The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 14.
In a congretion holden this morning at 10
o'clock, twang the first day of Rester Term, the following
were conferred, VlZ.—Masters of Arts Charles
Varku nl, Brannan College ; Rev. Elford C. Lithe=
elVsHall; Philip H. Rind, New Inn Hall.
:11Thiname Henry Cole, Exeter College.
In a ocavocadon holden this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
Praetors cif the past year, the Rev. Edward Wyndham
Tessa% Felbw of Wadham College, and the Rev.
Frederhk Ilmick, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, re-
igned their office. The former gentleman, as Senior Proctor,
delivered ea eloquent Latin speech, enumerating the chief
events which had occurred daring the tenure of office. He
alluded to the marriage of the Princess Royal ; the deaths of
the Rev. Dr. Foulkes, for 40 years Principal of Jesus Col-
lage ; Dr. Bliss, for 9 years Principal of at. Mari Hall and 30
veers Keeper of the Archives; the Rev. Lark fineyd,
11. A., Warden of All Soul. College sad the Rev. Dr. Bull,
Canon of Christ Church ; and congratulated the university
ea the appointment of their sneconots. He spoke in wake
of the new professors of modern history, poetry and political
economy, and adverted to the appointment of Dr. Rigaud
as Bishop of Antigua, end to the issue of new works from the
university press, instancing, among others, the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladatonds "Studies on Homer and the Homeric
Age." The rev. gentleman alluded at some length to the
Indian mutinies, and contended that it was our duty to give
to India the blessings of oar institutions in church and state.
In alluding to the brave Sir Colin Campbell, he referred hla
hearers to the time when the warrior chief received the
honorary degree of D.C.L. at the university. He congratu-
lated them upon the step taken by her Majesty In sending
for Lord Derby at a critical tame, and =premed hie concur-
rence in the policy of that minister. After referring to the
institution of scholarships, with the Thole promote the study
of modern languages, and the new ethane for the examinee
time of those who are not members of the nniverelty,
Mr. Tamil said the past year had bean one of great order
and quiet. He alluded to the general good. conduct and
good will of the junior members of the university, and to the
cheerfulness with which they had complied with the desire
that they should wear the academic dress. In concluaion, he
spoke of the courtesy and dignity of the Vice-Chancellor,
and resumed his seat amidst conaiderable applause. The
now proctors, the Rev. Bartholomew Price, M.A., Fellow of
Pembroke College, and the Rev. Charles Wilson Heath;
8.D., Fellow of Jeans College, then took the customary
oaths, and were admitted, the books and keys bang delivered
to them by the Vioe-Chaneellor. The following gentlemen
were then nominated as pro-proctor, and being present, took
the oaths, and were admitted the Rev. John Murray
Holland, M.A., Fellow of New College, the Rev. Thomas
Henry Rothe Shand, M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, by
the senior proctor; and the Rev. John William Callihan,
M.A., tutor of Jesus College the Rev. Edward Owen,M.A.,
Fellow of Jesus College, by the junior proctor. The pro-
ceedings appeared to create considerable interest, as there
wee, larg number of undergraduates and sinners peewit,besidesa full attendance of members of convocation.

THE MOSLEM or THE LATE MOOll MlLLart.—A
meeting with respect to the purchase of this
museum was held in Edinburgh on Monday, the ak Pro-
vest in the chair. The chairman stated that the lea govern-
ment had set mid. 5001. towards the purchase of the museum
and the placing of it In the Edinburgh Industrial Museum.
Two other often, had been received, the on from a 800ieh
nobleman of 1,0001., and the other from an AlMeritall
of a thousand guineasTo prevent its remove' ace=
Atlantic it would be necessary that the government grant
should he supplemented to at least 601. shove the highest
offer. A subscription-list was opened and a committee ap-
pointed to promote the subsalptWn.
Mss. Gmar's Successor.—We all know Mrs.
Damp. My last monthly nurse is the exact antipodes of
her. Mrs. Bullwinkle is tall and dignified; her complexion
is fair; her Grecian noise is innocent of all convivial colour-
ing; her figure is not more than agreeably plump ; her ma-
nta are icily compond ; her dram Is quiet and neat; her age
cannot be more than five-and-thirty ; her style of convereetion,
when she talks, is flowing and grammatical—upon the whole,
she appears to 'be a woman who is much too ladylike for her
station in life. When I first met Mm. Ballwinkle on the
stairs, I felt inclined to apologise for my wife's presumption
in ensuing her services. Though I checked this absurd
impulse, I could not resist answering the new nurse's mag-
nificent curtsey by expressing a polite hope that she would
find her situation everything that she could wish under my
roof. "I am not accustomed to met much, sir," said Mrs.
Buliwinkle. "The cook seems. lam maned to say, to be
an intelligent and attentive person. I have been giving her
some little hints on the subiect of my meals. I have ventured
to tell her that I eat little and often; and I think she
thoroughly understands me." lam ashamed to my I
was not so sharp as the cook. I did not thoroughly under-
stand Mrs. Bullwinkle until it became my duty, through my
wife's Inability to manage our domestic business, to settle the
weekly bills. I then became sensible of an alarming In-
omen In ear household expenditure. If I had given two
diner puttee in the course of the week, the bills could not
have been mare marbitant the butcher, the baker, and the
grocer mold not have taken me at a heavier ecuniary
and tag*. My heart sank es I thought of my
miserable income. I looked up piteously from the bills to
the ten for as explanation. The cook looked back at use
onapanonately shook Ihead, and said—" Mn. Boll-
winkle.' I up shildesiel joints, additional chops,
additional steaks, nets, kidneys, gravy beef. I told off •
terrible suppliant to the mai family consumption of
Mead, flour, tea, sugar, and sh . ahs& liquids I appealed to
the cook wain ; end again the en* shook her limed, end
Said," Mrs. Bullwinkle."—Dishatee " HowOold rank:

The polite of Trieste have within the lad few days
discovered a workshop supplied with all ths tools siwnswiry
for (urging banknote's of ere florins, sod hero szrestsd Wars
kesiguars who wars sapid is the Isadore.