The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

rrIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

UN,LVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

FoRD, MAY 23.—0 n Wednesday, July 4, an electiob will
take place at.Univorsity-Colteg,e, to fill a vacant fellowship on
the foundation of King Henry IV. This fellowship is open to
all members of the university, with preference to natives of the
diocese of York or Durham. The fellows on this foundation
are required to take orders before they can be admitted actual
fellows.

The examination will begin on Saturday, Jnne 30. Certifi-
cates of baptism, place of birth, and testimonials of good con-
duct, to be presented to the master on or before Tuesday, June
26.

There will be an election at Exeter College, on Saturday,
June 30, to fill a vacant fellowship, open to natives of the fol-
lowing counties:—Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Oxford, Essex,
Norfolk, Suffolk, Middlesex, Hants, and Kent. Certificates,
by affidavit of birth, within the counties mentioned, with the
usual testimonials, must be produced to the rector on or before
Saturday, June 23. Candidates, to be eligible, must be of the
standing of senior sophist.
Dr. Ogle of Trinity College, and Dr. Dauheny of Magdalen
College, have been appointed examiners of candidates for medi-
cal degrees.
Messrs. Paul, Buller, and W. B. Tritton, have been elected,
from Westminster School, students of Christ Church.

THE "BAUBLE.

' ( From the Morning Herald.)
11 Take away that Bauble !"—OLD Nom

C. W. W. Fitzwilliam, commonly called Ear! Fitzwilliam,
having in his place in the House of Lords on Monday night
bravely and publicly denounced the ceremony of the coronation
of the Queen of England as AN IDLE AND RIDICULOU*
PA-
GEANT," inasmuch as "in these present days of refinement no
one attaches any importance to the bauble being placed upon
the Sovereign's brow,"—we, the Round-heads and Ranters of
these realms do hereby return our especial thanks to the said
C. W. W. Fitzwilliam for his courageous denunciation thereof;
and we congratulate him more especially for having had the
courage to show his utter contempt of what are called the laws
of gallantry, by waiting till the occasion of a female sovereign
before he said a word against coronations. It is to be hoped that
her Majesty will feel much obliged to him, and will at once sub-
herself and all her doings to the guidance of C. W. W. Fitzwil-
liam's superior wisdom ; and that he will eventually have the
glory of leading back the government and the people to the
beautiful simplicity observed at the time of the Commonwealth,
when the shining lights and leaders of that enlightenedera did—
Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage
Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge—
Fat pig, and goose itself oppose
And blaspheme custard through the nose !

But at the same time that we give our especial thanks to the
said W. Fitzwilliam for his valiant attack upon the young wo-
man who is called the Queen, and for his earnest endeavour to
deprive her of all the pumps and vanities of this wicked world,
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that he himself retaineth in
his own person a pretty considerable disreputable portion of the
said pumps and vanities. For instance, he calleth himself
"Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam—Earl Fitzwilliam
in Ireland, Viscount Milton, and D.C,L., of Wentworth-house,
Yorkshire; of Milton-park, Northamptonshire; of Coolatin,
in Ireland; and of Grosvenor-place, in London. What need
hath he of all these names and idle titles ?—what need bath he
of such strings of lacqueys in gaudy lace-beplastered liveries and
powdered polls ?—what need bath he of so many mansions, and
of a 11 the vain baubles with which his gilded saloons are cratnm'd ?
—what need hath he of those mantles, and shields, and horse-
shoe-swallowing ostriches, and plumed crests emblazoned on
the panels of his glittering coaches in all the pride of barbarous
heraldry ?—What need hath he of those crimson robes "pow-
dered with miniver" and " barr'd with ermine" in which he
arraveth himself on high days and holidays?'—and lastly, what
need bath he of that bauble coronet which he sometimes tries to
balance on the top of his head at the expense of a terrible head-
ache? Does he think his loyalty is added to by his display of
these vanities? Not a bit of it ! He is not one jot more loyal
than he would be if he had not a sixpence to bless himself with.
Does he think "in these present days of refinement" that any
one " attaches importance" to his strings and bis titles, his
gold lace and his worsted lace, to his miniver and his ermine
and his iron-eating ostriches, and his bauble coronet? Not a
bit of it! People know that "loveliness needs not the foreign
aid of ornament," and nobody thinks him one jot the hand-
somer for all these things.
Let him abandon them. Let him—remembering that exam-
ple is better than precept—set the young Queen a practical ex-
ample; let him trample his own bauble under foot; let him
send his robes to Rag Fait; let hint mop out with good coal tar
the heraldic emblazonings from the panels of his carriages, let
him unlace his lacqueys,—let him in short, like good old Lear
in the thunderstorm, lay hold of his last new satin waistcoat
with the greatest energy imaginable and exclaim, " Off, off,
you !endings! come, unbutton here!" and then having thus
laudably reduced himself to that bare radish-like animal—an
unaccommodated man and plain Mr. Fitzwilliam, he may coil;
sistently clamour against the pomps and vanities of a coronation.