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14 THE TITLEPAGE AND INDEX TO THE FIFTH VOLUME OF ' d THE PRESS " Will be published ou SATURDAY NEXT, January 9, as a Supplement (gratis) to No. 245. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Whatever is intended for insertion muetbe authenticated by the 11111110 and address of thu writer, not necessarily fur publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. ft is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wo receive. Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite hide penden tor the merits of the communication. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one aide of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference fur payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Etc Vrtss: ( STA GS PED ) Per Annum .. H elf Yearly.. Quarterly .. .. £1 _6 0 - - - 0 G 6 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News Agents; if direct to the offico, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisement: also must have a reference or remittatve. Money Osiers to be made payable to Mr. ALFUED Dix, 110, Strand, London. vrvgg+ LONDON, SATURDA.Y, JANUARY 2, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. DUBLIN, Fiiday Night. DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE MOORE. Mr. Justice Moore died this morning at his residence near Dublin. The great slander trial, " Strevens against Campion," closed on Thursday night. The verdlct for the plaintiff—Damages Sixpence, and SixpTnce costs. Lord Carlisle arrived in Dublin from London on Wednesday night. The report of Captain Shute and Lieutenant Tur ner, of the 64th Ite,riinont, having been killed in action at Lucknow is incorrect. There is every reason to believe that these officers are alive and well. GREAT CONSTERNATION exists at Augsbourg. The Gazette of that town informs Eur•3pe of some vam pire in human form, who, with nil of chloroform, stupifies ladies at dusk in the streets, and cuts off their hair, without doing any further mischief. Latterly this scalp-hunter has been at his pursuit in the open daylight, and ladies go out attended by armed laqueys to obviate a rape of their locks. Dark mystery shrouds the affair, and the burgomeister is AMONG the passengers who arrived at Bombay by the Pottinyer on the 23rd November (says the Bombay Times) is Mr..'. 11. Layer& late M.P. for Aylesbury, but better known through his explorations among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, and his works relating to those place:. " WHEN I was a student at St. Andrew's, degrees were not only not honourable, but they were dis graceful ; and none took a degree who could obtain from the different professors a testimonal that he had entered their crass and once appeared there. It Was, therefore, only the idle and the ill-behaved that took them. I myself had the good fortune to have obtained respectable testimonials fiom all the pro lessors, and I spurned at the notion of a degree. When I went to England I found it was thought strange that I should have left the university without a degree ; aud, therefore, I solicited the honour of a degree from St. Andrews, and put M.A. to my name. Indeed, in the eighteenth century the English universities were not much better off, becsuse, although a degree was not a disgrace, it was not an honour, and any one who was not rusticated or ex pelled might have one. Lord Eldou used to relate that when he took his degree he was to be examined in history and theology. His examination in history consisted in this—' Who founded the University of Oxford.' He said, Alfred the King;' and that was considered a good answer. In theology he was asked the meaning of the word Golgotha.' He said, ' The place of a skull,' on which the presiding moderator said, 'Seat et ultimo.'"— (Lord Campbell on Scotch Universities.) THE PRESS, JANUARY 2, 1858. grata no fasnion. • Her Majesty and the Court have spent the week at Windsor. After dinner on Thursday, Herr Wiljalba the famous Russian physician and prestidigitateur, had the honour of exhibiting his extraordinary per formances, by special command, before the Queen and Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, and the royal and distinguished visitors enjoying her Majesty's hospitality. Their Highnesses the Siamese Ambassadors have returned to Claridge's Hotel, from a lengthened tour in the manufacturing districts. _ His Excellency the Fersian Ambassador has re• turned to town. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. THE programme of the ceremony of the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal on the 25th inst. is now complete. Her Majesty nud the Court will return to town from Wiudsor on the 15th. A series of theatrical representations will take place at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, the 19th ; Thursday, the 21st; and Saturday, the 23rd of January, at which her Majesty, the Royal Family, and foreign visitors will be nresent. On the 20th her Majesty will give a state ball at Buckingham Palace. Prince Frederic!: William will arrive on the 23rd. After the marriage ceremony, on the 25th, the Prince and Princess Royal will leave Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle, attended by a limited suite. Her Majesty will give that evening a state concert at Buckingham Palace, to which the persons present at the marriage ceremony, the Corps Diplomatique, the members of the Government, and a number of the aristocracy, will be invited. On the 26th, most of her Majesty's guests will return to the Continent. On the 27th, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the junior members of the Royal Family, will join the young inanied couple at Windsor Castle, where, on the 28th, her Majesty will hold a Chapter of the Garter, for the purpose of investing Prince Frederick William with this distinguished Order. The Knights of the Garter attending the Chapter will be her Majesty's guests at the Castle, and will be present at a grand banquet to be given in honour of the occasion. On Friday, January 29, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family, with Prince Frederick William and the Princess Royal, wit' return to town, and be present in state at a representation at her Majesty's Theatre in the evening. On the following day, January 30, her Majesty will hold a Drawing Room, at St. James's Palace, for the purpose of receiving congratulations on the happy event. The departure of their Royal Highnesses is fixed for Tuesday, February 2. Their Royal Highnesses will embark at Gravesend, in her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and cross over to Antwerp, and proceed by Brussels, where they will sleep