The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

OXFORD, Nov. 29.—The following class list has just
been published:—

1. henry J. Coleridge, Trinity College; Chichester S.
Fortescue, Christ Church ; John W. Slegg, New Inn
Hall; Edward T. Turner, Trinity College.
2. Matthew Arnold, Balliol College; Frederick Blom-
field, Exeter College ; Gardner D. Englehart, Christ
Church ; Hugo D. Harper, Jesus College ; George E.
Hughes, Oriel College ; John G. Orger, Wadham Col
lege; Theodore J. Prichard, Magdalen College.
3. Edward Armytage, University College ; Thomas
Balston, Brasenose College ; James Banks and William
Barrett, Lincoln College ; George Butterworth, Balliol
College; Arthur 11. Hamilton, St. John's College; Wil-
liam F. J. Kaye, Balliol College ; Charles Lloyd, Christ
Church ; Richard C. W. Ryder, Wadham College ;
Henry T. Whateley, Christ Church.
4. Beckford Bevan and Henry G. Brown, Christ
Church ; John J. Oilman, Worcester College; William
G. Clark, Oriel College ; Henry E. Cramer, Robert
Lawson, William L. Gronow, and Charles Marson,
Christ Church ; Percy M. Lousader, Merton College ;
George Scaife, Lincoln College ; Thomas F. Smith,
Queen's College ; Philip S. Swanwick, Brasenose Col-
lege ; Henry M. Walker, Oriel College ; Francis G.
White, Lincoln College ; Henry H. Wyatt, Queen's
College.
H. Liddell, J. Wilson, E. C. Woolcombe, A. W. Had-
dan, Examiners in Literis Humanioribus.
Of those in the first class three are on the foundation
of their colleges, and ono independent member.
In the second class four are on the foundation, and
three independent members.
In the third class six are on the foundation, and four
independent members.

In the fourth class six are on the foundation, and nine
independent members.
There is no nobleman or gentleman commoner in the
list.

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. 29.—1 n the
Foreign wool market there is no material change to
report this week. Although buyers have not been so
numerous, a fair amount of business has been done,
and prices are very firm.
ENGLISH WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. 29.—There
has been a fair demand for combing and clothing
wool this week, and last week's prices are firmly
maintained.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. 29.—Since
our last week's report, several of our large consumers
of long wool have been in as buyers, and considerable
sales have been made at fully last week's rates, which
has imparted more firmness to the trade generally.
LEEDS.—On Saturday the cloth markets at both
halls were dull, but on Tuesday there was a full ave-
rage business done as compared with the markets of
the last few weeks. The stocks of beavers, pilot-
cloths, and heavy tweeds, have been much reduced,
and are now less than usual at this season, but fine
and middle qualities still continue dull of sale, and
without any alteration in price. There is little doing
in finished goods except to order, very few buyers
are visiting the market, and the foreign houses are
very still.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is a con-
tinued improvement in the demand for combing wool ;
and of some kinds, such as middling wethers and good
bold sorts, the market is not abundantly supplied;
but as no improvement in price is yet current to in-
duce the staplers to get a fresh supply from the
grower, it is not improbable the market may be a
turn higher. The firmness in the wool market has
made the position of the spinner even worse than be-
fore ; and at the present prices for yarns, the spinners
are compelled to continue their curtailed regulations
till they can get a corresponding price, compared with
the raw material. There is a full average attendance
of merchants here to-day, and their operations a little
more extensive, which we expect will be continued
for so►ne weeks, in order to enable them to get a sup-
ply of goods ready to meet the next fair at Leipzic,
in January. The change in the weather during the
week is also looked favourably upon by the home
trade houses, whose business has not been so exten,

