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,, Fellow of Lincoln, were approved
as Public Examiners in Literis brunianioribus,
At the same permission was given to the Rev. William
Hirzel Le Marchant, M.A., of Exeter. to proceed to the
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 the
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 replaeed ou the
register of Convocation.

In a Congregation held afterwards the following degrees
were conferred :

Bachelor and Do,:tor of Divinity by Accum ulation.—Teo
William Le Hirzel Le Marchant, Exeter.
Masters of Arts.—Rev Charles Hall Raikes, Oricl ;
Rev Weldon Champneys, Brasenose; Rev Hen. Martia
Carr, Christ Chuach ; Rev James Lawrence Littlewoocl
and Frederick Robert Ellis, Trinity; Joseph Lkipp Lloyd
and Gcorge Buttanshaw, St. John's; Rev John Robinson,
Charles 'Gerrard Andrewes, and Archibald James Bannock,
Magdalen Hall.

Master of Arts, comilatis cause.—Rev Dennis Tucker,
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Master of Arts, names replaced.—Algernon Cox, Christ
Church, and Rev Thomas Daubeny, Magdalen.
Bachelors of A) ts.—Hon George Thomas Kenyon,
Christ Church; Joseph Skipp Lloyd, St John's; and
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 wolf
it appears, travelling up North by the Hindostan and Thibet
Trunk-road, with his uncle Colonel Lawrence, the Deputy
Commissioner of Simla. Tbey made ten or twelve marches
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 bungalow
at Tarunda. About four miles on the road they had to cross
a bridge which girdled an almost perpendicular cliff; en
nearing this spot, Sir Alexander's horse being somewhat
restive, he passed his uncle to the front, and on riding over
the bridge rather hurridly a largo cross-beam gave waYt
when both rider and horse were precipitated violently down
about 303 feet of khud, and of course killed on the spot.
This shocking and tot rible accident happened about 120
miles from Simla, The corpse was brought into the station
on the Mcnelay morah,g, and buried on the evening of tb°
same day. The funeral was 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 an
foot the whole way; at the gate of the cemetery the
bier
was rested and borne thence to the grave by the personal
staff of the Governor-General. The funeral service wasread by the Rev. J. Poynder ; and amidst universal tribu-
lation and sorrow the remains of Sir Alexander Lawrenen
were lowered into their last resting-place. Thus, snatched
away as ho was in the midst of life and yotifh, and uni-
versally beloved, a melancholy gloom will overshadow
Simla for the rest of the seas.m. He has left behind him a
young widow and a child to mourn his loss. Poor as the
consolation may be we feel assured Lady Lawrence will have
the warmest and deepest sympathy of the community inhet
sad bereavement."