The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-21 00:00:00

Athenian Government has just committed, and unless
some timely concession be made the result of that
blunder must be most injurious to the Greek kingdom.
It is singularly anomalous, amidst all these squabbles
and misunderstandings to observe the dissimilarity
of the moral behaviour of the rival Monarchs. Scarcely
has the sound of the flagrant language faded away in
the banquet chamber of the Christian KING, when
the Mahoinetan SULTAN sends the munificent sum of
one thousand pounds to Mr. WELLESLEY to be applied
to the relief of the destitute in Ireland. Surely
this cannot be considered as among the
least significant indications of the progress
of religious tolerance and social civilization !
When the chief of the faith of Islamism looks
with compassion upon a remote island devoted to the
adoration of CHRIST, we may esteem the epoch to be
not very far removed from that beautiful diffusion of
charity which has been so long regarded by ethical
and poetical writers as the most golden assurance of
terrestrial happiness. Lord PALMERSTON will again
have an opportunity of measuring his intellectual
strength with M. GUIZOT, and, notwithstanding the
very sanguine expectations of M. DE BOURQUENAT
and M. PISCATORT, we are by no means tremulous as
to the termination of their encounter. As has long
been the case with the Iberians, the Hellenes have
found their deepest affliction in external officiousness.
The influence of the Frenck at Athens, as well
as at Madrid and Lisbon, has been of the most
pernicious character ; and supposing the present
troubles result in the expulsion or suppression of the
French, the Greeks will have every reason to con-
gratulate themselves upon the mismanagement of
COLETTI. Nothing, save the total rejection of the
French interference, can reclaim the character, the
health, and the dignity of the Greek constitution.
Let King OTHO take example by the conduct recently
pursued by Queen ISABELLA of Spain, in succes-
sively dismissing from authority ISTURITZ and
SuromaYou ; and let the fate of ISTURITZ and Soto-
MAYOR be a warning to COLETTI.
" Trust not for freedom to the Franks,
They have a King who buys and sells;
In native swords, and native ranks,
Your only hope of freedom dwells."
So sang the inspired " ALFIERI of our land" to
the Greeks, before the Greeks were restored to the
dignity of an independent nation. With how much
more reason might he not have addressed to them
that warning at this particular juncture ! With
how much more reason might he not have protested
now-a-days that their only hope of freedom was in
" native hearts and native ranks," and not in the
avaricious selfishness and the unprincipled cunning
of a foreign Government. COLETTI will have ef-
fected the ruin of Greece, unless Greece, by a
patriotic anticipation of its true enemy, effect the
ruin of COLETTI.

