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REPRESI,LNTATION OF WIGAN.

, TO THE ELECTORS OF WIGAN.
GENTLEMEN,—In obedience to the most-numerously
signed requisition which, I understand, has yet issued
from Wigan, I feel it due to the cause, and the prine.i-
pies which I support, to accede to the proposal with
which you have honoured me, and to become a candi-
date for the vacant seat now existing in your borough.
That such vacancy should be occasioned by the se-
rious illness of our friend, Mr. Potter, all who have
watched the pure integrity of his public conduct, or who
have known the extent of his private virtues, will, in
common with you and myself, deeply deplore. I know
not that I can give to )ou (his old constituents) a bet-
ter security for my future conduct than in the coinci-
dence, in times now past, of his and my own principles
and votes.

My public conduct, in advocating all measures favour.
able to civil and • religious freedom, in promoting
economy and reducing taxation, in reforming the law,
in asserting the great national cause of education, in
extending, to the utmost possible degree the sphere of
our trade and manufactures, especially by the Repeal of
the Corn-laws (the oppressive burthen, ,as they will be
found to be, of our agriculture, as well as of our com-
merce) k fully before you.
I respectfully call on those of the Liberal party, who
deem, with me, that the essence of political life is poli-
tical action, to record by their zealous efforts, as well
as by their votes, their attachment to the cause of
freedom ; and I have the-honour to be, Gentlemen,

Your faithful servant,
WM. EWART..

London, Feb. 27, 1839.

UNIVE#SITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

Yesterday the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors
was held in the Theatre of the University, for the purpose
of receiving the Annual Report of the Council, and to
elect officers for the ensuing year. Lord BaotTonArd, Pre.
sident, in the Chair.

Mr. CHARLES C. ATKINSON, the Secretary, read the names
contained in the nomination papers for the several offices,
and then read the report of the Council for the last twelve-
months. The event of the greatest importance to the
present interests and future prosperity of the College
which has occurred since the last annual meeting was the
propagation by the Uuniversity of London of the regula-
tions and examinations for 'degrees in Arts, &c. The ex-
pectation expressed by the last meeting, that no examina-
tion cm religious subjects would be imposed on candidates
for degrees has been realised, and that whatever theolo-
gical examination may take place will be a voluntary one,
as in no way to affect the obtaining those degrees.
Various acquirements are required of those looking for
degrees and the branches of knowledge which have beers
neglected by other academical bodies have been introduced
for examination. A Matriculation examination has taken
place, when the students answered with credit to them-
selves and the Institution. Those who obtained the highest
distinction in one branch of knowledge, gained the second
place in the other. The Government, in compliance with
the desire of the Council, have instituted Exhibitions and
Scholarships, so that when students of this and King's College
have been returned equal for answering at examinations,
the exhibitions are to be divided amongst them. The re-
gulations for the examination for degrees in medicine,
have not been yet published, but the regulations for
the degrees of arts have been. In compliance
with the advice of Lord Brougham, the interest of a
donation of a patriot, now amounting to 2.8,00/., has
been applied to the admission of schoolmasters at a reduced
rate to the benefits of lectures, the charge being 1/ 10s. tor
four lectures, and 11. for a single lecture. There are 33
schoolmasters attending the course; and 36 the class of
mathematics alone. Arrangements have been made for
the education of persons intended for civil engineering and
mining. Capacious lecture-rooms have been erected for
anatomy and practical chemistry. The southern wing of
the Hospital hair been also erected. The report concluded
with an allusion to the resignation of Dr. Elliotson, and a
resolution of the Committee to prevent Mesmerism being
practised at the Hospital.
Tire following was the financial Statement. Receipts for
Session, 1837-38 :—CollegeFecs, 14,128/.Bs. 4d. ; School
fees, 181/. 19s. 4d.; Interest on Exchequer Bills,
231. Bs. 10d. ; Transfer of Shares, 461. 15s. 10d.; Re-
ceived from Students on Practical Anatomy, 1681. 3s. 6d.
Tonal, 14,5481. 15s. 10d. Endowments, Flaherty's Fund,
3 Reduced Annuites, 5,3111. 4s. 4d.; Patriot Fund, Ex-
chequer Bills, 2,500/. ; Fellowes' Clinical Medical Fund,
31 per Cents, 500/. ; Legacy Fund, Chambers rind Clarke's,
31 per Cents. 1471. 14s. 3d. • Exchequer Bills on
Smith and Co. 2,060/. ; Mr. Brundrit's donations to Hos-
pital, 500/. ; Exchequer Bills on Smith and Co. 500/. ;
Disbursements, Payments to Professors and Masters,
9,836/. 19s. 10d. ; Expenses of Session, 4,0051. ; Balance
in hand, 7061. 16s.

