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NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, Juwe 4.

Ceroots, MAY 28. On Saturday the following Degrees
were conferred :
Batchelor in Civil Law.—William Jaques, of St. Alban
Hall.
Masters of Arts.—The Rev. Jno. Clemson Egginton
(Grand Comp.) the Rev. Henry Danvers Clarke (Grand
Comp.) and Adolphus Kent, of Exeter College; the Rev.
Richard Brindley Hone, of Brasennose College ; and the
Rev. William Holloway of Lincoln College.
Bachelors of Arts.—John Williams of Jesus College ;
Francis Laybome Popham, and Frederick Campbell Polhill,
of University College; Joseph Dudley and Charles Vaughan,
of Wadham College; John William Richards, William
Henry Whitworth, George Edw. Deacon, Charles Liston,
and Fred. Holme, Scholars of Corpus Christi College; R.
Edmund Tyrwhitt, James H. Swainson, and Wm. Edward
Partridge, of Brasennose College ; William John Groves,
and John Lloyd Crawley, of Trinity College; Edward
Stephens, and George Henry Emilie, of Exeter College ;
Charles Penny, of Pembroke College ; and John Nurse, of
Merton College.
Wedresday being the first day of Act Term, the Rev.
Henry Duke Harrington M. A. Fellow of Exeter College;
the Rev. Robert Biscoe;M. A. Student of Christ Church ;
and the Rev. Edward Higgins, M. A. of Brasennose Col-
lege, were nominated masters of the schools for the ensuing
year :--
The following Degrees were also conferred:—
Masters of Arts.—The Rev. Fits Henry Hcle, of Queen's
College; W. C. Davis, of Jesus College; the Rev. W.
Mayo, and the Rev. H. Ware, of Magdalen Hall; the
Rev. D. Umbleby, and the Rev. H. Thomson, of St. Ed-
mund Hall; W. W. Ellis, of Brasennose College; S.
Widden, the Rev. G. S. Escott, the Rev. J. Maniere, and
the Rev. G. Bellamy. of Lincoln College; the Rev. E. Dix.
of Exeter College ; the Rev. G. T. Hudson, of Trinity Col-
lege ; G. E. W. Jackson, of University College; E. V.
Steade, of Magdalen College, Grand Compounder ; G. A.
Browne, of All Souls' College ; the Rev. E. H. Orme, of
St. Mary Hall ; the Rev. H. T. Dyke, the Rev. T. More-
ley (Fellow) and the Rev. J. Guard, of Oriel College; E.
T. Daniell, of Baliol College ; the Rev. J. Twiner, the
Rev. W. Browel, (Fellow) and R. Ouppoy, of Pembroke
College, and the Rev. J. Wood, and J. Mathews, of Christ
Church.
BACHELORS Or MTS.—W. J. Coope, of St. Mary Hall;
H. Carey, E. W. Hughes, and T. Goodson, of Worcester
College; J. P. Cox, J. K. Glasebrook, G. Abot, A. Hew-
lett, and P. J. Newell (Grand Comp.) of Magdalen flail ;
A. S. Lendon, W. A. Vaughan, and C. S. Green of Christ
Church ; T. B. H. Browne, of Jesus College; W. Etwall,
F. J. Burgman, and A. W. Wykeham, of Trinity College;
J. P. Taylor, of Lincoln College; Joseph Birch, of Pem-
broke College ; J. Gaskin, of St. Edmund Hall ; T. Gar.
ret, of Queen's College; C. L. Parker, of Wadham Col-
lege • S. F. Wood, and R. F. Wilson, of Oriel College,: and
E. Cookson, of University College.
In a Convocation holden the same dad, the Honorary
Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on John Davies Gil-
bert, Esq. Gentleman Commoner of Pembroke College; Mr.
Gilbert was presented by his tutor, Mr. Jcune, of Pembroke
College.
Preferred.—The Rev. Samuel Hall, B.D. Vice Principal
of Brasennose College, to the Rectory of Middleton Cheney,
near Banbury, vacant by the death of the venerable Arch.
deacon Ckurton ; patrons the Principal and Fellows 'of
that Society.—The Rev. George Ssndby, jun. A.M. to the
Rectory of St. Nicholas with All Saints annexed, in South
E:mitam, Suffolk.
At en ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough
L on Sunday the 29th of May, the following gentlemen were
admitted into holy orders, viz :

