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London, England, 1823-02-08 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Fen. 7.—Wedoesday, Jan. 27, the
fallowing Degrees were conferred :

MASTZRS OF ARTS.
Richard Bracken, Fellow of Queen's College, on Mr. Mite&Vs
foundation.
Henry Anthony Pp:,
Demies of Magdalen College.
Rev. Roger Bird,
Saturday, February 1, the following Degrees
were conferred

)IASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Frederic Lee, Chaplain of Magdalen College.
Rev. Frederic Vincent, Brazenose College.
BACIIELOLS OF
George Sayle Prior, Queen's College.ARTS*
Richard Pole, Ila Viol College.
Robert Biscoe, 1
Ralph Lewen Benson,
William Hamilton Twendow
William Macbean, , Christ Church.,
James Lupton,
Thomas Williams, Oriel College.
In a Convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 4, the proposal to contri.
bide the sum of 2001. from the University Chest, in aid of the
establishment of a College in the principality of woo, under
the immediate patronage and direction of the Lord Bishop of
St. David's, was approved.
Tuesday last Messrs. Webster, 'White, and Wood, tinder.
graduate Commoners of Lincoln College, were elected Exhi.
bitioners of that Society.
ECCLESIASTICAL PILEFEII.3IENTS.
The Rev. Jennyn Pratt, B.A. has been presented, by Sir
Jacob Astley, Bart. to the consolidated Rectories of !Autry
and Themilthorpe, Norfolk.
The Rev. John Nelson, A.M. to the Rectory and parish
Church of Mitcham, Norfolk.
The Rev. J. Lempriere, D.D. to the nectar), of Newton St.
Petrocle, Devon, in own patronage.
The Rev. Wm. Acton, LLB. ot St. John's College, Cam.
bridge, to the ltectory Ayott St. Lawrence lien atron s;
LionefLytie, Esq., ofLincoln's Inn. , ; p
The Rev. J. Cape, ALA. appointed by the East India Com-
pany to be Head Master of the Artillery and Engineer Seim.
nary at Addiscombe, near Croydon. .
I illason, Esq: B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge
is'appo:nted-Assistant Master in the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth, in the mons of the Rev. J. Cape, M.A. of Tri.
niter College.
The Rev. Wm. Burgess, to the consolidated Vicarage ot
Kirby Walton and Thorpe.le-Soken, Essex.

t is said, that a number of English families,
without doubt alarmed by the insertitude of the
Politics which the English Government will
adopt on the present circumstances, are prepar-
ing to leave Paris, to return to their native soil,
or are going to the Netherlands.—(loul.nal do
Paris, Feb. 1.)

SWIFT'S L kST of those lucid in-
tervals which varied the course of„SwterN
happy lunacy, his guardians, or physfeicians, took,
him out to give him an airing. When they came
to the Phcenix Park, Swim remarked a new
building which he had never seen, and asked
what it was designed for y Dr. Km:spotty riu
swered, " That, Mr. Dellll, is the magazine fur
arms and powder, for the security of the city "1---
" Oh, oh !" says the Dean, pulling out his pocket-
book, " let Me take an item of that.. This is
worth remarking ; my tablet, as Hamlet says, rriy
tahlets—memory, put down that." lie then pro.duced the last he ever wrote
Beheld ! a proof or Irish tense !
.here Irish wit is seen,
'When nothing's left for our defence,

AVe build a magradine.
T e Dean then put up his pocket-book,, laugh-
ing heartily at tho conceit, and clenching it with,
" After the steed's stolen, shut the stable-door."
There is more ingenuity than truth in the above anee.
dote, as it is certain that t•-:,:v pa., after Ms deprivation of reason,
had no interval, during which he could have matte the re»
marks, or still more improbable have varitten the line*.

The Japanese, instead of pocket-handkerchiefs,
make use of pieces of paper. The richer dais
of people make use of ei very lino iti°d of Plr ;
the poor, on the Contrary, use very coursv.

LAW INTELLIG ENCE.

