The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-26 00:00:00

EDINBURGH,

At the meeting of the Town-Council, held on
Tuesday, the Lord Provost made reference to the
death of Lord Palmerston. He said—Since we last
met in this chamber it has pleased Providence to
permit the hand of death to close the earthly career
of one whose long life has been devoted to the ser-
vice of his country, whose great abilities and untiring
energies of mind and body have been since youth
employed in the councils of the nation, and who,
for many years called upon to guide the helm of a
mighty empire, has piloted it safely and honourably
through calm and through storm, well worthy of
the great trust committed to him, and well able to
give an account of tho r‘nronsible stewardship
which death has at last compelled him to resign.
When the melancholy news reached us that Lord
Palmerston was no more, I am sure it was nowhere
more keenly felt than in Edinburgh that Britain
had lost one of its chief supporters (hear, hear),
that he had gone who, of all our great men, was
so eminently able to retain the confidence of men
and parties of much diversity of political opinion,
and by a temper of remarkable forbearance, by a
loftiness and generosity of sentiment, as well as by
his shrewd and able judgment, to preserve that co-
hesion among factions which has gained for himself
an undying reputation, and has been a bulwark of
strength around the nation. We have, indeed, cause
to mourn his loss in common with the whole country
on public grounds, but in Edinburgh we have addi-
tional reason to lament his death, for we were justly
proud of the share we had in the education of one
destined for a life of such distinction and public
usefulness, We were glad, on a late occasion, to
welcome him back to scenes which he assured me
recalled some of the happiest associations of his
youth, and to enrol him as one of our citizens—
(applause)—one whose rare but truly merited lot it
has been to receive in life that deepened and wide-
spread respect which will live in the hearts of mul-

titudes and in the pages of history long after the
tears of his friends and relatives have mingled with
the earth of his honoured tomb. I now beg to
move : "That the Corporation record in its minutes
an expression of its sense of the great loss sustained
by the country in the death of Lord Palmerston,
and its sincere sympathy with her ladyship in the
severe trial with which she has been visited."

Bailie CASSELS seconded the motion, which was
unanimously carried ; and the Lord Provost was
appointed as a deputation to represent the city in
Attending the funeral of the deceased statesman.

Ern tversity Intelligence.

CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 26.

LAW FEES.—The syndicate appointed June Bth,
1865, to consider the examinations for the ordinary
degree of Bachelor of Law and the fees to be paid
to the Regius Professor of Law, have have re-
ported to the senate :—They find that a- candidate
for the ordinary degree of Bachelor of Law may
be admitted to his degree without having passed
the general examination which candidates for the
ordinary degree of Bachelor of Arts are required by
the grace of June 3, 1865, to undergo in or after
their fifth term of residence. This they think un-
desirable, and they are of opinion that the mode of
proceeding to the degree of Bachelor of Law may
be best brought into harmony with the regulations
sanctioned by the abovementioned grace (which
provide for a final examination in law for the ordi-
nary degree of Bachelor of Arts) by abolishing the
examination for the ordinary degree of Bachelor of
Law. They therefore recommend :-1. That the
examination for the ordinary degree of Bachelor of
Law shall cease to be held after June, 1868, and
that during its continuation it shall not be open
to students who have commenced residence in or
after the Easter term, 1865. [N.B.—The exami-
ners for honours in law are authorised by the grace
of the iii,sriate of June 3, 1865, to declare candidates,
though they hive not deserved honours, to have ac-
quitted themselves 1;,? as to deserve to be excused
the general examination fog the ordinary degree of
Bachelor of Arts; and such pei.;79ns will only be
required to pass the special examinatl62 in law in
order to proceed to the ordinary degree of Ba(2..'elnr
of Arts.] 2. That persons who, being already Ba-
chelors of Arts, desire to proceed to the degree of
Master of Law, shall be required to satisfy the ex-
aminers for the law tripos in the Commentaries of
Gains and the fourth volume of Blackstone's Com-
mentaries, and to pay a fee of £3 3s. to the Regius
Professor of Law. With regard to the fees payable
to the Regius Proressor, the syndicate find that by a
grace of the senate passed after the abolition of the
fees for law acts, every candidate for an ordinary de-
gree in law is obliged to attend one course of the lec-
tures of the RegiusProfessor, for which a fee of 38.3 d.
is paid to the professor, who also receives a further
sum of £3 3s. from every person whose name is sent
in for the examination for that degree. The aver-
age amount for the last three years received under
each of these heads from candidates for ordinary
degrees in law is found to be £56145. The syndi-
cate therefore recommend that from Midsummer,
1868, the sum of £56 14s. be paid annually from the
University chest to Dr. Abdy, so long as he con-
tinues Regius Professor, as an equivalent for the
loss of fees on examinations. The syndicate con-
sider that if their recommendations be adopted the
University will be called upon to see that an equi-
valent provision is made for the Regius Professor,
in respect of the loss he will sustain from the dimi-
nution of fees for attendancebinedindicate
supplied,teloen becausesh io rc e s f lectures.they
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find it suggested in a note to the report dated May
the 13th, 1865, that the mode of payment for pro-
fessional certificates will require to be reconsidered.
They are of opinion that when this is done an equi-
valent should be provided for the loss which would
be caused to the income of the professorship by the
adoption of the above recommendations.—(Signed)
H. W. COOKSON, Vice-Chancellor ; W. H. BATE-
SON, J. T. ADDY, S. PARKINSON, W. M. CAMPION,
HENRY LATHAM, W. M. GUNSON, ROBERT BURN.
The Vice-Chancellor has invited the attendance
of members of the Senate, in the Arts' School, on
Saturday, the 28th instant, at 2 o'clock, for the dis-
cussion of the above report.

