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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2524, 20 March 1871, Page 2

Princess Theatre. The programme of Friday was repeated on Saturday to a fair house. This evening the “Lancashire lass ” will he produced, and, as the rain has apparently decided for the present to “ hold up,” no doubt there will he many witnesses to the kind enr|iiiries for “the party by the name of Johnson.” Religious. —An interesting service took place at St. Paul’s Church yesterday morning, when the Rev. T. L. Stanley was ordained a priest by his Lordship the Primate of New Zealand. The Rev. S. T. Nevill, Bishop elect of Dunedin, preached an eloquent sermon from the Ist. 4th, 3th. (sth, and 7th verses of the 12th chapter, Ist Corinthians, to a very unmet ous congregation. A God-Senp. —During the trial of a civil case recently, at Nelson, before his Honor Mr Justice Richmond, in ( which a Wairau farmer sued Messrs Symons and Bonnets for the value of some wheat shipped on board the barque Hera and burned, Mr Charles Redwood said in evidence I have insured wool before this, and I think it is generally looked upon by the insurers as rather a god-send if it never gets home. His Honor here interposed, and said that he could not take down such an answer. 11 c was shocked to hear it stated in a court of law that the loss of the indemnities should he looked upon as the prolit of the insurer. Prison Larou. — The gang of prisoners employed on the Waikari road have completed the widening of the road, and are now engaged in quarrying and breaking metal for the completion of the work. This gang and the one now employed on Bell Hill, to the number of fifty men altogether, will be transferred to a work to he beuun in a few days on the opposite side of the bay. With a view to the ultimate completion of the

road to Portobello along the sea-side, aud the saving of the present circuitous route by Anderson’s Bay, it is intended to form a road from Mr Tolmie’s, on the Anderson’s Bay road, to Vauxhall. The material, for the conveyance of which tramways will be laid’ down, is to be taken from the bills on both sides, and to prevent the inroads of the sea the embankment will be heavily pitched. The work will be in progress in a few days, and the settlers on the Benin uia alive to its importance, have suggested to the Government the desirability ot completing the road, to which end they have offered to provide a small steamer to convey the prisoners to and from work. Tn connect on with that portion of the work about to be undertaken, it has born suggested that it would be a much greater advantage to the settlers on the Peninsula and the inhabitants of the City, if, in stead of carrying the road across the mouth of Anderson’s Bay, it were carried right across the bay from Yauxdiallto a point close to Messrs Guthrie and Asher’s timber yards. We arc assured that it could be done as easily and as cheaply as the other work, and when done, the dredge’s shoot could be emptied on the other si le of it, so tha*-- the work of harbor reclamation would be going on in a direction which it must ultimately take, The suggestion is one well worthy of consideration by the Government.

Melbourne University.— Just at tiic mo nent we are about to start a University in i itago, we have laid before rs the n-snUs of twelve years experience of a -i .nilar institution in Victoria. The first advances i f those institutions wo all know to be clow; but when once, however, they have become, ns it were, firmly rotted, they grow with a vapidity that distances all expectation. Whim the Melbourne University was first established, it was for some years the fa-diion to laugh at it as a co.Uy toy, and to ndulgo in snail witticisms about the fracti mo : a student that fell to each professor. 'I hen as its numbers increased, people only sdd that its establishment was ) r.-mature, Now it has bee One not < nly fully or.auiwd, but has outgrown its present b hiding, nor d n;s there appear any sign that it Ims approached the limit of its youth. In 1858 the number of students w, o were matriculat d was two ; ami from these small beginniu.s there was a steady, tho 'gh not wry great, increase up to ISfio, when the number had risen to 31. Tn the three years following the i crease remained stationery at the rate of about 40 in each year. During the last three years, however, the advance has been surprisingly giva 1- -, the numbers matriculated being —in 1869, 62 ;in IS7O, 86 ;in 1871, 91 ;so lint in 1871 the number was three times what it was in 1865 ; and in 1565 the increase more than double that of 1862. The 91 matriculated students of the present year rcpv.sont those who have passed the examination, but the total number of can iidates at these examinations is 230. In other respects the University has done good work. The number of de.roes that it has conferred since its < ommcncunent upon its regular students is 136, while 164 graduates of other Universities have shown their sympathy with it by taking ad etindnin degre-s The number of degrees thus obtained by regular shutouts, exceeds idle number obtained from 1842 to 1859, by students of at least five colleges in Cambridge, aud is v<ry nearly equal to those obta ne I by time other colleges, viz., Magdalene, Jesus, aud Glarehall. Besides these students who desire to proceed to degrees, the University has given instruction to 456 non-matricul.ited students. The total number of students, including matriculated and non-matricu ati d, from its opening, is 1059 Aprojt'ns of Universities, the aulliorities < f the Sydney one announce their intention to admit female caud da c.s to the j niior and senior examinations fi.r degrees, under the usual rues.

Mu Baiuford will address the electors ?it the Drill Shed, Cavershani, this evening, »t S o’clock, Mu Uke will address the electors at Drill Shed, Cavers ham, to-morrow, at 8 p.m.

W R notice that Captain Wilson, the well-known mesmerist, has arrived, and will give his lir-.t entertainment in the Masonic Hall on ednealay evening.