The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-18 00:00:00

THE GRENADIER GUARDS.

Sunday morning, early, arrived the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company's steamer Ripon, with the 3d battalion
Grenadier Guards on board.

Colonel Wood, Lieut.-Colonels Hood, Cox, Hon. G.
Cadogan, Brownrigg, and Pakenham ; Captains his Serene
Highness Prince William Augustus Edward de Saxe
Weimar, Munro, Higginson (adjutant), Rowley, Sir R. L.
Newman, Bart., Binglock, Burnaby, Cameron, and Sir
Charles Russell, Bart. ; Lieuts. Burgoyne, Viscount Bal-
gonie, Sturt, Verschoyle, Bathurst, Turner, Davies, and
Anstruther ; Quartermaster Lilley, Surgeon Huthwaite,
Assistant-Surgeon Wardrop ; Gut non•connuissioned offi-
cers and men, and 14 women.

The Ripon had six horsed on board.
THE 50TH REGIMENT.

On Monday, the Cambria arrived, having on board the
gallant 50th, whose services in the last war in India, in
which they served with the 9th and 63d, and several offi-
cers attached to regiments already in the garrison, have
added no small amount of honour to their already well-
recorded deeds of glory, as Ferozeshah, Sobraon, ttc:, will
immortally record.
The following is the strength arrived :
Majors Waddy and Wilton ; Captains Moller, Framp-
ton, Hibbert, Galton, and Lock ; Lieutenants Hepden,
Tupper, White, Dashwood, Mangles, Murchison (adjutant),
Lane, and Macfarlane ; Ensigns Thompson, Hickman, An-
trobus, and Clarke ; Quartermaster Robert Fortune ; Sur-
geon A. H. Cowen ; Assistant-Surgeon G. E. Noott. Non-
commissioned officers and men, 687, and 25 women.
THE 93D HIGHLANDERS, AND THE RIFLES AND SAPPERS

[PRICE SD.

THE BELGIAN GIRL'S CASE.

Yesterday, at the Westminster police-court, Adolphus
Feistel, alias 'Harrison, and Alexander Desaux, Lame
Leboucher's (alias Madame Denies) father, were'phteed at
the bar for final examination, charged,with the abduction
and detention of Alice Leroy, a Belgian girl, -1,6 years of
'age, for infamous purposes. -As on the previous occasions
the court Was densely crowded. '
Upon the prisoners being•brought in by the gaoler,
Mr. Arnold inquired • Whether there was any fresh
charge, and what:Course •t he counsel for (the presecution
intended to purslte respecting Alice Leroy's Case-?
Mr. Smythies, who ,appeared in lieu of 'Mr. Parry, said:
that he was not in a condition to proceed with any new
case, but proposed to strengthen the present chavm against
the prisoners by putting tho witness Elvire Cerekell into
the box and asking her two or three more questions. He
would then ask for the committal of the accused, first,
under the Bishop of Oxford's Act, 12th and 13th Victoria,
c. 17, to prevent the defilement of women ; for an attempt
to commit the offence under that statute, every attempt
to commit a misdemeanour„ being in itself a inisdemea-

nour ; secondly, with a conspiracy to attempt that offence ;
and, thirdly, for assaulting Alice Leroy and Elvire Corckell
by the false imprisonment of both, which'had been proved.
For any offence under the Bishop of Oxford's Act the
court had power to refuse

