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THE CHURCH.

OXFORD, APRIL 2.
On Saturday last, being the last day of Term, the following
gentlemen were admitted to degrees:—
flacnxi.oa IN CtVIL Law.—The Rev. Frederick Benjamin
Twisleton, Fellow of New College, and Domestic Chaplain to the
Bishop of Hereford.
MASTER OF A nws.—Rev. Ceo. Deane, St. Mary Hall; Rev.
Henry George Talbot, Student of Christ Church; Rev. Henry
Gqr,g, St. Alban's Hall; Reverend Edward West, Saint John
ColregE.
BACHELOR OP ARTSt—Samuel Platt, Esq. Magdalen Hall,
Grand Compounder.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence has appointed the
Rev. Charles Markle, A.M. Rector of Quarley, Hants, one of his
Domestic Chaplains.
The Rev. Thomas Cozens Percival, M.A. and Student of Christ
Church, Oxford, is presented to the Rectory of Horseliesth, Cam.
bridgmhire, by the Governors of the Charter Houle.
The Rev. John Jones, U.A. Precentor and Chaplain of Christ
Church. Oxford, is appointed Master of the School of that Society,
by the Very Rev. the Dean.
Rev. Mr. Oakley, Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of London,
has been preferred by that Prelate to the valuable Stall of ‘Venloct
Barns, In St. Paul's Cathedral, mint by the death of Dr. Parr.

CAMBRIDGE. APRIL 1.
At a Congregation on Friday last, the following Degrees were
conferred
Ilscnst.ons or Anrs.—Henry Peter Daniel, Trinity College;
William Hopwood, Trinity; Rev. Ferdinand Faithful, St. John's!
Rev. Benjamin Middy, st. John's ; Charles Jolland, St. John's :
Thomas Hutton and Thomas Fielding Baker, Caius ; Abraham
Thomas Rogers Vicar'', Jesus.

We understand that the new church a: Bishop's Stoke is in a
sufficient state of forwardness to be opened for Divine Service during
the ensuing month. The Rev. T. flarnie2 has presented an elegant
window of stained glass (constructed by Alr. Edwards, of Winches-
ter), which ornaments the rut end of the edifice.—HompsAirc
Paper.

