The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAT 2.
In a congregation holden thin morning the foil
Lewis, degree, were conferred :
Doctor of Medicine. —Edward Long Fox, Balliol College.
Bachelor of Divinity.—Rev. Henry Gordon Merriman,
New College.
Masters of Arts.—Frederick C. Puebla (absent at Madras)
and Rev. Thomas Henry Cole, Exeter College ; Rev.
Edward Inman, Oriel College ; David Pitcairn (Fellow),
Magdalen Collesei Glow Emma, and Rev. Herbert
Laval= Brassaose Caller Michael Edward
Hicks Beach, Ran., Ambrose Deets Hussey, Rev. Frederick
John Ramsdell, Seymour Ashwell, and John Talbot D.
Llewelye, Christ Church Rev. William Scott, Worcester
College ; Rev. John Matthias Proctor (Fellow), Jesus Col-
lege ; Rev. Gage William Lantare, Magdalen Han ;
Edward G. Russell, St. Edmund
Bachelors of Arta.—Louis Arthur Cockerel, Balliol Col-
lege terrederi John Poesouby, and Thomas Smith (poet-
mas), Merton College ; William Henry Wile
(scholar), Jesus C,ollsgs ; Henry Dalrymble Cox (absent in
Australia), Trinity Wisp.

CAMBRIDGE, BAT 2.
At a congregation this day the under-mentioned
degrees were conferred :—Masten of Aria—R. J. Donne,
W. T. T. Drake, J. C. Cl field, Ireland, and E. P. Bowe,
Trinity Colleigs • John Wood, St. John's College ; E. H.
; Bayley and S. Eddy, Christ's College ;C.H.T. W. Drew,
St. Catherine's College. The Rev. W. Bennitt, of Trinity
College, and the Rev. John Deabeny, of Exeter College,
Oxford, were admitted oaf modest gradual.

THE ILEESTON MURDER.
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In our yesterday's impression we gave a brief
account of the mur. of • man named Joseph Smith, of
Ilkeston, Derbrhire, by his ion, George Smith, who blew
his father's brains out with a pistol. We now give some
further particulars. It appears that the murderer purchased
a read, with which the murder was perpetrated, at Mr.
Daniel Vrebster's, general dealer, and pawnbroker, Climber-
Nottingham. On Wednesday afternoon, asked for
o'stletr, Smith went to Mr. Webster's shop and asked for
a pistol, stating that be wished to purchase one. Smith
being a stranger Mr. Webster wired him what he wanted it
for, to which Smith replied that he wanted it "to fly
pigeons with when they were racing." Mr. Webster
was satisfied with Smith's answer, and accordingly supplied
him with a pistol, for which be paid 4s. Smith then asked
him if he could furnish him with powder and caps, to
which Mr. Webster replied in the negative, adding that
his neighbour, Mr. Carr, on the other aide of the street,
could supply him with all he required. Accordingly,
Smith went there and asked for halfpenny worth of
caps, which were supplied to him by Mrs. Carr. He put
one of the caps on the pistol, and was in the act of
letting it off, when she told him she was afraid of fire-
arms, and if be wanted to let it off he mod go into the
street. He then went outside the shop and And the cap
off, after which he returned to Mrs. Carr, and asked for •
halfpenny worth of powder. She told him that she did not
make that quantity, but he could have a pennyworth if be
thought proper. lie replied, " Well, give me enough for
one charging ; I want to tr 7 the pistol. She accordingly
put • small quantity in a pesos of paper, and he threw down
• penny for it and went away. He then went home, and, it
is mid, called his father up and deliberately shot him. Mr.
Smith immediately fell dead, and his son was soon after-
wards taken into custody. While he was being apprehended
he asked for a carving.knife, stating that lie would have
revenge on the body of his father, adding that, when be was
fihanged, if his limbs trembled, his name was not George
nith,

We stated yesterday that the murderer wrote a tote in
.lead pencil to his sweetheart, at Belton, on Wednesday, In
whisk Is* said he wee afraid his father would make away
with himself. This turns oat to be correct, for on Thurs.
day evening Detective Davis went to Belton, bad an inter.
view with the girl, Ellen Con, who at first denied having
reseieed a letter, but afterwards produced the following,
written in lead pencil, which she said she had received from
the murderer that (Thursday) morning :
" fly dear • •,—I told my father this morning, and he
is like a madman, and I am sure he will make away with
himself ; but, Ellen, never mind ; you will soon become my
wife, and then all this bother will be over. Please send me
word when you are at yonr grandmother's, and you must
come and meet me at the station on Sunday morning : be
there at 8 o'clock. So good-bye, sweetheart. I have given
the bane in at Ilkeston."

