Star.
London, England, 1829-07-06 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JULY 4.

Thursday sennight the Rev. Henry Allison Dodd, M.A. the
Rev. Thomas Pearson, M.A. and the Rev. Robert Coulthard, M.A.
were elected Fellows of Queen's College, on the Old Foundation ;
G. H. S. Johnson, J. Richardson, and W. Abbott, were elected
Taberdars; and J. Hetherington, Thomas Dand, Thomas Calvert,
Henry Hebson, Lawson Peter Dykes, Edward Fawcett, Joseph
Dodd, and Thomas Bowser Harrison Thompson, Scholars of the
same Society.
Monday last Messrs. James Guillmard, John Carter, and Thos.
Chandler Curtels, were admitted Fellows of St. John's College;
Mr. James Parker Deane was elected Founder's-kin Fellow ; and
Messrs. John Saltwell Pinkerton, Edward William Vaughan, John
Joseph Pratt, and Francis John Kitson, were elected Scholars of
the same Society.
Tuesday last Mr. Matthew Hughes George Buckle, B.A. was
elected a Probationer Fellow, and Mr. Charles Brown Dalton, of
the county of Essex, was elected a Scholar of Wadham Colleges
Tuesday Mr. William Jacobson, RA. of Lincoln College, Mr.
St. Vincent Love Hammick, B.A. of Exeter College' and Mr.
Ricdard Croft, Scholar of Balliol College, were elected Fellows of

Tuesday last Mr. Charles Cheyne, Commoner of Pembroke, was
elected Scholar of Lincoln College.
In a Convocation holden on Thursday, the Rev. John Baines
Graham, M.A. late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and
the Rev. Charles Lawson. M.A. of St. John's College, in the same
University, were admitted ad eundetss.
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Thursday last the Marquis of Abercorn and the Marquis of
Douglas and Clyde, were entered at Christ Church, in this Uni-
versity.

COLLECTANEA.

Among the 50 female convicts who were removed an
Saturday from Newgate to Woolwich, preparatory to their voyage
to New South Wales, was Mrs. &amp Sutton Cooke, of swindling
notoriety.
One of the greatest luxuries of the harem is sham-
pooing the feet of the Turk with her soft fingers, by one of his
wives, generally his favourite, which operation she continues for
'hours together. An opium eater assured me the most delightful of
his reveries was imagining himself shampooed by the dark-eyed
kouris of Paradise.—Modden's Travels in Tk►kej.
On the autholily of a Professor of Physiology, it is
gravely stated in the Anthology, printed at Florence, that a hog
was some time ago killed in the neighbourhood of Bologna, on one
of the intestines of which the words " Lanza guida da," in black
and permanent characters, were distinctly visible:
The butchers ul Geneva have a singular mode of pre-
venting flies from attacking the meat in their shops. They rub the
walls and boards, upon which the meat is placed, with the essential
oil of laurel, the smell of which keeps away this troublesome
insect.

RESTORATION OF YORK MINSTER.—The workmen
are engaged in placing the beams and rafters to support the scaffold-
ing for the fixing of the roof, and in this work, within the last few
days, they have made considerable progress. Mr. Wolstenholme
is busily employed at his workshops in carving the centre knots for
connecting the ribs of the arches for the roof, the patterns of which
are the old ones, which are so far preserved, as to give tolerably
correct specimens of the foliage, &c. with which they were or-
namented.

INTERESTING TO FLORISTS—The carnation fancier
will be glad to hear of an effectual preventative against the fly, which
has hitherto proved so injurious to this beautiful flower: —Take
some black pepper, ground very fine, and dredge it lightly over the
leaves and stalk whilst the dew is on the plant.
CURIOUS CALCULATION.—Mr. Adam, Rector of the
Inverness Academy, in his Philosophical Lecture of Tuesday even-
ing, In alluding to the famous saying of Archimedes, that, "give
him a lever long enough, and a fulcrum to rest it on, and he would
by the weight of his own body move the earth," mentioned that he
found by calculation, that reckoning the body to be equal to a cubic
yard of matter, it would be necessary for him to move with a
velocity of five hundred circles in an hour, for upwards of five
thousand millions of years, in order to make our globe (supposing
it to be at rest) change its position by one-tenth of an inch !—lts-
vensess Courier.