Mr. Arnold having expressed an opinion that there
might be some doubts whether the law would reach Ma-
dame Denis under the Bishop of Oxford's Act, for pro-
curing by false pretences, although a false pretence was
used by Harrison, although no difficulty arose under the
common law. With respect to the question of receiving
bail, which he presumed would be pressed by Mr. Morgan
for the defendants 2 he would hear any argument upon
that subject, and dispose of it after the case was com-
pleted.
Elvire Cerckell was then re-sworn, and examined by Mr.
Smythies respecting what had occurred after the escape of
Alice Leroy from Madame Denis's house, in Denbigh-ter-
race, where it will be remembered that- he girl Elvire and
her mother were locked up for some hours in the kitchen,
until they broke a window and called out to some persons
passing, which induced madame, for fear of exposure, to
release them. Witness said she wanted to go to the post
with a letter to her sister, but was prevented by Madame
Denis, M. Denis, Desaux, and Harrison, who were present,
and ho said that Alice had taken away some pieces of
gold with her, and that they (witness and her mother)
should not go till they were found. Harrison said it as
well as the others, and detained them.
In cross-examination by Mr. Morgan, witness said she
was then in the passage, but the street door was locked.
They were afterwards locked up down stairs, during which
the parties she had named came up and down calling them
bad names. Witness's mother said she would not stop.
Witness and her mother had some time previously been
left in charge of Madame Denis's house, during her
absence.
Mr. Morgan—Was not your father in the habit of com-
ing there, and did not madame give him money?
Witness—Dat is no business with dis. (Much laughter.)
The voluminous depositions of Alice Leroy (translated by
M. Albert), and the other witnesses, the whole of which
have been before published, having been read over.
Mr. Arnold inquired of Harrison whether he wished to
say anything ?
Harrison replied—" I shall reserve my defence."
Mr. Morgan addressed the court at great length on be-
half of Desaux, and contended that there was nothing,
whatever in the evidence to support the charges men-
tioned by Mr Smythies against him. Tb ere was nothing
to lead the mind to the construction that le was concerned
in attempting to commit an offence under the Bishop of
Oxford's Act, that he had conspired to commit, or that he
Iliad been guilty of any assault or false imprisonment. There
was no evidence more than that he was living upon the
lweinty of his daughter in her house, doing what she re-
cruested. At most, it merely went to his saying that his
daughter did not wish the girl to go to the window, or that
she would be displeased at acts contrary to her request.
There was no indication of his participating in any of the
aU eged guilty practices going on in the house. Upon the
charge of attempting to defile, the greater part of what
now appeared upon the depositions would really not be evi-
dence at all, and it was only shaping the charge as conspi-
rac. that rendered it admissable. There was an assumption
of guilt endeavoured to be put upon Desaux on general
evid enco, and he solicited his release now,, and considered
that he had no right to have been apprehemded.
Mr.. Arnold—There is no evidence, Mr. Morgan, that he
lived upon the bounty of his daughter.
Mr. Morgan—He did nothing in the hoc se but drink and
walk about.
Mr. Arnold—And look after the girls, Dr.r. Morgan, (A
laugh.) The evidence goes to show that ithey were eight
Alice
takingeLero n activey'asescape,part in
because
!!t ch. rse wa
proved before T. issued a war-
rant
Mr. Morgan having repeated that his client Desaux was
hedays
detaining wasf borenfir upon
ehnae theypt ghpireerlhs could
we t a
iti e
merely paying blind obedience to the orders of' his daughter,
Mr. Arnold expressed his conviction that the evidence
went to prove an actual assault upon the part. of Desaux.
The acts specifically imputed to him were prErventing her
going to the windows and out of the house, and it would be
for a jury to say whether these acts were done innocently
and whether he did not know full well what was going on
in the house- If the evidence was correct, lie was taking
a part in the common purpose of keeping Alice Leroy in
the house.

Mr. Morgan then addressed himself on the subject of
bail, and contended that his client had a right in law to it.
It was only left to a magistrates discretion to refuse bail
in cases where the expenses of the prosecution might be
paid out of the county rate, and this was clearly not a case
of that description.
Mr. Smythies contended that, as an offence under the
Bishop of Oxford's act, and as an assault, the expenses
might be so paid, and that would give the magistrate a
power to refuse. He pressed the matter iarmly, because
a Greek prince, and a marquis, and persons of condition
were frequenters of the establishment.
Mr. Arnold begged to remark that there was nothing to
show that they really had a right to such, titles. They
were merely called so at the house.

Mr. Smithies observed that it was at any rate quite
evident the frequenters were wealthy persons, who would
forfeit any amount of cash to stifle this inquiry, and he,
therefore, strongly urged the magistrate t., refuse to ac-
cept bail, as he felt that defendants would not be forth-
coming. _ _

Mr. Arnold said that the only question was whether the
law justified him in such a refusal, if it did so he did not
hesitate to say that he would refuse. With respect to the
argument used by Mr. Smythies, respecting the " at-
tempt," giving him a power to refuse bail, he found a great
difficulty, and considered the argument a fine and subtle
one, although he did not mean to apply that term
offensively. On the other ground upon which it had been
argued, he had a discretion to refuse bail, the assault and
false imprisonment, he thought there were distinct acts,
clearly amounting to false imprisonment, shown, and con-
sequently amounting to assaults. This w..as not only actual
restraint, but the restraint of intimidation, and looking
at the peculiar nature of the assaults, and of the discretion
given to him by law to refuse bail upon a committal for
assaults, he should refuse hail for the accused.
A burst. of applause from the auditory, which was
promptly checked by the officers of the court, followed
this announcement.

