The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MARcu 24.
CLANSI. AL TRlro,.—Examiners: Jamey Lew-
priere Hammond, M.A., Trinity College; John Pelle, M.A.,
Christ's College; H. C. A. Toyler, M.A., Tritity College ;
H. IL 'Jolley, M.A., SL John's College. First Class.—
Moss, John's ; Moule. Trinity, and Myers, Trinity ; James,
King's, and Morindio, King's ; Swainson, Trinity ; Morley,
King's, and I'retor. Trinity ; Spratt, Catherine ; Stow,
Trinity ; Lee Warner. John's, and Young, King's ; Bryan,
Clare, C. B. Dories, Trinity. and Dunn, Peter's ; Ainger.
Trinity, Holliogworth, King's, Prestos, Magdalen, and
Lardy, Trinity ; Cruiksbank, Trinity. Second ChM.—
J. N. C. Davies, Trinity, Rhoades, Trinity, sod Terry,
John's ; Greatheed, Trinity ; Wallace, Emmanuel; Gooch,
Clare ; Lewis, Coins ; Champneys, Trinity ;
Trinity ; Croft, Caine ; Holmes, Trinity. end Poem,
Trinity ; Kitson, Christ's, and Millington, Clore ; Bowan-
queL Trinity ; Pater, Trinity, and Raven. Jesus ; Bescbey,
Caius, and ()slinky, Trinity; Hudson, Trinity, and Orr,
Jesus ; Beard, Jesus, and Beilby, Corpus ; Buswell,
Queens', and Penny, Trinity ; Payne, Downing ; Turnbull,
Trinity ; Hon. C. Lyttelton, Trinity. Third Class.—Coore,
Trinity ; Reece. John's ; Carter, King's ; Quayle, Johu's ;
Draper, Magdalen ; Whittington, Clare ; Rogan, Trinity-
ball ; H. Croft, Trinity. and Rowsell, Trinity ; Clay.
John's ; Lord .1. W. N. Hervey, Trinity ; Fox, Trinity ;
Jardine, Christ's.

We learn from the Illustrated Landon News that
the late William 31.kepeum Thsekeray died without
making a will. Letters of administration of his estate and
effects have been granted to his two daughters. The per-
sonalty was sworn under 20.000/.
ANOTHER FIRE AT THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORK.
—On Wednesday night a fire broke out in the western wing
of the Queen's College, the same that was previously burnt.
It is stated the fire originated from some embers left by the
workmen, but great excitement and doubt exist as to the
canes. At 12 o'clock the fire was got under before any
great amount of damage was dons—Coot Datly Herald.

Judge, Mr. Pope said that the child was
deadodly eat suffering from memetaric disease. If he had
been so suffering he would not hays come round so quickly.
Eliza Marlachlan, a servant girl, who had lived with
the plaintiffs, said that for their morning meal the
children had flour and water mixed and boiled
to the consistency of thin paste, with a little skim-
milk. at one penny • quart, stirred into it, and •
half-round" of bread. If they did not take this, they
had to go without, but if they were poorly they had tee.
At other times the children had for breakfast water-gruel,
seaweed with salt ; or oatmeal and water, seasoned with
nettles and salt and onion,. For dinner the childree had
on Sunday meat and plenty of vegetables, and always
pudding. On Monday, pudding ;oa Tuesday, the cold meat
left on Sunday, mid vegetables, but no bread ; on Wednes-
day, boiled rice with treacle, or " treacle roley ;" on Thurs-
day, stewed rice with " lights" cut in it ; on Friday,
rice pudding, but very seldom meat ; and on Saturday,
a piece of boiled bacon or a pig's face, with rice or grey
pera For tea the children bad one round of bread
and lard, and • cup or more of tea if they wished. She
did not partake of the same kind of diet as was given
to the children, but similar to that partaken of
by the plaintiffs. On " pudding days' the Misses Green
always had meat. The children at the school numbered
eight. They had meat three or four times • week, two at
three times a week they had soup, and pudding four times a
week.

Mrs. Carter (the defendant's wife and the child's mother)
said that finding her child so weak she took him away from
'school, aril three days afterwards called in Mr. Pof O.
During that three days the child took no more then half •
' bun and • little milk, the first on the first day, nothing on
the second day, and the milk on the third day.
The child was called, and said that he bad nettle broth
eighteen or nineteen times during the time he was at the
school. The children used to go out in the summer sod
gather the nettles in the lanes, and Mrs. ;men used to
gather them in the winter. At tea time he used to save
half of his round of bread (trim • threepenny loaf in all
cues) to eat for his breakfast with the nettle broth or the
water gruel, but it was always gone before the morning. He
always felt hungry when at tea time be put by his bread for
the next mornings breakfast. He did not tell his mother,
because he feared be should be punished at school. He had
a chillilain on his foot some time before he went home.

