The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATION,

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Constitution is to

przotten that the battle of t

ght in the

Courts, and as the time is now at hand for atte

g to the req.

~relimina:

es, it is the duty of

every man entitled to the franchise to see that he
is not deprived of it -through his own neglect
The 20th of 3nly will be the 1

Ist day for sending
in claims for voting in counties. Every one entitled
to be on the register, .and is not so now, should
'send in a claim ; and ,those who were on last year's
Bee, and have since changed their qualification or
place of abode, should also send in a claim.

The 20th of July will also be the last day for
paying Assessed Taxes and Poor Rates, due on the
the sth of January, in order to qualify Borough
Electors.

The 31st of July will be :the last day for Over-
seers to make out lists of County and Borough
Electors to be affixed to the Church doors, which
every man should examine, not only to see that his
own name is correctly inserted, but to object to
those improperly placed there,

Conservatives should not neglect these obvious
duties, if fiey hope to preserve their majority, and
win the next election as' they did the last.

THE DISSENTERS AND THE
UNIVERSITIES.

THE House of Commons, on Thursday, assented
to the clause in the Oxford University Reform Bill,
which it had previously rejected, for the admission
of Dissenters, the mover receiving the support of
the Government, having modified the clause so as
to confine the privilege, as far as Dissenters are
concerned, to the degree of bachelor in arts, law,
medicine, or music, thereby excluding theology.
This is at best a mere temporising—an insertion
of the thin edge of the wedge, with the ulterior
object of making it a stepping-stone to further
concessions. The Dissenters have not a shadow of
right to any of the advantages to be derived from
the rniVersities. _ They never contributed one
farthing towards their endowment or support, and
their admission is the act of a tyrant majority of
the-House of Commons, totally opposed to every
sense of justice of right. So far from Dissenters
being permitted to share in the education afforded
at Oxford and Cambridge, those institutions were
founded with the express object of opposing all

forms of dissent and heresy,.by training up me

hers of the Church of England. They exclusiveb
belong to the Church, and any interf&ence of Par-
liament could only be justified on the nee(
some legal enactment to sanction the University
authorities in making such alterations in their own
atatutes as the progress of time and change of
circumstances had rendered necessary or advisable.
In every other respect the interference is an act of
tyranny which might, with equal' s

s.t.ity of

.ow of justice

exercise a control over the disposition of any man's
private property, which could only be done with
his own consent or by his representatives ; and it
would be folly to contend that the House of Com-

nons, with its Stioniinfusion of Romanists,:Dis-
enters, and Infidels, represents the Universities or

the Church of England.- It

ever, that in going thus far the "Gover

dence which

KNIMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

;rs. of tl

will either

Church of. England to have any sl
in University educe

Lord JOHN

RUSSELL elaimedgreatereclit to himself as a Chum

for opposing the first clause, b;

admitted t

ce c:
the s

shown how little relia

essions by con(

.coed clans

was left in a minority on the first

which Dis-

The same want

of sincerity in the Government is evident in their
refusal to proceed with the Colonial Clergy Disa-
bilities Bill, and we would caution Churchmen
against placing the slightest re
terial professions of rezarl

liance on any minis-

rch, if in the slightest deg

of their own polit;

scat manceu