The prisoners were then committed to Newgate, to take
their trial, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
Since our last report Newmiuster has receded to 25 to
1 (offered) for Chester Cup, whilst Brown Brandy has
advanced to the same figure (taken). Baalbec was also
in force. For the Northampton Stakes Lamprocles and
Defiance were the only horses
iin much favour. Jona-
than Martin and Virago was n great demand for the
Metropolitan. There was no change worthy of notice
for either Great Northern, 2,000, or Derby. Latest
prices : •

WILLOUGHBY HANDICAP (WARWICK.)
sto 4on Mr. Moseley's Bourton.
WARWICKSHIRE HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Cleveland (taken).
6to 1 agst Buttress colt (taken.)
7to 1 agst Communist (taken).
Sto 1 agst Selina (taken.)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
6to 1 agst Lamprocles (taken).
7to 1 agst Defiance (taken).
12 to 1 agst Red Lion (offered).
12 to 1 agst Marc Antony (offered.)
14 to 1 agst Kingston (taken).
20 to 1 agst Chief Justice (taken).
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
Sto 1 agst Aquila (taken). 4, _
20 to 1 agst Defiance (taken).
„y; t,
.It
METROPOLITAN.
9to 1 agst Jonathan Martin (taken).
11 to 1 agst Virago (taken).
14 to 1 agst Ariosto (taken).
16 to 1 agst Rataplan (taken).
20 to 1 agst Annie Sutherland (taken).
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Newminster (offered).
25 to 1 agst Brown Brandy (taken).
30 to 1 agst Tom (taken).
40 to 1 agst Baalbec (taken).
2,000 GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Boiardo (taken to 801.)
4to 1 agst Ruby (offered).
10 to 1 agst First Lord (taken).

.r,ACC
~a,

DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Dervish (taken).
13 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken).
20 to 1 agst Marsyas (taken).
30 to 1 agst Andover (taken).
40 to 1 agst Bessus (taken).
RACING FIXTU

MA

War ck Spring 21
Catterick

Croxton Park 4
Epsom Sprirr, 6
Cheltenham Spring' lt
Newmarket Craven 17

Newmarket F S
Chester Spring 9
Lothians& Edinburgh 11
Newmarket S S l6
Shrewsbury l3
NOYE

Epsout Autumn 2

RES FOR 1854.
,CH.
Northampton 99
Abergavenny 30

,IL.
Catteriek Bridge l9
Abergavenny 2O
York Spring 25
Malton 97
Y.
Lothians and EdinburghlB
Luwes l9
Bath 23
Liverpool Hunt Spring 24
Epsom 30
(BER.

Cowbridge Hunt 8

The suspense of the Universities is at • •
night Lord John Russell, in a speedi of grelakral ,
introduced to the house the Ministerialoneasure for .425
good government of Oxford and the colleges therein.
That we may at once ,relieve all anxiety on the main
subject, and convey in the fewest possible words the
most satisfactory of all assurances' to our academical
readers, we may - simply state that, oil the first day of
October term next, heads of houses, as University go-
vernors, will cease to exist, and that Oxford" will once
again be a great and free 'seminary of learning: The
scope of the bill is so wide, its peovisions so, searching,
and all its details so full of interest,, that we proceed
without further preamble to place 'its substance before
the public.
First, as to the constitution of the University,-so long
corrupted and degraded. It is proposed 'to establish or
revive a certain assembly„ to be termed Congregation--
this Congregation is to elect a Council, and to this Coun-
cil are to be trairsfeired; on the first ;lay of next Michael-
mas term, "all the potversrprivileges, and functions now
possessed or exercised V, the. Ilettdornsdal. Board." The
general reader will remember that this Board, heretofore
the governing body of the University, wAs • composed
exclusively, or, at least, with the exception (if two seats
assigned to the Proctors of the Heads of Colleges or
Halls. For this body is now to be substituted the Coun-
'eil, which Council, instead of originating in the accidents
of college office, is to be periodically elected by the mem.
hers of Congregation Congregation' being an as-
seinbly of notables taken from Convocation, or, in
richer words, front the academical community at large,
If Convocation elected the Congregation, then the con-
stitution would simply depend upon election in a double
degree ; but this is not the ease. The members of Con.
gregation are created by certain prescribed qualifications,
which will be found to include the following persons :-
1. The High Steward.
2. Heads of Colleges and Halls.
3. Canons of Christ Church.
4. The Proctors.
5. The Depnty-Steward, the Public Orator, the
Keeper of the Archives, the Assessor, the Registrar,
the:University Counsel, the Librarians and Sub-Libra-
rians of the University Library, and the Keepers of the
University Museums (the two latter classes condition-
ally.)
5. The Professors, Public Readers, Prielectore, and
Assistant or Deputy-Professors.
7. The Public Examiners.
8. All members of the Council.
9. Tutors of Colleges and Halls, and other officers (or
one of such) engaged in the discipline of these societies.
10. All Masters of private Halls.

