The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

CHARTER.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-NEW

Her Majesty •has granted to this university a new
charter, which is likely to excite great interest and at-
tention in the educational world. As our readers are
doubtless aware, persons who have graduated for ho-
nours at Oxford and other universities are sometimes
compelled to refrain from taking a degree owing to their
conscientious objections to subscribe to the Thirty-nine
Articles. By the new charter the Council will be em-
powered to confer the respective degrees of Bachelor of
Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, and Doctor of
Laws, on any persons who have graduated at Oxford,
Cambridge, Durham, Trinity College, Dublin, or any
other university in the kingdom. Another point in the
new charter, which will be of great service, is, that the
Council may institute examinations for certificates of
proficiency in any subject which they may think fit, con-
nected with the Sciences or Arts—such as Architec-
ture, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Botany, Geology
and Mineralogy, Zoology, Geography, Political and
Physical, Navigation, and Hydrography.
The examination for certificates of proficiency was
one of the original designs of the Council, which they
were prevented from carrying out under the old charter.

DREADFUL SUICIDE OF MAJOR VERITY, LATE
OF THE 99D HIGRLANDERS.—On Saturday Mr. H. M.
Wakley held an inquest at 21, North terrace, Thurloe-
square, lirompton, on the body of Major J. L. Verity,
aged 72, late of the 92d Highlanders, who destroyed
himself under distressing circumstances. It appeared
from the evidence that the deceased bad been suffering
for some years, from disease of the urethra, and been
att, nded by Mr. Cahill, and latterly by Mr. Ferguson,
surgeon to the Queen. On Wednesday he was exceed-
ingly ill, and complained of excruciating pain, which
continued to increase; but on the following day Mr.
Ferguson performed an operation, and he seemed ;much
relievei, but towards evening the pain returned, and he
walked up and down the room in much agony. Mr.
Cahill was sent for, and attended, but while he was gone
for some medicine deceased, being very anxious for his
return, repeatedly asked if he had come back. At
length, between four and five o'clock on Friday morn-
ing, the deceased left the room to look out of the draw-
ing-room windowsfo see if Mr. Cahill was coming; in a
minute or two afterwards the family was alarmed by a
discharge of firearms, and deceased was found in the
back drawing.room on the floor, on his back, quite
dead, with a duelling pistol in his right hand, having
shattered his head to pieces,
the pistol having been dis-
charged in his mouth. Deceased had been very eccen-
tric in his manners, and of a very excitable temperament.
He had suffered from a sun-stroke in the East Indies,
and a second one two years age while at work in his
Garden. Verdict--" Temporary insanity."
DEPARTURE CF THE EUROPA.—LIVERPOOL, SA-
TURDAY EVENTNG.—It was near four o'clock before the
al
st,em- ship Europa took her depar:ure from the Mersey.
Shem b Exileder of
passengersf for New York,
o nandi thefax mails for the having a large
United States and Canada. Lieut. Reid, U.N., is the
nu
Admiralty agent in charge of the mails.