The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Fee. 27.
The Syodice, appointed to regulate the examina-
tion' of students who are not members of the University,
haverepurted to the Senate
. . . .

Their they have taken into consideration the memorial,
which wee addrees4 in October last to the Vice-Chancellor
and Senate of the University by a large number of mestere of
schools and persons otherwiee engaged in tuition, stating that
the present cystatu, under which examinations take place both
In June and December in each year, la calculated to interfere
with the regular routine of school instruction' and requesting
that step might be taken to consider the expediency and
practicability of an arrangement between the Universities of
Oxford end Cambridge, so that there may be only one exa-
mination annually at each centre. A similar memorial hav-
ing been addrered to the Vice-Chancellor and Convocation
of the University of Oxford, the delegates there, to whom the
regulation of the examinations is committed, nvited the Syc-
dies to send a deputation to Oxford to confer with them on
the subject. [This conference took place on the 7th instant.]
The delegates and the Syndics agree entirely in the opinion
expressed by the memorialists, that it is d. strable that not
more than one examination should take place in a year at say
1 local centre ; end they think that, if the systems of examine-
don adopted by the two Universities respectively can he
made eufficiently alike, arrangements mar be made without
difficulty, by which the whole work of the examinations in
every year may be divided in nearly equal parts between the
two Universities. After much cossulmtion the Byndks
beg leave to recommend the following rule in place of that
which sue adopted by the Senate on the 19th of March,
1858:—" That no student be admitted to examination among
the junior candidates, who will have attained the
age of sixteen years before the end of the year
in which the examination takes place." The Syn-
dics have cousidered with greet care the argument.
which have been urged in favour of and against the use of II
title of proficiency, as well as various titles which have been
suggested for the purpose ; and being of opinion that it I. of
great importance to the summed the proposed arrangement
between the two universities that some tide should be au-
thorised by the Senate, though it is not essential that such
dile should be the same as that adopted by the University of
Oxford, they beg leave to resommend that the students who
pass the examination for the senior candidates to the sada-
&often of the examiners be allowed to assume the title of
Associate of Cambridge tA.C.). li the two rules now re-
commended should receive the sanction of the Senate, the
Syndics have greet confidence that the arrangements which
they will then be able to complete with the delegates of the
University of Oxford will be such ea to satisfy the wishes' of
the misters of schools and others who take interest In the
exemiesuoae, and will at the same time diminish considera-
tithe labour sad *spew both of the local committees and
the delegates and Syndics.
Tide report w.ll be discussed on lb* Ist of March.

OXFORD, Fen. 27.
Under the Statute " De Examinations Candid.-
torum qui non sent de corpora Universitidis."-1860.—The
examltation will be holden this )ear at Oxford; and also at
the following pleas. London, loath, Redford, Birmingham,
Brighton, Cheltenham, Exeter, Loads, Liverpool, Man-
chester, Nottingham, Reigate, and Bouthampton. The OW
Milladoll will c.eureence in each place on Tuesday, the 6th of
Jun*, at nine o'clock cm., end will be e .nunued from day to
day until It he completed. Candidates desirous of being exa-
mined at Oxford are digested to apply to the secretary, the
Rev. J. IL Sewell, Nan College, Oxford, on or before Satur-
day, the 21st of April.

SHIPWRECIL—MOLYHEAD, MONDAY NIGHT.—
The barques Robert Mills, American, In haulier; round the
end of the breakwater while running In towards the mew
harbour for shelter, lulled too close, got her sells aback, and
then, from lack of heads or other came*, did not succeed in
getting out of irons, and drifted across the bey with all Ler
sills abmk. She diupped her anchors after driving a (me-
morable disease ; alter her sails were furled the anchors
held her, but she was dangerously close to the Anglesey
shore. The lifeboat belongme to the Royal National Life-
boat Institution was away with • celerity that dors
credit to her crew, and soon got alongside the
barque, and offered assistance, which wee refused In
terms the reverse of complimentary, the vessel being
not more than • quarter of • mile from the breakers, blowing
a strong gale from S.W. The lifeboat returned, but at
3 p.m. the barque woe observed again to start, when the life-
boat was a mooed time despatched, and bee not yet re-
turned. In the mesalime the Robert Mills is ashore, and has
last her meats, and the boat is returning—why, I may perhaps
be able to state In la postscript,—_g p.m. The lifeboat has
returned ; could not get mar the 'hip, as she is chives Is
among the rocks at Peorhyn Point, sod is surrounded by a
boiling surf. As the tide ebbs the orew will get ashore with-
out didieulty; bat I fear that the wreck will be tout—a dis-
aster which might have been prevrnwri had the captain ac-
cepted the proffered earvlose of the coxswain of the lifeboat
on his first trip. He weds perfectly eorupstast to hers slipped
sad rue the vessel oa to the sheltered beech of Pauly°,
where ate would have been comparatively uninjured.
THE WITHDRAWAL OP Ilia CHATHAM PETI-
TION.—Ise is grnetaiti Stated in this borough that the POWs
for the withdrawal the petition 'gaunt General Sir F.
Smith was • n amount of an "arrangement" entered into
' that the gamut general should not oppose Mr. Otway the
liberal testrutate, at the seat election for Chatham. We
have no means of ascertainieg the correctness of the rumour,
or whether such • compact was made, tut some credence
may be attache I to the eircumetanue from the tett that the
leading member& of the tory party openly avow that it is Dot
likely Sir F. Smith will opts stud to Chathem.-40514
esitre aunts.