[TM lekteris not dated from any place, nor bean any
V.Vhiston missed the inquest on Thursday afternoon,
at the Queen's Head, 'llkeston, and the proceediep were
adjourned until this day.

LONDON SOCIETY YOR FROPAOATING THIS GOSPEL
AMONGST TIM Jawn.—The annual meeting of this society
was held yesterday in Exeter Hall ; the Earl of Shaftesbury
in the chair. The Rev. Mr. Goa%art read the report for
the past year, which contained accounts of the proceedings
of the various missionaries in Germany, Runde, Turkey,
Alsyselna, de., all of 'Boni promoted very gratifying state-
mode of the proper el Christian principles amongst the
Jewish population in those countries. Great numbers of
converts had been made, schools had been opened, sad copies
of the Saiptures had been extensively circulated among
the Jewish people. The receipts of the society exceeded
those of the previous year by upwards of 3,0001. The
report, which occupied nearly an hour in reading, con-
eluded with a strong appeal for continued and increasing
support. A letter was read by the chairman from
the King of Preens, in reply to one from the cm-
mites of the society, expressing his sympathy with the
objects of the society, and announcing his desire to co-
operate with it is respect to the Jews in Prussia. The
Bishop of London, is a few appropriate words, moved the
the report, which was seconded by the Bishop
of of ,
and earned.
LENTRUCTIVI FIRE AT POPLAR. Yesterday
morning, between the hours of eight and nipe o'clock, a de-
structive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. William
Squires, marine store dealer, No. 40, Robin Hood-buie,
Poplar. When the alarm was first raised the flames had
obtained a strong hold of the lower part of the building, so
that it was utterly impossible for aliyoue to render the least
assistance io saving any of the couteota. The Are was not
extinguished until the premises were burnt dew., slid the
houses Noe. 1,2, and 3, Terrace-court, consid..rably damaged.
The origin of the misfortune is unknown. The lass will fall
oci the Sun and other °Mem

DRSTRUCTION OF A MILL IN DRRBYRHIFL —Early
Wednesday morning a fire was discovered in the mill belong-
ing to Mr. Swallow, at Hanging-bridge. Ashbourn. Derby-
shire, aed before assistance could be obtained the mill was
completely gutted, the roof and front wall falling in with an
immense crash about 3 o'clock. Au ALM having been
given, the Ashbourn fire engines were quickly on the spot,
and by their instrumentality the warehouses, containing •
large quantity of cotton, awl the adjoining dwelling-howey
were fortunately saved. We believe the damage amounts to
between six and seven thousand pounds. The mill was
partly lammed. The loss is aggravated by the fact that •
great deal of new machinery had just been added, which is
entirely destroyed, even to the water-wheel. Had the wind
been active the entire mill-yard and dwelling-how would
have been swept away. The fire broke out is the packiag-
room, it is supposed, and was discovered by one of the mil
hands living in the yard.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRS AND Lows OF LITE AT BRISTOL.
Yesterday morning one of the most destructive fires that
baa ever occurred in Bristol broke out on the extensive
premises of Messes. 'fherndall, Hillier, and Wills, oil and
naphtha merchants and colour manufacturer", Castleireem,
in that city. In one of the warehouses a cask was in the
act of being filled from a tank of mineral naphtha, when a
man named James Beard, who hail charge of the operation',
went to see if the calk was full. Unfortunately, he was
melt enough to being a caked dams in contact with the
vapour of the highly Inflammable fluid, and an immediate
explosion took place, and the warehouse became filled with
lame. Efforts were made to save the unhappy man who had
occasioned the catastrophe, but they acre wholly unavailing,
and he fell a sacrifice to his imprudence. The stock in the
warehouse was of the most combustible description, and the
Games spread with fearful rapidity, speedily wrapping the
entire mass of buildings, with an adjoining cooperage sad
the manufactory of Mr. Glass, wholesale hat and cap maker,
in Games. The whole of the back workshops, in which were
a costly stock and a quantity of machinery, were gutted.
and the front wanirooms caught. and were also much sa-
int The extent of the loss has not been ascertained,
:t was estimat.xl variously, at from 11,000/. to 14,0001.
The parties were covered to a large extent, although pro-
bably not to the full extent by insurances in the Sun and
Imperial offices.
FIRS AT PRICE'S PAIENT CANDLE WORKS.—
Yesterday morning a meat serious fire broke out at
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above manufactory, at Bromborough, Cheshire. The fire is
said to have boss confined to the south-cast end of the
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101:,.0 0 Sae.
The managers and directors of some of the pro-
ioc ial savings banks have given notice that the teaks will
be open twice a week io future, itottail of once.
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