DEACONS.
liaisley Calvert, B.A. Queen's Coll. Cambridge.
Frederick Septimus Early, M.A. Wadham Coll. Oxon.
William Pye, Purvis, B.A. Cath. Hall, Cambridge.
William Severn, B.A. Queen's College, Oxford.
William T..ornton, B. A. Corpus Chr. Coll. Camb.
PRIESTS:
William Adams, B. A. Queen's College, Cambridge.
John Frederick Amos, B. A. St. Peter's Cull. Camb.
Robert Moulton Atkinson, B. A. St. John's Coll. Carob.
John Bateman Bateman, B. A. Baliol Coll. Oxon.
Robert Samuel Battiscomb, M. A. King's Col. Can:b.
Thumss Benson, B. A. St. John's College. Cambridge.
Abner William Brown, B. A. Queen's Coll. Cambridge.
Ilenry Dyke, B. A. Wadham College, Oxford.
Edwd. Chas. Frederick Jenkins, B. A. Trin. Coll. Carob.
krancis Burford Leonard, B. A. Wadham Coll. Oxon.
Moses Mitchell, B. A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
William Rawlings, B. A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
Robert Roberts, B. A. Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge.
Francis Tebbutt, S.C. L. Trinity Coll. Cambridge.
Early on Tuesday morning a handbill was issued by Sir
R. Gunning, annour.cing his intention to decline any further
prosecution of the scrutiny in this town. In consequence of
this announcement, the chairing of Sir G. Robinson and
Mr. Smith was fixed for three o'clock the same day.
The Mayor then declared that the total numbers polled
were as follows :

Robinson, Smith. Gunning, Lynn,
1,688 1,3113 1.231 191
that the number of votes rejected on the scrutiny was as
follows :—from
Robinson, Smith, Gunning, Lyon,
118 104 84 6;
leaving the numbers fatally, for
Robinson, Smith, Gunning, Lyon.
1 ,h7O 1,279 1,157 183
This announcement was received with loud cheering.
A Dinner in celebration of the return of Sir G. Robin-
MD and Mr. V. Smith as members for this town, took place
lon Wednesday last, at the Ram Inn. Between. 80 and 90
persons were present at dinner, and the Room afterwards
became so crowdtel that even standing places were at length
unobtainable. The Chair was taken by the worthy baronet,
who was supported on his right by E. Bouverie, Esq. and on
his left by Mr. V. Smith.
Yesterday afternoon, the wives and children of Sir R.
Gunning's supporters, assenibhal in Mr. Barrett's Tea Gar-
dens, to the number of about 1400, and partook of tea,
cakes, &c. &c. The Gardens were de:orated with the pur.
pie and orange flags and banners of Sir Robert, intermin-
gled with those of Mr. Cartwright and Sir Charles
Knightly.
An interesting fete was given at the village of Kilsby, in
this county, yesterday s'ennight, having for its object the
celebration of the triumph of reform and liberty over corrup
tion and the boroughmongers. The morning was ushered
in by the ringing of bells, and every fate seemed to wear a
happy smile. In the afternoon a band of music attended,
when about 200 females partook of tea, etc. in a spacious
booth erected for the purpose, and certainly the enthusiasm
of the assembled populace from the surrounding villages, to-
gether with the display of flags, presented a novel spectacle
of village patriotism.
In another part of our paper (STAR of Thursday) will be
found an address from Lord Milton to the Northamptonshire

