The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. u.—TILE MAITLAND PRIZE.—
The sum of 1,000!. having been accepted by the University
for the purpose of instituting a prize, to be called " Sir
Peregrine Maitland's Prize," for an English essay on sonic
subject connected with the propagation of the gospel,
through missionary exertions, in India and other parts of
the heathen world, the prize to be given onto in every three
years, and to consist of the accruing interest of the principa;
sum during the preceding three years ; the Vice-Chancel-
lor has given notice that the prise will this year be given
fur the best esaay on tho following antiject:—. The Duty,
an well as Policy of Christian States to encourage Missions
for the Conversion of the Heathen." Candidates tor the prize
mast be, at the time when the sab,l•ect is given out, bache-
lors of arts under the standing of M.A., or students in civil
law or medicine, of not less than four or more than seven
years standing, not being graduates in either faculty, who
shall be required, before they are admitted to become ean•
didates, to produce, (coin their respective professors, certifi-
cates that they have performed the exercises necessary fur
the degree of bachelor of law or medicine. The exercises
must be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor before the division
of the Easter Term 1854 each bearing some motto, and ac-
companied by a sealed paper, hearing the same motto, sad
enclosing the name of the candidate and that of his college.

PUBLIC 'WORSHIP AT ST. MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM.
—The rector of St. Martin's, Birmingham, the Rev. J.
C. Miller, had announced to his parishioners that he has
obtained the consent of his diocesan, the Bishop of Wor-
cester, to alter the arrangements for Sunday services in his
parish church. lie states that the ordinary morning ser-
vice consists of a combination of services which were not
originally used together, and that many of the clergy and
laity had wished the service to be divided according to the
original designs of the framers of the l'rayer-book. He
also states that a large portion of the present worshippers
consists of servants and others who can only attend alter•
noon er evening service, and are thus, from one end of the
year to the other, shut out from the most important parts
of the Liturgy, via., the Litany and the whole of the Com-
munion office, including God's Ten Commandments. To
remedy this evil he proposes to have lour services, and to
commence the new arrangement un Sunday, January 4,
1852, with the quarter-past nine morning service. The
anticipated advantages are thus ',owned up :-1. The
shortening of the morning service—a great comfort
to invalids, the aged, and especially to children, as
Sunday school teachers well know. 2. fhe securing of au
additional service and sermon where the church accommo-
dation is utterly inadequate for the population. 3. The
bringing of all the services within the reach of all classes.
Thus servants and the working classes, who have the little
Sunday dinner to attend to, and who are now shut out
from the " To Deem," the "Litany," and the " Commu-
nion Office," will enjoy our whole incomparable liturgy, of
much of which they have been practically deprived. 4.
Facilitating of the attendance of servants and the poorer
classes at the Lord's Supper by an afternoon administration
of it monthly, as many of the experienced clergy believe
that the scanty attendance of these classes at the commu-
nion arises from the communion never being administered
in the morning. The Rev. Mr. Miller says that this
movement has nothing to do with any particular party in the
church ; that it is nut proposed from a love of innovation,
but from an earnest desire to render the rich provision given
by God's providence in the Prayer-book as accessible as possi-
ble to the masses of the people.— &mercer.
THE FORGERIES ON THE YORKSHIRE BANK,—
In reference to the recent forgeries on the Yorkshire Bank,
there is every season to believe that the parties implicated
form pert of a numerous gang who have made Sheffield
their head quarters. Indeed, when the forgery was first
detected in Leeds it was suspected that it had emanated
from Sheffield, to which town several members of the de-
tective force were despatched in quest of information. On
inquiry there these suspicions were confirmed by the Sher'
field police, who recognised in the description of the
utterer. given by the Leeds detectives two noted characters,
named Ellis and Marshall, the former of whom was in cus-
tody a short time since on suspicion of being concerned in
an extensive burglary at Worksop, and the latter was re-
cently stopped in Manchester uttering a forged note on the
Bank of England, but by swallowing the note he destroyed
the only proof of his guilt. That these were the parties
there was no doubt, and the only question that remeirit
to be solved was how to catch them. Elva Ibis
difficulty was soon overcome by White, one of the Sheffield
force, who learnt that the parties in question had arranged
to meet in the evening with some friends, at a low beer-
house in the town, and have a gone fur supper. Accord.
bay a strong body of police invested the house whilst the
'mg individuals were enjoying theirChristmastare;
wwi which they had scarcely terminated when the festive
=was broken into by the police, who not only cep-
Ills and Marshall, but also a man named Greta,
who was proved to have offered some of the forged notes is
ERtefßeld. The gang appears to have been exceedingly
well organised and distributed over the West Riding, as
coeusterfeit notes were uttered in most of the large towns in
the BM* simultaneously. Neither do they appear to
hs ISMINd their attention to the Yorkshire Bank alone,
bat a lIIIIIIber of counterfeit Bank of England notes were
aiwpaleeed by them on the unsuspecting.
Loos OF A STEAMElL—lntelligeneo was received
yesterday, at Lloyd's, of the lees of the Town of Wexford
steam-ship, off the Skerriee, near Holyhead, during the
violent north-westerly galeon Sunday morning. She left
Wexford for Liverpool in the course of Saturday, with
several passengers and a general live and dead cargo. Dur•
ing the night she laboured severely in consequence of the
tempestuous state of the weather, and on the following
morning she was observed off the Skerries, under canvass,
her machinery apparently having broken down or in
some way disabled. After beating off for about
two hour', she dropped her anchor and brought
too in the hope of the weather moderating and being
able to clear the lee shore. However, the gale continued
with but little intermission, and about two o'clock in the
afternoon sho parted from her anchor, and was driven
'shore near Trefadog, some three or four miles to the out-
: ward of the bay. lier perilous position having been before
noticed, the life-boats put off to the rescue of the passengers
and crew, and, with the aid of their own boats, every one
of them were preserved. Little, however, was waved of the
cargo, as many dead cattle and pigs were seen Boating about
the bay. The lust accounts from the wreck announce her
to be bilged, and in the event of the weather continuing
violent there is little doubt as to her proving a total hr,s.
FALL OF Two HOUSES IN CLERKENWELL.—Yes-
terday afternoon considerable alarm prevailed in the neigh-
bourhood of Coldbath-square, Clerkenwell, in consequence
of the fall of two houses, situated In Bath-row, adj • • g,
as it was known at the time that several men were engaged
'in their demolition. It appeared that the houses, which
• were three stories in height, had been condemned in con-
! sequence of their dilapidated state, and the tenants had
left. Scaffolding was erected, and the men had taken
dews the fronts of each, with the roof of one of them, the
taw and a portion of the bricks having been placed on the
roof of the other house. Between four and five o'clock in
the afternoon there were seven men at work under the
ground-floor of one, when a bricklayer in the other huddler
thought ho observed symptoms of colinpsing of the party
wall. Ho went and informed Woodward, who instantly
directed his men to make their escape. This was promptly
done, and while making their exit a quantity of ',mks
and mortar came down. They were scarcely clear of the
seatfiding when both shells of the houses fell down with a
tremendous crash, the report of which brought the inha-
bitants from the vicinity promptly to the spot. The whole
mass, fortunately, fell perpendicularly. No personalin-
jury wasreceived by any one.