The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-03 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE I.—ln a Convocation holden this day
University teal was affixed to a letter of thanks to Mrs. Sltr,
land, of Marrow, in the county of Surrey, for her magnificent
of 18.700 prints and drawings, being an illustret7
of Clarendon's and Burnet's histories,
in 61 volumes, to D
o,
placed in the Bodleian Library. The following is a copy 1
the letter sent to that lady on the part of the University :—"
M,
y,
"To Mrs. Sutherland, of Alerrovv, in the county Sarre;'
of S
" Madam,—We, the Chancellor, Masters,And Scholar'
u.
the University of Oxford, feel ourselves called upon
knowledge, in a public and formal manner, the sple:lditi
tion recently made by you to our Bodleian Library.
" It is doubtless a source of much gratification to us, that,
our University should have been selected by you as the fitto!
depositocy of so valuable a collection ; but we are not, on tits;
account, less disposed to appreciate and admire the feeling
which has led you to make so considerable a sacrifice, and to
relinquish the possession of what has been to you for many
years an object of constant interest and occupation.
" We shall prize the matchless volumes about to be t,.)51•
mitted to our care, not merely as being eltbellish.l kith the
richest specimens of the graphic art, but as Pc''sesing a real
historical character—as enhancing, in no slight degree, thl
value of works which we have long been accustomed to rei;gra
o t
as most important contributions the annals and literat:are of
our country.
" Given at our House of Convocation, under our votrii"
seal, this Ist day of June, in the year of our Lord 1837."
In the same Convocation, the nomination of the Rev. Sam.'"
Wilberforce, M.A., of Oriel College, to succeed to the office
uf select preacher, at Michaelmas next, the place of theßev.
Rev. George Robert Gleig, M. A., of College, resigned'
was unanimously agreed to.
In a Congregation holden the same day the following de"
grees were conferred
MASTERS OF ARTS.-1-lenry Hall, Student of Christchurch ;
Rev. George Eden Peake, Magdalen-hall ; Evelyn PPiiii)
Shirley, Magdlien College ; Rev. Charles Powell Peter''
Queen's College; Rey. Francis Jones, Oriel College;
Richard Ward, Oriel College.ll3 coullEeLgoett;s
JohnoAsapTes.n—ceTr Iptehoidlioilr)es, William
Exeter
Hatsell, Oriel College; Frederick Menzies, Scholar of Dra-
sennose College ; Cosby Thomas Nesbitt, Brasennose
Col-
lege ; Henry James Gore, Postmaster of Merton College.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE !3.--At a Congregation on WednesuAY
last the following degrees were conferred : College; n a,Bma el
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MASTER OF ARTS.
Rev. Forster Maynard, Caius College.
BACHELORS IN THE CIVIL LAW.
Rev. Charles Chichester, Downing College.
William M. R. Haggard, Trinity Hall. •
BACMILOR IN PHYSIC.
William Augustus Guy, Pembroke College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.
Francis W. Raves, Caius College.
At the same congregation the following Graces passed the
Senate.
To affix the seal to a conveyance of the piece of gr",
which it was agreed, by a grace passed Nov. 2, 1336, to giro
the Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, in part, for otherllo
ground to be conveyed by them to to the University for the
enlargement of the site of the Fitzwilliam Museum. To confirm the Report of the Fitzwilliam Syndicate, dated
the 24th ult. (and inserted in our paper of last week.)
Proctor
To appoint Mr. Shaw, of Sidney College, Deputy
in the absence of Mr. Martin.
The Rev. John Stoddart, D. D., late Fellow of dial
Hall, in this University, has been instituted by the Bishop
London, to the Vicarage of New Brantford, Middlesex, 13,
cant by the death of the Rev. Sir Robert Peat, on tits Pri/e
sentation of the Rev. Dr. Walmisley, Rector of 1-lan'e
and Rural Dean of the Diocese.
The Rev. John Weller, B. D., Senior Fellow of Emma-
nuel College, in this University, has been presented to t,",.
Rectory of North Luffenham, in the county of Rutland
Patrons, the Master and Fellows of that Society.
On the 23d ult., the Rev. Philip William Ray 105 x
p,
ducted into the Rectory of Creensted junta Organ, E65-iie
on the collation of the Lord Bishop of London, under t
will of the Rev. Dr. Pratt.
Tho Rev. George Malim has been instituted in the livier:
of Higharn Ferrers and Chelveston cum Caldecott, 11'46h
amptonshire, on the presentation of Earl Fitzwilliam.

IN RH ELIZA LUCY VESTRIS'S BANKRUPT/
—Yesterday morning at an early hour the Court was crowded,
it being the day appointed for the last examination of s'
bankrupt. " The curious" were, however, disappointed 1
their expectations of catching a glance of this celebrated meta'e
ber of the corps draniatique, for they had not been long wail' re
in the Court and avenues loading thereto, before they. we ,
acquainted that the fiat had been superseded last evenings ;
composition of .ss. in the pound having been accepted by the
creditors, and the notice of the supersedeas would appear
the Gazette last night.
A melancholy accident occurred at Castletownshencla'
in this county, on Wednesday. There was an auction, ea
f
among the visitors was Mrs. Bushe, the lady of the Rev. i'r.
`
Bushe, the Rector, and daughter-in-'aw of the Chief Jus;re„
:
of the King's Pench. The heat becoming oppressive, Mr;.
Busho left the room for the purpose of enjoying the freshati
outside, and while walking on the pier her foot is supposed e
sa.
have slipped, and she fell into the water- and was drowned'
The lady was found a few hours after, and her melancholystabin'
has excited deep sympathy among all who have heard it. has left three children to mourn the loss of an amiable an",
ex-
cellent mother.—Cork Paper.
