The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Owroxia, APRIL 30.
On Wednesday lost Mr. William Street" Eseott was admitted
Scholar of New College.
Last week died, at Liverpool, Mr. Scrape Milner Colquitt, B.A.
Fellow of I:reset:osc College, and an F.xhibitiorter on Mr. Hume's
lett •Idat ion.
On Tuesday. the loth instant, the Rev. William Vault, M.A.
late Fellow of Ralifal,C'ollege, was elected, by the Heads of
Colleges. to preach Canon Hampton's Divinity Lecture for the
year 1112$.
On Thursday last, t!te Rev. Etlyrd Cardwell, B.D. Fellow of
Itrasenose College, was approved in Convocation as an Examining
Master in Literia Hu maularibus.
On the same day the following Gentlemen were admitted to
Dsgreea :-
31.urrrns or Airs —Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, of St.
John's College, Vioer of Exning, Suffolk, and Minister of St.
Mary's, Bryonstom.,-square (Grand Compounder) ; Rev. Henry
J oho Urquhart. Fellow of New College ; Rev. John James Saint,
Brasenose College; James King. Oriel College; Rev. Francis
Euttat.shaw. University College ;Rohn Campbell,
BACHELORS or ACTS.—lhniel Alexander, St. Mary Hall ;
Charles Abbott, Coln Church ; William Scarbrough. Christ
Church; Silvana Brown Pembroke College; Ettmund Good.
enough Davie. Pembroke College; Thomas George Patrick
Atwood, Pembroke College; Irederick H. Leger Baldwin,
Queen's College; liege? St, Barnstoss, Vcorcester College; Arthur
aloore; Univasity College.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF liINO'S Fr\Vt.7ll,---BATutnar, Aran. 30.

The Court was occupied until one o'clock on the Crown paper.
hearing arguments in settlement cases. At that hour the lord
Chief Justice. Mr. JusLice Bayley, and Mr. Justice Holroyd,
joined the J tutees of the other Courts in the Exchequer Chamber,
to confer on Crown cases reserved upon the late circuits. Doors
were closed.
Mr. Juv.ize Litticdale sat the whole day is the Bail. Court. this
being the great return day of the Tenn.

COURT or COMMON PLEAS, SATUADAT, APRIL 30.

In two cases where bail were put in this morning, the persons
Appearing to justify were described in the notice of justification as
•. gentlemen. In the first case one of theie stlf-styled •• gentle-
me.," proved to be a clerk to a hatter.
rite trusted that this practice would be dis.
cur:limed. The descriptio: given was not true, and if the plain.
tiff's attorney could not heec found out the person offering to jus-
tify, the bail would have been rejected.
In the other case the bail was examined by Mr. Sergeant
V•i• (iota,. who asked him whether he wail not coaneeted with the
el:eatti W ashing Company, which employed a caravan and four
horses to carry about the foul linen of I,orsclon ?
The bail said that lie was not. lie belonged to the London
Bleaching Company.
Mr. Sergeant VAVOITAX—Oh, then, it seems you are always in
hot water. (A )aught.)
The Bail—Nu, *Sr, in cold water; we lever bleach with hot
water.

The Cott afterwards heard motions of course, and concluded
the special 'remanent, which were left unlinir.l...4 ?esterday.

'POLICE:

no W-S"I'REET.
On Saturday two persons were brought to this office, one in the
morning and the other late In the afternoon, cbargod on suspicion
of being concerned with some others, now in custody in the city.
in robbing the porter of Messrs. Snow and Paul, the bankers, of
2,90fi1. in the month of September last.
The first was Edacrd Etixin,,,tan„ rather an elderly man, who
was apprehended by Morris in Lincultis Inn-fields on leiday
evening.
In the evening Janus Baler:an, a very well.dressed man, was
brought in by Blackman. a conductor.
The prisoners were remanded. to be brought up with Edgington
at the Mansion House, at the nest examination there. Should
that case fail, as against Honeytuaa, there is reasos to believe that
he will be brought back here, to answer tor another matte.
The prisonccs b lee been known to the pu:ice for many years as
pravised thieve.

It appeara that thsTci)idctliic diseaseamong the horses of
diy. French cavalry do:•a not prevail to such an extent as
wlf: supposed.