The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-22 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MARCH 20.

The examiners for Dean Ireland's University
Scholarship have notified to the Via-Chancellor that they
have elected Mr. David Binning Mourn, scholar of Balliol
College, to be Ireland scholar, and they have named Mr.
0. R. Lake, of Balliol College, as " proximo AMMO, ." Mr.
Moan obtained a "double first" clams at the first public ex-
aminations, Sl*cbaelmes term, 1856. There were upwards of
twenty candidates for the scholarship, which, with one
exception, has for the last fire years been gained by a member
of Balliol Collage,
AWARD OP °PBX SCHOLARSHIPS AT OS FORD.—ThI
two vacant open wholanhipe at University College, Oxford,
each of the value of 601. per annum, and tenable for five
years from the day of election, were on Saturday last
awarded to Mr. Henry John Read., from Tunbridge school
iscled Captain Read., of Ipeden House, near Henley-ca-
), and Mr. Henry Sewell, from St. Peter's College,
(nephew of the Rev. William Sewell, D.D.). There
we rearlidatis.

ETON Cottrou.—The school closes on Saturday
next, the 27th instant, fur the Easter vacation. The extra
week's holiday given to the students on the occsaion of the
marriage of the Princess Royal will be deferred until the
election vacation; consequently the school will re-open on
Wednesday, the 21st of April, when the lower boys return ;
the fifth form join on Thursday the 22nd, and on Friday the
23rd the sixth form return, when the whole school will have
asaembled.

SALE or LITIRART PROPERTY.—At Mean
Southgate and Barrett's, of Fleet-street, at Friday aed
Saturday last, the following copyrights were sold :—History
of the United Sates of America, by Mary Howltt, pest
700 pages, unpublished-1001. Romer's Iliad and Wray,
translated by Pope, • new edition, with notes, ax.., by the
Rev. Theodore A. Buckley, M.A., 3 vols. crown ilvo.--the
copyright and woodcuts-651. British Animals, by Harrison
Weir, with descriptions and anecdotes—the oopyright and
the whole of the blocks, 145 guineas. The Life of a Sailor,
by Captain Chanter, originallypublialied in the Metropolitan
Magazine, while under the editorship of the poet Campbell,
afterwards in 3 vols. post Stn., and lastly in Bentley's series
of standard novels—the copyright, stereotype plates, and
steel frontispiece, 491. The copyrights. stereotype plates,
and remaining stock of the works of O. P. R. the
novelist, from the lint work, "Richelieu," down to Jared
Mr
Theodore Broughton," a series d 43 ushers, published by
Simms and M'lntyre, of Belfast, and Hodgson, of Peter-
nostro-r In their " Parlour Library," with the addition of
" The Commissioner" and " The Desultory Men," not yet
printed in a cheap form, and the copyright al " The s
ar Peeds"-2.075 guitar; the rear be taken by the pur-
chasers (Marrs. Rustled(' sad Co.) et parr and print ter
THE WESTMINSTER ABBIT BiltrlCßA.—Yeeter-
day stoning there re a very large etinion et West-
minster Abbey, where the senses *es by the Bev.
Dr. Wordsworth, ass el the mom yrs were said by
the Rev. Praetor Baraord the lemons wen red by the
Rev. Lord John Th_yre. The ravager Wear far his ter
the words of St. Paul, "We most ell bed= the
judgment seat of Christ." Upon this he fuoW ea emi-
nently practical Meow* which wee &erred with greet
fervour. It is understood that the Bishop of Leads& will
preach in the abbey ca the ant ar mead Sunday la Kay.
At the special set vice at et. Margeret's Church the arra
was preached by the Very Br. Dr. Trick Dean of West.
Waster.