The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

OXFORD, JULY 11.—This being the last day of Trinity
or Act To m, a congregation was holden fur granting de-
grees, &c., when the following were conferred :
DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW.—Arthur Robarts Adams, Fel-

low of St. John's College.
MASTERS OP ARTS.--The Rev. 0. H. B. Hyman, Fel-
low of Wadham College ; Rev. C. W. Diggle, Wadham
College; Rev. F. W. Briggs, Magdalen flail.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Wm. Hombersley, of Christ
Church, Grand Compounder ; John Nicholson, Brasen-
nose College ; F. J. Delane, Magdalen Hall.
The nomination of the Rev. W. F. Autlland, Fellow of
Q _teen's College, as a Public Preacher, has bcen unani-
mously approved in convocation.
The Rev. T. C. Curteis, Fellow of St. John's Col-
lege, has been elected, in convocation, Lecturer of St.
Giles's Church, Oxford. This Lectureship is University
patronage, and usually given to the Vicar.
Wm. Everett, Probationary Fellow of New Collrge,
has been admitted an Actual Fellow of thut Society.
The Rev. C. S. Green, of Christ Church, has been
appointed Head Master of Milton Abbas Grammar School,
Blandfoid, Dorset.
John Jolt& Tuffnell, Es., has presented the Rev.
Hervey Tuffuell Young, of Balliol College, to the Vicar-
age of Wormingford, Essex.
The subjects to, Mrs. Denyer's Theological Prizes for
1841 are —" On the Divinity of our Blessed Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ ;" and " On the Sufficiency of the
Holy Scriptures for the Salvation of Man."
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 10.—At a congregation on Saturday
last the following drgress were conferred :--
BACIIRLUR IN THE CIVIL Law„--Rev. James Tidemore,

Trinity Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Benjamin Brunton Blackwell,
and John Faithful Fansiaavre, Corpus Christi.
At the Congregation un Monday, Thos. Rothwell
Bentley, M. A., of Trinity, Dublin, was admitted ad eun-
dem of this University.
At a Congregation on Thursday last, the degree of
Master of Arts was conferred upon John Bayldon, of Je-
sus ; a grace also passed the Senate for scaling the di-
ploma of Dr. Barker, of Downing.
On Saturday last Thomas Samuel Woollaston, Esq.,
of St. Peter's, in this Universit}, was elected a Founda-
tion Fellow of that Society ; and on Monday Alfred Payne,
Eiq., was chosen a Ramsay Fellow of the same Society.
On Wednesday last the following students of St. John's
were elected Exhibitioners on the Foundation of the Very
Rev. Dr. Wood :_Boultbce, Riggott, Scott, Simpson,
i Bird, Johnstone, Adams, Giff:,rd, and Campbell.

SANDRON HALL ; OR, THE DAYS OF
QUEEN ANNE. BY TUE HON. GRANTLEY BERKELEY,
0 . P.—The days-of Queen Anne offer a good period fur the
historical novel. The manners of society and the state of
people of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, were so
different from those of our own time that, though only removed
by little more than a century, it is difficult to believe that they
Dov RR, JULY 12.—The Duke of Wellington belonged to the same country. " Sandron Hall" will, we
as expected at Waimer Castle immediately after the Prorog,a- ; think, Ve found sufficiently entertaining by the lovers of this
tion, for a two months' sejour. The depot of the 90th Light class o eompositio. The characters are well drawn, and em-
Infantry, quartered on the western heights, are under orders ploycd in many a p !nous aciventuie, which, though extraor-
to march for Cork, to be replaced by tee reserve companies of , Binary, do not lose sight of probability. Hig,hwaymen, gipsies,
the 34th. Mr. Thesiger, M.P., has taken one of the mansions and bravos, rakche.ly ruffians upon town, stabbers, and tavern-
in Waterleo-crescent for the season. The Earl and Countess • hunters, figure throughout, as in truth they did at the period
of Guildford and family are staving at Waldershare Pat k icr described. And, besides these, we have the actual Queen
the summer. Lord and Lady ilendlesharn: family, and suite ~ Anne air...a her Court, Button's Coffee-house and its wits
Ifwe name also the infamous Mrs.
.Ad-
arrived yesterday by her Mejesty's packet Myrtle, and proceeded dison, Pope, Swift,Eze. And one of the incidents ich
to town. The Duke of Orleans gives a prize of I,ooof. to be ' diversify the fictitious narrative is no less than the celebrated
run for at the ensuing Boulogne rare% the second week in the " Rape Lord!e Lock."
next month. i Hayes, Lovat, Colonel Charte:is, and Jonathan 'Wild,
Sir J. C. Hebhouse entertained the Duke and ; readers will ho aware that there are enough of
,courtiors, pOliti.:
Duchess of Bedford, Duke and Duchess of Leinster, and a cians, brawlers, intriguers, and ruffians, to form a dramatic
idistinc2uished party, to dinner, on Sunday evening, in Berke- , company adequate to represent to the life " The days of Queen
I Anne,"--Literary Gazette,

...square.