The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

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- CAMBRIDGE, in. 5.
THE VACANT REGIUS PROFESSORSHIP OF GREIK.
—ln conformity with a notice issued by the Vice-Chan-
cellor the candidates for the vacant professorship, vacant
by the resignation of the present Maier of Trinity, pre-
sented themselves in the law schools this afternoon. After'
the usual formularies the Vice-Chancellor called upon gen-
tlemen, intending candidates, to present theciselves, and
the undermentioned handed their credentials to the Vice-
Chancellor:—Dr. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, St. John's
College, head of the classical tripes, 1827, prebendary of
Lichfield, head master of rihrewsbury school, and formerly
Pitt-University scholar; the Rev. Prebend Millet*, Tri-
nity College, second classic, 1832 ; the Rev. Edward Mere-
dith Cope, senior fellow of Trinity College, bead of the
classical tripes, hill ; Arthur Holmes, cloaal,el lecturer
and librarian at Clare College ; second silaasio, 1859. Being
called upon by the Vice-Chancellor according to the
statute, each of the above gentlemen handed in a list of
subjects they were prepared to:expound, and after consulta-
tion by the council certain subjects were assigned. The
election will take place on Monday, the 18th instant.
CLAMMICAL THlPthi EILAXISATIoN.—The prielectors of
the several colleges are requested to send the names of
candidates for the above examination to the senior
ex.uniner (Mr. Day, Gonville and Caius College) on or
before Thursday next.

COURT OF Al,Diamitx.—At a court of aldermen,
held yesterday, at Guildhall, over which the Lord Mayor
presided, the general purposes committee brought up •
report upon the subject of the fraudulent proceedings re-
lating to the procunng the exemption of certain parties
from serving on special juries, at Guildhall, by means of
I false affidavits. To this report was appended another, by
Mr. Nelson, the City solicitor, in which that gentleman
detailed the proceedings he had, taken under the order of
this court to punish the guilty perties. The report stated
that the inquiries be had instituted had led to the dis-
covery that a regular system had been inauguratedt by •
person named Charles Mayhew to procure th mption
lof persons from serving on special juries by MOM' of false
afhdavits, and fur which he was paid • regular sum per an-
num. It appeared that Mayhew had been originally in
the employment of one of the ward clerks, and this gave
I him an opportunity of knowing what persons
were liable to serve upon juries, and hecalled upon those
persons, and undertook to relieve them from
the necessity of attending when they were summoned by
paying him a yearly sum. A great many persons appeared
to have entered into this arrangement, the mode adopted
being that which was disclosed in the proceedings in the
police court • short time back. The death of Mayhew
prevented the intention to institute proceedings against
some of the parties who had paid him to procure their
exemption from being carried into effect. A discussion
took place, in the course of which the present system of
summoning jurors was strongly deprecated, and • sugges-
tion was thrown out that some Maine was attributable to
the aldermen of the different wards, whore duty it was to
examine the lists and see that the names of all the persons
in the ward who were liable to serve had were placed
upon them. It was ultimately agreed that • copy of
the report should be sent to the beeretarz of State, and
also to each ward clerk throughout the City, and that it
should be referred back to the committee for them to con-
sider whether any further steps could be taken in the
matter.

THE HEALTH or LONDON.—It appears from the
return, issued by authority of the Registrar-General, that
in the week that ended on Saturday, Feb. 2, the births
registered in London and 12 other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,800 ; the deaths registered, 3,537.
The annual rate of mortality was 30 per 1,000 persons
living. In London the births of 1,237 boys and 1,153 girls,
in all 2,3 t 1 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years, 1857-66, the average
number, corrected for increase a population, was 2,2 A.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,6*.b4. It was the fifth week of the year, and the
average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,600. The
deaths in the present return exceed the estimated
number by 28. The deaths have fallen from
1,880 in the previous week to 1,628, as the weather
has grown milder, and now we have fortunately passed the
coldest month of the year. The reduction in the number
of deaths as winter has relented is visible at every period,
except the last age of all (80 to 100 years), at which a
hundred deaths were recorded. The diseases of the lungs
grew frequent and fatal, but have now declined: thus the
deaths from bronchitis in the six weeks were at first 224
and 178, then, as the effects of severe frost accumulated,
373, 3nllt and 359, falling down finally this week to 271.
No death from cholera has been registered for a fortnight,
but the deaths from diarrluea have increased. While the
epidemic of scarlatina is declining, email-pox is increasing,
and last week 51 persons died of the disease in London ;
22 in the north (where the Small-pox Hospital is situated),
13 in the east, and 16 in the south district*.