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*rota 'Eames ; Staab. Ai*, ham 'Lisbon ; Jamie. Yeliey, from the
latewf Man.
VRIDAY, APRIL 1.
Wind 98. W.-High Water 25 mm. past 9.
Amfred the Navy, Batchelor, from Charlesto o; James, Smith,
*sou Afesandris ; Willinin and Betty, Stilt, from Cr:detain ;
• tiemeo, fd•Elhapo, from Drogheda • Aurora, Mon set, tom Dub-
lin; Editibyryph, Wilson, host Gla;gow ; Attoi, lire, from ditto;
Recevery,M•Williams, from Workington; Fanny, Ruben., from
Bsusinatis s Almeria, Mauna, fro &areaway ; Jeanine', -,
Sam
lid&flelit ; Rme, Howes, frith ditto; Idelampus., Sampson,
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SATURDAY.
Wind N.N.W. and 11,--111gb Wateri3 Min. past 19.
- ••CidicentOrtorears, ftnrlierto Cabello, a itkiencts dated 13th
1; 1811 en Jeskinsoa, Orally, for Lisbon ; L'aucashire Witch,
'Alin ditto; V d'Urwazirt, Vann, from Harlingen;
T Bembers.Whydemars from Bremen ; Acorn, Holland, from
Othisie• James, Riusloin,-frotis Dumbarton ; CORIRIertT, Robinson,
hods Limerick; Mary, -, from Drogheda, atter • passage of 14
days.
•The Hemet, from hoe., is mired at Puerto Cabello.
Repots says doers am 201 ma hi gnosis between'tbis riot Audi
Illaly toad.
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ITVERPOOL, 1114,11Inse, APRIL t
Weet India produce eadchadai in limited demand. The sales of
Ill'Rogar do not tamed WO mita, at a small redaction on brows
Ida. -Nothing dons in East India or Foreign. In
,Molasses
.salts on 50 piusehmus Demerara, at 31s. 3d. and a small
X 4.
ft.. Vinemt at 321. The stock of Coffee in this market is
'•.of, lee and °Mingo' quidity, which are not saleable; good
NW 'being-white, command ready sale at high prices. :sena
0( Rum have been '-sold at fanner quotatioil. The
soleni
;Diroad
eersstales
very limited it:tit i 2.10 toni:ta;tl;l7:nh: Loinns
sough Niecaragmi Weed at 19!. The transactions in Rice
)tare )een only 1110 tierces fins new at 21s. 9.1. a 225. A parcel of
Middling qualify ofeted by auction not sold, 19s. only bid.
7111eltbs. Montreal Pot Ashes sold from 335. 9d. a 345. 3d. and a
few•Astle.' km. 64. ' • 70 MIL old at 335. 3d. a 335. Si. ; 30 MIL
Bearla at 375. ltd. aSdlt. .1 110 brill. states Pots et 301. a 40s. ; and
alewlieb. ernshed at M.-Bides continue in good request, and
its Milslis sales have gnat of with spirit at higher prices, cit., 219
dfr.salsed %stoat Sd. • 5800 Valparaiso ax and cow at 91 a lid. ;
only one lot at the former price : 280 wet-salted a 611 ; IWO
3111 Ayres at 115/ all i.-Tallow dull.-Nothing doing in Oil.-
Th7ti- crietso Market has continued in a state of extraonithat/taidr.
nestiou this week, the sales havirg amounted to about 42,700 ;
Os. s-.. 17) Upland Georgia, at 120. a d. ; '2.500 New -
Imes, a lid. a Md.; 2.100 Alabamas, at 1 . a Wed. ; 200 Sea
Islmsd, at 9d. a Ss. Ild. ;60 Stained Sea Islands, at 16d. a "Ald. ;
414:00 peniams, m 17d. a 194 d. ; 1,000 Bahia,. at He. a 19d. 4
1 • 3lntaribeurn, 16d. a laid.; 200 Minas none, lid. a 1744.; 1
8,400 Egyptians, at 14,1 d. a 17id. ' • 850 Demerara. 17d. a
120 Darbildoey. at 130. a 141 d. ; 50 Carthagenas, at 12d. ; 20
Venrms, 'at Ind. ; 2,300 Surats. at Sid. a 114 d. • and 880 Bengals,
at Sid. a 10d. • besides many large parcels of itasil and Egyptian
Cotton have ;ern sold to arrive. The advance in the week stay
'be consiema la. per pound on East India; Id. or better on
Atomics!) c' lid. a 2d. on Egyptian ; and 2d. on Brasil Cotton.
'meow? OT COTTON,
From Ist January to 31st March each Year.
N. Amer. S. Amer. W.lnd.itc. Egypt. E. hid. Total.
12-24 - 41400 1:•.00 4000 - 65100
1025 . 31300 5000 • 1800 11600 1400 51100
SALES or COTTOX.
From Ist January to 31st Match each Year.
N. Amer. 8. Amer. 'VV. Ind. 2kc. Egypt. E. Ind. Total.
1834 - le6-,roo ',Aro itvo 100 MO 156400
I -IP - 155500 SAO 6000 47000 -12100 310500
The sales in the three months of this year exceed that of last
mho, in consequence of the mush greater part being taken on spe-
;niation.
'fl,. Grain Market saes very dull, and Wheat maybe quoted 3d.
and Oats Id.

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HOME CIRCUIT.

KENT ASSIZES, MAID/TONI, SATURDAY, APRIL 2.

John litny was tried for assaulting, with intent to kill, Lieutenant
C'harles Hewes Jay, and a seaman named Williams, both of the
Preventive Service.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutors, that in June,
18'23, Lieutenant Jay, who had the command of the party 3: et-
tioned at Deal, was visiting the sentinels at one o'clock in the
mormr.g, accompanied by Williams, when they were attacked by
the prisoner, his brother, and a man named Wells, armed with
sticks, who all swore they would murder the prosecutors, and
knocked them down repeatedly, and broke Lieut. Jay's sword,
which he drew in his defence. . _

The Jury returned a verdict—" Guilty of a violent assault only."
The prisoner's brother and Wells had been found guilty of the
same offence at a former Assize*.
Thomas Coldea, an excise officer, was tried for unlawfully stamp-
ing seven reams of paper, the property of Alexander Moody, a
paper-manufacturer.
It appeared that the defendant had been in collusion with Moody,
and was in the habit of stamping large quay titles of papa which
had not paid the Excise duty.
The defendant was found Guilty.
Moody has been heavily fined in the Court of Exchequer.
John Mortis, a respectable tradesman, wtis indicted for feloni.
ously abusing Alice Gilbert, aged 15, at \ Woolwich, on the 23d
December. The defendant had been admitted to bail, and now
surrendered to take his trial.

