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

e fought in the Registration

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

ing to the requisite preliminaries, 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 July will be the last 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
list, and have since changed their qualification. er

place of abode, should also send in a claim.
The 20th of July will also be the last day for
paying Assessed Tales and Poor Rates, due on•the
the sth of January, in order to qualify Borough
Electors.

The 31st of July will be Ike 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 negleet these obvious
duties, if they hope to preserve their majority, and
win the next election as they did the last.

THE DISSENTERS AWD THE

UNIVERSITIES

THE House of Commons, on Thursday, assented
to the elause in the -Oxford -University Reform Bill,
whieh it had previouely rejected, for the admission
of lAssepters, 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 tem' prising—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 Universities. '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 or 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 mem-
bers of the Church of England. They exclusively
belong to the. Church, and any interference of Par-
liament could only be justified on the nee

....essfty, of

some legal enactment to sanction the University
authorities in making such alterations in their own
statutes 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' show 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—
mons, with its strong infusiOn of Romanists, Dis-
senters, and Infidels, represents the Universities or
the Church of England. It may turn out, how-

ever, that in going thus far the Governme

defeated their object ; for if the Ho

dcnce which

entertained in their piet