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The Climpodbaer gold Medals fbr 4bir oust best proficient' In
classical learning among the commencing Bacheloed of Aro, were
en Wednesday latadjudged lklr.WUiiam peiwyn. of St. John's
College. and Mr. Thomas paver Trinity College.
The King has been graciously pledemlito grant his lioyarlettem
patent to the Master and Fellows of Clare Hall, 1.4 repeal part of
a Statute of that College given by the tridthrs et Edward the Sisthr
'by whit* that society are restricted from electing more, than two
&awe of any one county, or more than 11014ialffrown roundel
north of river 'hoot. •
OXFORD, Mascn 15.
[ Thursday, the following Degrees were conferred
IaCIIIILON IN DIVINITY.
Rev. Wm. Jackson, Fellow of Queen's College.
NAOMI OF ARTS. •

Rev. Henry Omer iillio ti, Lincoln College.

RACIiRLOR or ARTS.
Wm. Dovetonlpot, Lincoln College.
In a Convocation holden on the same day, it was agreed that
humble Petitions be presented to the Right Honourable the Lord,
Spiritual and Temporal, and to the Honourable the House of Com-
mons, praying that the Laws by which persons professing the Ra-
man Catholic Religion are precluded from holding certain oflictsi
and from sitting in Parliament, may not be repealed.
Thursday, Mr. William Fraine Fortescve was admitted Scholar
of New College.
At an Ordination held in the Chapel in the Palate, the Bishop
of Salisbury, ou Sunday, the id instant, ordained the following
lipersons :

DCA COll4.
Robert David Carte/Hest, B.A. Queen's College, Oxford.
Philip Poore. B.A. Queen's College. Oxford.
Chas. Joseph Furistag, B.A. Sydney Sussex Celkge, Cambridge.

PRIBSTI.
Anthony Crowdy, M.A. Brasonnose College, Oxford.
Thomas Penruddocke, B.A. Wadham College, Oaford.
John Ashfordby Trenchard, B. A. &. John'. College. Cambridge,
Win. Nixon Hooper..M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Thomas. Husband, B.A. Magdalen College, Cambridge.
Monday, the Rev. Principal Haldane was unanimously elected
Rector of the University of St. Andrew's fur the ensuing year.
ICCLULUITICAL PROIIIOIIOIII4
The Bishop of Rochester gets the Deanery of Worcester► and
Dr. Philpotts that of Chester; Dr. Spry, the Rector of Mary.la+
borne, succeeds to the Stall st Canterbury, vacated by the promo+
lion of Ik. Murray; and a cousin and namesake of Mt: Canning
is, we hear, to bare the vacant Canonry of Windsor.—Herald.
The Rev. Caries Townley, M.A, of Trinity College, Cambridge,
was instituted on the 6th instant, by the Bishop of Ely, to the
Vi-
carage of Little Abinfton, Cambridgeshire.
The Rev. J. H. Newman, Fellow of Oriel College, has been in.
glutted to the Vicarage of St. Mary the Virgin, in Oxford.
The Rev. John Phillips Reberts, M.A. Chaplain of Christ
Church, has been nominated by the Very Rev. the Dean and Chap•
ter to the Perpetual Curacy of Hampton, in the county and diocese
of Worcester.
The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry has collated the Rev.
Henry Dudley Ryde►, M.A. of Oriel College, to the Vicarage of
High Olney, in the county of Stafford, on the resignation of the
Rev. W. E. Coldwell.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. G. G. Egretneef,
M.A. to the Living of Barrow.trpon-Humber.
A dispensation has passed the Great Sral to enable the
Henry Tot.lin Coubun. M.A. Chaplain to the li:zht Hon the
Earl of Minto, to hold the Rectory of Roan Major, with the Rec.
Roy of Landewednack, Cornwall.
the Rev. J. Hale, M.A. Rector of Nocton Beckering, Lincoln.
shire, to the Rectory of Baslingthorpe, In gat county, void by the
death of the Rev. T. Hahne.
The Rev. Thomas Hyde Ripley, Vicar of Wootton Bassett,
Wilts, has lately bon instituted by the Bishop of Salisbury to the
Rectory of l'ocket►ham, in the same county.
Thursday. a call was moderated ice the Tolbooth Church,.Edin.
burgh, in favour of the lire. James Marsb,ll, Minister of the
Outer High Church, Glasgow, to supply the tacancy occasioned
by the death of the Rev. Dr. Davidson. •
The Rev. Alexander Brander has been ordained to the Pastotal
Charge of the parish of Duffus.
Tuesday, the Relief Congregation In Dysart gave a harmonious•
call to Mr. William Adair Pettigrew, Preacher of the Gospel, to -
be their Pastor.
Thursday se'nnight, the United. Associate Congregation assem-
bling In Union Church,.Blyth, gave an unanimous call to air. Win.
Nisbet, Preacher, to be their Minister.

