The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-02 00:00:00

NA VA L AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. I.—A7zoncrmrszs. Pay-
master L. Alunday, to be secretary to Admiral Kellet.
Aanstest Payntutsra J. N. Bollium, to the Britannia
W. B. Weatherby, to the Egmont ; J. Heath. to the
Excellent. Naval Cedet J. Edwards, to the Achilles.

PORTSMOUTH, Dt.c. 1.
The Court is expected to arrive at Oaborue about
the 20th lusts

The Marlborough, 121, morels line-of.hattle ship, Captain
Charles Fellows, was paid out of commission in ozoellent
ceder to-day, after nearly four years' service as fisg.ahip in
the Mediterranean, her first, and possibly her last comis-
Mi/111011 as a wooden three-docker. She has only her lower
masts standing, and will Le placed in the thud division of
the stairs reterve. _

The Ariel, 9, screw sloop, Commander William Chapman,
was alsa paid off to-day, after a successful cruise for the
suppression of the slave trade. Commander Chapman was
appointed to the Ariel in April, 18‘;:l, vice Oldfteld, and
during the greater part of the time Las been doing the duty
of gooier officer on the east coast of Africa. During her
commission of nearly four and a half years the Ariel has
captured forty.six prizes, of which eighteen were taken
during the command of Captain Chapman, including the
Spanish ship America, 600 tom bulbs's, which was cap-
turol or. the north•eest coast of Madagascar. Tho aggre-
gate tonnage of vessels taken during this crony, is
2,270 tons.
The Hector, 24, iron screw ship. is to be docked and
sheathed with copper by the ingenious process invented by
Commander F. P. Warren. This consisted an insulator of
stout felt, or dreadnought, applied to the plates of the ship
by Hay's marine glue. The outer surface of the felt then
receives another coating of glre, and the copper sheathing
is applied, the edges of the sheathing dates being fastened
with a split copper nail, which clenches itself upon being
struck into the felt. A hot iron is then pawed over the
whole, and, as an experimental test has proved, makes it
solid and compact, perfectly excluding the water front tits
iron plates.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAIIERIDGE, Dec. 1.

CARUS GLEES TDZANIENT PRIZE.—•.Thin prize
undergraduases) has been this day adjudged to G. F.
Bixby, Triaity CoLlegs.
Fuca EXAMIKATION.—(Examinod and approved)—
H. J. Lee. 8.A., Cabo College; Mickley. Clare
College. Examiners :W. Couch. H. J. B. Bond, G. E.
Paget, W. H. Diainao.a, 1). Liveiog, and Charles
Lestourisoa.

OXFORD, Dec. 1.

In a convocation holden this day, at 10 o'clock,
a grace was raised, permitting the Rev. A. S. Farrar, ED.,
of Queen's College, and the Rev. W. W. Shirley, S.D.. of
Christ Church. to proceed to the devoted D.D., by reckon-
ing their standing from the date of their matriculation re-
spectively. In a congregation holden at the same time, the
following degrees were conferred :—Doctors in Divinity.—
Rev. Adam storey Farrar. Queen's College ; Rev. Walter
Waddington Shirley, Christ Church. Masters of Arts.—
Edward Parker Dew, Exeter College ; Rev. James Lewis
Barnett, Magdalen Hall. Y.A. name re/decd.—Bev. Ste-
phen Frost Jose, Pembroke College. Bachelors of Arts.—
John Hill, Charles Foster, and Joha Maitland,
University College ; Thomas Leslie Papillon (scholar),
Banjo' College : Oswald loom Steels, James Baden
Powell, Wuliam Ward Goddard. David Jenkins,
Arthur Gordou Burr Stallard, Robert Ponsonby
Carew Hunt, and Arthur Clutterbuck, Exeter College ;
Arthur Rioe Gwyn and Ge Fleming Lamb, Oriel Col-
lege ; Charles Stem, New Colege; Henry ltridewell Gregg,
James Rumell Madan, Charles William Hull, Henry Wil.
Liam Barber, and Andrew Wallace Milroy. Queen's College ;
fraects John Kuyahe, Edgar Smith, and Sydney William
Skethogion, Brasenom College ; Harbert Solway, William
Kvnoaaton Mott, Francis Augusta. Walker. William Lucas
Wilson, and James Albert Owen, China Church ; John
Henchman Crowfoot (scholar). Charles Wyatt Smith, Hugh
Edward Pigott Platt (scholar), Henry Thornhill Morgan,
and Samuel Suiintoa Brown, Trinity College; William
Grace heron, Charles Edward Armstrong. Charles Hen.y
Binh beery Robert }Lucian, and William Baker, St. John's
College ; Jebn Morris, William Jenkins, and John Ricketts,
Jecia College ; George Browne Jameson. Samuel Edward
Hodgson, Henry Hooper, and Samuel William Darwin Fox,
Wadham College ; Heoty beano, Edward Gilliat, Richard
Alexander Boyle, andsllentos Best Jenkins, Pembroke Col-
lege ; Henry Chevenix (reholari and Henry Edmund Miley
Cram", Worcester College : Thomas Porter Blunt and John
Elston. Magdalen Hall ; Joseph William Wright Drew, St.
Alban Hail; Francis Greases kiadpun, Chareley's HAIL