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

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE I.—There will be an eleettion 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 certificate.; 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 Sophista" 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, nt the Clarendon.
A congregation will be holden on Tuesday, the 2d of
July, solely for the purpose of admitting Inceptors to
their Regeucy.
Congregations will be holden for granting grac:'s 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 Saera Theologia have appointed
Wednesday, the 12th inst., for the next examination.
Candidates are to deliver 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;
It Ormsby, Fellow of Trinity College; and A. J. Chris-
tie, Fellow of Oriel College, have been nominated Mas-
ters of the schools.

Mr. Macmullen's grace was finally refused on Satur-
day last.
Mr. A. C. St. John Mildmay, 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-
larships have appointed Wednesday, the sth instant, and
ibllowing days, for an examination in the schools, pre-
vious to electing a scholar on that foundation.
An examination of candidates for Mrs. Kennicott's
Hebrew 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.

Rev. 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, 3211. 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 Cro wan, Cornwall, value 451/.
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 the vicarage of Harston, Cambridgeshire, value
244/. per annum.
The Bishop of Winchester has presented the Rev.
A. 13. 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 270/. per annum.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. J. R. P.
Berkeley to the vicarage of St. Clair, Cornwall, value
2451. per annum.
The Rev. E. Nevile has presented the Rev. John Evans,
of Christ Church, to the perpetual curacy of Whixhall,
Shropshire, value 152/. per annum.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE I.—At a congregation just held,
the following degrees were conferred :
D.C.L.—John Vaughan, St. John's College.
B.D.—Thomas Paley, St. John's College.
B.A.—John James Beresford, Albert Cockshott 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 Seaman, Queen's College ; John Henry
Gore Clough, Christ's College ; John Edward Sabin,
Emmanuel College ; Isaac Herbert Wilkinson, Downing
College.
Ad Eundenh—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
Fuller, Caius College ; Arthur David White, Pembroke
College.

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Samuel Robert Carter, 8.A., has just been elected a
Foundation Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Arthur Wolfe, 8.A., has just been elected a Founda-
tion Fellow of Clare Hall.

TEE CHURCIL—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.

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—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
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
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MR. DISRAELI'S " CONINGSI3T.”—We are re-
quested to state that a second edition of " Coningsby, or
the New Generation," by B. D'lsraeli, Esq., M.P., in
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booksellers, and at all the libraries throughout the
kingdom