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MASTRAS Of •RTS.
Rev. Bryant Burgas, of Eider college.
Rev. Joseph Charles Helm, of Walls= college.
Rev. Charles Manharn, of Christ Church.
Mr. Samuel Richardson, of Jesus college.
Rev. Wslliousi Cartvithen, of St. Maly hall.

RACULLORS OF ARTS.

Lifff INTELLIGENCE.

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OXFORD, DECEMbiIt IL .
Oa thuriday last, the foll Owing gentieMsen wad
admitted to degrees*
aAemaLoa AND DOCTOR IM divtifirr. _ _

Rev. Sande! Kdderbee, M.A. and student in divinity, Of Uni-
vanity collage, Grand Compounder.

Le Gendre Starkie, Esq. of Brasenose college, Grand Com.
pbdnder.
Honourable John Evelyn Boscawen, of Christ Church, Grand
Compounder.
Mr. John William Spicer, of Brasenose College.
Mr. James Taylor, of Brasenose College.
Mr. Benjamin Hill, of Erasenose College.
Mr. Henry Morrall, of Brasenose College.
Mr, John Waliron, of Worcester College.
Mr. Thomas litnry Ewin. of Worerst,r ColLgu
Mr. George Morgan, of Christ Church.
Mr. John Hughes, of Jesus College.
Mr. John Theodosius Joni s, of tests! College.
I Mr. Ruben Francis Walker, of New College.
Mr. Thomas Keble, of Corpus Chiliti College. •
Mr. Noel Thomas Ellison of Corpus Christi College.
Mr. Willi:tot Lewis Enclitic, of Lincoln College.
kir. Francis Fox, of Univcrtity College:
Mr. Spencer Henley Kilderbee, of Gni* inky College.
TitCLEsl/CSTICAL PROMOTIONS.

