The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-18 00:00:00

a turn more favourable for the operations of those
who would introduce amendments in the regula-
tions of the two great academical bodies. People
appear to be at the present time aroused to the
necessity for some inquiry into the application of
funds which were left by pious and patriotic be-
nefactors for the advancement of religion and
science, and in very many instances for the pro-
secution of these most commendable purposes by
eliciting indigent merit.
The expense of an education at either Oarn-
bridge or Oxford has of late years been far too
high to admit of any but those in com-
paratively easy circumstances sending
.their
sons to those institutions. But they are
considered as national seminaries. How
can this character rightly accrue to them when
such obstacles exist to their realising the pur-
poses which so comprehensive a title suggests ?
The lowest annual expense at which a young man
can pass through either of our Universities we
should fix at 1501. This we consider is the
lowest estimate which can be formed for an
undergraduate's expenses. These expenses usually
are much higher. We all know the force of a
spirit of emulation upon the actions of men. In
youth the same feeling has influence, and there
is far less discrimination to direct it into proper
channels—a feeling which, if properly fostered,
in after years assumes a liberal and most praise-
worthy bent, directing frequently to the accom-
plishment of purposes highly beneficial to man-
kind, in youth is liable to be perverted to a thou-
sand purposes injurious alike to society and the in-
dividual. Hence we have young men of high birth,
excellent capacity, and with ihigh-spirited but
misdirected natures, applying all their energies
to perfection in tandem driving, pigeon shooting.
,jockey ship, and other employments,' which, at
least, are inconsistent with the scope of a liberal
and intellectual education.

How much of the tendency to extravagance on
the part of the upper classes of society in this
country is attributable to the habits of profligacy
and folly nurtured under the present system of
University education ! Is not a cheaper system
of instruction—a system which might develop
the eleemosynary resources of our colleges, and
attract poor but enterprising scholars to their
foundations—compatible with a course of study
as efficient:as, if not superior to, the course which
is now adopted? In the Scotch and German
Universities the expenses are, in many instances,
not one-fourth part of what they are at Cam-
bridge and Oxford, and yet these bodies have
furnished their full quota to the stock of learned,
wise, and pious men.
It would be well if sizarships, servitorships,
and bible clerkships were more numerous and
better endowed than they now are. It ought to
be within a young man's power to live on the
emoluments which these situations produce,
instead of being obliged, as is at present the
case, to draw largely upon the already shat-
tered resources of the paternal purse for main-
tenance during his college residence. In former
times these:endowments did greatgood,by:eliciting
obscure and indigent merit, and by providing a
maintenance for those who, in after-life, occupied
distinguished posts in various departments of
Church and State. In later days like/results,
though of a disproportioned extent,l have fol-
lowed. 'Why should not amendments be intro-
, duced which might restore the utility of our
collegiate establishments, infuse into them fresh
and highly needed vigour; rendering them, as
they ought to be, as they still may become,
seminaries of a national, comprehensive, and un-
sectarian character, the boast of England, splen-
did evidences of the intelligence, the opulence,
and grandeur of our countrymen, and :the means
of handing down the lamp of philosophy with
undiminished, and still accumulating splendour,
to those who come hereafter in the course of
scientific research ?

Madrid journals of the 10th have been received,
but they bring no news. The City elections still
continued in favour of the Progresista candidates,
the highest of whom on the list had 928 votes, while
the highest on the other side had only 589.
On the 10th the Three per Cents. were done at
25ik, for cash, and 2.5 i sa 60 days, and the Five per
Cents. at 19 at 60 days.

