Star.
London, England, 1830-03-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Maacx 4.
This day the following gentlemen were admitted to degrees •
MASTICS/ OF ARTS. —John Barneby, El Christ Church,
Grand Compounder; Rev. William TontWat, sous; Rev. J. H.
Turbid, Worcester; and Joseph B. King, Exact.
Mr. John Burton, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, was haw.
porated M.A. of Magdalen Hall, in this Valve:sky.
EACHZLORS or ARTS..—OtOf Mader, Student of Christ
Church ; and J. Williamson, New College.
Yesterday being the appointed day for the election of Proctors foe
the ensuing year (commencing on the Hat day of Easter Term) the
Rev. Joseph Danford, M.A. Fellow of Oriel, and the Rev. Thomas
Townson Churton, M.A. Fellow of Beaten Nose, were announced
to the Vice-Chancellor as chosen by their respective Societies.
NOVELTIES IN TIM UNIVILIISITY.ISt.' The practice of
making the University pulpit the arena for attacking living authors
and the medium for reviewing recent publications. Quay—is the
press less open than heretofore? or is the Academic body braking
out in fresh places, from the suppression of accustomed vents, such,
fa Instance, as the recent and unceremonious lopping off of our
Whitehall Preachers ?-2d. A course of intaeNting and instructive
lectures on the habits and instinct of animals, given to a select, but
I rather numerous class of ladies, in the Aamoiesn Museum, by the
benevolent and elegant-minded keeper of that Institution, P. B.
Duncan, Esq. M.A. and Fellow of New College.
CAMBRIDGE, Miami' G.
At a Congregation on Friday lest the following degrees were
conferred
HONORARY MASTZR or ARTS—.Lord Arthur Charles Hervey,
Trinity College.
BACHELOI IN DIVINITY—Rey. Frederick Parry, St. John's
College.
MASTERS CM ARTS—Edward Carlton Cumberbatch, Trinity
College; Rev. John Crabb Warren, Sidney College (Comp.)
The Rev. Philip Booth, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, wan on
Wednesday last elected a Fellow of the same College on the foun-
dation of Archbishop Parker.
Batt. SCROLARSHITS.—C. R. Kennedy 'mein in consequence
of befog elected Pitt scholar, resigned his Bell sip, notice
has been given, that two Bell scholars of the third year, who were
admitted between the commencement of 1826 and 1827, will ba
elated on the 26th inst. in the room of C. R. Kennedy and J. G.
Webster.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Westmoreland has been pleared to
appoint the Rev. Thomas Williamson Pelle, &R. fellow of Trinity
College. one of his Lordship's domestic Chaplains.
The Rev. C. Holloway, B.A. has been collated to the rectory of
St. Simon and Jude, Norwich, vacated by the death of the Rev. Z.
J. Valpy.

A highly respectable Roman Catholic gentleman, Mr
Hayden, of Carrick, who was a most active supporter of
Mr. Stuart's in 1826, polled at the Waterford election
for Lord George Beresford. He was in consequence at-
tacked by the mob, and his gig broken to pieces.
On a late occasion, hie Majesty asked Lord Eldon who
was the soundest lawyer in his dominions —when the ve-
nerable Peer replied, it was a gentleman who could
" neither write, nor talk, nor ride, nor walk ;" alluding to
Mr. B. The broad Cumberland dialect, which the learned
Gentleman in question cannot divest himself of, would
render nugatory all attempts at eloquence; he is also said
to have three forms of hand-writing—one that himself
alone can understand, one that his clerk only can under-
stand, and a third that nobody can understand. The other
points of anomaly may be easily understood.— Court
Journal.
We understand that an official account had reached
Corfu from Naples, that in consequence of s disease
having broken out at Ferrara, which was brought
'here by the Countess Possi di Borgo from some part
of Tuscany, all communication has been cut off in the
kingdom of Naples with the Roman States. All the
private letters, which we understand were very numerous,
had been corned and fumigated at Ancona.
The indigent poor inscribed on the registers as re-
quiring relief at Buie, amount to 62,735 Individual',
forming 30,631 families. Of the latter number it is
ascertained that 62 pay a house-rent of 400 francs a year,
and 3,689 not mere than 50 francs4l,462 have to main-
tain four children. Among the elders of these families,
622 are 90 years of age, two are between 90 and 100,
and cos upwards of 100.