The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-09 00:00:00

I ICELAND.

Alva 8.
The f,II sing gentlemen were yesterday (Trinity
MotAti d the sut:.m.lul candidates for the
memo' fell.m.hips and scholarships in the University
of I :

'armichael. Primus;
&math's: Stones, Madden's Premium; Abbott,
Pos.: Gwynne. 201.
Seind.titsmi-4- -1/eir, Samuel; Weir, William ;
Belt•m. Stevenson, Cochrane,lturke, Hopkins, ltobt.;
Ihnt. Johnston. June., Littledale, Hubhart, Martin,
Gwvi.ns.. SON rt Goodman. Gray:
Mr. T. 11. Joni.. of Moneyglass, has intimated to
the t.nuntre no hi. extensi‘e estates in 1/own that
he tiltlll to pine one vote for Mr. Ker, while
they or at full liluety to give the other to any can-
diditt. they ph axe.
A m,.•ttng of lewd Antrim's tenantry was con-
vent,' on the Ith in.t . for the purpose of introducing
to them Copt. Pak, oham, one of the masc. vative
canth.l.ol-, for the county of Antrim, and of convey-
ing to them their lordship's wish, formally expressed
by his ag.nt. that they should vote for the gallant
capful'. rind for the other conservative candidate, Mr.
G. %11'.irtney. Several of the tenants had the
lasnlin...s to declare at the meeting that they pro-
pwli to vote gt he liberal candidate. So much
for freedom of election in Ireland.
At the Italtycarlv 'netting of the General Mining
Compiny of Ireland, held yesterday, a dividend of 5
PO scut. On the paid-up capital was declared, making
a t0t.,1 r ZPO per tent. paid in dividends since the
inept of the company, in
Then was a meeting of the 11ibernian Joint Stock
Ihnkinz Company held yesterday, and a dividend
sr 0; pie trot. per unnuni on the paid-up capital was
&that d.

(i I. %.•,ilw AS I, WEST ItlIN RAILWAY.—
Intern ••i teiffir 1.4. the week ending June 5 —Receipts
4A4l' I 7.1.. mrre•pondieg week last year, 3,9801.1.. ad.
Ileakher paaseneere, 24.0111