_ ....
A healtby.looking young boy, now at the plaintiffs'
school, was put into the box to rebut young Carter's
evidence, but the Judge ruled that heoould sot be examined.
The Judge, in sending the case to the jury, said that a
more important case had never in his experience name into
that court, on account of the importance of the youth
of the country being properly fed. When Mr. Pope left
the box he thought that his evidence could not be with-
stood. but when Mrs. Carter said that her boy took nothing
00 Good Friday last but half • bun, nothing at all on the
following day, and only a little milk on the Saturday, he
certainly thought that this &Wiliest:oi might have mused
the evidences which Mr. Pope described. He only regretted
that Mr. Pope had left the court before Mrs. Carter gave
her evidence, and that he had not inquired from Mrs. Carter
what her son had taken whilst he was at home. _ .

The jury returned a verdict for the plaiatiffs for the
whole amount claimed, to be paid on the 12th of ApriL

Mr. &Ahern will shortly attempt an impersona-
tion of David Garrick, in • threeeet piece, which has been
written expressly for him.
new MOTIVE POW ER. —Professors Barsanti and
Matteucei of Flo have inveoted a new mode of pro-
ducing motive power. Then engine may be described as se
atmospheric engine, • vacuum being produced in the
cylinders, under the pistons, by the explosion of • mixture
of atmospheric au with au inflammable gas. The explosion
is said to be without nose and free from danger. The result
of a long aeries of experiments upon two machines—one of
:hem being of twenty horse-power and the other of four—
proves that the consumption of the gas used is one-third of
a cubic nwtre per horse-power per hour. The gas is said to
be produced at • cost of less than a peony the cubic mitre ;
consequently, • horsepower can be obtained at about one-
third of a penny the hour. The machines constructed are
reported to work satisfactorily, and the principle to be
equally applicable to Math., and locomotive engines.
Several patents have been taken out In this country for
machines of this class. Hitherto, however, all explosive
engines have failed to ful6l the promises of the investors.
Athr nu um. . .

TIIC 31CRDER AT HARTLEPoot..—Another man
has been apprehended at Hartlepool on suspicion of being
implicated in the murder of the oFt man, Harrison, near
that town. The inquest was opened on Wednesday, and
teverel whams.' were examined, but the evidence, so far
es it has proceeded, does not seem to have any decided
bearing on any of the three men in custody. No verdict,
however, has yet been returned by the jary.—Neircast4
Chronicle.

AssASSINATION IN IRELAND.—At the assizes of
the North Riding of Tapperaiy, held at Nenegh, Mr. Justice
O'Brien on Wednesday passed sentence upon Philip Hayes,
convicted of attempting to assassinate Mr. Gore Joe's, a
stipendiary magistrate. The prisoner had been iden-
tified by Mr. Gore Jones, who showed the greatest
coolness and courage even when the murderous at-
tack was about to be renewed. Two days after be
at once recognised the prisoner, who with another
person had been hired to shoot him. The prisoner himself,
though duly cautioned, confessed the crime. His lordship
dwelt upon the heinous nature of the offence, and said that
tinder the circumstances he could not pass a lighter sentence
than penal servitude for twenty years. The convict's wife
was in the gallery, and on hearing the suttee:, she ex-
claimed, "Oh, Philip, I will never see you again; but,
Gore Jams, I rill see you."
PATTERN POST TO INDlA.—Accorliog to a notice
just issued by the Postraester•General, there will be a re-
duction of rates on the lit of April next, and thenceforward,
no the pattern post to the East Indies. Patterns may be
fowarded either via Southampton or via Marseilles at the
following rates of postage, which must in all eases be per
paid by means of postage stamps, six. :—Via Southampton
—For a packet not exceeding en., 4d. above 4os. sad
Dot exceeding Ph., Pd. ; and every additional alb., Pd. Via
I Marseilles—For a packet not exceeding Cos., 6d. ; above
401.. and act exceeding ph., la, ; and every additional
lb., la.

