ghe Vrobinuts.

A requisition, signed by 187 electors of King's Lynn, has been addressed to the Honourable Edward Henry Stanley, inviting him to become a can- didate for the vacant representation of that borough. Mr. Stanley is now in America, on a tour of pleasure and political education; but his father, Lord Stanley, has "ventured in his name gratefully to wept the honour." Lord Stanley confidently believes that his son's opinions coincide in all essential points with his own; and that, if elected, Mr. Stanley will "show his sense of the confidence reposed in him, by emulating the sedulous attention to public business, and anxiety to promote the local interests of his constituents, which eminently distinguished him whom you have lost."

We announced last week, by a quotation from the Morning Chronicle the probability that important modifications in the routine of University education would be made at Cambridge this week.

On the 16th October, the Vine-Chancellor reissued a report prepared in April last by the Syndicate appointed to consider " whether it is expedient to afford greater encouragement to pursuit of those studies for the cultiva- tion of which professorships have been founded in the University ; and if so, by what means that object may be best accomplished." The Syndicate had reported in favour of change. "While admitting the superiority of the study of mathematics and classics over all others as the basis of general education, and acknowledging therefore the wisdom of adhering to our present system in its main features," they were nevertheless of opinion that much good would result from affording greater encouragement to the pursuit of various other branches of science and learning, which are daily acquiring more importance and a higher estimate in the world, and for the teaching of which the University already possesses the necessary means." They therefore recommended, that there be established two new com- petitions for honours, by the names "the Moral Sciences Tripos" and "the Natural Sciences Tripos." The places of the candidates for honours in the first to be determined by examination in moral philosophy, political economy, modern history, general jurisprudence and the laws of England; those in the second, by examination in anatomy, comparative anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, and geology. The examinations for the first to commence on the second Monday, and those for the second on the sixth Monday, after the general admission to responsions; to continue for four days; and to be open to all students who have kept the exercises for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law or Bachelor of Physic, or who have passed the questions entitling to admission" ad respondendum pies- Rout."

In addition, they recommended that candidates for the degree of B.A., or honorary M.A., who are not candidates for honours, must before examina- tion have attended lectures by the following professors in addition to those now required—" The Regina Professor of Laws, Professor of Physic, Pro- fessor of Moral Philosophy, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Modern History, Professor of Botany, Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Downing Professor of Medi- cine, Professor of Mineralogy, Professor of Political Economy." The first examination for honours under either newly-established tripos to take place in 1851.

With practical objects, the Syndicate further suggested the creation of a new body,

- - - - "to encourage attendance at the lectures of the mathematical professors, and to secure a correspondence between those lectures and the mathematical exa - minations of the University; and also a means of communicating to the students themselves, from a body of experienced examiners and lecturers, correct views of the nature and objects of our mathematical examinations: the Lacasian Professor of Mathematics, the Plamian Professor of Astronomy, the Lowndean Professor of Geometry and Astronomy, and the Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Ex- perimental Philosophy, together with the Moderators and Examiners for mathe- matical honours for the time being, as well as those of the two years immediately preceding, be constituted a board of mathematical studies; whose duty it shall be to consult together from time to time on all matters relating to the actual state of mathematical studies and examinations in the University; and to prepare annually and lay before the Vice-Chancellor a report, to be by him published to- the University in the Lent or Easter term of each year."

On Tuesday, a Congregation was held for the purpose of submitting to

the Senate "graces" confirmatory of these recommendations. Separate graces were presented for each regulation, one in respect of each tripos, and one in respect of the mathematical board. The votes were as follows. On the Moral Sciences Tripoli, 94 planets in the Non-Regent House and 61 in the Regent House; 44 and 39 non-planets. On the Natural

Sciences Tripos, 89 placets in the Non-Regent House and 60 in the Regent House; 47 and 40 non-planets. On the Mathematical Board, 97 planets in the Non-Regent House and 71 in the Regent House; 38 and 28 non- placets.

All the recommendations were adopted intact.

The new railway from Reading to Basingstoke, connecting the Great Western with the South-western Railway, was opened to the public on Wednesday.

The murdered woman found at Holstead has been identified: the body was that of Sarah Freeman, who had separated from her husband and had been travelling in the company of a man with whom she lived. But nothing more seems to have been discovered as yet.

On the 24th October, the body of Robert Slater, a tailor of Bradford, was found in a brook which runs through the town. It was at first supposed that he had been accidentally drowned; but there were suspicions circumstances. The mystery was cleared up at the second sitting of the Coroner's Jury, when Joseph Foster, a woolcomber, was brought before them: he had confessed to a policeman that he threw Slater over a bridge into the stream, at night; for he was tired of his life, and wanted to be hanged. Slater was rather the worse for liquor when he was murdered. His assassin—a man about thirty years of age—had been for a short time in the Army, but discharged with a pension, because he was subject to fits: he was frequently out of employment, and was then in a very discontented state of mind. He had been implicated in Chartist drillings. The man repeated his confession to the Jury; and they returned a verdict of "Wilful murder " against him.

A fatal accident happened, on Sunday night, on the York and Newcastle Rail- way, near the Bolden station. An engine was conveying some workmen to Shields; the engine was incautiously stopped at the bridge over the Don, to take in water; while thus delayed, a mail-train came up on the same line; the night was very thick, and the moving train was dashed into the stationary one: the carriage containing the workmen was crushed to pieces. One man was killed on the spot, two others died in a few minutes, and the condition of a fourth was con- sidered hopeless; the driver of the special engine suffered a fracture of the leg, and the other people were all more or less hurt. The passengers in the mail- train escaped almost unscathed. It appeared at the first sitting of the inqtiket, on Tuesday, that those in charge of the special train exhibited the greatest want of caution: the mail-train seems to have been unthought-of ; the driver and fire- man, contrary to the rules, were without watches; they had no business to stop at the Don bridge; they gave no notice at the stations that they meant to do so; and they ought to have known that the mail-train was due.

An express-train on the North-western line met with an accident, near Weedon, on Tuesday morning. The engine and tender got off the line, broke away from the carriages, and fell over an embankment: the driver and stoker jumped off—much scalded, the luggage-van and carriages rushed on past the place where the engine had fallen, and then the van and three carriages also fell down the embankment: the two remaining carriages kept on the rails. The van rested sideways in a thick plantation of trees, presenting a barrier on which the three carriages rested; and they were thus prevented from turning topsy-turvey. Several passengers were hurt, but not dangerously.

On Thursday morning last, about four o'clock, the three powder-mills at Sedge- wick, near Kendal, were totally destroyed by an explosion. The report was heard at a distance of forty miles, and mistaken for thunder. Fortunately, no person was present; so that no lives were lost. The mills were the property of Messrs. Wakefield, of Keridal.—Lancaster Gazette.