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ABINGDON.
--A new Roman Catholic Church was opened at
Abingdon, near Oxford. The church has been built by
Sir George Bowyer, Bart, M.P., who also gave the land.
Gloucester
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Grant officiated, and the Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorno and a
large number of clergy and laity were present. The ser-
mon was preached by the Very Rev. Canon Oakeley (for-
merly of Banjo' College, Oxford), who made several
pointed references to the university of which he had been
a member, especially dwelling on the Roman Catholic
origin of many of its foundations. The music was the
Second Mass of Haydn, which was well executed, the
local choir being aided by some artistes of eminence from
London. The church was tastefully decorated, and the
vestments were very rich. There was a dejeuner at the
Council-hall in the town, at which Sir George Bowyer
presided. A second service took place in the afternoon, at
which the Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne officiated. The ser-
mon was preached by the Rev. Father Christie, now a
Jesuit, formerly of Oxford. The church is a little out of
the town on the Oxford road, and presents a striking
appearance. The stone has all been obtained from quar-
ries on Sir George Bowyer'a estate.

On Tuesday evening a meeting
Wales and the cause of public edue
at Liverpool. The object of the DIOV. int
moted by the meeting is to put the people of Wales
in enjoyment of the same means of a liberal educa-
tion as are already possessed by every other portion
of the United Kingdom. The Rev. Henry Rees
presided, and there were' also on the platform the
Rev. D. Saunders, the Rev. J. 0. Jones, and Mr.
E. Pugh. A deputation was also present from the
London general committee, consisting of the Rev.
P. Jones, M.A., incumbent of All Saints', Rother-
hithe, Dr. Nicholas, and Mr. Hugh Owen, of the
Poor-law Board. There was a good attendance. A.
portion of the proceedings was conducted in Welsh.. Dr. Nicholas said that no country Could be pro-
nounced completely civilised in whichwere not esta-
blished the means of .the highest culture, and what
they wanted was to place the Welsh people upon a
platform, not of superiority as compared with-the
Englishman, but upon a platform of equality.
he
Wales was not behind other countries in Christian
knowledge, but was ahead of all other peoples in
Europe ; and more than that, he thought he might
say, without transgressing on the bounds of religi-
ous propriety, that they were not only well instructed
conduct. The
Welsh
c
in that respect, but equally carried out the prbaci_
and Irish possessed, and Wales was the only coun-
try in Europe destitute of the highest
means of edu-
cation. It was a disgrace to them that they had
Wpleselsh of
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continued in this state so long, and it would be
trebly disgraceful if they continued in it much
what the life
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longer. The schools they had now in Wales were
less important, as compared with the population,
than they had a hundred years ago. Commonschool
education in Wa] inneh during the
past twenty years, and tor that tney were very much
indebted to Mr. Hugh Owen, who was present, and
other gentlemen ; but, taking the middle class
schools, they had fewer this day than they had a
hundred years ago. What they were seeking was
—in addition to the schools they now had being
considerably improved, as they hoped they would
be—to establish two first-class colleges, one in
North Wales and the other in South Wales. They
would require two large buildings,which would cost
a considerable sum, probably £20,000 each ormore,
and about ten or twelve professors. They
pro posed raising for this work £50,000 from the
principality itself, which was not too much for a
nation to do, but it was vastly too much for any
nation to do, unless that nation felt there was aneed
for it. Their conviction was that:unless they made
an effort and showed that there was an earnest desire
on the part of the people of Wales for these insti-
tutions, the condition of Wales would be the same
for the next hundred years what it had been dur-
ing the past hundred. Mr. H. Owen next addressed
the meeting. He said of the £50,000 their sought to
raise by voluntary contributions, they expected to
obtain £5,000, in slims varying from £5OO to £l,OOO
each, about £lO,OOO in sums varying from £lOO to
£5OO, £5,000 in sums from £25 to klOO,
£5,000 in sums from £5 to £25 ; and £25,000
in sums of Is. to £5. In the course of the next
year they expected to commence one of the colleges,
and the beginning of the work would be some evi-
dence to those who contributed that they were in
earnest about it. When they had built suitable
premises for two colleges they expected to have a
considerable surplus, which would go in part to the
maintenance of the colleges. In addition to that
help they would look to the Government for an an-
nual grant, and also for payments from the young
lightmlce the
possible,in payments
o re-
quired men who were to receive education in these colleges,
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der to make the institutions available to the middle
classes in Wales. Other gentlemen addressed the
meeting, advocating support to the movement, after
which the proceedings terminated.