The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Mears. Pattenden and Smith report that there continues
a steady demand for all descriptions of hops ; the supply is
bare of fine sorts, and growers are holding for higher prices.

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Carr's Hartle 19s. 19s. 6d. ; Walls End Riddell, 22". ; Walt
End Haswell, 235. 9d. ; Walls End I.antbton, '3s. 3d. ;
Walls End Stewart's, 235. 6d. ; Walls End Tees, 235. Gil—
/Mips at market, 297.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

OXFORD, Nov. 12.—fhe Rev. H. G. Randall,
M.A. of Queen's College, has been presented to the Per-
petual Curacy of Bishopworth, Somerset. The Um T. H.
Chase, M.A., Fellow of the WAS college,has been presented
to the Perpetual Coney of Lydbrook, Gloneesterehire.
The committee of the Hebdomadal Board will shortly
submit a fresh plan on the subject of the uew museum. It
la understood that one of the designs received by the com-
mtittee is rely similar in style and character to the memor-
able Crystal Palace of 1851.
The university have given notice of their intention to
apply
.to parliament in the ensuing session for leave to
bring in a bill to repeal the local poor act of Orford, and to
grant further and more effectual powers in lien thereof ;
and also to provide for a contribution to poor rates by the
university. Tho rating of Pembroke College has long
been a bone of contention, and about 3011. his been
spent in getting from that college a email rate which has
been paid under protest. By rejecting the uaiversity offer
to pay a fourth of the rates, provided they had an equal
share of representation at the b null, the town will Joie
about 2,0001. a-year,and have to fight the battle with al-
most every college. The inhabitants generally are in favour
of accepting the university offer, but a small majority of the
guardians have rejected it, solely on the grouud that the
share of representation asked for is toogrcat.
A new loan society, in connexion with some p irties in
London, has been opened in Oxford by a few tradesmen,
for the purpose of assisting members of the university and
others with advances of money as they require them. The
rate of interest which these patriotic inuividuals require is
30 per cent., and even at that iniquitous figure they transact
a large amount of business.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 12.—A sum amounting to about
1,9201., 3 per cent. consols, hneing been accepted by the
University for the purpose of founding an annual prize,
consisting of the int of the above-meatinned fund, to
be called the " Le Bas Prize," for the best English osay
on a subject of general literature, such subject to be occa-
sionally chosen with reference to the history, institutions
and probable destinies and prospce.s of the Anglo-Indian
empire, the' examiners have given notice that the subject
fur the present year is—" The Jews in Egypt from the
captivity to the destruction of Jerusalem."
Monday, November 14, is the last day for candidates
who intend offering themselves for the Norrisiat, Profess:•r-
ship to send in their names to the stewards—who are the
Master of Trinity, the Provost of King's, and the Master of
CSIUF. The election will take place within the first four-
teen days of May next, and the retiring professor is eiig.ble
for re-election.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The prize given aamually to
the senior soph who composes the best English essay has
been adjudged to Clement Tndway Swanstat: subject,
" The conditions which must exist among a people to a trait
of the successful working of Constitutional Monarchy."