Playing this strange uncertain part, Mr. GLAD-
STONE is a great public misfortune. Ile is throwing
away time, and opportunity, and talent, and know-
and capacity for. usefulness. Ile is passing
his life in exhibiting to the world the mechanism of
his own mind, the history of his own intellectual
struggles, the conflicts of his moral and religious na-
ture, he is deans)) what might have been a use-
ful public career in a great int.e11e.:!.2.11 and moral
debauch. The world wants him; yet there L'.!
stands shill), shallying as to what part he shall
play; cultivatirg conscientious doubts and scruples;
afraid to come to terms ; confirming and strength-
ening all existing prejudices against him; destroying
himself in the very prime of his faculties. Full of
ambition, but without the stuff that makes ambition
virtue. E‘ery word he utters worth attending to;
yet doing nothing worthy of himself.
Mr. GLADSTONE cannot be spared from the Hoses
of Commons; but if the University of Oxford dismie"
him, who, or what constituency, will receive him P
Where else could he find a seat ? No where so suit-
able an one. For Oxford itself is in the same per-
plexed, doubtful, transition state as Mr. CiLtusroNs
is. New lights have dawned on it as well aeon him;
old prejudices are disappearing; in their place, views
that a few years back would have been deemed al-
most revolutionary, are rising to the horizon. The
Oxford of IMo2 is not the Oxford of 1829; it is not
the Oxford that preferred Sir Mourne Noma to
Sir ROBERT PEEL. The spirit that then prevailed
lie still powerful ; but it is on the wane. The courtly*
with which Mr. GLADSTONE has explored Its
blatant senseless toryism, and found it want-
ing ; the sense of moral dignity with which be
hos acted on his new convictions; the bold-
ness of his votes on the Jewish question, of his
avowed change of opinions on many ecclesiastical
subjects, have encouraged hundreds of Oxford minds
to follow his example; to examine for themselves
the world and its affairs; to throw away old tradi-
tionary views when proved to be inconsistent with
truth, and the present wants of society ; to cease to
be alternately charmed and frightened by mere
names; to search into the actualities of life in a
closer and more charitable spirit; and the conse-
quences are that even Oxford has progressed. Of
these great changes Mr. GLADSTONE, if not the most
consistent, is at all events, an able exponent.
A groat change is evidently coming over Oxford.
The ablest and most intelligent of its memben, many
of them pecuniarily interested in its present abuses,
are altogether dissatisfied at the unworthy and minor
part the University plays in educating and forming
the national mind. They have risen in rebellion
against the narrow bonds and confined and restricted
usefulness of Oxford as it is, and have cried aloud
fur reform, improvement, and alteration before the
Royal Commission. What they require is that
the University shall be nationalised, and secularised ;
that its wealth, and that of its colleges, shall be spent
in the service of learning; that its real teachers
shall have a share in its government ; that its stan-
dard of education shall be rained and extended; that
all its closeneases and corruptions shall beexpurgated ;
that fellowships and headships shall be the reward
of merit and experience; in short, that with such
great means more work, and better work, be done.
The discontent of this class is deep. It is already a
powerful, and it is a rapidly increasing, body;
toned !o to by statesmen; itself rising to eminence in
the affairs of life; with a zeal, a knowledge, and a
determination that will, sooner or later, restore Ox-
ford to the nation whose property it O. Does this
party wish to strengthen the Puseyism of Mr.
BENNETT or to screen the Tractarian tendencies of
the Bishop of Bath and Wells? Will they who
admire Mr. GLADSTONE, admire him the more for his
speech of last night?
No. Of this Oxford New Party there is another
most satisfactory peculiarity. It is not imbued
with those offensive and mischievous eceledmitical
opinions which have of late years aniseed Onird,
and done such irreparable injury to Fatilmll. Am •
body, the able men who have so libeenig susgeshel
improvements to the Awl Ctambeles =Let
to be possessed anpl=ied 1116 these
subtleties, to the nating study of —11111171wW;
SENtiot attributes the present paucity and want er
rising promise in public affairs. Their a=t
rather to cultivate those mental and moral
calculated to wrestle with the world an k Web.
rather than to extend the study of quads= Hat
Can only be solved in the world to come; to propels
men to meet and perform their duties here, not In
plunge them into the mysteries of an hereafter.
The opposition to Mr. GLADSTONE CAMS fkr
the reactionary party at Oxford—from the min ribs
were deluded into persecuting HAMPDEN' and who
attempted to destroy ARNOLD—from the gnat mess
of stupid intolerant', who were seduced by roperfar
craft and subtlety into encouraging a party wide
they cannot now control, and which despises and
ridicules its former dupe. This hostility I*.
OtADsTONE may possibly last night have propitiated,
hut he has, whilst doing so, lost the sympathy cif a
more active and deserving class of supporters. And
was beaten in the Howie of Commons into the bar-
gain.
Mr. Gi.sosTo:sz tried to compound for his Neapo-
litan indignation, for his free-trade convictions, for
his constant trespasses on liberal opinions and policy,
by publicly stating that, nevertheless and notwith-
standing, he is as conservative in ail his tendencies
and views as ever. He now compounds with the old
bigotry of Oxford, that he may represent it, regard-
less of those who wish Oxford to be better than she
is. Let him prepare for the consequences.

Twenty persona renounced japery on Sunday last
M the church of St. Paul's, Bermondsey.

