The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, FEB, 9.—A congregation was held yesterday for
granting Degrees, when the following were conferred :
MASTERS OF ARTS.--Mr. William Grice, University Col-
lege ; Cornelius W. Moffatt, Merton College ; Rev. J. S.
Pinkerton, Fellow of St. John's College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Mr. H. W. Onslow Polhill, Uni-
versity College; J. P. Cornish, Christchurch; Wm. Mott,
Christchurch.

Sir John Beckett, Bart., arrived in Stratford-place
.r om his seat, Somerby-park, Lincolnshire. Lady Anne
will commence her assemblies after Easter.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset are expected
at Camelford House, Hyde Park-corner, in a week or ten
days ; they are at present staying in Edinburgh.
The Marquis Camden left Arlington-street, yester-
day afternoon, for his seat, in Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, and family,
are expected to leave Shugborough-park for town, when his
Lordship is sufficiently recovered to travel. The Noble
Earl is almost constantly an invalid.
The Duke of Wellington arrived from Strathfield-
saye on Wednesday, to dine with his brother, Lord Mary-
borough, in Saville-row. His GraCe's nephew, the Hon.
and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Vicar of Strathfieldsaye, has
been residing at the Duke's mansion while the Parsonage
House was under repair.
The Duchess of Marlborough arrived in Park-lane
yesterday, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Blandford, at Howhury Hall, near Bedford, which the
Noble Marquis has taken on lease from Capt. Polhill, M.P.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, EDITED BY " Boz."
—This is one of the likeliest periodicals that ever was
commenced in England. The Editor is " Boz," whose
" Pickwick Papers" are enjoying extraordinary and in-
creasing reputation, and it has for its contributors the very
best writers in the kingdom. Nor is this all—it has illus-
trations by Cruikshank, Lover, and Buss. The work was
commenced last month, and it is of the second number that
we are to indite. One of the best articles is from the pen
of " Boz," and rejoices in the name of " Oliver Twist" ; it
is full of fun, and yet has some of the finer humanities about
it—for instance, the death of Oliver's mother in the work-
house at Mudfog. " Plunder Creek" is a yarn of which
we think so well, that we have appropriated the greater
part of it for our readers to-day. The " Spectre of Tap-
pington" is another good story, anti so is " The Wide
awake Club." Jerdan, of the Literary Gazette, has an
amusing memoir of Jack Richardson, the late Showman ;
and Hamilton Reynolds has penned a very pleasant article
on Lady Mary Woritey Montagu. Haynes Bayly's well-
timed and pleasant quiz about Bulwer's: play is good. The
illustrations are capital, particularly that by Cruiskshank.
The unfortunate little parish brats are hit off to the very
life. On the whole, " Bentley's Miscellany" is a decided
hit, and we have no doubt that, if continued with the spirit
in which it has been commenced, it will become an indis-
pensable favourite with the public.—Liverpool
The Comptroller of the Household al rived in Eaton-
square on Wednesday, from Brighton. Lady Agnes Byng,
who has been on a visit to her sister, the Duchess of Rich-
mond, at Goodwood, has also returned to town.
The Earl and Countess of Elgin have arrived in
Paris, where they intend to remain until the spring. The
Duchess of Sutherland is taking the lead among the Eng-
lish
of fashion
theirx fashion at present in the French capital. Her T
Grace's jewels at the Royal fetes at the
bytinpuislietl 'Tuileries were dis-
is splendourat present andr profusion.hlgNs
The small-pox .
considerable
virulence in the Forest of Dean ; and in the vicinity of
Newnham, Gloucestershire ; a great many persons have
died of the same disease.
The Literary Fund Club had their fourth dinner for
the season on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern. The
attendance was very numerous, and included some distin-
guished literary characters.
