The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

Elle Ouro.

THE REV. ALFRED POOLE has commenced legal
proceedings against the Hon. Frederick Baring, in
consequence of the alleged defamatory statements
made by the latter at the meeting in St James's.
hall on the 11th of June. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr.
Coleridge will be counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Edwin James, Q.O , is retained for the defendant.
An application will also be made to the Court of
Queen's Bench, on behalf of Mr. Poole, for a man-
damus, to compel the Archbishop to regehe his
appeal, and sanguine expectations are entertained as
to the result. It will be recollected that a similar
procedure was successful in the case of Archdeacon
Denison.

Ma. LretwosTos has reigned the Precentorship
of Carlisle Cathedral, retaining his Minor Canonry,
and the Dean and Chapter preliminarily accept,
though the matter cannot be concluded until the
next chapter meeting.
ANOTHER NEW ZEALkI4D BISHOPRIC, making six
in that colony, is to be endowed by a wealthy lady,
and it is said that the Rev. John Coleridge Patteson,
M.A., fellow of Merton College, Oxford, will be the
first bishop. The rev. gentleman, who is a son of Sir
John Patteson, and a nephew of Sir J. T. Coleridge,
ex judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, graduated in
1848, when he was second-class in classics.
MR. J. G. HUBBARD, late Governor of the Bank
of England, has undertaken to build a large church,
at his own expense, in Baldwin's-gardens, a densely-
populated district on the north side of Holborn.
The church will cost about 6,0001.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR has presented the Rev.
W. G. Pritchard, MA., incumbent of Christ Church,
Mount Sorrell, Leicester, to the vicarage of Brignall,
Yorkshire, rendered vacant by the preferment of the
Hon. and Rev. Frank Sugden, M A., son of Lord St.
Leonards, to a Crown living ; and the Rev. F. God-
dard, M.A.. incumbent of Alderton, to the vicarage
of Hillmarton, near Colne, Wiltshire.
THE Buittop OF NELSON was presented with a
testimonial on Wednesday, in the presence or it large

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number of persons assembled in the beautiful hall
of Merton College, Oxford. The testimonial, which
was presented by the late Vice-Chancellor, the Rev.
Dr. Williams, Warden of New College, consisted of
a silver-gilt communion plate, valued at 1201., manu-
factured by Mr. Carter, silversmith, High-street,
accompanied with an alms-box, made of oak, and
ornamented with iron scrollwork. The plate was
inclosed in a large box, on the lid of which was en-
graved in church-text illuminated letters the follow-
ing inscription :—"This set of communion-plate,
consisting of a flagon, a pair of chalices, a pair of
patens, offertory desk, and two collecting-plates, was
presented by the parishioners of St. Peter's-in the-
East, Oxford, to their vicar, the Rev. Edmund Hob-
house, Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, as a testi-
mental of their appreciation of his ministerial services
during seventeen years, as an expression of the deep
interest they take in his welfare, and as a means of
frequently reminding him, in his larger and distant
sphere of labour, of the flock which has long enjoyed
his pastoral care." A handsomely-engrossed scroll
of vellum, containing the names of the subscribers,
accompanied the testimonial.

THE GOVERNING 'BODIES OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVER-
am held a most important meeting on Tuesday in
the Arts School, having for its object the discussion
of the draught statutes provided by the Royal Com-
mission for the proposed governance of the Colleges
of Trinity and St. John's, and which include proposi-
tions which it was felt would in all prebability be
applied to the remaining colleges in the event of the
commissioners prevailing upon the authorities of the
two colleges above named to accept them. These
statutes were forwarded at the close of last term,
and though in many material points they created a
feeling of dissatisfaction, there was no time for any
course permitting unity of action, and, accordingly,
their consideration was deferred until Wednesday,
when nearly 250 members of the governing bodies
assembled under the presidency or the Vice• Cha-
ncellor, the Rev. the Master of St. Catherine's. The
following resolutions, some of which were opposed,
were carried by large majorities :

Proposed by the Master of Trinity College, and
seconded by Mr. Adams, of St. John's,

That the system of electing to vacant fellowships ( with
occasional exceptions) from among the members of each
college, having confessedly woi ked in a satisfactory manner,
it is inexpedient that the proposition of the Cambridge
University Commissioners fur opening the fellowships in
every college to competition to all graduates of the Univer-
sity should be adopted.