Mary; Brown, the aunt, was called, and said that she
resided at Bromley. The deceased came to see her on Fri-
day last, and remained until 7 o'clock in the evening, when
she left to proceed across the fields to her muter 's house at
Ilackney. She had a little basket with hir and a pair of
cloth boots, which she had purchased before she left witness.
She had only a few coppers on her when she departed.
Mr. Edward Moore, surgeon, of No. 86, Bethnal-green-
road, said he was c.lled to see the body of deceased on
Monday morning. He bad examined it carefully, and
found a bruise on the left eye, sad marks of strangulation
on the neck, as if the arm of some person had been closely
pressed round it, and her ears exhibited marks as if they
had been tightly grasped. There were bruises on other
parts of ber person, which he was of opinion had been in-
flicted previous to immersion in the water. Witness had
also ascertained that some connexion had very recently
taken place, but there was no hemorrhage proving any par-
ticular violence.

Susannah Keppell, wife of a beervhop keeper, stated that
she saw the deceased with a sailor on the Friday night,
about 10 o'clock. They entered the Yarmouth Arms, in
Oreen-street, Betluial•green ; but witness only knew her by
the bonnet she had on at the time.
Police-constable 195 K deposed to *misting the first wit-
ness in getting the body out of the water. Ile was on duty
during the night of briday near the spot wnero the de.
ceased was found, and be never heard any alarm or cries
for help.
Mr. Vaughan, the summoning officer, said they had since
found the deceased's shawl by the drags. The basket had
also been recovered at s'publie-house at Folly-bridge, where
it had been sold for a pint of beer on the Saturday, by some
personare.
re who picked it up in the field near the canal. No
we allowed to pass through it. It was kept fur
pleasure boats and bathing. The road-way was not danger-
ous, and the deceased could not have walked in from the
main thoroughfare.
The whole of the jury expressed themselves very much
dissatisfied with the evidence, and said the ease less one
deeply enveloped in mystery, and there wee no doubt the
deceased had come by her death by wine foul means.
The Coroner said, under the circumstances it would be
better to adjourn until a future My, to give the police time
to make further inquiries, which might probably throw
some light on the affair, and show how the deceased came
by bet death.
Inspeetcr Thompson, of the K division, was also directed
by the coroner to use every possible exertion to obtain
all the testimony he could by the next meeting of the jury.

CARY COMMITTEES.

To■ New RlVill euIIPANT.—The committee on the
Metropolis Water Bills have passed the preamble of this
bill for Improving the supply of water, the expense for
making the several works for which they estimate at
2613,3601.
Mom%MOTH ELECTION.—The parties promoting the
petition in this matter, have informed the Speaker that, in
consweence of the unforaten delay in the meeting of the
committee, it is not intended to proceed with it.

Duct( ACCOMMODATION AT CAPE TOWN.—The
excavation of a dock for the neeinmegistion of the fast in-
creasing shipping at this pime has buss for some time in
contemplation. A slitahle pinkies has been pointed out
near the Chaconne Battery, and it is proposed to procure,
as speedily as puseible, plans, estimate', &c., for the anis-
faction of the public and the formation of a company, should
it be determined to execute the work as a private concern.
Inv:nine:ion with this work, and simultaneously with it,
the Breakwater, so long determined on, should certainly be
commenced. The stones excavated to torn the docks would
be used in the construction of the Breakwater. In the
meantime, some additional convenience for coaling the
steamers is urgently required.—Notia African Advertiser. .
ADMINALTT, JUNE B.—APPOINTMENTs.—Purscr J.
lisy, Clerks K. 1). Herbert and W. E. Allen to Festal, and
C. M. Balfour and F. Braddon, to Spartan; Master's Assist.
ant J. Rogers, to lespregnable ; Acting Chief Engineer C.
K. Renwick, to /lenge ; W. Ounn to be surgeon and me-
dical storekeeper at the Deptford Victualling-yard ; Donner
J. Brookes, Boatswain 0. Scott, and Carpenter H. Brice, to
Furious ; and J. A. Widgets, to SgaWll.