THE LONDON MAESHES.—Everybody has beard
of the marshes lying outside the gates of Rome—every
tourist is eloquent on the topic of Roman malaria—few
ever give a thought to the marshes lying outside the gates
of London, or trouble themselves with the thought of an
English malaria. Yet it is probable that the exhalation
from a London swamp is not less deadly in its effects than
that of the Pontine fiats. South-east and south-west of tee
metropolis lies a vast expanse of low land, reeking with
stagnant water—like the lens of Cambridgeehire and Lin-
colnshire in the seventeenth century, or the banks of the
Lower Danube at the present hour. Its fetid mists rise up
under the nostrils of nearly three millions of persons not
generally supposed to be careless of their personal comr errs,
and help to poison the atmosphere breathed by the rulers of
the world. Three millions of men, with boundless wealth
and a marvellous scientific apparatus at hand, rice up in the
morning to breathe the miasma, inhale it o'sl day
long, and lie down with it in their bedrooms at
night, content and helpless. Truly, we are a
strange people as regards our social logic. Alen who w.fuld
avoid a Venetian laguno in August, and would hurry from
S DAL— Rome at the fall, lest some lurking poison in the Italian air
-- - re should cep into their lungs, will sit down easily on the
'Oh. On
FATAL ACCIDENT ON LORD MAt banks of the Thames, and smile approvingly at the Ne of
Saturday Mr. Carter held an inquest on a
• boy named UI r- Dogs. Whe they, however, our carelessness tike n-ffr of
ner, employed at Mr. Smith's Pottery, La mbeth. During lit or not, there, in the low Essex swamp, is the bocce of
the dinner hour the deceased was with som e other boys hi I ague and influenza, coughs, rheum!, catarrhs—all bred in
one of Mr. Nash's barges lying off Fore-str tet, waiting tJ the stagnant ditches, and smiting from among the to‘hes
etc the re-embarkation of the civic train. In the ntefutiele and flags at the heedless crowd. the east winds bear the
they amused themselves by running about the barge; and reeking fogs from east to west—and the imps drop 1 ,wet
the deceased falling over the side caught at th e anchor to into nurseries, gardens, and countless pleasant places of the
was im mediately the strong man, to do their work of pain and death Li lei-
save himself. Unfortunately, however, it gave way. and metropolis, fastening on the cheek of beauty or the luLz of
fell upon his abdomen. The poor boy
rescued, but be died in a few minutes after. Verdict, sure. At length, however, attention has peen drawn :o the
remain undrained. Wo trust that Lord Penton, wh .1 has
.. Accidental death." sate of the swamp, and the consequences of allowing it to
shown an ecnergy in dealing with as town gra re-
will render every assistance in his power towards having
eveAniNnOgTlllasEt,Ra
blolioletrtaEttitachedExtonaosiestioz.c—ngti)nne
atTcuubtaandeaSe
will i yards, whi h almost recalls the decision of Cromwell's ::me,
colliery suddenly exploded. A boy, nine years of age,
London marshes drained, even as Oliver ehow, el his
fellows how to drain the Cambridge Fens.—Athrligalf,
inquest was held the next day, and a verdict of "Accidental
blown 30 orsdeOvey.arldsofthroemr titenosbneds , awnedredaielrlsosiooonersefdte.r eAtue 1
thit
Death" returned. The catastrophe was attributed to the St'ICIOS IN Hiqw-riafix.—Yesterday morning,
dirt getting into the safety-valve, and preventing its proper a 'Lout one o'c:hck, a policeman of the A division found the
action. bo,iy of a man euipended by a handkerchief to one of the
MORTALITY OF FONEB.—Within the last eighteen old VMS near the Humane Society's receiving-howe. It
monde, no fewer then forty foxes have been found dead by was removed to St. George's Workhouse. where it awai:, an
the keepers and woodmen in the vicinities northward of inquest. The deceased, who wits about 40 years of age, had
Abarystwitb, having died from the mange. The complaint upon him • pocket-book, with the name of " George C'ot-
reams to be rapidly spreading.-IVaidiman. MIL"

THIS D. Vi.—Two o'CLocri.
The gold mining. she re market remains very quiet,
with little change in pr; um. Agna Fria are quoted
11.16 to 13-16 prem. ; N. mveau Monde, 3-16 to 7-16
prem. ; Great Nugget, I to prem.; and Colonial
Gold, yto prem.
Australian Agricultural s, bares are quoted 40/ to
415; Peel River, /to 1 prem. ; North British Austra-
lasian, to prem.; and Scot tiall Australian Invest-
ment, 1 7-16 to 1 9-16 prem. - St. John del Rey
shares have been dealt in at 38 to /, ald Imperial
Brazilian at 7.