The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

THE NSW SCHEMES IN PAALIAMENT.

Wednesday was a busy day at the Bank of Eng-
land sad at the office of the Amountant-General of the
Court of Chancery in consequence of the payment by the
railway and other public companies of the eisht per cent.
deposits on the estimated cost of their respective under-
takings in conformity with the standing orders of both
houses of parliament. It is understood that thin amid
experiment in commies with the new scheme@ was, all
things considered, highly satisfactory, and that between three
and four millions in many, sack, eeearitier, and console,
was paid is before the offices dosed. Theism, deposited in
respect of bills promoted by the three principal parlisusen-
tary agent firms, ?desert Pritt and Vecables, Messrs.
Dyme and Co., and Messrs. Dorrington, amounted to nearly
1,000,01:01. each, and one house in the City is reported to
have made a transfer in consols to the extent of 1300,0004
The total amount of capital proposed to be raised in con-
nation with the new widertakinp, and upon which the
deposits were thus posted, amounts to upwards of
30,000,0001., the capital proposed to be raised by the me-
tropolitan lines alone being above 8,000,0001. Of these lat-
ter, however, some failed to pay the required deposit, end
amongst them the Flamm and Hammersmith, Pimlico and
Peddiogtoo, and proposed Kensington and Knightsbridge
Railways, one of the reams being alleged to be the doubts
entertained as to whether in;consequeoce of their proposing
to pass through park and crown property and other public
pieces, parliament would give sanction to them. With these
exceptions, and some in the provinces, the payments lave
boas well sustained.
METROPOLITAN, TOTT/NHAII, AND HANTETILID MALLWAT.
—This exteasion of the Metropolitan Railway is intended to
start from near the eastern end of their Gower-street station,
in the Enatoe.road, St. Pancras, and terminate on the math
side of SWIIII.II-1•3111, at a punt east of the Highgate-road.
It is estimated to cost 400,001. _

Donn, DIAL, AID SANDWICH RAILWAT.—The route of
thin aew H.. will be by • junction from the Sbapherdswell
station of the Loodos, Chatham, and Dover, to Albert-
terrace, Dell; then from the latter lies between Pastry sod
Ham to the South Eastern Railway, at Sandwich, oar the
Sandwich Gee Works, at as estimated ooet of 100,0001.

TIM GRATZ OR ELIZABZTR BARRETT BROWNING.
—The correeporadeet of a Boston paper ggiives the following
dearription of Wm. Browning's grave at Florence :—" The
Porte Pinta is ooe of the eastern gates of Florence.
Through it passes the street that mosses the thick-shaded
valley of the Arno, and winds by high-walled gardens and
pleasant villas to the lofty summit of Flasole. Close to the
right head of the 'LW a wall some twenty fest high starts
out of the city wall, and soddenly curving southward, goes
for about two hundred yards parallel with it, and then as
abruptly tarns westward and joins the walL to its southern '
frost are plain iron pits, opening into a small court. Op-
posite to them is a similar pair of gates, over which as
written In Prima, 'They rest from their labours, and their
works do follow them.' This is the Protestant Cemetery.
Within its high walls and close under those ancient battle-
meats lie what is mortal of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Theodore Parker. Their names were enough to
draw our feet thither. The Sabbath finds us at the
gates. The coackeys responds to the bell from • neighbour.
tog cottage, and we are ushered into the sacred resting place.
The pound slopes up from the outer to the inner wall both
from the south and the east. A broad path moms& from
the gate to near the rear of the enclosure, when a hand-
some marble column is surmounted by • cross. At right
angles with this path another passes from the wall of the
cemetery to that of the city. On the first path, about half-
way up, sot more than iii or eight rods from the entrance,
oa the left-baud side, 'oat over an outer border of boo and
an inner one of roses, is a small equate, sufficiently large for
but two bodies. It is enclosed by a long iron rail, resting on
four low, grey sandstooe pillars. In the centre of the lot
is • small block of the same stone, some eight inches square
sad high, with • cross engraved oo the top. Over the little
lot the myrtle is slowly and caralewily growing, and • pot
with the tall, flowerleas stalk of an unhandsome plant ass
negligently placed near the head of the grave. This is the
'loag home' el Mrs. Browning."
UNIYIRAITT 01 8.1% ANDRZW'R —At the recent

examinatioes in Decembet at this institution 379 candidate;
presented themselves for the degree of "M.D.," of which
number 336 passed and 43 were rejected. The amount of
fees paid by each candidate, 261. ss. ,produced the large sum
of 8,820/., Iran those who were " capped," and if to this
amount be added the four guinea' forfeited by each rd the
rejected candidate', making another sum of 180/. 12a., and
added to the Lugar amount it will give • grand total of
9,000/. 12a. The stamp of 101. affiseol to each diploma mo-
thered far the goveroment 3.3601. With the exemption of
thirty-two candidates, all thegeotlemen possessed, are, two,
or three legal qualifications. Is addition toile 43 rejected
on their examinstions • great somber withdrew with-
out completing their work, and others without
even commencing it, fiodiog they were not quite
up to the mark ; others were advised to retire in con-
sequence of their antecedents being too well known by the
&tutus Academicas, to whom great credit is doe for the
surveillance exercised by them oo this the last occasion of
marnioing candidates without residence at St. Andrew's,
except in the case of medical practitioner; above the age of
40 years, and then not mom than ten can be admitted in
say one year, and so payment of misty guises. instead of
arala -ewe ; (Alters will not be admitted without having
at least two year. nut of the four at rano recognised
uahrersity. It deserves to be mentioned that some of the
meet valerians practitioners in this metropolis and in the
FOVilloll6 sonOt the honoured degree, thinking the:tat:l
were quite =disown so for north, but as already
Professor Day and his oollagues had adopted wise measures
to exclude that mom which oocasionslly rim.' to the aortae*
of the medical se well as other vrofessions, sad these memo
retired utterly discomfited.
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