The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 16.—ghere will be an election at Merton
College on Friday, June 12, of three postmasters ; a prefer-
ence will be given to one of them to attainments in mathe-
matics. No candidates will be admitted under seventeen or
above nineteen years of age.
Candidates are desired to call on the Warden on Monday,
the Bth of June, with certificates of baptism and testimonials
of good conduct. There will be an election at Worcester
College on the 10th of June of a Bible clerk.
Candidates are required to present to the Provost on the
Bth of June testimonials of moral and religious character.
A fellowship is now vacant in Brasenose College, and if a
duly qualified candidate shall offer himself, it will be filled up
in the ensuing Act.term.
Natives of the city or county palatine of Chester, being of
the cousinage or lineage of John Williamson, or of the name,
cousinage, or lineage of John Port, or of his heirs born
within the said city or county, are eligible.
Candidates are requested to call upon the Principal, with
the necessary documentts and certificates, on or before the 6th
of June.

The following notice has been issued :
" ELDON LAW SCHOLARSHIP.—The trustees of the Eldon
testimonial request the members of the University of Oxford
to take notice that the sixth election of an Eldon scholar
will take place on Saturday, the Gth of June next, at the
Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, previous to
which day all applications must" be transmitted to the
Honorary Secretary, sealed up, and endorsed, ' Eldon scho-
larship, candidate's application,' and with the candidate's
name alse endorsed.' The forms of certificates and declara-
tions required, together with the rules and regulations rela-
tive to such election,, are deposited with the Senior Tutor of
each College and Hall, and with the Registrar of the Uni-
versity. "THOS. METCALFE, Hon. Secretary,
5, New-square, Lincoln's-Inn, London."
The first concert of the Amateur Musical Society will be
held on the 26th inst.
Forty-two of the forty-four Bachelors of Arts admitted to
that degree on Thursday last, passed their examination
during t he present Term.
The Rev. Henry G. Liddell, Student of Christ Church, has
been appointed Head Master of Westminster School.

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MEATH. OF JOHN WEEKS, THE
BOXLEY FRATRICIDE.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, FRlDAY.—During the week an un-
common degree of excitement has prevailed in this district
of the county, owing to the discovery of the supposed sui-
cide of John Weeks, who in the month of August, 1844,
murdered his brother Edward, by stabbing him at the vil-
lage of Boxley, near Maidstone. It may be remembered
that the brothers lived with their aged mother, and the
unfortunate transaction was the result of a series of quar-
rels. A Coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against the deceased, and for his apprehension her Ma-
jesty's Government offered a reward of 1001. He, how-
ever, succeeded in making off, and nothing was heard of
him until his corpse was identified in the followin most ex-
traordinary manner. On the morning of the 2d instant the
body of a man was found floating in a pond near the village
of Brenchley, a few miles distant. Bruises being found
on his head, and a bundle, containing his clothes, his
hat, and an empty purse, being picked up in, the pool.
gave rise to a suspicion that he -had been robbed and
the,n murdered by .being thrown into the, water. The,
body was then identified :as that, of a, man who had passed
by the name of Thomas Saunders, and had been employed
at a neighbouring farm; but was discharged on the 11th
receiving his wages and money he had _eutrusted to his
master-81. He was not heard of after tards until found in
the'pond,' and the circumstance of only 6d. being dis,
covered in his pockets, strengthened the suspicion that the
deceased had been unfairly dealt with. The parish con-
stable subsequently ascertained,' however, that the corpse
had been robbed of two sovereigns, nine ball sovereigns,
and some silver, by three men and three women, whom he
captured. They acknowledged that they
i had takenk
money, and had unfairly distributed it. They wereenthe .t
ex-
amined before a county magistrate, and were committed for
trial for the felony_
The surgeons deposing that the bruises could not have
caused death, circumstances induced parties to think that
the deceased was
:cide Weeks, and a 'cup belonging
pro,-: by the mother of Weeks to have
btoeltohnegeddecteoashed wersaosh,
The
body
of the deceased was ex-
plete identification was established by the
hmuomt
heed; aanndd ist
sister of Weeks. The body was re-interred. It
is supposed the deceased committed suicide.