At the annual meeting of the Protector Endow-
ment Loan and Annuity Endowment Society yes-
terday, Mr. Alfred Smee, F.R.S., iu the chair, a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was
declared. Special resolutions were adopted to
empower the company to adopt measures to extend
its business. A vote of thanks was accorded to
the chairman and directors for the active measures
they had taken in promoting the business of the
society.
The share certificates of the Mexican Bank
(Limited) are now ready for delivery.
Subjoined is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :

At the sixth series of hide sales for the year a good de-
mand was experienced, and in some cases improved prices
were realised. Boat India, Ox and Cow—Calcutta were in
good request, both the home trade and exporters competing
freely, and full prices were obtained ; while upon Dacca
slaughtered an occasional advance of Id. to id. per lb.
was realised. Madras, Pondicherry, Sc., were well com-
peted for and brought higher prices. The analysis of the
sales is 101,866 Calisitta bow parcels, 6,929 brought forward
from former sales, and 5,612 Madras, Pondicherry, &c.,
in all 114,437 hides, of which 99,961 were sold. East
India—Buffalo were °sly part sold. Leather—East Indian
sold well. Australian was in active request, mid realised
rather higher prices. talked Hider —Australian were in
food demand at late rates to an occasional advance of Ad.
per lb. Cape brought former prices. Miscellaneous—
Mogsdore kip. sold well. West Indian brought fair prices,
also German.

The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday,MarchZ, compared with that for
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation iaaue
Circulation ective....-
Public deposits ....... 9,841,323 loaves* 1,270,612
Other deposit.
Government securities in . -

—Vanking day;iutinent — 11,273,114 Inman 98,530
Othereecnrities us basking
department
Ooin and bullion in both _ _

-- --
departments
14,449.201 femme 502,258
Seven day and other bolls 509.70 Isere-tee 26.143
The Rest 3.873,582 leerease 7,078
Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes k coin
in banking departmeet) . 9,212.21 Increase 495,098

These changes are highly favourable, an increase
of about half a million having taken place both in
the bullion and the reserve. The rise in the latter
is caused by the heavy influx of government de-
posits.

SAM( or ILN OLAND —An Ac
sod WA Vic.. C. Is. gar the wook
1904.

11601 DUN
Notes Usual L2 .552,1;i0

mount pursuant to the Act 7th
ending on Wedneeday, March U,

428.34.130
114111L010 DI
=atom' Capital L 144
871.600
653,000

PAIIIIIIIIT.
Government debt L 11.015,100
Other securities . 3.634.90e
Gold corn and bul-
lion
Bther bullion

L 23,362,130

rarrirri.r.
Government !teen.
Title' luclo.iing
Dead Weight .th-
wittri
Other securities
Notes
Geld and 64ret
Coln 717,071

Piddle Deposits (In.
chiding Facheq.,
Sae. Danko, Com-
mis. el Natiosal
Debt. and Div.
Areta.)
Other Deposits 12,430,1541
Seven day and other
BUla 209,725 i
441,2-57,244
Y.

/.41,25',e04
IIXL3IfALL. Ch!ef Castacr.

Match 24. IS6I.

THURSDAY ErMING.
Console, which closed yesterday at 91i to 3 for
the Bth of April, opened and closed to-day at the
same quotation. For money the last price was 914 to
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, ; • ditto,
for account, 911 ; Three per Cents. ReLct:d,
f ; New Three per Cents., 89}, ; India Five pvr
Cent.. Stock, 104 i, 3 ; ditto Fuur per Cent., 981 ;
ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864:•, 991. g ;
Five per Ceut. " enfaced" rupee paper 103 ;
ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 113.

The India Five per Cent. Stock remains firm.
Exchequer Bills were quoted Be. to 3s. die.
Mexican Bonds opened heavily, and, prior to
the commencement of regularbnsiness, tr.tuaactious
are said to have taken place as low as 43j. Re-
newed confidence was shown, however, in the
afternoon, and the closing price---la to i—was
above that of yesterday.
International and Imperial Financial shares were
firmer, and London Financial rather flatter. Credit
Mobilier shares have risen. The closing quotations
are annexed, viz. :—lnternational, GI to 7 prem.
ex div. ; General Credit, 4 to I prem. ; Loudon
Financial, 11 to prem. ; Imperial Financial, sto
itoPrein. ; Mercantile Credit, 8 to 4 prem. ; Credit
Mobilier, 3} to 4 prem. ; and Credit Foncier, 5 to
51 Preto-