HOPE V. HARNAM AND OTHERS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. KELLY, having stated the case to the jury, pro,
ceeded to call witnesses to support his case.
Among the witnesses called were Mr. Hartz, of whom
Mr. Philip Hope had purchased a great portion of the
gems contained in the cabinet. He deposed to the state
of the cabinet in 1832, 1838, and subsequently. He
had seen Mr. H. P. Hope, deposit the vellum writing in
the drawer of the cabinet, and had been frequently in-
formed by Mr. H. P Hope that he had given the cabinet
to Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope. On his cross-
examination by Sir Thomas Wilde, it was elicited
that, between 1832 and 1838, a great many jewels which
had formed part of the collection, had been sold or ex-
changed. He also admitted that a sapphire had been
purchased for the collection. Viscount Beresford, who
stated that the plaintiff was her son ; that her eldest
son, Mr. H. T. Hope, had inherited the bulk of the
property of her late husband, Mr. Thomas Hope ;
that the property of her late husband's brother
Mr. Adrian Hope, who died in Holland, had been divided
into two parts, one part of which had been inherited by
Mr. H. P. Hope (who had a great aversion to the legacy
duty), and the other part had been divided equally be-
tween her sons. Henry Thomas, Adrian, and Alex-
ander Beresford, that Mr. H. P. Hope had left
his pictures to Mr. H. T. Hope, and his china and
bronzes to Mr. Adrian Hope, and that Mr. H. P. Hope
had asked her, in 1838, if she thought that Mr. Alex-
ander Beresford Hope would preserve his collection of
gems intact if he left them to him, to which
she replied in the affirmative ; that in April,
1838, Mr. H. P. Hope gave her Ladyship
a sealed parcel to be delivered to Mr. A. B.
Hope, after his, Mr. H. P. Hope's death. That parcel, by
the evidence of Gibbs, the footman, and of Banks, the
butler in the Beresford family, was traced into the pos-
session of Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope, and by the
evidence of Viscount Beresford was ;proved to have con-
tained a deed of gift dated April, 1838, of the gems in
question to Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
The deed was then put in and read, as was the probate had less doing in cloth this week, though a great OLD COURT.
of the will of Mr. H. P. Hope.
(Before Mr. Justice MAIILE and Mr. Commissioner
business must be reported : still there is not the brisk-
The case for the plaintiff having closed,
BULLOCK, &c.)
ness and buoyancy that existed on this day week. The
Sir T. WILDE, for the executors, contended that it was
MANSLAUGHTER ON THE RIVER.—A . young man,
home market is rather more still, but, for a month
evident the deed was not intended to operate imme- named Samuel Simms, was indicted for having, while in
before Christmas, this is by many anticipated. The
diately, for Mr. H. P. Hope was very fond of the jewels,
command of the Waterman steamer, No. 6, improperly
demand for yarns has also rather declined, but a 8 run down) a small boat, rowed by Edward Everett,
and therefore was not likly to have given his nephew
the power of ousting him of possession during there are no stocks, and many large spinners engaged licensed waterman, and containing four passengers, by
his lifetime. No one knew of the deed. Not till the new year, there is no change in value. which the said Edward Everett and another person were
even Lady Beresford or Mr. Alexander Hope. BA.RNSLEY.—The trade of this town is uncom- drowned. The body of the first-named person was af-
as long as Mr. H. P. Hope lived. Mr. H. P. Hope was monly brisk, particularly in the branch of fancy terwards found, and these proceedings were instituted in
consequence.
uverse to the payment of the legacy duty, and there drills, so much so that the weavers are scarce; and
could be no doubt but that he intendad this
Mr. Justice MAULE having summed up the evidence,
well they may be, when the manufacturers are confirm-
deed to operate as a will. In fact, it was
ally reducing their wages.—Leeds Mercury. the jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an
a will and not a deed, for he had never parted
with his power over the deed, or over the property, absence of four hours, returned a verdict of Guilty, but
until his death. The deed, therefore, was not a perfect recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principal of New Inn
deed, and the party could take nothing History under it. He
pearance, was indicted for the manslaughter of Mary,
his nephew should have the power of depriving him of
city of Oxford, is appointed by her Majesty to be Dean
asked the jury, did Mr. Henry Philip Hope intend thathis wife. It appeared from the evidence of the nurse
of Carlisle.
emploe on e occasion that te p's wife
Possession of the jewels the day after he had exe- SINGULAR CASE.--During the last week, a woman confineydd in the month of 'August h
last, andrisoner that aboutwas a
i cuted it, for if he did not the deed was void, named Mary Hewett, made application to the magis- fortnight after that event she left the prisoner and his
He submitted that the so-called deed was not a deed at trates under the following peculiar circumstances : wile in their bed-room together, and that soon after she
all ; that there was nothing to show that it was She was the widow of the late Thomas Hewett, a pri- heard a noise and a kind of scuffling g on te
intended to operate as a deed. There was, be- vate in the 48th Regiment, to whom she had been mar- room. She listened, and heard the Prisoner'oings wife in
ay to
to
sides an alteration made in the body of the tied 40 years, and had shared active service with hies him, " You may pinch me, or kick me, but I will never
deed in describing the cabinet, which was sufficient to for twenty-seven years. Whilst in the regiment she bore give in." On the following day the nurse again saw her;