COW: T OF CHANCERY, Feu. 7.
rnAcTici OF 'FFI COUnT:4I:X-PAIVIE DINE4I-.
The LORD CIIANCLLOR having in the early part of the
day Made an order in this cause, which related Merely to costs,
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Mr. AGAR. (who came into Court some tithe after) wished to
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say a few words respecting his Lordship's decision, as he did
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not liiiiipen to be in, Court when the matter was mentioned. 7 .ir
Tits. Loin) CUANI.CELLOU-31r. Agar, that was not my
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fault. '-I will not hear another word upon that;sibject. The
case has been already once disposed of, and the tithe Of the pub-
lie must not be wasted, and iliiHpatienc4f the COurt shallnot
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be trifled with, by your imposing on me the task of hearing it
a 4: and time, merely because it suited your convenience to he
in, Vice-(chancellor's Court when it was first agitated.
I r. Aciirt was exceedingly sorry it had so happened, but he
had not been aware that the matter would have so soon conic, on.
The observation he was instructed to make, however, would
itt,
not occupy one moment as it was consented to.
Lou
The ora) CHANCE LLon--1 repeat it, 'Allir. Ageff,Twilr''
not hear you ; you have really driven me to the 4thiptiim
of saute measure of this sort, from the frequent, nay, I may
say almost daily occurrence of this grievance. I not only
owe it to .thy own consistency,' but it is clue to the dig.
pity of the Court that I should -no longer allow Connsel,
because, the Vice-Chancellor will not suffer himself .'to be
so troated, to absent themselves in the other Court, and only to
come into this "hills their convenience, often when a must, has
been disposed of, when they ?Ike it its a matter of course that I
should hear it all over again. It is not fair, that while the
like-Chancellor gains the credit (and very properly) of not suf-
fering this delay, that my character shoUld suffer with the pub-
lic because lam thus imposed upon. In future, it must be
distinctly understood that when it happens that the opening ,
'Counsel is absent, that I shall immedtatgy . direct the cause,
to be struck out of the paper altogether,' Off when the Counsel
for the other party is out of Court, I shall comer the applica.
ction, whatever it may be, as unopposed. As this is not the
first time that I have given notice of my intention so to do, no
Gentleman at the Bar can plead ignorance, and therefere I
shall enforce it In the present instance. I will not hear another
word respecting it ; if my decision has been wrong, the patties
know theleremedy.
Mr. AGAR bowed to his Lordship ; after which, the Court
Proceeded to the consideration of various part-heard bankrupt
petitions.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, FEB. 11:).
LORD HAWKE V. Slit J.
This was an application by Mr. WAKEFIELD, on the part
of the plaintiff; that a solicitor of the name of 1,411 might be
directed to hand over all papers and document% in his posses-
sion relating to this cause to Messrs. Daniel and CO. The mo-
tion went on to pray the alternative that Messrs. Daniel and
Co. might have liberty to inspect the papers. The a. blication
was made upon an affidavit of the plaintiff: --
Mr. Han T opposed the motion, on the ground ' was
perfectly novel, and that it was far too extensive.
The VICg-CIIANCEL:LOR agreed that he could not make an
order upon a motion of this nature, and he must therefbre re-
fuse it. Upon the subject of cowls, ;he Court directed, that un-'
less another motion were made by the plaintiff within a potl-
cular time, costs would be allowed to the defendant.
Mr. Rana' thought he might safely undertake that no further
motion would be submitted to the Court.

BUSHELL V. BUSH LL.
Mr. Wr.wortELD moved for an attachment against ti !erne
covert, named Nancy Bagshaw. 'The bill was filed by the
plaintiff's, the trustees of the late Thomas Bushell, who was
entitled to a certain copyhold estate. The object of the pre-
sent motion Was, to compel a settlement according to the trust.
The husband was out of the jurisdiction of the Court : the
wife bad: been' served with a siibixena, but She had taken no
notice of it whatever.
The VicE-CHANcEti.oit asked whether notice of this ap.
plication had been served upon the wife ?
Mr. WINortELO replied, that no notice had been served,
and he apprehended it was unnecessary. Ile cited the case of
" Bell p. Commissary Hyde and Wife," Prec. c. 329, which
he conceived was completely in point. • 0
The VICE-CLIANCEI.I.OIt granted tits-) attachment without
prejudice to the wife and directed that the attachment shOuld
not be executed without a further order of the Court. This
would give her an opportunity of applying to the Court if she
thought fit. Motions, he observed, of this nature were either of
course, or not of course. ifthey were of the latter description,
notice ought to be Served upon the parties. • I