Lord Abingcr gave a grand dinner on Wednesday
evening, at his residence in New-street, Spring-gardens, to
the learned judges.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.—TIIC new work of
this distinguished poet, entitled " Letters front the South,"
will be published m a f%v days. It consists of a series of
epistles, embodying a description of his late visit to Algiers,
and a detailed account of its inhabitants, as well as sketches
of its French conquerors, and will be accompanied by nume-
rous engravine,

A large meeting of Mr. Stanley's friends was held at
Llangefui on Tuesday, and we have the gratification to
state that, after comparing the canvassing-books, we are
now, if possible, more confident than ever that Mr. Stan-
ley will be returned as Member for the county of Anglesey
by an overwhelming majority. After the business of the
General Committee had been gone through, an adjourn-
ment, as on the previous meeting, took place to the Town-
Hall.
W. HUGHES, Esq., of Madyn, having been called to
the Chair, said that they were then met to support the
claims of Mr. Stanley, who was a candidate to be the
Member for Anglesey in Parliament. He believed those
whom he then addressed were all Reformers, and as Mr.
Stanley came forward on reforming principles he would ex-
plain to them his own opinions.
Mr. STANLEY then stood forward, and said that at the
end of another week he felt gratified at being enabled to
state that the cause of which he stood there as the cham-
pion was placed above the possibility of defeat ; and that
every day's experience showed that lie would have the large
majority of voters as stated at former meetings, and if , the
electors were true to themselves, to their principles, and to
the promises they had given to stand by those principles, he
had no doubt that he should be the Representative of the
county of Anglesey.---(Hear.) It was not personal vanity
that induced him to come forward. He entertained the
opinions he now supported from his early years, when those
opinions were not so fashionable, nor perhaps so popular, as
in the present day. Even supposing for a moment his cause
should not prevail, he had the satisfaction in his canvass
to become acquainted with the farmers of the county. He
had found friends amongst his supporters whom he should
always value, and whose friendship he would ever esteem.
The electors would soon be called upon to exercise their
elective franchise. He would, therefore. remind them that
the present struggle was not a struggle of men, but of prin-
ciples. He knew the electors of Anglesey were men of a
deep religious feeling, and he did not doubt that their votes
would be in accordance with the principles of civil and reli-
gious liberty. They had not only the eyes of the people
of the county of Anglesey upon them, but they were
looked up to by the great body of Liberal Church-
men and Dissenters in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
---(Hear, hear.) The electors of Anglesey could never fal-
sify their principles by supporting that party, who, if they
had had the power, would never have granted toleration.
He safely confided himself to them without fear of the result.
The slanders which his opponents had heaped upon him,
they could not in the slightest degree support. He cared
not for them ; they were mere inventions. His supporters
knew that ; and those supporters he was proud of; they
were were well known and respected. They were men
who had the good of the country at heart, and who came
forward to defend those principles which had been che-
rished by them for years ; and were not like many of
their opponents, who had so often changed sides. As a
fellow-labourer in the same cause, he was proud of the
promises of support which had been obtained for him, not
from paid agents, but from independent men ; and he
felt confident that the election would soon prove that
Anglesey was not, as had been falsely stated, a Tory
county.
The Rev. Mr. JAMES then stood forward and addressed
the meeting in Welsh. He said that though he was not in
the habit of introducing politics on the Sabbath day to the
attention of his hearers, he felt himself imperatively called
upon to say a few words in favour of the principles advo-
cated by Mr. Stanley. As a Dissenter he entertained those
principles, and he felt it to be his duty to explain to those
present who did. not understand English the difference be-
tween them and those professed by the Tories. He then
eloquently contrasted the acts of the Reformers with those
of their opponents, and showed the meeting that the slan-
ders which had been published against Mr. Stanley and his
friends was a weak attempt on the part of the Tories. to
terrify the electors by working upon their religious feelings.
He, however, hoped and believed that the men of Angle-
soy would stand firm to their own principles, and at the
approaching election that they would conduct themselves
like men who valued the privilege which had been con-
ferred upon them, and not, as was too frequently the case
in contested elections, give cause to their opponents to say
that they were not fit to enjoy the franchise. Let them
not, therefore, indulge in intemperance.
"laTile meeting, after giving three loud shouts for Mr
Stanley, separated.—Carnarvon Herald.