The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Malice 11.
BZLL'M SCHOLARSHIPS.—Today the following
elections were made :-1. J. E. Bandy., Bt. John's College ;
2. A. J. Butter, Trinity College.
OXFORD, Itasca 1L
In a congregation holden this afternoon the pro-
' peril to affix the University seal to a humble petition
Ito the House of Commons against a bill entitle.' "A Bill to
provide for the Abolition of certain Tests in conneetioe
with Academical Digress" in the University of Oxford was
N rgzra,ed of. The numbers being : Planets, 136 ; son-
-11-125.
In a congregation held immediately after wards two new
forms of statute were promulgated ; one provides for the
appointment of a Hindustani teacher for the next five years
at a stipend of 130/. a year, the other repeals a province
in the examination statute which hoe fallen into complete
disuse.

Memorials to the government are getting up in
the West of England for the purpose of getting the packet
station removed from Southampton to F►lmouth.
Mr. Creswick has undertaken a commission from
Mr. Cambart to paint six landscapes of scenes in the neigh-
bourhood of Stratford-oa•Avon which are associated with
the life of Shakespeare. These will comprise —l. Cherie-
cote Park ; 2. The Forest of Arden ; 3. The Church at
Stratford-on-Avon ; 4. Ann Hathaway's Cottage ; 5. The
Town, from the river; 6. The same, from the church.
These works are to be published itl chromo-lithography.

Alderman Salomon. intends, on the sth of next
month, to cell attention to the exemptiou from local taxa-
tion now claimed on account of property in the occupation
of government departments, and to move, " That all lands
and buildings used and occupied for public purposes should
be assessed I. local rates, and pay rates accordingly."
Mr. Newdegate has deferred his motion for •
select commroittee to inquire into the allegations contained
in the petition of Mr. Alfred ilmee relative to the St. Mary's,
Sydeohatn, Burial-ground, and further, into the Existence
and Increase of Conventual and Monastic Establishments
in this country, till Friday, April 8.

Mr. William Forster, on the Bth of April, will
call the attention of the house to the arrangement between
the Foreign-office and the Board of Trade in reference to
eommunications between her Majesty's government and
foreign governments upon foreign tariffs ; and to make a
motion thereon.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH B.—The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. Giuseppe Biagi as consul at
Melbourne, Australia. for his Majesty the King of Italy.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. L.
Bucholz es 000sul in the New Zealand Islands for hie Ma-
jesty the King of Dooms, h.—Gs:etre.
DOWNING-RTREET, .111•R,H. 10.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Joseph William Trutcb. Esq., to
be Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-
General for the colony of British Columbia ; and Janus
Joseph Drysdale Esq., to be Provoet-Manhal foe the
Island of Autigm:.7.9ezerte....

WHITIOIII, MARCH B.—The certificate granted
by the Secretary of State, under the Industrial Schools Act,
1F157, to the Industrial School for Catholic Girls, in York-
street, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, bail been
withdrawn tinder the provisions of the Industrial Schools
Act, 1861.—Gazette,