freeholders, on:the occasion of his Lordship's election as one •
of the representatives of this county. In that address, his
Lordship, it will be seen, objects to the admission of lease-
holders of any class whatever, as voters at county elections,
from a fear that the establishment of the leasehold franchises
trill have a particular tendency to affect their independence.
" I fear," says his Lordship. " that it may give the landed
gentry and nobility a larger share (and that of a bad descrip-
tion) of authority in them than they ought to possess." The
motive of the objection is praiseworthy, but we do not think
that it would be found to be either expedient or just to stet
upon the objection itself. It would, we think, be wholly in-
consistent with other provisions of the bill against which his
Lordship 'does not entertain, or does not offer any objection.
—lt is somewhat curious that Lord Milton, a Reformer,
should make an objection of this nature against the Bill, and
that Mr. Portman, the member for Donetshire, also a Re-
former, should have urged an objection against it of pre-
cisely the opposite tendency. The latter gehtleman stated
on the Hustings, that in his opinion that part of the Bill
which refu.ed to the renter of the soil a right of voting un-
less he held a lease for a long period, decidedly required al.
teration, and that he hoped to obtain for such persons an ex-
tension of the franchise. It was always a very general opi.
Ilion that the landed interest has been treated very cavalierly
by the Bill. What then will be said to the objection of
Lord Milton?
Amongst other liberal subscriptions to the Patriotic Fund
established for the purpose of returning to Parliament Lords
Althorp and Milton free of expense, Thomas William Coke,
Esq. member for Norfolk, has moat handsomely contributed
1.0001. Sir James Linehan, Bart. 5001. and John Heygate,
EN. of West Haddon, 3001.
An official letter has been generally addressed to the over-
seers of parishes, requiring, for the information of Viscount
Melbourne, a return of the number of houses or houses and
land, held together in the several parishes rated to the poor
rate at 101. and upwards. and stating whether the rate is
made on the full rack rent or on what portion of it.
Wool is worth more in France than in England. The
prices last year (which were very low) were about 9d per
pound for the unwashed (equal to b 6d, if washed) wool,
of the common crosses between the native breeds and the
Merino, which is a little finer than that of our Downs. These
sheep give about eight pounds of unwashed wool et a shear.
ing. The wo 1 produced by the Dishley (new Leicester),
and some of the crosses of the best French long.wooled sheep
with fine Dishley rams, sells for 3s per lb. washed, of which
these crosses give about 6 lb.
NORTHAMPTON MAIIINT..—Wheat, 67s to 72% Bar-
ley, 28s to 425. Oats, 26s to 30s. Beans, 33s &I to 425.
Rye, 40s. Peas, 40s.
AIASKET IiARROROUGII.-Wheat, &U. Barley, 36s to
441% Oats, 25s to 30s. Beans, 40s. Fine, Flour, 57s Oil
Thirds, f. 25. Malt, 703. Butter, 91d per pound. Eggs,
22 for la.

MARRIED.—At 'Stamford, James Ley Douglas. Esq
of Market Harborough, to filaria, eldest daughter of the
late Rev. Thomas Wingfield, Rector. of Teigh.
DIED.-11rx Ginger, wife of Joh', Ginger, of Camber.
well, daughter of the late Robert Stanley, Esq. of Med.
bourne—Aged 61, Robert Andrew, Esq. of Harleston Park
—Mr. Thomas Abraham, Turvey, Beds. Mr. Abraham
was a conscientious Dissenter, a sincere t hristian, a warm
friend, and an affectionate parent.

DERBY REPORTER, JUNE 3.

On the report of the commissioners for deciding on the
right to the occupation of pews in St. Werburgb's church,
Derby, 3ly Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, has
pronounced that it is the law of the church.

