The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

SUN. LONDON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER/ to 1446.
Our Contemporary talks of a wise humane man in-
terfering to check the progress of the evils of poach-
ing, hut if he look for either wisdom or humanity
in those who make laws to enrich themselves by
taxing the people's bread, he will look eternally in
vain. Ihe true way to put a stop to poaching is
to make its reward less than those of honest
dustry, which is not to be accomplished by ipulti-
plying mural police, excisemen, and 2-,oldiems. Let
the wise and humane, rather say the idle and the
meddling, try nature's remedy ; let trade go free
from their mischievous trammels, and let industry
reap the full reward of its own exertions.

There is an exceedingly amusing, and, at the
same time, useful article in the Timesof this morning'
on the great question of University Reform, which,
we trust, will not be confined to Glasgow or St.
Andrews, or any 'University in Scotland, but be
xetended to the great twin Universities of Eng-
land, where the abuses, the corruptions, and the
general malversation of important functions arc as
the ocean to a drop of the bucket, when compared
with those north of the Tweed. It will be remem-
bered that the Journal which especially patronised
Dr. CHALMERS in oppOsition to Dr. HILL, 011
t he occasion of a contest for the Divinity Chair of
Glasgow College, threatened the electors, namely,
the Professors, with the vengeance of the Royal
Commissioners in case they did not elect that weather-
cock of the Scotch Church, the Rev. Dr. THO-
MAS CHALMERS, Prolessor of Divinity in the
University of Edinburgh. The Professors had the
manliness to treat this threat with due contempt,
and to follow the honest dictates of their own
minds in choosing the son of one of the
brightest ornaments of the Scottish Church,
(the late Dr. HILL, Tory Principal of St. An-
drew's), a man of sound learning and sound sewse,
in preference to a man who has set the Church of
Scotland in an uproar, who changes his opinions
with every change of the moon, who, according to
the Times, labours under monomania, and who,
with all the great learning, wisdom, and discretion,
which they attribute to their ordefe-, is misled by the
boys of the Church. A fine picture of a Divinity
Professor, certainly, and one for which Dr.
CHALMERS has to thank his Tory patron. We
will allow the patron, however, to speak for hint-
self, after, in imitation of our Contemporary, having
offered a parenthetical remark or two. The first
is that the party abused are not Whigs or Radicals,
but good Tory Conservatives ; and so gross has
been their conduct for many years past that the
Royal Tory Commissioners could not advert to it
without the severest reprehension. They cannot
be otherwise than Tory now from the nature of their
appointment, and must have been still more Tory
when many of the malversations of which the
Report complains existed in all their vigour and
rankness. Fourteen of these Professors, besides
the Principal, are appointed by the Crown, and the
other eight Professorships are appointed by these
fifteen, which, considering the long tenure of office
held by the Tories, must, even after ten years of
Whig Government, be still sufficiently Tory to
warrant us in describing this body as belonging to
the political party of their accusers, the Royal
Commissioners and the London Times. Having
got out of this parenthesis, we call the attention of
our readers to the character of these Tory Profes-
sors of the University, or rather those appointed in
bygone times ; and above all to the damning cha-
racter given to Dr. CHALMERS, which forms the
tail, and very properly the sting, of the extract :

