The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OxFoßo, JAN. 14.—This being the first day of Hilary
Term, a congregation was holden for granting degrees,
&e., when the following were conferred :
Bachelor in Civil Law—Rev. Charles 13rereton, Fellow
of New College.
Masters of Arts—Rev. Robert M. Dukes, of Lincoln
College ; Rev. John William Prout, of Wadharn
Although Term commences this day, the Colleges do
not meet till Friday, the 221
Bachelors of Arts are required to determine this Term
whether they will proceed in Arts or otherwise.

THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL SCOTTISH
ACADEMY.—The interest felt by her Majesty in the sue-
cess of Scottish art, was last year evinced, by her permit-
ting two most valuable pictures, from her private collec-
tion, the work of Sir David Wilkie, to be exhibited in
thii city. We are gratified in tieing- able to state, that the
President and Council of the Academy have already re-
ceived a communication from the Premier, through Mr.
Fox Maule, that her Majesty has been pleased to place at
their disposal, for the same purpose, two other pictures, by
the same distinguished artist; and this. too, in a manner
which affords the most flattering proof that there is felt in
the Royal mind the most sincere interest in the Fine Arts
of this country. The pictures alluded to are the " Wound-
e,! Guerilla," and the " Arrival at Holyrood of Gorge
I V. "—Scotsman.

MASTER BOOTNIAKERS' BENEVOLENT ASY-
LUM AND' SCITOOLS.—On Wednesday evening, the 13th
inst., the second annual ball in aid of the funds of this
s i!ution took place at the ilanover•square Rooms, on
which occasion between two and three hundred persons
assembled to
promote ;he objects of this excellent charity.
The band, under Mr. Adams, together with the other ar-
rangementsof the evening, which were good, afforded ge-
neral satisfaction. The Stewards have every reason to
congratulate themselves upon the results of their labours
This Institution was began in 1836, and now possess a re-
serve fund of between two and three thousand pounds, be-
sides a large annual subscriptinn, thus holding out every
promise of success to the Institution.
Sant Scott, the American diver, was the son of
a carpenter in Newtonbarry, twar Belfast. Scott, the
f ether, who, ere believe, is now alive, was coneet ned in the
Irish rebellion of 1798. lie, in consequence, emigrated
to the United e&ates, and settled in Philadelphia, where
the late unfortunate indisidual was barn. It must be re-
marked that Scott was perfectly sober when the cad acci-
dent that terminated his life occurred. Ile was in the ha-
bitual custom of saying that he was not horn to be drowned.
Ilk fete fulfilled his prediction. When a boy' (1821) he
fell by accident from the main royal yard of an American
line-of-battle ship, in New York harbour. His escape
upon this occasion seems to bare implanted in his mind a
taste for those adventurous exploits that have made him so
sadly celebrated in this country. It is understood that the
police have received distinct instructions to prevent all such
exhibitions hereafter. Scott was always a great favourite
with his shipmates, and upon many occasiens has been in-
strumental
in saving human life. Upon one, being by ac-
cident on board of an Indiaman in the Bay of Biscay, he
'riving.- come from an Amuricin verse] in distress for provi.
• :••• (-„f child, . 'co years of at-,e,
daughter of a 6,s:oigui.;iteei military vtoc,.r, .low a GeovriCi
in the British army, who, it is said, assisted bins by frequent 1
donations of money up to the time of his death.