant,
Burnsly-hall, Aug. 26. JOSEPH HUME.