The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, FIB. 4.
EXETER COLLEGE.—AO exhibition is vacant, open
to the sots of clergymen of the church of England. Candi-
dates are requested to call on the rector, on or before Mon-
day. the 20th et February, and to bring with them eertill-
Caren of their need of assistance at the University. The ex-
amination will begin on the following day.
BkASENOBE COLLZOIL—An election to a Colquitt clerical
exhibition will take place in the amuse of the present term.
Candidates, who must have resided at leapt one term, and
who must not bold any college endowment exceeding 401. in
annual value, are required to give notice to the Vice-Princi-
pal on or before the 10th day of February.
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLIOIL—An examination will be
held on Wedneslay, March 21, and foll ming days, for the
purpose of electing to one open scholarthip,i.nd two open ex-
hibitions, all teasels for five years from m vtieulation, mid
worth from 901. t.. 951„ per annum, including the value of
rooms, rest free. Toe exhibitioners bare in every respect
the same position and privileges ma the scholars. Candidates
for the scholarship moat be under 20 years of age. Gentle-
men who wish to offer themselves are requeetsd to call on the
preddent with testimotiale of are awl character, at seven
o'clock in the evening of Tuesday, March 20.

It is stated that Mr. Hutt, M.P. for Gates-
head, has accepted the office of Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, vaaste4 by the Hon. Mr. Cowper, in conse-
quence of his appointment to the Presidency of the Board of
Wog ks.

Mr. Rowland Hill, Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, is appointed a K.C.B , or Knight Commander of
the Bath (civil rde).

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has, it
la said, appointed Thomas Wheeler, Fig., LL.D., ( f the
Northern Circuit, to the judgeship of the Salford Hundred
Court, vacated by the promotion of Mr. Stamford Raffles to
a stipendiary magistrateship at Liverpool.

We regret to hear that the health of Mr. Baron
Weson is to a very precsrioua state--so much a) that the
learned judge hae, in accordance with the opinions of his
nu dial advisers, I.ft London for the benefit of the sea air.

Toe ninth annual meeting of the Association for
Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge will be
held on Wednesday, the 22nd inst., at St.filartin's Hall.

A parliamentary return Mined this day gives the
estimate net quantity and value of gold exported from
Australia since May, 1851, to Dec. 31, 18.58, at 19,602,640
oiumee, of the value of 74,460,0911. 18r.
Tea GAME LAWS.—A parliamentary paper, issued
this morning, gives a return of the permits committed
for offenoss against the game laws to each prison in the
United Kingdom during the year ended 30th A11:10 last.
The total committals were 2,341 in England and Wale', 235
in Scotl.nd, and 32 in Ireland.

REPORTS Or INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES.—These
reports were issued this morning in the form of a return to
paliarsent. The total number of accidents asking from
machinery, reported to the font inipectoto during the Nth
nimitha ended the 31st of October loot, was 2,083; et
accident' not crisis( from machinery, 127. Within the
same period 7011. sa. with 2901. 2a. 101. costa were imposed
as the result of informations and comviotions for violation of
the Factory Act. The great majority of these casm were
the employment of children, young persons, and women,
after six o'clock, p.m. The district lately under the charge
of Kr. Horner, is now wider the supervision of his late
culldagnea, Sir J. Bineaid, A. Redgrave, Bel., and 11.
Baker, Eeq. . . . .

•
THE BUDGET.—With respect to the Budget, it
unless to prognosticate what will be so soon known. But it
id evident that the Immediate consequences of the treaty with
France will absorb ultimately, if nut immediately, muck of
the relief we have so long anticipated from the oseration of
the Long Annuities, and that we can no longer expect
diminution of the income tax, or of our indirect team, from
that source. We have frequently pointed out that the great
hulk of our Custom, revenue a paid by a very few articles,
and that the greet mars of the ar.icks enumerated in our
tariff contribute but a patty fraction in comparison. We
miould, under other circumstances, have expected Mr. Glad-
stone to make a ooneaderable clearance of petty duties • and,
though hi. resources are materially restricted, we ;Must
realms go hope for it still.—Aronoteist.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—A bill to provide for the

