The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duman,
At the sitting of the Incumbered Estates Commis-
sioners yesterday a point of some importance to the
creditors was arranged, namely, that when an abso-
lute order for sale was made, the court would give
the carriage of the proceedings to whichever creditor
it would appear most advantageous to the estate
should have it. Hitherto the chief opposition to pro-
ceedings in that court arose not from the inheritor
attempting to defend himself, but from a struggle of
the incumbrancers amongthenuelyes for the privilege
I have mentioned, which is somewhat similar to that
of an assigneeship in bankruptcy.
No sale whatever has yet been attempted under the
commission; although one of your contemporaries
fell Into the error, the other day, of supposing that
the Bleesington estates were so disposed of. Neither
does the age of that property afford any argument of
an improved state of things in this country; for it so
happened that the estates in land were all reserved, no
adequate offer having been made, and the sale being
confined almost exclusively to house property.
A rumour has been current hero toe some days,of
an intention on the part of government to propose •
small fixed duty on corn next session; but u it
is propagated by the protectionists, it is but little
heeded. The Moil asserts that the rumour in London
on Monday was that the subject of a fixed duty
would be proposed in the cabinet council to be h. Id
on that day. The same organ thr. plena that Ireland
sill return at least eighty protectionists at the next
general election. Ae to a fixed duty of some four or
five shillings—if indeed that be a subject for discus-
sion at all—no one who understands the condition of
Ireland supposes that it could set things right with
the agricultural interests here. It would, if carried
amount to a triumph over free-traders of England,
which might suffice for • party purpose; but to I
remedy the work of the famine, of the enormous poor
rates, of the rack-rent system, of the general crush of
bankruptcy, which bad been brewing for generations
for the landed proprietors, to say nothing of the re-
sults of other political and social miasse—that boon
to protectionism would be as a drop of water in a
conflagration.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
OIYOIID, Nov. 29.—1 n a convocation holden this morn-
ing, the name of the Rev. Charles Parker M.A. of Queen's
College, was restored to the books of the University.
In a congregation holden immediate.? atlA•warde, the
literati ins in the statute " De Concionittio, Tit. XVI." wee
promulgated. The effect of the alteratkila is `this state*
will be-1. That the professors or peitethl oktology of et-
alesiastleal history, end of the einem, of Holy Scriptere,
will be included is the cycle of awning preachers. 2. That
all the professors when preaching se such will preach at
St. Mary's, and that consequently, if absent, their place at
St. Mary's will be supplied by one of the select preachers
3. That the Vice-Chancellor will have authority to appoint
in en emergency a substitute for a preacher who may be un-
expectedly prevented from dischargine his duty in person ;
and when his plans cannot be cenvenientlysupplied by one of
the select preachers. 4. That the remuneration to the
morning preachees at St. Mary's durieg t‘rm, whether heads
of coneys cm professors, when preaching in their own terms,
will be cecontinued.
In the same congregation the following dftrees were con-
ferred :—Mastor of Arts: Rev. Edward Bade, Henry Taos.
J. Jenkinson, Belot Col. ; Rev. Charles Henry Travers,
Rev. Charlie Hill Audry, Queen's Col.; James Chambers,
All Souls Col. ; Richard Atkinson, grand compounder,
William Jenkins Craig C.lston, grand compounder, St.
John's Col. ; Rev. Frank Walter, Worcester Col. Bachelor
of:Arts : Oswald 'H. Loyemeter Penrhys, Salisbury Bairn.
dale, John Frederick Croft, Ballid Col. • John Loney Car.
rick, %herder, William Whitmarsh Phelps, Matthew Pow.
ley, Isaac Dunne, Queen's Col. ; Richaid Baskin Godwin,
Robert Wilson BMWs., Bllo'oo6o CoL ; Thomas Herbert
Noyes, Quist Chan* Col.; Ogle Rowell, Richard Ham
Exeter Col.; Edward Comirford Hawkins', Aloe Brodriek,
Exeter C.l. ; Jahn liodgeos Iles, Linooln Col.; John Pen-
, nington Leith, William John Mills Ellison Wadham Col. ;
Guyana Morison Brown, t choler, E lwaril Bullock Finlay,
Benjamin S. Trapaud Smith, Worcester Col.; William Wil-
son, New Inn Hell.
PIISIMUIRNIS.—Rev. R. J. Bunch, R. of Emmanuel
Ch , Loughborough, to be a surrogate for the archdeaconry
of Leicester.
Rev. T. !letterman, ts Headington Quarry P.C., Odord-
shire.
The Rev. Mr. Whitehead, of Trinity Church, Ramsgate,
bas livings with the Rev. Mr. Field, of Oaerby,
war Buckingham.

MILITARY.
COLOKILCY Or SHI 4TH DRAOOOI4I.—As was intim►ted
some days ep ta the Daily Naos, Lieut-General R.
Pigot is to succeed the late Sir George Assoc Colonel of
too 4th Dragoon Guards, and the appointment will probably
be in to-night's sanitary Garotte.
blasoz-Onnutia &mum, who wasat the siege of Copen-
hagen, Iho7. and who served at the maga of the Douro,
Bidssww, Nhelle, Ni,.. and Admit ; at the battles ef Tala-
vera, 8 ,i.mansa, and Vittoria; at the sieges of Ciudad R. -
ngo, Badajos. Burgos, and San Sebastian ; at the capture of
Madrid, at the investment of Bayous., and at the battles of
Queue Bras and Waterloo, and the subsequent capture of
Yarn, has 11111:~1941 to the disnagoished service pay of 265.
per diem.