DUBLIN, MAY 29.—The Master of the l;°115
to-day pronounced an important decision. His Honour
,de-
cided, under the 3d and 4th of William IV., cap. 27, that trici
42d section of that Act did not apply to the judgments ; r
that, therefore, creditors could recover snore than ix yelal
interest on their judgments. This decision is of great
portance here.
Between one and two o'clock yesterday afternooot
Henry Plowman, a fine youth, betwee n 14 and 15 years
.lt
of
the son of Mr. Plowman, carpenter and builder,of No. j
Thomas-street, Grosvenor-square, was sky larking on a 9'sis
folding; erected in front of a house in Dean-street, S°ll-r
when he stopped on the end of a plank placed too far o",j
the putlog, and it tilting up with him,
_he was precipitarh
from the first floor on the spikes of the area railing, on oh e
he became literally impaled, one of them having entered t
back part of his left thigh s
hi,
, a second slightly perforated !Is
hip, and a third entered the left shoulder in a slanting direction
to the depth of nearly three inches. He was removed th"
great difficulty, and although hopes are entertained of his 1°
tiniate recovery, it is greatly feared that amputation of the 4
will become indispensable.
At the meeting yesterday of the Parliamentary Cor:
mitten on the Portland Cemetry Company's Bill, it was
ceded, upon the motion of Mr. Wakley, that Primrose-
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shall not be used for the purpose of the Cemetery, tithe n
other object, by which the public shall be deprived of it
I-
free access to it. A special clause was also agreed to, pr or
biting the vale of Hampstead-heath, or any portion thereof,
,
any of the waste lands, for the purposes of the CompanY.
On Friday last a woman named Reynolds, betweent
fifty and sixty years of age, the wife of a labouring nu' is
Sslling, committed suicide by hanging herself to a beam
the washhouse. Her son-in-law, a youth about eleven Yeher
of age, returned home to dinner about noon, and found ps
suspended to the beam. He loosened the cord, and Ws
his father, but the poor boy was so alarmed at the
circum,t2oed
that he was unable to speak, and it has so seriously lareo,-,
him, that be is not expected to recover.—Kent Hera!it
This day is the anniversary of the death of .vr.
.r.
William Harvey, who died in 1657, the discoverer of thebc:3,
culation of the blood. He was born in Folkstone in 1
olio
and published his important discovery in 1620. Before
els ,
time it was universally believed that the arteries or veseg,
through which the blood passes did not contain blood at d
to
but only air, mud indeed the word artery was o:iginally
signify the windpipe, or air tube.
was fed with blood entirely through 'tiftevebiondsy,
at last to the heart, where it was in some way or other
the
'orbed or drunk up. Harvey lived many years to enP,Y,e sd
glory of his discovery, dying at Hempstead, in Essex, l"
of June, in the 81st year of his age.
Poo°
The village at which the Vauxhall Nassau 13a .es
descended was Wormshill, in and not Wormslev, se`ri-d
stated, and where the wronatits experienced a most "n Nev.
hospitable reception from the inhabitants, particularly th
It. Dolling, at whosel:ouse Mr. Green and two of the' gea.oo,
men took supper and passed the night. The village 'e withisc.laiscati;riuealbit,
poured forth its whole population, male and female, boo
meter
assisting in securing and packing the balloon. The barto
fel to 24 inches 2 -10ths, g an altitude of about
feet, The lowest point of the mercury in the tiler!!
The
was 30 inches, being two degrees below freezing. v
the "a'
rents cn Tuesday last were precisely the same as 0' ja
of the Continental savage. Toe balloon leaving Vauxhall an
an Easterly direction, and reaching the upper curreisti
elevation of about 5,000 feet, proceeding South-east as fa
Maidstone. When descending, the aeronauts found
once more in the Westerly wind, which had, howevetir)%ebeellioe
rasher more South-west than it was whet, they starte•
alloon would have gone to ace at Faversham in about
e_ornrs,
mi lutes, and have arrived over the Dutch coast in flve ",
On the night of die 17th of April a wheat,sta stacks
On the night of die 17th of April a wheat
orfoWJ
b- longing to Mr. C. Lemon, farmer, in Shouldham,
was maliciously destroyed by fire, and a stable and crit..4.. or
in the same parish, containing five tumbrils and a v.ae-__,(iolo
other farming implements, were also set fire to,o'
of the iraperty destroyed. A reward of 100/. for tl d 1
pro-
very of the incendiary has been offered, payable in etle%tio.
portions by Mr. Lemon and the Norwich Union Asso
tri_
We rt gret to announce the death of Mr. _
event
Lavelle, the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal,.:nt.
wideh took pace (after a !o ;g illness) on Sunday
butls not *
L tvelle was a zealous, effective, and intelligent,
belie" thed "f.
and the
blind and bigoted supporter of his party ; and we
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journal over which he presided was the oaly
°Lector had t
o
advocating the same line of politics, whose on.
nail), to C;
manliness to differ from, and the courage occasionally
prio,e
sure the course pursued by Mr. O'Connell.
Mr. Lavelle was a mild, amiable, and
as an adversary, we always found him (and 1
sta'i
qucettyt.
so to express ourselves) a fair, manly, and
forward opponent.--Dublin Evening Post.
chOlcott
The table at Fontainebleau upon
signed his Act of Al:dieation is the same upon w the lo_
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d
cress Helena will also be signed. What a.
a'_____rbirnse
tlO
tract of marriage between the Duke of OrleaLibtaarainn.e Pl;f:Part
e
that
leon—who saw the end of one Duke of o,r,lfe ni
Emperor and en exile, gone ! The
be tha" We'
q2cup;es the throne of Napoleon, and be w
.ropir.:
where 64 1/4
name is a brideirogra a the table w
away.
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