Ratu Intelittnct.
BUSINESS AT QUEEN'S BENCH CHAMBERS.

Tbo following mutatione for transacting the business at these
diansbans will to tWaly Awed al foible seep :
et glob win bit Wow et le tido*.
oA=igirioneag cob to piped on the en
Ottransensee Wthe b 7 the boas will be Mord at hailteet le
°'et'ek•

parte applications tescurpt those upon adidarit) will be disposed of
thimednuely after the adjourned ounumonam
r ammonia of the day will be celled and numbered at a quarter be.
frr.. :1 o'clock, and beard eon,u^ulrely.
The parties on two •111111110.11•611 only will be allowed to attend to the
judge's room id the am. time.
All long orders Joke lin that they may be ready on being applied for
the following dig.
Counsel *Mb* Wird jabot. The name of the CUM to be put
on the counsel lifit and bend no:online to number.
Athdarits In mann dm wee appileationa for judge's orders (except
those tor sedteale Mid le MU and to smear) to be left the day Wore
the orZajw. N applied for, my under medal dreuntataaoss
melt 011 ly endorsed with the names of the parties,
the mare the on, and a ref armies to the notate under
whien ed li made, the party applying being prepared to
NAM
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endorsed Ind CC referred to before the judge to be properly
.

EQUITY COUR'fB.—FAB. 27.
(Heim Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kind=ley.)
IM 2.3 THE SENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY TT
PARTE TOWNSIND.-IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS OF
1117/LDING SOCIETIES.

This cam came on upon adjourned summons from cham-
bers. It appeared that, several years ago, the Kent Hew-
itt Building Society purchased a piece of land, called Hop-
pe/ton-field, which they divided into plots, and Mr. Town-
semi, who was a member of the society, purchased one of
them plots for 331. At that time he bad paid up ocintribia-
Hoes on shares to the amount of several pound., and on
the land he paid to the directors the difference
wan iwhat he had so paid on these shares and the amount
of the purchase-money. This was in 1836. The
society has ring come under the operation of
the Winding-up Act. It was now contended
cm the pars of the official manager that Mr.
Townsend ought to be placed on the list of contributories in
respect of the shares held by him before he effected the pur-
chase of the lead, inasmuch as he had not complied with the
rule which requires a month's notice to be given for the
withdrawal of shame. Oa the other hand, the commie! for
Mr. Townsend submitted that, practically, lie had ceased to
be a member of the society, Inasmuch as the amount he had
paid on his shares had been returned to him, and this was so
considered by all the parties at the time, and Townsend did
not subsequently attend any of the meetings of the society.
The Vice-Chancellor said this society wee a benefit build-
ing society, and so far as it had acted as a freehold land
society its tranaactions were illegal. The 31at and 32nd rules
prescribed that any member wishing to withdraw the
balsam standing to hire credit might do so on giving 30 dap'
notice, and that after such notice no member should be liable
to any fines for arrears, nor be entitled to any profits that
might accrue. No doubt Mr. Townsend might have with-
drawn his money and applied it to any purpose he pleased,
and if he bad done ao he would bats cewd to be a member.
He did not do that, however; but he purchased a plot of
bad of the directors and paid them the difference between
the amount he had paid on his shares and the purchase
money. He could not regard that em an operation under the
31st and 32nd rules, when in point of fact the parties had not
the smallest idea on either side of operating under those
rules. The society were acting, not as if they were a beatelt
building society, but as a freehold land society, which they
had no right to do, and therefore it appeared to him, though
he was reluctant to come to that conclusion, that he was
bound to put Mr. Townsend on the list of contributories.
It was stated that there were a number of other cams In
which the circumstances were similar, end it wee speed that
this decision should apply to them also.