Lord BROUGHAM congratulated the Proprietors on the
very satisfactory and flourishing state of the University,
which showed a progres*teady,anFl by. no me us casual
advancement. lie regretted thy, resignation of Dr. Elliot-
son, than whom there did not exist a more able or skilful

man. No man more deeply regretted the causes which led
to that gentleman's resignation, and he was con.
fident that all present participated in that regret.—
(Hear, hear.) He (Lord Brougham) trusted that the
Institution would go on persevering in the same principles
with which it commenced. It was truly a Catholic
Institution, open to all ranks of people without
regard to politics or religion, giving no preference of
Church over sect, or sect over Church, or of one sect
over another.—(Hear, hear.) This could not be done,
unless by the exclusion of tests, or of subscription to re.
ligious tenets. But they no more excluded religion than
does the teacher of mathematics, who confines himself to

that branch of science. Religion was deemed by every
proprietor of the institution as a paramount object, and the
men who denied it was either wilfully ignorant or ex-
eeedingly stupid, as the calumny has been over and over j
again repudiated.—( Hear, hear.) Their sole design in !
not making religion an essential point of study, was to
avoid trafficking with, or making a compromise of it, by
consorting godliness into a source of temporal gain. No
doubt Government bad a right to protect, as an establish-
ment, the Protestant Church ; but, as regards education,
it was not justified in giving a preference of Catholic over
Protestant or Presbyterian, or of one sect over another,
but should hold an even balance between all. Has the
Government acted so? No, it has not. It has given the
King's College 28,0001., while four individuals ad-
vanced 7,000/. each towards the purchase of ground fJr
the University College. The reason the Government as-
signed for this invidious distinction was, that the former
was Protestant. Such conduct he (Lord Brougham) de-
signated as gross, unjust partiality.—( Hear, hear.) He
should have no objection to the Protestant educating :the
children of his own persuasion, nor to the Catholics and
Dissenters doing the same. But where such a desirable
object cannot be tttained he would advocate and
support the principles on which the University College
was conducted. In conclusion, his Lordship recommended
that a special meeting should be callod to petition the
Government for a similar grant to that made to the King's
College.
Mr. HARDY moved the adoption of the report, which,
after some observations from Messrs. Hardy, Hanky, Col.
Stanhope, Mr. Taylor, and other members, was carried
The following officers were then elected :—Lord
Brougham, President ; the Duke of Somerset, Vice-
President ; W. Tooke, Esq., F. R. S., Treasurer ; and the
following were elected Members of the Council:—Sa-
muel Duckworth, Esq., NI. P. ; W. Ewart, Esq.; W. H.
Felton, Esq., M.D. ; George Ward Norman, Esq. ;
and E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M. P. ; Henry Kingeotea
Esq., was elected auditor.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

EDINBURGH, 'FEB. 2g.
MURDRR OF A SON BY .HIS FATHER—Yesterday, khe
Court met for the trial of Arthur Woods and .Henritta
Young or Woods, his wife, accused 'of the murder
of John Drew Woods, pedlar, son of the "Male
prisoner by a former marriage, on the 4th or sth of Au-
gust last, in the house of the accused, situate in
Thorter-row, Dundee, by dashing or throwing him down
with violence on the floor, and striking him on the head,
and violently twisting a rope or other ligature mutt& his
neck, by all which, or part thereof; his skull was fractured,
and he was strangled, and soon thereafter died.
John 13. Baxter, Procurator- Fiscal for the Dundee
District of Ferfarshire, identified the prisoner's decla-
ration ; and in answer to a question by the prisoner's
Counsel, stated that the trial had been postponed on ac-
count of the pregnancy of the female prisoner, who was
delivered of a child in jail, about a month after the Perth
Circuit.