11. All residents who may have at any time been
qualified by the possession for three years or upwards of
any of the foregoing qualifications.

12. All non-residents who may have been so qualified
for 12 years.

13. All residents habitually engaged in the study of
some branch of learning or science.
14. All such persons as may, under conditions sped.
fled, be added to the abovementioned classes.

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Such is to be the constituency of Congregation, and
Congregation is to elect, as members of the iniversity
Council six Heads of Colleges or Halls, six Professors,
and six members of Convocation, being of not less than
five years' standing. To these are to be added, as
official members, the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, to-
gether with one Head of a College, and one Pro-
fessor appointed by the Chancellor, and one other Pro-
fessor always of the Theological Faculty, to be
elected separately as aforesaid. The Council, thus con-
sisting of 24 members, is to have the privilege of
framing statutes, to be promulgated in Congrega-
tion—Congregation having the power of discussion
in English, but not of moving amendments, except
previously, and by writing, on the first notification
of the measure. When this legislative machinery
has been established, the existing statutes of the
University will disappear, we presume, altogether, and
the government of Oxford will be administered in virtue
of these newly created powers, and according to the ne-
cessities developed by a fresh order of things. Such is
an outline of the University constitution.
For the reform of the collegiate foundations, the better
application of their revenues, the improvement of the
Fellowship system, and the extension of the University,
certain general regulations are to be enacted of the cha-
racter following :—All oaths directed against the dis-
closure of college matters, or the acceptance of college
changes, are to be abolished. All preferential claims
to college preferment arising from other circumstances
than those of personal qualifications are, with certain
exceptions, to be extinguished. Subject to these ex-
ceptions, all Fellowships and Scholarships are to
be open to the whole university, and filled up by public
examination. Fellowships are not to be made neces-
sarily terminable, but they are to be held as vacated
within one year from the time of election unless the
holder shall be resident for not less than 24 weeks in
each year, and shall be occupied during such period
either in tuition, or in the discharge of university or
parochial duties, or iu private study. Certain condi-
tions, however, are contemplated admitting of non-resi-
dence, and leave of absence may be given by the colleges
fur fixed purposes, and for periods not exceeding five
years in the whole. It appears, too, that after 21 years'
tenure of a fellowship on these terms the holder may
retire, as it were, upon two-thirds of his emolu-
ments, without being any longer bound by the fore-
going obligations. Of course, these arranrilithls afe
prospective, and do not affect existing interests. A re-
tention of preferential claims to Fellowships seems to be
still designed in favour of the lineal descendants of a
founder, and of the fielders of close Scholarships in Col-
leges where two or more close scholars can compete for
the appointment, and where one-half of the whole num-
ber of Fellowships shall be open. Scholarships, too,
may still, under certain conditions, be adjudged with re-
ference to birthplace, education at any school, indigence,
or membership of any College. All these exceptional
cases, however, are to be rigorously scrutinized.
In extension of the University system, it is to be
made allowable that any member of Convocation, being
of a certain standing to he hereafter determined, may be
licensed to open his own house, if within a mile and
a-half of the University, as a private Hall for the
reception of students, who are to be matriculated like
other students, without the necessity of being entered at
any existing Hall or College. As the Masters of these
,private Halls are to be members of Congregation, and
as their students are to be admitted to all the privileges
of the University, there is evidently room provided for
an unlimited extension of a academical, education.
Finally, and by way of bringing all these provisions into
practical and early operation, we learn that certain Com-
missioners are to be appointed for the purposes of the
act. The Colleges are then to be empowered to make
ordinances of their own, subject to the Commissioners'
approval, for the foundation of Professorships,
the opening of Fellowships, and other desirable ob-
jects, and the University is to enjoy the same discre-
tion with reference to the establishment of private Halls
and other arrangements ; but if such ordinances shall not
have been framed to the satisfaction of the Commis-
sioners by the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1855, the
Commissioners are to proceed to such work themselves.
The statutes thus made by the Commissioners, if ap-
' proved by her Majesty in Council, are to be laid be-
fore both Houses Of Parliament, and, unless an address
be presented against them from one house or other
within 40 days,lare to become statutes of the University
forthwith.
Our delineation of this important measure, though
necessarily imperfect, has extended to such a length as
to leave us little room for comment. That the bill has
been designed in a liberal spirit cannot be denied, and
the reader will at once discern that Oxford, thus reformed,
will offer much greater encouragement than before to
learning in general, will be accessible to a larger body
of students, and will be relieved in its internal govern-
ment from the preposterous domination of a class.
Some dissatisfaction will be created by the fact that six
places are still retained for this class in the University.
Council ; and some, misgivings, perhaps, may be el;
Bested by the triple machinery of the constitution. (-)
jections, too, will assuredly be entertained to the reten-
tion of preferential claims to appointments in a scheme
professedly founded on principles of freedom and compe-
tition ; but, as all these claims are to be submitted to
the inquiry and the ratification of the commissioners,
and are to be allowed only on special approval and under
conditions set forth, the effects of the anomaly may, per-
haps, be modified. —Times.