Reverting to the proposition which Mr. CIIRI3TIE
will shortly renew in the House of Commons for the
admission of Dissenters into the Universities, it will
not be unreasonable to notice one of the arguments
upon which the advocates for excluding them have
mainly rested their defence of the present system.
They assert that the academies of Oxford and Cam-
bridge are institutions peculiarly interwoven and
identified with the religion of the State, the advance-
ment of which it is the special and bounden duty of
their authorities to promote, from a due regard to the
origin and nature of the earliest charters
and laws by which the different colleges, com-
posing the Universities, were founded. 'We deny
the premises altogether; but, without stopping
to demonstrate their untruth, it is notorious that,
supposing they were ever so true, never have insti-
tutions in their operation been suffered more widely
to deviate from the trust confided to their authorities
than the ancient seminaries of Oxford and Cambridge.
In this respect they stand self- condemned by the judg-
ment of some of their own most enlightened members.
Prelates and statesmen have alike spoken out in terms
of powerful denunciation against the striking discre-
pancies
between the assumed theory and the practical
working of these bodies. Every one, who is at all
acquainted with the subject, knowt that to obtain a
degree the examination upon theological matters to
which the candidates are subjected is of the
slightest character. The classics and the mathematics
are looked to as the chief test of their being entitled to
graduation. Compulsory attendance, morning and
evening, in the chapels of the colleges, is the only other
feature of religious discipline prevailing in either
University, independently of the examinations to
which we hare alluded, and which, so far as theolo-
gical excellence is concerned, is absolutely farcical.
But what said the present Bishop of ST. DAVID'S,
one of our most distinguished ornaments on the
episcopal bench, of this system in 1834 ? He said it
reminded him of " a military parade," and that it
was a practice which served neither to the discipline
of the body, mind, heart, or affections. The Bishop
also boldly proclaimed that " for the education of
their students, the colleges either contributed
nothing, or something so insignificant, as not
to be worth the taking into account." What
said Lord STANLEY in Parliament in 1834 ? " When
we look at the way in which this regulation (compul-
sory attendance in the chapel) is complied with, and
see young men rushing forward in the morning to see
if the gates of the chapel are opened, and in the
evening returning from Divine service to their
wine, I say ,such a system is better calcu-
lated to deaden all feelings of religion, than the
admission of Dissenters, be they ever so
numerous, to the honours of the University."
Such was the language of a Nobleman who was then,
and is still, regarded as one of the stoutest champions
of the Establised Church, and yet no statesman has
more zealously advocated than Lord STANLEY that
the Dissenters should be allowed fully to participate
in the same civil privileges, and admitted to the
most unreserved intercourse with the members
of the Church of England, in our general
and national institutions. Bat, again, what pro-
vision is made by the Universities in the shape
of religious education beyond what we have
stated, even for those who intend to become the
actual ministers of religion ? Take Cambridge, by
way of example. Writing, in 1841, Mr. PEACOCK,
the present Dean of Ely, and for many years a dis-
tinguished tutor of Trinity College, informed us that
no testimonial of theological proficiency was required
from candidates for holy orders beyond a certificate
of attendance upon the lectures of the Norrisian
Professor of Divinity, and that these lectures were
strictly limited to reading a considerable portion of
PEARSON'S Exposition of the Creed; and that if the
attendance had not been compulsory, the Professor
would inevitably have been left without an audience.
Can anything, then, be clearer, than, admitting, for
the sake of argument, the advocates for excluding the
Dissenters from the Universities to be justified in the
premises with which they set out, that these bodies
have grossly neglected their public duties ? Is not
their whole system " a delusion, a mockery, and a
snare ?" It is rotten to the very core. We have
useless academical oaths and formulce, college trusts
flagrantly violated, private tuition (which none but
the affluent can pay for) usurping public instruction,
and religion but slightly heeded. It would be easy
to swell the list of objections against the wretched
system of education in force in the Universities. To
Parliament only can we look for adequate and com-
prehensive reform, and we hope that it will imme-
diately set about placing the Universities, morally
and intellectually, upon a footing commensurate with
the requirements of a liberal and enlightened age.

The Madrid mail of the 14th had not arrived in
Paris at the hour of post. Private letters, however,
have been received from Madrid, stating that the
Government is in possession of evidence to prove that
the tumult of the Sunday preceding, and the attack
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in conjunction with their Afrancesado
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(who were appointed by the former Go-
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of the Afrancesado faction to office.
The Fomento, of Barcelona,
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town of Balaguer, in Catalonia, on theen7th,
after remaining there four hours, departed, carr3 int gd
with them 3,000 rials from the public treasury,
and
four carabines. The same journal of the 12th, states,
that the Carlist band of TRISTANY has been com-
pletely dispersed, and that Senor BUXERES, the Al-
cade of Martorell, has been conducted as a prisoner

to the citadel of Barcelona, for allowing armed Car-
lists to traverse the district of Martorell unmolested.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Journal des Debats contains some most im-
portant intelligence. Dispatches have been received
from Algiers, announcing the capture of the cele-
brated Bou MAZA, by Colonel DE ST. AULAIRI3. "It
was that celebrated scheriff," says the Daats,
" Who kindled the revolt which extended in 1845
from the Dahra all over Algeria, andlin which Abd-el-
Kader only acted the second part. He was as trouble
some to us as the Emir himself, who, dreaded him az a
rival. He at first regarded him as the Anti-Christ of the
Mussulmans, and is believed to have paid the assassins
who lately attempted his life. After having wandered
during upwards of a year among the southern tribes, he
had just re-entered the Dahra, where his presence would
have no doubt again roused the fanaticism of the Ka-
byles of those mountains. He fell into the hands of
Colonel St. Arnault, who was assisted in the difficult task
of his capture by Captain Richard, chief of the Arabian
board at Orleansville. This success is of the highest
importance, and, with the submission of Ben Salem, will
figure as one of the most remarkable facts in the his-
tory of our domination in Algeria. It is said that Bou
Maza will be sent to Paris."

