The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-03 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Jura 2.

THE UNIVERSITT RIFLE CORPS.—In a convocation
holden this afternoon the now statute, allowing members of
the university to form ride carps, mot wi.h the unanimous
approval of the house. Mr. Reale, of Oriel College, addressed
the house in a Latin epee*, at some Barb.
CHICHRLE Pao Fassonan IP.—The *lectors to the Chicle()
Pr* forms ship of International Law and Diplomacy have this
els), artifiod to the Vice-Chmteallor that they hove elected
Mr. Montague Bernard, 8.C.L., of Trinity College, sad
bassists r at• law, to the professorship.
PROFIRSORMIIP or Lootc.—A Convocation will be
holden on Tuesday, Jaw the Slat, at two o'clock. Srthe par-
ents of electing a Professor of Logic in the room of Mr.
Wsli, whrse period of °Mos Ina now expired. The prof-s-
-sorship Is tenable for tea years. The Rev. Henry Wall, M.A.
the hats sor, ha. announced
riamilaslfaferalliakCoolloir At present, Merits no other can.
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DEOltl7. or D.O L. ST DITLOILL—IS a Convocation
to be holden on Friday, Jose 10, It will to proposed to
confer the Degree of Doctor In Civil Law by Diploma upon
the Right Honourable the Berl of Carservon, Htgh Steward
of the University. F. Jule., VlawChanotllor.

TOLL COLLECTORS AND TEL DERBY."—A cor-
respondent of • contemporary writes:—‘• A friend of mine,
who went down yesterday by the road to Epsom, paid, as
you sod I and everybody el*e did, la. at the Sutton turnpike
fora carriage drawn by a pair of homes. In order to Expe-
dite the payment, active policemen ranged along the to sd
warned you, before you arrived at the gate, to • get your
money ready ;' • line of money-takers replied glibly to your
inquiry, ' How much 1' • One shilling; and pocketing the
money, furnished you in return with a ticket The posthoy
spurred and whipped his homes. and away you unsuspkiously
went to the Heath. Unluckily for the credit of the turnpike-
own, and foe their future pram, a delay occurred at this
very gate on the return from the races, and my friend,
whose carriage was some distance from the gate, walked on
thither, to see what caused the stoppage. Ash. stood there
wishing for his carriage to drive up he chinned to Ice•lc at
the board on which the rate of tolls payaLle was painted.
and to hie surprise ha saw that the turopikenian wee levying
Is. for every Bd. legally due, the legal toll for a carriage and
a pair of borsca amounting but to the latter sum. My
Mend pointed out the fraud to one of the policemen grouped
about the gate, who coolly remarked that he wee littre to
maintain order and not to protest the public &utast
fraud; and when my friend remonstrated with the turn-
patentee himself, and complained that he had been so
defrauded by him In the morning, the men hastily made the
math r ill right by presenting him with a fourpenny-bit, in
order to avoid a public &inclusion which must have ended
badly for hint. If you, sir, will gin this short hitter a con-
spicuous place in pour columns to-morrew, it will catch the
eye of Sir R. Mayne in time for him to direct Lie men not
only to maintain order at the various turnpikes, but also by
the warring cry of Miod your porkier, to protect the
public against these system:nitre frauds on the part of the bll-
o•il.ntorn. It la surely as much the duty of the pilice to
prevent fraud u to detect the offender when the fraud is
achieved."
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY Or LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting held yraterd.y at the society's
home in Hanover square; Sir d. P. Helms. Bart, in the
chair; Tisionnt Powersoourt, and the 11, n. F. Fitz-
Maurice, R.N., and Stine. W. Salt, G. Smith, and F. 1).
Galilee, were sleeted fellows; and the Rev. T. Corothsaite
sod Mewls. G. Bolster Booth, 11. P., R. F. Dalrymple, A.
Neuron, W. kl. Thackeray, P. L. Powys, H.P., A. Sari:trio,
and E. H. Burke, were proposed as candidates for the
fellowship, Dr. A. Ouniher as a foreign member, and ht.
Esoellency Sir Woe. Denison, Governor-Genera of
Ao•tralia, and ?dews P. 8. Godwin and E. Newton as
correvonding membets of the moiety. The report from the
nested that among the recant additions to the
moosereric were two pairs of Bohemian waxwings. That
the somber of the visitars to the gardens in the current year,
t ibis tins., had hien 91,9.11.
N1..41 N
to t • 1
.10ESZ..ER
me-
morial
to the Manchester town council on Wednesday, by Mr.
Couscala Wallis, was carried unanimously.

