The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-15 00:00:00

WESTBURY.

Mr. Edward St. ➢Taur has offered himself as a can-
didate for this borough in the Liberal interest. He
will advocate the total abolition of Church-rates, and
is of opinion that sincere reformers should combine
in furthering a measure sufficiently comprehensive
to secure for the industrial classes a direct represen-
tation in the Legislature, without annulling the in-
fluence of those electors whose power has for 30 years
been exercised with so much advantage to the wel-
fare of the people at large. He will support Lord Pa l-
merston'eAdministration, hopingthat a Government

The following paper on this subject has been
issued by Mr. Charles Neate, M.P. :
" Mr. Goldwin Smith, in the paper which has been cir-
culated under the above title, has, I think, pressed a little
too far the claims of the University on the city, and the
obligation of the latter to confine its growth and regulate
its pursuits according to the convenience of the former.
"It is, no doubt, true that Oxford would be. but little
known to fame were it not for the University ; but it still
would have been a flourishing and considerable place if left
to itself from the natural advantages of its position. Before
the University can be properly said to have existed Oxford
was already of sufficient importance to be frequently re-
sorted to as the residence of the Sovereign. The University
grew up at first under the shelter and protection of the city,
and if the citizens are now too plainly told that the posi-
tions are reversed, many of them may be tempted to regret
that their predecessors were not left to enjoy the advantages
of a more humble but more independent position.
The citizens of their own accord are apt enough to re-
member the ties both of interest and feeling which binds
them to the University, but with regard at least to their
own interests they claim to be the best judges, and in this
instance. they believe that the addition to the population of
a considerable number of the highest class of workmen, the
constant demand throughout the year for skilled labour,
will be a benefit, not only to the tradesman, who will have
to supply a new demand, but to the workmen and artisans,
who will have new and higher modes of employment open
to them.

" It is said that the railway company will, in the first in-
stance, bring their own workmen to their new quarter, bu t
it is not probable that they will even begin with none but
foreigners, still less is it likely that these will continue to bo
recruited from their own rank; like an Indian caste. There
will be somo interchange of employment between them and
the Oxford artisans, according to the tastes an: capacities
of each, and there will be opportunities given to the clever
youth of the poorer classes in Oxford which they do not
now possess.

"It is assumed—l know not on what grounds—that the
new colony will have new shops, or co-operative stores of
their own. If it be so, the Oxford workmen at any rate may
learn a useful lesson from them ; but, from what I hear,
this is not likely to be the case at all generally. They can-
not, at any rate, build or furnish their own houses, nor is it
likely that they will either kill their own meat or grow their
own vegetables; and, as to the opposition objection—that
the new demand will cause a rise of price in such articles
I believe that a more steady and continuous demand will
rather act the other way, by giving the producer a greater
certainty of return and a longer time to make his profit in.
"As to the probable increase of pauperism with which
the citizens are threatened,they may well make light of that,
knowing how very insignificant has been the burden hitherto
thrown upon them in that way by the settlement of the
Great Western Railway among us, how very much more
they have gained from them in the way of rates than they
have had to spend on their account in relief ; and they rather
look to a diminution, at any rate, in the comparative rate of
pauperism, from the example of a more industrious and
sober class of working men than those which they now owo
to the presence of the University. I don't mention this as a
reproach to the University—it is the necessary result of the
residence in Oxford, during six months of the year only, of
an idle and luxurious class; but the University would do
well to remember what is the class which it chiefly contri-
butes to the population of the city before it objects to the
introduction of such a body of men as the workmen of the
Great Western Railway Company are likely to prove.

" I have hitherto written as a citizen. I would now say
something as to the interests of the University in the matter,
which the citizens, I am sure, are far from disregarding.
As a member of the University, I don't see what there is to
alarm us so much in the prospect of the threatened invasion,
and if there is any inconvenience likely to arise from it, it
is what we have no right to shrink from, but must meet in
the best way we can.
" The population of Oxford is now over 30,000. It is
proposed to increase it by about 5,000, probably not so
many, and those of a class above the average of the present
working men among us. No doubt any increase in the size
of the town, or in the number of its inhabitants, seems
likely, at first sight, to increase the difficulty of maintain-
ing discipline as it is now maintained ; but we do not
over-rate the benefit of that discipline, the necessity of
maintaining it all by University authorities, and, as a
matter of fact, has that discipline lost in apparent effi-
ciency, from the very great increase in the population of
Oxford which has happened in the last 30 years, an increase
considerably greater than that with which we are now
threatened ?

" The new colony will be settled apart from the Univer-
sity portion of. the town, close upon the great city recreation
ground, where they will find their natural outlet in holiday
times , and if we may meet them occasionally in our own
more usual walks, there are I hope not many among us
who would object to it.
"We may think, indeed, that the world is getting too
full ; we may wish, at least, that it were less so, but we
have no right to decline our share of the general burden;
and if there is any benefit to be derived, as I hope and
believe there is, from the moral influences of Oxford,
from the facilities of education for all classes which here
abound, from the very sight, as Mr. Goldwin Smith thinks,
of the buildings in which our work has been carried on
for ages, we should be loath to deprive of that benefit
those by whose work we are so ready to profit for our
own convenience.

,4 This is not the first time that a groundless panic has
been raised in Oxford about the Great Western Railway.
The first approaches of our great modern benefactor wero
met by us in the same distrustful spirit in which we now.
resist its further advances, and the opposition we then
offered to the passage of the railway in its natural line
proved, unhappily, but too successful.
" We are all of us, I believe, sorry for the mischief which
we then did to ourselves in the loss of convenient ccmmuni-
cation, to the country in the great waste of its capital,
above all, to the city, which we aro now reproaching with
the benefits which we have conferred on it.

" It is now too late to repair our error ; but let us at least
remember it as a warning against the counsels of those who
would advise us to repeat it."

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