The same journal contains a long article comment-
ing in bitter terms on the speech of the King of
PRUSSIA. It bears internal evidence of being the
composition of M. GUIZOT, and reads more like the
envenomed critique of an angry pedagogue on the
prospectus of a successful rival than a comment by a
great statesman on, perhaps, the most important State
paper that has ever appeared. It is unworthy of M.
GUIZOT and of the Journal (let Dtbats. Some allow-
ance, however, must be made for the feelings of
irritation under which M. GUIzOT is labour-
ing at the ill success of his attempts to
exploiter Prussia for the benefit of the dynasty,
The defeated intriguer has a prescriptive privilege of
complaint. M. REMUSAT brought forward, on Mon-
day, his motion for rendering placemen ineligible
for election as Deputies. He was addressing the
Chamber in support of his proposition when the post
I left.

The Swedish squadron, commanded by Prince
OSCAR, arrived at Toulon on the 15th. The Nemesis,
50 gun frigate, was launched at Brest on Wednesday,
and the Tage of 100 guns on Thursday.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Monday, at 77f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 60c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,228 E 75c. ; Rouen, 9171.
.50c.; Havre, 6801. ; Great Northern, 625 f. ; Avignon,
768 E 75c. ; Vierzon, 5611. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 506 f. 25c. ;
Basle, 190 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4301. ; Tours and Nantes,
4291.; Paris and Lyons, 4351. ; Lyons and Avignon,
460 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 445 f.; Spanish Actives, 33 ;
Spanish Domestic Dcbt, 31.
LYONS, APRIL 17.—Paris and Rouen, 8831. 75c. ; Avig-
non and Marseilles, 771 f. 25c.; Northern, 6231. 75c.; Paris
and Lyons, 431 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aran. 20.

Lyons and Avignon, 23/4—Over Yssel, dis.—Paris and
Lyons, 5% Paris and Rouen, 36—Rouen and Havre, 27
West Flanders, 4'A.

INDI A.

DEATH OF AKBAR KHAN.

We have received by Extraordinary Express from
Paris, a telegraphic dispatch, announcing the arrival
of the bi-monthly Indian Mail at Marseilles on
Monday last (19th inst.), with news from Bombay to
the 15th of March.

" The most perfect tranquillity prevailed in the
Punjaub, and nothing was perceptible to occasion
fears for new troubles.

" The disturbances in the country of the Hazareh
were allayed.
" Akbar Khan, son of Dust Mohammed Khan,
is dead.

" Sinde is perfectly tranquil, and its sanatory state
is satisfactory. Discontent and disorder continua to
agitate the possessions of the Nizam and the country
of Goomsoor."

The Paris papers of Tuesday contain no news.—
Herald.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary J&3IES.)
lIIAINX3 V. MUTT'.
This was an action to recover the sum of 161. 17s. 11d.
for goods sold and delivered.
The defendant admitted the debt, but pleaded that he had
tendered the amount before the action was brought.
A witness was called, who distinctly proved that he had
twice offered the money to the plaintiff; and the jury there-
fore gave a verdict for the defendant.—This was the only case

BANKRUP TCY.-(T EIIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvAxs.)
IN ILE; D. KACLEAN.

Mr. LAWRENCE applied for a further extension of the time
for the surrender of this bankrupt, the Member of Parliament
for Oxford, and who was declared bankrupt several months
ago, but had not yet surrendered. Mr. Lawrence now put
in a declaration of the bankrupt, as to his being still resident
in Italy, and unable to return to this country in consequence
of continued ill health.

The application was opposed on behalf the petitioning cre-
ditor, as it was quite impossible for any progress to be made
in winding up the bankrupt's affairs until his return to Eng-
land ; it was therefore submitted that no further time should
be allowed.