a single closet, resisted even the honourable advances of a young
man of the rr.ost handsome fortune. and needed to be pressed so it
br a respectable rostomite ; yet, when once the marriage bad taken
place, it was c.ommunitsfed atter dinner in a room in the factory
where there was no bed, and the intercourse carried on in a conveni.
ent room of Catharine Mageoch's dram-shop, unless there were
Isome green fields around tistehouse which served for the se:ne of
their nuptial rites ! Such a story was surely contemptible and ridi-
culotte. fie declared that the case made out was so miserably
weak, that be wished the jury, on looking
at it, would stop him,
and say It psi unnecessary fur him to enter into the body of on.
'knee he had to destroy it.
Judge liseiLy said, be certainly had a strong impression oat the
subject, but Mc. Scarlet must not, on that account, retrain from
going on with his prop&
Mr. SCAZLETT repeated his earnest wish, for the sake of else
public, that he might be spared the p
and concluded, roduction of his witnesses
after several pause'. by saying, that he would take
it upon himself to rest the detendant's cause upon the plaintiff's
own evidence.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY shortly charged the Jury, who, after de.
liberating about two minutes, found a verdict for the defendants.
It was stated by his Lordship, that this was to be considered
subject to a verdict for the plaintiff, if the Judges decided in his
favour on the question of law, relative to the effect of the public
marriage in legitimatizing the children born before marriage. A
special verdict was entered accordingly.

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The defence waaconducted by BIr.AMMIEWII and Mr.CHITTY.
No Counsel was retained for the, prosecution ; but Mr. PLATT, at
the request of Mr. Baron (iRAHAM. examin ed the witnnuff.
The proaccutrix, a well-looking girl, just turned 15, stated, that
she had been scream in the family of the prisoner, who is s mar.
lied man, with one child, carrying on business at Woolwich. On
the 23d December, the prisoner's wife went to London, and on that
day the prisoner dined from home, leaving the prosecutris alone in
the house. Between one and two o'clock oil the following morning
the prisoner came home, let himself in with a latch key, and
brought a friend with him. At that time the prosecutrix was asleep
in a bed assigned to her in the parlour. The prisoner tapped at
her door, which was locked, and desired to come in and get a
bottle of gin from a cupboard in the room. She struck a light,
slipped on some of her clothes, and let him in. As soon as he
came in he took a liberty with her person, and after getting the
gin bottle he left the room, saying, that when his frieLd went he
should come and sleep in her bed. When he quitted she locked
, the door. In about ten minutes the prisoner's friend left the house.
The prisoner then came to her door, and desired to be let in to
replace the gin bottle. After considerable hesitation she let him
in, and he pressed her to take a glass of liquor, which she refused.
He then insisted upon her going up stairs to his bed. She resisted,
but he lugged her up the stain to his room, and locked the door.
In spite of her resistance he put her into his bed, and then un-
dressed himselt. She described what afterwards took place, and
swore that he pm his hand on her mouth, to prevent her making a
noise. After he went to sleep he detained her in the bed until live
o'clock, and then allowed her to qttit the room, telling her to get
the key trom his pocket.
On her cross-examination, it appeared that she did not make
any complaint of what had happened until nearly ten days after-
wards, and then told her mother; but this was in consequence of
finding herself extremely ill.. She had spent Christmas day with
her mother, and next day returned to the prisoner's service. She
admitted that she had taken a pair of stays and a petticoat belong-
! ing to her mistress, because they were better than ha own, but is.
tended to return them.
After a trial of great length, the Jury found the prisoner—Not
Guilty.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES.--GLoucEsTte, Aron. 2.

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CROWN SIDE.
Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.
John Gibbons was charged with stealing a horse, the property of
Edward Hanebet Parker.
Mr. TWIS3 stated the case.
Isle. Parker said—l live at Tormarton. I had a brown pony,
and put it into my field, and on the 4th of August I missed it. I
next saw It on the 10th of August, at Trowbridge; it was then in
the possession of Mr. Samuel Sardin. lam sure it was the same
horse, because of a peculiar mark on his leg.
Samuel Sardin said, 1 was at Trowbridge Fair on the sth of
August. I saw the prisoner there, standing between three ponies ;
I asked who that pony with a long tail belonged to? He said it
was his ; 1 said I feared it. was not, but that he was put there to
sell it for some one. He said it was his own, for he had bought it
of farmer Snits, of Wrexhall. He asked eight pounds for him.
I tried him, and agreed to give six guineas for him. I took the
pony and the man to the cattle fair, where my brother was, and
at the Crown I gave the prisoner three guineas, and left the other
in the hands of the landlord, till I sent to File. Scuts; bat the
prisoner said, that since I was so dubious of him he would keep the
pony, and I should not have him. However, I said as that was
the agreement I would have the pony, and he would bring the
man he bought it of to the Crown, at Trowbridge, but he never
came, and I advertised the pony, and I saw the prosecutor soon
after, and he claimed the pony.
The prisoner left his defence to his counsel, who called several
witnesses to character.
Verdict--Goilty; but the Jury recommended the prisoner to
mercy.
John Stephens Loam was charged with entering the rack-
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I ground of Mr. Nathaniel Samuel Marling, in the night, and swil-
-1 tag from the renters there a • of kerseymere cloth, his property.
Mr. C•BRINGTON !It the case.
James Clutterbuck vid—l am in the employ of Mr. Marling,
and it is my duty to patrol his rack.ground at night. At about ten
o'clock on the night in question 1 saw the prisoner pass by the
rack-ground. and I ssw him there again at half-past eleven. This
excited my suspicion, and at five minutes before twelve o'clock I
I missed some kerseymere cloth, which had been cut from the tenter.
I immediately went and gave an alarm at the house of the prisoner's
master, and went to get assistance ; and on my return a second
time to hi. litiallef house 1 found the stolen cloth in a passage ha
the house.
Robert Evans said, I ant a shoemaker, the prisoner is my ap-
prentice. On the night on which the last witness wive an alarm
at my house the prisoner had gone to bed at hall-past nine o'clock,
but in consequence of the alarm being given I looked in his bed,
and he was not there, and I went down stain to look for him, and I
found him in the kitchen with his clothes on except his shoes and
stockings.
James Clutterbuck recalled.—l produce the cloth ;it fits the piece
left on the tenter
The prisoner left his defence to his counsel, who called
Robert Latham, the prisoner's father, who said, on the evening
when my son was rinunitied, the witness Clutterbuck said that he
should have known nothing about the business except that Beard
bad told it to him.
Mr. Justin LITTLEDALF summed up the evidence.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES--YORK, FRIDAY, Aram 1.

