The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-05 00:00:00

[MORNING 'JERALD.]

A long discussion took place last night in the
House of Commons on the Tees and Weardale
Railway Bill. It was opposed by Sir 11. Ilar-
dinge and 'ethers, otv the ground that it was one
of the wild speculations of a passing hour; that
the proposed line of Railway went within a mile
and a half of the Marquis of Londonderry's seat;
and that though the road could not be seen 'from
the mansion-, "-the noise of the loco-motive en-
gines could be heard in every room of it." Mr.
Daveuport called them "infernal engines," and
Lord Cavendish denounced " the infernal Rail-
way." It was added, by Sir H—Hardinge, that
the original line, was planned to go through d
portion of Lord Eldon's property ; but that was
abandoned, because it was deemed easier to
battle with Lord LotidonderrY, than to struggle
against the Lord Chancellor. On the other
hand, the measure was supported by Lord
Milton, the Members of the City of London,
&c. pn the assumption that the Railway would
afford those additional facilities. for the convey-
ance of coals, which might thereby be brought
into the London market, to compete with,
the coals sent from the Year and Tyne.—
They maintained that suck measure, and
the consequent competition that it was likely to
produce, was calculated to reduce the price
of coalS iii, the Metropolis. .Sir M. W. Ridley
replied CO Alderman Wood, that so long as the
Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Lon-
don continued their regulations on this subject,
coals never could be obtained at a cheap rate in
and about the metropolis. Mr. Lambton opposed
the Bill, and said he did so disinterestedly, be-
cause his coals were of a better quality than those
that were to he brought along the projected Rail-
way, and therefore would bear competition. The
House divided on the Bill—it was carried. Mr.
Lambton afterwards moved for the By-laWs of
the City of 'London connected with this subject,
and they were ordered to be laid before the
House. There was a tolerably full attendance
of Members, and the gallery was filled, but when
this question was disposed of crowds departed.

[NEw TIMES.]
Lord Suffield.moved the second reading in the.
'House of Lords last night, of the Bill to render
:illegal the use of Spring-Guns for the protection
.of: Game. His Lordship stated the general
grounds upon which he founded- the, measure,
and adduced several instances. of the injury
indi-
viduals had sustained from the use of these guns,
for which damages had been awarded in Courts
• of Law. The Bill was read a second time with-
out opposition, and was, ordered .to lie printed.--
In the House of Commons .last night, Lord Low-
ther moved the second reading. of.the Teesdale
Railway Bill, which was opposed by Sir H. liar-
dinge, on the ground that the c'oals in the neigh-
bourhood of the Railway were so small as not
to be able to find .a market—that it was a private
speculation rather than a public benefit, and that
it was contrary to the wishes of five principal
proprietors, through. whose land the Railway
Would pass, and be more especially annoying to
Lord Ltindonderry„ as the noise of the loco•
motive engine would be heard in every room- in
.his -house. The Bill was supported by Mr. Al.
derman Thompson, who argued, that public be-

nerd ought to be held paramount to the wishes of
private individuals. Lord Milton, Mr. Alder-
man Brydges, Mr. I'. Wilson anti others, followed
on the same side.—Mr. Lamhton, Mr. Calcraft,
and other members spoke against the Bill, when,
on a division, there appeared

. - 63
. - . 53

. For the second reading -
Against it

Majority in favour of the Bill - 10
When this decision of the House is considered
in connection with that of Wednesday night, on
the Manchester Railway, together with the sound
and enlightened views which Mr. Huskisson then
expressed, it appears probable, that there will
not be, henceforth, any violent opposition made
to the various Railway roads which have been
projected. The House afterwards went into a
Committee, when the Army Estimates were
brought forward by Lord Palmerston, and the
Ordnance Estimates by Sir Henry Hardinge.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Though there were no arrivals yesterday
from the Continent, or any other part of the
world, which could affect the money market, yet
it remained very heavy throughout the day.—
This state of depression will probably continue,

till the mystery in which.- our foreign relations
are at this time involved be wholly removed ;
and it is rather strange that no attempt has been
made from the proper quarter, to relieve the pub-
lic from the alarm which they evidently feel on

