The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-23 00:00:00

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Detachments belonging to the 3.1, 14th, and 54th Regiments
of tot:miry marched yesterday morning from Westminster for
Chatham.

Detachments belonging to the 4th and 11th Light Dragoons, and
the 10th Lancer., marched yesterday morning tram IVestminster,
for the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone.
Detachments 'telongiag to the 6th, 20th, 38th, 4411), and 40th
Regiments of Foot marched yesterday morning from Westminster
for Canterbury.
A Detachment of the n.-oh Regiment of Infantry marched yester.
day morning front Woof-Muster for Dover.
Detachments belonging to the 4th, 35th, and Blst Regiments
of Font marched yesterday morning front Westminster fur Win.
chatter,.

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Detachments belonging to the Sth, 37th, and 70th Regiments of
Infantry mareltud yesterday morning from NWerantinster for Ports-
luau t

The last Detachment cf the Depot of the 77th Regiment of Foot,
tr,der the command of Captain Raines, arrived on the 17th inst. at
Alullingar, from Scotland.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Oeronn, MAT 20.
On Saturday, the 13tb Inst. being the last day of Ea.ter 'rem, the fol.
lowing Degrees were confaTed
RACNILOR IN DIVINITY.—Rev. Thomas Short, Yellow of Trinity Col.
lege.
Mt aaaaa or Awrs.—itev. tl9llle. Byrd, Magdalen Hall ; Rey. John
Arriit‘tead, Trinity College; Rev. Robert 'Prevor Tyler, University Col-
lege; Rev. Peter Tilley, Schuler of Jesus College ; Rev. Richard William
Lambert, Pembroke College; Theophl.us libidulph. Scholar et Corpus
Chihli College.
BACHELOR• o► Ativs.—Sir John Pewiett Orde, Bart. Christ Church,
Grand Compounder; Prank John Moore and Robert Henry Nep•tlmrtall,
Ji.seter College; J•h& Ma•gee, B•ary Joke Nary.,, gad Jeueph

Saville Roberts Evans, Queen's College; Thomas Horn, St. Edmund
Hall; Charles John Gooch and John Adolplitis Wright, Christ Church;
Henry Sneyd, Brasennove College; Geurse Dines and Ueofge Dowell,
tlehotare of Trinity College ; Francis Magetidge, Scholar of Jesus Col-
lege; Francis Porter. Schuler of Wadhain College • John Entwistle
Scholes Hutchinson, John Hanle, Thomas Barton 11111, James Jertani,
and John Lewis Laniutte, Wadham College.
On Wednesday last, the first day of Act Term, the Bev. Edward Burton,
M.A. late Student of Christ Church, wait nominated one of the Examiner*
In Literis Ilumanioribus ; and Richard Creswell, M.A. Fellow of Wor-
cester College, an Examiner In Disclpllnia Ilathematiels et Phy.lo..
At the same time the fallowing Gentlemen were nominated Nader; of
the Schools :

The Rev. John Mitchell Chapman' M.A. Fellow of Baillnl ; the itvr.
Walter Aneuttne Shirley, M.A. Fellow of New College ; and the :ter.
Edward (image Simeox, M.A. Scholar of Wadham.
The name day the following Dearer' were conferred : _
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MAtirsas or Aars.—ltev. JaMes MIIIIIIII4 Hatterell, Bresennose,
Grand Compounder ; Rev. Edward Cornish IVO 1., St. Edmond Hall ; Rev.
Reginald Pole, '.xeter College; Rev. Aarmt Foster, Exeter College ;
NVilliam Robert Newbolt, Student of Christ COurch; Rev. Thomas John
Wyld, Chri.t Church ; Robert Hall, Christ Church; Ralph linnets,
Deasy of Magdalen C.rliege; Rev. James Thompson, Yellow of Linc,ln
College; Rev. William Huldsworth, Lincoln College; Rev. Charles
Severn Williams, Scholar of Pembroke College; Edmund Hammond,
Scholar of University College; Rev. John Samuel Smalley, Scholar or
AMPS College; William Oznarn, Scholar of Watlllarn College.
BACHELORS Or ARTS.—John Lampen, Exeter College, Grand Com.
pounder; Christ. Darby Griffith, Christ Church, Grand Compounder:
John James Hatton, St. Edmund Hall; William Urger, St. Edmund
Hall ; William John Brown Angell, Queen's College ; Richard Barton
Robinson, Queen's College; Rev. Stephen•Cragg, Magdalen Hall; Charles
Joseph Parsons, Magdalen Hall; Thwarts Brown, Magdalen Hall; Wil-
liam Mathews, Chaplain of New Colleges Frederick Gooch, Christ
Church; Stephen Love Hammick, Christ Church; James Henry Leigh
Gabel!, Christ Church; George Clive, Brasennose Cr.llege •' James
Maine', Pembroke College ; Henry Edmond Fryer, Pembroke College;
Robert 'l'. Pilgrim, Trinity College; Jasper Peek, Trinity College; John
Conrtenay Campbell, University College; Edmund Knapp, St. Jchn's
Culler,; Wllllam Downes Johnston, St. John's College; George Maude'
Drummond, Balliol College; Robert Price Morrell, Balllol College;
Francle Dv Soyres, Postmaster of Merton College ; Hon. Augustus Henry
Moreton, Merton College; John Atkins, Worcester Colleges Charles
Bury, Worcester College; Walter Cartwright Kitson, Worcester College
Edward Perry, Worcester College; Charles Pickwick, Worcester Col-
lege; John Olive, Worcester College; and Joseph Chaznock, Worcester
College.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, SVNDAT, MAT 21.

