The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

Landes Jona W. Parker and Ana. Went ntrand.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAIBIREDGE., Barr.
ST. Pitmen Couanw—There will be an election
of whams at this college on Saturday, the 20th of October
next. The number and value of the scholarships to be dis-
posed of will be limited according to the eligibility of the
candidates : they are of the respective valises of 60f., 40f.,
sad 201. ppeerr annum. The examination will begin on the
nab of October, end be open to all students who intend to
oinunence their residence in that month. In the case of
each candidate a testimonial to his moral character from the
master of the school at which he has been educated should
be fomented to the Her. J. W. Taylor, tutor of St. Peter's
tllege. The examination will occupy four days ; it will
winiprise (.reek and Latin translation and *imposition,
ancient history, Euclid, algebra, trigonometry, soil conic
sections. The ...tattooers will bo at liberty to sward the
scholarships on the ground either of general proficiency or
of high attainmenta in a single branch of study. In June,
11L1, and each subsequent year, there will be soother exa-
mination of all the undergraduate members of the college,
at which other scholarships of the mine values will be
given, and the same person will he tamable of holding a
scholarship of 20f. in addition to one of 401. or 601.
Kixit's Cottevnt.—Albert Stewart Winthrop Young and
Henry Chiselse have been admitted scholars of this college
from Etas.

There will be congregations on the following days of the
earning Michaelmas Term :—llooday, Oct. 1, et 10 ; Thurs-
day. Oct. 11, at 12 ; Thursday, Oct. 25, at 12 ; Thursday,
Nov. 8, at 12; faraday, Nov. 22, at 12; Thursday, Dec.
6, at 12.

FICZ AT Tali SAVOY CHAPIIL ROYAL—Yesterday
morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, a lts. which quickly re-
duced to ruins the splendid organ presented by his late
Majesty George IV., happened in that venerable edifice,
the Savoy Chapel Royal, iituated in Savoydnet, between
the houses in tie Strand sear Waterloo-bridge. This sacred
place is, with the exception of the Abbey, the oldest sock-
ehurtioal bulldog in the city of Westminster. It appears
that about twenty minutes past 6 o'clock Sergeant Butcher,
F divispri, had his attention directed to the chapel by
seeing smoke issuing from the roof, and also through the
window., which had been left open. He at once opened
one the doors, and found fire. Alarm was given, sod
the engines were soon in attendance. The Rev. H. White,
the chaplain, had gone into the church at 5 o'clock to drew'
the communion table for the early sacrament to take place
at a. The fires were then lighted in the furnaces for warm-
ing the chapel, and when Mr. White left, a little after 6
o'clock, he did Dot petosive the least appearance of smoke
or the smell of Are. A shod time after that gentleman
had left, the served above alluded to saw the but ap-
pearance of the Are, and in the coarse of a few miautea Mr.
Superintendcnt Dui* of the F division, and Inspector
Fehon, arrived with • hilly of police, and Mr. Darken gave
Metructions for the communion plate to he mowed some
of his officers to a place of safety. That was ed.
The lire continued to spread, so that the whale organ,
bellows, pipes, and appointments, beams isvelvedin Same.
The flames then extended to the megniAcest red, and mat
seised upon some of the stalk at the side of the mew and
the fire was not subdued until the red woe dories red an
the south end of the chapel, the amps seedy emoiroyed.
some of the pews totally destroyed, and weed severely
damaged by Sr., sad ille test of Mee exteneive adiAse
jimmied by water and heat. The ark* of the lire hes
been hmedto the overheating of the elms seed for warm-
ing the chapel.