this subject. By the word alarm, we mean here
that feeling which uncertainly generates ; for
such is the high tone that prevails in the country,
and such is the universal satisfaction, with which

the recognition of the independence of South
America has been hailed, that, if war should he

the result, it would produce greater unanimity,
than had ever existed on any former occasion of a
similar kind. But the Public, not knowing what

they have to grapple with, or whether the phan-
tom be real or imaginary, are kept in a state of
feverish suspense ; and, if there be no sign of apt
approaching storm, it is rather strange, as we
have just said, that no assurapce to this effect has
been yet given, notwithstanding the many op-
portunities that have presented themselves of late
and which, we thought, would have been gladly
seized in order to put the public mind in the
right tact with respect to our foreign relations
at this moment. Ministers are not in gene-
ral ester), costive when disclosures are become
necessary ; and they usually find. out an oc-
casion, if it should not freely present itself,'
in order to coriect any serious misconception of
the effects of their policy. In this instance,
however, they have left the public .to
.their own
conjectures; or, if they have indirectly 'touched
the question, which is the all-pervading
.subject
of interest, the allusion has uniformly tended to
strengthen the prevailing surmises. It always
contained some appeal to the public spirit of the
country, as well as some strong hint with respect
to the insolent tone of interference by which the
proceedings of the Holy Alliance are cherac...
terized. We have remarked this clearly in
the financial statement of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer ; and still more clearly in the
short but pithy speech of Mr. Canning on the
Catholic Question.--It is this evident
ness on the part of his Majesty's Government to
laud the moderation of foreign Powers, and yin:-
dicate their pacific disposition, which has
.cast
over the money market the gloat* that has per-
vaded it for some One. If Ministers are rather
passive on the subject, still the calm which they
assume, is now and then interrupted by a
sudden flash of lightning, or 'by the distant
rumbling of thunder, as we have witnessed
in the two speeches above-mentioned. On
the contrary, the silence which foreign Powers
have hitherto guarded, is of a dead and
suffocating character. It is a deep and heavy
calm, which not a breath of air agitates, and
Which assumes every hour -greater consistency
as well as a more lowering appearance. On our
side the signal of danger has been hoisted; as
may seen from the large augnientation, which. it
is proposed to make to our military force. On
the 'other side, not a demonstration is to be seen—

not even a menacing word has been suffered to
escape ; and there is that collected appearance
on the whole, which a man would assume, who
was preparing himself for a mighty and Verilous
undertaking. Whether a furious storm, that
the political world from its founda-
tions,shait raise
oranother illustration of the mountain in
labour, shall be the result of this profound state
of suspense, we must leave to wiser heads than
our own to decide.

[BRITISH. PRESS.]
T he interment of the Hon. F. Ashley Cooper,
it is understood, will take place on Sunday next.
Mr. Wood is permitted to remain at large, ac-
companied by a pike attendant, to avoid the..
diSgrace of being committed to the county gaol ;
his trial will take place at the present Assizes
for the county. Mr.'Leith, his second, has been
for the present removed from Eton. We trust
will be permitted iciPais
iwhirtshPoatiitnfa f
makinge venitts
due impression on those who
have the conduct of our great public institutions
for education in this country, in which. the
whole system of moral
preparation is lament-
ably, defective. If
any proof were wanting
of The shameful negligenCe which Prevails
in this respect,, ..we have only to turn to the
afflictive catastrophe which has happened at
Eton, and the disgraceful proceedings at Harrow,
which in the same week have .beeti the, subject
of our Police Reports. -The subject furnishes
more ample and more interesting materials for
reflection than can be touched upon
within the
colums of a Newspaper. The Head Masters of
these public
Seminaries have. much to answer for ;
their culpable negligence has been long notorious,
and it is full time that they adopted
some less
lax and culpable system than that by which they
have so long brought discredit on their pupils,
disgrace upon themselves. Those who are en-
trusted with the education of the highest classes
of our youth incur a deep responsibility by suf
fering them to practise with imp
worst vices by
which the lowest are degraded.
Preceptors stand in loco parentif, and they wrong
both the Parents and the public
w hen then pay so
unity all the