DOE DEM. BIRTWIIISTLE V. VARDILL.
This cause, which involves property to the anouot of 1,2001. or
1,4001. ayear, was tried before a Special Jury.
Mr. W ILLIAMS stated the plaintiff's case. This was a cause,
he said, of great importance to the parties, from the amount of
property involved, and also a nice question of the international
law between England and Scotland. If, however, his view of the
case was correct, the second question would not come under the
consideration of the Jury. The plaintiff, who was probably known
to some of the Jurors, was John Birtwhisde, Esq. a young gentle-
man residing near Skipton, and the defendant was kirs. Vardill,
his aunt. The grandfather of the plaintiff had three sons—Wit-
liam and Robert, who died without issue, and Alexander, the
plaintiff's father; and one daughter, the present defendant. 31r.
Alexander Itinwhistle, when at the age of T 2, quitted this cuuntry,
and because domiciled in Scotland, where he carried on business
extensively, held several estates, and lived till 1810, when he died,
sad wax brought for burial to Skipton. Mary Purdy, the mother
of the plaintiff, was the daughter of an Irish gentleman, who,
becoming involved in his circumstances, took his family to Scot-
land, when his sow wand into the service of 111 r. Alexander
Birtwhistle, and became his overlooker. This gentleman, seeing
his overlsokeessister,who was a young lady of great beauty, became
enamoured of her; and, as she steadily resisted his advances on
any dishonorable terms, whilst he did not dare to marry her pub-
licly, owing to the objections of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas
Birtwhistle, who kept his house, and intended to leave him her pro-
perty, he m mist] Albs Purdy privately. This marriage took place
in the presence. of his chief clerk, Denison, and a friend named
Thompson. on the 12th Nov. 1095. These witnesses were dead,
but Mrs. Birtwhistle would be called, and would state to them the
facts. Mrs. Thomas Birtwldatle died in 1803 or 1804, and in 1805
Mr. Alex. 11. publicly married her, and in the deed of marriage it
was distinctly asserted that the parties had been "privately and
irregularly married on the 12th Nov. 1725." Mrs. B. lived et a
separate establishment kept by Mr. 8., and as the mistress of the
house. She al ierwarda lived at Balmily, in a style of splendor
wholly inconsistent with the idea of her being a mere tnistres. It
would be shown that Mr. A. Birtwhistle had stated his marriage
to many different persons. Now, if they should even fail in this
proof, it was the fact that a subsequent marriage in Scotland. ac-
cording to the Scotch law. legitimatized children born previous to
the marriage ; and if this was the law of Scotland, a child thus
legitimatised there would be held legitimate all over the world.
He quoted Huber, who lees down the principle that the rights and
qualities of persons are held the same in all countries as they arc
recognised in their own country.
-Evidence was culled to seepert the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Serinxes-c believed the question of law in this ease to be,
whether a tuan who is the lawful heir to an estate in another
country will be heir to estates in England, if should have been
born unchir circu instances that would render him a bastard accord-
ing to the English law. But the question of -fact, with which
alone the Jury had to do, was, whether a marriage had taken
place p our to 180. He then commented on. the evidence at con-
siderable length, and contended that the evidence of the pre-
vious manage was unsupported by any credible tnitimony. 'l'he
nrcutrattanoes they were called upon to believe were, that the
deughter of an Irish labourer, who could not either read or
write, all the mashers of whose family. looked for their subsist.
ease, walla fat Wit subsistence, sod who livcl in a ki:chen, with

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