The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-10 00:00:00

LONDON.
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1828,

, We are glad to find, from the concurrent tes-
timony of all parties, that the London University
is making rapid head-way against every species of
prejudice and opposition. The infant Hercules
is visible, even in his cradle. Each day adds

something to the growth, something to the in-
telligence, something to the triumph of this
much calumniated Institution ; in the same ratio
that it warms indifference, silencel abuse, and
puts to shame the specious front of envy. In
certain quarters, however, -prejudice yet lingers,
and accordingly, among the staunchest oppo-
nents of the London University; we find that
daily record of fashionable and political absurdity,
the Morning Post, putting forth in its Satur-
day's Paper, the following insidious remark :
" Every intelligent mall in the community must
be friendly to education, but it cannot fail
to be observed, that while education properly di-
rected confers upon man great advantages, its
improper direction will be attended with the most
ruinous consequences, not only in the private re-
lations of society, but in our public duties

towards the state in which we live." The un-
practised reader of this stale sophism would na-
turally be inclined to give its author credit for
sound civil, literary, and religious doctrine :
a more experienced •judgment, however,
would detect in the phrase " education properly
directed," the whole secret—of which it stands

the symbol—of despotism, intolerance, and (tria
juncta in uno) Ultra Toryism. In the voca-
bulary of the Morning Post, " education pro-
perly directed," means neither mote nor less than
the perfection of cant and cunning. It is the
art of falling in with the caprices of one's rulers ;
ofchecking every approach, however distant, to
a rational, a manly independence ; of annihilating
freedom of thought and action ; of keeping up
the long wolfish howl of " No Popery ;" of leer-
ingmalignantly, like Satan in the garden of Eden,
with one eye, while the tears of affected com-
miseration are wiped away with the other ; in a
word, of making as close an advance as possible
towards a moral, a religious, a political, and an
',s
intellectual ycophancy.
Such is the " properly directed education" of
the Morning Post. The London University
(honour to its name !) sets out on a far different
principle. Its main object is
the promotion of
knowledge
the middle and lower
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climes; its
among
highest
generous,
inculcates submission to the laws, whether
of
religious or civil policy ; but it inculcates also
the doctrine that man is a thinking being, and
that consequently it is not to Protestants alone,
that the faculties of enlightened reflection, are
restricted. Which of these two, viz. the Morn-
ing 'Post and the London University, are correct
in their notions of a " properly directed educa-
tion ;" we leave the unbiassed.'reader to deter-

mine. " Utrum marls, accipe."

The French Papers have hula fresh definite
intelligence. The Gazette de France, in an
express received from Vienna, states, that the
Imperial Prince had been wounded while on a
hunting. party,, together with one or two of his
suite, by a random shot from one of his attend-
ants ; luckily the wound was not dangerous. A
despatch from Constantinople, inserted in O.