little regard to the moral superintendence of their
pupils, that their habits become depraved before
character is formed, and this from an utter disre-
gard, on their part, of that prudential guardian-
ship which the duty of their situation imposes,
and which the very nature of it implies.—
What can be the constitution of an establish-
ment intended for public instruction of youth;
in which a battle could be fought between
two pupils, which should last for nearly two
hours ; in which one of the combatants, a child
of as tender an age as fourteen, should be plied
with spirits, till, at last, disfigured with bruises
and stupified with liquor, he is carried away
senseless, and within four hours is a corpse ; and
this without the head-master, the under-masters,
or any one in authority, knowing apparently, any
more of the matter, or taking any more concern
in it than if it had happened thirty miles
off ! Great blame, it is manifest, must rest
somewhere. The system must be radically
baneful under which this could happen. We
have no intention to sermonise. We know that
in all public schools, young men born to rank
and wealth must, after a certain period of life,
be left very much to the controul of their own
discretion. There is, perhaps, no good reason
to be given for this ; but it arises out of circum-
stances which it is not easy to controul, and
which, in a measure, therefore, must, be submit-
ted to. But that boys that have been scarcely ten
years breeched, should be i►► no better state of dis-
cipline atEton than the late deplorable eventproves
- them to be, is a matter of too deep an interest to
be much longer overlooked. If the masters, both
of Eton and Harrow, had not long been regard-
less of every interest but their own, the actual
condition of these seminaries would not be what
it is ; we hope, now that cases so disreputable
have made that condition so public, ever► their
own interest may at length force upon them the
necessity of reforming it.

ASSESSED TAXES.

LIST OF -THE MINORITY

On. Mr. Maberly's Motion .for the Total Repeal of the Win-
dow Tax.—March 3.
Althorp, Viiet.. Hornby, Ed. ' Palmer, C.
Anson, Sir G. . Hume, J. . Palmer, C. F.
Bernal, R. . Hutchinson, Hon. Powlett, Hon. W.
Burdett, Sir F. C. H. Poyntz, W. S.
Byng, George Howard, H. Ridlcy, Sir M. W.
Benett,- J. '. Heyga* W. Robarts, A. W.
Blake, Sir F. James, W. Robinson, Sir Geo.
Bright, Henry 'Jervoise, G. P. Rowley, Sii W. ,
Calvert C. Johnstone, W. A. Taylor, M. A.
Cavendish, C. Ingilby, Sir W. Tierney, Rt. Hn.G.
Cavendish, 11. Lambton, J. G. Townshend, Ld. C.
Cradock, S. Leyees ter, R. Webbe, E.
1 Denison, W. J.. Lester, B. L. . Whitbread, W. H.
Denman, T. . Leader, W. White, S.
Duncannon, Visct. Lloyd, .T. M. Williams, T. P.
Davenport, D. Lethbridge, Sir T. Wilson, Sir R.
East, Sir H. Lockhart, J. J. Winnington, SirT.
Grant, - J. P.. -Maberly, W. L. W00d,..31..
Guise, Sir W. MacdOnald, J. Wrottesley, Sir J.
.Gurney, R. • Marjoribanks, S.
.Gordon, R. Milton, Viscount TELLERS.
Ileathcote, G. J. Monck, -J. B. Calcraft, J.
Hobhouse, J. C. Manning, W. Moberly, J.

Lord Henry Thynne's name was by mistake inserted in the
Minority'against the Claims of the Catholics, and that d Col.
W. E. Powell, Member for Cardiganshire, was omitted.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 4.—At a Congregation on Wednes-
day last the following degrees were conferred :--,
Honorary ilfaster of Arts—The Hon. Granville Ryder, Tri-
nity College; son of Lord Harrowby.
Master of Arts—Rev. John Wm. Butt, Sidney College.
Bdchelors in. Civil Late:—Nirm, Golden Luinley, Robert
Rankin, Trinity Hall; Edward Bayntun Yescombe, Downing
College, Compounder.
, • The select preacher to whom the Sunday; afternoon turns at
St. Mary's church are assigned, for the present month, is Pro.
fessor Turton, of Catharine Ball..
The following Gentlemen were ordained by the Lord Bishop
of Lincoln, in •Marybone Chapel; London, on•Sundity last

