The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-12-30 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, Dgcnißut 27.

There being two of Sir IVm. Browne's Medals
which have not been disposed of in former yells.
it is the intention of the Vice-Chaocelsor to give
them to Poch resident Under-Grstloates us shall
produce the Lest compositions; vie. one Medal
for the hest Latin Ode in itnih.tion of Motive;
and the other ftr the hest Greek and Latin
Gpi-
geam•, after the manner of the Anthologia, and the
model of MArtial. respectively.
Lj-et for the Latin Ole—xperix tp.;;izeyt.
For she Greek Epigram Eft krzi,y.ox 3-tc tualuiffhlalor
KapiAirraq. Toerey",:v TO; T.Zr Bprrami;r*Amoroi Otsvasteoc.
For the Latin r.iiigratii—•• 1/prinros nes cue
duns ilyfrnti somas."
subject of the Ilul.ea,l Prize Dissertation
for the preertil year is— I he importance tf Natural
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, DEC. 24.—The whole
her of degrees in Michaelmas Term was,
D. D. 3.—8. U. 1.—8.C.L. 2.—M. A. 30.-
11,A. 65.—Mati Mutation., 95.

Sunday evening the Duke ef GLOUCISTRIL ar-
rived ut town hunt GngMou. On Monday his
Rapti fligheie.s left town on a visit to Earl
Vigo()LAN, at Ins seat near Sr. Alban's.
Ott Tuesday lish.ce LEOPOLD left Claremont,
nn a Villa to the Earl t f D• RN LEY. at his sect in
The Duke of RUTLAND is entertaining a large
party of diatiaguisinod fashionable' at his seat, Bei-
rut.. Castle.
Lord ithurt !At gave a grand Cabinet dinner
yesterday, at his residence at the Admirallt.
Count and Countess LIEVEN enleitntllrti ti select
party of distinction yesterday, at their rysitlence ut
l Ir) -inter%

Yrsterilay Sir 11Estittr Fla LI:HID kit town in
Woo cirrtage and luur, to attend on the KING at
Putri.kl. the eleglot se.it of the Marquis and
Marclouties. of SA 3.1%1itl RIG is is scene of guest fist'.
vity aintiscinctit these holidays.

A greyhound, In loliging to Mr. SA)IUEL HALL,
of Staverton, iu Northamptonshire, on Tuesday
lart storied a brace of harts from one form, who
both took Ike same direction, followed by the dog,
who soon caught -tme of them, and after Blearing
a stile, a hedge, aii.l turning the other five or rix
times with the first ill his mouth, caoglet it, and
built were found dead at his feet.

A few days ago, a man walking along the hanks
of the Tav, discovered iu the river, near the mouth
of the' Amami, a large cask, which appeared to
contain something of value. Elated with his gond
{attune, and rot doubting that the cask was filled
with geoluica mountain dew, he proceeded to ex-
amine its quality, when, to his utter astonishment,
he found the contents to consist of a moving mass
of living frogs, nearly as closely packed together
as a barrel of herrings. 1-low these amphibious
creatures came to be enclosed in such numbers, we
leave to naturalists to determine. It is no tinc..m.
mon thing, we are aware, to di.cover toads in the
hearts of trees, and evsio in the internal parts of the
hardest rocks, but it must be admitted to be a very
rare occurrence to find a whole colony cf kindred
reptiles pent up in that manuer.—(Peril Courier.)
Extract front a (;;mean Paper:—•• Itotne, 1)e.
crinber -I.—Accounts from Alexandria, in Egypt,
state, among tither thittg.:, the fulluning pariten-
lart—' let Upuer Egypt, above tlie province of
Esne, there have been lately discovered, besides
the sulphur mittes li.und some time ago, 1.1100 non
and lead-mines; the latter are said to Le very rich.
The l'ActiA has :riot to those {:aria several per-
sons to look for the gold and emerald mines,
*lnch have been neglected for some tent uric., The
PAIII.I has utfereil I reward of 100,000 dollars to the
perauli who shall discover a coal mine, which would
be peculiarly valuable, on account of the greet
scalcity of wood. The works on the great canal of
Rosetta are going ar eery rapidly. Mid it it 'lsoprd
that the water of the Nile 'nay let inn, it in
ioeoty dap.' Tins account is &it the •80th of
Srptentiat r." • !:*.i:ntt..i
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