Arrived the Alliance, from Trinidad, sailed 2d April ; the Kitty Railed
for Lancaster eight days before ; the Margaret end Paine were to 14111 for
Liverpool In 14 days. Frederic, Sargent, from Charleston; Marlutte,
Williamson, fret* Charente; Mary, Garrick, from Sierra Leone; Paragon,
Simpson, from Jamaica; Junitata, Luben, from Wilmington ; Hannibal,
Watitinson, from Savannah, having been on the North Bank and received
damage; Arabian, Atkin, from Savannah; Malvin*, Armstrong, from
I'araiba ; Betsey, Houle., from Antwerp ; Gleaner, Birdwell, from Rot-
terdam. Sailed the Dorothy, for Bombay; Hero, fur Quebec.
Quarter to ten o'clock.—A ship is just come up the river, supposed to
be the Ponthea pocket ship, from New. York.
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The Harmony, front thre.Clyele, with 155 passengers on board, got safe
into Buenos Ayrc., after having been chased by a schooner of war.
Olive Branch, Harding; &watt Sheaf, Dragden ; and Vulcan, Taylor—
from Liverpool, haie arrived at Savannah.
The Henry, Kneeland, sailed from Savannah for Liverpool, 16th April;
Indus, ditto, (Ditto, 2.lth April; and Catherine, —, ditto, ditto,
25th April.
The Jes.le, —, and John, King, from Liverpool, have arrived at New.
thundland.

The Margaret, lifackintodi,from Liverpool, hay arrived at Savannah.

The Mai, Nichols, from Liverpool 1,. 4' Savannah, 10. t near the
Bermuda Isles; crew and passengers saved, and arrived at Savannah.

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HOLYHEAD, MAY 20.
The Panthea, from New York, and Scamander, for Smyrna, passed this
morning at seven o'clock. _

FALMOVTR, MAT 20.—Arrived tht Duke of Marlboroogb packet, from
Matron ; the Francis Freelluz ditto, from America ; the Mary, Laird, from
Lima (,ailed the 26th of January; ; the Anteuc, Pearson, from Antigua.
Off the port, the Julius, Jackson, from St. W.Va. The Steamer packet,
front Mahon, la coming lato the Bay.—Wind

PLYMOUTH, blAr 2.0.—0 ff the port the Norden, Schilknocbt, from
Calcutta for Copenhagen. Sailed the William and Mary, for Newfound-
land; and the t7idon, —, for Jersey.—Wind S. W.
PORTSMOUTH, MA r 21.—Arrived the Maria transport, from Gibraltar;
the Recovery, Chapman, from London fur Bombay. Passed by, the
Diadem transport, from London, from Cork and the Isle of France.
Sailed the Rawksbury, Biggs, for Quebec.—Wind N. by E.N.E.
DIAL, MAY 21.—Anived and trailed for the River, the Woodlark,
Hor.ley. from Singapore; the Brilliant, Bissett, from Charente; and the
Kitty, Haswell, from St. Michael's. Passed through from the River, the
Levant. Grangemore, for Jamaica; and the Hind, M'Farlane, fur Tri-
oldad.—Wind N.E.