sitaaaxatum OP MB PILINCBBB PJUIDERIOK
WILLIAM OP PIaSSIA AT 014VI8INIA

If any of the numerous company who bads fare-
well to the Prince's Frederick William yesterday et the
Terrace-pier, Oreveeend, had also assisted at her royal high-
ness's first leave-taking of her Englith friends, they could
not fail to be struck with the marked contrast which the
weather presented on those two interesting occasions. On
the firm, winter wee holding high festival. The sky was
dark and lowering, the Thames lashed and foamed angrily
against the ships and river bake, and a universal mantle of
mow tried bard to smother the hardy evergreens with which
the loyal burghers of the indent waterside town had so
profusely decked ell the streets between the railway
terminus and the pier. But yesterday was a fine
day, hot and misty in the morning, and bright
and glowing et noon, the sun obligingly putting forth some
of his brightest beams at the moment when the royal
standard was hoisted in the state-barge. In obedience to her
Majesty's particular request, there was not any attempt at
pageantry in yesterday's ceremonial. The greenery which
had beet so conspicuous in February, 1858, wee equally "con-
spicuous by its abeam" in June, 1859. There were no
triumphal arches, no mottoes, no transparencies, and only
such flags and banners in the line of analeade as the loyalty
Of individual/ had hidemed them to exhibit. As on the
former occasion the Terrace-pier Was aowded with
compury, admitted by tickets hem the corporation,
but we missed the pretty body guard of young
ladies who had strewed flowers In the bride's
path on the occasion of her first departure, many of whom
we regretted to learn had subsequently suffered seriously in
health from their devotion in braving the wintry anew and
wind in evening dress. Newly all on that occasion suffered
serious indisposition, and three, we believe, lost their Eves
from colds caught while waiting on the pier. There had
been some intention of having a similar procession yesterday,
but it was strongly pretested against in high quarters on
sanitary grounds, and so the young ladies of Gravesend had
to content themselves with sitting places in the galleries
amongst their elder friends. The pier was provided with
roomy seen on either side, the front rails being covered
with bunting, end the centre avenue laid down with crimson
cloth, as was also the " Dummy" beneath, but beyond
this, there was not the slightest attempt at decoration. Two
thousand five hundred tickets had, we understand, been
issued for the pier, and, judging by the mended and fashion-
able company we saw esensbled, we should conclude that
not a single one could have been left undisputed of. The
Mayor, E. Gregory, Esq.; the Town Clerk, Oeo. Shetland,
Km. ; the Aldermen, Werra Troughton, Ditebbern, Smith,
Fietcher, Dobson, and Gardner, together with the whole of
the Town Council, were in attendance in their gowns, the
Meyer and Aldermen remaining at the entrance of the pier
to receive the royal party on its arrival, and the Councillors
lining the avenue, end doing their beet to accommodate their
lady friends, scene of whom were, considering the circum-
ference of modern female drapery, a little unreasonable in the
positions they sought to occupy for the purpose of wring
the illustrious voyageurs. One old lady in particular wee
resolutely tent epee needing on the rail in front of the nate,
and It required all the eloquence of two of the mat peen-
sive members of the council to induce her to subside into a
parities of average elevation. While the majority of the
company was on the tiptoe of expectation, the ladies rustling
up every five minutes or to, on a false alarm that the Queen
was coming, the more calm sad practised spectators bad an
opportunity of admiring the gay picture which the river
offered at this ita period of high water. The royal yacht lay off
in the streets, gaily decked with colours, and close to It the
Admiralty yacht Vivid, and another government steamer,
while the whole water across to Tilbury Fort was thickly dotted
with boats of all sizes end descriptions, each crowded with
passengers, male and female, who with a disregard of con-
tingent immersions, worthy the descendents of the sea kings,
jumped, and danced, arid Around, and waved handkerchiefs,
and (apparently) drank beer, or some other pleasant sem-
last, as merrily and indifferently as if they had been standing
ea lsereetrave, instead of on a frail plank, beneath which
rolled some thirty or forty feet of Thames water. It was
thought that Tilbury Fort would have spared a portion of its
garrison to line the memos, but the oily detachment that
came over consisted of ths worthy commandant, Colonel
Kelly, his two sons, end sense ladle., who landed from • galley,
