The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-18 00:00:00

OXFORD, DEC. 13,

e nes ay last the Rev. Stephen Preston;
Lin&Sln College ; Mr. Thomas Hawkeshead, of
BrasOciseollege; the Rev. Henry Watt \t'l!krll-
- -`6fv,,Worcester College; the Rev. George Street,
of St: ;Win's. College ; and the Re:. Wm. Baylyi
of Ni.;* College, B. A. were admitied 'Masters of
Arts. .

Menii: Francis Birkley Astley, and -James Vo-
lantOrl, of Oriel College ; Enoch H.
College ; Thotnas Wood Simpson, of
Worcesier College; and John Cox Russell, of Hert-
ford Colfe(re ; were admitted Bachelors of Arts.
Yesterday Mr. Keble was admitted Scholar of
c'orpus Christi College.
On Fri6y 'the Election for P‘rocurators took place
at Herefdi-ci 'Cathedral ; the Chapter met in the
Collegiarte'Library, and unanimously elefted the
Rev;4.'l%leton:D. D. to represent thetn. After
Divine Service, the beneficed Clergy assembled in the
Consistory Court, and the Rev: H. Morgan, D. D.
having opened the-MeetinT, with an elegant address,
stated, that the Lord Bishop recommended as pro-
per persons to represent the Diocese, the Rev. G. D.
Yates, L.L.D. and the Rev. G. Cope, D.D.
the Electors instantly honoured with their approba-
tion, and they were accordingly chosen.

LEJPES, Dzc. t 5.

Or
ONE night last week 'a brace. of horse pistols,
loaded, aturtwo pair of stockings, were dug up in a
plantation, behind the house of John BOys, Esq.
at Ashcomb, where it is supposed, they had been
btiried by some soldier, at the period of leis deser-
tion from our barracks._ The stock of each pistol is
marked with the tigure 3.

The heavy and -almost constant rains that fell
during the last few days, produced, yesterday, in
our Levels, higher .floods, and at the Bridge, a
greater swell of water, than had been remembered
for many years before. The Cliff cellars, were in-
undated, :and the Bear Inn,• and Sir Henry Black•
man's house, adjoining the river,, on the east and
west ~s'idefi, were nearly surrounded by the water.
To secure timber .and other property, ',which the
rapid rise of the flood had floated from
..it became necessary,. during a part of the
day, to employ a number .ot-men in'boats ; among
these were four paper-makers, who, having einbark-
ed in a little punt from their mill, unluckily
it, in Mailing-brooks, and.had. to struggle with -the
difficulties -attendant on six feet water,,acon.iderahle
distance trom any shore ; under which, • however;
they managed to sustain themielves, some by swan-
Ming, .anti others by seizing hold of their. caps;zed
punt,.until,some persons, who wimes,ed the acci-
dent, put off in boats to their assi•tance, ?.nd by
whose exertions they were all fi.rrtunAlely prestLi. ,
and safely.landed at the tan-yard b&otiging to ;Wire
Chatfield. Neither cattle nor sheep were exp6sed
to danger in. these Levels, having been ail driven
from their pastures, by the timely precaution 'of
their. Owners. •
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-.Last Thursday. as the young Gentlemen of
Button's school Were t:tk;ittg their walk on Cliff-hill,
a portion of the turf that appeared to have been
newly broken up, nigh to a -small inclos.!lru of trees,
called Spence's Fully, attracted their notice, and to
gratify their curiosity they removed the sOd, when
.they found concealed under it a sack, containiDg
woman's apparel, by which their curiosity w.is
much increased, that they pursued their s:-arch_t6,
the Folly, and there discovered, a broken caravan-.
trunk, from which, they had no doubt, the contents
of the sack had been taken. This proved to be the
fatly for on inquiry being afterwards made, it ap-.
peared that the articles were the property of a Mi-
litia Serjeau(s. wife, who had travelled in a carrier's
waggon,frorn Hailsham, and on her arrival at the
DOrset Arms, not choosing to encumber herself
with the trunk, delivered it to the care of the land-
lord, telling him at the same time, that she should
.get a grenadier to call for it ; which.being spoken in
the hearing of a soldier that wan casually standing
by, he quickly afterwards personated the grenadier
whom the woman was to have commissioned, and
demanded the trunk of the landlord, in his own
name, and obtained it ; which he had no sooner
done than he marched off to the Hill and dis-
posed of it as above stated.--We hear he: has since
deserted,-,' - •

About twelve o'clock on Monday se'nnight, the
bridge lately ereeted over the river 4.uinnev, three
miles from Cardiff, which divides the counties of
Glamorgan and Monmouth, fell with a most tre-
mendous crash ; fortunately, the men who were
employed in wheeling graVel over it, had quitted
their .work only a few": minutes before the accident
happened. The bridge would have been coinNeted
in a few weeks. The old bridge is standing, and very
sectire.

CORONER'S INCILTEST.—An Inquisition wa4 taken
yesterday at the Triumphatit Chariot, Piccadilly, be-
fore A. GE .L, Esq. on the body of Thomas-Harris;
who was shot at Hammersmith on Monday last.--
A Surgeon from 'St. George's Hospital stated, that
'the deceased was brought thither at half past five
o'clock on Monday evening, wounded, as it from
the discharge of fire arms, in -the arm and body.—
On examining closely the wounds, it appeared that
many shot had entered the body, some of which
were depoSited in the substance of the heart, as ap-
peared on disse6tion, and which were the' cause of
his death.—Bedford, a gardener in the employ of
Mr. Brooks,.of Hammersmith, stated, that the de=i
ceased, with whom. he had been acquainted many
years, was at work with him in the nursery on Mon=
day, until half past four o'clock, when they reinject
to the 'shed situated therein, to deposit their tool.
A gun was standing in the shed, and witness said,
Here is Frank's gun," meaning his young Master,
and on taking ho!d'of, it, he had scarcely moved it
when it instantly went off, and lodged the con-
tents in the arm and body of the deceased, who,,
sat down, and said he was a dead man. He was
the only witness who had any knowledge of the
transadion itself, none else being present. Several
witnesses proved that° Bedford-and the deceased had
always been'tin' intimate terms, and that thp Litter,
previous to his death, said he believed it to haxe been
.an accident. Mr. Brooks's son cou4 not say, whe-
ther or not he had left the piccv cocked.—bNodiclim.
Accidental. Deatk.