HERTFORDSBLIZ Eureriox. —The polling com-
menced yesterday morning in the different districts at eight
o'clock, and from the commencement the comet cativo
ran-
didate, Mr. Suttees, was in a majority. The numbers re-
turned at Ave o'clock (the close of the poll) won :—Surtere,
2.272 ; Cowper, 2,017 - majority for Sorties, 231. The
official declaration of thi; poll will be made on Monday.
THE REPRESENTATION OF COUNTY AHMAGH.—•
Mr. Close has announced his intention to retire from the
representation of the county of Armagh, because domestic
oirounisteoces have rendered it impossible for him to devote
the time and attention to hie parliamentary duties which
his constituents had a right to expect, and which he felt
cnnacientioualy bound to bestow. Lieut.-Colonel Strange,
D. L, eldest son of Sir James W. Stroup, Bart., of Tynan
Abbey, will come forward in the conger relive interest, and
there is reason to expect that he will be returned without
oppositioo. —Dottie Express.
Mu. COBDEN AND THE SUGAR DrTlmt—Mr.
Cobden has forwarded the following reply to a memorial
from the Rochdale Tradesmen's Association in reference to
the sugarduties :—" Loudon, March 10, 1t464. oen demon,—
I have to acknowledge the receipt of you- letter respecting
the sugar duties. lam no friend of custom•houses, as you
know, but if duties are to be levied oo imports, the most
equitable mode for the consumer of levying them is on the
ad valorem principle. This no one will, I suppose, dispute.
It is said that this mode ir impracticable io the case of sugar,
owing to the difficulty of amassing the value of the different
qualities. lam not quite clear that this is true. But if it
be, it is another argument against customs duties, because
it is an admission that they caanot be imposed equitably.
As an approximation to the ad valorem principle, the prevent
sugar dote, are framed so as to impose a different specific
duty on several qualities of sugar. It is urged in opposition
to this plan that it operates as a protection to the lowest
qualities, and to the refiners ; and the fact addooed to prove
this is that a very large proportion of the raw sugar im-
ported is of so low a quality as to require relining. I can-
not, however, regard this as a conclusive argument in the
matter, for we know that large quaatities of copper ore are
imported to be smelted in this emuitry, though there is DO
duty oo copper or copper ore ; and I know the proprietors
of an iron works is Wales who import very largely of iron-
stone from the Mediterranean, although they raise the same
material at their own doors. It is quite possible that if
there were no duty on sugar of any kind, it would be &dean-
tspous to import low qualities of sugar to be refined in
this country, inasmuch as the cheapness of fuel, the greater
capitals, and the superiority in labour and machinery, might
more than compensate for the exposes of transporting the raw
material from the place of
_growth to our shores. This quits-
,' tioo has been much forced on my attention, and I really do
not know why, as I have no voice in the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's arrangements. In writing to you, however,
who stand in the position of my constituents, I think it re-
sctful to offer this explanation, and to add, as my opinimi,
that if it should lie within Mr. Gladstere's competence to
reduce the duty to a very mall rate it might then be al-
loyed to remain a uniform fixed duty. But if the present
rate, or anything like it, be retained, then I think in justice
to the consumer there ought to be ad valorem duties
(which I am by no means couvisced is impracticable), or a
discriminating scale similar to what Dow exists.—l remain,
kc. RICHARD COHDEN.—Messrs. Joseph Handley, Thomas
Brandon, and others."

LENT PREACHERS.—The sermon at the Chapel
Royal, St. James's, at the 12 o'clock serviesto-marrow, will
be preached by the Lord Bishop of Ripon ; the sermon at
the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, at 11 a.m., will be preached
by the Very Rev. Dr. Close, Dean of Carlisle ; and the
sermon at the 3 o'clock service will be preached by the
Rev. Canon Melvin ; the sermon under the dome of Bt.
Paul's Cathedral, at 7 p.m., will be preached by the Lord
Bishop of Ripon. .

ROYAL &LLECE OF SURGEONS. —The following
munbora of the college having bees elected fellows at pm.
vious meetings of the wooed were admitted se such an the
11th mat., viz.:—!tenure. William Bell, Rochester, diploma
of membership dated A pnl 26, 1826 ; Fredei:ck Dieting
Tothill, Charles-street, St. Janses'saquare, June 7, 1833;
Charles Vines, Reading, July 23, 1836 ; and Charles Man.
Hers Smith, of her Majesty's Indian army, April 28. 1843.
THE INUNDATION OF THE VALLEY OF THSTmages.
—Since yesterday the waters of the Thames have ocatinned
to increase in volume, and the river in the vicinity of
hatchet is stated to have risen six inches in the wares of
Thursday night, and was still rising yesterday. Near the
village of latcbet, which lies rather low, the water is Out
to a considerable distance, several meadows being covered,
presenting the appearance of small inlaid lakes ; sod
should the river cootisoe to ries it is sot improbable that a
portion of the village may be isuodated. The towing-path
and a large tract of the Hoene-park is at the present mo-
ment under water, while the meadows sear Eton College
are partly submerged. Some of the land betweee Richmond
and Twickenham, near the South Western Railway, sad a
portion of Riehmead-perk, ls else awls ir water.