The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-26 00:00:00

STATE OF THE NAVY.

Lord COLCHESTER moved for a series of returns regarding
the state of the navy since 1819, the number of men, the
number of ships in commission, &c., and he did so for the
purpose of showing the real state of that service at the pre-
sent time, and to prove that it was in a most inefficient
condition. . _

Lord MINTO admitted that the navy, being required for a
state of peace, was not maintained on a war scale, but main-
tained that it was now in a more efficient condition than it
had been for some years.
After an extended, but rather desultory discussion, in
which Lords MELVILLE and MELBOURNE took part, the
motion was agreed to, thepapers ordered, and their lordships
adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

Sir G. Grey (re-elected) and Mr. Maxwell took the oaths
and their seats for Devonport and Cavan.

FACTORIES BILL.

Lord ASHLEY inquired whether the hon. member opposite
(Mr. F. Maule) intended to move the second reading of the
Factories Act Amendment Bill, on Monday, it standing in
the orders for that day.
Mr. Fox MAULE answered, that if the opportunity pre-
sented itself he should certainly bring it forward. A noble
friend had an important motion for that night, which might
occupy considerable time ; but if he could not bring it for-
ward before 10 o'clock on that night, he should not deem it
right to move the order on that evening.
The Prisons (Scotland) Bill was forwarded a stage.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a committee of
supply, moved a grant for the transfer of aids to the amount
of £2,000,000, which was agreed to.
Mr. HAWES moved the second reading of the " Affirma-
tions Bill."

Mr. GOULBURN, Sir R. INGLIS, the RECORDER, Sir R.
PEEL, &c., strongly resisted it, as cAlculated to endanger
life and property, by weakening securities gained by oaths
with juries and witnesses.
Mr. GIBSON, Mr. O'CONNELL, Lord MORPETH, the
SOLICITOR-GENERAL, &c., supported it, contending that by
disregarding the conscientious scruples of persons evidence
was lost, and great injury was done both to principle and
property.
The house divided on it ; but the bill was lost—by ayes
93—noes 125—majority against it 32. The result was re-
ceived with much cheering.—Adjourned.

OXFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The Triennial Musical
Festival, which was postponed last year in consequence of
the coronation, will take place at the ensuing commemora-
tion, on Tuesday, the 11th, Wednesday, the 12th, and Thurs-
day the 13th of June. Arrangements are being made on the
grandest scale, and will in a short time be announced.-ox-
ford Herald.
APPREHENSION OF THE EARL OF STIRLING.—The Earl
of Stirling has been apprehended at Edinburgh on suspicion
of being accessory to the forgery of certain documents in a
cause now pending, and has been undergoing an examination
previous to his commitment for trial, if the suspicions, so far
as he is personally concerned, be not removed. If these
documents be proved to be forgeries, not only are they vari-
ous and extensive, but of an extraordinary character, and
must have been designed and executed by impostors of rare
talent, skill, and dexterity.—Abridyed from a Scotch paper.
We understand that the notice which Mr. F. A. Phillips
thought it is duty to take of
,the recent collision between the
Grand Junction, and Liverpool and Manchester Railway
trains, has led the directors to adopt some new bye-laws, to
which the proper legal sanction is about to be sought. The
public ought to be obliged to Mr. P. for the trouble he has
taken to secure a rigorous examination, on the'part -of both
boards of direction, into all the circumstances of the accident,
which was of a kind that travellers should be protected against
if possible.---Mancheder Guardian.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)

LINCOLN COLLEGE.—Four Scholarships, and one Exhibi-
tion, on the Foundation of Lord Crewe, will be filled up on
Tuesday, March 19. The Scholarships are without limitation
as to place of birth.—Candidates for the Exhibition must be
natives of the diocese of Durham ; or in default of such, of
Northallertonshire or Howdenshire, in the county of York ;
of Leicestershire, and particularly of the parish of Newbold
Verdon ; or of the counties of Oxford and Northampton.—
The usual testimonials are to be presented toThe Sub-Rector,
on or before Thursday, March 14, accompanied, in the case
of the Exhibition by an affidavit of the place of birth.
In a Convocation, holden on Wednesday last, Henry
Denison, Esq., 8.C.L., Fellow of All Souls' College, was
unanimously elected to a Fellowship on Mr. Viner's founda-
tion, vacant by the marriage of Mr. Crimps, of Trinity Coll.
In the Convocation holden oil Thursday last, the nomina-
tion of Nicholas Pocock, M.A., of Queen's College, to the
office of Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathew; tide et
Physicis, was unanimously approved.
In a Convocation holden at the same time the following
Degrees were conferred :

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
Rev. Richard Lane Freer, Christ Church.
MASTERS OF ARTS.

