The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE I.—There will be an electtion at
Exeter College on Sunday, June 30, to a Fellowship,
open to natives of Devon; Somerset, Dorset, Oxford,
Essex Norfolk, Suffolk, Hants, Middlesex, Kent, and
Cheshire.

Candidates are requested to deliver to the Rector cer-
tificates by affirmation of their birth within the counties
specified, together with certificates of baptism, and tes-
timonials from the College or Hall of which they may
be members, on or before the 24th of June. It is neces-
sary that they should be at least of the standing of
" Generalis Sophists" in the University.
There will be an election at Worcester College on the
22d instant of two scholars on Mrs. Eaton's foundation.
These Scholarships lead to Fellowships. Candidates
must deliver to the Provost on or before the 18th instant,
a certificate signed by the ministers of their respective
parishes, and by two or more inhabitants, that they are
sons of clergymen of the Church of England, and want
assistance to support them at the University, together
with letters testimonial of their moral and religious cha-
racter.

The Professor of Poetry will deliver his terminal lec-
tures on Wednesday, the sth, and Friday the 14th inst ,
at two o'clock, at the Clarendon.

A congregation will be holden on Tuesday, the 2d of
JOll, solely for the purpoe of admitting Inceptors to
their Regency.
Congregations will be holden for granting graces and
conferring degrees during the present term, on the fol-
lowing days :—Thursday, June 6 ; Friday, June 14 ;
Friday, June 21; Saturday, July 6.
The examiners in Sacra Theologia have appointed
Wednesday, the 12th inst., for the next examination.
Candidates are to delis er their names, together with their
testimonials, to the Warden of Wadham College, on Sa-
turday, the Bth inst
_ . .

The Rev. A. B. Starkey, Fellow of St. John's College;
R. Ormsby, Fellow of Trinity College; and A. J. Chris-
tie, Fellow of Oriel College, have been nominated Mas-
ters of the schools.

Mr. Mactnullen's grace was finally refused on Satur-
day last.
Mr. A. C. St. John MiMalay, of Merton College, and
Mr. Wodehouse, of Exeter College, have been elected
Fellows of the former College.
The electors of the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scho-
larsbips have appointed Wednesday, the sth instant, and
following days, for an examination in the schools, pre-
vious to electing a scholar on that foundation.
An examination of candidates for Mrs. Kennicott's
llebrew Scholarship will take place on Friday, the 7th
inst., at the Clarendon. Candidates are to deliver certi-
ficates of the time of taking their degrees to the Vice-
Chancellor at least three days before the commencement
of the examination.
Messrs. John Rich and C. F. Fuller, from Westmin-
ster School, have been elected Students of Christ Church.
Mr. Arthur Knox, from the Grammar School of Tun-
bridge, has been elected a Fellow of St. John's College,
on the foundation of Sir Thomas Whyte.
Upwards of thirty noblemen, gentlemen commoners,
and commoners, were on Thursday matriculated as mem-
bers of Christ Church. _

ltev. N. Twopeny, of Oriel College, has been presented
to the rectory of Little Casterton-cum-Tolethorpe, Rut-
landshire, value 2541., per annum ; patron, Hon. C. C.
Cavendish.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter has presented the Rev. E.
Woolcombe to the rectory of Cheriton Bishop, Devon,
value, 321/. per annum.
B. Fulford, Esq., has presented the Rev. R. Stephens
to the vicarage of Dunstord, value 2971 per annum.
Sir J. St. Aubyn, Bart., has presented the Rev. J. W.
Johns to the vicarage of Crowan, Cornwall, value 4511.
per annum.
The Archbishop of York has presented the Rev. B,
Richardson to the perpetual curacy of Egton, Yorkshire,
value 331 per annum.
The Bishop of Ely has presented the Rev. W. B.
James to tie vicarage of liarston, Cambridgeshire, value
2441. per annum.
The Bishop of Winchester has prevented the Rev.
A. B. Hill to the rectory of Wonston, Hampshire, value
9671. per annum.
The Rev. W. Lewis has presented to the Rev. R. Gee,
of Wadham College, to the vicarage of Abbot's Langley,
Hertfordshire. value 2701. per annum.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. J. R. P.
Berkeley to the vicarage of St. Clair, Cornwell, value
2451. per annum.
The Rev. E. Nevile has presented the Rev. John Evans,
e,f Christ Church, to the perpetual curacy of Whixhall,
Shropshire, value 1521. per annura.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE I.—At a congregation just held,
the following degrees were conferred :
Vaughan, St. John's College.
B.D.—Thomas Paley, St. John's College.
B.A.—John James Beresford, Albert Cocksh ott Bland,
William Fellowes, and John Jaques Wedge, St. John's
College ; Cecil Long, Trinity College ; Richard Ilbert
Phillips and Walter Chamberlain, Corpus Christi Col.
lege ; Shadrack Suatnan, Queen's College ; John Henry
Gore Clough Christ's College ; John Edward Sabin,
Emmanuel College ; Isaac Ilerbert Wilkinson, Downing
College.
Ad Eundern.—Frederick Goold,. 8.A., and Joseph
Cousins, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; David Ander-
son, M.A., Exeter College, Oxford.
Licentiates in Physic.—John Henry Webster, Jesus
College ; William Henry Drosier, and Henry William
Fulls r, Caius College ; Arthur David White, Pembroke
College.
Samuel Robert Carter, 8.A., has Just been elected a
Foundation Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Arthur 'Wolfe, 13. A., has just been elected a Founda-
tion Fellow of Clare Hall.

