The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

UNIVICRSITY INTALLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAS. 2b.
In con..;regation holden this morning the fol-
lowing degree. wen conferred :
NASTUIS or Aar'.—John B. Harrison. fellow. Nom Mi-
ke ; W. O. Cols, fellow, Trinity College ; Williams P.
Nicholls. Worcester College.
BAIIIIIILOSS o► Agra.—Frederick R. Wickham. fellow,
New College ; Theriew A. Astley. Christ Church.

Tat FOIE IN GREAT TuREATILE,
ofteiniso, from some ii.known aillsv, the premises
belonging to Messrs. W. C. Stanley, drawing instrument
makers. No. !t, Croat Turnstile, took fire. The discovery
was made by one cif the workmen, who bad just returned
from dinner, and who found nooks issuing from the first
mid second floor insulates. Before even the brigade en-
gown from Holborn had time to reach the spot the thaw
took. through the two floors, and also through the roof,
and lapped round the front of the houses opposite, igniting
the property of a Mr. Shutt*, a tobaceoniaL To add to
the danger, at the beck were some large premises belonging to
blows k'on.l. Shepherd, and Cole, engravers and printers.
Ti,' hack front of these premises was composed of timber,
and warmly eight feet of ground separated them from Use
burning building. The engines of the Loudon bligarle
from various stations haslet arrived. and plenty of water
having been procured, the firemen went to work
with great difficulty in consequence of the narrownem of
the thoroughfare, and the flames could not be entirely el.
tingidabed until late in the evening, and not before Mr.
Stanley's premises were nearly destroyed. the first and
second flours being burnt out, ind the roof off. What has
not been wholly coasumol in the lower part is extensively
al.,uts4ed by u Ater, a grist many valuable iastrumenta being
also destroyed. This sufferer we. insured in the West of
1.34(..ind afire ; whether the building was insured or not
*mid not be ascertained. The premises of Mr. Mutat the
tolaccouist, have the front severely dawned by lire, and
the molests in the shop by water. be. Insured in the
lruity !'ire-office for cadent% The property of Mrs. Jea.
kir, No. 4, Turnstile, has Zoo sustained great damage,
especially by water. lesurance nokotorn. The premises
of Mesas. Ford, Shepherd, and Cole, the engravers and
pinters, have the windows broken, the Umber bock
front drummed by tire, sod the contents injured by water.
Insured in the tilobe office. Several other houses are also
damaged by fire and water, but Dot to • serious extent.
ATTIOWTED MURDER 's —AL Lud-
low, Mlinmehire, on .Satunlav evening, a murderous attack
WAS male upon a DIAIJ Sallied Joseph Phillips. It appose
that Phillips cohabited with ose Caroline Breakwell, their
place of abode beta* in St. ]Lary-lace, Corve.street. About
twelve o" clock oa Saturday night, a woman named Preece.
nei.thlinur, heard Men of mucler Winder from the cottage
moulded by Phillips, and. proceeding thither, she saw the
Pd Breakwell and a min named John Gittins rush through
she doorway, and hastily &maw. Preece entererg
premise.. observed Phillips lying in • pool of blood by the
are.pLice, and at mese raised an alarm. Medical weathers
being obtained, it was blood that the poor fellow had
?wowed several severe wounds on his fees and neck,
sentiag a frightful spectacle. There was a tremendau
pelt acmes has cheek, an metrical pia beneath the left eve,
a serious cut below the jaw. act other minor injuries. The
police were comminniestol with. and thew commenced an
act's, march for Itrothwell and Cittias. The former they
speedily captured, hat the latter is still at bulge, notwith-
wooding that every effort has been mete to discover Ilk
retrust. The woman was takes before the borough magi.
Mratai en Monday, sad remanded, so evidence then being
sacred Phillip hes in a ; vicarious state, hut there are
hopes el kin ultimate recovery. At peeseut he has not loin
able to give say acesunt of the matter • but the female iit
oustedy asserts that he Wrack her directly be entered the
home, and that that was the cause it the attack which was
made upon hie
Tag At' parlors Ex-Bohm It‘SELLT.-011
Monday. at the Colchester police•onirt, John a
private soldier, recently diechargel from U... Ist Royals,
who has lately maitsool himself areloricew by deframhag
varier perems under the repreventation that he had
lama the possessor of stt by the termilation of a
chancery emit, and Jam l'At, master LA%tt,.,
Worth, journeyman to l'itt and Harriet !tither, a married
woman ; were brought up to r.-esainiasti itt charged with
esmapirieg to defraud Mr. Adilphos Powell, lee, amp.,
olt the business of a fishmonger in Colchester. Irmo whom
M'Selly had obtuned severd hoadred nada/ the
peonies, that he was to be Mlselly's private secretary and
compatriots in his travels at a napery of lio/. per annum.
The particular chere gone into bad referseee to a pawn-
broker • duplicate which had bees tosited with Powell as
warty for an advance. and which re were ac•
maxi i;f obtaining by making • dabs derr:ctroen before use
of the borough magistrates. At the elm' of the tee the
prisoners were committed for trial, hat Pitt, Worth, and
Kilter were admitted to hall.
Tile LATE AII'IDETT OM Tit BRANI`ff Doci
Li,r: or Toe Ir Nualorne AND YatnwlU RAILWAY.—
At the Liverpool cvn•orie court yesterday the adjourned
tun airy into the can-omelette.' attending this deplorable sc.
...lent was reamed. Mr. Newlands, the borough engineer.
Peeing detained in London with important Mesentery
businew, the inquiry mai farther djoarnM satil the Silt
of February.
MEDtcAL ATI.,.,INTUENTE
to the Queen's Marital. Birmingham, by the death of Dr.
Andrews • Him. Pha .'chin to the Royal Dornmetic College.
by the deathl of Dr. t R. Rowe ; Pretence of Physiology.
and PrOfeeeor of Milgrim. Media, Queue's College, Ihr•
munham ; Opbthabuic :lumen and Vestal flurgeoc. Queen's
Mospital. Birmingham; Aimee/mg Kasha! Offieer to the
Nottingham County ,n 4 Borough Lunatic Asylum; District
medical (beer, Keeley Bridge Coins. The sppointmenta
of ophthalmic surgeon and dental surgeon are newly created,
and will now be made fur the twit the,,