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London, England, 1867-07-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1867.

OND ON AND NORTH-WESTERN
41 RAILWAY.
PARIS EXHIBITION.
NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS.
Arrangements are new made for the CONVEYANCE
of ARTIZANS, with their Wives and Families, Factory
Hands, and other workpeoplo through to PARIS, at
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Daily, on production of the authorised form of certificate
from their employers.
Forms of certificate, and information as to the trains and
arrangements, can be obtained on application to the book-
ing clerks at any of the principal stations.
By order,
W. CIWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, July 23, 1867.

r THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK,
No. 5, Prince's-street, London.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an EXTRAOR-
DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in
this Bank will be held at the Banking-house' No. 5,
Prince's-street, Mansion House, on Thursday, the 22d
day of August next, at Twelve of the clock at noon pre-
cisely, for the purpose of confirming the following Reso-
lutions passed at the Special General Meeting holden on
the 25th day of July inst., viz.:—
That the following addition be made to the 9th Clause
of the Deed of Settlement, viz. :—" And may al o from
time to time, if they think fit, diminish the number of
Directors, but so always that such number shall not at
any time be less than fifteen."

That the proviso in Clause 52 of the Company's Deed of
Settlement, requiring notice to have been given by some
Proprietor at a previous General Meeting, either half-yearly
or extraordinary, of an intention to propose the resole-
tica
_or jesolutinDeciu. anPli clause referred to bei and the
same is hereby, repealed, and the said deed is to be read
as though such requirement was not contained therein.
Dated this 27th day of July, 1867.
By order of the Board,
ALFRED SCRIVENER, Secretary.

SCI-100L OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE,
&c. Admiralty, 26th July, 1867.
The LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY
hereby give notice that the arrangements for the ADMIS-
SION of PERSONS, not already in the Government ser-
vice, to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering, as Admiralty Pupils, will, for the
present year, be as follows :--
Candidates must not be less than 18 nor more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuildingi or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected with shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin-
ciples and practices thereof.
The pupils will be selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, and numbers of marks assigned
for each are as follows : Marks.
Pure Mathematics, including—Arithmetic, mensu-
ration, geometry (plane and descriptive), plane
trigonometry, and the elements of the differen-
tial and integral calculus
Applied Mathematics, including mechanics and hy-
drostatics
Practical Shipbuildiag, including laying-off (for
shipwright's candidates only) 2,500
Practical Marine Engineering (for engineer candi-
dates only)
French
Elements of Physics and Chymistg

2,500

_
2,500
500
750

English Grammar and Composition 750
Geography and History 750
No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may bo selected will be treated,
while attached to the School, in all resrects as the Admi-
ralty pupils; they will receive wages the same as dockyard
appreLtices, commencing at Is. 6d. per day for six days
per week for the first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist-
ence allowance of 3s. per day for seven days per week
white away from their homes, either at the school or in the
_Dockyards.
Six months of each year, viz., from November till May,
will be devoted to study at the School, and the remaining
six months to active work and the acquirement of practical
knowledge in the dockyards.
It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagement to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study ; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in their subsequent career. The number of such
pupils to be selected this year is ono shipwright and one
engineer. Persons desirous of competing must forward
their names with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds
on which they consider themselves practically qualified,
enclosing proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary
of the Admiralty not later than the Ist of September.
The candidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as engineers or shipwrights.
The examiearon will take place on the 23rd September
and three following days.
IiEis.,TRY GORDON LENNOX.

