The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-12 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Ox FORD, MARCH 10.— This day a Congregatien was holden
for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred :
Bachelors of Arts—Sir J. E, Harington, Bart., of Christ
Church ; J. H. Pollen, of Christ Church ; J. Soper, of Mag-
dalen Hall ; A. E. Whieldon, of Trinity College.
A Convocation was afterwards holden for the election of a
Professor of Political Economy, when Dr.. T. Twins, Fellow
of University College, was chosen without opposition.
Yesterday W. 'l'. Hutchins, cf Worcester College, was
elected a Vinerian Scholar without opposition.
The next day appointed for conferring degrees will be on
Saturday, 19th inst., being :he last day of the pi esent Term.

CHURCH-RATE SEIZURES.
LEICESTER.

On Monday, seizures for Church-rates were made upon the
Proprietor of the Leicestershire Mercury ; Mr. Baines,
(known' for his imprisonment for Church-rates) ; Mr. Winks,
(Town-Councillor); and eleven other parishioners of St.
Martin's, Leicester. The property taken amounted to more
than three times the amount of the rates demanded. It will
be sold by auction, in the Town Hall. on Monday next.

FAILURE OF WIGNEY'S BANK.
The insolvency of the bank had been very generally whis-
pered through the principal parts of the town, for an hour or
two previously ; and.there is no doubt that the determination of
the firm to suspend payment had oozed nut shortly after the
closing of the Bank on the previous afternoon, for persons
connected with the military at present occupying our ca-
valry barracks were sent out lata in the evening in all direc-
tions to exchange the notes of the insolvent firm ; and we re-
gret to add that they were successful in numerous instances.
We may at once state, without subjecting ourselves to unplea-
sant remarks, the cause which has brought about the present
calamitous result.

Jr. I. N. Wigney, we learn now, for the first time, hat fir
some years past been engaged in a shawl and merino factory at
Glasgow carried on under the name of " Cochrane and Co."
and conducted by a Mr. Young, who married one of Mr. Wigney's
sisters. In this concern, in which a capital of some 80,000/. is
said to be invested—whether encumbered or not, or wasted, is yet
to be ascertained—great losses have keen sustained during the
last five years; and, in pointof fact, the funds of the Bark have
constantly and continually been drained away during that pe-
riod to sustain this ruinous speculatson. So lately, we believe,
as the 2d or 3d of the present month, a sum of 2,0001. was
paid by Masterman and Co., for the purposes of this Glasgow
House ; and, we believe, it was not till the drawers of the
bank were completely exhausted that the determination was
come to of suspending business.
The liabilities of the firm, we have reason to believe—and
we have some authority to warrant the assertion—will be found
to range between 12000/. and 150,000/., including the ordi-
nary " Bank notes," the amount of which in circulation is
comparatively small, not exceeding, it is supposed, 10,0001. ;
and consequently, the disaster among what we may perhaps be
allowed to call " the miscellaneous public," who are usually the
holders of these notes, is not very great, nor extensively felt.
It was supposed by many, that by the will of the late Mr.
William Wigney, the brewery and all the property of the
family were to continne responsible to the customers of the
Bank ; and under this belief many persons deposited large sums
there at interest. These find now to their cost that these
statements had no foundation in truth, and that no member
of the late Mr. Wigney's family, except the two youngest
brothers, Isaac and Clement, are liable to them.

Our Town Commissioners, we find, have a balance of about
500/. in the hands of Mr. I. N. Wigney, who was their Trea-
surer ; but as Mr. George Wigney is his surety, the town will
sustain no loss. The suitors in the Court of Requests are less
fortunate, Mr. Clement Wigney being Treasurer in that Court,
and his partner being his surety. Altogether, it is a most
calamitous event, and will be severely felt in the town and
neighbourhood for some time to come.—Brighton Guardian.

DUTCII ItitiDs.—AbitlTeßUASl, MARCH 8.
None). IilI!i.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
A inert Svridic,44 per cent - 95% 2.1 k
Ditto, ditto, 3% percent 76% 77
Commercial Company, 44:, par cent lsts Ye 157
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... ItOki 1010%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 94a 1.9
Exchange on London, One month l2 123 y
Twomonths 12 05
Hamburgh, One month 35 56%
Two months 35 31%
Dutch Papers, March 8.
tIEIAiIAI.4 F UNDS—nnuesm.e, MARCH 8
Actual Debt, 2S, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C-nt
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 1.3%
3per Cent.
----- Thirty .seven
(!w)) )o:'%
Loan of City, 1C32,4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 45.iper Cent.
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .......... 81%
NationalSeciety.
Exchange on London (shoi t) ..................
_Brussels Papers. March 8.
lIABIBURGH BORSENIIALLE, MARGE! 5.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
16:5 16;0
Anglo-Russian Loan
11'1 109!,;,
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 10,314
Inscription, lot series . ...
10i
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., Cd and 4th
Series
t 9
Ditto in Certificates
•• _
19
New 4 pert ent. (1640).
Dutch Actual Debt, 1:34 per Cent............. 51 507 Ditto 5 per Cent. -
Polish Bonds
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Loan 163
, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
Two meta b,

ieteorie lodies were observed near Basle
the one on the 19th, and the second on the 20th ult. They
moved from N. W. to S. E., and had the appearance of lumi-
nous globes.

Earl Stanhope and Lord Monteagle were in the
Peers' Gallery of the House of Commons, at an early hour
yesterday evening.