The following amendment to this resolution, pro-
posed by Mr. Pheard and seconded by Mr. Liveing,
was negatived :
That this meeting, without expressing an opinion of the
proposed statute by which each college is required to
institute a special examination for fellowships, and to elect
mainly according to the result of such examinatim, desires
to see all suitable restrictions upon elections for fellow-
ships removed, and the practice of opening fellowships to
members of all colleges further extended.

The next resolution was proposed by the Master
of St. John's College, and seconded by Professor
Sedgwick :
That it is inexpedient that the proposition of the Cam-
bridge University Commissioners, providing that every
fellow shall vacate his fellowship at the end of ten years
after attaining the fall standing of M.A., except in certain
specified cases, should be adopted.

Proposed by Mr. Todhunter, of St. John's, and
seconded by the Master of Jesus College, the Rev.
Dr. Corrie

That any tax upon the distributable income of colleges
for University purposes, as proposed by the Cambridge
University Commissioners, would be highly objectionable.

Proposed by the Rev. T. T. Perowne, of Corpus
Christi College, and seconded by the Rev. G.
Williams, of King's College
That this meeting. haring regard to certain proposals of
the commissioners affecting the religious character of the
colleges, earnestly deprecates any measures which would
tend to impair the exist►ng confection between the colleges
and the Church of England.

Proposed by the Rev. the Provost of King's College,
seconded by the Rev. Mr. Martin, Bursar of Trinity
College:—

That the Vice-Chancellor be respectfully requested to
send the resolutions of this meeting to the Canthridg,a
University Commissioners.

A vote of thanks to the Vice-Chancellor, carried by
acclamation, concluded the proceeding.

3abal au tilitarg

THE SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP EDGAR, 91 gun%
was launched successfully on Saturday, shortly be fore
two o'clock, from Woolwich Dockyard, in the presence
of a large concourse of spectators.
THE FUNERAL Csit of the late Empernt Napo!eon
is to be embarked on Monday, for conveyance to
France, on board the paddle-wheel steam yacht
Black Eagle.

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Tax DRESS or Tsoors IN INDIA is to be altered by
the Secretary of State for War, in order to promote
the health and comfort of the soldiers exposed to
that climate. For the present dress is to be substi-
tuted a snit of a light drab colour, made of a strong
material chiefly composed of cotton, consisting of a
tunic and loose trousers. Instead of the Govern-
ment providing the men with this dress, as at present,
commanding officers of regiments and depots will be
=itted to employ any contractor they please to
sh the new clothing, the authorities at the
Horse Guards paying the colonel or other command-
ing officer a certain price for each suit supplied. As
soon as the necessary arrangements have been com-
pleted, the regiments now in India and the troops
about to embark will be supplied with the new
clothing.

Tax:Trixour or 'BON-SIDED Sups resisting the
fire of ordinary men-of-war, or shore batteries, has
signally failed in practice, as developed at Portsmouth
on Monday, by the gunnery of her Majesty's ship
Excellent. The Erebus, a new 10• gun iron built
steam battery, of 200 horse power, was moored at
400 yards' range from the gunboat Snapper, iron
plates 4 inches thick, the same consistency as those
of which the battery is built, having previously been
lathed over the ports on the side next the gunboat.
The fire was directed from the Snapper, at the space
between these supplementary plates the solid bide
of the battery, and consisted of four 68-pounder
" turned " solid shot, and four 32-pounders, the
former projected with the service charge of 17 lb. of
gunpowder and the latter with 10 lb. The result
was instantaneously developed ; the 32's merely in-
dented the iron battery, but the 08's passed right
through it, and the first of them split two of the
beams. Only eigbt rounds were fired. A survey
was afterwards made, and a report founded upon it
for the information of the Lords of the Admiralty,
by Captain Howlett, C. 8., commanding the Excellent.