CONTRACT FOR IRON PLATEWORKERS' WARES.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House,
July 25, 1867.
•rim COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING-
-1 the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUES-
DAY, the 3d September next, at two o'clock, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may bo willing to
CONTRACT for Supplying and Delivering into Store at
her Majesty's several Dockyards all such IRON PLATE-
WORKERS' WARES as shall from time to time be
ordered, under a contract for 12 calendar months certain,
and further until the expiration of three calendar months'
warning. The average annual expenditure may be ascer-
tained, patterns of the articles may be seen, and a form of
the Tender and conditions of contract may be obtained on
application at the above department.
No Tender wilt be received after two o'clock on the day
of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends,
or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words,
" Tender for Iron Plateworkors' Wares," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General,
Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed
by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound
with the persons tendering in the sum of £BOO for the duo
performance of the contract.
By Order. ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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must be founded on the assumption that the majo-
rity in Bristol shall be enabled henceforth to return
all three members as it now .returns two, bat the
amendment of Lord Cairns disposes of that difficulty.
Lord Cairns has given notice of a proposition that
in contested elections for three-cornered constitu-
encies no voter should give more than Lwo votes;
and if this proposition be adopted, a minority of a
third will secure one of three members. The three
members for Bristol would thus represent Bristol,
and not merely a majority of its voters. ThiS
amendment coming after Lord Grey's proposition
obviates the grave difficulty which has hitherto em-
barrassed all attempts to design a comprehensive
scheme of Redistribution. The two together make
it the most conservative, as it is the wisest policy to
remove, as far as possible, the anomalies which have
always been offensive to criticism, and which must
become indefensible the moment the useful results
they secure are attained by better means. The
effect would be to exchange a system of representa-
tion by chance and full of inconsistencies for
another equally, if not more truly, representative
and reasonable in form. We are convinced it is on
every account desirable that Lord Grey's proposal
to take a member 'from each of the boroughs
below 12,000, and give the seats so obtained
to the counties and towns requiring increased
representation, should be adopted. Lord Grey
has, however, other Amendments to follow. If
his first suggestion be carried, lie will ask the
house to group together iome of the smallest
boroughs, and-so acquire-still more seats for distri-
bution. Two of the seats thus obtained he proposes
to reserve for a constituency not lately mentioned,
though it was put forward, for enfranchisement in
the bill of 1854. We mean the Inns of Court ; and
Lord Grey suggests that in this constituency the
cumulative rote should be introduced. The practi-
cal consequence of adopting Lord Grey's suggestion
would be that, as a rule, the ablest lawyer on each
side would sit for the Inns of Court, and the regret
expressed by Lord Russell in his work on Parlia-
mentary reform that Sir Roundell Palmer should
owe his seat to the good offices of the patron of a
nomination borough would cease. As Lord Grey
ha s not yet published any scheme of grouping, we
do not kcow how many seats he proposes to distri-
bute ; but even supposing the method of grouping
were not adopted, be would have ten seats to dis-
pose of besides the two allotted by him to the Inns
of Court, and would thus be able to add a third
member to ten additional constituencies. If we add
these to the four already created by the bill and the
seven previously in existence, we shall have 21 three-
cornered constituencies, in each of which the form

of representing minorities proposed by Lord Cairns
could be introduced. The amendments of Lord Grey
and Lord Cairns naturally supplementing one ano-
ther would thus, if adopted, make no inconsiderable
redistribution bill of themselves ; but even more is
possible. Were the suggestion advanced by Mr.
Knatchbull-Hugessen in the letter we published on
Saturday also adopted, the redistribution scheme of
the bill would be immensely improved. Let the
proposed trisection of counties be abandoned, as
Mr. Hugessea urged, and instead of three divisions
returning two members each, let two divisions be
preserved returning three members each, and the
representation of our great constituencies would
be elevated in dignity and character, and the pro-
blem of redistribution would be effectively solved.
Parliament has . made a rapid advance this ses-
sion, but in nothing has the progress of opinion been
more remarkable than on the question of Redistri-
bution. The first proposals of the Government—
timid as they may now appear to us—were thought
dangerous in their extent at the beginning of the
year, and it is possible that had anything more been
then advanced, the Ministry and Reform would
both have suffered shipwreck. The first proposals
were enlarged, but as the enfranchising clauses be-
came more liberal it was apparent that the Redis-
tribution scheme, although amended, was inade-
quate. And yet it seemed impossible to go any
further. To disfranchise small boroughs, and to
confer additional representatives on large consti-
tuencies by subdividing them, is a process which
must end in destroying the character of the House
of Commons rs the representation of the whOle
nation, and prejudices apparently invincible stand
in the way of adopting methods of voting by which
the inevitable pr9cess. of Redistribution might be
re,ror 4,en ta ti v e
silently. Thedivision in the House of Con.,ffiqN on
the representation of minorities was a surprise to

those who trusted that novel truths, howevt;.;
clear,
must be rejected, because of their novelty. yhe
manifestation of the same opinion in the house of
Lords is a fit sequel to the vote of the House of
Commons. Lord Russell, Lord Grey, and Lord
Cairns are united in recommending the method of
representing the minorities contained in the bill of the
Aberdeen administration, and it is difficult to believe
that such a combination of authority can be with-
stood. It only remains for the Government to
accept, as it should do gladly, the amendment pro-
posed by its ablest supporter. The effect on the
character of the bill of adopting the suggestions of
Lord Grey and Lord Cairns would be, as we have
said, incalculable. Judged by the party results of
the change, its value would indeed be small, but the
atnendments are happily free from party motives.
The bill would be tranformed, purified, completed.
It would no longer be composed of two unequal
parts, the one bold and thoroughgoing, the other
feeble, limited, and provocative of change, bat each
part would correspond to and be complementary of
the other. The whole would be a measure for the
reform of the representation of the people of even
higher value as a work of statemanship than the
Act of 1832, and only less rich in anticipated re-
sults, because the accumulated abuses of misgovern-
ment and unjust legislation have been swept away
in the interval.

