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OXFORD, APRIL 25.

Vest. rctry Mr. Clarice Henry Holcombe, of the enunty of
Wilts, and Mr. Herbert White. of Mewl:shire, were admitted
:cl•elars of Corpus Christi Coll ge.
On Weidnesday last, the following Gentlemen were admitted
to cc-Jets:

11AiTZIS OF ARTS.
Henry Smyth, Esq. of Cot ist Church, Grand Compounder.
Rev. Charles M'instatilcy, o; St, Edmund Hall, Grand Com-
puoi:c4 r.
Rev, Joseph El I.oto^ opley, of Christ Church.
iAcnrcosts or was's.
Mr. 'tillarn Both, , o. ..inculn CoLev..
Mr. John Evans, of t:.itte. •
Mr. Charles Amity. of St. Mary Hall.
Rev. Goorge Downing Dowle, of ditto.
• nrc;LEstASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
I he Pee. J. Ellicott, is presentcil to Ike vic.trage of Etta),
Rutland. •
he Rev. Henry Wortley, to the rectory of St. Lawreace,lsle
of Wight.
"I he kW. rector of Cann:ly, to the rectory of
Whatley, Somerset.
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. • .In the night of Thursday senniglit,• Sydney Cot-
Irge, Cambridge, *as di-covered to In on fire in two
disrinet places, and no doubt is entertained but it
was set on fire by son-.e incenOiary. The file was
'cli.covered in the left wing , f.the College, in alum.
bee.roorn in the attics, and was soon got under ; but
re sooner had that been accomplished, thank a fire-
.:l,4olce out in the similar room in the opposite wing,
Wtr;ch was aseorti,ined to have been done by- setting
file to a quantity of hay, which communicated t the
door and ,wainscot of the room ; this, howeva, 'was
also•soon extinguished. . •
• Saihrday in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, Mr.
CLIFFORD argued the case of Edwards, Who had been
. tried at the Old Bailey Sessions by two Juries, omits
to one if the Jurymen first impannelkd having fallen
down in a,fit. At the time of the trial Mr. Clifford.
had objetted to a new Jur', but was cvcr titled' by ,
the Judge...44r. C. now insisted, and, in proof of his,
opinien, quote 4 several great authorities, and ad-
clued a number of cases, that when a Jury was once:
inipannelled to an offence of a capital nature, they
could not afterwards be d'schicrged without giving a
Lord Ehowinohoooti. and Mr. Justice
CHAMBIa qhoteel timilar casts, which bad also .been
retetred to the Judges, and in which they had con-
fumed the verdicts. Lord ELLEDISOROUtiki observed
that the case had been so often decided, that it must
now be held to form a.part of the law of the lands
. A aim 043. cf a peculiar 'kind was brought be-
f re the - Court of King's Bench on Saturday, in the
s use af Flcwers v. -Lewes. The Plaintiff, a convict
cn board the hulks •brought his action against the
-Defendant, who had married his wife, and bad had
two children by her--it appeared that the woman,
before the marriage, had liked servant with the -De.
ftndint, and that her previous marriage was totally
unknown to him. Mr. Gamow, who spoke in ex.
valuation for the Defendant, .characterised this as an
absolute burlesque on the Crim. Con. cases, and ob-
served„ that the object was merely to extort a sum of
- money. Lord ELLENBOHOUGLI told the Jury, anet a
violatit n of the marriage contract having taken place
some damages must be given ; and they acccr.iingly
gave twenty shillings.
Monday, the Circuit Ccurt of Justiciary was
opened at Dumfries by tl,e LORD JUSTICE CLERK and
Lord AERIOAND, when 0-.eir Lordships procee :::(1 to
the trial of Helm Kennedy, indicted for poisoning the
iamily,of Thomas Stoddart. in Bwnswark, near Ec-
clefechan,- in December last. The -trial lasted from
ten in dr.: morning till twelve at night.—The Jury
' were then inclosed, and returned their verdict next
morning, finding, by a plurality of voices, that the
-libel was t• of proven ; upon which the prisoner was
dismissed horn the bar.