The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

THE DISTURBANCES AT OXFORD.

OXFORD, MONDAY, &US P.M.
Considerable apprehension exists that disturb-
ances of a still more serious character than those of Satur-
day lent will be attempted to-night, as a number of work-
men engaged in the erection of the new buildings at
Balliol College and the new London and County Bank in
the High-street are out on strike, having lett their work
on Saturday. Large numbers of the citizens h►ve, during
the day, been sworn in as special constables, and the mem-
bers both of the University and City Rifle Corps have
enrolled themselves for the prevention of a breach of the
peace. In addition to these extraordinary measures the
public-houses are ordered to be closed at 9 o'clock to-
night by the Mayor and another justice of the peace, and
two companies of the Guards are expected from
Windsor. The shops are closed, and trade entirely
suspended. Up to the time of our parcel leaving
no rioting had taken place, although the streets were
thronged with people. The university authorities have
rendered every asistauce in their power to preserve order,
by " gating " the undergraduates of the various colleges
who are not in lodgings, and but few university men are
visible in the streets. We are pleased to learn that the
strike at Balliol is at an end, and that the artisans will

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sdnatrably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing.
In approaching consumption Its effects are truly beneficial.
Persona deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca-
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bottles, 134 d., and Charily
tree quantities in one, 2.. Pd. Be particular
and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address
are engraved on the stamp.

On December 12th will be published, &Mated Ins corer,
price Foorpeoce,
THE EXTRA NUMBRR FOE CHRISTMAS OF
ALL TUE YEAR ROUND,
NO TIIOROUGHFARE,
by Camas DIMING sad Wasis COLLINS.

return to their work to-morrow morning.
Lieutenant Wellesley and Captain Costenee, with two
PARLIAMENTARY CHANGES DURING THE REMSs. companies of the lit Battalion of the Grenadier Guards,
—Although only a few weeks have elapsed since perils- arrived by special train from Windsor at half-past
ment was prorogued, on August 21, several changes have eight. The men were at once located at the Corn
taken place in both houses, and several new peers will be Exchange. Several thousand persons congregated in the
seen on the re-assembling of the legislature next Tuesday. streets, but no serious riot occurred. The windows of the
In the House of Commons Lord Hubert de Burgh Canning police-station and of some of the bakers have been broken.
(a son of the Marquis of Clanricarde) has been elected The Mayor read the Riot Act, and appealed to the popu-
member for the county of Galway, in the room of his lace to disperse, as he did not wish to call out the military.
brother, Lord Dunkellin, who died a few days before the 400 special constables have been sworn, and the military
prorogation. On the day of prorogation days
Winter- are ready with arms piled for emergencies. Eleven
botbam, barrister (liberal), was declared duly elected for o'clock.—There are great crowds of people, but hopes of
Stroud, in the room of Mr. Poulett Scrope, who had their dispersing without the interference of the soldier%
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, after a shop contest •
with Mr. Dorington, who fought the battle for the con.l
servativn. Mr. Warren, Q.C., the Attorney-General for
Ireland, bas been elected member for the University of
Dublin, in the room of Mr. Chatterton, who has been
appointed a vine-chancellor. A vacancy has been occasioned
in the representation of the county of Rutland by the ele-
vation of the Hon. G. H. Heathcote to the peerage, on the
death of his father, Lord Aveland, and the election of
his successor will take place in the course of a few days.
Two seats have become vacant by death—one for Man-
chester, by the death of Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and one
for South Leicesterbire, by the death of Mr. C. W. Parke. '
These vacancies will be filled up without delay, under the
authority of the Broker's warrant. In the House
of Lords there are still more changes. It has lost Lord
Kingsdown, who leaves no successor to his peerage. I
The Duke of Northumberland died on the 21st of August,
and Earl Percy, for many years known as Lord Lovaine in,
the House of Commons, has succeeded to the dukedom. I
The Hon. Reginald Abbot will take hie seat es Lord Col-'
cheater, in the room of his father, who died on the 18th of
October. The Hon. Francis W. Fitzhardinge will take his
place as Baron Fitshardinge, in the room of his father,
who died on the 17th of October. The Hon. Arthur
Wrottealey will take his seat as Lord Wrottesley, in the
room of his father, who died on the 27th of October.
Lord Oxmantown will take his seat as the Earl of Rosse,
in the room of his father, who died on the :31st of October.
The Hon. Gilbert H. Heathoote will take his seat as Baron
Aveland, in the room of his father, who died on the Gth of
September. The Earl of Annesley will be entitled to take
his seat, having been elected an Irish representative peer
in the room of the Earl of Mayo, deceased. Dr. T. L.
Clatighton, recently consecrated Bishop of Rochester, will
take his seat as junior bishop, rice the late Dr. John
Lonadale, Bishop of Lichfield, on the principle of rotation
provided by the Manchester Bishoprics Act. The Arch-
bishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Down and Connor, the
Bishop of Ossory, and the Bishop of Cork, who were
the Irish representative prelates last session, will be suc-
ceeded by the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of
Heath, the Bishop of Killaloe, and the Bishop of Kilmore.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEVM.—Visitors during
the week ending Nov. 9, 1867:—0n Monday, Tuesday,
and Saturday (free), from 10 lora. till 10 p.m., 8,961 ; on
Wednesday, 'Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.), from
10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,331 ; total, 10,292; average of cor-
responding week in former years4B,2s2 ; total from the
opening of the museum, 7.059,8G2.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malts,
=, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, and'

