The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

The judgment which has been given by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury in the ease of All Souls College,
Oxford, is printed by the Times. The general features of
the ease are as follows :
" The ordinance of the university comminiouere, dated
the 3rd of April, 1857, proscribes, in terms identical with
those used in other college ordinances, that the intellectual
qualifications of candidates for All Souls fellowships are to
be tested by an examination, and that ' the warden end
fellows shall elect that candidate (being otherwise duly
qualified according to the statutes In force for the time
being) who, after such examination, shall appear to them to
be of the greatest merit, and most fit to be a fellow
of the college as a place of religion and learning. The
only peculiarity of the All Soule ordinance is that it
specifies law mid modern ►May as the subject+, of examina-
tion, and enjoins that the election is to be made ' with
special reference' to those subjects. The college of All
Souls at ones passed a bye-law, appointing a board of ex-
aze;nen, with the following proviso The examiners
shell report to the college, before or at the time of election,
the names of those candidates who have entirely satisfied
the examiners, declaring also those who have failed to
satisfy the prescribed standard.' That is, the examiners were
sot to weigh comparative merits, but only to aid the college
in eliminating incompetent candidates. The three dames.
tient Fellows, Helen. Watson, Fremantle, and Lualiington,
refaced to the commissioners on this point, and received
a reply declaring that the (adieux* would be evaded unless
the examination were competitive and the candidates
clamed is order of merit. Thersupoe the college substituted
another bye-law, directing that the examiners should
tasks so substantive report to the college with respect to
the merit displayed by the candidates in their examination,'
but should be bound to answer guardian? about the
papers. At the same time they pet on record their deter-
mination to carry out the provisions of the ordinance, ' not
oil to letter, but in spirit.' How far this voluntary
pledge
was redeemed may be guessed from the, fact that,
the word ' questions' in the bye-law just quoted having
afterward, been altered to ' all questions,' this meat com-
prehensive expression wee held to mean ' all quer
time, except—the only question which throws any
light on the results of an examination, and the one
question which decides the fate of other elections—Tit,
the question as to the ultimate order of merit. Against
this violation of the ordinance which, so far from being
inoperative, was governing the conduct of all elections to
Fellowships, the three dimentients appealed to the visitor
in the year 1859, and were rewarded for their constancy in
March, 1861, by a decision affirming the personal respon-
sibility of each elector for hie vote, but declaring that the
rule prohibiting a disclosure of the order of merit 'alto-
gether rendered the appointment of examiners nugatory,
and might in its operation violate the letter and spirit
of the ordinance.' la the face of this decision, and
wider the pretence of giving it effect, the college framed
new bye-laws, with the aid of counsel, negativing by impli-
cation the right or power of the examiners to make a joint
report, or eves iudividual reports, on the whole examina-
tion, inasmuch as they only permit each examiner to speak
of these papers which he has himself looked ever, and do
set allow eves this to be done at the meeting where • social'
claims Sr. discussed. It is this device which is the subject
of the last appeal, and which has just been set aside,
point by past, by the peasant archbishop, with the
advice of Sir John Coleridge and Dr. Twin. The
whole pith of this judgment is contained in two
weighty sentences : 'To attempt to diminish the weight
of any examination, however 000 ducted, by refusing to
receive the fullest communications of its particulars and
result, is simply unreasonable, inconsistent with its very
object, and most clearly against the spirit of the ordinal:ice-
Better far. for obvious reasons, to have no examination
by selected examiners than that their judgment should be
communicated imperfectly to the electors.' Better, indeed,
(observes the Times! if the object be justice to the candi-
dates and the honourable discharge of a public trust, but
suicidal if the object be to serve family interests and per-
sonal predilections, without allowing the infiseoce of
these motives to come boom too rudely to the conscience."

CONVICTION OF SIXTY TRADESMEN FOR Feist
WZIGHTS AND Missonin.—This morning a special seenori
was bald at the Courthouse, Great Prescott-street, White-
chapel, to hear summonsed, taken out by Mr. Wright, the
inspector, against sixty tradespeople for having in their pos-
mesion weights and measures of an illegal standard. The
Bose averaged from 10s. to 3/., and the parties carried on
business in the districts of All Saints, Poplar' St. Matthew,
Bethnal-green, Minoan, ele. The whole of the fines were
enforced. The Chairman was Mr. J. J. Tanner, one of the
county m!gtstrates for the Tower Hamlets.
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faviNas-roNe.—Dr. Livingstone has felt
compelled to decline the invitations to visit Southampton
which have been sent to him by the mayor sod the Hartley
Outwit, oo the ground that he is most noxious to return to
India—where he has left his steamer. the Lady Nyasa, and
her crew—with as little delay as possible, and Las therefore
resolved to decline invitations of all kinds. He hopes, how-
ever, to retain to England in about a year, whets he will be
prepared to aoospt the hoepitalitiee of this and other placed.
—Hampshire Adoertiarr.