Chas. Rowland Strickland, Trinity Coll. grand compounder.
Rev. Herbert George Adams, Christ Church.
Gordon Whitbread, Brasennose College.
Frederick Pyndar Lowe, Fellow of Magdalen College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.

John Edward Lemuel Schrieber, Balliol College.
Rev. Richard James Francis Thomas, Christ Church.

George Peloquin Graham CoSserat, Exeter College.

A Convocation will be holden on Wednesday, March 6, at
twelve o'clock, for the purpose of electing a Scholar on Mr.
Viner's foundation, in the room of Henry Denison, of All
Souls' College, 8.C.L., recently elected to a Fellowship on
the same foundation.

At a meeting of the Board of Heads of Houses and Proc-
tors, on Monday last, it was resolved that Wednesday, the
12th of June, be the day fixed for the Commemoration.
The Examiners appointed by the Trustees of ,the Mathe-
matical Scholarships, have given notice, that an examination
will be holden on Wednesday, the 13th of March, for the
election of a Scholar on that foundation. Candidates are to
call on Mr. Anstice, at Christ Church, on Wednesday, the
6th of March, between twelve and two o'clock.
The Professor of poetry will read his Terminal Lecture, on
Tuesday, the 12th of March, in the Clarendon, at two o'clock.
On Friday, the 15th instant, the Rev. W. Buckland, D.D.
Canon of Christ Church, and Professor of Geology, in this
University, was unanimously elected President of the Geolo-
gical Society of London. Dr. Buckland held the same
honourable office in the years 1824, 1825.
The Rev. Walter Augustus Shirley, M.A., late Fellow of
New College, has been instituted, on his own petition, to the
Rectory of Brailsford, Derbyshire, void by the death of John
Gardiner, D.D.
Mr. John Hall, of Brasenose College, has been admitted
an Exhibitioner of that Society, on the Foundation of Mr.
Hulme.

On Monday last the following gentlemen were elected
Scholars of University College :—Mr. Joseph Cox Algar, of
University College, on the Bennet Foundation ; Mr. Louis
Page Mercer, of Trinity College, and Mr. William Bolland,
from Sherborne School, on the Open Foundation; and Mr.
Joseph Robertson Moorsom, from Rugby School, on the
Yorkshire Foundation.

Lately was married, at Blissworth, Northamtonshire, the
Rev. James F. Egerton Warburton, M.A., late of Brasennose
College, Rector of Lymn-with-Warburton, Cheshire, to
Anne, daughter of George Stone, Esq., of Blissworth.
On Sunday se'nnight died, in the 85th year of his age, the
Rev. Samuel Langley, M.A., of Worcester College, and for
49 years Rector of Checkley, in Staffordshire. He was the
only surviving son of the late Rev. Samuel Langley, D.D.,
of Pembroke College ; was matriculated of Worcester Col-
lege, May 11, 1770; and proceeded M.A. July 8, 1780.
On Monday week died, at his house in the Circus, Bath,
in his 67th year, the Rev. Thomas Falconer, formerly Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, and latterly a Physician in Bath.
He was the only son of the late Dr. Falconer, of Bath, him-
self a well-known physician, and the author of many pam-
phlets on scientific subjects. His grandfather was a barris-
ter, and Recorder of Chester. Thomas Falconer was born
at Bath, elected Scholar of Corpus in 1788, being then 16 :
he proceeded B.A. Nov. 15, 1791; M.A. Jan. 22, 1795 ;
havinc, previously succeeded to a Fellowship in his College,
which he afterwards vacated by marriage. Mr. Falconer was
the author of several pamphlets, and is generally considered
as the editor of the Oxford Strabo, which, however, was, in
a great measure, prepared for the press by Mr. Halliwell, of
Brasennose, and subsequently completed and published by
Falconer. Among many other things, he translated and
printed the Voyage of Hanno, with the Greek Text, and Ex-
planations from the Accounts of Modern Travellers, 1797 :
Discourse on the Catholic Bill, 1809. In 1810 he preached
the Bampton Lecture Sermons, which were published the
following year, under the Title of " Certain Principles in
Evanson's Dissonance of the Four Evangelists examined."
In 1822 Mr. Falconer proceeded Bachelor and Doctor in
Medicine, and, from that time to his decease, resided at
Bath, where he was much respected.
J. Clark, B.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been
elected a Fellow of that Society, on the Finch and Baines
Foundation.