The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-29 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 26.—1 n a Convocation, holden
ox Monday last, the Rev. Joseph Dornford, M.A.
Fellow of Oriel College, was approved as a Public
Examiner in Literis Humanioribus ; and the Rev.
Robert Walker, M.A. of Wadham College as a
Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematiels et
Physicis.
At a Meeting of the Heads of Colleges, holden
on Tuesday, the Rev. Edward Burton, M.A. late
Student of Christ Church, was appointed Bampton
Lecturer for the year 1829.
On Wednesday last, at a Convocation, holden to
elect a Curator of the Sheldonian Theatre, in the
room of the late Dr. Marlow, President of St.
John's, the Rev. Dr. Jenkyns, Master of Balliol,
and Vice-Chancellor of the University, was unani-
mously chosen.
On Thursday the following Degrees were con-
ferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Charles Maybery, Scholar of Jesus.
Henry William Hull, Oriel.
Henry Moresby, Exeter.
George Riggs, Taherdar of Queen's.
Hon. John Mitford, New College.
Rev. Anthony Lewis Lambert, Trinity.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
William Hardy Vernon,
Magdalen Hall.
John Bidgood Bennet,
Robert Atherton Hornhy, Oriel.
The Rev. Richard Sankey, M.A. Scholar of Cor-
ms Christi College, has been admitted a Fellow o
:hat Society.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Richard Dixon, M.A. Fellow of Queen's
College, has been presented by the Provost and
Fellows of that Society to the Rectory of Niton,
with the Vicarage of Godshill, in the Isle of Wight,
vacant by the death of the Rev. John Barwis.
The Rev. William Jackson, B.D. Fellow of
Queen's College, has been instituted by the Lord
Bishop of Carlisle to the Rectory of Lowther, in
the county of Westmorland ; patron, the Earl of
Loasdale.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, to
the Living of Wantage, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Mr. Shaw.
The Rev. John Oakley Hill, M.A., Chaplain of
Christ Church, and Master of the School of that
Society, is appointed Head Master of the Grammar
School, Monmouth.
The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has been
pleased to collate the Rev. Wm. Anthony Fitz-
hugh, M.A., to the Prebend of Warminster, alias
Luxfield, in the Cathedral Church of Wells.
Saturday the Rev. Geo. A. Montgomery, M.A.,
was installed in the Prebend of Ruscomb South-
bury, in Salisbury Cathedral, void by the death of
Rev. J. H. Jacob.
The Rev. Thomas Seabrook, to the Vicarage of
Wickhambrook, Suffolk, on the presentation of the
King.
The Rev. John Edwards, of St. John's College,
Cambridge, one of the Under Masters of Harrow,
to the Head Mastership of Bury Free Grammar
School, in the room of B. H. Malkin, Esq., LL.D.

The Rev. C. J. Gooch, B.A. to the Rectory of
South Cove, Suffolk; patron, Sir Thos. S. Gooch,
Bart.

The Rev. John Hopkinson, M.A. Precentor of
Peterborough Cathedral, to the Rectory of Etton,
Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of his
father, the Rev. S. E. Hopkinson ; patron, the Earl
The Rev. J. Steele, A.M. to the Perpetual Cu-
racy of Cowbit, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. S. H. Langston, to the Living of Aston
Sandford, Bucks.
The Rev. Robert Grant, LL.B. Minister of St.
Southsea, has been elected Fellow of Win-
chester College, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Lear,
deceased. •

On Wednesday a man of the name of LAW,
a watchmaker in town, was found drowned in the
Paisley canal, near Port-Eglinton. He had been missing
since Thursday last. About 12 o'clock that night he lett
a tavern in Trongate, in company with another person,
but did not reach his house, which wasin the neighbour-
hood. His friends became alarmed, and made every pos-
sible exertion to gain a knowledge of his fate. No intel-
ligence, however, reached them till yesterday, when he
was found in the canal. Yesterday forenoon, the body of
another man was found near the same place, but it has not
been claimed. lie is an elderly man, and had a pair of
"sera and a few coppers in his pocket..—Glasgow
Paper.