THE Cutincx.—The following appointment has just
taken place :—The Rev. John Moore Heath, M.A., Fel-
low and Tutor of Trinity College, to the vicarage of En-
field, Middlesex.

On Saturday the annual meeting of the Percy So-
ciety was held at the society's rooms, 4, St. Martin's-lane,
Lord Braybroke in the chair. During the year the society,
which is established for the publication of ancient ballads,
poetry, and other rare literary works, had published twelve
productions. Mr. Crofton Croker's volume, containing speci-
mens of the keen of the south of Ireland, would, the report
stated, be published early this month. The receipts amounted
to 4161. 15a., and the expenditure left a balance of 28/. 12s.

THE WEATHER AND Coors.—Hope - deferred is
making the farmer's heart sick •, for a month's unbroken
sunshine with occasional sharp frost in the morning and
evening, has blighted his fairest prospects. There is
only one advantage in the continued drought, and it is
comparatively a very trifling one—that late potato and
turnip ground, recently worked, is pulverised as fine as
powder : but our accounts from every district in Ayr-
shire represent that all else is out of joint—for even on
the latest moss and clay soils that grain brairds are
languishing, while on thin sandy lands they are quite
yellow, and, we fear, under no alteration of temperature
will recover their vigour. Ryegrass is even worse : on
the most moist land it has set prematurely, and where
being cut in the neighbourhood for sale, or soiling, falls
very light to the scythe—while along the coast lands
crops of rye-grass and clover, that with variable weather
would have produced from 120 to 160 stones per acre, do
not carry at present more than from 30 to 40 stones.
Pastures that seldom failed since 1826 to afford a full
bite, are dry to the roots of the plants, while near the
shore the shade of the grass-lands cannot be distinguished
from the sand. Add to this list of the distresses of man
and beast, the scarcity of water—that requires in some
cases to be carted miles—and some idea may be formed
of the doubts and difficulties with which the watchful
husbandman has in this singular season to contend.
Under these circumstances the prospects of The coming
harvest are far from encouraging. We are not fond of
indulging in gloomy forebodings ; but although copious
rain vouchsafed early might yet banish the yellow tint
from the wheat blade and from the oat plant, which is
more of an aquatic, an average yield is scarcely to be ex-
pected ; and barley, beans, and peas have suffered still
eraNle'ribdr
more from the want of an adequate supply of rain, that
indeed has not fallen in sufficient quantity for nourish-
ment since the seed was committed to the ground.—Ayr
Advertiser.
b ri dSguel"edsiceude do n from
satura_
the unfortunate woman who flung herself from Waterloo-
-017 AT WATERLOO BRlDGE.—CarOlille Swaite,
th e exertionsmorning,bouft
watery
Satur-
day morning in King's College Hospital, front the effects of
the injuries she sustained on her descent from the battle-
ments of the
.bridge. She was married, and resided at 43,
An incident of a very a who
Waterman, was
r
Portpoel-lane, Gray's Inn-lane. She committed the rash act
in consequence of a quarrel with her husband.
singular character, and
which, but for almost providential interference, might
have been attended with most fatal consequences, oc-
curred to the Rev. Mr. Crook, of Bromley, on Sunday
evening. The Rev. Gentleman had been to officiate at
Keaton church, and was returning home about ten
o'clock in his chaise, when, after be had gone a short
distance, the horse 'from some cause or other became
unmanageable, and started off at full speed, going down
the steep descent called Mason's-hill at a furious pace.
He proceeded in his career to the Bromley turnpike, the
gate of which was shut and fastened, and before any
alarm could be given, or the turnpike-keeper had an
opportunity to open it, the animal dashed against the
bar and shivered it asunder, dragging the chaise through
after him. The Rev. Gentleman kept his seat, and the
horse continued at the same speed to Bromley, where he
was stopped. It was found upon examination that nei-
ther the horse, chaise, nor harness had received the
slightest inttry, And the only mischief done was the
damage to e toll-bar

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROUSE OF LUI?DS, June 3.

