The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-16 00:00:00

erniberditp intritigenct.

OXFORD, Itracs 15.
In a congregation holden this morning the fel-
lowieg depose were conferred :
MANT/11110 OF Aare.—Rev. Merles Chem= Browne and
John Henry Smith, University ; Rev. Nicholas J. Fyson,
Worcester. . _ .

BATHILORS 01 Arm—Philip Thresher, University ;
Philip .7. Early Welby, Magdalen ; Francis E. Unsnap
(scholar), New ; Edward S. Talbot, Chiba Church.
B.C.L. (liroortronarec).—Lyttleton Stewart Winslow,
Downing Collage, Cambridge, to Trinity, Oxford.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PAELIANINNT.—
In the House of Lords yesterday, the Cork and Yoogbal
Bill peened through with amentimeota. The consideration
of the Ardrishaig and Loch Awe Ronny was further ad-
journed until to-day. The Downpairics, Dundram, and
Newoutle Railway, the Midland Great Western (of Ls-
lead), and the Great Souther') and Western Railway b,lls
d through with ameadmants. In group 6, in the
House of Commons, the further consideration of the
Bristol and Ranter Railway (Ere Valley Bailwars),
and the Ere Valley Railway was proceeded with.
and the committee decided that the preamble had
not been proved in the owe of the first hill, and
that the preamble had been proved in the ease of the
second bill which was adjourned for the settlement of
clauses. In group 8, the preamble of the Bridgnortb,
Wolverhampton, and Staffordshire Railway Bill was proved,
subject to the nom-construction of the atatioa at Wolver-
hampton, and other modifications. Mr. Vernon Hanioart,
Q.C., Mr. Hollway, and Mr. Thomas appeared for the pro-
moters of the bill; Mr. Berke, Q.C., appeared for the
Great Wasters Company ; and Mr. Round, is support of
the oppordeg petition of Mr. Pritchard, M.P. In group 9,
the consideration of the London and North Western Rail-
way (new line.) ; and the Wrexham, Mold, and Coolish's-
quay Railway (new lines) occupied the attention of the
committee during the letting.
Lova IN A WORILHOUBIL —OD Tuesday the gravity
of the deliberations of the Sculcoates board of guardians,
Hull, was somewhat relieved by the chairman reading the
following letter, written by a pauper to a young woman,
also an Inmate of the house :—" Dear Jane,—]f you tax
me for my bolenees, I might also tax you for your onneli-
uses, for at the first gleam I thought I knew you, and
the attention you paid me confirmed the thought. I be-
long to Cottingliam, and bare come in purposely to form
an acquaintance with youorhich I hope will not be rejected,
for will find me both upright and einem% And re-
'rig our errors, none are without their faults.
bars a good home to go to, and if you
choose yen inn share it with me. It grieves me
to nee such a blooming young woman abut out from society
and wasting the prime of her life in a place like this.
Weigh the matter well, and you will fiad a warned life
preferable to your.. I will write more, after receiving an
.sewer to this, with every partiealar. (Seed by bearer of
this.) sincerity, 1.011 WHITMAN." Whiteman
hades n admitted ass pauper, and the chairman remarked
that, unfortunately far his suit, his "blooming you')
rlwoman " was married. When brought before the
Whiteman acknowledged the billet-ooux. He was told to
leave became be had admitted that he had a goad home.
The poor fellow maimed quite disconsolate on hearing the
sentence. . .

---SEAHLY BUSIED Amyl! —An instance of a man
being nearly buried alive, is thus reported in • recent num-
ber of the Ballaarat Star ta-" It appears that ea under-
toast named Watson, residing in that locality, was asked
by n woman named Ward to come and measure her hus-
band for • coffin, as he was then lying dead is the brass.
The undertaker west to the bones to take the
measure, and sure enough he found the man to
all appearance dead, the body being cold and seem-
ingly stiff. He afterwards procured some timber to
execute the order, but on returning to the house on Wed-
nesday with the coffin, be noticed something about the
man's appearance which raised some doubts in his mind as
to his being dead. To solve the mystery a looking-glam
was placed to the lip* of the supposed corpse, end appear-
sec's having indicated that there was still • little breath
in the body, some assistance was procured, sad by dint of
various restoratives the man was brought to oonecionseess.
The question arises, what will the undertaker do with the
coffin ?"