oousideration of an ordinance which has Leen bid before par.
'lament in a report of the Oxford University Commissioners,
brought ha by S r G. Leal. and Mr. Clive, ima been printed.
It provides that her Majesty may refer the ordinance to •
Committee of the Privy Council, any party Interested being se
liberty to petition; the committee are to 000 sider the ordi.
panes and the objection', and report to her Majesty. The
ordinance, if approved, is to be • statute of the college.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXIITER-RALL.-..
Mendelaeohn's Lobgewang (Hymn of Praise), and Sander.
Dettingen Ts Deem, gives ea Fridey laid, and whkh
.ttraetsd one of the largest audienore ever assembled in
Eteler-hall, will be stain pmkrused on Friday week, 17th
February.
WOUNDED VANITY.—A man is unpopular PA a
preacher ; he endeavours to disseminate the eution that the
iiergyman of the next pariah is unpopular too, and that the
entreat reports about his church being overcrowded, are
gross exaggerations. A man has a vety entail practice ma •
pnyeician; he grunts an inquiring stranger that Dr. Idimp-
eon, who (everybody my.) makes fourteen thousand • year,
does not really make fourteen hundred. A man's hoverer*
always lame; he tele you malignantly that be know. pri-
vately that the he. pair which Smith drives is his drag, are
very groggy, and require to be shod with leather. Now Ido
not mesa to eseart that there is any essential malignity in a
man's feeling comfort, when obliged to Come Down himself,
Is the rtflactioo mat tsber wen have had to Come Down
too; and that after Coming Down he still stands on the
sera e level with niulutuoes more. It is • natural thing to
fled • ceriein degree of consolation in such reflection*. Not.
witbrandiog west Milton ways to the contrary, there is no
doubt at all that "fellowship in pain" does "divide
smart." If you were the only b.ll man to the world, or the
only lame man, or the only men who had bat several teeth,
you would nod it much harder to resign your mind to your
condition ;In brief, to Come Down to it. 'I here ia reel and
substantial inittgaibio of all human ills and mortificatiocs in
Use Might of others as badly off. To fall on the toe along
with twenty more is no great matter, uolees indeed the
physical suffering be great. To be guillotined as one of fifty
is not nearly so bad es to go all al me. To be beaten in •
competituta along with hall . dozen very clever fellows miti-
gates your mortification. lb° pour fellow, plucked for his
dopes, Is a little cheered up when he goes out for • walk
with three other men who bora been plucked along with
him. Napoleon, standing before a picture in which Alex-
ander tbe Great was a figure, evinced • pleasing touch of nature
when be seldrepreeedly, " Alexander was smaller than me-
much smaller." The thing which I coudenin is not that
the man who has Come Down should look around with plea-
sure on his brethren in misfortune, but that the man who
has Come Down should area to pull down to his
own level those whom he kte.we iu his secret soul
eland on a higher. What I condemn is etivions and malig-
nant detraction, with its train of wilful wierepresenrations.
sly 'ransack*, depreciating shrugs and nude. I bate to bear •
man speaking In terms of fest praise of another who ham
outstripped Lim in their common profession, saying that be
is " rather a clever lad," that he "really ha. atone talent,"
that he is " not wholly devoid of power," that he " has deal
better than mold be expected," and the like. Very coo-
eemptible is • method of depreciation which I have often
whammed. It cossets in reseraiug that Mr. A., whom
everybody knows f.•r a very ordinary nom, a tar superior
to Mr, 8., whom you are commendieg as • man of =Perk!
puts. 1 remember .certain public meeting. Or, C. wads
most brilliant and stirring et eech ; Dr. D. flowed in • vary
dull use; Mr. B. text made • &oder .me. After the meeting
was over the envious E..hought to Take Doan C., and cover
his own Coming Down, by welting up to U., and, in a very
matted moaner, in the presume of C., congretulatitig D. ea
having made the speech of the evening. Oh, that we oould
all leers to acknowledge with frontages and Metriniese the
merit that overtop' ne I—Presser's Xagathie, ter February.