The Paris papers of the 16th are almost entirely
occupied with the debate on the address, and the
pilgrimage of the Legitimatists to London. The
speech of M. BERRYEII, in defence of himself and his
colleagues, is generally admitted to be a great
failure. M. GUIZOT took advantage of his weakness,
and made a most impressive speech. The Constitu
tionnel admits its great ability, and the weakness
of M. BERRYER'S oration. The Journal des Debats
says of it—" The man has failed, and the cause is lost."
Much business was done on the Bourse on Tuesday,
with a considerable rise in the Funds. The Three
per Cents. closed at 83 ; the Five per Cents. at 125-10 ;
Orleans Railroad Shares at 861-25; Rouen, 842-50;
Avignon, 678-75; Havre, 652-60; Spanish Active, 30

In the Number of the Edinburgh Review (CLIX.)
which has just come out, we find a remarkable con-
firmation of the views announced in the article we
publish to-day on the subject of the " Oregon Terri-
tory." It occirs in an able paper on Captain Sir
Edward Belcher's "Voyage, Round the World, per-
formed bySulphur, during the
yearslB36—h4e2r. Majesty(London,shiplB43.),,
The passages to
which we would direct the readers' attention are
these : (The Reviewer has been quoting a dispatch
from the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, repudiating
a sort of compulsory cession which had been
made of the Provisional Government of the Sand-
wich
extraordinary Greatlslandsordin
ar yb y
Britain,theQueen, Pomare, to the Queen
in consequence of certain
proceedings of Captain Lord George
Paulet, in her Majesty's ship Carysfort :)—" This
sound doctrine, moral as well as political . . .
may also serve to abatis the furious attacks of our
transatlantic brethren fon this occasion, who, in no
measured terms of accuse, abuse the British Govern-
ment of an all-grasping disposition to plant colonies
in every part of the world. If priority of discovery
authorised possession—which, alone, it does not ; but
if cession of territory, made by legitimate authority,
sanctions possession, which it does—then the Sand-
wich Islands might, long ago, have been annexed to
the British Crown—a furmal cession of them having
been made to the King of Great Britain, in considera-
tion of services rendered by Captain Vancouver.
But supposing the charge of all-grasping to
be true, what prevented us from establishing colo-
nies in every part of the Pacific, and on the
northern and western coasts of America Y Instead of
which, what did we do ? We gave up Nootka Sound
and its islands, which were ceded to us by Spain. We
left the Falkland Islands a derelict on the ocean, also
ceded to us by thatlPower." . . . "But the Ame-
ricans are the last people in the world who should ac-
cuse us of a grasping disposition to seize upon new
acquisitions of territory." . . . "It is somewhat
whimsical, and augurs no great share of moderation
or modesty, that a nation brought into existence only
about half a century ago, and which by its grasping
propensities' has swallowed up nearly the half of a vast
continent, and will not be satisfied until she has got the
whole,—so that its two shores may be washed by the
Atlantic on one side and by the Pacific on the other,
—that such a nation should talk of the grasping pro
pensity of others."

CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY.)
John Battens, a notorious thief, was charged with breaking
into the stable of Mr. William Henry Cook, a linen-draper, re-
siding in High-street, Islington, and stealing therefrom a
quantity of carriage-harness,, whips, umberellas, and other
property.
It appeared, from the evidence' that, on Tuesday night last,
the prisoner get upon the roof of the stables, and, by removing
the tiles, effected an entrance- into the loft, in which the har-
ness, &c., were deposited. H.e carried the property down to a
public-house in the New-road. where he was arrested by police-
constable Wright, of the N division, whilst endeavouring to sell
it to another person.
Mr. Cottur committed thin prisoner for trial.
young mechanic, named. Albert Jones, was charged with
assaulting police-constable 179 G.
The prisoner was creating a disturbance in Coppice-row en
the previous night. The officers attempted to remove him,
but the prisoner attacked the complainant in a very savage
manner, and endeavoured to _force his eye out with his thumb.
He did not succeed, but very much hurt the organ, and dis-
figured the flesh about it.
. .

—The prisoner was fined 15s. The fine not being forthcoming,
he was committed for sevon day..

REVIVAL OF TRADE JIT STOCKPORT.--We hear
that arrangements have been 3nade for the working of one of
the cotton-mills last occupied by Messrs. Lane and Sons, in
Higher Hillgate, and which hats now been standing about four
years, and that it is likely to commence operations very shortly.
An extensive firm, at presmit carrying on business in the
borough, are named as the benants. We are also informed
that the premises eight years ago occupied by Messrs.
Christy, opposite St. Tilt:lmo:es Church, Higher Hillgate,
have been purchased by a cottoxi-merchant, with the intention
of commencing some description of work therein.--Manchester
Guardian.