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London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIYX.lno'-'-i-::,,, -76 ~,,"
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SlD,—llappening to see to-day in your paper pf Slay. ci, :, -
day your leader on the proposed chance is the tonstkehe
tion of the University of London, I cannot let it pass
without remonstrance. Toe sulj±ct is one which much:
interests me, and I take quite the opposite view of it t e
you. lam not a graduate of the University, but am a
proprietor of Univi rsity Cel:ege ; and I hold that both
such graduates and such proprietors would be graciously
and unjustly injured if the now charter, as proposed by
the Senate, should become law. The Senate may have
specious reasoning and pseudo-liberalism to commend tl 0
course they are taking, but, Sir, justice and common
fairness should have greater weight than these. To me
the unfairness, and, I would add, fraud (I trust not in-
tentional), involved in the admitting any to graduate who
can pass the examination whether they have studied in
any college or not, is more like the loose commercial
morality, and, to coin a word, British Bankism, that hag
'ately cursed this our country, than the fair dealing of
honourable a! enlightened men. If not an actual, I
eold that there was an implied,-contract with the pi esent
graduates that by no act of that Senate—which should
have been the last to impair privilegesthzoul ,wsiy have, which,
their appointed guardians, Vley
s d j al ,u 'avaes
protected shoul I the value of their hare'-earned
degrees be lessened in value, at least without the
consent of the graduates themselves/. Thie coarse must
thus deteriorate the degrees, and not of this university
aelv, but of all, which have hitherto been the outward
and visible sign of a man's having for a certain portion of
eis life been ',ejected to the discipline and iefluenc,s of
:a course of collegiate, training, and of having wade a pro-
oer use of his time and opportun,tiee during that period.
Now, if this scheme be !ath- el, the possession of a de-
gree will be utterly valueless as a proof of this, since it
eill cease to be a mark of such a training of which it has
hitherto been the recognised exponent, and will denote
only a certain amount 4 proficiency iii knowledge.,
vhich may he " crammed " into a roan with but li tie
discipline of any faculty of the mind but memory, to be
'orgotten a,ein when it has served its temporary pur-
pose. So much for the injury the proposal would inflict
on graduates, and the dishonesty (for things should be
called by their right names), of ouch a measure. Now,
for one more impeachment of the Senate of the Univer- •
sity of London, and I have done, though I could write
—even to weariness—on this, as it seems to ins, iniquity.
I accuse them also of gross indelicacy, because if such
a change as this be contemplated, it should, at all
events, be left for the graduates themselves to decide on
vhom they shall leave the management of their own
university, as, after years of struggling for what ought
to have been granted to them as soon as they were
numerous- enough to'form a body large enough to elect a
senate from theinselvee, they are now about to have.
'say what they may, the present senats are, by the very
nature of a university, but the locum tenens during their
minority, of those who now have reached the estate of
managing for themseltns : it is now as unreasonable for
them to rule what should be a self-governing body, as for
a municipality to have its corporate. officers chosen from
-some other town. What, then, can be more indelicate
than the conduct of the senate 1 For myself, it seems,
on the face of it, to admit of but one interpretation, that
the sena e enamoured, I know not why, of their brief au-
thority, resisted as long as they could the reasonable claim
if the graduates to assume their own ; and when they
found they could do so no l finger, they resolved to yield,
ruining what they give up, like a spoiled child who only
-.offers a toy to be wrested from its grasp by dashing it
to pieces as it gives it up. I only hope that these gen-
tlemen have been actuated by worthier motives, but this
is the app,xtrance of it. .
Requesting the insertion of this as an act of justice,
I am, Sir, yours,
A SEEKER FOR JUSTICE.
August 17, 1857.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

70 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Milan, Aug. 13, 1857.
Sin, —Baffi3d by the Tuscan Government in hi 4 at-