The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were Lord Brougham, Lord Cott,inham, Lord Campbell, and
the Earl of Stradbroke.

BROWN V. 1300ILMAN.

The further arguments in this part-heard appeal ocatpied
their Lordships the whole day.

COURT OP CHANCERY, June 3.
The Lord Chancellor did not sit till eleven o'clock to-•day.

SAYER V. WAGSTAFF.

The further arguments in this part-heard effuse petition
occupied his Lordship the whole morning.

BAIL COURT, June 3.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)

IN THE MATTER OF THE QUEEN V. ARTHUR SAMUEL CAULES.

Mr. HORNE, in this case, moved for a rule to show cause
why the attorney for the prosecution, Mr. Heywood, should
not pay the defendant 86/. 9s. 6d. The indictment was pre-
fi against the defendant for erecting a stall in the High-
street of Dartmouth, but on the Learned Judge saying he
would tell the jury that the question they had to try was
whether the stall was erected with bona fides, the attorney
for the prosecution offered to withdraw the indictment, and
pay the costs of the day, which was assented to. Several
notices were served on Mr. Heywood that they were about to
tax the costs, but he never appeared. The costs were ulti-
mately taxed to the amount of 86/. 9s. 6d.—Rule granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. <
(YE STE RDAY.)
CLERKEIVIVELL.
Elias Bucey, a carver and gilder, residing at 15,
Suffolk-street, Camden-town, and Mary Crawley, of
31, Easton-street, Wilmington-square, were charged
with having been drunk and fighting on the previous
night, at 20, Lloyd-square, the residence of Mr. Tindal,
late churchwarden of Clerkenwell parish.
The male prisoner's face was covered with blood and
bruised, the hair of the female was dishevelled, and both
presented abundant evidence of having been engaged in
recent conflict.
Mr. Tindal and his family having gone to the country,
the servant, Mary Bucey, who was left in care of the
place, invited the prisoner and several of her male and
female acquaintances to spend the previous (Sunday)
evening with her. The party arrived, the bottle circu-
lated freely, and the fun grew fast and furious—in fact,
nothing could exceed the hilarity which prevailed, when,
in an unpropitious moment, the subject of the Irish State
trials and the sentence upon Mr. O'Connell was men-
tinned. Great difference of opinion prevailed. The
male prisoner, backed by a very strong party, contended
that the trials were all right, and that the sentence was
just; but Mrs. Crawley, a daughter of " the Green Isle,"
thought otherwise, and enforced her opinion in so earnest
and vehement a manner, that crowds of people were
attracted to witness the dispute. The parties at length
adjourned to the street, where Mrs. Crawley finding her
logical weapons insufficient, rushed to give striking
proofs of her sincerity,
" And prove her doctrine orthodox
By divers bruises, blows, and knocks."
In fact she belaboured poor Bucey so wofully that were
it not for the timely arrival of the police he would have
speedily found himself in a far worse condition than the
State prisoners.—The police took both parties into
custody.
111 r. BINGHAM—WeII, prisoners, what have you to say?
Bucey—Well, I said O'Connell was the dupe of the
Irish people, arter she said he was the Liberator. I
did'nt think he was the "cheese."
Mrs. Crawley—Yes, I said ho was the Liberathur—it
was a cowardly thing to throw wathur on a dhrowning
rat. I said he had'nt a fair thrial.
Both parties having finally expressed their regret at
their misconduct, they were d'scharged.
John Harper was charged with having fraudulently
represented himself as an inspector of police, and with
having assaulted police-constables 216 G, and 75 G.
The prisoner, a wellAressed, middle aged person, de-
scribed himself as a warehousman in Cheapside.
Police-constable 75 G, having been on duty in St.
John-street, between eleven and twelve o'clock on the
previous night, was rudely accosted by the prisoner,
who seemed to be perfectly sober. The witness did not
recollect the first expression he used, but he seized the
constable by the collar and insisted on taking down his
number. He was quietly permitted to do so. He then
ran down Wilderness-row, but soon returned, and with-
out having received the least provocation, struck 75 G
on the mouth, and when 216 G attempted to stop him,
he struck that officer a violent blow on the head ; said
he was an inspector of police, and defied any constable
to interfere with him.—lle was taken to the police
sation.
The prisoner expressed regret for his conduct, but
gave no explanation of it.
Mr. BINGHAM cautioned him against the repetition of
it, and told him that for falsely personating an inspector
of police he subjected himself to a fine of 101, or a long
term of imprisonment. In default of the payment of fine
he was committed to prison for five days.
Isabella Bowyer was charged with robbing Mr.
George Taylor of a purse containing 8/.
On Saturday night Mr. Taylor, who lives in 28, Iron-
monger-street, St. Luke's, was returning home between
eleven and twelve o'clock. The prisoner came up to him
in Holborn, and jocosely asked him if he were good na-
tured ; he took no notice of her, but she walked almost
by his side, followed by another female up Liquorpond-
street, and into Charles-street, Hatton-garden; when he
came opposite to a dark gateway there, she, with sudden
violence, pushed him into it, and, thrusting her hand into
his pocket, abstracted the purse and immediately ran
away with it, She ran to the other female, who at-
tempted to hold the prosecutor, but he burst away from