First—That if 60111 non-residence in the parish, or from
the possession of a plurality of pews, a pew becomes not per-
sonally occupied by the proprietor, his right to the pew is
legally void, and the churchwardens, foe the benefit of the
parish at large, can appropriate it for the use of a resident
family.
Secondly—That if a pew it too large for one family the
churchwardens may, for the benefit of the parish at large,
put into it a second family, entitled to the enjoyment of half
the pew, more or less according to the number and circum-
stances of the family.
In our paper of April 28th, there lea paragraph announc-
ing the discovery of a groat of Henry VII. The antiquarian
may be interested in knowing that a similar pine of money
of considerably older date is in our possession, belonging to
a gentleman of this town. It Is a groat of our Henry IV.
coined at Paris, in good preservation. The same gentleman
has also an Irish groat of Henry VII I. coined in 1530.
Yesterday the Peseta coach was overturned at Kettering,
and very much broken. Six passengers and the guard were
seriously hurt, and four of them were left behind. The ac-
cident was occasioned by the restiveness of the wheelers and
the heaviness of the coach, which swung over in turning a
sharp corner. One of the gentlemen hurt passed through
this borough this morning by the Rob Roy, with his arm in
a sling. He says all the passengers are doing well except
one. who has had a dislocated shoulder.
We understand that an influential bodyof freeholdershave
solicited Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. of' Rollerton Hail, Chair.
man of the Quarter Sessions, to offer himself as a Candidate
at the next election, for the representation of the Northern
Division of the county, and we can state. on authority, that
Sir Oswald has determined to comply with the request, and
to allow himself to be put in nomination. We certainly
think a better selection could not have been made; and we
congratulate the Northern Part of the county on the pros-
pect of having foe one of its members, a gentleman of Sir
Oswald Mosley's valuable habits of business and high public
and private character.—We are also authorised to state that
it is the intention of Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard, Bart. of
Craketnarsh Hall, to offer himself as the other Candidate fee
representing the Northern Division. Sir Thomas Sheppard
has long been known to the county as an upright and intel-
ligent Magistrate, and he is held in the highest estimation
in his own neighbourhood, as a private gentleman. SW-
fordshire Advertiser.
The following is the statement of a passenger by the Lin-
coln and London mail on Wednesday week. The coach, as
its way to Lincoln, was descending an easy hill near What-
ton, six miles from Hereford ; there was strong moonlight.
which showed a timber-wain ascending the bill; neverthe-
less, the coach, with a terrible concussion being at full
speed, ran directly upon it. The passengers escaped re-
markably ; the only one inside, a lady, had part of a front
toot's knocked off; the three outsides were all thrown to the
ground, and Mr. Edman, of Lincoln, who fell between the
leaders, was much bruised by the horses treading on him;
the coachman was thrown under the load of timber. The
cosh was tremendous; all the horse-trees were broken, the
lateness nearly destroyed, the shafts of the waggon broken
off, and the off-wheeler of the coach killed.
Tuesday last, a young lady who was at school at Gains.
borough (Miss N. from Loath), contrived to elope. The
business appears to have been managed with unsuspected
skill and contrivance on the part of the lady, as the gen.
tkman, the supposed partner of her flight (also of Louth),
had waited upon her at school, under the pretence of being
a friend of her father's, apparently (it is since understood,
at the lady's desire) taking no further notice of her than as
a perfect stranger, although there is little doubt the plan was
then arranged. On Monday morning last, under pretence
of a visit into the town, unknown to her governess, she con.
trived w leave the school, and the gentleman having a chaise
in waiting, they were soon on the road to Hull, where they
expected to get the happy knot indissolubly tied.—Sheffield
Courant.
Moss Ftaes.—Many of the inhabitants of Inskip. Sow.
erby, and St. Michael's (small farmers and others), have
this week been considerable sufferers' by a fire which has
raged among the moss lands. It is the practice of the
people of this industrious neighbourhood to burn a portion
of their ground, for the purpose of obtaining the ashes for
manure, in the culture of oat and potatoe crops. Some
parts of the mosses which had undergone this mode of pre-
paration had not been sufficiently quenched; and the long
and intensely dry weather, accompanied by high winds, has
caused the devouring element to spread devastation over con.
siderable portions of the land. Many acres of wheat, oats,
and potatoes, that were bidding heir to reward the labourer
for his toil, have thus been ruined. Many turf-stacks have
also been destroyed ; and in some instances the owners were
carting away the turf from one end of a stack while the other
end was on fire. One of the carts engaged in this manner
was partially burnt, from the load taking fire. Property, to
the amount of' several hundreds of pounds, has thus been
destroyed. Since writing
the above, we hear that the mosses
of Farington, Leyland, and Longton, have also been on
fire, and the destruction in this neighbourhood is more con.
siderable than at Sowerby, Inskip, &c. We are sorry to add,
that the fire still rages in this district with peat force.—
Preston Chronicle.
During the night of Wednesday, the Rev. A. Browne, of
St. John's College, terminated his life by cutting ids throat.
He had complained on the previous evening of a depression
of spirits, but no other motive is known for the committal of
this fatal act. An inquest war held on the body before Mr.
Chevell, and a verdict of Insanity returned. Mr. Browne,
who was shout thirty.six years of age, had only arrived in
college on Tuesday afternoon.
A young man named Joseph Revell, living In the parish

of Eckington, on Wednesday se'nnight agreed to eat, for a
wager, four pounds of treacle in nine minutes. So palateable
did he find his meal, that he devoured the whole in four mi.
notes and a half. He afterwards drank several quarts of
strong ale.
The repeal of the duty on printed calicoes has, we under.
stand, given a great impulse to that branch of trade. Since
the calico printers have been freed from the superintendence
of the excise, and all the vexations attendant upon it, the
manufacture has taken a fresh spring. The merchants of
this port have also found the repeal of the duty and the con.
sequent abolition of the drawback system a great advantage.
It enables them to ship their cotton goods in a much Aorta
time, and frees them from innumerable oaths, and almost
endless trouble.

