The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-18 00:00:00

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1111041 Law ingin,a aiming.)
- _ • . WAIMDTPIOR. PALL-MALL, JAR. 17.
Nth Tesfe—Peonoster Mambos should have been dsecrilxd
ta Mo Momint el 1401 instant as Me ceptaialith Light
Drawees, sot as late cbsplsin.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.
The Bor. Itespaskl Heber Bullock to be chaplain of the
fourth clams.

MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.
leoerinteedeat d atoms W. A. naval to be

dsputy superioteodoot of Blom •
ADSIBALTY, Jax. 9.
Corps Royal M0r1990--Majao,Gootosl Anthony MLR
land
Straatettsta to be imptetbriasatal of Royal Maxima

ADMIAAIJR, Jaw. 17.—nlipnisrrttErrrm. Cap-
tain' J. F. B. Wainwright, ha tbs Emma" commissioned •
and 11. 0. Otter, to the Fisprd, additional for surveybri
servioe.
Corommader R. Moore, to the Shampoo.
Lieutenants W. Cbimmo, and E. W. Hawes, to the
riaPrd•
Sub-Lbentemat F. Walton, to the Nile, supernumerary
for disposaL
Midshipmen the Hee. E. M. D. Browoe, to the Edger;
T. H. Ekoogidoo, and 0. G. Hoag, to the Orpheus ; A. U.
Du Booby, A. Amdemio.'ll. Shim IL H. Eyre, H. Noel,
R. W. Hope, and G. F. Trollop*. to the Shannon.
Naval Cadeta H. It. Bartley tad R. O. Fairfax, to the
Orpheus ; S. J. Johnstone, to the Hardman ; A. P.
Williams, H. Y. Tyler, and L. H. Favor, to the Shannon.
Mr. W. Houglitee has been Dominated to a naval cadet-

alto ilelte ht the spurts •of English history ; but it may
well be questioned whether the office at any time
tardiness agptoprintelyffilled than by my immediate poplo,
fisher, *elate prier Osseo* whose premature death has
suited such universal sorrow among all classes throneless
lisenatuftry. • The *dive interest be always took in eery
pursuit %lad feuds .he elevate and adorn moulded, We'
powerful and soldered lairds; his virtuous sod bleeder
We, surely pasuldirly Stied him to be the head of Itte
ancient establishment of learning. (Cheers.) It is Eason
to speak be. esaggended terms of the loin you have surreal
in Wag deprived of • chaimellor on who's sym-
pathy you cords always depend, and on whose
used and upolous advice in any emergency you
mold with craildence rely. The period of his
ehanerlonhip hasheen prematurely cut short : it will sever
be forgotten in the history of the unversed y. (Applause.) The
vice-chancellor and the public orator have spoken of those
isprovensents and alterstioas which have bees recently in-
troduced iu the system of the university education. Of
thine improveu.ents the late Prince Consort was no mere
observer—he actually uopersted in their introduction.
Whilst he recognised the put claims which this university
has to be considered the prom of learning and odors, he
felt that the time was ern when the departure
at other Wenches of study le which it bad not hitherto
devoted its attentko 'hold be fully acknowledged,
and the study of theca enernaged. I feel it is no light
hosiour to hue bees elected his!succeseer. I feel that the
post to which yes have museesed me, es the peeespeor of
ow who so aireably discharged the duties of the Aloe,
is an arduous cue. I cannot;hope to repair your lots, bat
I shall endeavour, to the hest of my ability, to feller the
excellent example he has set me, sod any radiates (I may
be in my power to contribute towards further adenoma in
that good peth which the university has lately punned with
se Welk ing aid dilieseon and of which she has also arr.
lear-clupettell. died he Isesly given. Brom eery es.
reldieek es well as tram • sense of the favours solheeelhe
isenksgai upon me, I mar always entertain feelings ol
the giserima attesimenl lie this university ; but I am ens-
vinesilbai yes mad nog wpm' nor wish me to regard it
• with Ong NW led eneksive veswation whirs would wake
me iffilffilmeleit he r& to other histitutioes founded in
mess rear duster the promotions of kerning. (Applause.)
Ide not wish to forget—it sloes' seems to me my duty to
eitednil yoe—that for several years I held the higher office
walversity—the Ileiversity of London--en
stranded, it apposed to me, by the slate of gouty I
era, by the dreamer:aces and opinions of the times in
Ohl& we live. With that university 1 am still connected
• alfhtigr 111 its auto and I should sot do justice to
say ewe fuller if I did not avow that 1 take a warm in-
tare* in its sumer. (Cheers.) You have placed me in
this high office with a full knowledge of that eoutiosion ;
and allow me to say that it gives me gnat satielhrion to
find that it is not regarded with dinapsnobation, nor con-
sidered as in any respect disqualifying me for the position to
which you have elected me, and elected, I know, is the
full conviction that my best energies will be devoted to
your service. I trust that your expectatloes will never be
disappointed, and that you will always And ens a faithful '
guardian of theft debts which you pesetas for the pills
advantage, and which are essential to the did r combo-I
of the functions entrusted to you. At a period when the
subject of education in all its Wenches, speilliedsk to 41
classes of the community, has acquired such vast impor-
rue it must be clear to us all that the proceedings of our
universities must commeal a large share of public attention.
The working of them abseelleas is the system of study, to
which allusion hes already been made, as well as the resell
of those changes and mobieedeell while have bean Wedge
in the goverument end gruel regeletiee d the sioivin47
by legislative ensersersie. ell be seleleellY olmarrel and.
coming into office as I do al • parried when thew sheer
Sims are is aelive• opontier, yea will allow me •
to express a fervent bops that lbw will be found not only,
r the vice-chancellor has esid, etemiresat with the prin-
ciples of the institutions on which the university is toueded,
but may Also be iostrumental in still further incrossing.the
reputation and usefulness of the 11111•011114, and in extend.
ing that vast iefluence which, as the legitimate illiadialt of
the highest education of this country, it has long exercised,
and I trust will continue to exercise, in the formation of the
eatioul character." (Loud applause)
The Duke then shook hands with the priscipsl ;members
of the deputation, sod the proceedings terminated. •