The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAYRBIDGB, Ocr. 8.
ZIAMINATION tK BMA/FT.—The examination for
the Professorial Certificate in Botany will take plaee oa
Temlay, October :Xi, at ten o'clock a.m. hi the Bleate•
hors. Gentlemen intending to pross4 themselves for
examination oa this occasioo mast esod tisk mom to the
Preform el Botany, at St. John's College, on or before
titasnaday, °Mobs, 17. . .

lILMLII.ZII:II—The Jacksonian Professor will on Tuesday,
October 27, at sae o'clock, oommeece a coarse of lectures
at the room in the Botanic Garde, as Mechanics and
Mechanism nod their application to manufacturing process,
the steam 0011111. fro. The lectures will be delivered every
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
ENGLISH LA/0010; LITIILATVI/, AND HLITOILY.-11%.
Massy, English lecturer at Corpus Christi College, will
give the followiog coons* of instructioe, opus (by per-
mission of the Vice-Chancellor) to all mergliere at the uni-
versity :—English Philology, Foglia Literature, English
I °a:ems &NOM History, Pomo 8.,41,4. public
ag•
To 0/IDMATIS 101 HOLT 0111:118.—Mr. IYOnel7.
English lectors* et Corpus Christi College, will give duns,
the present term the folio ltungg courses of instruction, epee
(by pernasesse of the V llor) to all members of
the saiversity :-1. Public Heading. —Elementary course.
Foreshore of the voice, principles of proatiectelion, MM.
tion at provincial errors and defective articulation. Wed-
sesdays and Fridays, at 12 R., or 6.30 p.m. Advanced
mars* : Critical stody cl the Prayer-book and lemma. as
the bus of correct, aataral, and impressive reeding. Wed-
nesdays sad Fridays, at 1 p.m. or 7.30 p.m. 2. Public Speaking.
—Management of the vacs, action ; cottage's's:tune, platform
speeches, preaching, extempore sod memoriter ; delivery of
written sermons. Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 1 p.m., or
7.30 p.m. 3. English Composition.—Paraphrasing, trans-
lators, formatioo of style, composition of menace', mays,
lid popularkcidremes; criticism. Totmlays sad Thunder",

at Ifni., or G3O p.m.. The lectures will
November.
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OXFORD, OCT. &
ELscrion or Vics-Catircin.Loa.—This afternoon
a convocation was hold's, when the Chameallees nomias-
tion of the Rev. Jobe Prideaux Lightfoot, AD, Maier of
Easter College,Vies-Chanaillor for ifiesseningyearowas read ;
' the rev. gentlemae as Vice•Chanoellee, of the past year,
delivered the usual Latin speech, reetmatMg the principal
academie events during his year of office, sad putieeleelv
alluded in most graceful terms to the pleasing visit of their
Rep,' Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to this
university ; the oaths of office were administered, and Dr.
Lightfoot was for the second time admitted vios-chancellor.
The following beads of houses were, with the exception of
De. Cotton, Primes* if Worcester, who was Onset, ad-
mitted es pro-nce.chanceilors, viz. :—Fred Charles
Plumptre. D D., Master of University; Robert:keit, D.D.,
Master of &Riot ; Charles Williams, D.D., Priecipel of
Janus.

MICHAILYAS Tsax.—The first day of Masslam Tan
is oa Saturday neat, when, as mmeL &geese will be ma-
ternal. The members of the variame maws and halls will
generally meet at the end et the following week.

TRIAL 01 NEW LIFIDDATS. —Yesterday Rome
harbour trials were made is the Regent's Canal Dock, Lime-
house, with two new lifeboam belonging to the Renaud
Lifeboat Institution. Them were present—• Mr. Thome
Chapman. F.R.S., Sir Edward Perron, Captain De St.
OMR, Mr. R. Lewis. Mr. W. H. Merton, Captaia D. Ro-
bertime, R.N., sad several other gautlenth. Both boats
underwent the usual trials, of self•righting and self-ejactiag
the water, of the craft of the National Lifeboat Institution.
One of the boats, which is Si feet long sail rows ten oats,
double banked, is 'Mended for Teisamouth, Devoe, to
replant en old and inferior boat there. She is as imperi-
-1 mental boat, being built of iron, and being the first lifeboat ,
on she self-righting plimiple which bile been made of
that materiel. Sim was built by Mr. Hepworth, the iron
shipbuilder at MillwalL under the immediate super'''.
hemline, of bir. Joseph Prowse, of her Majesty's Dockyard,
Woolwich, purveyor to the institutioa. Her cost was
raised at the British settletranta at fikeig•Koog sal
Shanghai in 1862 by Mr. W. H. Barton. a member of the
general committee°, the Lifeboat Institution, in conjunc-
tion with Means. Oilman and Co. of Hong -Kong, for the
=preen purpose of presenting a lifeboat to the aociety, to rie
stationed on the Eoglith most. la eoasplismat to the aut.
seribere who thee remembered an important weak in their
own etuntry when far away from it, she has been named
the China. A new and commodious boat bona has bess
built for her at Teignmooth, and she has been supplied with
a new tmasporting carnage. The other boat which was
tried yeemdsy is 30 feet long, and rows tee oars doable
banked, sad is to go to Swansea. She was built by the
Messrs. Formatt of Limiltouse, lifeboat builder to the
Natiosallselitutioo. The Great Western Railway and the
ether eounseting railway companiet have, as metal, readily
gives a fie.ooeveyanee to mob of the boats to their dm&
=Memos the coast.

Pull benefit of reduced duty obtained by por-
tioning flansisseas's Pao Tea very dudes at Oa 40. sad
" litsadsrd" at 4a al. vormerty WO, is the
wad neat &pion leeporti. Agisie in mei 1141:Int