OR Tuesday evening, in the course of an address,
at the conclusion of the Carlisle Panay Remlin" Mr.
Potter, M.P. for that city, said the year 1832 Charles
'Knight published what was then a charming and useful pub-
lication. Why it did not scooted 1 hardly know—perhaps
it was before the age. and society was not educated up to
it. I allude to the Penny Maja:iste, • weekly illustrated
publication, which many of us, I do not doubt, remember.
In 1840, Sir Rowland Hill gave us the best of all our
penny blessings—the Penny Postage Stamp. (Cheers.)
In a short sketch of its marvellota progress just issued,
he tells us that there was no increase whatever sa
the Post-office revenue, whether gross or set,
during the twenty years preceding 1831, and
therefore probably none in the letters. There was a
alight increase up to 1810, in which year the penny postage
was established. A comparison as to the number of letters
between the years 1,63 and 1838, the last under the old
system (there were some changes and reducinons between
1838 and 18W), shows that the number of chargeable
letters had risen from iti.ooll,ooo to 642,000,000, and that
the revenue has risen from 2,346,0001. to about 3,870,000 f.
gross. The net revenue, owing to the increased cost con-
sequent naturally upon the great mass of correspondence,
has risen only from 1,660,00()1. to 1,7tr0,000f. They have •
very profitable, well-earned source of revenue—one
likely to increase—capable, too, I think, of one-
yellow expansion in many ways and of profit to
the community. (Cheers.) "For the future," says
Sir Rowland tfill. " there must he a large and
ever-increasing gain." The money-order system counerted
with the Post-office, under the same management,
has been enormously developed. Apart from the
business gain to every class, what scores of millions of
letters must pass annually with cheering messages of
love or of condolence to many thousands of house-
holds, cheap and wholesome pennyworths. (Cbeere.)
Next in value we get the penny newspaper—a valuable and
most useful means of information on every variety of sub-
ject, giving throughout the length and breadth of the land
telegraphic news, not quite, but nearly within a few hours
from the uttermost parts of the earth, and this, too,
for the cost of what we paid for a trumpery
ballad, only • generation ago, on a bit of
flimsy paper the size of one's hand. (Cheers.)
Coe striking fact must not be forgotten in connex,on with
the penny paper. When we had the threepenny stamp and
the seveopeney paper, we had also a circulation of unlawful
nnstamped papers of the wont possible description, mo-
rally and politically. (Hear, hear.) They have been en-
tirely superseded by the competition of the high-class pettily
papers, now edited with just as mach talent as regards their
leading articles, and conveying the mine telegraphic Dews
to • great enact, as the great leader among papers, the
Tinusitaelf. (Cheers.) One admission, however, I must
make, and Ido so sorrowfully. I fear then is growing up
a large production of wretched halfpenny and penny publi-
cations of the worst possible sensational and immoral tales;
but they never invade the penny reading rooms, or
tempt those who frequaat such places. (Hear, hear.)
They can only, to my mind, be extirpated, as were the
illegal unstamped papers, by the competition of more
healthy matter in cheap, open reading rooms. We have,
too, peony receipt stamps, peony savings banks, peony e-
mits traim on railways, and last, not least, penny readings.
(Appleton) Cannot they, like the penny postage. be widely
exteeded, brought home nearer to tinny, many door As
they increase, their very existence will develop new metes
of making them valuable, by the introduction perhaps of
popular scientific lectures ; though I rather fear the title
" lectures" may lead us to think they would prove toodry—
not popularly amusing or attractive. Above all things,
think we ought to keep close to the Woad making ail our
recreations; healthily amosiag. We want them as • relax-
ation, a change, and • contrast from the working day. They
moat be for themultitude. (Hear, hear.) From them will
follow, no doubt, other institutions springing from the
plumy well invested ; nay, it is within the bounds of possi-
bility, that some of those among my audience may at some
not very distant time ioquire after the health of some
loved friend or relative, and receive an answer within an
hour or two from the United States or Canada for a few
pence—we hope for a single penny telegraph. (Cheers.)
Well, let the penny saved, the penny well turned, for
thrift or healthy amusement, be our first starting point;
but do not let us be too ambitious. Let us keep fi.at oar
modest, simple, honest origin, graft on that cs on the
penny postage many useful adjuncts, and lend such aid to
caches we can in our positions to all healthy amusement ;
combined with the best mond, and, becaum moral, reli-
gious influence'. (Cheers.) In conclusion, Mr. Potter
retested to the retiring pension which had been allotted to
Sir Rowland Hill (2,0n)/.)—a pension which. in his (Mr.
Potter's) opinion, was entirely inadequate to Sir Rowland's
great Bethnal services. (Cheers.) This opinion was shared
la by many others ; and be was acre, if • contribution were
made say of a farthing a head from each individual paying
taxes, it would he a more just acknowledgment of his
labours, and it would be grudged by none. (Cheers.)