The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-14 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
TUESDAY, ()se o'Ceoelt.
All is bock and anxiety here. Nothing is talked about but tho
prospects of the various Candidates, as each party seems confident
of success. The Attorney-Ueneral, it seems to be agreed era all
sides, stands above all competition. The ihfluence he may na.
rurally be supposed to mimeo over the lawyers, alone secures him
a very great advantage; for the gentlemen of the learned profession
form no trifling portion of the voters here. There seems to be an
impression in favour of Lord Pamerston, bot it is difficult to say
that it is well-founded ; for the proportion of out-voters much ex-
ceeds that of the resident ones, there being not more than 490 who
reside in the different Colleges, out of 1834 rocmhers at present be-
longing to the Senate. The Candidates have er.gaged an tam
number of post.chaises and other carriages, to affiliel every facility
I for the conveyance of voters. The influx, it is supposed, will be
greater then at any former period. This being the University vaca-
tion' there arc hundreds of beds being made up in the Colleges, to
the great disappointment of the towns-people, who have calcu-
lated on reaping a plentiful harvest. On former occasions similar
to the present, beds have let, at very inferior inns, as high
as halt a guinea a night. The Master of Corpus Clotted, the.
Lamb, Ilan published a pamphlet, in which he complains that the
bedding practice, formerly prevalent, bore rather too great an Ana.
logy to bribery to be much to the credit of the University. The
agents of the different candidates used to engage AA many beds as
they thought they might require, which were paid for. though an.
occupied. The voters received tickets on their arrival, by which
they were invested with authority to enjoy all the accommodation
the inns were capable of affunlirg. Some have even sejouvned
with their families, and have hail all their expenses paid. On the
present °merlon, however, there has been some innovation of the
usage attempted. A recommendation to this effect has been for-
warded to the respective candidates, signed by one hundred of the
principal resident members; but 31r. Bankes declines acceding to
it, on the ground of previous engagements, and it is thought,
therefore, that the others will be driven to adopt the old practice ice
self-defence. The Senate House. where the election transpire", .94
a large and cominodious hall. The public are admitted to the gal-
leries, which run along each aide of it. The votes, on this trees-
sion, are to be recorded in a poll-book, as is the practice at other
places. Formerly the voters inscribed their own and candidates
names on a piece of paper, which they put into a boa, sod at the,
close of the election these papers were coun,ed in the presence of
the Viee-Chancellor by the Proctors. The Vise-Chancellor that
announced the result, and the business terminated without any
public acknowledgment being made by either of the candirtates.
Many objections were made to thee method, tend the Master of
Jesus College, Dr. French, particularly introduced the subject to
the attention of the Vice-Chancellor. A. conference was saber-
quently held by the heads of Oxford, sod the eolith has been what
we have already mentioned. At grit it was argued twit the and
method was not legal; but the ittli of Queen Anne, whi,h regu-
lates the mode of pt Bing to be generally W.opted, expressly exempts
the two Universities, whit* are left to the regulation of the Vass.
Chancellor.
The members of the Swale now amount to 1,854: oat Imbed

