The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-29 00:00:00

NAVAL REVIEW.

The following public notice for the information
of masters of private steam and other vessel, in-
tending to be present at the great naval review off Spit-
head on the 17th proximo has been issued by Admiral Sir
Thomas Pasley, Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth :

" By oommand of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty.
" Steamers, sailing vessels, and boats are not to attempt
to cross the line of the ships of war to be reviewed on
Wednesday, the 17th of July. They are not on any ac-
count to pass between the columns, nor to occupy any part
of the man-of-war channel between Spithead and St.
Helens during the evolutions. Steamers are to keep to
leeward of the columns, or ships in order of sailing, sa the
smoke might prevent signals being quicklynoticed, t
causing accidents ; and vessels WS not to pass to
ward of the royal yacht if it can possibly be avoided. As
the evolutions of a large number of ships of war require a
considerable space, masters of vessels will see the necessity
of steering accordingly, and not close in so aa to interrupt
the evolutions. The ships of war to be reviewed will burn
Welsh coal, in order that the view of the evolutions may
not be obstructed by smoke, and to obviate the chances of
collision. Captains and masters of steam-vessels intend-
ing to be present on the occasion are requested to adopt
the same or other necessary precautions to avoid incon-
venience from smoke, and they arc hereby warned that any
vessel causing such inconvenience will be liable to be re•
moved to a distance.

" THOMAS EIABTNE PARLEY, Admiral,
Commander-in-Chief.
" Victory, in Portsmouth Harbour, June 25. "

Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of the martyr
President, hes left Springfield, Illinois, and now resides in
Racine, in Wisconsin.

.lefferson Davis was born in Todd county, Ken-
tucky, and was sixty years old on the 3rd of June hurt.
. . . _

Five stalwart New Brunsvrickers arrived at
Southampton last week from New York, with an out-
rigger rowing gig, and are now in training on Southampton
Water, for the purpose of rowing in the international
boat race on the Seine, at Paris, next month.

OXFORD COMMEMORATioN. —ln the list of die-
tinguisbed persons on whom the honorary degree of D.C.L.
was conferred at the Oxforl Commemoration on Wednes-
day hat. some persona may have missed a name which was
intended to he one of its brightest ornaments. It had been
proposed in the council of the university that Lord Kings-
down ahMald be asked to accent the highest honour which
the university can bestow. The motion was opposed by
Dr. Posey, but, on a division, was carried by a very large
maiority. there having been only two dissentients. Dr.
Puiey objected to the nomination of Lord Ringsdown on
the ground that the judgments for which he had been
responsible in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
had given great offence to churchmen ; and he is said to
have informed Lord Kingsdown that he should resign his
own seat in the council the moment it was publicly
announced that a name so obnoxious to himself and some
others was to be proposed to convocation. Lord Kings-
' down's health is unfortunately so much impaired that he
was unable to endure the fatigne of a journey to Oxford,
where, in spite of the objections of Dr. Pussy, we are sure
that the name of so impartial and eminent a judge and of
so ripe a scholar would have been received with acelama,
lions by the members of convocation, who will regret that
• degree was not conferred by which the university would
have received at least as much honour as it bestowed.—
Herald.