The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENC

OXFORD, DEC. 3.-A congregation was this naj
holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following
were conferred :
Bal
Masters of Arts.—J. G. Lonsdale (Fellow,
College ; Rev. F. P. Seymour, ditto ; Nevins°ni:
Wadham College ; R. W. M. Nesfield, University Col
lege; H. S. Eyre, Christ Church ; Rev. J. H. Shur'
wood, St. Edmund's Hall.
Bachelors of Arts.—W. S. Newman, Wadbarn
lege ; W. G. Holmes, ditto ; Richard Congrevc, ditto.;
E. Reynolds, ditto ; J. W. Radcliffe, Lincoln Colleg-e
R. Ormsby, ditto ; G. D'Oyly Snow, St. Mary Hell
V. H. Hobart, Trinity College ; J. Hannah, Corpus
Christi College ; C. Sumner, Bailliol College.
The Professor
on Colonisationfessorof'olitie on Monday, u
Political Economy will continuo
i.iC 71 tinuo
his Lectures 1,
and three following days, at two o'clock, in the Cla•
rendon.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by
Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, Lady Clinton, Miss Ned"
son, and Sir Horace Seymour, will leave Marlborough
House to-morrow morning for Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Prince George, and the Princesses Augusta
and Mary, have, we understand, given up their int t
ed.
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visit to Rome, owing to the raging of the small-pox in n.."_!
capital. His Royal Highness the Duke of Carnbl. 10IP
shortly leaves town on a tour of visits.
Lady Cottenham, the lady of the Lord Char-1-
cellor, and her infant son, are going on most favoura:bis.
r.
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The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere and rn.5...,
Labouchere have gone on a visit to Sir Thomas as I ti
at Brighton.
Lord Southwell returns shortly to Hindbil
House, Worcestershire, from a visit to his estates
Limerick.
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the Christmas.Lteorrmdsohfiptyenhaoarsws. taken the mneaxntsinioon;
standing) el' Bridge-
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Barry, the architect of the new Houses
North
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LIVING IN NORTH
mediately be made forpnlutylhieLF:dacrodmowmnAcaenmd.
Devon Journal says, ‘, We experience,
of our countrymen kayo
and other more distant
Brus-
sels, Italy, Guernsey, Jersey,
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of great regret, ti°tlhinia:bteouthnoduesraali.-
tewerHieonuesee,s ofan dPiatrils a source
pthLitseeksi :gadnodmt the generally
o assigned
reside idn France,for
so
do
ingi
the advantages
that they can 4 live cheaper.' We believe
withre
a theirson f.gaemnieterasi,i
owfootludr
not be
nsoeiagnhxbio.uurshotooi
d spend
be little known, n
i or they
d their income n distant.
lands. We also believe that, ' all things considered,' it:
will be found that there are few (if any) places, in or Olt
of this kingdom, where a ' small income can be laid oat()
greater advantage' than in North Devon, where to the ad-
vantages of living in the moat healthy and beautifully ro-
mantic county in England, may bo added, that it is the
cheapest, and from which almost every article of necessary
ford is exported in great abundance, and, either on the
borders of the sea, or in the warm valleys inland, well-
furnished and respectable houses, with 10 to 15 rooms, re-
plete with gardens and every other convenience, may be
had for from 201. to 301. per annum,"
THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—Her Majesty's,
three fine steam vessels, which have been built aryl
equipped at Liverpool by Mr. Laird, arc fast advanct.u'g
towards c:mapletion, and will be fully prepared to sail, Tor
the African coast at the beginning of the year, the most
advantageous season for their objects, as March an I April
are the most healthy months for passing thrr ugh the
Delta and low ground. The river being then ,40„,,, time
at its lowest, the banks become dry, and do no,t, discharge
unhealthy exhalations. The vessel will also., if all things
prosper, have advanced well into the anterior, and be
ready to make the best use of the increa„ of water which
takes place in June, July, and Augu.A. The vessels com-
posing the Government expeditt.on are admirably suited
for their work—of light draft, and fitted in every way con-
sidered best adapted to meet the ill effects too often expe-
rienced in tropical climates; besides possessing
siennagothe other
advantages, advantages, they are furnished throughout with com-
plete system of pipes for the, withdrawal of the tainted a.,
mosphere, and admission of fresh air.
The General Steam Navigation Company
ship, Columbine, arrived off the Custom-house, on NI, ed.
nesday, with her Majesty's mail, flora Rotterdar,, aster
splendid pmliage of only twenty-two hours.

.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Last 114,4, as a
gentleman's carriage was setting down at Drury-lone
Theatre, the coachman having got ofrhji box, the horses
took fright, ran ~wn Brydgcs-strict, 4r.d, crossing tho.
c 1
Strand, knocked a boy down, v.ito was immediately taken
to the Hospital, where it was found, that his thigh wia
broken. The pole of the carriap shattered thc sh ep
door of Mr. Cadell, ,
horses was seriously injured. Strand ; one of de
SALE OF BARON IiDLLAND'S LIBRA RY.—
The late enormous prices for some of the rarer old poetry,.
especially frcm the 'eon of Shakespeare, which have'
marked this sale, has revived the memory of the good
old times of the " Roxburghe Pcver," if anything good
may emanate from a fever. One anecdote is especially
worth noticing " The "Rake of Lucrece," and the "Vevlus
and Adonis" (which together brought the sum of 1940,
were two of the.five volumes soh cted and " tied round
with whip core (after the fashion of one Master Coxe).
by the Rev. Dr. Dibdin, on Iris second visit to Lincoln;
and the sum of 841. was offered to the chapter for the
purchase of them. The matter was delayed from month
to month, when the Bibliographical D cameron" made
its appeAranee, and a cac is there hypothrticall' put as
to " what HorteLsius (designating the Bar,l-r, by that
naiut.) would t holt of such trewcures ?" Is the course of.
a few years, Baron Bolland absolutely did possess the.ir
identical volumes front the chapter of Lincoln Cathed.,,A,
and at the price fixed by Dr. Dibdin. It should %wen%
that boo alone out of the five volumes more than il,oubjegi,
the price offered for the whole, We have very lif,tle bei,-
tation in adding, that the sale of the " Old Poe'..ry," in ' the
Holland library, has left even the " Roxbure,,e" at a• good
distance behind. May we venture upon r slight r itera-
tion of the bard of Gray?
ir
" Hear from thy grave, illustrious ear
It breathes a soul to anintat?_ thy clay."'