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N three are peers of the realm. who are unable to vote. The
number of qualified voters, then, are 1„73 ; but marl of these
troy not come forward. In 1893 there were about P5O entitled to
ote; in 1i122 about 1.100. This is proof of the number of mem-
bers having rapidly increased.
The Candidates anti their coMmittees arrived here yesterday
ening, since which time all has been bustle and excitation. The
arrivals are increasing every hour. The election commenced this
morning at nine o'clock, in the Senate House, the %gee-Chancellor
'0.4 tit(' Proctors sitting as scrutineers of the votes. The candidates
were all present. A Awn discussion in an under time took place
rem, to the commencement of the business. bet what it was about
I have not been able yet to ascertain. A poll clerk was then sworn
ie. and the Members advanced to tender their rotes. all of whom
si.ee rtstuirtal in take the bribery oath before their vote was re.
"ICI • This novel proceeding has'excited considerable surprise in
ire town; and the more especially as it is suppmeil to be levelled
ega'isst the long.prevailing practice of paying the expenses of the
I'4't• cote, An adinurnment of the Senate will take Place for an
hour at three o'clock. alter which the polling will be recommenced,
e 4 cortinued until ten o'c!ork at night, till which time no official
urnouncement of the state of the poll will take place. So much
te,e is occupied by the administering of the bribery oath to each
ao r., that it is t!otthifitl wheth:r the poll cm he concluded
siet.tr threw days assigoed by the ‘'ice-Chaticellor. especially
34 the cuirloc of voters is expected to be I.r greater than at any
turner period.
At one o'clock to.clar the state of the poll was as follows s—
'ff e A ittwntv-tlencraf 1117 I Mr. Banker 72
lend l'Atnetxton - 77blr. Goulhum 02

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I. is now three o'clock, and the state of the poll is—
'^:.e A rtm•ner-Gentral 185 f 31r. !hakes - I
Lord l'Arnercon . Eh; j Mr. lioulhurn I

salvo of course secures his election. The Lord Provost does not
produce a new candidate, but is claimed by the voice of the Coun-
cil, to which we think he is bound to listen, if he have no strons.!*
scruples than that respecting his promise to 3lr. Dundas. e
frankly confess that we should like " to see the hustings at the
Crass." and therefore chuckle with the Whip over the slightest
chance of a rupture with Pandas.

COURSE OF EXCII.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 9
Ditto at
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Antwerp
Hamburah •'t IF. 37 10
Altoga ..........Y} U. 37 11
Park,V by sight 25 70
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Frankfort on Maine En. M . 156
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Vienna, effective 6 2 M. 10 26
Trieste ....d0..... lO 20
Madrid 3.5
Cad's
Rilboa .
Unrcoleimer - 35
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Jose 14, 1826.

We have the pleasure to-day of announcing the return
of Mr. IlussissoN for Liverpool. The election, though
short, was rather stormy, and some mischief seems to have
been done. We shall not repeat the observations which
we made on the fol!y of the clamour raised in acme quar-
ters against this distinguished Minister, as the whole of
our remarks on that occasion have been so admirably stated
and amplified in his speech before the Canning Club, that
any additional observations of ours must appear quite
superfluous.

French Papers of the I lth and the Etoile of the 12th
have been received. It is now merted that the greater
part of the garrison of Missolonghi has escaped. A de-
cree has been published at Epidaurus, in the shape of an
official document of the National Assembly of the Greeks,
said to have been convoked thereon the lith of April, and
dissolved by this decree on the 28th. The object of the
decree is to re-organize the Government.
At Rouen, the trial of three persons, arrested in conse-
quence of the disturbances in that town, has taken place.
Two of them were acquitted for want of evidence, as the
soldiers who arrested them could not be found. The third,
who was proved to have been in the midst of the mob, and
to have uttered seditious cries, was condemned to six
months' imprisonment and a fine of 100 francs.-
We have no room for Extracts.

FaExc H E UNus.—PAILIs, JUNE 10.—Five per Cents. 97f. 115 e.
Three per Cents.. tilt. Pc.; itentes de Naples, 721. 3Zie. ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 471. ic.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

The Funds continue in a languid state, chiefly on account of the
attention of the public-being drawn to the Election contests. Con-
sols opened this morning at the same price that the Market closed
at yesterday, 1:01; but they subsequently drooped to and tha
nearest price at the conclusion of the day was hto the market,
shout two o'clock, evincing a little more elasticity than was ap-
parent in the morning.
Further sales of Three per Cent. Reduced, this morning, have,
together with the scarcity of money, caused this reduction in price ;
3 per Cent. Reduced have been done at 714 9. Exchequer Bills
have again declined ; they were today 4s. to is. pm.
In the Foreign Market the same dulness continued that we have
noticed for several days, and the prices of Securities in it, particu-
Lily a shade lower.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, TrtsnAT, JrxE 14.
BELLI:ISLET V. TAR DUNE OF BEAUFORT.

