The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
ALEXANDRIA, MAT 16.
The Ruxine and Poonah, with the above mail,
left here at 4 p.m. yesterday.
The former may be expected at Marseilles about
the 21st, and the latter at Southampton about the
28th instant.

Tat Nur Dtat or Lnrcor.s. —The Rev. James
Animal Jimmie, DD., who has been nominated by
the crows to the deanery of Lincoln, about to
biome vacant by the elevation of Dr. Francis
Jetta, to the bishopric) of Peterborough, was edu-
cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated
is 1824, having in the prevwas year obtained the /goalies
pries, an honour w►ioh Ikeda gained in 1825. In 1830 he
was ordained by Dr. Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, being then a
Fellow of Trinity College, and in the same year was ap-
pointed professor of classical literature in the East India
College at Haikeybary, a post which he occupied is coo-
nexion with other appointments daring the next twenty I
se".
In 1833 he was sleeted Christian advocate in the
University of Cambridge. la 1818 he was appointed sub-
due and canon raideotiary in Lincoln Cathedral and in
1849, on the elevation of Dr. Alfred °Meant to the
bishopric of Llandaff, he woe Dominated by Lord Jobs
Kemell, the thou prime minister. to the regime
professorship of divinity, which, with the rectory of
Somershem, which is ',spored to it, is worth about 1,500 E
s year. The appointment no longer rests with the crows,
but by the sew statutes is vested in electols, who are the
causal of the agate. The candidates must be BD. or
DD., and the day of election most be not sooner than
14 days nor later than 28 days after official notice of the
vacancy. The professorship was founded by Henry VIII.
in 1540, and was segmented by James I. with the rectory
of Somersham. Dr. Jimmie is the author of the articles on
"The History of Scene from Constantine to the death of
Jolla," sad "The History of the Church in the Second
and Third Centuries," in the "Eccyclopiedia Metropolitan,"
and of many sermons and pamphlets on theological and
ecclesiastics' questions. He preached the Latin sermon at
St. Pees at the assembly of the new convocation of the
c iao, of Canterbury in 1852; and at the last Exhibition
in French to • tion mainly composed
of rotarerhedgeers in the nave of Westminster Abbey. The
deuery of Lincoln ia worth about 2,0001. a year.
FREE SCHOOLS FOR FOREIGN CHILDREN, MA-
1111811E0 JOSE, 1852, BY THE SOCIETY FOR Tax ETAS.
azuesnot or FOREIGSERS sac LONDOE.—The committee
of the schools for forage child, s of all nation have issued
• notification stating that the school' have never ceased to
be is full operation since their establishment in 1832. This
is • sufficient refutation of the statement which bu appeared
in some of the public journals, that "until the year DM
nothing bad been don* for the instruction of poor French
children." The prominent object le the formation of the
schools was to give to poor foreign children of every nation
a sound practical and Christian education, to prepare them, '
nada the salutary influence of the SiNe, for a life of virtue
and usefulness. Hundreds of children have been benefited,
and have reason to be grateful for the instruction they have
received. The committee invite the public to visit these
schools, which ere at 7, Newman-street. It is • cause that
urgently leads for aid.
THE RICIECT SHAKESPERIAN FESTIVAL AT STRAT-
/ORD.—The Hochstift of Frankfort were an no way con-
cerned in the unplessaat occurrence which took place at the
Shakespearian Festival on the 23rd ult., celebrated in that
city. On the contrary, at their own festival on the 24th,
every allusion to politica was carefully avoided, end nothing
transpired which was not in strict keeping with the good
feelings expressed in their address to the English Deuce
which was presented to the corporation at Stratford by
Professors Max Muller and Leitoer, or in the speeches which
those gentlemen delivered on the occasion. To mark their
sense of the Nervier% readered by Professor Leiter. Profes-
sor of Arabic at Kiefe College, London, 10 representing the
German nation at the Stratford Festive', and " in recogni-
tion of his eminence se a philologist," the Hochstift have
made that gentleman an honorary member and master of
their body.
FURTHER MOVEMENT AMONGST THE COLLIERS.—
Yesterday hawses 1,000 and I,ssk colliers assembled at
▪ open-air meeting, at Tiptoe, Soo th Staffordshire. to con.
eider the coons to be pursued rela.ive to a notice that
expired on Saturday, by which the employers of about the
same number of misers near to Wolverhampton require
than to submit to • reduction of 3d. • day is their wages,
which in the autumn referred to have recently been
3s. 6d. • day. The &itemisation of the meeting seemed very
derided in favour of the solos
_being resisted ; and a resole-
' tics was come to amidst considerable applauds, to support
the Dna so long as they revalued os strike, for it was
argued that the projected reductioe from 3a. 6d. to 3.. id.
was prolimisary to • reduction from the 3a. 3d., at which
the larger number are at work to Is. In the determisatioe
to support their fellows, the spoken mid that they wore
supported by the Minos' National ABIOCISUOO, who would
also esetribute to their support. Several iroonasters
Midis' the list position in the iron trade of South Stalked-
share will be greatly hisossealwised by the derelicts el
ymboiday, sad the me will pi about 10a • week.