" The exceptionable way in which the Glasgow rrofes-
sore dispose of their University patronage will naturally
awaken public attention to their maladministration of
College property. For a vast number of years they have
bet nin the habit of doing what they please with that
property without check or control ; and on this point we
find from the Report of the Royal Commissioners in 1827
(to which are appended the names of Lords Aberdeen,
lladdingtoa, and Melville, the late Duke of Gordon, the
Lord President Elope, the Lord Justice Clerk Boyle, Sir
W. Rae, then Lord Advocate, Mr. John Elope, then Soli-
citor-General, Mr. Home Drummond, M.P., and the
Rev. Dr. George Cook, of St. Andrews, all stanch
Tories), that those eminent and impartial authorities
expressly say (page 20)—" We havo beets deeply
impressed, in the course of cur inquiries, with the neces-
sity of an efficient University Court." Then, alter men-
tioning that the three statutory visitors of the University
are—first, the Rector, who " is seldomresident ;" second,
the Dean, who " is chosen by the Projessors themselves ;"
and third, the Minister of Glasgow, who " lies been for
some time Principal of the College:" the Report goes on
to say that—
" It is greatly to be regretted, considering the important
duties of such visitors, that provision had not been made
for securing attention to the business entrusted to them.
The result has been, that the duty of visitors has never
been pet formed in the way, or to the extent pointed out
by the statutes; that the Principal and Professors hare
assumed powers in direct oppositiov to the regulations of
these statutes, even after their construction had been set-

tied by a Court of Law; that there is no practical check
on their expenditure or on their administration or disposal
of the surplus revenue of the College ; and that the vi-
sitors, at least for a great length of time, have not exer-
cised, or even been made acquainted with the powers they
possessed, or with the Latta e of the duties entrusted to
them."—Report, page 20.
Now, let us here offer a parenthetical remark or two.
When the Earl of Aberdeen, and the other Conservative
Commissioners, chargo the Glasgow Professors with con-
cealing from some of the visitors the posters they are pos.
sessed of, it may seem extraordinary that any visitor should
be ignorant of those powers. We shall explain this. The
allusion refers exclusively to the Lord Rector, who " is
seldom resident." The right of electing that high officer
belongs solely to the students, who, tar more careful of the
University's tame than their undutiful teachers, usually
appoint some eminent scholar and statesman ; so that the
serious imputation which the Earl of Aberdeen and his
fellow-commissioners bring against the Glasgow ProleF-
sors is, that, taking advantage of the unavoidable ignorance
of their highest academical superiors, they have concealed
from those distinguished persons the full knowledge cf

their official powers.
Again—the Earl of Aberdeen, Dr, George Cook, Mr.
John Hope, Sir W. Rae, and the other Royal Commis-
sioners, inculpate the Glasgow Professors on the ground
that " they have assumed powers in direct opposition to
statutes whose construction had been settled by a Court (2f
Law." Now, our readers will bear in mind, that the only
assigned fault of Dr. Chalmers, on account of which they
have rejected him, is pri.cisely that which the Cominis
sinners have hero imputed to the Glasgow Professors them-
selves. According to the servile prints which the latter
gentlemen have suborned in their defence, the sole reason
why they have excluded him from the Divinity chair is,
that at his instigation the non-intrusion party " have as-
sumed Towers in direct opposition to statutes whose c,)n-
struction has been settled by a; Court of Law." This is the
head and front of the Doctor's offending. We are not in-
sensible to the Doctor's monomania on non-intrusion, in
regard to which we regret to think that he is so egregi-
ously misled by a ring of upstart boys."

To thorough Reformers these liberal opinions on

University Reform, expressed by the Royal Tory
Commissioners and the leading Tory journal, are
quite refreshing, and lead us to hope that the work
is commenced in earnest, and that we shall have the
schedules A. B. C., &c., up to the half of the
alphabet, in the educational system of the Univer-
sities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge, and
Oxford, in imitation of what Sir CHARLES WE•
THERELL called the Russell Purge of the re-

presentative system i❑ the House of Commons.
When that is completed, the overgrown Church
Establishment will next require the attention of
these Conservative Reformers ; and considering the

because the English Government had forbidden it.
Were we to judge of M. DE TOCQUEVI LLE from
his sagacious work on democracy in the United
States, we should hold him to be the last man in
France capable of uttering such an absurdity.
The Journal des Debuts has a very caustic ar-
ticle, exposing what it calls the " posthumous po-
licy" of M. T H ERS. The ex-President of the Coun-
cil, like the old Sexton it► " Humphrey's Clock,"
was for doing every thing next Spring. His was
altogether a fine weather policy. But Lord PA L-
mEnsto Is; refused to wait idly during the winter; and
so the Spring, when M. THIERS was to have ac-
complished so many wouders, will never arrive.