Duncan. Macnab, night watchman of Dundee Police,
was on duty in Thorter-row on the night of 4th August;
had occasion to pass prisoner's house in his beat ;
passed it about a quarter past one, heard a noise as of
people fighting in the house, and that some one wat
kept down on the floor, but no words. Returned about
twenty minutes after, 'went into the court, and saw
a dead man lying in it ; the body was on its back,
close to the stair coming down from Woods' house, and
right opposite the place; the stair is seven or eight seeps,
and there is a railing round it about three feet high :, the
feet were lying next the side of the steps ; the body wes
straight, except a bend at the knees. Thought the man
was drunk ; but on lifting the body found it was dead.
Saw a man very like the deceased go to Wood's door about
half-past twelve ;he appeared to come. out of Summers,'
public-house in the Court, but witness did not, wait to see
if be got into Woods' house. Saw Woods himself go into
the court aliolit twelve o'clock.

James Lowe, sergeant of police, farther corrobosated
the evidence of Macnab. When witness knocked at
prisoner's door, Woods asked who was there, but : wit-
ness only called to him to open the door, and he let him
in. Only prisoners and a child about two years old
were in the house. Witness asked Woods where his
son was, and he answered " he's not here, he shan't be
here;" then asked the wife for him, and she said she had
seen him at the door about half an hour before ; said
he bad been at the door and his father would not let
him in. Asked if she knew what had become of him,
and she said she thought she heard him fall over the
stair. Then asked the father if he knew anything far-
ther about him, and witness thinks he answered, "it
wasna me that did it." Witness left another officer,
Peter Forbes, in charge of' the prisoners, until the body
was removed ; he was present while witness questioned
the prisoners. Witness sent for Dr. Webster, who ex-
amined the body in the Police Office. Witness went
to Woods' house, and found several pieces of rope,
which he now identifies, in a pantry. Observed a red
mark on the neck of deceased, as of a cord drawn very
tight round it. Mr. Moon, surgeon, examined the body
on the Sunday forenoon in witness's presence; it ap-
peared in the same state as when Dr Webster first saw
it. Witness want back, along with the mother to the
house and brought away the child. Is quite sure these
was no one else in the house but prisoners and the child.
The thickest rope was hanging on the back of the pantry
duos, the other pieces were lying at the foot of a table in
the pantry. Applied the smallest of the ropes to the mark
on the neck, and in witness's opinion it exactly corresponded.
This was done in Dr. Webster's presence.
Mrs. Scott resides in a court in Thorter-row. Knew
deceased, who might be about twenty-one or twenty-
two years of age. Never heard of the Woods quar-
relling till the week before the son's death ; heard a
noise in the house then ; they were all fighting through
other; the wile stamped her foot, and bid Johnny go
to the door, and he gave her bad language back again.
did not see this but heard the voices. The young men
told the etepmother the house was his father's as well as
hr's. Heard the father say he would put au end to his
son's existence. On Saturday night, August 4, witness
had occasion to come down the stair, and pass by Sum-
mers' house ; saw deceased leaning on the side of the
door; he said he would hold the eandle for witness;
he wanted whisky from Mrs. Summers, who would not
let him in. Saw him go up the stair towards his father's
house, but did not see him go in. Witness went to bed-
but did not fall asleep till she heard a noise, and got up
and went to the staircase window, and ascertained the
noise came from Woods' house. Heard cries like mur-
der in a -faint and low like tone. Went down to a
lower window and heard the son say, " Don't choke me
father," in a low and mournful tone. Heard no other noise
but as of some person's head knocking against the
floor, and a table and chair knocking about, and was more
alarmed at thet noise than anything. Heard the father say
in reply, " I'll be your butcher, before I sleep." Did not
hear the woman speaking angrily at that time, though
she slid so the week before. Heard noise after-
wards, but no more words. The policeman came into
the court and called " past one." He looked up to
Woods' house and then went away. The noise stopped
-4443ar1y. I)alf.nnat one—witness still continuing at the
window. As the half-h Our was striking, looked down
the close, saw the door open, and the father with his
hands under the arms of the son, pushing him before
him. Mrs. Woods came to the door and went down the
stair assisting the father iu carrying down the son by
the feet.; they laid the body clOwn in the close with the
head pointing towards the entrance to the close, and
the feet towards the stair ; both prisoners returned 'tip
stairs and shut the door. Heard the woman speaking
in a very low voice as they went up stairs. Witness
could not say what she thought of the affair sbe was so
much confused. After being pressed on this point the
witness said she thought the woman said, "we will
not be fitshed any more." The body was carried down
the stair head foremost, and placed as described by for-
mer witnesses. Mrs. Woods looked out of the door before
the body was brought out, which was done immediately
after ; it was perfectly stiff; there was no one in the Court
at the time. About five minutes after the body was turned
out, witness hoard the barrow come, and went to bed.

