The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-07 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 2.—ln a Convocation holden this day, the
Rev. Carter Hall, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, was ad-
mitted ad eundem.
In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following
degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts—Edmond Peel, Brasenose, Grand Com-
pounder ; Godfrey Meynell, Brasenose ; Rev. John Wallas,
Queen's; Rev. John Merry, Queen's; Rev. Philip Chabert
Kidd, Christ Church; William Latham Bevan, Magdalene
Hall ; James Bateman, Magdalene ; Rev. James Peers Tweed,
Fellow of Exeter; Rev. John Francis Kitson, Exeter; Martin
Joseph Routh, Scholar of Pembroke ; Rev. Edwai d Hutton
Burnett, Merton.
Bachelors of Arts—William J. Evelyn, Balliol College,
Grand Compounder; Edward M. Evans, University Col-
lege, Grand Compounder; James Barmby, University Col-
lege ; James Riddell, Balliol College ; Charles Spackman,
New Inn Hall; Robert Hake, St. Edmund Hall; Thomas
Hanbury, St. Edmund Hall ; Samuel Thomas Brandram,
Wadham College ; William De Laney West, St. John's ;
Henry John Ball, St. John's George John Blomfield,
Exeter ; John Henry Brookes, Brasenose ; Joseph W. Bar-
low, Brasenose; Edmund Swetenham, Brasenose; Asherton
Pownall, Brasenose.
This day Edward Tindal Turner, 8.A., Scholar of Trinity
College, was elected Fellow of Brasenose College.
The Public Examination, in Disciplinis Mathematicis et
Physicis, will commence on the 19th of May. The Exa-
miners are G. F. Donkin, Esq., M.A., of University Col-
lege; the Rev. H. Pocock, M.A., Fellow of Queen's Col-
lege; and the Rev. Henry Reynolds, 8.D., Fellow of Jesus
College.
Dunitnar, MAY I.—At a Convocation holden on Tuesday
last, the following persons ware presented and admitted ad
eundem :
Masters of Arts—The Rev. John Clarke Dixon, University
College, Oxford; the Rev. Samuel Herbert Hawkins, Jesus
College, Oxford.
Bachelor of Arts—Henry Baker Tristram, Lincoln College,
Oxford.
Prideaux Selby, M.A., of St. Johns, Cambridge, was ad-
Mitted air eundem; by vote of the house.
" The following degrees were conferred :
• - Masters of .Arts,--George Hayton, B.A. ; Rev. William.
Sweeting; 8.A..; Rev; Christopher Edward Wyvill,
:Bachelors' of ,Artsl--George Cobinsou• Kewley, Eduard
Smith, John Cooke Tylden riattenson, Hugh Robert Cun-
nynghame, Thomas Loxliam, Frederick Harvey. Freeth,
Hopkins Badnall,' Thomas Unthank Gibson, R. W.. S. A.
Alderson, Thomas William Wilkinson.
Graces were_apasso for granting a term to four students
' on aeCourtt of Illtiess find other special ca_ rises; for setting the
seal of the Vniversily'to certain lease., 'clad for the purchtise
of some freehold property.
'Thefolloivingperisotis were notnintited- by the Warden, and
approved by thb house 'for their respective.offices
To be Examiners, Theolog:,=The ProfessorofDivinity ;

the Rev. Robert Hussey, Christ Church; Oxford, Kro
fessor of Ecclesiastical. History in the University of Oxford;
the Rev. Thomas Legh Clanton, M.A., Trinity College,
Oxford.
To be Examiners in Arts—The Professor of Greek ; the

Professor of Mathematics; the Rev. Pices Calverley Cleugh-
ton, ➢I.A., University College, Oxford; the Rev. Edward
Cockey, M.A., Wadham College, Oxford.

EXTENSIVE FIRE NEAR SIT-
TINGBOURNE, KENT.
Between nine and ten o'clock a most destructive fire,
which illuminated the surrounding country for many
miles, broke out in the stabling belonging to Mr. Lud-
gater, farmer, of Lower Halston, about four miles from
Sittingbourne. The premises, which form an extensive
range, consisting of substantial barns and granaries,
stacks of corn, stables for several horses, sheds for
agricultural implements and waggon lodges, are, with
their contents, completely consumed, and the total less
is not less than 2,0001. For some time it was thought
that the fire originated through the act of some vile in-
cendiary, as during the last fortnight two other tires
have taken place, involving a vast destruction of agricul-
tural produce arising from such cause. We are happy,
however, in being able to state, from the fact of our re-
porter being upon the spot at the time, and until nine
o'clock on Monday morning, that in this case such
is not the fact, the outbreak being purely accidental, as
the following statement, procured from the " second
boy" in the employ of Mr. Ludgater, will show:—About
nine o'clock on Sunday evening, requiring a light in
order to supper his horses, the lad struck a Lucifer match
near the chaff-bin, and lit a candle, which he placed in
the safety lantern used in the stable. Whilst he was
gone to procure the necessary provender and combine it
in the requisite proportions, about a quarter of an hour
elapsed. When he returned he found the chaff bin on
fire, and immediately he opened the door the flames
mounted upwards with fearful rapidity, seizing in their
course every article of a combustible nature. The con-
sequence was, that in a very short space of time the
whole of the stable, from the racks to the roof, was en
fire. With great presence of mind the lad tied cloths
which lay handy round the eyes of the horses, and by
these means they were led quietly from the danger
which surrounded them. The neighbours in the isolated
cottages skirting the immediate vicinity, with the utmost
remliness and good will, repaired to the scene of de-
atruction, and a mounted express was sent off without
delay to Mr. White, of Sittingbourne, for the Plicenix
engine, and to the Kent Fire -office, for the powerful one
belonging to their establishment in the same town. Post
horses were immediately furnished, and in less than half
an hour after their receipt of the information both en-
gines were upon the spot. Fortunately a rivulet, branch-
ing from the Swale, at King's Ferry, flows close by the
farmyard, and consequently no lack or scarcity of water
was experienced. Notwithstanding the utmost exertions
of the firemen, the fire continued to spread with fright-
ful rapidity from the stabling to the stacks of wheat
and beans in the yard, and thence to the sheds contain-
ing the agricultural implements and the waggon lodges,
all of which were totally consumed. We regret to state
that upon the intelligence being communicated to Mr.
Ludgater, he fell down insensible, and that he has since
suffered considerably by the violence of the shock.
About 300 quarters of grain are destroyed, besides 150
quarters of beans and other produce, must of which,
however, is insured in the Norwich Union Fire-office.
The fire was not fully extinguished, nor had the engines
ceased to play yesterday (Monday) morning at nine
o'clock, when the reporter left for Faversham. Mr.
Ludgater bears an excellent character amongst his
labourers and throughout the entire vicinity of Sitting-
' bourne and FaVersham, where he is well known, and is
highly respected.

THE FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT GREENWICH.-011
Monday a jury was impannelled before Mr. C. J. Cutter, at the
White Swan, Blackheath-road, to investigate the circumstances
attending thi death of Robert Barry Flinch (the infant son of
John Drako Flinch, Esq of the firm of Smith and Flinch,
tors, Croom's-hill, Greenwich), whose body was found dead, with
!.is head nearly separated therefrom, on Sunday morning (the par-
ticulars of which appeared in The Sun of yesterday). After a
lengthened examination of several witnesses, the jury consulted
together about five minutes, and returned e verdict of " Wilful 1
Murder egainit Martha-Utley.",