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    what cynics would call a very natural hatred of a benefactor . Macpliail is a man of law -and ; business -the Committee seem to fight shy of -him in both ' capacities . He objects to divest the donor of the legal estate until somebody is legally entitled to receive it , Their aim is to do their will with I ) odd ' s own , and that speedily . Macphail Juotes from Sir T . K . Shuttleworth that 800 , 000 / . of charitable income is annually misappropriated . He has heard Mr . Webster lecture admirably upon Alleyne ' s charity . He has also read Mr . Charles Dickens ' s ceiisures of the Literary Fund . He may Guild of Litera

    have heard , perhaps , of the famous - ture and its supposed occult hoard . He may chance to have heard whispers that for want of foresight the Covent Garden tfund may some day be without a claimant . He knows the old proverbs about the souls of corporations , " a stitch in time " and " shutting the stable-door , " he therefore wishes to provide a wholesome check upon future managers , and urges his' fellow-labourers "to perform their duty of properly constituting the institution , at present , for all real and business purposes , a nonentity . " But themore wisely he ; charms the more deaf are the provisional cominitteemen wlio strut and fret their hour at the board in

    Bedfordstreet . The inore he concedes and advises , the more they demand unconditional surrender— -the more discourteously , not to say insultingly , do they flout his counsel . Forgetful that if they have not power to concede such a reasonable and trifling stipulation as the publicity of the charity accounts , they can hardly be judged competent to the grayer function of holding lands , they imperiously demand the conveyance , the whole conveyance , and nothing but the conveyance . " They will have the bond . " Their souls abhor conditions .

    They advance no argument ( according to the Dodd version ) agaiust the course j ^ r . Macpliail recommends , iior will they hear any in its favour . Both parties being thus at a dead-lock , the secretary at last presents a moral pistol at the head of Henry Dpdd by way of denoument , and the piece ends , as the Provisional Committee resolve to " cut ?* and otherwise ignominionsly entreat the good Samaritan who ipst enabled , them to grasp their brief authority , and whom , six months ago , they joined all generous minds in delighting to honour . But

    the repetition of the farce is not to be permitted , though it has singularly enough brought money to the treasury . Subscribers have . doubled their gifts , offers of eligible land have been received , but the necessity of saving the society from its friends has already been recognised . Mr . Theodore Martin , learned in the law , has prescribed a course which practically admits the propriety of the position taken by Mr . Dodd , and more than justifies Mr . Macphail . He moved ? vt the meeting on Wednesday " that the committee be authorised ( L e . ordered ) to take all steps , and consider and determine on all provisions ana regulations necessary for the

    establishment and future management of the college , and , if deemed expedient ; , to apply to her Majesty for a Royal charter of incorporation . " Tins looks much more like business . During the Committee ' s quarrelsome flirtation with Mr . Dodd , their perverse adhesion to an inchoate state effectually counteracted that gentleman's good intentions . In treating for laud with their now friends , their inability to deal with real property may , perhaps , no lpngqr impede their action ; ana let us hope , for the sjikc of those whom it is proposed to benetit , as \ xq \\ as for the avoidance of scandal , that the course of the now love may run more smoothly "than did that of the old . But unless the tempestuous officials can

    stoop to meet the advances and possibly innocent orotchots of Mr . Moore and Mr , Moore ' s lnwyor ( who , unless they have indeed " caught a lint , " will transpire by-nnd-bv ) with a bettor grnco than they did those of Messrs . Dodd and Maophail , the acquisition of the Gerard ' s Cross estate , the ostubushinent of the collogo , the general happiness of tho characters , and tho call for the managers , will bo further oft" in six months' time than it is to-day . A word of warning to the subscribers oro wo loavc tho topic . It bodes no more good to a charitable than , to a cominoroiul association that tho oarliest demonstration of fys muu , aging body should bo so markedly directed against responsibility .

