The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT. 23.---:On Thursday last the Rev.
George Riggs, M.A. of Queen's College, was no-
minated a Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathema-
ticis et Physicis.

On the same day the following Degrees were con
ferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.-William Cripps, Trinity; Rev.
Thomas Harding, and the Rev. John Harding, Worcester;
Rev. Thomas Clarke, Pembroke; Rev. Cyrill William
Page, Student of Christ Church ; William John Blake,
Christ Church; Rev. Thomas Wotton Barlow, Wadham;
Rev. Thomas Arthur Powys,lFellow of St. John's ; Rev.
T somas Lagden Ramsden, St. John's; Thomas Walpole,
B Jliol.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-William Frederick Radclyffe,
Queen's ; John Richardson, Scholar of Queen's ; George
Pigott, Trinity; Moses Mitchell, and William Rawlings,
Magdalen Hail ; Charles Childers, Christ Church ; Geo,
Andrew Jacob, Scholar of Worcester.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Francis S. Newbold, M.A. Rector of
Stickney, Lincolnshire, and late Fellow and Tutor
of Brazenose College, in this University, to the
Head Mastership of Macclesfield Free Grammar
School.

The Rev. E. Berens, Vicar of Schrivenham,
Becks, to the Prebendal Stall in Salisbury Cathe-
dral, void by the death of the Rev. J. Guard.

The Rev. J. Carver, of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, to the Chaplaincy of the London Lying-
in-Hospital.

The. Very Rev. Dr. Foran is appointed Vicar
Cajaitular of the diocese of Waterford.

The Rev. J. Shillibeer, M.A. to the Rectory 01
Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire.

Amongst the private instructions to me (says
DE BOURIENNE in his Memoir) by BUONAPARTE was
the following rather singular order :—" At night," said
he, " you will enter my bed chamber as seldom as possible.
Never awaken me when you have good news to announce.
With good news there is no necessity to hurry When, on
the contrary, you are the depository of evil tidings, arouse
rue instantly; for on such occasions there is not a moment
to be lost."

PRICES OF ADMISSION TO THE OLD
THEATRES.--In the reign of CHARLES I. and 11., there
were six playhouses allowed to be opened at one time in
London, viz. at Blackfriars, for the KING'S company ; the
Globe, on the Bankside; the Bull, in St. John-street;
one in Salisbury-court; and the Fortune and the Cock-
pit, in Drury-lane. The prices paid at some of these
Theatres were low. It was fashionable for the more gay
gallants to sit upon the stage on stools, and these paid as
much as a shilling for their distinguished places. This
was the highest price, and the same was'also the price of
a best box, which was called a room. There was a time,
too, when the pit and galleries paid only a penny. The
admission to the Globe, in SHAESPEARE'S time (about
1603), was one shilling to the boxes, and sixpence to the
pit, and a twopenny gallery is mentioned in the Prologue
to BEAUMONT and FLETCHER'S Woman Hater. Seats
of threepence and a groat are also mentioned ; and after-
wards to some of the houses the prices were from 6d. to
2s. 6d. BEN JONSON speaks of " sixpenny mechanics
sitting in the oblique caves and wedges of the house."
The immense deck of that beautiful vessel, the
Perseverance, lately arrived from Sierra Leone, has but
three lengths of plank, with superior workmanship, and
being fastened with the round-head copper nails, has a fine
effect. She is pierced for sixteen gulls, and has a space of
twelve feet between the ports; her armament is 12-pound
chambered grenades, with the exception of two long 12,
and two long 9-pounders. The binnacle, which is hand-
somely constructed, is of solid brass. She has two cabins,
separated by folding-doors ; the cabin decks are without
perceptible seams; the pillars and pannels are of satin
wood, with handsome ornamental and novel arm stands of
black ebony, fitted with corresponding arms, and superior to
any thing of the kind we have before seen. She is about
three years old, and it is evident that no expense has been
spared in her whole construction, as she is coppered high,
and copper-fastened ; it is said that the owner, Mr. BROCK-
INTON, intends to sell her, if so, the Members of the
Royal Yacht C!ub ought not toadmit so admirable a vessel
to fall into other hands.—Plymouth Journal.
THZ INDIGO SALE.—Since the commence-
ment of the East India Company's sale of Indigo, on Wed-
nesday, more buyers have come forward ; and yesterday
afternoon the biddings were spirited. Up to the conclu-
sion of yesterday's sale, 5,365 chests have passed, and 830
chests have been,withdrawn ; and there remaining only,
1,l 64. chests to be: offered, the whole declaration is ex-
pected to be got through by Tuesday. About 350 chests
of Oude, put up yesterday, sold on moderate terms. Some
Madras were bought in at full prices. Although the ac-
counts are favourable respecting the Indigo crop, the bid-
dines in the last three days have been free. The holders
of Bengal Indigo have, in some instances, realized higher
prices than the Company's marks. The quotations are—
Bengal, Purple and Violet, 7s. to 7s. 6d. ; good and fine
Violet, 6s. to 7s. ; ordinary and midd ling, ss. to 65.;
Violet and Copper, 4s. 9d. to ss. 9d. ; consuming qua-
lities, 3s. to ss. 6d. per lb.—Madras, ordinary to good,
ls. 10d. to 4s. sd.—Manilla, very ordinary to good, sd.
to 3s. 3d.—Oude, ordinary and middling, Is. 3d. to Ss.
3d. ; fine and good, 3s. 6d. to ss. per lb.