fi•aAvasa ND. MAY 21.—Arrived the Jamaica, Moreton, from Jamaica;
Black River packet, Reid, from Jamaica; Vansittart, Dalrymple, from
China; Royal George, Reynold+, from Bengal; Esther, Forster, from
St. Michael's; Frederick, Hankins, from ditto Funchal, McPherson,
from Madeira; New Phtrnix, White, from Trinidad; Nymph, Watkins,
from Terceira, Nepos, Trader, from the Isle of France; Rose, Johnson,
from Sierra Leone; Mersey, Beasley, from Barbadoes•' Manby, Sayers,
from St. Vincent's; William Lurthington, Bughrue, from St. Kitts;
James, Spence, from Harnburgh ; George, Pattison, from Memel; Jessie,
Todd, from Riga; Ocean, Taylor, from ditto; Alpha, Hall, from Guern-
sey; Rapid, Fowler, from ditto ; Catherine Marla, —, from Dantsic ;
Dorothea Elizabeth, —, from ditto. Sailed the Levant, Granison, fur
Jamaica ; Pearl, Wilson, for ditto ; Rose, —, for India; Marchioness of
Ely, —, for India; Desire, Bailey, for Abbot; Flora, Christie, for
Ghent; Sciplo, Spencely, for St. Petersburgh; Dart, Sumach, fur Os-
tend ; Julie, Preager, for Calais.
YA113101:111. MAY 20.—H4 Majesty's Revenue cutter, Defence, Lieut.
Rind, captured on the 18th Instant, about tire leagues N.E. by N. of Cro-
mer, the Good Intent of Flushing, laden with 2S half tinkers of Geneva,
and three ditto of tobacco, with a crew of four Englishmen and one
foreigner, and brought her into this port.
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NiORTH SIIISLIIN, Sissy 20.—The Atlas Brown, from London, struck
upon tbe Sparrow Hoak, yesterday, btft was got off by assistance, and
brought into the harbour.
Arrived off the Wight, the Antoinette, from Rio Janeiro.
The Venus, Taylor, of Telgnmoutb, was driven ou shore at Adra on the
22d ult.

The Hannibal, from Savannah, was on shore on the North Bank, Li-
verpool, on Saturday.
The Elizabeth, Liddell, from St. John's, N.H. to London, was lost on
the S.E. end of Sable Island, 2;th February. Crew saved.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The Rotterdam, Waters, from China, off Dartmouth, sailed December
14, paaaed.Ameer, January 7, fur Amsterdam.
The Norden, Krecht, from Bengal, off Plymouth, sailed in November,
from the Alaurtius February I, and from St. Helena hlarch 14, fur Copen-
hagen.
The Ilervey, Peach, from New South Wales, off Weymouth, sailed in
November, from Van Diemen'a Land, Nov. 7, and from Monte Video
Feb. Itr.

Passengers per Lady Reties, Captain hones Cowell, from Madras and
Bengal --Mrs. Colonel Farran, Miss 'wan, and Lieutenant Charles and
31rs. Forran—Madras; Captain and Mrs. McQueen, Madras cavalry;
Lieutenant Butler, two Mimes Grip's', two Misses Browns, Mrs. Turner,
Miss Hughes; and Lieutenant Walker; Messrs. Morgan, Murray, Mar.
tin, Cottrell, Andrews, Gardner, Farran, Jones, Lucas, Wllkluson, Hol-
W,,odford, Gibson, and Hollings—Cadets.

DIED.
At Edinburgh, on the sth Inst. In his 7th year, Mr. John FlaßidaT,
who, during the long period of Platy one years and three months, wu
employed as a compositor In the oftioe of "'lyre Caledonian Mercury."
At Longtown, on Sanird,ty week, Mt.. Margaret Elliot, aged 78; same
day, Patrick Sword, aged 82 ; and on Sanday, Janet Peel, aged 84. 'the
united ages of these three individua2l, whose deaths took place within a
few hoar* of each other. amount to 242 years.
On Friday last, at the }LIM Marine Bemeks, Lteottmant-Colonel
Palms Westropp, of the Plymouth Division of Royal Marines. This
mesitoriutis °Meer became • Lie•tenant on the 18th of April, 1793 ;
Captain, 34 March, 1797; Rrevet.ilfalor, October 2.lth, 1909; and Lieut.-
Colonel, 4th June, 1814.—Colonel West:opp lost his left arm, o• board
L'Achllie, at the battle of Trafalgar.

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