THE MARKETS.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Mulcts
We were very sparingly supplied this morning with Wheat, which
caused a brisk business in the Mealing Trade; fine samples of
Wheat sold freely at 675. per qr. and a tolerably large clearance
made at that price. Barley also sold readily at 355. per quarter,
fine making samples being scarce and much sought after. Beans
and Grey Peas are full is. per qr. lower, and dull in sale at that re-
duction. White Peas maintained our last currency. Oats are very
heavy at the undermentioned prices, having had during the last
fortnight a supply fur sit week. Flour a brisk sale, at Sos. per sack.
in ether articles no alteration.
Wheat, Kent & Essex, 50e 67s I
Peas, Grey 56s lists
Suffolk, SOs 66s Beans, Small 56. 511.
Norfolk, 50s 54$ I Tick 54s 56s
Rye SOs 59.‘ Oats, Potatoe 241
Barley 50s 351 Poland 22s Vis
Malt 541 605 I Feed 16s ftir
Peas, White 54s 36s Flour, per sack, 411 a. 50s.
Boilers 38s 405 Rapeseed 20s 22s per last:
LIM' TATUM& LAST wage.
Wheat, English tatters 4,789 Foreign Oats
Do. Foreign -- Irish Oats
Do. Irish Beans, qrs.
Barley, British 4,527 Foreign ditto
Aye • *570 Peas
'Oats ' 9,415 English Flour, sacks
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Marten 17.

806
. 6,543

Beef remains at Friday's price, the best young Stots fetching
41.4 d. to 4s. 10d per stone. There is likewise nu variation in the
price of Motion, which is quoted at ss. to ss. 9d. per stone for the
primes' young Downs. Veal remains in a great measure stationary,
at 6s. to 6s. 6cl. per stone for the best young Calves, and Ss. to 55. 6d.
for the larger ones. In Pork, dairy-fed Porkers fetch 6s.itd. to 6s. 6d.
per stone.-Beasts, 2,280-Sheep, .14,950-Pigs, 130-Calves, 78.
Beef, per stone, 4s. Od. to 41. 10d. Mutton, 3s. ed. to 54. 2d.
Veal, ss. 6d. to O. ' Pork, ss. to 6s. 64.-Hay, per load, XS 51.
to £4 17s. 64. £4 so ses 7s. 6d. Straw, .21 10s. to .91 16s.
LI ERPOO4 Mane 15.
Corson-Tbe import this week is 9,153 bags, and the sales reacts
14,440 bags, at rather higher rates for American descriptions, but
the few Surats sold by auction, went off at very low prices. Advice.
from New York of 16th Feb. give similar quotations to those of
Gth Feb. viz. of Uplands at 9 to 10e, and Prendum of Exchange
at 106 to 106.
Suoax, SCC.-About 600 bads. B.P. Sugar have been sold at full
iniccifor good, but at a slight decline in inferior descriptions 650
casks Demerara Molasses have been disposed of at Vs. to 275. 6d.
per cwt. "•
• Darsat.vgatu, ate.-We have had a very dull week in all articles
under this head. Ashes are a shade lower, and the sales of Pot
and Pearl do not exceed 200 barrels. Of Saltpetre, 900 bags at
14.. to 251. and of Sicily Shumate, 50 bags at 10s. 6d. There have
been no transactions in Tar or Turpentine. The Tallow market is
dull, and there is no inquiry for Palm Oil, of which the import
is large.
Fauvism/es-The business done this week, in either Butters or
Provisions, has been limited, but prices remain steady.

The three desperate poacher., Bennett, Field, and
White, on whom sentence of death was-pronounced at
the last Reading Assizes, will be executed on Saturday
next, at twelve o'clock.
STATE OF CHINA.—The military operations in
We:tett' Tortary, or Turkistan, commonly called Little
l3ucharia, are discontinued, and the Imperial Army re-
called. During the summer campaign of this year, the -
Mahommadan Rebels were driven back from Arica to
beyond gar and the Chinese frontier on the north-
west
that neighbourhood. The towns Yarcane,
Kot in
in, Ca&c. which the preceding year had fal'en into the
hands of the rebels, were retaken by his Majesty's
forces; but the chief rebel, a Mahomtnedaa Pretender
to the Throne of Little Buchttia, was not taken. It is,
indeed, reported among the natives that he has re.
turned to the charge with a reinforcement of trocps
furnished to bim by the Russian Governors on the
frontiers.—Canton Register, Nov. 15,1827.
At an early hour yesterday morning some thieves
broke into the house of Mr. Sowerby, an extensive
draper, Pump-row, Old street, and stripped ihe shop of
the vole of its contents; consisting of sures fine broad
cloths, ke. to the amount of between 3001. and 4001.

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