STATE OF BARNSLEY.—Wednesday even-
ing, eight o'clock.-Last Thursday evening a gun was
fired before the house of a weaver, named BRADSHAW,
residing in Wilson's-piece, the contents from which passed
through the window shutters, and slightly injured his wife,
who would probably have been killed had not the slug
been nearly spent in going through the shutter. No fur-
ther outrage has since been committed, owing chiefly to
the vigilance of the police. A considerable quantity of
work has been given out at the reduced wages during the
week, and the quantity is weekly increasing, although the
opposition is not at present formally relinquished. Lord
WHARNCLIFFE, the Rev. Dr. CORBF.TT, the Hon. J. S.
WORTLEY, M.P., together with .1. S. STANHOPE and
Joszen BECKETT, Esqrs., have attended at the public-
office to-day, but there has been no public business of
more than ordinary interest. After the Magistrates left the
public-office they met the principal inhabitants of the town
at the White Bear inn, in order to ascertain in what state
the police was at present, so as to enable them to answer
an application from Mr. Secretary PEEL, who had re-
quested to know whether or not the police establishment
was equal to the necessities of the town, and sufficient to
co-operate with the military force now stationed there. It
appeared from the statement of Messrs. JosEnt CLARK,
CHARLES TEE, W. C. MENCE, GEORGE KIER, and
several other gentlemen, that the police had been made
as efficient as was possible, and that every exertion was
used to prevent riots, as well as to bring to justice all of-
fenders.-Leeds Paper.

SUDDEN D EA TH.—Yesterday evening, about
half-past six o'clock, a man, about 40 years of age, sud-
denly dropped down dead in Hatton-garden, neatly oppo-
site to Mr. HARMER's, the solicitor. The unfortunate
man was immediately taken to the Globe public-house, at
the corner of Charles-street, and Mr. SHEPHERD, the
surgeon, was instantly sent for. Mr. BARTEL LOT, over-
seer of St. Andrew's, Holborn, was promptly in attend-
ance, and the body was subsequently removed in a shell
to the workhouse of St. Andrew's parish, to await the
Coroner's inquest. Information was afterwards received
that the unfortunate man's name was SKI NNER., residing
at Thomas-street, Lambeth, by trade a carpenter.