ou the 3rd, to Cologne on the 4th, Magdeburgh on the sth, reaching Potsdam on the 6th. From Potsdam they will proceed to the Chateau of Charlottenburg, whence they will make their solemn entry into Berlin on the Bth. With respect to the preparations at St. James's Palace, we need simply state that there will be no procession from Buckingham Palace to St. James's. The processions will only be formed within St. .James's Palace. In consequence of the limited space within the Palace, no more tickets of admission will be issued. llttropolitan. THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS have fixed to hold a conference of representatives from institu tions in London and the neighbourhood with a view to the organisation of local boards in connection with the examinations. The conference will take place on Monday evening, the 11th of January, when the attendance of two or three representatives from each institution is invited. Representatives from institu tions not in union with the society are also invited to be present. The council have assented to the pto posal made by the Institutional Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, that they may be allowed to hold the prel►minary examinations for 1559 in Lancashire and Cheshire in Easter week, six weeks before Whitsuntide, instead of twelve weeks before as laid down in the programme; the report to be furnished to the council not less than five weeks before Whitsuntide. A PAUPER OF ST. PANCRAS stuffed himself with cold plum•pudding to that degree, last Saturday night, that he fell down in a fit of apoplexy a died. The coroner'3 jury returned a verdict " Death fr.= suffocation." THE CHURCH-RATE CONTEST AT GREENWICH haS been terminated, after a poll, by a majority in favour of the rate of 533—the numbers being, for the rate, 021 ; against, 388. THE NEW ACT FOR DULWICH COLLEGE, after Thursday the 31st ult. took eflect. The incorporation which has so long existed dissolved on that day, and the various oflces abolished, and from the dissolution a new state of things is to arise. The new scheme gives the name of " Alien's College of God's Gift, at Dulwich•" The Archbishop of Canterbury is to continue visitor. There are 10 new governors, eight of whom have been elected by the parishes of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate ; St. Saviour's, Southwark; St. Luke's, Middlesex; and St. Giles, Camberwell ; and the remaining eleven or "non-elective" governors to be appointed by the Court of Chancery, one of whom is to reside at Dulwich, and to be called the" Dulwich Governor." The property is vested in the governors, and the allowances made from the 31st ultimo are as follows :—To the master, 1,0151.; to the warden, 8551. ; to the first and second fellows, each, 500/. ; to the third and fourth fellows, 466/. ; and to the poor brethren and sisters, 1501. each. These sums a►e to be paid half-yearly. The scheme pro vides fur schools, the appointment of officers, the re lief of poor brethren and sisters, the appointment of almspeople, and the preservation and management of the property. Provision is made for Divine service and tither matters, to make available through the institution " God's gift " of charity at Dulwich. Mn. THACKERAY presided at the annual dinner of the supporters of the Commercial Travellers' Schools, held on Saturday night at the London Tavern. In the course of his speech on the occasion, Mr. Thackeray spoke of the present cost of education in this country : I wish we had an institution where our children could he educated, and well educated, at a moderate cost. At present our children are only educated at an awful cost; and here I am reminded of the respected, the highly respected proprietor of " Dotheboys Hall," when he found from time to time the announcement that the advertiser proposed to take only a limited number of pupils. Now I should say that he takes the limited number of pupils, not that he is in love with them, but because he desires to extract the largest amount of profit. He looks to, and thinks of the profits to be screwed out,pf their unfortunate little bellies. Then why cannot we, as men of letters, think whether we cannot adopt such a system as this—and whether we, the men of the line, cannot emulate the men of the road. Only a month ago I visited a friend of mine who is making, perhaps, 1,0001. a year, and he showed me the amount for a half-year for his two little boys at school. The one was born iii the year 1852, the other was a year older, so that these little heroes were of the ages of six and seven years. They were certainly placed at an excellent school, and they came home with a bill amounting to 751. for the half-year. Now, the poor " Paterfamilias " has to pay his life assurance, his income-tax, and his house tax, and, no doubt, as in all such cases, he has poor relations; so, perhaps, has his wife, and she is obliged to supply them with millinery, and at present, of course, the enormous prices and size of la lies' dresses consume nearly one tenth part of his income. In thanking the company for the manner in which they had received the toast of the evening, Mr. Thackeray said he would only ask one privilege, the absence of which gave him intense agony in places to which he had to resort. He travelled about a great deal, and went to inns and hotels. He often stopped and asked fur his room, and had to pass by a room where about eight o'clock the cheering influ ences of tobacco smoke prevailed. He ventured to hope that in future where his name was known, and he knocked at the door, the commercial travellers' room would be opened to him. Donations to the amount of nearly 5001. were announced. THE DEATAS IN LONDON have declined from 1,234, last week, to 1,003 in this week. The births for the same period amount to 1,409. Vroltintiai. A SEVERE POACHING AFFRAY took place in the preserves of Mr. Musters, Shire Hall, Nottingham, last Monday night. One poacher, Diaper, who had shot one of the koepars was captured; the rest escaped. THE PRINCIPALSHIP OF GLASGOW COLLEGE, vacant by the death of the Venerable Dr. Macfarlan, has been conferred upon the Rev. Dr. Thomas Barclay, of Currie, an able scholar and profound Hebrew critic. THE STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER iS still far from satisfactory. The weekly return pub lished on Monday shows an increase of persons out of work, the number be ng 9,382 against 9,229 ; increase, 156. The number on short time has de creased from 21,872 to 20,975; decrease, 897. There has been an improvement in more workpeople having gone on full time, the number last week being 15,286, whilst this week it has increasel to 16,253 ; improvement, 967. . . Ju K ; 1,0