The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 22.—This being the first day of Act
Term, a Congregation was holden for granting Degrees,
&c., when the following were conferred
MASTERS OF ARTS.—The Rev. J. Puckle, Brazennose
College; Andrew Nugee, ditto • the Rer. A. Matthews,
Lincoln College; the Rev. R. Eden, Christ Church
(Grand Compounder); the Rev. W. H. Brandreth, ditto;
the Rev. A. 1 orradaile, ditto ; Stephen Barney, Exeter
College; R. H. Ingram, Worcester College ; the Rev.
J. Davies, Jesus College ; the Rev. E. W. Davies, ditto ;
H. Jones, ditto ; the Rev. David Roberts, ditto ; John
W. Roberts, ditto; and John Wickens, Balliol College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—James Wickens, Christ Church ;
Edward Clayten, ditto ; W. Linwood, ditto ; Edward
Dukes, ditto ; J. B. Windsor, ditto; J. H. A. Harries,
Trinity College ; Jenner Marshall, Worcester College ;
H. W. Sullivan, Balliol College ; W. G. Duncan, Wad-
ham College; J. L. Sheppard, ditto; W. E. Alifree,
ditto ; Thomas Mayhew, Queen's College; Richard Cress-
well, St. John's College; F. Iremonger, Pembroke Col-
lege ; M. J. Johnson, Magdalen Hall ; E. Curtis, ditto ;
and E. Hill, St. Edmund's Hall.

Days appointed for granting Degrees, &c., during the
present Term :—Thursday, May 30 ; Thursday, Jur,e 6 ;
Friday, June 14; Friday, June 21; Thursday, June 27;
and Saturday, July 6.

PRISON DISCIPLINE.—On Monday, at the
Central Criminal Court, a man named Phillips was con-
victed of stealing a cloak. In his defence he alleged that
he had been imprisoned previously, and that in consequence
of that imprisonment no one would employ him. He was
destitute, and had a wife and two children to support, who
wanted bread, and he stole the cloak to procure some for
them. This appeared from evidence to be the fact, and
the Recorder, after passing a sentence of transportation
for seven years, said it was unfortunate the prisoner could
get no employment, but he could not overlook the fact of
a previous conviction. He observed to the jury that the
late improvements in prison discipline were doubtless do'ng
much good, but that he feared the benefit was wholly con-
fined to the interior of those places ; at any rate it would
never tend to reclaim the prisoner micas some means were
devised to provide for him when discharged from custody.
When the poor wretch convicted of crime had endured the
period of punishment and was turned upon the world j oi-
niless, the feeling of the public was averse to employing
him, and the consequence was that he was often actually
driven into vice from being unable otherwise to procure
the means of existence.

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SUICIDE IN HYDE PARK.—On Wednesday
forenoon the body of a respectably-dressed female, about
twenty-four years of age, was discovered in the Serpentine
River by one of the Royal Humane Society's men. With
some difficulty it was brought on land. and taken to the
it
receiving-house: when a surgeon was instantly sent for,
but from the opinion of that gentleman it appeared that
life had been extinct for several hours. An inquiry was
set on foot, and after some trouble it was ascertained that
the deceased's name was Eliza Hartley.

Thus it is not intended that the Treasury shall pre-
scribe, or even suggest, the plans for the building, or
impose upon the Trustees any course of proceeding,
whereby the cost of it may be made to exceed the sum
of 150,0001., which the Trustees have engaged to devote
to it ; it being also clearly understood that all the plans
and estimates, although subject to the approval of the
Treasury, before any of the said works shall be under-
taken, are to be framed in the first instance under the
authority and by the directioa of the Trustees.
Up,n the subject of this difference of opinion, your
Committee, on the one hand, examined Mr. Jones on
the part of Cie Gresham Trustees, and, on the other
hand, received explanations from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, a member of the Committee, on behalf of
the Treasury, in addition to the information contained in
the papers on this subject prit,ted by order of the House;
and your Committee are enabled, by the result of these
proceedings, to acquaint the House, with much satisfac-
tion, that the difficulties created by this diversity of opi-
nion have been wholly removed.
The parties in the City connected with the Gresham
Trust have, by resolutions printed in the minutes of evi-
dence, declared their willingness to conform to that
which has been stated to them as being the unanimous

CITY POLICE.—The rascally Aldermen of Lon-
don, with the Lord Mayor at their tail, are going to make
war on Queen Victoria, because her Ministers want to take
away a few of their rotten absurdities, which they call pri-
vileges. Vicsoria wants to establish a general system of
police for the City of London to pick up drunken Alder-
men out of the gutter—and she shall have her own way, if
we can help her to it. All the locofocos are now savagely
in favour of the virgin Queen, since she is to give us a alien
of New Brunswick.—New York Morning Herald.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN FRANCE.--
Most of the journals in the west of France represent the
crops to be in a promising state. In the Ille et Vilaine
in particular the hay and eats will be very abundant.
The late cold weather and hail storms have destroyed
mush of the hope given by the flattering appearance of the
apple blossoming.
PROCESSION OF THE us.--The procession
of the mail-coaches, which took place annually on
ti
g•wai't b andon
Sovereign's birthday, forming, perhaps, the mast
spirit-stirring exhibition of the day, was disunptelsoedr
Thursday, for the first time within the
oceasiontAl. by t trans-
existing generation. The omission is accounted foYfitbliy the
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