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LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1838.

The Earl of Ranrsoe, under the prompting, as the
Duke of WELLINGTON said, of Lord HOLLAND, alluded
last night to the great improvements made of late in those
famous seminaries, Oxford and Cambridge. After the sub-
ject has been frequently before Parliament—after promises
of amendment and reform have been made in their name
by their Chancellors—after the public has loudly and for
many years demande 1 that those monkcries should be made
of national advantage—after they have been openly and
broadly accused of patronising perjury, and making a con-
tempt for such moral obligations as an oath the rule through
life of the conduct of thov who are educated there—
they have condescended to admit, that even in them
innovation may be beneficial, and reform needful. One
College at Cambridge has appointed a Committee to re-
vise its Statutes, and Oxford has become quite a
reforming corporation. It has removed the prohibition
to read lectures in Lent ; it no longer requires the Chan-
cellor, he being the Duke of WELLINGTON, to read
prayers, and it has done away with the obliga-
tion to take an oath on matriculation, which oath was
never observed. We are not surprised at the Duke of
WELLINGTON feeling vexed and annoyed by having such
proceedings brought under the notice of the public. The
comments of the Earl of RADNOR must be as mortifying,
to his comprehensive capacious mind as the alterations
are trifling and contemptible. His Grace chaffed and
fretted, as we can conceive, he would chare and fret on
the eve of a battle when he was ordering his divi-
sions to take their ground in different places, could he
have been told by one General that his corps could
not move because the men had go. o clean gloves ;
by another that his division were all entirely occupied
pipeclaying their belts or polishing the handles of their
bayonets, and would move ext day ; and by a
a third that his men had all laid down for an afternoon
nap, and could not just then be disturbed. For the Uni-
versities to suppose that reform consists in prohibiting read-
ing lectures in Lent, is, in relation to the progress and
present cDndition of society, as preposterous as the an-
swers we have supposed some Generals might possibly have
sent to the Duke of WELLINGTON, and we are no more
surprised that he should have been vexed in the one ease
than that he should have gone mal or hung all his Gene-
va's in the other.

Tau state and condition of our Universities is a subject
of great national interest. On the manner in iThich the
P,i,ces and the ruling cLipses are brought up depeuds
whether lebislation shall be a benefit or a curse to
society. But a large majority of them, perhaps
eight-tenths, are edue,.ted at the Universities, and
by the monks who inhibit them, or by those who
derive their instructions from the monks.. Our aristocracy,
may talk, if they please, of the prejudices of the vulgar
and m iy boast of their mental independence, but we doubt
whether there he, mentally, more wretched slaves in the
whole land, drat those who, at NVestminster, Harrow,
Eton, an 1 Oxford, are in the hands, and under the exclu-
sise cuntroul of the priesthood, through all the ducal,
period of ',nab. In the unkersities, and among the
clergy, are, preserved and cheri.lied ail the features.
to,l doctrines of Popery ; and Popery in essence
and ppirit as much lords it over the ruling
mind o. the En4lish ruisto,:raey now as in the fifteenth
e. ntnry. Its this sense the union of the Church and
Star is :n fact the &minion of the Priesthood now with us
as it was amongst the Jews. They do not actually preside at
the Privy Cnuucd (it is true) or fill the office of Prime
Minister ; but they model the youthful mind and domineer
cur e‘er mer the hearts and affections of awe who (10.
PRET fit MAI:, the fashioner of PITT'S mind, reigned over
him after he %V 1.3 CHANCELLOR of the. EXCHEQUER,
just as the Bishop of EXETEr. or some such
Divine now speaks through Lord STANLEY. NOW this
circumstance in the present condition of the country, when
there is a contest between Dissenters and Churchmen, be-
tween the viblentary principle and the union of Church
and State, is of very considerable public importance, and
way involve the peace or hapOness of the community. It
molt at once satisfy every reflecting mind, that in
411 disputes between them, the pupils of the priest-
hood to whom the appeals are made cannot be impar-
ti LI judges. To appeal, in such questions to the lay
Aristocracy, is another name for appealing to the
Bishops themselves. They have' fashioned the minds
of the legislators, und that they counsel as to the Church
the legislators will do. To decide such questions impar-
tially, to have them calmly considered, with reference to the
public weal, we require other men than those whose minds
and aGuls are fashioned by Oxford doctors.

The account of the accident on the London and Bir-
mingham Itail.vay, to which we ref.rred yesterday in one
of our leading articles, was by mistake omitted. It will
be found to-day in another column, together with a report
of the proceedings at the Coroner's Inquest held on the
body of the unfortunate man who, it now appears upon the
evidence of the Company's own servants, has fallen a victim
to carelessness of the groQsest and most cul6able descrip-
tion. Will it be believed that the crown of the arch
_under which the cal-liege was pAsing when the guard was
crushed to death, is only eighteen inches higher than the
top of the carriage! Yet, such is the fact stated on oath
before the Coroner's jury. Why, the vacant space is not
equal in proportion to the windage allowed to a cannon-
ball. It may ?e said that the guard ought not to have
been on the top of the carr:age ; but that is the lamest of
all excuses, as it is obvious that he was there in the dis-

charge of his duty, namely, in putting to rights the lug-
gige which had been disarranged by the motion of the

can 'age.