Last night, at nine o'clock, an inquisition was
taken at the King's Head Tavern, Peter-street, Westmin-
ster, before THOMAS HIGGS, Esq., on the body of Mr.
JOHN FINNEY, aged 38, an eminent urmleller, of Addin-
street, Marylebone, who put a period to his existence by
throwing himself out of a window last Sunday morning,
in a fit of delirium, whereby he received the injuries which
terminated in death o❑ Thursday. The Jury returned a
verdict " that the deceased committed suicide, being in a
state of temporary derangement." It was statd on the
inquest that the deceased had been employed on the mo-
delling work of the new Palace at Pimlico, and was con-
sidered a very ingenious man in his profession•

The stealing of horses has of late become very
prevalent in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. Within
the last week, information has been received at the pub-
lic-office, Hatton-garden, of no less than seven horses
being stolen, viz., two from near Tenterden, in Kent ;
two very valuable mares from Coningham-hall, Essex ;
two from a field near Finchley church ; and one from a
field near Cambridge. It is supposed that there is a regu-
larly organized gang of horse-stealers infesting the neigh-
bouring counties of the metropolis, and that their plan is
to transfer the stolen homses from one distant part of Eng-
land to another, using the precaution of travelling with
them as fat as possible during the night, and resting at
some obscure place during the day-time. In most cases
the horses stolen are so altered by docking, trimming, &c.
that they rarely answer the description given of them by
their owners.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT,

At the Court at Windsor, the I•>th day of October, 1829

PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Maj-sty in Council.
Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth year of the
reign of his present Majesty, intituled " An Act to regu-
late the trade of the British possessions abroad," the several
sorts of goods enumereed or ilescribel in a rertsin table
therein contained, denominated "a Table of Prohibitions
and Restrictions," are either prohibited to be imported or
brought, either by sea or by land carriage or navigation,
into the British possessions in America or into the Island
of Mauritius, or are permitted to be imported or brought
into those possessions under the restriction made in such
table; and in and by the said Act provision is made re-
specting the manner in which vessels and goods shall
he entered anti cleared inwards and outwards in the
British possessions in America, and in the said Island
of Mauritius; and for the prevention of smuggling in the
said British possessions in America, and in the said Island
of Mauritius; and whereas by an Act, passed in the seventh
year of his Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to alter
and amend the several laws relating to the Customs ;" and
by an Act, passed in the seventh and eighth year of his
Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act amend the laws re.
Laing to the Customs ;" and by an Act passed in the ninth
year of his Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to amend
the laws relating to the Customs ;" and by an Act, passed
in the tenth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act
to amend the laws relating to the Customs ;" the before-
mentioned provisions of the Act, so passed in the sixth year
of his Majesty's reign, havebeen altered and amended : and
whereas by the said Act, so passed in the sixth year of his
Majesty's reign, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that
it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of
his Privy Council, by any order or orders in Council to be
issued from time to time, to give such directions and make
such regulations, touching the trade and commerce to
and from any British possessions on or near the Conti-
nent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean Sea, or
in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Com-
pany's Charter (excepting the possessions of the said
Company), as to his Majesty in Council shall appear
most expedient and salutary ; and that if any goods
shall be imported or exported in any mariner con-
trary to any such order of his Majesty in Coun-
cil, the same shall be forfeited, together with the
ship importing or exporting the same; his Majesty
(loth therefore, by and with the advice of his Privy
Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested
as aforesaid in him in and by the said Act, so passed as
aforesaid in the sixth year of his reign, order, and it is
hereby ordered, that so much of the said Act, so passed
as aforesaid in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign; and
so much of the said several Acts of Parliament, so passed
as aforesaid in the seventh, and in the seventh and eighth,
and in the ninth, and in the tenth years of his Majesty's
reign, as impose prohibitions and restrictions on the im-
portation of goods into the British possessions in America,
and the Island of Mauritius ; and as relate to the entry of
vessels and goods inwards and outwards in those possessions
and the Island aforesaid ; and to the prevention of smug-
gling there; shall be, and the same are hereby, extended
and made applicable to his Majesty's settlements at Sierra
Leone, and all other his Majesty's settlements on the
Western Coast of Africa.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of
his Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions
herein accordingly. JAMES BULLER.

Whitehall, Oct. 21, 1829.
The King has been pleased to present the Reverend
Charles Boothby. B.A. to the Vicarage of Sutterton, in
the county and diocese of Lincoln, void by the cession of
the said Charles Boothby. .