The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

UNIVBASITY INTELLICUINCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Julia 20.
M.A. COMMEXCEMEnV.—Yesterday being Com-
mencement Sunday. the commemoration of heesfectere was
celebrated after the morning genic* at St. Marys Church.
The Rev. Mr. Lamb, at Calm College, was preacher on the
onmeion. To-dsy Mere was a brill,ent assemblage ha the
fienefe-bonee, it having transpired that an honorary degree
would be conferred upon Sir Jtlia Lawrence, of Indian eel..
betty. The area of the door, and the galleries aim, were
literally crowded. The hon. baronet entered with the Vice.
Chancellor (whose guest he bad bee) at at twelve
o'clock, and aweeting Mrs. Bate.= He warehe uniform,
ribbon, and atar of the Order of the Bath. His reception we
most flattering on his mamma, bat the applause wee
almost deafening when :he was presented to the vice.
&well°, by the public orator. Sir John appeared
deeply impregerd at the warmth of feeling expressed.
Toctztlie orator then, at the close of an oration (on this
perhaps, more deservedly laudatory than usual),
led forward Sir Joha Lawrence. The assemblage at this
time of University "done" (the latter, be it known, conaist
of heade of beams and other dignitat ice), ladies, and under-
graduates, with the waving of handkeriefe and atentorian
cheers from the talleries, afforded on the whole a mane that
can hardly be moaned.
The following degrees were conferred :
LL B. Maori.° Cllll'll-84 John Lawrence, Bart.,K.C.B.
LL.D.—P. Betkageeld, St. John's College ; J. J. Howard,
Trinity HelL
B.D.—R. G. 8. Blenkinsopp, Trinity College; Cheek.
Hardwick, St. Catherine's College.
A.M.—King's College : E. D. Stone. Trinity College
8. A. Agnew, lotus Dame, B. 8. Brown, W. H. Fenton,
G. P. Greenstren. W. B. Grey, C. J. Heywood, J. E. Hill,
F. P. Lowers, ft. W Lord, A. J. 8. Milmea,G.F. W. Hamby.
St. John's Ulm* W. Auden, A. Fuller, F. N. Hatchin-
g" O. Moody, V. H. Coutton, T. B. Rowe, G. T. Tathere,
Adam Washington. St. Peter's College T. Harlin, B. R.
Horton. Pembroke College : H. O. 8. Blunt, H. Piro,
8. D. Stubbs. Cattle College : R. Cooling, G. Floyd, 8.
B. Ba:by. Trinity Hall . W. F. Crocker. St. Catharbee's
College W. P. Isonetead. Josue College :D. M. Salter,
W. Wood. Christ's College : H. Cbeethani, E. V. For-
shall, E. Ward.

OXFORD, JUNII 20.
TILTNITT COLLEOL—This morning Hews. Brodie,
commoner, of Balliol College (formerly of Charter•honee
School), and Cbeyne, from Edinburgh Acedemy,wat elected
to the vacant scholarship at this college. UMW. Female
Alfred Ceehmay Hooper and William Oordun Cole, D.A.,
Scholars of this society, kite been admitted Fellows.

TIIE F.CCLIMASTICAL COIf3IISAIONIERS AND TUB
Diocese or Dviums—Tte following petition to the
Hesse of Cesessess le sow in emirs of signature in time city
of Dubs= That, where= the population of the diocese of
Denim hes Increased, gad I. still ineresaierr, in many
parts, is a sib well nigh espeeelleled throughout the king-
dom, yet no adequate means have lawn hitherto provided to
meet the ovetwhebsing spiritual necessities thereby
originated ; tits! the midi= parochisi anaegemente are
hopelessly ineuffideat to cope with the evet-augmenting
wants ; and that vat muses of the population throug]out
the muting districts of the diocese are conorquently left
destitats of any spiritual itatrui tics whatever. Under
three cireutnettnees your petitioners =mot regard the
radopted by the Boeladaetical COTOMileiollole, to
drstribeticts of the urge resseress floating tato their
imeedefresTize centres at wealth sad activity, otherwise
log evil, and a grimes wrong dose to the
or petitioners record with =feigned satisfaction
pilteleta =press:el by the select committee appointed by
the Here of Lords in the last parliament to examine Into
the spiritual destitution existing throughout the country,
via, that when church property hee beams of great value
' teem the population sseembt= upon it, the wants of the po-
pulation lora, in justice, t first claim apes the proceeds of
time property. Your petitioners teal bound to ester their warm
gemtad egatnat the systematic disregard, on the part of the
RAI Commissioners, of this principle of ordinary
mod meatifest equity, in their dealings with this dims=
Tar petitioners, therefore, earnestly implies year boom-
oble bow to take such =mares so rhall isms the future
=don of tba principie in the dietribstion of the larger
mist= to the cotentiesiosere from the diocese of
Durham

RINAING FOUNTAINS AT THE EAST-END.—
Several drinking Commie" are &butt to be erected in the
antesn past of the metropotis. Ono on the wide space ap-
peals' St. John's Church. klethnabgenn. is to be provided at
die mie cost of a benevolent reddest in the neighbourhood.
InCarr-street, Limebowie, • fountain le to be erected by
Mr. T. &nation, and • large one la commenced on Town. •
kill, opposite the Mint and the St. Katherins's Doh
entreats, at the Mist oast of the Metropolitan Free Thinking
Fountain Amocietiott and the Itlitechapel Dianne 13oatd i.f
Works. The vestries of St. George in the Sam and Shore.
ditch have &ISO deddid to erect drinking fountains, but have
not Jet fixed upon the eine.
EIRSZSITATION TO THE. EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.
—Os Tuesday week the teachers of the Raggedmehoola in
the switropolie will meet la St. Martin'.-ball for • most im
purpose They have MOINIkI os • peetntatlim to
titestibiarl of Shaftesbury which may, to some silent, swan
their gratitude for the encouragement, sympathy, and Co.
emotion which his lordship her glees for many years to
their humble labour.. The trinomial will consist of •
pilatiag representing a phase of tagged-whool boy
sad whet we are sure his lordship will deem of infinitely
wafer value, an Wren with the names of all the tesellan
• and our readers will perhapa be astonished to bear
sided
marl, 1,700. The address is Maternity
inamilmeni, se& with the I/natures, Y bound up Into an

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