The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

OXFORD, FEB. S.—The Craven Scholarship, for
which there were upwards of twenty candidate., has been
gained by Mr. George Ridding, Commoner of Balliol
College.
Glorsm's Cott.roa.—There will be an election of two
exhibitioners in this college on Thursday, the 20th of March
next, one on the foundation of Kean Fitrgerald, Esq., for
natives of Middlesex ; the other on that of Sir Francis
Bridgman, fur natives of Lancashire, Cheshire, or Wiltshire.
CAMBRIDGE, FEB. B.—MORAL SCIENCES TRIBOS.—
Examiners : W. Whewell, D.D., Professor of Moral Philo
sophy ; H. P. Maine, D.C.L., Professor of Civil Law; A.
Amos, M.A., Professor of the Laws of England; G. Pryme,
M.A., Professor of Political Economy; F. W. Gibbs, M.A.,
Deputy Professor of Modern History; 11. A. Holden, M.A.
(Trinity College) additional exammer.—First Class: Drs.
Mackenzie, Trinity; *Wilson, A., Trinity; Bruce, lion.
T., Jesus; *Hort, Trinity. Ds. Feeley, Christ's College,
having been taken ill during the examination is not classed.
*Moral Philosophy (Whewell's) Prizomen.
CORPUS Cottzue.—The Spencer Scholarship has been
appropriated by the master to Richard Pearson Greases.
TILE REV. ARCHDEACON WIGItAM was inducted
into the rectory of St. Mary's, Southampton (Lord Guil-
ford's parish) on the sth inst.
THE NEW VICAR OF SHEFFIELD (the Rev. Thomas
Sale) has refused to allow the Rev. Canon Trevor to officiate
in the parish church. A meeting of Mr. Trevor's friends
has been held, at which it was unanimously resolved to take
proceedings at law against the church burgesses for payment
of Mr. Trevor's salary. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, it is understood,
s to be retained for Mr. Trevor.—Bradjord Observer.

NAVAL.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 13.—APPOINTMENTS.—Liente-
mats : James Hunt and W. C. Geary, to the Coast Guard.
Master: R. Salmon& to the Birkenhead.
Surgeon-Superintendent: A. C. Macleroy, to the Pyre-
nees convict-ship.
Masters-Assistant: R. B. Princard and W. C. Hare, to
the Birkenhead.
Second Masters : W. Brodie and E. M. Vinctnt, to ditto.
Assistant Engineers: T. Borrovnnan and J. R. Johnson,
to the Arrogant.
Clerk: T. N. State, to the Birkenhead.
Boatswain : Thomas Harris, to ditto.
Gunner: J. Archbold, to ditto.
Carpenter: J. Roberts, to ditto.

TUE BLOOD OF A MURDEREJL—The g ex-
traordinary statement is made in a letter from Ystad, in
Sweden, dated the 28th ult. :—" This morning having been
fixed fur the execution of a journeyman butcher, named
Mammon, and a woman named Botilla-Milsdotter, for
having murdered the husband of the latter, a vast number
of persons of all ages and both sexes, and especially of pea-
sants in their national costumes, arrived last evening, and
bivouacked in the town all night. Although for upwards
of 60 years no execution had taken place in the province,
and fur upwards of eight years none in all Sweden, it was
not so much curiosity which attracted the multitude, as the
desire to swallow a drop of the blood of the criminals at the
moment it should spurt from beneath the axe of the execu-
tioner; it being a popular belief in Sweden that it renders
the weak atrong, cures all aorta of maladies, and secures
a long life. When the scaffold was erected the people
assembled round with cups, glasses, bowls, some even with
large saucepans to catch the blood. The soldiers had the
greatest difficulty in forming and maintaining an open
space. The two culprits, who were very penitent, arrived
ow the ground at seven o'clock, and after listening to the
exhortations of the priests, gave themselves up to the exe-
cutioner. The woman was first beheaded, then the man.
The anxiety of the spectators was very great. and the
moment the man's head was severed they broke through
the line of soldiers. The soldiers to drive them back
lustily employed the butt ends of their muskets (the
muskets were not loaded), and a desperate conflict ensued.
At last the crowd surneeded in reaching the scaffold ; but in
the meantime the police had placed the bodies in a cart,
and had sent them off under a strong escort of cavalry.
They had, however, to take the precaution of removing by
spades and pickaxes the portions of the road on which
drops of blood happened to fall, to prevent the people
from lapping up the blood. When the bodies had got fairly
off, the crowd gradully dispersed; two hundred of them
were grievously injured, and a greater number had received
severe contusions."
A VERDICT OF BELO-DE-Sr.—On Sunday night
last a young man named David Morgan committed suicide,
by hanging himself in his father's house in the town of
Pont-y-pridd. The deceased, it was stated by witnesses who
were examined at the inquest, had spent the greater part of
the day in gaming. The jury returned a verdict of flo-
. dr-of, and the coroner issued a warrant for the interment of
ides:eased between the hours of nine and tsst.ve at =gat,—
' Masisooglolsire