The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-18 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Fen. 16—At a congregation on Wednesday last, the
following degrees were conferred :
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Edward 011ivant, Trinity College; Hans
Busk, Trinity College; Charles John Bayley, Trinity College;
Bruce Skinner, Trinity College; George Aug. Addison, Trinity
College ; Thomas Evans, St: John's College; John Peers Parry, St.
John's College; Henry Smith Anders, Caius College; William
Henry Glover, Corpus Christi College ; John Gibson, Catherine
Hall; Alexander John Rogers, Jesus College; Leigh Spencer,
Christ's College; Osman Park Vincent, Magdalene College; Chas.
Badham, Emmanuel Collage; William Keown, Emmanuel College;
William George Tucker, Emmanuel College.
On Monday last Joseph Clark, 8.A., of Christ's College, in this
University, was elected a Fellow of that Society, on the Finch and
Baines Foundation.

The Rev. Jenkin Hughes has been presented to the vicarage of
Alconbury, Hunts. _ _ .

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Arthur Moore,
M.A., to the rectory of Walpole St. Peter, Norfolk, and diocese of
Norwich, void by the death of the Rev. William Chester.
The ltev. Richard Ward, of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, has been
instituted by the Lord Bishop of Ely. to the valuable living of Bran.
don-curn-Wangford, Suffolk, on the presentation of George St Vin-
cent Wilson, Esq.. of Redgrave Hall.
On Wednesday week the Rev. Edm. Teller Yates, M.A., was in-
stituted to the vicarage of Ayl.ham, Norfolk, on the presentation of
the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
On the same day the Rev. Samuel Titlow, M.A., was instituted
to the Rectory of St. Peter's Hungate, Norwich, on the presentation
of the Queen.
The Rev. Dr. Buckland has announced to the governors his in.
tention of resigning the head.mastership of Uppingham school at
Midsummer next.

At an ordination held in the cathedral of Worcester on Friday
week, the following gentlemen of this University were ordained,
Deacons :—G. E. L. Cotton, 8.A., Fellow of Trinity college ; F. S
Green, 8.A., Cahn College; G. M. Barrow, 8.A., Trinity college.
We observe that the Times, Standard, and other London papers
have been hoaxed this week by a pretended account of certain de_
grees of B.A. said to have been conferred Feb. 10, ( Sunday). The
counterfeit list contained 46 names ; and what object the writer
could have had in imposing it upon the public we cannot possibly
divine.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—The Rev. John Lonsdale, B D., has
been appointed Principal of the College, in the room of the late
Rev. Hugh James Rose. A subscription has been entered into, on
the part of the principal, professors, masters, and students, for the
purpose of erecting a testimonial in the College Chapel, commemo_
rative of their sincere regard for the late head of the institution, of
their deep respect for his ardent piety and varied attainments, and
of their grateful sense of his unceasing solicitude to promote the in-
terests of the establishment.

Mr. T. Steele, as a Brussels correspondent of
the Temps informs us, has arrived there with an offer in the name
of Mr. O'Connell, to put a complete Irish regiment al the service of
the Belgian Government; a proposition upon which some negocia.
lions are going on with the Catholic members of the Resistance
party in that capital. Mr. Steele is a well-known adherent of Mr.
SUBMARINg VOLCANO.-011 the 27th of
September, the ship Claudine, from 1-lavre, being on the open sea,
in 31 deg. 41 min. north latitude, and 44 deg. 30 min. west longi-
tude, her crew felt a revere shock of earthquake, which lasted three
quarters of an hour, by which the ship was violently agitated : two
others less strong, then succeeded, interrupted by smaller shocks at
intervals of from five to six seconds, frequently repeated. The
noise accompanying each resembled that of thunder. The weather
was fine and clear, and the sea tranquil, which did not app: ar to re-
ceive any peculiar impression. On the 9th ol the following October
three small shocks were again felt at two in the afternoon, in 27 deg.
37 min. north latitude, and 31 deg. 7 min. west longitude,
FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Saturday, between
seven and eight o'clock, a poor man, named James Jones' was
crossing Boston-fields, Regent's-park, where there are gravel-pits in
which the scavengers deposit the slush from the streets, when the
unfortunate man, supposing it to be firm ground,
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over, and sunk instantly over his head. B
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