The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

AGAIN THE INCVRABLES.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MARCH 31.

In a convocation holden this morning, being the last
day of Lent Term, the new statute fixing the interval
between the promulgation and proposal of a statute to
congregation at three days, and the interval between the
acceptance of a statute by congregation and the propo-
sal to convocation at one week, met with the unanimous
approval of the house.
In the same convocation the Rev. Edward G. Kelly,
of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards, the
following degrees were conferred, viz. :

BACHELOR OF DI VINITY AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, BY

ACCUMULATION.

Rev. Abraham Ker Thompson, Queen's College, head
master of Dudley grammar school.

BACHELOR OF DIVINITY.

Rev. George Hunter Fell, fellow Magdalen College.

MASTER OF ARTS.
Rev. Edward Parry, Balliol College.
Rev. Nathan Jackson, Brasenosa CAlege.
E imund Wailer, BrasenoMe College.
Rev. J. Richard Armistead, student, Christ Church.
James Madan Holt, Christ Church.
Edward Heneage Paget, St. John's C4llege.
Rev. Edward F. Huet, Edmund Hall.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.
Dacre Crayan, St. John's College.

INCORPORATION.

Rev. Edward George Parker, A.M., incorporated
from Trinity College, Dublin, to Trinity College,
Oxford.

JESUS COLLEGE.

This morning Mr. T. L. Lewis, commoner of this
college, was elected a scholar on Mr. Gwynne's founda-
tion.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
The Rev. Charles William Moffat, M.A., Michel
scholar, was on Thursday last elected a Michel fellow
of this society.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-TAIINTON, MARCH 31.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER BY A MOTHER.

Mary Jennings, 29, was indicted for the attempted
murder of her ..‘on, Robert Jennings, at Wivedecombe,
by throwing him into a cesspool.
Mr. Prideaux conducted ate prosecution ; the pri-
soner was undefended. _ _

The prisoner, who is a single woman, has three illegi-
timate chilren, one of whom, an infant, she held in her
arms at the bar, The one whose attempted murder was
the subject of this trial, is a little boy, seven years of
age, and it appears that in the opinion of the prisoner l.•
stood in the way of her being married to a young mail
who sometimes kept tier coinpaoy. Sue had frequently
told some of the neighbours that she believed the young
roan would marry her were it hot fir the boy, and said
that she wished she might some day find the child dead.
Shortly before the occurrence which gave rise to the '
present charge she also professed to lave had horrible
drtams, and said to the neighbours that she was sure
"Bobby," meaning the little boy, would be drowned ;
and she believed it would be in thii pit. The pit was a
large cesspool in front of the privy, common to all the
housea in the court where the prisoner lived ; but.it is
covered over with a large stone, which it would be hu-
possible for such a child to remove, and some of the wit-
nesses had accorlingly recommended her to calm her
fears on that account. On the afternoon of the sth. of
October, however, the prisoner went to the buses of
some of the neighbours iu a very excited state, and cried,
" Oh, he'S in the pit, he's in the pit." They rani to the
pit, which contained filth upwards of four feet 'Jeep, aed
there the hands of a cield -were discernible sirugeieg
above the soil, and the pri,oner's child was dragged out
in a very exhausted state. When asked why she had
not pulled him out, the prisoner said she c,af;d not. It
wa,S clear, however, from the evidence of the e itnesses
that some time must have elapsed before she gave the
alarm, ai she had been to her fateer's cut-dale, weere she
did not mention anything about the child immediately
before she came to them. Toe child was, in court, but
Mr. Justice Erie, after tr, ki g him privately, inti-
mated that he did not consider it desirable to call him
as a witness.

Tile jury found the prisoner guilty.
The !earned judge, in passing tencence, said he cc.uld
not conceive a inure atrocious crime than that of which
the prisoner had been found guilzy, violating, as she had,
all the feelings of a mother, and planning the thatU of
her own child, fir some supposed 'advantage ti bkrielf.
She was sentenced to be transported fur the term of her
natural life.