DERRY SMITHFIELD MARXIST, MAY 31.—The ezhi.
bition of fat beasts to-day was bad, but few of the animals
offered for sale were more than half fat. The best made 7s.
to 7s. Gd. per stone of 141bs. The sheep pens were well
filled with good sheep; the demand was fair, and the gene.
ral price was about Gd per lb. sinking offal ; heavy sheep
were sold for a little less money.
CHESTERFIELD, MAY 28.—Wheat, 75s to 78s; Bar-
ley. 32s to 40s; Oats, 26s to 325; Beans 46s to 52.
WARIVIELD, MAY 27.—The arrival of Wheat con.
tinues adequate to the demand. The demand is decidedly
more firth; for fine and fresh qualities of English, as well
as foreign, there is a moderate sale at an advance of is to 2s
per quarter, but inferior sorts continue difficult to quit.
Barley remains as last week. Oats are Id per stone, and
Shelling Gd to Is per load dearer. Beans readier of sale,
without alteration in price.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, new, per quarter GOlbs, per
bushel, 64s to 70s ; Do. Boston and Wisbech, new, per do.
51is to 675; Do. Yorkshire, new, per do. 50s to 645; Do.
white, 62s to 72. ; Do. Foreign, per do. 50e to 68s; Bar.
ley, Norfolk and Sufffilk, per quarter, 304 to 403; Do.
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, per do. 303 to 36s ; Oats, Po.
tatoe and Poland, per do. 283 to 30s ; DJ. Alealing, new,
per stone, 144 d to 13d ; Do. do. Foreign do. 13d to 15d;
Beans, English, per 631bs. 37s to Als ; Do. Foreign, pea
do. to —; Malt, per load, 401 to 471; Shelling, per
load. 33. to 301; Rapeseed, English, per Last of 10 quar-
ters, 221. to 241.
AlAHRIED.—Charles James, eldest son of the late
William Charles Flack, Esq. of Cavendish Bridge, to
Elizabeth, youngest daughter of 'William Ta)lor, Esq. of
Park Fields.

DIED.—At Leek, Mary, 28, wife of Josiah Gaunt,
jun. Ls .—The Rev. Edward S. Remington, 74, Minister
of St. Michael's, Lichfield.

LAW 11R1.ONT5.
COURT OF KINiIai3ENCH, Just 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
CERTIFICATE OF LUNACY.-REX V.JONIS.

This was an indictment against the defendant., a surgeon, for
signing a certificate of lunacy without having pretiously
examined the patient, as required by the Act of 9 Geo. IV.
for regulating Lunatic Asylums. It was tried before Lord
Teoterden at the Middlesex Sittings before Michaelmas
Term, 1830, and the Jury found ihe defendant guilty, but
negatived the allegation in the indictment that the signing
was done "knowingly and with intent to deceive," and
left it to the Court to decide, on a case stated, whether
the conviction should be confirmed: or a verdict of Noi
Guilty entered.
Mr. LAW now appeared to support the conviction. The
clause in the Act on which the indictment was founded, con-
sisted of two branches. By the first branch certain things
were made punishable as a misdemeanour if done " know.
ingly and with intent to deceive ; and by the second branch
it was rendered penal in any medical man to sign a certificate
of lunacy without having, immediately before such signing,
seen sod examined the patient; and there the words " knos.
ingly, and with intent to deceive," were omitted as unneces-
sary, as a man could not but „know whether he had seen the
patient or not. The facts were, that on the 9,h February,lB3o,
Mr. Sheldon, another surgeon. and a partner of the defend-
ant, had seen and examined a Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, and cer-
tified that the was a lunatic, and sent the certificate to the
defendant, who had not seen Mrs. Wcod for a year before ;
and the defendant certified that he also had seen and eta
mined the patient, and that she was a fit subject for confine.
swot in a lunatic asylum. Mrs. Wood was accordingly
taken to a lunatic asylum in Bethnal-green, on the 12th of
February, but was released on the 17th, as being of per.
hotly sound mind, and gave evidence on the trial of the
indictment. The second count of the indictment was framed
on the second branch of the clause, although be admitted
that this, as well as the other counts, contained the words
" knowingly, and with intent to deceive' " *bleb were not
to be found in this part of the Act. But he submitted
that these words might be rejected as surplusage. and, if
so, then this would be enough to support the conviction,
although the limas had been negatived by the Jury. The
words were entirely unnecessary, for it was impossible for
the defendant not to know that he had not seen and exa-
mined the patient, and that he was certifying that which
was not true.

Mr. PLATT, on the other band, contended that the wo►ds
formed en essential part of the indictment, and that, as the
Jury had negatived them, the indictment was at an end.
The Collar, however, thought that the view taken by the
Counsel for the prosecution was correct, and confirmed the
conviction.