Mr. TuEst.ovt.: made application to the Court for a copy of the
letter appended to the affidavit of Mr. Wellesley t his client had
applied to Mr. Griffiths, Mr. Wellesley's solicitor, who said he
had not got a copy. He (Jr. Treslove) thought, that IPA the letter
was an original one, the beat eourse would be to hand it back to
Orlffi.lts, that he might furnish the other party with a a.py.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it would be as Well to hand
down the affidavit to Mr. Treslove. .

7-Mr. TRERLOVE said, his client wished to have a copy of
the liner.
The LORD CHANCELLOR desired to know what the other side
had to any.
Mr. H LALD said that his client, Mr. Wellesley, hnd no intim-
tiori of Mr. Treslove's application.

The affidavit was then handed down.
PRITCUARM

Mr. II EALD applied to the Court on the part of the joint assignees
in this case. for the cotta of superseding the commission against the
petitioning creditor ; judgment had been given yesterday, a day
earlier than was expected, and when the parties were not present.
Mr. Mon xr. resisted the a; plication ; his Learned Friend him-
self was present when judgment was given.
The Lonn CHANCELLOR refused the applicat'on.
Mr. HEALD hoped that his Lordship would acquit him of any
wish to detain the Court unnecessarily, when he made a motion
in pursuance of his instructions. It w.us well that both sides of the
question were sifted by the Judge; but Counsel were obliged to
confine their view to one side.
The LORD CDANC t. Lon wishad to make one observation on
what had fallen so good-naturedly from Mr. Heald. When he
(the Lord Chancellor) was at the bor, lie was in the habit of look-
ing at only one side of a case; but after he was raised to the bench.
he thought it his duty to consider both sides, and ail lie got by it
scat a great d 4o:sal:am.
Mr. HART begged to know whether his Lordship would per-
mit Counsel to send to their chambers tin their motions, and to
proceed with them ? None of the appeals on the paper, he be-
lieved, could be effectually suppored; the Counsel engaged in them
were either absent or without instructions.

The Lonn CHANCELLOR thought that such an arrangement
would be very desirable. He wished It to be understood, how-
ever, that as the Master of the Rolls had signified his intention of
sitting in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, he (the Lord Chancellor)
would not hear any motions from the last day of term to the tirst
seal day, of which notice had not been already given t and he
would take those motions according to the order of their dates.
Mr. ROUPEL begged to submit to the Court that it might be
advisable to make out a list of the motions arranged by their dates.
The Lonn CHANCELLOR thought that the gentlemen at the
bar might more conveniently arrange among themselves the pre-
cedency of the motions. It would be ridiculous to make a list
of fifty or sixty motions, when it would be morally Impossible to
go through them.
Mr. HEALD said that the arrears, he believed, were not so great
as they had been.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—Pray, Mr. Heald, ran you tell me
whereabouts the arrears arc, with respect to number?
Mr. HEALD could not exactly state their amount.
The Lon') CuaNcEl.l.olt said that his objection to a list of
motions was this—that if 50 or GO motions were set down, although
it was known to be as impossible to go through them as anything
in the world could be, yet there was a charge made for attendance,
which attendance was nothing more than opening the door of Lin.
coin's Inn Hall.

Mr. Hottra: observed, that attendance was charged on every
motion day, no matter how great the number of motions on
the list.

The Earl of Stair took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy,
previous to voting at the election of Scotch Representative lhers.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, TUESDAY, JrNE 13.
Several ellen caeca were heard to-day, but nothing of importance
occurred.

SATURDAY, JUNE 10.
TANNER AND OTHERS T. MARTIN.

