The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-19 00:00:00

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, 31-tacit 13.—Tuesday last, in full convocation,
petitions were voted to both Houses of Parliament, praying that
the statutes now in force,
by which persons professing the
m-in Catholic religion arc precluded from holding certain offices,
and from sitting in Parliament, may not be repealed.
On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :
Bachelor Divinty—Rev. John Tucker, Fellow of C.C.C.
Master of Arts—Rev. Christopher Packe, of Worcester
College.
Bachelor of Arts.—Thomas Brandon Brett, Esq. Com-
moner of Ch. Ch. Grand Compounler.
On Saturday the 12th instant, William Henry Newbolt was
elected Scholar of New College.

ECCLESIASTICAL pREFEItirENTS.
On the 29th of January last the Rev. T. Prince, Fellow of
wadliam College, in this University, was unanimously invited
and elected by the British residents, at the Hague, to be their
Chaplain, upon his resignation of the situation of the King's
Chapel at Brussels. Upon the same occasion the Right lion.
the Countess of Athlone appointed Mr. Prince to be her Lady-
ship's domestic Chaplain.
The Lord Bishop of Hereford has appointed the Rev. C.
Taylor, D.D. Head Master of the College School. Hereford,
to the Chancellorship of the Diocese, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Thomas Rudge, R.D. The Rev. Doctor has for some
time acted as Judge in the Ecclesiastical Courts, both of the
Deanery and the Diocese.
His Grace the Duke of Grafton has appointed tile Rev. J.
D. W. Merest, of Bury St. Edmund's, one of his Domestic
Chaplains.
The Rev. J. H. Stevenson, 8.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, to the Rectory of Dengie, Essex, vacant by the prefer-
ment of the Rev. R. Faithful'.

Sir G. Cornewall, Bart., has preferred the Rev. Miles Coyle,
A.M., to the Rectory of Monnington-on-Wye, Herefordshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Lewis.
The Rev. R. NV. Bamford, to the Vicarage of Bishopstare,
Durham.

The Rev. G. Wood, to hold the Rectory of the Holy Tri-
nity, Dorchester, with that of Cann St. Rumbold.

AFFLICTING EVENT.

Early on Wednesday morning list, the body of
DANIEL REYNIER, Esq., a gentleman of considerable opu-
lence, resiling opposite the Terrace, in Highbury-grove, was
found floating in a horse pond by the road side, between the
Balfaced Stag and Finchley Church, at East Finchley. The
deceased was well known in the City, and especially on the
Stock Exchange, of which he was for several years a member,
and from which he retired, to the enjoyment of the otium cum
dignitatc, about a year since. Shortly previous to that event,
the mind of the deceased sustained a shock, in the unex-
pected death of a beloved wife, and from that period it never
retained its former healthful vigour. Mrs. R. had scarcely
given birth to a sixth child, when her offspring became
motherless, and it is an afflicting consideration, that a family
of six children, by•the untimely death of their father, is made
doubly orphans. Of these the eldest is scarcely fifteen, the
youngest not two years old. About nine o'clock on Tuesday
night, deceased called on the Rev. Mr. Williams, at Ho-
me-ton, to whom he was well known, requesting to be ac-
e 'mmodated with a bed ; this, however, was refused him,
probably under the conviction that he would return home,
and relieve his family from the -anxiety consequent upon
his absence at that late hour. Deceased, it is said, then
proceeded to the house of another friend, and from him he re-
ceived a written direction, which was found in his pocket, and
which led to his discovery. On Thursday evening, an inquest
was held on the body, at the Five Bells, East Finchley. A ser-
vant to Mr. Brewster, of Finchley, said, on Wednesday morn-
ing he found the deceased's clothes by the side of one of the
hay-stack, and having informed his master of the circumstance,
they searched over the ground, and found the body in a horse
pond, which was very shallow; the deceased appeared to have
first walked in with his clothes on, as the stockings and lower
part of the trowsers were wet. The Bow-street patrol, stationed
between Finchley-common and llighbury, overtook deceased in
the road across the common about a quarter before eleven on
'Tuesday
night; he spoke to him, but received no answer; he
then asked where he was going; upon which he (the deceased)
without uttering a word, ran away with all his speed ; he
followed at a brisk trot, and at length overtook him ; de-
ceased was then lying on his back in the road, having run
against a bricklayer by which they were thrown down ; witness
dismounted and assisted deceased to rise; he then said he lived
at Highbury, and asked to be allowed to ride home behind
witness,
promisingitfss told give
hrim half' a sovereign for the trouble
he had he could not do so; deceased
asked if he could take him to a house where he could have a
t akenwtn
bed ; witness observed, that it was too late, as all the houses
were shut up, but that he could have a chair by the fire-side,
at the station watch-house ; this offer deceased refused ; he
continued walking by the side of witness for a considerable
'and stating that he had dined out
time, conversing rationally,
l •
and hank rather too much wine ; witness eft deceased about
a quarter past twelve o'clock on the common.—Several wit-
nesses deposed to the circumstance of the deceased having been
afflicted with an aberration of intellect. The Jury returned a
verdict, " That the deceased drowned himself while in an in-
sane state of mind."