tempts to carry off the beautiful Dominic) Ghirlandino,
which belonged to the church of the Ca'ra, but which
now is safe in the Galeria degl " Le Chevalier"
Eastlake retaliated, in October, 1855, by purchasing, in
a very " speculative" state, as an undoubted B ticelli,
a picture from one Brown, at Florence, for 3311. 13s.
On this occasion the Tuscan Government did not cim-
pete. The work in question though purchased all bet
two years ago, is still concealed frcin the It is
en route "for Ireland." A 4 p. 33 of Estimates, 55.,?.,
Civil Service-, for the year ending 31st March, 1853,
" in Eastlake's report of pictures purchased prior t9itie74
31st of Ilf arch, 1856,7 I.:find if averred of this inchoate
Ilibernian gem, that, together with a Cosimo
it " had been planed in the hands of Signor Ugo Baldi,
in Florence, for the purpose of bein4 repaired ;" that,
"is consequence of Ikea artist s occupations, a t welvemonth
elap,ed before one of the pictures—that by Cosimo Rle-
selli—vva6 pronounced to be completed ;" and that,
"under these circumstances, both pictures were directed
to be sent to E ,gland, where the remaining restorations
(those of the Botticedi) that may be requisite will in due
time he undertaken."
The occupations of Sig. Ugo Ba' di are here deliberately
given out to be the reason for his not having restored
the " B)tticeih." This is un ru3. Signor' Ugo Btlii
declined to restore this " Bottice;li," because he consi-
dered it spurious, and moreover so dilapidated and
daubed over, as that no respectable restorer coal,
without .loss of credit, undertake the operation ; an
opinion shared by all in Florence who are acquainted
with theputures. Signor Ugo Baldi informed ins that
he had stated this opinion to the " Chevalier" Eastlake
himself, and he several times repeated it to me; inva-
riably adding, " quel Bott.celli cosi detto del Brown, 6, a
dir la verita, un 'acquisto che fu un po'di vergogna, e
bisogna auche aggiungere, che mos.:ra poco capacity,"
(that Bottice'li so-called of Brown is, to say the truth, a
purchase which is somewhat of a disgrace, and, one
mast also add, which shows little, capacity.) Signor Ugo
took off "un po'di vernice '—u little of the varnish
—and then gave the " Botticelli" up as a bad job—" un
.cattivo affare."

I challenge the production of this Eastlake-Brown
Botticalli from its hiding hole, the " Ruinpel Kimmer,"
silica all must now be German—of Trafalgar Square,
" before the remaining restorations that may be regli-
site" may be attempted ; that the public may determine
which tallies with Truth, my statement, oz. the report of
Lord Elcho's " thorou4h gentleman," and thus he ena-
bled to appreciate the "candour and inanline=s" with
which, according to the ethics of Air. William Stirling.
Le " Chevalier" Eastlake " ackno sledges a mistake."
I am, Yours obediently,
MORRIS MOORE.

THE INDIAN AMIY.

Colonel E. Napier, in writing to a c)ntemporary,

says :

"There can be but one opinion, that when we shall
again have conquered India its native army must be
entirely remodelled, and composed of very different
materials from those of which it has been formed up to
the present time.

" D, arty-bought experience has proved the necessity of
having in that country a far greater body of English
soldiers than the parsimony of the Hon. East India Com-
pany has biteerto allowed ; but the climate alone of
India will prevent our being able to maintain a footing
there without the co-operation of coloured troops.
Neither indigenous Hindoos nor Mahoinmedans are ap-
parently to be trusted. Arabs might, it is true, be sub-
sidised, but they would prove troublesome customers.
Negro regiments could be raised for Indian service in
the West Indies or the Western Coast of Africa, but
(suppw,ing always that we could induce them to " take
the shilling" and to expatriate themselves for a certain
length of time) there are no troops of that description
who would he found more efficient than the Kaffir,, or
even the Fingoes of our o,,sn settlements in Southern
Africa ; 8,000 or 10,000 of these fine stalwart fellows,
drilled as light infantry and properly commanded,
would be a match for " lakbs" of Asiatics ; heat,
fatigue, privation, and danger they would set at naught,
and could sufficient induc.tnents be only held out to
tempt a few thousands of them to cross the "great
water," they would not only do good service in Hindog-
tau, but relieve the colonists of our eastern provinces at
the Cape from as many slippery and troublesomec..
neighbours. Southern Africa also supaPulY,eer forl
lent coloured cavalry ; few bodies ofeffih ocri:entc
than our
desoltory or irregular warfare,
gallant " Cape Mounted
welloti d
adapted
pc
to
end-
(,),rce hi, fly composed of
d whose light weight would
con-
gers a ,
Hottentots, to whom a tropical climate
See
horses iu the Bast what good
to t he small breed of
d d
us wars, hent 1 epen upon it
in our numero •
Kaffir
cer --ice these sturdy little fellows ave always performed
good service would they render on the now
equa 1f of Hindostan."
blood-stained plains

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY FIRE._
During last night and this morning a fire happened on
the pjrewises belonging to Dlr. Alfred Cross, an oil,
colour, and Italian warehouqeman, carrying on business
at No. 9, Sr. Peter-street, Wharf-road, City-road. The
premises were of considerable extent, and were stored
with a costly stock of goods.—Another fire al, o happened
in the Clapham•road, which was attended with the de-
,truction of two or three rooms belonging to Mr. Tacker.
the inmates were ad rescued, but the damages are
expected to amount to nearly 2 0001.
[ADVERT ISEMENT. I—Among the numerous extraordinary
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Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaint,-!arryn,s
Nstlima, Consumption, and Debility, effected
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Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Walt
1,, Miss Elizabeth
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cure
cure of extreme nervousuess, indigestion , gatillarrin,,
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Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool:vouas irritability." Curo
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In canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d.51b,
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againstChancel-
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for Sir William Page Wood granted au Injunction on the
10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating
'Du 13arry'e Rov4euta Arabica FOOd." the