Now, this species of duty being, it is to be presumed,
necessary, and whether necessary or not, being permitted
by the persons who exercise authority in the uff&rs of this
Company, ought these persons not to have satisfied them-
selves that it 'could be performed without unnecessarily
endangering the lives of those employed in it ?
Was it not incumbent upon them so to ad-
just th it carriages to their arches that no collision
could possibly take place? And how easy was it to d,o
this? If they have built their arches too low the obvious
remedy for this blunder was to make the carriages propor-
tionally low, adding to their length or width what was taken
from their height, and leaving. such a space between the
crown of the archway and the loaded carriage as would
enable a man to stand erect without touching the bridge.
Common humanity would have dictated some such mode of
proceeding as this.

Notwithstanding the difficulties interpose' by Mr.
PonLETT T►toatsox to the passing of the National Loan
Fund As4mance Company's Bill through the 'House of
Commons, it wai read a third time. last night, and passed
by a large majority, the numbers being 109 for and 38
against it. We are at a loss to understand upon what
sad grounds the Right lion. the President of the Board
of Trade expects support in the course he was pleased to
take on this occasion.

From his own showing he is prepared to ask from the
Legislature the power of bestowing the same concessions
that are contained in this identical Bill—or in other words, to
enable him to grant to other Companies, by " letters
patent," the self same privileges as are now alone
obtainable by an Act of Parliament. There is not,the
slightest difference in principle or detail, but a perfect
coincidence in all the powers granted by the private
Bill and to be granted- by the public measure. Little
less than one thousand similar Acts of Parliament have
been sought and granted to other Companies from
time to time, and ,although a revision of the general law of
partnership is absolutely necessary, and it might be pru-
dent to enable Government to grant at a less expense,
than that of an Act of Parliament, such facilities to
trading associations, yet, what would it have mat-
tered had all the Bills brought into the House this
year been allowed to pass ? We believe that nearly
twenty such Bills brought in have been withdrawn
this Session, in consequence of the opposition of Mr.
POULETT THOMSON, and in consequence of his expected
measure. Why were the parties subject to this expense in
vain? Mr. POULETT Tuomsom may have some motives
of which we are not aware ; but we protest against the pub-
lic being exposed to inconvenience, because the President
of the Board of Trade does not know his own mind, is in-
competent to perform his duties, or prefers sparing his own
feeling to doing justice to the public.

The House of Commons will be asked to-morrow night,
we believe, to vote 5,0001. for the Poles. As the voice
of suffering humanity was never addressed in vain to the
British Legislature, it will not now he unattended to.
Men of the highest rank have been obliged to submit to
the meanest and hardest drudgery to obtain a subsigenee,
and no privations could daunt their manly spirit till the
body, enfeebled by old wounds, has refused to an-
swer the daily calls for incessant toil. Should there
be any truth in the reports now circulated of Russian
aggrandisement in the east, the time may not be distant
when they may repay, by their valour and their swords,
the small boon they now supplicate at the hands of our
mighty and generous people.

We find no political news of any interest in the Paris
Papers of Sunday. Sixty-seven Spanish Bondholders pe-
titioned the Chamber of Peers against the new Spanish
Loan being quoted on the Paris Bourse. The petition
was referred to a Committee which delivered its report on
Saturday. After admitting the justness of the grounds of
complaint stated by the petitioners, the reporter urges the
expediency of rejecting the proposition made by them as tend-
ing.to inflict a heavy wrong on a friLndly Power, known to bc
greatly in want of money. It was in the power of all persons
to decline investing their money in such securit;es, and this
was all the security that the Government could afford them
without assuming the dangerous function of pronouncing
upon the solvency and good faith of all Foreign Govern-
ments.

On Saturday M. PASSY was elected a men:ber of the
Institute, in the room of the deceased dipLanatist, M. 1)E
TALLETRAND.

There prevailed a report on Saturday that Alarshm
VALLEE, Governor-General of French Africa, would
shortly be appointed Minister of War, in the room of Gc-
trete! BERNARD.

We have no news from Spain of a later date than tLe
papers received yesterday.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).
HUNGERFORD MARKET.

Supplies of all kinds good, and brisk trade. Fish—Turbot 4s, to
15s. ; Soles Is. Od. to 3s. per pair ; Mackarel 4d. to dd. each ; Lob_
sters Is. to 3s. each ; Salmon Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per lb. Meat—Beef
614 to Bd. ; Mutton, 7d. to Bd. ; Veal 84. to 9d. ; Pork 7d. to 84d.
Vegetables decline in price, and increase in quantity. Hay and Clover
in good demand, and former prices firmly sustained.