The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 16.—There 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.
Ciadidates are'desira 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 cousmage 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 documents and certificates, on or before the 6th
of June.
The following notice has been issued :

" ELoox LAW Scnot,Ansittr.—The trustees of the Eldon
testimonial request the members of the University of Oxford
WI take notice that the sixth election of an Eldon scholar
will take place on Saturday, the 6th 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 also 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 I he present Term.
The Rev. Henry G. Liddell, Student of Christ Church, has
been appointed Head Master of Westminster School.

DEATH OF JOHN WEEKS, THE
BOXLEY FRATRICIDE.
TUNBRIDGT 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 following 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 Brenchl, 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
then 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 ult.,
receiving his wages and money he had entrusted to his
master-81. Re was not heard of afterwards until found in
the pond, and the circumstance of only 3s. beret °lge-
covered in his pockets, strengthened the
,suspicionThparish deceased had been unfairly dealt with.
con-
stable subsequently ascertained,
.howevey, thaet the corpse
half sovereigns,
had been robbed of two sovereigns,
and some silver, by three men and threnemNevomen, whonh
captured. They acknowledged that tbey had taken the
money, and bad unfairly distributed it. They were ex-
amined before a county magistrate, and were committed for
trial for the felony.
The surgeons deposing that the braises could not have
caused death, circumstances induced parties to think that
the deceased was the fratricide Weeks, and ecup belonging
to the deceased was proved by the mother of Weeks to have
belonged to her son. The body of the deceased was ex-
humed, and its complete identification was established by the
mother and sister of Weeks. The body was re-interred. It
is supposed the deceased committed suicide.

SALE 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,
&c., took place at Messrs. Christie and Manson's rooms, Ring-street,
St. James's. The sale 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 crceuvre of the artist;
sold for 120 guineas. Lot 38. 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 Summer Noon, Illustrating a description in
" Thomson's Seasons," and the masterpiece of the artist, T. S.
Cooper. This picture was purchased by Mr. White, for 385 guineas.
The next lot, 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 s sold for 200 guineas, Mr. Mount
being the purchaser. Lot 41, the well-known picture by Constable,
R.A., 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. 1., were sold by order of ids executors :—The Interior of an Ita-
lian Church, fetched 91 guineas. The Bay of 6pezzia, a small up-
right picture of 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 ISures•
ASSAULT ON CAPTAIN V 1,,,, EMYS3, 51. P. FOR FlFE-
smaz.—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,
roodne
spying the captain, jumped over a hedge, when the captain
after him at full speed, and overtook him, and attempted to strike
hi for his trespass. Upon this, between ono and two hundred of
the people at Boreland Colliery, men and women, turned out upon
the captain, some of them with stones and sticks in their hands, and
attacked him in a most riotous and disgraced meaner ; some seized
his horse, others teuk him by the legs and tried to capsize him;
while
others threatened him with stones in their hands, and others
agal• swore with the most horrid oaths that they would knock the
brains out of him. Others, still more insolent, told 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.—rVeshire Journal.
,jOSEPIT MASON.—A petition from Joseph Mason,
who recently retarned from Norfolk Island, has been forwarded, with
a certificate of character from the Superintendent of Agriculture
is
that colony, to her Majesty's Secretary for the Horne Department,
and the subjoined communication in answer received :—" Lord Mor-
peth begs to acquaint Mr. Isaac Wood, that he has seen Sir J. Gra-
ham and given him the certificate, and Sir James has assured him
that he will shortly acquaint hint with the answer he OW think It
S 1;9 make."