The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-19 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Nor. 111.—On Thursday last the following
Degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts—Rev. John Harvey Ashworth, University
College, Grand Compounder ; James Garbett, Queen's ; Rev.
Charles Champnes, Alban Hall ; Robert John Bell, Oriel.
Bachelors (!f* Artr—John B. llirtwhistle, Lincoln, Grand
Compounder ; William 'l'ahourdin, FelloW of New College;
Frederick Williamson, Christ Church; Thomas Alban, Wor-
miter ; C. W. C. Baker, Balliol ; Charles Des Voeux, Oriel.
Bachelor of Music—Alfred Bennett, New College.
ECCLESIASTICAL. PnErErtstExTs.—The Rev. Edward
Coleridge, B.A. Fellow of Exeter College, is presented to the
Rectory of Monksilver, in the county of Somerset, vacant by
the death of the Rev. Win. Walker.—Patrons, the Dean and
Canons of Windsor.
The Earl of Carlisle has appointed the Rev. Dr. Crane, of
Wadharn College, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic
Chaplains.
The Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden, to the Living of Hefting-
fordbury, vacant by the decease of Dr. Ridley ; and the Rev.
White, Minister of Welheck Chapel, 31arylebone, and
Curate of Crayford, Kent, to the Rectory of St. Andrew's,
llertfOrd, also vacant through Dr. Ridley's death ; patron, Lord
Bexley.
The Rev. William Waters' M.A. Rector of Gunsby, to the
Living of Rippingale, Lincoln, vacant by resignation of the
Rev. C. Douglas ; patron, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart.
The Rev. John Edwards, M.A. to the Rectory of Finning.
ham, Suffolk ; patron, the Right Honourable John Hookham
Frere.

The Rev. T. Kilby, Minister of Alverthorpe, Yorkshire, to
the Perpetual Curacy of Saint John's Church, Wakefield ;
patron, the Rev. S. Shay), A.M.
The Rev. Henry Wetherell, A.M. Rector of Thruxton and
Kentchurch, Herefordshire, has been appointed by the Lord
Chancellor to the Prebendal Stall in Gloucester Cathedral,
vacant by the demise of the Rev. Dr. Ridley.

SUPERSTITION.—Who would have thought that
SHERIDAN was superstitions? or Madame STottAcE ? Vet
such, we learn from Kelly's Reminiscences, was the fact—
Madame Storace fell a sacrifice to superstition. She was taken
suddenly ill at Mr. Kelly's, in the presence of a medical gen-
tleman, who advised her to be bled. The next day Doctor
Hooper wished to bleed her, but she refused, because it was
Friday ; and, in consequence of the delay, lost her life. " No
power," says Mr. Kelly, " could prevail upon Mr. Sheridan
to commence any business, or set out upon a journey, on a
Friday, nor would he allow, if he could possibly avoid it, a
piece to be produced on a Friday."

REMARKABLE EXECUTION.--The Franklin
Malone Tefri,Proph, an American Paper, gives the following
account of the execution of Stephen Videts, for the murder of
Mrs. Fanny illosely. The Telemraph says—" That while un-
der the fatal tree a paper was read at his request, in which he
asserted his innocence in the following terms t-4 With regard
to the crime for which I this day suffer, I have only to remark,
that lam perfectly innocent. By whose hand the unfortunate
Fanny Mosely wa. deprived of life, I do not know, but I say it
was not mine, neither was I accessary to it, neither was I aware
of the approach of that unhappy event, but at the time was fear-
ful of the designs upon my own life.' A short time after, the
rope was fastened to the beam, and thecap drawn over his face,
he still persisting in his innocence, the drop tell ; but, unfortu-
tunately, the knot drew over his chin in such a manner as not
entirely to stop his breath, nor the circulation of the vital fluid.
In this dreadful situation he struggled for several minutes in the
agonies of death. The paper containing his protestations of in-
nocence he had declared his intention of holding in his right
hand when yielding up his life. This paper he changed from
his left to his right hand, when he had hung two or three mi-
nutes, and waved it to the multitude with apparent design."

A public meeting of the citizens of Bristol
(says the Bristol Gazette of Wednesday, the 16th instant), is
to be held on \VednesdaY next, to take into consideration the
deplorable calamity which. has occurred in New Brunswick,
by a desolating fire at Miramichi, with a view to raise a public
subscription, to alleviate the sufferings of our fellow-subjects
on that calamitous occasion.