-..,ALE OF PICTURES BY MODERN ARTISTS.—On
Saturday a sale by auction of a choice collection of pictures by Eng .
lish artists, COmpriSing some of the finest pictures by Cooper, Con-
stable, R.A.,.Sir A. Calcott, Creswick, Hofiland, Pyne, G. Chambers,
Btc., took place at Messrs. Christie and 141anson's rooms, King-street,
St. James's. The sal* was most numerously attended. The follow-
ing are the prices at, which a few of the pictures sold :—Lot 35. A
Group of Peasants, a woman on horseback, with cow, sheep, and
' goats, in a valley among the mountains of Cumberland, exhibited
a short time since 'in the Royal Academy, T. S. Cooper; sold for
140 guineas. Lot 37. Windsor Castle from the River. Morning,
T. B. Pine, considered the chef d'oeuvre of the artist;
sold for 120 guineas, Lot SS. Laying Lobster pots off
St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall ; G. Chambers. The most
celebrated work' of the lamented artist ; sold for 160
guineas. Lot 39. A Sumner Noon, illustrating a description in
" Thomson's Seasons," and the masterpiece of the artist, T. S.
Copper. This' picture was purchased, by Mr. White, for 315 guineas.
The next let, the Border Raid, by the same artist, illustrating a
passage in Hogg's " Queen's Wake." A most splendid group of
cattle, in a mountainous country ; sold for 201 gaineas, Mr. Merant
being the purchaser. Lot 41, the well-known picture by Constable,
RSA., of Salisbury Cathedral, was bought by Mr. Wood for 420 gui-
neas. The next lot, a View of Dedham, by the same artist;sold for
340 guineas. The following pictures, by the late Sir A. Calcott,
R.A., were sold by order of his executors :—The Interior of an Ita-
lian Church, fetched 91 guineas. The Bay of Spezzia, a small up-
right picture cf the artist, one of his latest productions, sold for 201
guineas. An English Landscape, with cows watering near a fine
group of trees, with rustic &gums._

ASSAULT. ON CAPTAIN WEMYSS, M.P. FOR FIFE-
SHIRE.—We regret to learn that a violent and very dangerous look-
ing assault was made upon the person of our county Member, Cap-
tain Wemyss, on the evening of Friday last. He was, it appears,
riding near Wemyss West Lodge, when his attention was aroused by
the sight of a boy of about ten years of age trespassing on a field
where a good number of pheasants were hatching. The child, on
spying the captain, jumped over a hedge, when the captain rode
after him at full speed, and overtook him, and attempted to strike
him for his trespass. Upon this, between one and two hundred of
the people at Boreland Colliery, men and women, turned out upon
the captain, some ofthem with stones and sticks in their hands, and
attacked him in a most riotous and disgraceful manner; some seized
his horse, others took him by the legs and tried to capsize him ;
while others threatened him with stones in their hands, and others
again swore with the most horrid oaths that they would knock the
brains out of him. Others, still more insolent, toll him that he
ought to be at his duties in Parliament instead of watching phea-
sants' eggs and terrifying children. At last three of the captain's
armed keepers came to his rescue, and by threatening to fire upon
the mob got them so far quieted that our Member was enabled to
escape their clutches. —Afeshire Journal.
JOSEPH MASON.—A petition from Joseph Mason,
who recently returned from Norfolk Island, has been forwarded, with
a certificate of character from the Superintendent of Agriculture in
that colony, to her Majesty's Secretary for Homethe
ass e e
nD
se pi
ra,r.tj.maernat ,
and the subjoined communication in answer received :—" Lord Mor-
peth begs to acquaint Mr. Isaac Wood, that hq h
ham and given him the certificate, and Sir James has assured him-
that ha will shortly acquaint him with the answer he Shall think it
Alat to =Om"
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