New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-18


which be yas nomentary shaken. I'M the Univ Gritty,
closs distinction Of most di-graccl1iy uriis char
sct.r obtains Even in the rsh University in wtoee
cont films nobils IL rarely seen as q rii-
uoceres the Young noble s decorated with the gold
,iu,el 10 the grown and god tasse to the when
marx him as taller deer upon the walk. But ihi-
i rot enough The ord is absou.ely required 10 poe
,e.. but one-hai the brains, aud 20 through onehai
The academic course Of ordinary gownsnen. Ana a.
Oxford even lie obtains bis degree per Saien, "hen
really means without knowing ANYTHING at al. IL l.
rore indeed that even with biz many advantages
Tho ,ouug noble obtains distinction in the wreste With
file ore hardy and vigorous youth no hes to battle
lie rav through life. Oxford il now the stronghold
of or;stocracy "The tempoizing" Of Cambridge in
ns admission Of dissenters having stripped it Of all
H. fashionable prestige. But what Cambridge has
Lost in roth sic has gained in substance For while
Oxford became and is the nursery Of ars;ocracy
and high cburchmen Cambridge is the school in which
tie athletes Of the Law and Phy-ic train and give
visor to their youthful brain. The education Of the
one is refining and classic and Tory; OF the other
brecing and sccntisc, and LIBERAL less the Fine Art
Indeed, ii is strange proof OF the influence Of early
training that in the great battle which resulted IN the
triumph Of Reform and inserted the cud Of the wedge
which is vet to split the trunk OF arstocrGcy the lead
ers OF the Reform army, John Russell, Brou-ham,
PalmeTston, Macaulay, Melbourne, Al;horp, Lans-
downo. and Hobhouseall with tie exception of the
Tarl Of Derby, who has since shown paH OF his early
irrninc, were Cambndgernen-whe the Tory Gen
erals under Peel were all Oxonans, with the vigorous
exception Of Lord Lyndhurst, who, the son Of an
American painter bore away the senior wronglcrshp
at Cambridge, and winning Ike Canning hi early
fame in the debating clubs Of the Temple and Lin
coins lon as fierce Republican, after little while
preferred like him and 80 many other young Romln-,
prudence to patriotism and discounted his principles
into pence.
In Oxford they love error because il il old; in
Cambridge they do not ect truth because it Is ne".
I'm Oxford after Bishop Pottors own heart, they read
Hooker and "Thc Fathers" and dream Of the past.
In Cambridge they study Newton and the ncwspa-
lers, and live more with the present.
Youth IS not season Of moderation either in plea
sure or study; so at Oxford and Cambridge there
two divisons-those who study AMI those who do not
and men range themselves unreservedly under one
the other standard They worship either the deity Of
Work or the maInmon Of Ideness. The many race
on the turf and the river, sup and love, dance,
play and revel, grow mustaches and shave noes get
bosom Of their Alma Mater with FAR deeper knowl-
edge of bills than books
On the other hand, the few who have the wisdom to
cultivate the irrecaimabe opportunities which belong
to the University stage in the journey OF ie Of course
carry away distinctions ard felowshps oil themselves
Of high honor and emolumont, and likewise an intro
duction TO distinction in after hfe The late Sir Rob
ert Peel bore away a double first at Oxford; that
il. first both in science and cGssics-the highest COL
eeiae honor il is possible TO attain. similar great
mental feat was accomplished by Mr.. Gladstone, the
present Chancellor of the Exchequer and admittedly the
ablest member of the House of Commons. TWAS also
achieved by Mr.. Cardwel President of the Board of
Trade--a statesman of high promise and Tepute. We
believe these are the only instances in which such
twofod honors have been won. The Earl of Derby
never attained any distinction at Oxford, or gave in
the Collegiate the smallest promise Of his subsequent
fame in the Parliamentary lists. He vas we'd
naughty and morose and little loved either IN the
forum or the field.
At the University however, seryil;y 10 rank
obtains not alone among the students, but among the
Professors aud Fellows which, if the young astocrat
has not already acquired it, sufficiently arrogant
consciousness of his superoriy is sure TO mpart
Many, however, of the aristocracy never enter
the University but leap fresh from the keeping OF
private tutor, or from Harrow or Eton, into arms.
They never dare 10 venture into the ring Of the Bar Or
physic. where they would have 10 strip and wreso N
something like equal terms, and where the battle mu-
be TO the strong Of brain and heart.
We cannot remember at this moment one solitary
srstocrat in the profession Of the Law with the e1cep-
ton of Mr.. Stuart Woney, the Recorder Of London,
and his practice was entirely confined to the Para-
menary Bar where family influence is the passport to
success. In Physiethe great ody-mending and soul
cheering art-thc eiistocracy cannot show member;
il il despsed An anecdoto Of George ~, when
Prnce-Regcnt and his physician, is too broad to tell
but il shows the contempt of aristocracy for mc-
cal science and justife- the fury 81 Dr. harat
against them during the Reign Of Terror. They all
flock TO the Church and Army, where with rare oIeop-
tons advancement depends not merit, but on III
ieresi They are thus the mcancs Of moral towards.
In tie church the ivings are in the gin OF either the
Chancellor the Bishop or the lord The frst, being
party man. is Influenced Of course by political con-
sdorations The Bishop too is appointed by the IRE
mier and though Lord Melbourne witily remarked,
lie is usually the first se forget his maker where be
dee not nominate from political he always does from
family motives The lord Of course he does not dis
nose Of It to moei some monetary crisis to the
favor nephew, or a cousin, or younger son, who
hunts and shoots and dimes and occasionally mounts
surplice on a Sunday, il he is not in Italy the
Rhine while some poor ourate with hundred Il year
and ten per cent of children does Coils work, and
staryes in doing it, H. England instead of the simple
continuance here they usually hang gorgeous grace
full be-rope behind which is modestly screened plain
and rather worn cord The rope is used only on State
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