The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-18 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OxronD; FED. 17.—The ViCeXhancellor has fixed Wed-
nesday next the 22d inst. for the Election of a Burgess to re-
present the University in Parliament, in the room of Mr. Heber.
Mr. EsteOurt will now be returned without opposition, the
friends of Sir Charles Wetherell having declined the contest.
The Examiners appointed by-the Trustees of Dean Ireland's
Foundation have given notice, that an Examination will be
holden in the Convocation House, on Wednesday the Ist of
March, and the following days, for the purpose of electing a
scholar on that Foundation. The Scholarship is open to all
Members of the University who have not exceeded their
SiXteentli Term.
o_s, On Saturday last Henry Le Mesurier was adulated aetuQl

Fellow of New College. •
On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts.—William Woodley Cerjat, Trinity, Grand
Compounder; 11ev. Charles Henry Grove, University, Grand
Compounder; Rev. George Childe, .Magdalen Hall ; Rev,
John St. Vincent Bowen, Brasenose.,
Bachelors of Arts.—Mark Grigson Butcher, Brasenose ;
Edmund Roy, Pembroke; Robert John William 'Wright,
Trinity ; Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, Christ Church.
Eccksiastical Preferment.—The Rev. J. Poore, D.D. to the
Vicarage of Rainham' Kent, void by the resignation of the
Hon, and Rev. Gerard Noel.

VAUXHALL GARDENI3.—These beautiful Gardens, the
boast of Englishmen, and the wonder of all foreigners, will be
conducted next season on a most magnificent scale. IVe un-
derstand that it is the intention of the Proprietors to render the
musical department, what it once was, when the most eminent
singers of the day used to be engaged.—Bishop is to be the
composer and director of the orchestra ; liraham and Hiss
Step lens are named among the, vocalists, who will at once esta•
blish the respectability of the plate, and pave th© way for other
eminent performers. Charles Taylor is engaged, and De Begnis
is spoken of to strengthen the comic department.

We bIU&Il not hesitate, as far as in us lay, to
frustrate e‘ery attempt Ministers shall make to
shift from their own shoulders any part of the
responsibility which they have incurred, in

onsequence of the unparalleled distress that

now pervades, and must for some time
yet continue to pervade, every branch of
;he trading and manufacturing interests of
the kingdom, and which we have said)

and now repeat, arose entirely from their mea-
sures. The Earl of I.lvEttroor,, in his speech
last &ght, reviewed these distresses, and drew
the most pathetic pictures of the direful
effects of what he calls over-trading, and of
the miseries the lower classes endured when
a great country bank failed. These he contrasted
with the beneficial effects of a metallic currency,
resting upon the solid basis of gold, in order to
skew what effect was to be produced by the
measure's then under discussion. The compla-
cency with which the Noble Lord discharged
his duty, was truly astonishing, considering how
deeply implicated he and his-colleagues were in
producing that distress, and compelling merchants
to find employment for their capital, in " rash
speculations" and over-trading.
Whilst Mr. CANNING- was. occupied with Fo-
reign Treaties, and conducting with the utmost
skill, delicate negociations with European na-
tions and the new States of South America,another
pOrtion of the Administration seemed to have
fallen asleep, and to have been utterly regard.-
less of the commercial distress that was spread-
Mgin every directiuni and threatening total ,
ruin to English trade ;, a distress lint
im-
putable to rash speculations, hut to rash
measures, not originating with
,those that en-
dured , the evil, but with those whose situ-
ations placed thipm beyond its reach, except so
far as the public voice might afterwards be
raised in condemnation of the policy which
produced public disaster. We are satisfied AO
believe, that the Minister did not foresee the.evil
the was preparing when the policy we deprecate.