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avoided. The preposition, we believe, was to form a carriage.ree,
from the bottom of the Link, to the left, over the common.
At the sale of stock at Cotton Hall, in this county, last week, yi
breeding ewes averaged Sgs each ; one pen of 5 ewes fetched 41.13, iv?
head ; one cow and calf fetched 291.55. and II horses and colts 2821.1
A deputation Pram the journeymen carpet wearers of Kidderminster
wailed on Mr. Godson. the Barrister, in this city, on Tuesday, end:
in the name of 'heir body, presented chat gentleman with a hearth rug,
of exquisite workmanship, and the finest materials.
The following live stock was imported into Bristol lest week, tress,
Ireland, in the' City of Waterford,' steam packet : 780 pigs, ;,3 head
of cattle, 57 sheep, 2 horses. The same vessel also contained 181t.sek,
of flour, 65 firkins of butter, and 59 bales of bacon. The public mtis•
be convinced that there is something essentially wrong in the govern.
ment of a coniary that exports so largely the necessaries of life, while
tens of thousands of her population are in a starving condition. By
means of the new canals which traverse Ireland, cattle are now put ce:
beard a boat iu the very centre of that Island—at Ballinasloe, for in•
stance; and, without setting hoof to ground, or losing an ounce in
weight, they are landed at Blanchester in three or four days, and at t
less cost than that of driving them 50 miles by land.
LIED.-02, Sarah, wife of Mr. W. Bedford, hop merchant.-80.
Mrs. Bickerton, Salop Road, Oswestry.-55, Mr. Benjamin Buckley,
builder--Fladbury, Mr. Oldaker, 84.—Richard Duppa, Esq. Hi.)
Sheriff of the County of Radror.47, the Rev. Joseph Heath, 31asi,:
of Luctou School, and Vicar of Wigmore.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD. Maui, 10.
This day the following gentlemen were admitted to Degrees :
Bachelor in Divinity—Grand Compounder, Rev. Edward I,lk,
Christ Church.

Master of Art—Rev. William John Chesshyre, Boliol.
Bachelors of Mt—William Edward Biome, Christ Church, Grand
Compounder; Thomas J. Longworth, Jesus.
Wednesday, it was voted in Convocation gratefully to accept the
amount of a liberal contribution for the endowment of three 3latheina.
tical Scholarships, of 50L a.year each. The candidates shall be num-
bers of the University of Oxford, who are Bachelors of Art, or hare
the public examination ; the first of these Scholarships to he
lied up in Act Term next
CAMBRIDGE, Mason 11.
A dinner was given on Wednesday, in the hall of Christ's College,
by the Master and Fellows of that society, to the Lord Bishop of Lin.
coin, on the occasion of presenting his lordship with a piece of plate.
as a testimony of their regard, upon his recent resignation of the Ala:.
tersbip of the College. A great number of the moat distinguished
members of the University were present. The plate was presented with
an appropriate address from the present Master, Dr. Graham, on the
part of himself and the Fellows, expressive of their high and affection.
ate esteem of his Lordship's talents and vinues. The bishop rebind
his acknowledgments in a speech of great eloquence and feeling, ex.
pressing the regret he felt upon quitting a society with which he had
been so long and happily connected. In the course of his speech, Ei
lordship took occasion to testify the gratification he had received from
address presented to him oo his resignation of the Mastership by the
Undergraduates of the College, as a testimony of their attachment
and respect.
The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best proficient. in classial
learning among the Commenting Bachelors of Arts, were yesterday ad.
judged 'to Joseph Williams Blakesley. of Trinity College; sad
William Henry Hoare, of St. John's College.
At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following decrees were
conferred :

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Docroa IN Divrxist.—The Rev. Thomas Burnet, Christ
College.
Docros IN CIVIL Law.—The Rev. J. H. Humphrey*, Trinity
Hall.

HONORARY MASTER OF Awrs.—The HOD. Francis Arthur
Gordon. Trinity College, ton of the F.arl of Aboyne.
blasTEa of Aars.--Robert Sutton, St. John's College, (en.
pounder.)
BACHRLOS IN CIVIL LAW.—Rev. Edwin Proctor Dennise, Trinity
Hall (compounder).