The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 17.—CougregatiOns for granting graces and
conferring degrees will be holden on the following days in
the present term :—Thursday, May 22 ; Thursday, June 5 ;
Thursday, June 26 ; Saturday, July 5 ; and on Tuesday,
July 1, solely for the purpose of admitting inceptors to their
regency.
The following have been appointed masters of the schools
for the ensuing year :—The Rev. —.Harris, of Magdalen
College ; the Rev. T. Brancker, of Wadham College ; the
Rev. H. H. Cornish, of Magdalen Hall.
The Rev. J. T. B. Landon, Fellow of Magdalen College, has
been appointed a pro-proctor.
Messrs. G. D. Bowles, G. W. Randolph, and E. C. Burton,
have been admitted students of Christchurch from West-
minster School.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of this Company was held at
the Railway station, in York, on Saturday last, for the pur-
pose of considering the drafts of a series of Bills before Par-
liament, and now submitted for the approval of the Share-
holders, agreeably with the provisions of the standing orders
of the House of Lords.
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The attendance of- Shareholders was very numerous.
George Hudson, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors presided.
lYinoerkof the York and Scar-
The CHAIRMAN entered into a statemeanntareNgaorrdthing3tihideldanisa-
putes between this Company and the Great North of England
Company. . He presented four Bills to the meeting- con-
nected with the line, which had all to be considered. The
onfatilliweaY3roerkinaPnadnYNorth Mid-
fißrasitl
Railway
ys a
Companyßill fo retnea enabling
the
ee
to make a
borough Railway near the city of York. The second, a Bill
for enabling the York and North Midland Railway Company
to make a railway from the -line of the Leeds and Selby
Railway to Goole. The third, a Bill for enabling the York
banradnlc
land Railway to Harrogate. And the fourth, a Bill for en-
abling the York and North Midland Railway Company to
make a branch railway from the line of the York and Scar-
'horrkaialwnde3N,
from
mth
the
ed
borough Railway, in the township of Seamen, to Bridlington.
The CHAIRMAN then submitted the following resolutions :
"That this meeting approves of the formation of a branch
railway from the York and Scarborough Railway to Pock-
lington, Market Weighton, and Beverley ; and also to
Brough, or such other point on the Hull line as may be
deemed expedient ; and that the Direct ors of this Company
be authorised to came the necessary surveys and estimates to
be made."
"That the Directors be empowered, and this meeting doth
hereby authorise them to borrow, under the powers and pro-
visioas of the several Acts of Parliament relating to this
Company, such sum or sums of money as they may find
necessary for the completion of the works thereby authorised
to be made."
The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then referred to the leasing of the Selby
and Hull line by this Company, which lie thought would be
worked with great economy and facility. The trains to
Hull would be facilitated by at least half an hour, and ar-
rangements generally were in progress to benefit that port.
The meeting then separated.

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y,
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM ISAILWAY.—NON 411-
ifborciebrl!thele-idTuce of the results of low
standing the reduction altogether of. 25 per cent. in the pas-
senger fares, and as much in their good charges, the last
week of last
year.w eek 's
'!'Listaffi traffic
is pretty
2,800
per annum.
fares and quick _trains, combined, With skilful adaptation of
them to the public wants.
.18 e. have given it in one week,
_built ifer caaprartile,soßvaerilwthaeyy3eisargiatzTeil exceed 140,0001.
On Tuesday, the 22i1 of
.April, the Blackmore
Vale harriers found a roe buck in Houghton Wocd, and
killed him in one hour and thirty-five minutes, and on taking
him up he was found to Fosses3 only a single horn growing
cut of the centre of his forehead. A. more curious specimen
of malformation was never seen, and some experienced game-
keepers who were present declared that this was the only
bees nature of the kind ever known in the history of the
roebuck.—Sherburne Journal.