THE HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDlES.—Yes-
terday morning official information reached the head of
the Post-office department in St. Martin's-le-Grand of the
loss of the mails of the Royal West India Mail steamer
the Rhone, and that the clerk in charge, and the sorter
who assisted him (both of whom belong to the London
office), perished while in discharge of their respective
duties. It appears that the Rhone was lying in the
anchorage of Tortola passage, off the island of St. Peter,
distant about twenty miles from St. Thomas, as is cus-
tomary when the yellow fever is prevalent, and that she
had her steam up in case of being compelled to " ran
in" by a sudden hurricane, but so sudden and
violent was the storm that all the efforts of those
on board to get her away were futile, and she was
' driven upon the coral reefs of St. Peter's Island.
The melancholy event has caused the deepest gloom
throughout the Post-office, especially amongst the officers
' connected with the West India Ocean Mail service; as,
besides the calamity above recorded, the peculiar branch
lot the duty has been singularly unfortunate. The first
officers who undertook the service from the London office '
(which is to the West Indian islands and back), were'
seized with yellow fever. Both clerk and sorter in that
instance died on the passage. In the second vessel which
sailed the sorter was first seized with the virulent disease,
and died on beard; then the clerk fell ill, and he died
also. The wreck of the Rhone may be considered in some
respects the most disastrous of any that has befallen the
Royal Mail Company's obioa The Tweed was lost on the
Alacrane reef in the Mexican Graph. The Amazon was
burnt in the British Channel. The majority of the persons
on board the Tweed, and some on board the Amezon,were
saved, but in the case of the Rhone no one appears to
have escaped.
Fimala Minicar. SOCIETT.—It has been de-
eded to extend the course of study at the Ladies' Medical
College, in Fitzroy-square, by the addition of a course of
lectures on chemistry, embracing a description of the non-
metallic elements and their principal compounds, with
special reference to sriojects bearing upon the study of
medicine. The lectures will be experimentally illustrated,
and will commence on Dec. 2. Mr. John A.R. Newlands,
F.C.S., has been elected es the lecturer.
POST-orrica SAVINGS BANE.—The undermen-
tioned offices will be opened as Poet-office Savings Ranks
on Monday, the 2nd December, 1887.—Borough, S.E.
(South Eastern District-offioe), Surrey ; Camden-town,
N.W. (North Western District-office), Middlesex ; Pimlico,
S.W. (South Western District-office), Middlesex; Vete-
street, W. (Western District-office), Middlesex.

EXPRE3B FROM PARIS.

(nom OUR owN col

PARIS, MONDAY ZYZNINO.

A few days ago the Moniteur announced that in
consequence of the better state of things in Italy,
the departure from Toulon of the third French
division which was there ready to embark had been
suspended. I see in a south of France journal,
the Messager du Midi, a letter dated Nov. 8, •
statement that four transports, " the Mogador,
Canada, Eldorado, and Seine, are to return to
Civita Vecchia this evening. There is not now a
single man or horse of the army destined for Rome
remaining at Toulon."
The Arcuir National, referring probably to this
intelligence, says :—" The news of the departure
of a third French division is not contradicted."

It would seem, therefore that the government
has sent off to Italy, sans tambours ni trompette, a
third invading division after having officially led
the world to believe it was not going.
A pamphlet is to come out at Dentu's a day or
two before the opening of the Corps Legislatif
with the title, " Napoleon 111. and Europe in
1861'." Since the time when the Emperor, before
the Italian war, instructed M. de la Gue-
ronnibre to launch a pamphlet at the same
publisher's, which was at once recognised as official,
a great deal of money has been made by literary
adventurers who whisper that the Emperor is the
real author of their lucubrations. The vein has
been pretty nearly worked out, and the odds are
considerable that the forthcoming &mature is but a
ostolipenny production. Some, however, attach
importance to the fact of a riff preliminary for it
in " a peculiar type" appearing in the Constitu-
tionnel.
The Presse says of the above announcement :

We are surprised to see this puff in the Conttifutionnel.
We cannot suppose that this journal would lend itself to a
bookseller's speculation. If, however, this is a pilot
balloon to test public opinion and provoke discussion on
views the paternity of which the government is not alto-
gether prepared to &mums, surely the Comfit utionnel
must feel that it is taking the bread out of its own mouth.
Pamphlets which supplant the semi-official journals have
im origin too evident not to compromise the government
almost as much as an article in the Moniker. Wh►t is
the Use of a veil which conceals nothing ; and would it not
be better to speak vizor down,

The Temps observes that the programme of the
pamphlet is not confined to the Roman question,
and inquires whether it means to treat of the
position of Napoleon 111. in regard to Europe
since the visit of the Emperor of Austria.
The Bourse was very heavy. It is now taken
for granted that there is to be a new loan of 700
millions, and the question most discussed is whether
it will be in Rents or in those trentenary obliga-
tions which the late M. Fould professed to hold in
horror. It is the old story. The taxpayers will be told
that it is desired to ,eat them with the sauce they
would prefer. Money must be had to make up for
deficits, and so it will go on to the end of the
chapter. Rente, which at one moment lost the
figure of 68fr., and was quoted G7fr. 71.1 c., recovered
slightly for the close, and left off at 68fr. and
68fr. 5c., with a fall of 20c. and 10c. Italian fell
22ic. ; Credit Foncier fell 2fr. 50c. ; Mobilier, in
consequence of speculation and realisation of
.profits after its late enormous depression, rose Mr.,
closing at 142 fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte fell
sfr.