The declarations of the prisoners were then read. They
asserted their ignorance of the manner in which the de-
ceased had come by his death. The male prisoner stated
that the deceased had not been at the house on the
night of his death, while the female prisoner stated that
the deceased had been there, but she had refused him
admission.

The Jury retired at a quarter before six o'clock. and re-
turned in about half an hour with a verdict, finding by a
large majority the male prisoner Guilty, and by a majority
the libel against the female prisoner, Not Proven.
The female prisoner, who began to sob convulsively on
the verdict being read, was then dismissed simpliciter from
the bar, and the unfortunate convict was sentenced to be
executed at Dundee, between the hours of eight and ten
o'clock on 18th of March.

The Earl of Howth and Viscount St. Lawrence,
have arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, the
former from Melton Mowbray, the latter from Dublin.

THE RADICALS OF BRIGHTON.—Captain
Pechell, himself a landowner, whose whole property is
vested in land, voted nobly in favour of taking the first
step towards providing the working classes of this country
with cheap bread, and enabling our industrious artizans to
compete with foreign artizans in the extensive markets of
the Continent. With a knowledge of this fact, the Ra-
dicals of this borough will know how to treat the insidious
overtures of those insincere men and hollow friends, who,
to serve their own crooked and sinister purposes, would
blindly lead them into a foul conspiracy with the Tories to
eject so useful and upright a man from his proper sphere of
action. Very opportunely, the Tories have this week
been holding a carnival. Happily for the people ',upon
whose credulity they hope to practice, they have this week
been open-mouthed. In vino veritas, and over their cups
at Horsham, the! Tories (and Mr. John Baker was there
to cheer them on) gave utterance to the estimation in
which they hold the Radicals.--Brighton Gazette.
DOG CART NUISANCE, &C.—The " Animals'
Friend Society" last week brought up several fellows for
having been riding in carts drawn by dogs, and kicking
and beating them with a stick, and also with an iron chain,
till they laid down and were unable to proceed. They
were all fined or imprisoned by Alderman Brown and
Messrs. Jeremy and Traill ; who also fined a man for hav-
ing driven a pointed stick into an ass. The names of tha
offenders were James Jamieson, William White, William
Fletcher, and John Coombs.

LIN CA NADAS, &c.—The most remarkable
work that has issued from the press for some time is, " A
Voice from America to England," embracing a variety of
topics of the utmost importance to all classes of society,
but connected throughout by a chain of such close reason-
ing, as to preclude any opinion founded on mere Newspaper
extracts. To be understood, it must be read entire ; and
the only mode of conveying the substance of its contents to
those who have not seen it, is by giving the heads Of the
chapters, which are-1. Definitions-2. Political Orga-
nization of American Society-3. American Society a
Dynasty of Opinion-4. Comparative View of American
Religious Sects-5. Political Character of Religion-
6. Political Character of American Religion-7. Ame-
rican Abolitionism in a False Position—ii. American Abo-
litionism a Crusade-9. Effect of the Abolition Movement
in America-10. Real and Comparative Condition of
American Slavery-11. How can American Slavery be
Disposed of ?-12. Church and State—The American
Voluntary System-13. American Fanaticism-14. The
American Constitutional Party and the Democracy—Daniel
Webster and Henry Clay-15. The Jackson Dynasty-
-16. The Canadian Rebellion : with a vast number of Notes
explanatory of these, and a variety of other subjects con-
nected with America—its Constitution—Religion—Pros-
pects, &c. From this table of contents it will be seen
that this work particularly recommends itself to the think-
ing portion of all classes of the political and religious
world of Great Britain. Upon the latter especially it has
claims of no ordinary nature, as the expositions and state-
ments as to religion in America are of the most important
and interesting description. The chapter on Canada is
also conclusive at the present crisis.

BREACH OF ENGAGEMENT.--Thursday, a
farmer fell in with a servant girl whom he had feed a con-
siderable t'me ago at Glasgow, and to whom he had given
cries, but who had never come to fulfil her engagement.
He called in the police to apprehend her, but they did not
consider that this lay in their province, and declined to in-,
terfere. The crowd around interfered on the opposite side,
and rescued the girl. The farmer was thus unsuccessful
either in recovering his money, or punishing the servant for
')reach of contract. —Scots Times,