The French Ministerial Journals of Monday
state, on the authority of their Corespondents at
Alexandria, that MEHEM ET ALI had resolved to
submit to the decision of the Four Powers the in•
start l►e was apprised of the fall of St. Jean d'A ere.
There is no general news of the slightest in-
terest in the Paris Papers of Monday. The de-
bate on the Address, and the success of the Allies
in Syria, entirely engross public attention, to the
exclusion of almost every othet topic.

The Augsburgh Gazette cootains a letter dated Ather:s,
the 12th ult., which states that the Government had re-
ceived an estaiiite on the 11th announcing that Wood'
Valenzias had entered on the territory of the Porte at the
head of 300 or 400 men, near the frontier of Thessaly,
without having received any orders to do so. It is sad
that this step had been supgested by Austria, in order that
Turkey, occupied at this, frontier, should be obliged to
diminish the number of troops intended to be marched
against Ibrahim Pacha.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There have been few arrivals of any kind of Grain since
Monday. The little business transacted has been at Mon-
day's prices for all sorts of Grain. Flour very heavy of
sale at last quotations.
NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a good supply of Game and Poultry ; trade
was dull„ and prices tho same as last quoted. Eggs, French,
.5s 6d to Gs; English, tis to 8s per 120. Meat was in mo-
derate request, the supplies large, and the prices as follows :
Beef, 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 2s Sd to 4s 3d; Veal, 3s 6d
to 51; Pork, 3s to 5s p.:r stone of 81bs.
COLONIAL MARKET.

The demand fur most decriptions of produce was
limited from the home trade, and for shipping scarcely
ony business was done. Impoiters, however, diqla3ed
firmness, and prices underwent no material variation. 'File
public sales were smal. The arrivals keep trivial from all
quarters.

enormous abuses, the unequal pay for work per-
formed, and the political uses made of Church
patronage to the detriment of pure religion, we
hope to see the day when we shall have a useful
and a godly Church, when clergymen shall not
change their flocks for filthy lucre—when curates
shall not starve on 301. and an Archbishop of
Canterbury riot in the enjoyment of 30,000/.
a-year.

\\ALKER C. GI;NTUN.

The French Journals of Monday have all been
received, with the continuation of the debate on
the address in answer to the Speech from the
Throne up to post hour on Monday afternoon.
The only speakers were M. CARNE and M. DE
TuCQUEVILLE, who briefly advocated, the former
a war, the latter a peace, policy. M. DE ToCQUE-
VILLE surprised the Chamber, as he well might,
by stating the existence of a rumour that the only
reason why the French fleet was not increased was,

BOLLS' COURT.-(THIS-DAY )

The Master of the Rolls resumed his sittings this morn
ing in the Rolls Court, Chancery. lane, and it being the
first seal after tcrm, heard motions.

KING OF HANOtER V. SIR HENRY WHEATLEY.
Mi. PEMBERTON moved in tliiS case for a commission to
Hanover, to examine witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff.
The defendant declined to join in the conimixaien.

M. WRAY appeared for the Crown, and consented to
the motion.—The older was accordingly made.
The object of the bill did not transpire, but we believe
it relates to the Crown jewels.

The plaintiff and defendant formerly carried on business
in Thames-street as chemists, druggists, varnish, and colour
manufacturers ; but, not being able to agree, they dis-
solved partnership; and a motion was now made on be-
half of the plaintiff for the appointment of a receiver of the
outstanding debts due to the partnership, and that the de-
fendant might bo restrained from receiving any of the
debts, and that the stock in trade, utensils, sc,, might
be sold.

VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS I)AY.)
The VICE.CHANCELLOR rose at hall'-past eleven o'clock,
having disposed of all the motions.