TIIE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION.—On the adjourned debate last Wed-
nesday on Trinity College, Dublin, Mr. Goschen
put the following question Why should there
not be a university in Dublin which should repre-
sent, not only the 500,000 Protestants, but the four
millions of Roman Catholics ?" Mr. Monsell's
amendment and the subsequent debates have done
much towards compelling a public and satisfactory
handling of a grievance which, for nearly twenty
years, has been inflicted by successive Governments
on Ireland. Since now, however, it is no longer to
be denied that the principle of mixed education, as
represented in the Queen's University, has been
condemned by the public conscience of Ireland, as
well as by the voice of the Church, no attempt can
hereafter be made on the part of any English Go-
vernment with the slightest chance of conciliating
the people of Ireland which does not include such
a simple act of justice as,the granting of a denomi-
national university education. On the necessity of
a Catholic edudation -in an unmixed university or
college, the bishops of Ireland are unanimous ;
nothing short of this will satisfy Catholic claims.
The principle of denominational education is also
maintained by Mr. Monsell's scheme, which is sup-
ported by Mr. O'Reilly—an able and earnest oppo-
nent of the mixed system pursued in the Queen's
Colleges. But Mr. O'Reilly, as well as Mr. Mon-
sell, is opposed to the establishment of an indepen-
dent Catholic university in Dublin--a plan which the
Government seems inclined to favour, and which
would receive the support of such Liberals as Mr.
Goschen—on the ground that to multiply univer-
sities would tend to lower the standard of educa-
tion. Instead of a Catholic university with a sepa-
rate charter, and the power of granting degrees and
conducting examinations, by a board consisting of
the professors of the university, Mr. O'Reilly would
prefer to see in Ireland one great examining uni-
veraity, where students of all religions might resort
for the purpose of submitting to an examination
before a mixed board. The grounds of this prefer-
ence are chiefly these : that it would promote emu-
lation between the students of the various educational
establishments •, that the tests in such an examining
university would preserve a higher standard of edu-
cation than could be possibly maintained by the esta-
blishment of several rival universities; and, lastly,
that the public prestige attaching to a national
university would be very much greater than that
of a purely and exclusively Catholic university. In
addition to these advantages of an intellectual and
of a social character, the advocates of this scheme,
whose opinions are entitled to no small considera-
tion, contend that the denominational principle is in
no way infringed, inasmuch as the colleges which
are to be affiliated to the university are to be strictly
denominational. As far as literary pre-eminence and
social prestige go, we readily grant that the advan-
tage would lie on the side of a national university,
but we think literary excellence or social distinction
may be too dearly purchased. The superior advan-
tages of an exclusively Catholic university as op 3
posed to a national examining university are, in
our opinion, these : First, that the denominational
principle, the Catholic formation of the mind, is
more likely to be secured in a university whose
tests of intellectual excellence are applied by exclu-
sively Catholic examiners than iu a university whose
course of study is shaped by tests proposed by a
mixed board. Secondly, that a greater intellectual
completeness is arrived at by ; the examinations

being made by the same body which directs the
studies and is in contact with the students. Thirdly,
that a university which educates and confers de-
grees, promotes residence and the college system ;
whereas a mere examining board, like the London
University, encourages mere learning at the expenst.
of college life and university training. And, lastly.
to refer to the actual circumstances of Ireland that
to convert the existing Catholic University of Dub-
lin, instituted by the Pope, into one among a num-
ber of colleges affiliated to a national university,
governed by a mixed board of Protestants and
Catholics empowered by Government to cond'ict
examinations and to confer degrees on all-comers.
would certainly inflict a blow on the uphOlders of
separate and exclusive education, if not •on the
principle of denominational education itself. For
these reasons, even at the .expense of some social
distinction, and of some literary excellence, we
should prefer to see a charter and sufficient endow-
ments conferred on the existing Catholic University
in Dublin, for the excluSive benefit of the Catholics
of Ireland, and Trinity College to remain in the
undisturbed possession of Protestants, whilst they
who are careless of faith and morals, if they are to
be found in sufficient numbers, might still repair
to the godless colleges of the Queen's University.
By such means a university education might be given
to Catholic Ireland in accordance to its religious
principles. By such an act of tardy justice, the
egregious failure of attempting to educate a Catholic
nation on an system _ might, after
years of wasted energies, at last be made good.