vitiate it. The cabinet described in the deed was a seven sons, five of whom are dead ;of the two survivors, she was then insensible. A medical man was sent for,
former old cabinet ; that description had been erased, one is in the Coldstream Guards and the other in the who did what he thought necessary for her, but she died
and a description of the dimensions of the present cabi- 12th regiment, now lying in the Isle of France. on the 17th of the month. Several medical gentlemen,
net inserted in pencil. That erasure being unaccounted This female veteran accompanied her husband in all who had made a post mortem examination of the de-
for, vitiated the deed entirely. The property, therefore, his peninsular campaigns, sharing all his hardships, ceased's body, were next called, but their evidence was
remained undisposed of, and passed by his will.
and being present at ten general engagements, namely, extremely conflicting as to the cause of the death of the
Lord DENMAN, in summing up, told the jury that the Talavera, Albuera, Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, deceased, and there being no evidence:beyond that of the
question was, whether the delivery under the deed of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Neville, Orthes, and Thoulouse, nurse as to any ill-treatment of her on the part of the
gift had been so complete as to vest the property in She had lived as servant to General Hamilton, and at the prisoner, the Jury, without troubling Mr. Ballantine to
the plaintiff. If it were not, then the plaintiff battle of Albuera, when the Duke of Wellington had an address them oa his behalf, returned a verdict Acquitting
could not claim the property. If the deed were properly interview with that General, she had the honour of the prisoner.
executed, so that the person witnessing the deed, or any handing his Grace a glass of water, being the only re- EXTORTION.—John Bennett was indicted for obtaining
other person knew of its contents, although the donor freshment he would take. At that battle the mule on a watch, with chain, seals, &c., a purse, and other ar-
might not, that would be a good delivery. They would which she rode was frightened by a shot striking close titles from William Faulker, under a threat of eharg-
therefore consider whether he intended at the time to her, and she was thrown off. She took care of Col. ing him with a nameless offence.
of executing the deed, to part with the property to Aer. Minto when wounded at the battle of Vittoria. She Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
A. B. Hope if he did, the execution was a good one, was taken prisoner by the French in the retreat on Sala- Robinson for the prisoner.
There was, however, a difficulty upon the face of the deed manta, and made her escape disguised in man's attire The prosecutor stated that he was a chemist, and had
itself. The description of the cabinet was most impors By the death of her husband she was deprived of all lodgings in Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. On the 10th
tent. If the original description, that of the old cabi- means of support, and having three daughters to main- of November he had been to Regent-street, and on his
net, had stood, great doubts might arise as to whether tain, she applied for relief, and wished to be forwarded way home he accidentally met with the prisoner, who
anything was given at all, but that description had been to London, to see the Duke of Wellington, who she was previously an utter stranger to him. They en-
altered ; the question was, had or had not those altera- was confident would assist her. On Monday last, the tered into conversation together. Witness went into a
rations taken place before the execution of the deed, If Deputy Mayor wrote a letter recommending her case to tavern in Fleet-street, where he was followed
they had been made before execution the deed the Noble Duke, and the guardians agreed to allow her by the prisoner. Witness called for half-a-pint of
was valid, if not the deed was invalid. The expenses to and from London, provided they were as- stout, and prisoner did the same. Witness paid
question for their decision was Did mr,H. P. sured of the Duke of Wellington's being in town before both, and soon after, it being then near twelve o'clofoeck
Hope intend to part with the property to Mr. Alex_ she is sent there. We understand that, in consequence at night, he left the tavern, and went home. ne let
ander Beresford Hope, when he executed the deed, of Mr. Freeman's letter, the Noble Duke has written to himself in with a latch-key, and having gone up sairs
With regard to the clause reserving •to Mr. H. P. Hope the Rev. J. D. Burton to make inquiries on the subject ;to his bed-room struck a light. Having done so,
het was
an almost unlimited power over the property during I and in the meantime has, with
.his characteristic kind- alarmed and surprised at finding the prisoner standing
his life it was a question of law for consideration after- ness, sent the poor woman a present of money. Mrs. 1 elongside of him. The prison locked Ihe door, and
wards what might he the effect of that clause, rather Hewitt is a tall respectable-looking person; and Mr. demanded 51. of him, saying herould neve stook the
than a question for the consideration of the jury. Wilde, the City Coroner, in whose parish she now re- room until he had it. The prisoner ultimately from
...... him his watch, &c. Prosecutor at length having some-
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict sides, has taken a great deal of interest in her case.
for the plaintiff—Damages, 40,0001. I' Norfolk Chronicle, what recovered from his fright, went down atm) and

His LORDSHIP reserved the point, as also one that was
taken on the second count, laying the intent to defraud
Dresser and others, that the Bank could not be described
in that form, but only by their public officer.
The prisoner was found Guilty,

sive as was looked for. In prices no marked differ.
ence is notable.