her and finally arrested the prisoner, who had only the
empty purse on her person.—Committed for trial,
. Bartholomew Downey, of No. 2, Brook-court, Holborn,
was charged with having been drunk and riotous, and
creating a crowd in Holborn Unian Workhouse, and
also with having deserted his wife and family, whereby
they had become chargeable to the Holborn union.
Mr. Wilkes, the overseer, deposed that on the 17th of
January the prisoner's wife applied to him for relief,
stating that her husband having deserted her, she, with
her children, were utterly destitute. He administered
out-door relief to them from that time to the present.
On the previous evening the prisoner came to the work-
house drunk. He assaulted Barlow the porter, and by
the violence of his conduct attracted a great crowd
round the workhouse.
Upon further inquiry, and from the prisoner's own
admission, it was ascertained that he had never left his
family at all, but consumed in idleness the relief meant
-tbr his wife and children. Whenever the overseer visited
the house he secreted himself.
Mr. BINGHAM regretted to observe that this was
becoming a very commonl3ractice. A case came before
him a short time ago in Worship-street Police-court, in
which the wife who applied for relief to the parochial
authorities stated, that her husband had deserted her,
and was in Birmingham. She even deposed to the truth
of this statement before the magistrate, but it was sub-
sequently ascertained that the husband was at home all
the time, and when the overseer came concealed himself
in a cupboard, where he was ultimately arrested. In
this case the parish authorities would do well to prose-
cute the prisoner at the sessions.
Mr. 11, ilkes promised to do so, and the prisoner was
fined 101., or five days' imprisonment for the assault on
the porter.
John Griffiths- was fully committed for trial for steal-
ing a sovereign, the property of Sarah Bridges, a servant,
at the house of Mr. Richardson, a gentleman, residing
in Belgrave-terrace, Holioway, in which he was tempo-
rarily employed as a painter.
George Piper, a bricklayer, was charged with assaulting
Mr. Burman, the proprietor of the Bagnigge-wella Tavern,
Bagnigge-wells-road, and also with assaulting Wm. Pride, a
labourer.
It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday night,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, the prisoner, being under
the influence of liquor, went into the Bagnigge-wells Tavern,
and, without having received any provocation whatever,
struck Pride, who was standing quietly )y, several severe
blows on the face. Mr. Burman interfered, upon which the
prisoner struck him with violence on the breast..
The prisoner in defence urged that he had been informed
that Pride had calumniated him, and in the excitement of
the moment struck him.
Mr. BINGHAM said, even supposing what the prisoner said
was true, he had acted most improperly in assuming at the
same moment the offices of judge, jury, and executioner. The
landlord had acted very properly in preventing a riot in his
house, and deserved credit for the part he had taken. He
would fine the prisoner 10s., and bind him over to keep the
peace for three months.
BOW-STREET.
A young boy- was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall,
charged with annoying his master, a tailor, in the Strand.
After the case had been gone into, the boy called his fa.
ther as a witness in his favour, and the usher was about to
administer the usual oath, When the following somewhat
novel scene took place :
Chief Usher—Take the book, Sir. Witness—Yes, with my
hat on.
Usher—What do you mean? Witness—l am a Quaker
bred.—(The witness was not attired in the habit of a
Quaker_.)
Mr. HALL----Do you wish to be sworn or to make an affir-
mation ? Witness—'Tis quite immaterial.
Mr. Hann—What! Do you say it is quite immaterial
whether you are sworn or not? Witness—l am a Quaker
bred and born.
Mr. Hann—Do you mean to tell me that it is a matter of
little consequence whether you are sworn or not? Witness
—lt does not much matter.
Mr. HALL—Then you are quite quite indifferent as to whe-
ther you swear or affirm? itness—Either one or the other.
Mr. HALL—WeII, that is a most extraordinary declara-
tion, and one that is not very creditable to you.
Witness—l have no objection to do anything in the regular
way ; I will do anything you say is regular.
Mr. HALL—I have no power over a man's conscience ; you
must choose for yourself.
Witness—l am not in the habit of coming before gentle-
men like you, Sir.
Mr. HALL—I never heard a Quaker before- who told me
that it was a matter of perfect indifference to him whether
he was sworn or whether he made an affirmation.
Witness—Well, I will be sworn with my hat on.
Mr. HALL.—A Quaker is not sworn at all, nor does he make
an affirmation with his hat on:
Witness—Well, anything that is regular.
Mr. HALL—Do you know anything about the matter that
is before the Court ? Witness-1 es.
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Mr. HALL—Were you present when the annoyance took
place ? Witness—No, I was not.
Mr. HALL—Oh, then, we can do without your evidence.
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his companions standing near the bridge at the Camden-
town
astation
he deliberately threw over the wall on to the line, and
witness soon afterwards found it lying within four
inches of the rail. He went after the prisoner, and took
him into custody, when he denb:l having
stone, and said he had merely ben playing with a ball.
Witness produced the stone, which weighed nearly 2lbs.
Mr. RAIPLINSON (to the prisoner)—Thin is a very