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......LCHILARDT EXTRDITION.—The Isembhaodt ex- The noble were gratified yesterday by the arrival of the
pedition has broken down in consequenoe of the drought is
the Far North. Some members of the party have arrived Ozonises, who, however, were prevented from going on the
water until nearly dusk, owing to the non-arrival of their
at Queenlend. Whips is at Cooper's Creek, with the boat. The Cantabs, after their usual run in tbe morning,
camels ; the horses are all dead. It is intemled, however, started surly in the afternoon, just before high water, sod
to persevere. A meeting of the ladies committee was hail rowed the course up to the Ship at Modiste, with a heavy
in Melbourne a week or two ago, at which it was resolved wind dead aft at the beginning, and unbar them heavily
to send aid to the party, so sa to enable it to prooeed " after clearing the Point, sod spin in Corney-Reath. Under
soon as the autumn rains shall have set in. The most these adverse circumstaams, however, the distance was
difficult portion of the route bas been overcome. The
country recently traversed by the expedition has not been Towed in 23 minutes, 23 seconds. Returniog on the first of
the ebb, the river was so rough in parts that they were is
visited by rain for nearly two years ; but henceforward, up peril of being swamped, and took a great deal of water
to the Flinders nothing need he apprehended from theinto their boat. The Oxonians went out about half pest
drought, as the party will be in the coons of tropical rains. he, and peddireolzabiet the ebb up to clued,* Church, .
rn -Melboue dye, Jan. 21 wham they back to the beat-hour. The style of
EMIGRATION TO SovTH AI7BTRALIA.—The large the Cambridge men strictly resembled that of the previous
supply of labour which is now arriving has not yet caused day, without any manifest sign of improvement ; the
inconvenience, though the immigration agent of Port Ade- Oxonians were deficient in the form is which they ordi-
hide reports that "in the ships which have arrived daring eerily appear, and hardly made so good a data, it was
the last quarter there has bees too large a proportion of generally considered, as on some former coessimis ; but
miners ; and them is at present great difficulty in finding they, like their rivals, had to contend with the disclose.
them employment." lie also states that. " although there uses of very nobbly water. Betting is 6 and 7to 4 of
is a demand for agricultural and other classes of unskilled Oxford.
labourers, there is coos derable difficulty in Boding
, , ein,.; FOURFOLD MURDER IN NEW ZEAL/RD.-Let
ployment for those who U. merited, having 'etemee '" mail we called attention to the diminution of crime in
young children, the support of whom directly or indirectly
Auckland. We wish we could renew our statement f ; but,
on
ells the employers-a burden mole especially felt
unfortunately, we cannot. A fourfold murder has been
when the price of food, as at present, is unusually
committed by a discharged soldier of the 65th ?cement,
high. This objection will not hold good in the
named Stack, the victims being his motherto-law sod
same degree with mechanics and other classes of skilled
three brothers-in-law. This horrible, murder was nom.
labour." Another reason for limiting the number of witted at Otahnhu, in the letter and of September last;
children Is that when they exceed a certain proportion on
and it wee sot until Friday last that any of the bodies
board emigrant ships there is always a great deal of mor-
were discovered. He had decamped ea the Monday pre-
tility. This bas been the cam lately. A large number of vie. ae, sad was arrested at Kelp" by an old sergeant of
deaths have occurred amongst children, and to judge from his regiment, and lodged in gaol yesterday ( Wedues-
the agent's report this has been caused by a violation of the days, The persona murdered were named Flanigan, and
rules. Be says:-" While the selection of emigrants was lived at Otahuhu, on on. of the pensioner &Het.
under the Emigration Commissioners of England there was
meets, which they enjoyed as heirs of a pensioner
a limit put to the numbers of children is each family, prin.
settler, sent out here on the foundation of the colony. •
cipally on account of the very great mortality amongst chi!.