which did not stall natant* to the reagnikence of the general
pageant. nineteen, at 1.45 p.m. the report of a single gun
announced that the royal train had arrived at the terminus,
and before two the royal carriages drove on to the esplanade,
surrounded by a guard of honour, consisting of • troop of
the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of
their colonel, the Earl of Darnley. Lord Sidney, lord lieu-
tenant of Kent, was eke in attendance, accompanied by
several of the rural notabilities. Her Mejeety having
acknowledged the salutes of the municipal body, walked
slowly down the central avenue of the pier, accompanied by
the Princess Frederick William, who walked on the Queen's
left hand. The Princess Alice followed, accompanied
by the Prins Consort, and the remainder of the
group consieted of Countess Perponcher, Lady Caleden,
Lade Darnley and Sidney, Captain Denman of the Royal
Yacht, and one or two officers in military uniform. In cour-
pllanoe with her Majesty's regent, previously commenewel
by the mayor, the company received the royal party in
respectful silence, only interrupted by the occasional falliog
doan of a form with its Mess of lair ladies, who, in their
eagerness to pee the Queen and Princess, had for the moment
forgot the laws of equilibrium. One of then little cadre•
temps made her Majesty wart, but she man resumed her
comicoure, and smiled and bowed graciously as she pawed
along. The Princess Frederick William looked paler
end thinner than funnerly, but seemed to be is
fair health, and the graceful figure and Alia-
tinguiched presence of the Princess Alice was the theme
euniverral admiration. Her Royal Highness is much taller
than either the t.ueen or the Princess Frederick William,
and is said to resemble the last generation of royal princesses
more than any of the present royal family. The embarkation
occupied but a very few temente. The state barn of the
Victoria and Alt east, manned by sixteen stout rowers, end
commended by a lieutenant, war soon alongside the leadiog.
Captain Baker, of the cast guard, who superintended the
arrangements, had the Mega run out, and the whole
royal party wine non seated in the "stern sheets."
The royal standard of England II sited at theaters), and the
barge swept rapidly op the river, in order to counteract the
ebb tide, which bad begun to run rapidly seawards. Then
came royal salutes, and loyal cheering. The people in the
boats had not beard the bijanetioce of the mayor, and the
company on the pier forgot there. There was a general
hurrah from land and sea, in the midst of which the Queen
and Princess ascended the side gallery of the royal yacht,
and spin bowed in rennin to the &seeing. The unal
royal solute followed, after which the Queen remained on
hoard the yacht tor about en hoar. At three the snchor was
weighed, her Majesty and the Prince Consort left for
the shore, and the Victoria and Albert steamed
*lowly down the river. On landing the Mayor and corpora-
tion were male in readiness to receive her Majesty, who im-
modiately departed, the same order being observed as on
arrival from town. The railway arrengemente, under the
direction of Mr. Eton% were excelhat ; and the hcal
under the command of Superintendent White, discharged
their duty with much gentleness and discretion. Mr. Shet-
land, the Town Clatk, was meet pulite and scoommodstng to
the representatives of the London press. A guard of honour
of the 10th Humes marred her Mujuaty from the Brick-
layers Arms to Buckingham Palace.

CHARGI OF BRIBItZT AT THIt BODMIN ELEC-
TION.-0a Wednesday, befote the Bodmin mogirtrates, a
charge of bribery was brought against Mr. Wyld, Leo M.P.
for Bothnia. A short time ago, it will be remembered, •
charge of a similar deacription was brought against Mr.
Belltog, • watchmaker, and a supporter of Dr. Michel', Ike
conarrvative candidate. Belling wa. committed to take his
trial. and it is supposed mat the present charge was
brought with ths view of making a Teprieel on
the liberal party. The cloves was that Mr.
Wyk' had siren one lame. Hick half-a-sovereign to inanee
him to vote for and influ.saa his father to rote fur him (Mr.
Wyld) at the late election. After hearing the evidence she
butch were unanimously of (-pinion that the charge of cor-
rupt iaducement was not made out. After Mr. Whitehurst
had add:woad the bench, and had called one or two wit-
• woes, the chairman said that the beach were unanimously of
I opinion that the case for the prwecution was not sufficiently
strong tojusnly them in proceeding any further with the
charge, and It wee, therefore, &mimed. (The announce-
own wan received with loud applause from the body of the
hall.) Mr. Whitehurat then applied for the defendant's
costa, which wets allowed.