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    Oxfoiu ) anp Cambkidce . —A question has lately agitated the dous of both the Universities -which will afford uuta to crnck to tho stern critics of those learned bodies who assume the duty of supervising their morals in tho London press—how far graduates , and especially Masters of Arts , are subject to the regulations of University police ? This knotty point has seriously boon taken in band at Cambridge , and the result was that by the vote of a majority of tho Senate , a now tribunal was erected for tho purpose of taking cognisance of offences committed by Masters of Arts . This tribunal , which is called the Sox Yiri , consists of six men chosen from among tho most distinguished and influential of the resident members of tho University . They have power

    to call before them any member , and inquire into any matter wherewith ho may bo charged ; and tUoir power extends not only to reprimand and rustication , but oven , wo believe , in extreme oases , to expulsion from tho University , They could not , of course , deprive a Follow of his Fellowship without tho consent of his College ; but it is difficult to boliovo that any Combination-room would support one of its tenants in an oO'euco so flagrant as to call for such a aontenco from tho Sox Viri . Already , wo believe , has tho power of this now body boon felt in more than ono quarter , and opinion is very much

    divided at Cambridge as to its continuance , At Oxford , too , tho question has come to an issue oven in a more dollnito form . It appears that Messrs . John Parkinson and CSeorgo Mallory , both Masters of Arts , rodo a race , in Tort Meadow , foe a stako of 50 / . a side . ISnoh of tho loarnod jockeys was upon hla own horso , and was professionally attirod in colours . An ovont so extraordinary could scarcely take plaoo without causing some notoriety , and tho ltov . Bartholomew Price and tho Rov , Dr . Hoaton , the Proctors for tho , year , wore so scandalised by tho transaction , that they fined tho

    riders five' pounds each for the feat—such a thing as fining a Master of Arts having never before been , heard of since the days of Alfred . It may easily be imagined that great as was the commotion excited by the offence itself , that which the punishinent gave rise to was infinitely greater . Fine a Master Of Arts ! why the thing / was unheard of . ' It was a question in . which every graduate who writes M . A- after hi 3 name became personally involved ; and even those who disapproved of the conduct of their racing brethren were none . the less opposed to such infringement of their privileges as was attempted by the Proctors . The . result is that an appeal against the sentence of the Proctors is pending before the Assessor of the Chancellor ' s Court . At the

    time of writing this the decision of thia dignitary haol not been delivered ; but we are told that so great was the interest excited by the matter , that " nearly the whole of the influential resident members of the University were present , " and that they " are much divided in opinion upon the subject . " Without presuming to predict what the ultimate decision of the learned assessor may be , It is scarcely out of place to suggest to the Oxonians whether they would not do well to consider the example set them by the Cambridge Senate . Authority is at all times a disagreeable influence to have to submit to , bnt it is wholesome ; and it is plainly anomalous that Masters

    of Arts should be allowed to do that with impunity which would costan undergraduate his whole prospects , not only of University success , but of advancement in life . We believe the proportion of resident graduates requiring supervision to be infinitesimally small , and that , such as it is , it is invariably composed of the most worthless and least distinguished men in the University . Still , if they exist , there should be some power to repress the exuberance of their follies ; and whence could that power proceed so authoritatively and so gracefully as from among the great body of the graduates themselves ?— The Critic . .

    The Yaxg-Tze-Kiaxg . - — This magnificent river running through the heart of the Chinese Empire for upwards of two thousand miles , will , indeed , open a newfield of enterprise for all classes of Englishmen . Along its banks , we are told , countless thousands of the teeming population are . busily engaged in the every-day concerns of life ; and city after city is passed by the wondering traveller . The river itself may be fairly classed amongst the richest of the world ; it rises in the centre of Thibet , just above the source of the Brahmapootra ; it gathers in its course hundreds of tributaries , which swell the . parent stream as it proceeds towards the sea , until it reaches a depth sufficient to bear the inland navigation of this great country- It is up this stream , a 3 far as Hankow , about six hundred miles from Shanghai ,

    that Lord Elgin and his na » -al escort were about to proceed ; that he will make a favourable impression on the inhabitants of the interior we sincerely hope ; nor can we doubt that his footsteps will soon be trodden by the mercantile representatives of the English nation ; As years roll on , we may expect to see mansions built after the European fashion on the sides of this river , and inhabited by Englishmen who have left their fatherland for the purpose of creating a commerce in the heart of this gigantic empire . It may never be that a race of Anglo-Saxons in China will equal in numbers the present population of the province of Kweichau , but it is within the range of possibility , and probability too , that a colony of Englishmen will locate themselves ia the great valley of the Yang-tze-ELiang , and introduce the civilisation of the West . — China Telegrap h ,

