Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-06-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE NEW TEST. (From the Manchester Examiner.)  Lord Robert Cecil, who is the foremost apostle of the aew, or rather we should say the old faith, puts the form Is of the faithful in this shape. 'The Church of the " present day," he says "is an established Church, and a man cannot be a ge:cid supporter of the Church unless he is a supporter of the Established Church, and he cannot be a good supporter of the Established Church unless he is a good Conservative." This is a new test, which, unless a man believe faithfully, ho cannot be admitted into Oxford. Are you a good Consert ative— by which is meant a strong Censervative— then you are a god Churchman. Art you a geed Churchman—by which is meant a good Conservative—then you are a Christian. Here is a short and simple code of Chris ian murals. Away with all tests but this one. Lei laws and learning, arts and knowledge, ay. and virtue. and piety too, die, but leave us still our good Churchmanship —our sound Coeversatism—stid our Christani ey is safely housed within the sacred ark of Oxtord. Of such stuff is the opposition made to one of the most moderate, and perhaps the least liberal, of all the recent measures intended to loosen the bigoted orthodoxy of former days. The opponents of the Abolition of Tests Bill argue, with a strange blindness to facts, that it would create discord in the university, introduce new doctrines, and would muddle the pure stream of orthodoxy. Why, from whence have issued those fierce theological controversies of late years, but from Oxford? Whence come the " Essays and Reviews? whence the heresies of the Savilian professor, whence the struggle over the orthodoxy of a distinguished Greek scholar ? Is it for this house, divided against itself, ti plume itself on being the stronghold• of the faith ? Is it for this place, which bar given birth to the most rampant heresy and schism, to prids itself on the result of its orth erleex teaching ? The opponents of the bill, again, mistake the cha.acter of a natiosal university. When it suits their puppet., they argue that the university belongs to the nation ; but when it is retorted, that it should therfore be open to the nation, they reply that it is only the nation as represented by the Established Church. They urge that Nonconformist colleges apply tests to their students ; but they forget that these institutions are founded by private means and are kept up by private resource& We never hear the name of Cuddesden or St. Augustine's mentioned in the controversy, for the simple rea,on that they are essentially church seminaries, and the public has no right to interfere with them. They may teach what they like in these establishment*.  Ihol&I  An important meeting of members of the Universities and others interested in tile question of University Reform was held on Friday afternoon at the Freemasons"favern, Mr Bouverie, M.P., in the chair Tne House of Comm •ns was well represented, and Messrs Neste, Gosehen, Chichester Furtescue. and Bright, spoke. Professors G Idwin Smith, Jewett, and Rogers, represented Oxford, and Professor Fawcett spoke fir Cambridge. Besides et:ier distinguished members of both Universities, Messrs. iall and other representative Dissenters were present. The meeting was clearly in favour of the abolition of tests, and of placing Dissenters on a thorough *quality with Churchmen For the present, Professor Fawoett tliceight the Cambridge test, a simple assertion ot Church membership, pteh•rable to aubseriptior to the Article*. P• °lessor Jowett, on the other hand, maintaining that old fett •re wet. • more easily worn than new. He added that he was not one of those who wished to lure Dissenters to the Uni%ersities in the hope that they would become Chip chmen, but looked for grea, mutual benefits to Church and Dissidit from their free admission. The composition and tone of the meeting was all that good Liberals could wish.  The Prussian Government is trying hard ti abolish the sixth commandment. Not eiontent with ordering its soldiery to hill imitfeneive Danes, it dismisses them for want of readiness to kill each other. Three brothers, the Counts of Schinisieg K rtfenbrook, described as ex. cellent officers, expressed an opinion against duelling as forbidden by the Church to which they belonged undit pain of excommunication. Their Colonel asked if they would accept a ir.allenge, and the eldest replied that he would not, wheteupon the three were dismissed the service by Royal older avowedly last they should compro-111180 the regiment. The scandal is the greater because Frederick the Gieat decided that duelling was contrary to the discipline of toe service, and there is a savage order of his extant under which the survivor was to be summarily hanged, and which for pars suppressed the /pectic°. Napoleon limit d it in the French army, but it has grown under his nephew to a height which actually interferes with regimental efficiency.  M. de Flotow, brother to the eminent composer of 0 Marta," committed suicide last week at his oountry seat Friedrichswald, ar Blankenberg, Prone°. He was rich, and in the prime of life. A despatch from the British Minister, at Dresdea points out the expediency, and in some cases the necessity, of British surject, travelling in Germany being pro. Tided with passports