serious offence, and one which might have caused the
death of parties travelling. What do you mean by such
conduct? Prisoner—l didn't throw any stone, Sir ;it
was a ball that I had been playing ‘vith.
The constable said there was no ball on the line near
the spot, and he was quite certain that the stone which
he had broltAt forward for the inspection of the Magis-
trate was thrown on the line by the prisoner.
Mr. RAAVLINSON convicted the prisoner in the miti-
gated penalty of 10s. ; in default of payment, one
month's imprisonment.
Timothy Steel, an Irish labourer, was charged by John
Edgar, of 12, Queen-street, Edgeware-road.
It appeared that on Saturday night last, as complain-
ant was walking quietly towards home, the prisoner,
without saying a word, struck him a violent blow on the
head ; he (the prisoner) also attempted to hit him with
a hod which he had in his left hand. A policeman then.
arrived, and after much difficulty the prisoner, who was
very drunk, was conveyed to the station-house.
In reply to the charge, prisoner said, " Faith, yer
Honour, I know nothing about it at all, at all ; and its
thrue that I didn't know I was locked up till I woke in
the cell yesterday morning."—He was fined 20s.
Robert Donaldson, a well-dressed young gentleman, who
described himself as a clerk in a counting-house, but who
was stated by the officers of the Court to be a son of Mr.
Donaldson, of the firm of Courage and Donaldson, the emi-
nent brewers, was charged with assaulting the police.
Police-constable 212 D said, that about two o'clock
that morning, he was passing through Oxford-terrace,
when he thought he heard a faint call of police, and he
went in the direction of the sound, but without seeing
any one. He, however, heard a faint groan, and
looking more narrowly about, observed the prisoner lying on
the flags, with his gold watch lying on the pavement beside
him. Witness asked hint where he lived, and he used a most
abominable expression, and said, "Take that, you —," at
the same time striking witness a blow under the chin, and
knocking him back with great violence. He took him (the
prisoner) then into custody, and told him he must go to the
station-house. He did go about twelve yards, and then he
kicked witness's feet from him, but a brother constable coming
up, he was eventually lodged in the station-house.
Mr. ItAwuNsoN—Well, Sir, you look a gentleman. what
can you say to this? Prisoner—Well, I must have been in
a dreadful state of intoxication, that's certain. I've been
punished though (and the prisoner passed his hand across a
scar in his cheek, the mark of his too close contact with " the
stones") ; but I.really have no recollection of anything that
occurred.

Mr. RAwLINSON—I must endeavour to improve your me-
mory for the time to come. You are fined 405., Sir ; and let
me say, Sir, that I think your conduct most disgraceful, and
you deserve to be made an example of.
The prisoner had left the Court before the wotthy Magis-
trate's admonition was ended.