    Austrian Militaoy Improvements . — A . correspondent of the Times says : — " The celerity with which the troops have been moved from one extremity of the empire to the other is astonishing , and the ease with , which the thing has been done is hardly less so . The new military organisation , which is the work of Marshal Baron Hess , is considered perfect by . tho array as a body , and ' abominable' by very many of tho persons composing it . Noble and rich officers , who are accustomed to the comforts and luxuries of life , do not like to bo obliged to change their quarters at a short notice , and to be under restrictions in regard to baggage . An officer , when on active service , is not allowed to have more than 30 ' 1 b . of baggage . Bat horses are abolished

    for tho infantry , and each company has instead a light waggon at its disposal . In this vohiclo , which ia so constructed that tho polo can bo fixed at either end , are packed tho caldrons of tho company and tho ' trnpsf of the officers . A general officer , who has scon a great doal of service , and in besides an extremely intelligent man , yesterday told mo that tho introduction of light waggons instead of bat horses was a groat improvement . 4 , ' said ho , troops aro takon by surprise , and grape shot is poured into thorn , but horses aro almost sure to beoomo unmanageable . They lash out so violently and roar so tremendously that tho men aro obliged to loosen their hold , when , as a matter of courso , tho brutes goto tho d—1 , caldrons and all . ' "

    Von liuMUOMWt— "On tho occasion of tho now year , tho X ' rinco . Hegont of Prussia , after tho reooption of those who onjoyod tho prlvilogo of paying their respoots at Court had boom concluded , proceeded to on " or hia personal congratulations to tho vonorablo philosopher . Tho King and ( Jiioen had also sout tokens of thoir romombrauue .

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    Wo havo copied from tho DodU Papers tho following clauses which Mr . llonvy Dodd ' u frluml , Mr . Macphail , proposed to insert in tho conveyance of tho JLwngloy estato ( 0 tho charity , and to which tho oonuultteo

    demurred . To us , they seemed especially framed with a view to secure the thorough publicity of all the charity ' s proceedings , and thus leave , if possible , no foothold for future jobbery , corruption , or close patronage : —r . > . •" ' 1 . That annual accounts of receipts and disbursements shall be made up , the items carefully examined , vouched , audited , and that a balance-sheet , sanctioned by ( lie signatures of die auditors , or a majority of them , shall within one month after such audit be published in , say two or three of the metropolitan newspapers having a large circulation .

    ' ¦ ** 2 . That when a vacancy occurs by the death or removal of any pensioner , or in the section of the proposed College school entitling the pupils to board , frc , in either of these cases , a notice of tlie vacancy sliall forUiwiUi in like manner be published in the London newspapers , and tliat thereupon ,. wiUiin one calendar month after such notice , the election sliall taJce place . " 3 . That these notices and copies of the balancesheet should be suspended in some part of the collegehall , in Oie green-rooms of three London theatres , and of such provincial theatres as the council shall determine . " would

    Now , because the reception of these clauses have involved an admission of account ability , the gorge of the acting committee seems mightily to have risen against them . The general uprightness of the leading dramatic members of the committee is so well known to us that we can tax them in the matter with no heavier sins than those of neglect and permission . But of those they are clearly all more or less guilty . They have been appointed and have been glorified as trustees between their weaker brethren and a generous public . They have abandoned their position in favour of outsiders who care little or naught for the flock . They have thus abused—each on very good excuses , no doubt r- ^ -the confidence reposed in them , and have permitted grievous wrong to be done to the poor players , the subscribers , and the benevolent Hexhy Dodd . HAVMAKKET . Miss Amy Sedgwick appeared here on Monday last as Constance , in the Love Chase , and made an excellent impression in that celebrated part , for which , other considerations apart , her agreeable personal appearance so well qualifies her . Mrs ; Wilkins may be praised for her Widow Greene , in which she displayed humour and growing intelligence . The reception accorded to the heroine of the evening , who had riot been previously seen upon the London stage since her marriage , was very cordial . The cast was , as usual at the Haymarket , most satisfactory . princess ' s .

    Mr . Kean has been performing JTamlet alternately with the Corsican Brotliers during the week to good houses . The public have already and so often recorded their sentence upon the merits of Mr . and Mrs . Charles Kean in tlie characters they assume in Ua / nlet , that it were superfluous now to suggest new material for judgment . Miss Heath continues to improve and to be appreciated . Her Ophelia is a finished and sweet performance ; but the most noteworthy feature of the revival vas , perhaps , the absence of the old renowned First Qravedigyer , J . P . Harley , -whose place is supplied by Mr . If . Matthews . The pantomime continues to prove attractive

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2277/page/23/