DEACONS.
Henry Dashwood, B.A. Trinity College, Oxford '
Wm. Nixon Hopper' B.A. corpus Christi College,.Carnb.
Charles Tomblin, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Robert Thomas Adnutt, 8.A.. Emmanuel Cellegef Cambridge
William Williamson, 11. A. St. John's College, Cambridge
Robert Ousby, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge
Jan Neville Calcraft, B.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge
Joseph Hemington Harris, B.A. Fell. Clare Hall. Cambridge
William Cave Humfrey, St. Peter's College, Cambridge
William Fowler, B.A. •Alagdalene College, Cambridge
Ernest Hawkins, B.A. Balliol College, Oxford
lawrence.Gwytine, B.A. Triiiity College,. Carnbridge
Thos. Roupell E,verett, B.A.' Pembroke College, Cambridge.
From the Bishop of Salisbury.
Wm. Marriott Smith Marriott, B.A. Trinity Coll, Cambridge
j.
• FrOm' the Bishop of Rochester. •

PRIESTS.
Henry Foulis, B.A. St.'.Tohri's College, Cambridge
Henry Cheales, B.A. Pembroke Hall, ,Cambridge
Eardley Childers B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge
)Robert Frost, 8.A.• Catharine Hall, Cambridge
George Frost, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford
John Holt. Simpson, B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge
Thos. Henry Winbolt, B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge
Ralph Wake Blackliouse, B. A. Clare Hall, Cambridge
Julius Deedes,,Al:A. Trinity College, "Oxford
Froin the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Charles Joseph Camidge; ,B.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge 1
From the Archbishop of York.
Frederick. HOlnies, B.A. St: john's. College, Combridge
lr
From the,Bishop of London
W. Pakenham Spencer, M.A., St. John's Coll. Cambridge
From the Bishop of Ely
John Sargeant, M.A., Christ Church, Oxon
From the Bishop of Peterborough. f
Henry Moule, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge
Maximilian Geneste,.Queep's College, Oxon
From the Bishop of Salisbury.
Dacre Barrett Lennard, 11.1 k., Jesus College, Cambridge )
From the Bishop of Norwich. .
Arthur Bromily, St. Edmund Hall, Oxon
From the Bishop of St. David's.
Francis Buttanshaw, 8.A., University College, Oxon
Wm. Tilden, 8.A., rnidney Sussex College,
Cambridge
From the Bishop of Rochester.
The Duke of Grafton has appointed the Reverend•W. J D
Merest one of his Grace's domestic chaplains.

OXFORD-'MARCH
Degrees were conferred
:
,
Doctor in Civil Lazy—The Rev. Henry. Shepherd, St. Alban
Hall, Grand Compounder. . • •
.3fastels of Arts—Rev. Stephen Barrett, Lincoln College ;
Hon. Arthur. Hill Trevor, Christ, Church; Rev. Christopher
Thomas Robins'n, BrazenOse.; Rev. James Davis, and Wm.
Lyde WiggettUniversity ; Geo.- Tierney, Fel/ow of Merton.
,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.
Bachelors of Arts.—Richard Wildman Ch: Ch. Grand Corn
pounder ; William Henry Aloncrieff Roberson Lincoln ;
Ham Tierney Elton, Worcester.
ASTI CAL PREFERMENTS.
The Rev. L.. C. Lee, M.A. and senior Fellow of New College,
to the Rectory of Wootton, in thii'courity, vacant by-the death
of the Rev T. R. 'Berkeley, D.D.
The Rev. Richard Bohun Tomkyns, Fellow of New College,
has been presented. by the Warden and Fellows of that Society,,
to the Living of Sn'inm Toney, Norfolk, void by the death of
the Rev. David Williams. •

The Rev. Geo. Williams, 8.A., one of the minor canons
of iVorcester Cathedral,' has been presented to, the rectory. of
Sedgeberrow, in that county, void by the death of the Wv.
Jeremiah Roberts, .11. A., in the patronage of the very Rev.
the Dean and Chapter of Worcester.
The Rev. William Ira* to the vicarage of Amrothi in
Pembrokeshire.