The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-02-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSUT INTELLIGENCE.

On Friday the following Degrees were conferred by the
University of Oxford : _

BACHECOR IN DIVINITY.--BRE. Henry Brougham W./liata
Hilleoat, Queen's College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.—Peter Hesketh, Trinity College, Grand
Compounder • John Hull, Brasennose College ; Rev. Herry
Dashwood, frinity College; Neill Malcolm, Christ Church : Re,.
Thomas Littlehales Student of Christ Church ; Rev. licrry
Benwell. Merton College ; Rev. Benjamin Croft Goodison, We:.
cesrer College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS..—William Baton, Christ Church. Grand
Compounder ; John Sturges Martin, Oriel College ; John .11:p.
pesley, Oriel College; Augustus John Smith, Christ Churcn ;
Rev. James Charles Clutterbuck, Fellow of Exeter College.
On Monday last Mr. Edward Payne was admitted actual
Fellow of New College, founder's kin.
On Saturday last the Rev. Edward Bouverie. M.A. of
Christ Church, was installed in the Prebend of Preston, in
the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, vacant by the death of
the Rev. Reynold Gideon Bouyer, on the collation of the
Lord Bishop of Sarum.
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The Rev: Henry Dasl,wood, M.A. of Trinity College, to
the Rectory of Halton.—Patron, Sir John Dashwood King,
Bart.

SPORTING INTEI,LIGENCE.

MINTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Earl of Derby's stag hounds meet to-morrow at Woodman.
stone—at ten o'clock.
H. Jolliffe, Esq.'s fox hounds meet this day and to-morrow at
the Dorset Arms, Grinstead., and Friday, at kennel—each day st,
eleven.
The Surrey fox hounds meet this day at Hamsey-green, Thurs-
day at Lock's-bottom, and Saturday at Motley-!till--each day at
half-Past ten.

ROYAL HUNT.
The King's Stag Hounds turned out a fine den on Monday
morning for the day's diversion at Slough. it had an excellent
run across the enclosures towards Datchett, the deeethen crossed
the Thames near Old Windsor, and leapt over the wall into
Windsor Great Park, and after an hour's run be was lost among
the herd of deer. On Wednesday, a deer was turned out st the
Magpies, Hounslow Heath, which had a very short run. On Fri-
day. a fine deer was turned out at Wellington Bridge, rtar Vir-
ginia Water, which the King's hounds hunted for an hour and a
half, when the deer was taken near NVokinghant, after an excellent
chase.

GAME.—}lice Grace the Duke of Buckingham recently eater.
tained a select party of fashlonables at his mdgnificent mansion at
Stowe, where the sports of the field were enjoyed dozing the last
thirteen days of the shooting season, with peculiar zest, by sowed
the first titled shots in the kingdom, including the Margolin(
Cbandoa, who was very successful. High eDCOMitUTII were pissed
on the keeper, Cobden, as when he took the manor two years alto it
was literally barren of game. The following was the result of t...,:
thirteen days' sport :
Days. Pheasants. Hares. Partr. Woods. Rabbits.
1 17 17 0 0 101
2 34 35 0 0 143
3 63 107 0 0 90
4 23 17 0 , 0 la
5 56 53 0 0 145
6 37 68 2 2 23
7 38 38 0 0 44
8 18 39 0 0 10
9 29 13 0 1 51
10 88 63 0 0 44
11 26 30 0 9 22
12 36 34 0 1 164
13 46 49 4 0 32
Grand Total 2,129.
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A journeyman tailor, in the
employ of a respectable house in Clifford-street, Brad
street, met with a serious accident one day last week.
the following remarkable manner :—while waxing a thexti,
the quickness with which he drew it through his hats/ra-
casioned it to slash across and cut through the tegument*
of one of his eyes, the consequence of which is that the eye
is wasting away without the possibility of relief from the
faculty, and the other eye is so much affected thatit is
apprehended the poor fellow will finally lose the high Of
both of them. tlis sufferings are of 'the most acute nal
agonising deactiption.

BIRTH.
At Norwich, on Tuesday, the lady of Captain Warms, of thstiots
Greys, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On Thursday, at Mickleham Church, Henry John Spirting, Ewl 11424
son of John Spirting, EN. of Dynes-hall, E,sex, to Marla, fourth isus4
ter of H. P. Striding, FN. of Norbury Park, Surrey.
At Glasgow, on Tuesday, Gilbert Stuart Brune, Esq. of Trinity.Noot•
London, to Christina, daughter of Win. Shortridge, Esq. of
etreet, Glasgow.
At Holly Mount, the residence of Linty Harriet Savage, by the WI!
Rev. Edmond Knox, Dean of Down, Edward Ssuthwell Ward, cf (141
Ward, in the county of Down, to Harriet Margaret, second datanto
the Rev. Henry Maxwell, of Temple Maxwell, county of hongforo.

DIM).
At Cheltenham, on the 16th Inst. Major Frederick Cortield, firn"r l
Deputy Military Auditor-General in Reseal.
At Cheltenham, on Tuesday, Captain Walter John Hamilton, la. `4
the Bombay Marine.
At Bottle, where he bad gone for the recovery of Ms health. the Itiv.
Itector
Minim tilyu Hamond, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambritleil. 11"1
of Wydford, Herts.
On Thursday last, at the Deanery, three days after the birth of her
19th child, and in the 15th year of her age, Mrs. smith, wife of *lle'.
the Dean of Christ Church.
Qn the 234 Inst. at her house, Smile-place, Miltvend, Mrs. Mg*
aged tti.
On the 16th Inst. at Westhorpe, Nottinghausabim Juliana
Emma, wife of tbeoilev. W. Clan, and the eldest daughter of J. J.
Bullock, Esq. of Faulkbourn Han, Eases. vinr

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