Mr. LAWRENCE said that the bankrupt was anxious to
have the affairs closed, and was lately at Rome, and his ob-
ject in having the time extended was to enable him to come
to England.
His Homoun said he did not see what good could result to
the creditors by having the bankrupt outlawed.
Mr. LAWRENCE said the bankrupt was not seeking to avoid
his surrender, and was most anxious not to be branded with
outlawry.
It was ultimately agreed that the time should be farther
adjourned for two months, the bankrupt in the mean time to
answer queries to be framed by the official assignee.
Mr. LAWRENCE said the bankrupt would render all the
assistance in his power.
The costs to be paid by the bankrupt.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Frederick Mizen was indicted for unlawfully attempting to
incite one Robert Roberts to aid in stealing several silver
spoons, the property of Eliza Bedford, his (Robert's) em-
ployey.

Robert Roberts stated that he was in the employment of
Mrs. Bedford, who resided at No. 23, Upper Seymonr-place,
and had known ;he prisoner for some time. On Friday week
he called upon the witness, and asked him for the loan of
65., which he was unable to give him, when the prisoner
took a pistol from his pocket, and said, if he did not " sanc-
tion" him in allowing him to come into the house at two
o'clock that morning, along with two other men, to take
the silver spoons, ;he:should blow his brains out. Wit-
ness was so frightened that he replied " he would see,"
and he remained up all that night; when, at the
hour named by the prisoner, he saw him and two
men walking up and down before the area railings, where
they remained for some time. The witness did not let them
in, and the prisoner having sent a threatening message to
him on the following day, stating that he would come again
that night, the witness informed his mistress of all the cir-
cumstances. The police were set to work, and took the
prisoner into custody.
, The ASSISTANT. SUDGE, in summing up, said the jury
should be entirely influenced by the credibility which they
attached to the evidence of Roberts.

The jury, after a short consultation, acquitted the prisoner.
Several other cases of felony were disposed of, in which no
point of general interest appeared.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Richard 2114Dondl was placed at the bar, having been re-
manded from yesterday, charged with stealing a silver watch
and chain from the person of Charles Ryan.
It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner were
drinking together in a public-house in the neighbourhood of
the court, last night, when the prisoner volunteered to give
the prosecutor a lesson in pugilism. A ring was formed, and
the teacher and pupil stood up. After a few rounds the pri-
soner proceeded to show the prosecutor a new mode of throw-
ing, and clasping him round the waist dexterously pulled his
watch from his fob and put it in his own pocket. After the
lesson was over, the prosecutor missed his watch, and suspi-
cion fell on the prisoner, who at first denied all knowledge of
it, but on a policeman being sent for he produced it, saying
that the prosecutor bid him take care of it.
The prisoner assured the magistrate that the prosecutor
told him to take care of the watch.
Mr. Bittcaum committed him for trial, saying that he was
convinced he stole the watch.

THE SCRIP FORGERIES.—Horatio Nelson West
and William Farmery were brought up for re-examination
at the Mansion-house, in the custody of John and Daniel
Forrester. The justice-room was crowded with gentlemen
from the Stock Exchange. The charge against them was
stated by Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the prosecution,
to be that they feloniously uttered and disposed of, knowing
the same to be forged, several warrants for the delivery of
certain securities for the payment of money—viz., for the
delivery of shares of the value of 501. each in the London
and South-Western Railway Company, with intent to de-
fraud Francis Worrell Stevens. Evidence having been given,
in the course of' which both parties were positively sworn to
as the parties implicated in the concoction and uttering of
the forged scrip. Mr. Clarkson requested that a further re-
mand should be given, in order that the depositions might
be properly prepared. The Lord Mayor consented to re-
mand the prisoners until Monday next, on which day it was
his intention to commit them for trial.
SUICIDE OP SIR HENRY WEBSTER.—A most pain-
ful sensation pervaded the vicinity of Grosvenor-square yes-
terday, in consequence of a rumour which had gained con-
siderable
credit that Sir Henry Webster, Bart., residing at !
No. 31, Upper Brooke-street, had committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor. Upon making inquiry into
the truth of the rumour, it was found to be too true. The
unfortunate gentleman, it appears, has for some time past
been in a desponding state of mind, but no fears were for a
moment entertained that he would take his own life. On
Monday morning he rose at his usual hour and took breakfast,
and expressed his intention of going out to walk. He was
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heard in his room. The servant immediately proceeded to
his apartments, and found him lying upon the floor with a
twaonuend in the throat. Medical assistance was promptly ob-
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