The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MARCH lU.—This day a Congregatien was holden
for granting degreeE, &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. I'. Twiss, Fellow
of University College, was chosen without opposition.
Yesterday W. 'l'. Hutchins, of Worcester College, was
elected a Vinerian Scholar without opposition.
The next day appointed for conferring degrees will be on
Saturday, 19th inst., being the last day of the present Term.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals this week have been good of all kinds of grain.
Wheat very heavy on sale, and prices tend downwards. Barley
and Oats extremely dull, and Monday's terms could be hardly
obtained. Flour nearly unsaleable.
' SMITHFIELD.
The supply was moderate, with a heavy demand for Beef and
Veal; but the demand for Mutton and Pork was pretty good.
Beasts, 720 ; sheep, 2,540; Pigs, 315 ; Calves,. 118. Beef,
3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. to 55. ; Veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. Bd. ;
Pork, 4s. 4d. to bs. 4d.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The public sales were of little moment, and privately few
purchases were made, tut prices were sustained for most
articles, especially for five, which sold freely at stiffer rates;
71s. was the lowest rate for good ordinary good Ceylon.
TEA MARKET,
The market was dull, and prices looked down ; Company's
Congou, Is. I I Jed. each.
TALLOW MARKET.
Russian Tallow sold slowly, but prices were firm at 48s. on
the spot, and 495. 3d. for deltvcry in the last three months of
the year.

• ' SPIRITS.
Brandy sold well, but Rum was dull of sale, and prices on
;he decline. Proof Leew ants, 23. 2id. per gallon.

TAXES ON BREAD IN PRUSSIA.—The following
information has been received from Ruitzic respecting the
octroi (a municipal tax, somewhat in the nature of a police
rate or borough rate) :—" A small loaf of wheat bread, weigh-
ing three ounces, bought at the baker's shop, cost half a silver
groschen, which is equal to 3 143 d. per lb. English weight and
money. A loaf of rye bread of the finest quality, such as is
used even among the higher classes, weighing 1 lb. 10i oz.
cost silver groschen, which is equal to 1 1-10 d. per lb.
English weight and money. These are the prices, a little more
or less, in 118 towns in Prussia, containing 1,728,376 inha•
bitants, who have to pay the excise and octroi of 3s. per cwt.
for wheat, and Bd. per cwt. for rye. The remaining twelve
millions of inhabitants aro exempt from this excise, and cat
their bread so much cheaper. The rye consamed by the sol-
diers, and by the people, is of a much coarser sort, and con-
siderably cheaper than that of the first quality above men-
tioned. The klassen stener or poll-tax paid by the 12.000,000
who do net live in the cities, subject to the above. excise,
amounts on an average to Is. Bd. per head. It is levied under
rates which vary from Is. 6d. (the lowest) to 21/. 12s. (the
highest); the lowest rate is levied from the lower orders per
head, with the exception of those under 16 and above 60 ; and
the higher rates are levied from families."—Mr. James Meek's
Report.

A bold attempt at escape from the prison of Coucy
le Chateau, in the Aisne, was made a few days since. Pestel,
a soldier of the garrison at La Fere, having obtained a furlough
for a few days, went to Coucy to visit a carpenter with whom
lie had worked Iwo years, Unfortunately, on the. last day of
his leave, be got Munk, committed acts of violence, and was
sent to prison. His vexation was increased by learning that he
was to he handcuffed, and thus conducted by gendarmes to
Chattily, where his father and mother lived. Determined to
avoid this disgrace, he contrived to get from his p' ace of con-
finement in the Hotel-dc-Vile up to the bell-tower, which is
immediately above it, and, having reached the top, got out
through a narrow window. Hen, e he jumped do,yn on the
roof of the building, tivhich was 20 feet below, and then rolled
or slid down the roofs of other buildings, until he fell into the
street, a depth in all of more than 70 feet. Ile was stunned by
the NI, but able to rise again almost immediately, and, receiving
a glass of water from a woman near whose house he fell, he the
next moment darted off at his utmost speed. He was, how.
ever, unable to go far, and therefore returned and surrendered
himself. His bruises were found to be severe, and he was of
necessity placed in the hospital.
A subscription is being raised for the benefit of the
widows and families of those who met with premature deaths
by the late explosion at D'Ernst's fireworks manufactory, to
which her Majesty, it is said, has been graciously pleased to
contribute 50/.

One of the caves in the rocks near Saumur, in the
Maine et Loire, which afford habitttions to numerous fami-
lies, fell in a few days ago, and buried a man and his wife.
Their neighbours immediately set to work to dig them out, but
after five hours' labour, their betties were foutsd crushed and
lifeless. Another cave gave way, but the dwellers were fortu-
nate enough to escape.
A LESSON FOR SCOLDING WIVES.—" And I dare
say you have scolded your wife very often, Newman," said
once. Old Newman looked down, and the wife took up the
reply. " Never to signify—and if he has, I deserved it.'
" And I dare say, if tie truth were told, you have scolded him
quite as often." " Nay," said the old woman, with a beauty
of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel,
" how can a wife scold her good man, who has been working
for her and her little °ries all the day ? It. may be for a man to
be peevish, for it is he 'who bears the crosses of the world ; but
who should make him forget them but his own wife? And she
had best, for her own sake—for
.nobody can scold much when
the scolding is all on one side."—Buhrer's Student.
" The Infante Don Francisco," says a Madrid Cor-
respondent of the Presse, " hss requested of Espartero the
admission of his second son, Don Enriquez, into the Spanish
navy as a midshipman. The Regent is sa:d not only to have
Iranted the request, but even to have at once made the young
nfante a captain."