kci! UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Z;11('I

OXFORD, MARCH 16.
'ln a Convocation holden this morning at ten o'clock, the
nomination of the Rev. R. L. Cotton, D.D., provost of
Worcester College, to the of:cebeofaddeelleeggaatete of of a,caccooonunntets lien
the room of the late D. Richards ; the Rev. James Norris,
D.D., president of Corpus,
the room of the late Dr. Jenkyns ; and the Rev. Philip '
Bliss, D.C.L., principal of St. Mary Hall, to
be a delegate
of the press, in the room of the late Rev. Dr. Jenkyes, also
met with the approval of the house.
In the same Convocation the President of Corpus was
conferred on
the room
onthe
Rovo.f
decree of Convocation the .
appointed a commissionerrtansodfwbayo
thes
tdhee,rlaeete
oDfr.mnasatreirngtoofnA;
Charles Marryatt, 8.A., of Queen's College, who is now
engaged in clerical duties in Australia, which circumstance 1.
prevents him being per 8°11"11 present in the University.
At the same time the Rev. illiam Lionel Tollemache,
M.A., of Peter-house, Cambridge, rector of South Witham,
Lincolnshire, was admitted " Ad Eundem."
In a Congregation holden immediately afterwards, the
proposed alterations in Stat. Tit. xvii , and in Stat. Tit.
vi., and in Stat. Tit. ix., relative to the Responsion Exa-
mination, and to the First and Second Public Examination,
was promulgated.
In the same Congregation the following degrees were
conferred, viz. ;---
BACHELOR OF DIVINITY AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

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BY ACCUMULATION.
The Rev. Edward Hartopp Cradock, Principal of Brae
nom College, Canon of Worcester, Grand Compounder.

MASTER OF ARTS.
Henry Bagot Newton Lane, Strident of Christ Church.
'''f'
Rev. Owen Lloyd Williams, Jesus College.
Richard Marrack Rowe, Fellow of Exeter College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.

Edward Bromley, M;rton College.
Arthur Young Marshall, St. Mary Hall.
At the same tima the following gentlemen were nomi-
nated to be Examiners and Moderators for the ensuing
year :

EXAMINERS IN FIRST-CLASS SCHOOL.
Rev. H. S. Mansell, 8.D., St. John's College.
Rev. T. Chaffers, M.A., Brasenose College.

MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL.
Rev. G. W. Kitchen, M.A., Christ Church.

_
IN SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
James Adey Ogle, M.D., Trinity College.

IN SCHOOL OF MODERN HISTORY.
Rev. W. C. Lake, LA., Baliol College.

MODERATORS IN CLASSICAL SCHOOL.
Edward Paste, M.A., Oriel College.
Rev. R. Muckleston, M.A,, Worcester College.

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