Stack married Finnipo's daughter, who died reesatly.
dean of tender age ; this most salutary rule Mid been lately
Be murdered in one night the old woman sod her three
ignored." This seems to show that our own agents in Eng-
sons, aged respectively 57, 17, 15, and 12 yeah, and buried
land ere less careful than the orimmisskiners used to be, them in the garden. Over the old woman's body he had
yet we believe the same regulations are in form. Another planted a plot of wrote, which were well grown. The
matter which deserves notice is the selection for this oolosp murder must have been completed in one night; and.
of bo7s taken from the ragged schools, if not from lower-
strange to say, it was perpetrated in a room of a double
clime nistitutiom. Facie have been lately published which I
house, separated from the apartment occupied by soother
show that gross carelessness has occurred in reference to
family by a single beard
partition. The
wen= living in .
one or two recent shipments.-SoscrA Australian &Prier,
the adjoining room said she was at home the night of the
Jan. 27. murder-the algid wises the *snits family (limp-
A petrified Australian male aborigine bah just peand-and beard neither mane nor icy unusual
been brought to this country, and will shortly be sob- • ocuad. This murderer burned the clothes of his
mitted to the auctioneer's hammer by Mr. Stevens, Covent- I victim, we object appears to have been to inherit tbe
gars"- This singular specimen of Pe/4.11.66d°' Wag, It 15 I 'VI/geed awe of freehold in Ombuhri that belonged to Ws
said, found in one of the stools caverns which abound et.late wife's family. He battered in his vistime' skulls with
Mosquito Phan, South Australia. It was lying in a Dan* • hammer, and in addition cut the eldest youth's throat.
Itad position, as if having fallen asleep ; and a Mr. Craig, The Leidy of the 'onager lad has not yet been found.
who warn in the colony at the time in search of curiosities, From what we have heard there is some reason to eon.
Pt possession of the " black tallow," forthe Nurse I sect Steck with the murder of the two men of the German
adding him to his collect's*. Travelling with hie emptier military miller company, whose bodies were found tom-
burden snapped in a blanket for nearly one hundred mite% I hawked and stripped, one Dear Okapi and the other near
he reached Yount Gambia, where his movements sabered I Cambridge, six or eight months ago. At the time, it was
suspicion ; and the Crown Leeds Ranger, uomialeing that kid to the charge of the Maoris ; but Steck is Meows to
his bargain was a human being, *might the advice of a have disposed of some articles belonging to the murdered
higher power, and relieved him of his prise. An action of imp. Strange to say, no inquiry was ever Instituted late
trover was immediately commenced, sad Mr. Craig OM" tide natter, which, f dons at the time, might have saved
tended ill obtaining * verdict, with dung** one feethiug. the of four innoeset persous.-Deily Scuaiiern Crow,
The government, however, refused to give up the "stomp rweember 29.
or other material," which was again placed in the cps. WITARLRDON CONMOM-Mn influential meeting
Mr. Craig, however agate west to weak, and, despite the of inhabitants was held at wheibleaes, au Wednesday
Ahenrbori"T„&m.Aban iri.,.„..`a which toil,....waLgaisaei tirisa..6l"ll.l6. 4.1., evening, to appoint • permeated committee for the de.
eat'-ety-te"E-egiaaa.__ 1 ---"- - -•-- ''" ""-• ""'"91"n• - - fence of the Common. Last year there bed beem three
sommittess, which was found to be iseenvemiset. Mr.
LONDON Gairi&u. Oiriastre COMPANT (Lrigorgl)). i Lawrence aachewed tbe meting aa Kam length, reesplan.
-Mae in°46s ler the we* eedleg Maras 119 1e,47W. I }atlas the chief events of last year, and recommending that
16e. sd. 1 the Commons Preservation SodstT should be efficiently
[Adeerthselneut.) - noLLOWAY's PULL pre' I supported. The meeting woe unammou, end resolutions
pmts. indigestion, flatulency. heartburn, billowier, IMMO. . ware pawed appointing a committee and votiag sub.
*ant of appetite. French philosophers traos the ® foilloge senokma,
of the mind to the state of the stomach, and there le much ,D.,_. ~,.. amount =mum "Do Bmizy/s
wisdom la the speculation. The stomach to the human body Is . ."0.,"...."
more than the kitchen to the domestic esfahnehmeut :be it ever INIUCSOW )11W4Mtffa_Alellite 1000 width 4411. *lib)" a°.
so slightly disordered the whole Internal moms, Is deranged. alba ear m's*liikeeelelethet,memiwa.l' eceeth' atibr
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come when they wM lament over their dyspepida, as thousands ihs
Armor than themselves bays doss, when ft will be well for =ewes ansoallY.-Ds BIM
_and Co.. lie. Eli !141,1-41tritt.
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