TRIBUTIS OF RESPECT TO A FAITIIFET SERVANT.—
Mr. Benjamin Walters, for many years the faithful servant
of Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, who died at the Dean-
ery on the 21st inst.. and who the previous week lost two
children, aged respectively tire and seven yearn, wee buried
at Oxford yesterday, at the Holy well Cemetery in that city.
Dr. Stanley, who travelled many miles for the parpoes of
performing the lest services of the church over the body of
a devoted and affectionate domestic, was mach affected
during the sad ceremony. Lady Stanley, to mark her re-
spect for the deceased, attended, in company with Dr.
Jacobson, Begins Professor of Divinity, as one of the

AN ArSTRALI•N ABORIGINE. BIBLE.—It is not
often that one sees the longue of the aborigines of South
Australia in print, but a specimen is now before us. It
isocaists of portions of the Holy Scriptures, selected from
the books of Genesis. Exodus, Matthew, and John, sod
translated into the dialect of the Murray River and Lake
blacks by Mr. George Taplio, the missioaary to the natives
at Point MaLsay, and printed by order of the South Aus-
tralian Auxiliary of the Brit kih and F•le Society.
A glance at the book reveals the total of words
is the native language to express various ideu occurring in
the purges selected for translation, and we secordiegly
meet with such words u " God," " kingdom." " co-
vernorowe" and several others, where purely Eagludi
words, or Mulish words with an aboriginal affix, are
employed to imileate ideas for which the language of the
aborigines seems to possess no equivalenta.—Smitk A ustra•
/tan paper.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar BethelL)
RE JOHN WITHIN CHAPPELL.
The bankrupt had been a solicitor, of Connaught-karma,
rtsare-road, and late of Prince's-square, Paddington.
11:ere have already been several sittings, and the total
l.hilities are between 1,5001. and 1,6001. It was now pro-
to pay the creditors ss. in the pound in five years,
k,ured by a life policy.
n adjournment was ordered, for the proposal to be car-
into effect, until the let of November next.
Mr. J. T. Treherne appeared In the case.
RE R. C. BROWN.
pricate sitting was held for the examination of wit-
,n this matter. The debtor was a livery.rtable-keeper,
f oipton.
R. Chidley conducted the examination with closed

• ARLES POGII.—BLiOLUTION TO TAKE A CASE OUT OF
COURT.
eve an application made under the 110th section to
e the proceedings out of bankruptcy, and also for the
.:ctment of wignees in the matter of Charles Pugh,
.Isterer, of Blackman-street.
Treherne, of Aldermanbury, represented several
:..ale houses, including Mauro. Kynuton and Co., the
warehouseman ; Mews. Gregory and Thompson,
Cher firms.
a preliminary statement prepared by Mr. Haney, of
~,,oger-lane, it appears the liabilities are between
and 5,000/., with wets of considerable amount,
~..ded at 2;0007., consisting chiefly of debts which have
outstanding some years.
r. (Waimea (Lepard and Gammon) represented several
:ential creditors, and the desired order was draw up.
.0103 ATETON.—PECIILIAR CABE UNDER THE OLD BANK-
RUPTCY LAW.
;his was an old insolvency caw The Rev. Amos Ayton
lid been a
to clergyman, at name, in Oxfordshire, in the year
+l, and II set apart 601, per year for his creditors.
1-::a he paid for some years, but ultimately discontinnedhis
• ~:nents, and Mr. Arnold Manna, from the firm of Mews.
H,..'rison and Lawn, now asked for the appointment of es-
c.nees, the assignees originally appointed being dead, and
.: being necessary to realise the estate.
Ntias Bradford, of Theme, was chosen assignee.
•....eral petitions were presented in the course of the Morn-
no interest. Mr. Treherne and Mr. Chidley were in