The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

OXFORD, JUNE 14.—The University prizes have
just been awarded as follows, viz. The Chancellor's l'rizes.
—Latin Verse: " Parthenonia ltuinw," Mr. Charles S.
Blayds, Scholar of Balliol College. English Essay : " What
form of political constitution is most favourable to the cul-
tivation of the tine arts? " Mr. Charles S. Curer, BA.,
late of Balliol, now Fellow of Merton College. Latin
Essay : " Demosthenis et Ciceronis inter se cousparatio,"
Mr. Henry E. Tweed, B.A , Scholar of Trinity College.
Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize.—English Verse: " Nineveh,"
Mr. Alfred W. Hunt, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.
WAUII,I3I COLLEGE.—There will be an election to two
Scholarships on Monday, the 30th iust. Natives of Great
Britain under 19 years of age are eligible ; and for one of
the scholarships the founder's kindred may he entitled to
some preference. Candidates must call on the warden with
the proper certificates of their parents' marriage, se., on
Wednesday, the 25th, at 4 o'clock.
AFOMENTATION OF THE PROFESSORS' SALARIES, &C.
—The object of the proposed new statute is to augment the
stipends of some of the professors and readers who are more
immediately connected with the subjects for examination
in the new schools of physical and natural science and of
history, and who are at present inadequately endowed, sub-
ject in each case to certain conditions as to residence, the
number of lectures to be given, and the amount of fee to be
paid by members of the University attending the same ;
secondly, to encourage the attendance of junior mem-
bers of the University on the lectures of these professors
by appointing a moderate amount of fee for each
course. It is proposed, accordingly, to augment the sti-
pends of the Camden Professor of History, of the Professor
of Chemistry, and of the Reader of Experimental Philoso-
phy, to 3001. per annum each; and the stipends of the
Readers of Mineralogy and Geology, and the Professor of
Moral Philosophy, to 2.50/. per annum each. The augmen-
tation of the stipend of the Camden Professor will
be paid out of the proceeds of the estate bequeathed by
the founders for the benefit of the University, and hitherto
applied to the general purposes of the University. The
payment of the other professors or readers will be made
from the interest of so much stock in the Three per Cent.
Consols Reduced as may be required for that purpose (viz.,
23,0001.), which will be transferred from the Press account,
with the consent of the delegates, to the general account of
the University. if any of the abovenamcd professors or
readers shall Ise appointed to hold, at the same time, ano-
ther of the professorships so augmented, he shall receive the
augmentation of only one professorship. Thirdly. It is
proposed to appropriate the sum of 30,000/. stock in this
Three per Cent. Stock Reduced, to be transferred, with ths
consent of the delegates, from the Press account, towards
a fund for defraying the expense of, first, erecting a new
university museum; second, providing such additional lec-
ture-rooms and such additional examination schools as may
be necessary for carryiug into effect the new examination
statute. No accurate estimate of the cost of such building
can as yet be made, till the site for the new museum shall
have been determined ; but there is good reason to aspect
that not a less sum than between 30,0001 and 10,0001. will
be required for these several objects.
ORDINATION IfV TILE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER-
sear.—Deacons : Albert Aitken, St. John's Cambridge ;
E. Robert Cowie, Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; Walter De
Veal*, Queen's, Cambridge ; William Edward Downes,
Wadham, Cambridge ; Edward Gilder, St. John's, Cam-
bridge ; Richard Glover, Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham;
Francis James Holland, Trinity, Cambridge ; Robert
Joshua Leslie, Trinity, Dublin; John Haworth
Brasenose, Oxon ; Henry Retail Reynolds, Trinity, Cam-
bridge; Charles Stirling, Exeter, Oxon. Priests : Charles
Brooke Bicknell, Exeter, Oxon ; Henry Jennings Borek-
hardt, St. Peter's, Cambridge ; Edward Jonathan Birch,
Wadham, Oxon; Charles Creaghe Collins, Christ's, Cam-
bridge; James Churchill Cook, Pembroke, Oxon; John
Henry Smart, Trinity, Cambridge ; John Starkey, Trinity,
Cambridge ; Joseph Thompson, Theol., Birkenhead
Edward Ditcher Ward, St. John's, Cambridge ; Hugh
Weightman, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON AND LEWES
ReitivAy—titzetAL VEnottT.—The inquiry into the re-
cent melancholy catastrophe on the Brighton and Lcwcs
line of railway was resumed on Saturday, at the Shirehall,
Lewes. Officials of the company proved the sound condi-
tion of engines and carriages when the trains started, and
several engineers and engine-drivers gave their opinion
that there is no danger in running the tender before the
engine at a speed of 20 or 30 miles an hour, and that in the
present case the guards on the engine would not have re-
moved the sleeper. No evidence was given to show how
the sleeper came upon the rails. The coroner proceeded to
sum up. Having gone through the evidence, he said the
first question they had to decide was the cause of
the accident. if they were satisfied that it arose I
from the sleeper, then they wuuid consider whe-
ther it was so placed intentionally, and whether
the evidence was so tar satisfactory as to lead them in fixing 1
the guilty party. For his own part he did not see that I
quite clear, but it was for them to judge. The jury retired, I
and after being away for nearly an hour and a quarter, they I
came into court with the following as their verdict: We I
find that the deaths of the deceased were caused by the train
running off the rails and passing over the Newmarket arch-
way ; that a broken sleeper was found on the spot after the
accident, but by what means it came there does not appear
to the jury ; that in this instance the tender preceded the
engine, and that the train passed down the Fahner incline
at a greater rate than directed by the company, and the
jury arc of opinion that such practices were dangerons,and
that had the engine been placed first, or the tender been
provided with iron guards, the probability of safety would i
have been much increased; that the jury express their
regret that so much connected with this accident should
have been moved before their inspection, by, which they
were prevented from so complete an examinaton as other-
wise might have been afforded." The proceedings closed
shortly after five o'clock.
DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL R. BAILEY, FORMERLY
OF THE 12TH INFANTItT.—Lieut.-Coloael Bayley, who
served in the 12th Regiment of Infantry, died at Boulogne-
sur-Mer, on the sth instant, aged 73 yeah.
SHOCKING HOMICIDE AT WOLVERHAMPTON.--On
Friday last James Jones was committed by the mayor of
Wolverhampton foe trial at the assizes on a charge of wilful
murder, the young HOMO, Catherine Morris, whom he
stabbed on Monday Lot, haying died on Thureday.—Staf-
ferdshire Aden Geer.