Mr. lloaxE, on behalf of the plaintiff, who had married the
eldest daughter of the defendant, moved that the defendant, on or
before the lst July, pay into Court three legacies of SOL each, given
by the will of a lady named Clunk, who died in the year 1815 (and
of which the defendant was executor) to the infant children of the
defendant, with interest for nine years and seven months ; also that
the interest accrued due on the legacy given to the wife of the
plaintiff might be paid to him, with the costs of the suit and of the
minion. In support of the motion the Learned Counsel stated that
the defendant, from the year 1817, when the plaintiff's wife came
of age, to the year 1825, a period of eight years, had paid to her, by
small sums, 30/. and that he then obtatned from her a receipt for the
whole amount of her legacy, and had subsequently paid the balance,
but no interest, which he had refused paying.
Mr. HEALD, for the defendant, contended that he was entitled to
retain the legacies given to the infants for their maintenance, and
that he was also entitled to retain the interest on the legacy given
to his eldest daughter, as a set-off against her maintenance front her
caning of age.
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His —H °win: a ordered the legacies of the infants, with interest,
to be paid into Court, and the interest due in respect of the legacy
given to the wife of the plaintiff. with the costs of the suit and the
motion, to be paid to the plaintiff.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TrzsDAY, JUNE 13.
LIBEL,
THE RING V. WILLIAM BRYANT.

ADOLPHV s moved the judgment of the Court against the
defendant, late printer and publisher of the Commas Sense and
Weekly Globe newspaper, for publishing in that paper on the 13th
of November last, a 11104 t grins and scandalous libel on the eha-
racer of Alfred Bunn, Esq. The defendant had pleaded guilty,and
was brought up in the custody of one of the turnkeys of Newgate ;
he being now suffering the judgment of the Ccurt for the publica-
tion of a libel in the same paper, on the-character of Colonel Fitz-
herding Berkeley.
An affidavit was put in by the prosecutor, in which he denied the
facts alleged in the libel. The defendant also put in an affidavit,
stating his regret for having been unconsciously the cause of the
publication of a paragraph calculated to injure Mr. Bunn, who was
a gentleman persona,' unknown to him, and against whom he en-
tertained no malicious feeling; that he iris, at the time, only en.
gaged by the proprietors of the paper, at a salary of two guineas a
week ;tat it was usual fur him to absent himself from the printing
office from nine o'clock on Saturday evening till three o'clock on
Sunday morning, during which interval the libel in question was
inserted without his knowledge ; that, shortly after the rule for a
criminal information was made absolute, he discontinued his con-
nexion with the paper; that he had offered to give up the menu.
script and the name of its author ; that he had a wife and six chit.
dren depending on him for support, anti that he had already been
Live months in confinement ; and he concluded by throwing him-
self upon the merciful consideration of the Court.

A DOLPIII us addressed the Court in aggravation, and Mr. J.
Wit trams in mitigation, of punishment.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY then pronounced the judgment of the
Court. He observed, that if the Court had to pass sentence on the
author of this libel, which was of a most malignant description, the
punishment would have been very different from that which the
Court thought it fit to impose upon the defendant. There was a
very marked difference between the case of the defendant and of
the writer of the libel. The defendant, however, had to answer for
great negligence and indiscretion. It was the bounden duty of
every printer and publisher to take care that nothing appeared in
his paper that should cast reflections on, or wound the feelings of,
any individual. The defendant being absent was, to say the least
of it, extremely indiscreet, because he thereby gave other persons
an opportunity to introduce paragraphs of an improper description
into the paper. In consequence of his having, however, abandoned
all connexion with the paper, and of his having pleaded guilty, and
thereby not having put the parties to an unnecessary expense, the
Court would pass a much lighter sentence than it otherwise would
have done. Ilia Lordship then sentenced the defendant to be im-
prisoned in Newmite for the apace of one month from the expiration
of the period of imprisonment he was at present undergoing.

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