PICACTICE OF CouuT,
In the case of " Webster v. Threlfall," it was requested by
Counsel that _the discussion might be postponed, at the briefs
had ohly been delivered the night preceding.
The VICE-CliioiCEL U deprecated the practice pursued
by Solicitors, of not instructing Counsel until the night preced-
ing the day on
_which the case was to be discussed. This was
a practice extremely inconvenient to the Court.
oAlt thuukht that in this peculiar instance the Solid•
tors' wee nut to blame.

COURT OP RING'S BENCII, FEB. 7.
SAEUGGLERS.
PROCEEDINGS ON HABEAS conkrs.
The persons who have been detained since the 13th of Ja-
nuary, on board his Majesty's chip Severa, in toe Downs, were
this day brought up on the return of the writ of Habeas Corpus-.
Captain Macculloch, tile ;ominander of the veseel, was in Court.
The proceedings which have been taken in the case before the
Mayor of Dover were produeed, in obedience to the writ of cer-
tiorari which was issued to remove them. .
The prisoners, Who appeared to be Dutchmen, and many of
' whimi are very powerful and athletic men, wernt introduced,
handeufred two and two, and arranged in a 1:tle on the floor of
the Conn.
In his return to the writ of habeas (.`apt. 31accullocli set forth, that on the 13th January, •the prisoners, with a nian
who had since died, were brought to his ;dap, as the crew of a
vessel which hail been captured by the sheop hedger, and were
given into his charge, on suspicion of the murder of a I.lritish
seaman named \Valiant Cullum, who had been on board that
vessel; anti that he had since detained them until they could
conveniently be brought to London, to be dealt with according
to law.
The return to the writ of certiorari, made by, Mr. Jekyll,
Mayer anti Coroner of Dover, was then read. It set forth two
inquisitions held before him; one on the Wily of IVni. Culluio,
in which a verdict wail returned of " wilful murder"against ecr-
tain.Persons unknown, and the other on the bodies of the three
men who were killed by the tire of.the Mager in which a vet..
diet was given of "justifiable homicide," The' depositions of
Ifenry Nazer, captain or the Iloc*r., and of the mare of that
ves!..ek, which was engaged in the preventive service, were then
read.. From these itappeared, that on I:tdt Tan. , the Betipzr,
• eruishigin the Channel, observed a strange v;; mad-about three
leegues ti-orn the coot of Frence., and apparently steering to
the westward. In consequence at a tack, the King's ship came
• near to this vessel, hailed her, and hoisted signals, but there
was no reply made, or colour hoisted,'by the other. Upon
this a shot was fired, not at the vessel, but merely as a demon-
stration : but no notice was taken. The Kinere Kulp then fired in earnest, antl'inengagenv.w. conanenc‘3l,wlocli lasted for two
hours, when the crew of the strange veitael cried tett, in rn:-
lish, for quarter. After this, however, the strange vessel cone
tinued to fo'e, and William Cullum was killed ; ultimately,
the capture of the vessel was affected. She was found' to be
fated to the hutches with kniriti, tea, and tobeeco, and to have
a formidable store of antrouttition Hod arms. 'L prisoners and
the ratan who had died wire taken on board the smuggler, and
. transftrreel on the settle day to the Severn fox safe enittLly.
Mr. iluouoltAM and Mr. now coutended that the
prisoners were entitled to their discharge on three grounds
first, because there was no evidence to :thew that the men cone
cerneti in the engagement wereehe same when Captain Mae.
eilloch detained on board the Serceep; .second, because there
wan nothing to prove that the siariners on board the King's
ship were Justified in commencing the eneeigerrient,and, con-
sequently, that the death of Cullum might not 1)e tuelified in
self-defence; and, lastly, because the prisoners had been the.
wined an unreasorieble time without being brought before
any Magistrate for examinetion,. or being consigned to lawful custody. ,
The Coo we were however-clearly of (opinion that this. should
be guilty of a high violation of ditty tf-tiniy proceeded to dia...
charge the prisonere. They would abstain (torn saying any .

