The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Oct: 20.
In a Convocation holden this day at ten o'clock, the
names of Charles P. Chretien, M.A., Fellow of Oriel, and
Thomas Fowler, M,A,, Ftllow of Lincoln, were approved
as Public Examiners in Literis Hurnanioribus,
At the same permission was given to the Rev. Willie'
Hirzel Le Merchant, M.A., of Exeter, to proceed to tile
degrees of B. and D. D. by accumulation.
In the same Convocation the University seal was affixed
to the presentation of Rev. Edward Moore, M.A., Queen's
College, lately elected principal of St. Edmund Hall, to th°
rectory of Great Gatcombe, Is:e of Wight.
In the same Convocation the name of Joseph West
Bramah, M.A., Merton College, which had been removed
by mistake, and without his knowledge, was replaced on the
register of Convocation.
In a Congregation held afterwards the following degrees
were conferred : _ _

_Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity by ACC2iM ulation.--Itel
William Le Hiizel Le Marchant, Exeter.
Masters of Arts.—Rev Charles Hall Raikes, Oriel ;
Rev Weldon Champneys, Brasenose; Rev Hen. Martin.
Carr, Christ Chuach ; Rev James Lawrence Littlewood
and Frederick Robert Ellis, Trinity; Joseph Lkipp Lloyd
and George Buttanshaw, St. John's; Rev John Robinson
Charles Gerrard Andrewes, and Archibald James Bennocirs
Magdalen Hall.
Master of Arts, comitatis causa.—Rev Dennis Tucker,
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Master of Arts, names replaced.—Algernon Cox, Christ
Church, and Rev Thomas Daubeny, Magdalen.
Bachelors of At ts.—Hon George Thomas Kenyon,
Christ Church; Joseph Skipp Lloyd, St John's; ant
Robert Hawthorne Collins, Lincoln.
The next degree day is Thursday, Nov. 10.

THE DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE."'"
The Delhi Gazette, in recording the death of Sir
Alexander Lawrence, which event was announced by tele..
gram a few days since, says :—" The young gentleman vreao
it appears, travelling up North by the Hindostan and Thih°
Trunk-road, with his uncle Colonel Lawrence, the Deputy
Commissioner of Simla. They made ten or twelve marcha
in safety and reached Torahon, the summer residence of the
Rajah Bassahir, on Friday, the 26th August. On Saturdai
morning they started on horseback for the next bungal°'l/
at Tarunda. About four miles on the road they had to cross
a bridge which girdled an almost perpendicular cliff; all
nearing this spot, Sir Alexander's horse being somewhat
restive, ho pissed his uncle to the front, and on riding ever
the bridge rather hurridly a large cross-beam gave Way,
when both rider and horse were precipitated violently down
about 303 feet of khud, and of course killed on. the ePet*
This shocking and terrible accident happened about 120
miles from Shards, The corpse was brought into the station
on the Monday morning, and buried on the evening of the
same day. The funeral Vas attended by the viceroy and
his staff, the commander in 'chief and his staff, the members
of council, Sir H. Edwards, and all the principal visitors and
residents of the
place. The procession left Government
House at 4 p.m. The chief mourners followed the bier on
foot the whole way ; at the gate of the cemetery the bier
was rested and borne thence to the grave by the persona
staff of the Governor-General. The funeral savice wea
read by the Rev, J. Poynder ; and amidst universal tribu-
lation and sorrow the remains of Sir Alexander Lawrence
were lowered into their last resting-place. Thus, snatched
.
away as he was in the midst of life and youth, and gu:
versally beloved, a melancholy gloom will overshadow
Simla for the rest of the seas,n. He has left behind hint:
young widow and a child to mourn his loss. poor as the
consolation may be we feel assured Lady Lawrence viillnhat.v,.t
the warmest and deepest sympathy of the communityi
sad bereavement."