•
GERMAN GYMNASTIC SOCIETY, LONDON.—WC
gather from the annual report, just published, that this so-
ciety has made fair prcriv: daring the lad year, There are
! now Ms() members, 01 whom, however, only 440 are Oar-
' mans. The receipts in 1866 amounted t 01,343/., and the pro-
iperty of the society is now valued at 2,23df. The gymna-
sium cost altogether 9,50/., which was raisediprincipally by
shares and mortgage debentures. The building is the pro-
perty of a gymnasium company (limitedl—the first com-
pany of the kind started in England—but the society by
buying up the shares and liquidating the other liabilities
of the company, will acquire the gymnasium as its own
property in course of time. 1,71 W. have been paid off in
this manner hitherto. There exist, in connection with the
society, a fencing and boxing class, a swimming club, a
ladies class, a singing club, and an amateur band of some
50 members. There is, moreover, alibrary of nearly 2,000
volumes, and altogether the society is in a moat nourishing I
condition.
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LANCAKHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The
report of the directors, to be submitted to the half-yearly
meeting to be held en the 13th inst., states that the amount
of capital on the 31st December, 1806,onwhieb dividend or
interest is paid out of revenue, exclusive of leased lines,is
as follows :—Consolidated stock, 12,093,59 M. ; guariuiteed
and preference stocks, 3,882,3491. ; 5,:330,4511/. ;
moneys in advance of calls, 388,7661. ; total, 21,701,159/.
The expenditure charged to capital for the pest half-year,
exclusive of new lines, amounts to 171,301/. sa. 24.1. ; the
following constitute the Rene; :—Lonil and enlargement
of stations, 113,082/. 10s. Bd. against 120,000/. voted by
last half-yearly meeting- rolling stock, 58,278 f. 14s. Gd.
granet 80,0001. voted by last half-yearly meeting ; total,
1 ‘1,361/. ss. 2d. against 100,01101. voted at the last
half-yearly meeting. The expenditure on new lines,
&c., amounted to 2115,17.16/. Ba. ld. Revenue account:
The receipts of the company during the half-year were :
Passengers, patoels, and mails, 4111,421/. ; goods, minerals,
and live stack, 698,435/. ; rents, 1,555/. ; Preston and Wye
Railway, 35,2:trq. ; total, 1,V6,711/, as against 1,129,081/.
in 188.1. The disbursements amounted to 506,408/. The
balance of revenue applicable to the payment of dividend
on the ordinary stock of the company is 424,089/. lie ; and
out of this amount the directors recommend the proprie-
tors to declare a dividend at the rate of lit per cent. per
annum, les. income-tax, payable on Ist March next, and
to carry forward the balance, 10.830 f. 101., to next half-
I account. The traffic of the half-year has again been
large, the gross increase amounting to 07,551/. fri. 23. The
directors submit the following estimate of the require-
ments of the company for the enlargement of stations,
providing additional rolling stock, Sze., up to 30th June
next, viz. :—Land and works, 130,000/. ; rolling et,,clr,
70,000/.: total, 200,00 W. The permanent way, works,
and rolling stock of the company have been efficiently
maintained out of revenue in the past half-year, and the
reports of the principal officers of the company satisfy the
board that the railway and working stock are in good order
and condition.
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Is used as their habitual beruraito- foe breakfast by thousands
who never used cocoa before. -Cocoa stands very much higher
than tea or coffee," lir. Hamall as,,, "and contains every ingre-
dient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." It
is made simply by pouring boiling sator or milk on the prepara-
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