PRICE SEVEN PENCE.

thing on the merits of the case.as they now stood frnt jestice
to the parties accused, and because it was clip i ongl ifo they mow
saw sufficient on the face of the proccedinge to call for fur-
ther inquiry. It would not be disptited that any man might
take charge of person .accused of a capital oftener..., and
detain him until he could. be taken before a Alagistratee. it
could not be denied that these men were- in charged; andihat
therefore the Commander of the Severn mightelawfulleereceive
them. With respixt to the time of their.deterition, it was true,
that if the interval was of such extraordinary length as to
convince the t;ourt of the want of foundatioa for the charge,
that it would be a ground for their. release; but except 4e 011;3 point of view, an unreasonable delay, though it mht Subjeckit4
author to otinsiire and lemishment, would not justify a diaeharge
which might defeat public justice. "lint ittethis ease theNte,f
..:I',eivas not unreasonable; there might be considerable danger in 'landing a crew like this at the port of Dover, although un-
doubtedly the reentler examinations ought to he taken with ai
little delay attpoesible. This was the first ease where parses
had been brought up front, interniediate cuitody, und the Court,
in dealing with it, would only order' the detention of the pri-
&mere until their cases could be regularly investigated by a
Magistrate, would decide whether there was ground fir
their commitment for trial. The rule, thertifereeeto be pro, eiounsed was, that eta prisoners, be cotntnitted to the Marshal. sea until they temiti (1040i:tidy be taken before some compe-
tent authority, and ink with acctmling to liw. If any en-
reasonable delay should uceur, another application :right be
made to the Court.
ThOSOLICITOII.-GrlynnAC, said that the-reeeon why the
men were not exarnineei wait, that the OTtalii could not pru-
dently land them at Dover,-and he could not bring them up the
river to London on account of the,frost,
The Coulter observed that .this might us well have been
stated in the return: •
The prisoner~ were then taken from the Court.
THE KING V. ReNBUITY AND DILL.
Mr. Scenererr moved for a rule, calling:on two Magistrates
of thieCounty of surolk to show cause why a criminal infottme-
tion should not be filed against them. lie made this applica-
tion on behalf of the proprietor of a waggon which carried parcels
between Norwich oind Thetford, and who resided at Norwich.
In August last a quantity of gem was, onthe road. taken .0 p
by
his servants, and seized before it reached its place of d6einatton.
Of this transaction he wits entirely ignorers at the time; and
when he was Wormed of it, he dismisstsl:'irtiery one who could
possibly be iiiigicated do is service.. To his great surprise,
in the month Novembeeehe received a summons front the
defendants to appear befort-thetn and answer hifmations.on
Anne c. 14, p
fbr exosing game to sale. He aftorended, antliwo-
duied evidence to show his entimlgnorance of the fact ; bitt he was convicted in penalties to thWinnount of 1501. ; and the Ala-gistrates, in drawing up the. conviction., omitted to state the
evidence on which rt wits founded, and obstinately refused to
insert it. • Ho was thirefore left withouteany means of redress,
tif
as the decision of i'Magistrates was Anal.
The LORD CHIEF .ITISTICE expressed his opinion that the
Learned Counsel had shown enough to entitle him to a rule-;
but suggested that.,4o the Illagistrates had probably acted under
an erroneous impregition as to the lam,, that the, better course
would be to take a mandamus., directing them to ineert the evie
denee, and to give notice of motion for a errant-' to remove
the conviction.
Mr. SeanLETT assented to this proposal, nd took his writ
of mandamus.
In the course of the mornleter Sir Hudson Lowe carne into
Court to swear an affidavit:- on which he intends to found a
motion for a criminal information against Mr. O'Meara. It is
understood that the motion will be made on Monday. The
presence .of Sir Hudson LOwe excited much curiosity in the
body and avenues of the Court.