Rev. Andrew Quiche, B.A. Fellow of New Col:ege, in this uni-
versity, is presented to the Rt ctory of Adihiittie, aotnersetshirc,
void by tee resignation of the Ka v. W. Wale.
Rev. John Rouse, to the rectory of S. Breock, Cornwall.
Rev. Oliver Rouse, to the rectory of Tetcott, Dsvon.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. S.
CROFT V. BOND.
This was an action of assault brought against the
dissenting minister, on behalf of whom Mr. Garrow
had applied lately in the last Term for a Mandamus
to restore him to his pulpit in Bethnal Green.
Mrs. Davis, the wife of a carpenter, said, she was
visiting her husband, who lodged at the public house,
on the Surrey side of the Strand Bridge, while the
bridge was buildi-g, on the 21st of May last. The
plaintiff is a Surveyor of about 70 years of age. and
the defendant is between 30 and 40. He professed
himself to be a clergyman of a presbyterian Chapel.
The plaintiff and the defendant were both at the pub-
lie house upon business, and came into the witness's
husband's room ; and the defendant abruptly order-
ed the witness out, as they had met upon blisiness.—
' Being engaged to drink tea with the landlady, she
went out ; otherwise she would have resisted such
rudeness. When she got out, she heard a great noise
and scuffle, and the defendant followed the plaintiff
out of the house, the former calling the landlord to
assist him. His eye was bleeding tremendously ;i
and the witness said to the defendant, " are you not
ashamed to strike a man so much older than your-
self ?" The defendant replied, that the plaintiff was
a d—d old villain, and he wished he had knocked
his brains out..
Mr. Druce, the landlord, said, that when he saw
the parties, whom he did not know before, the plain-
tiff WAS acting upon the defensive, and keeping the
defendant from"him. His eye was bleeding, and he.
said that the defendant had almost knocked it out.
Mr. Pearce, surgeon, said, that the eye bled fu-
riously, so that be at first thought it was Ms time
which was bleeding. It afterwards inflamed so se-
verely, that the witness was apptehensive of a slough
forming, and blindness ensuing. He attended the
plaintiff two or three weeks constantly, and the eye
was now not completely recovered.
Mr. GARROW, for the defendant, said, that if the
plaintiff had proceeded against the defendant by in-
dictment, the Jury would then have been, by the evi-
dence of the plaintiff, let into the provocation, which
the defendant received to this assault. As it was, he
had suffered enough, in his own reflections upon the
words he had used, and in being turned out of his
situation by the plaintiff and others, as preacher to
the congregation at Bethnal-green ; and he was now
out of employment very much at the service of nny
Gentleman of the Jury.
Lord Euattenottoucts said, that the Jury were in
possession of all they ought to know ; and this action
had; nothing to do with the defendant's having been
ousted from his pulpit ; although, to be sure, a con-
gregation would very properly struggle hard to
get rid of such a teacher as the defendant. Ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages £5O.
DOS ON THB DEMISE OF HEROIC V. ROBSON.
This was an action of ejectment, against the de-
fendant, who claimed tinder a demise in the year
1770, for 99 years, granted under a power in a deed
of settlement to grant leases in possession, and not in
reversion ; and the question was as to the nature of
the lease. The lease was dated on the 31st-of Au-
gmt, to hold from the 29th day of September then
next ensuing, which the plaintiff contended to be a
lease in reversion. But, on the part of the defendant,
it was pioved, that tllis date of the 91st of August,
which appeared to have been inserted in the lease
after the engrossment of the body of it, was 'a mis-
take ; the charges in the books of the attorney who
made it being iniOctober. In these books, which Lord
Eilenborough permitted to be adduced as evidence,
partly on the authority of a case of Wedd —,
'2 Strange, 1129, it appeared. that the parchment for
the lease was bought only on the 15th of September;
and that the charge for drawing and engrossing was
141 October" generally. The premises being situated
in Middlesex, a memorial of the lease was registered
on the Bth of October. The subscribing witnesses to
the lease and counterpart were dead. Upon this
evidence his Lordship put it to the Jury, to find
that the lease was agreeable to the power to grant in
possession, and not In reversion. His Lordshie also
threw out a determination, not to construe the com-
mencement of the terms of leases very strictly. The
habeas,'" was framed upon the expectation, that they
would be executed as it was intended they should be.
His Lordship also commended the regularity with
which the attorney's (the late Mr. Strong) I
books
were kept • and said, if .the members of the pro-
fessiob followed his example, they might be of great
use when they were in their graves. Whatever might
be the event of this action, one lease would only be
knocked down to set up another; for the present
lease was granted upon the surrender of a former ,
one; and if this was bad, that would revive.—Ver-
dict tor the defendant.

OLD 34=1*. .

. taWilt flaw BreenTwas indicted for the tali '
Wird* of S. Brown, her husband.
Elie. Andrews deposed, that she lives at No. 50,
Gteended-streee Commercial-road •;—that she knew
the prisoner's husbands who lived at, No. 2, York-
street, in the Same road. Witness was occasional'
employed in day work at their house, and on the
sth of November she went there in the morning.—
The deceased and the prisoner were both at home
and, in consequence of a quarrel which they had, ire
went out. Abodt one o'clock in the afternoon he •
came back, and came down into the kitchen, where
witness and one of his children,named Rebecca, were.
He sent the child up to her mother in the parleur, to
say that he wanted his dinner instantly ; but the girl
came down and told him that he should have it pre-
sently, as her mother was engeged with a Gm,
tlenun. He seemed to be in a passion, and sent up
lg tin in a quarter of an h. ur. He "ALI, he knew
,hit it was one Brant who -was with the prim:met
in the parlour ; but the child said—" Ni, fether."--
The deceased then went up stairs in a violent p
to the one pair of stairs, and looked ont at tee wine
dow, from whence he saw Brant s'iortly quit the
house ; and he mobbed him ftom the door. The
prisoner and her hasheud, a short time after, in the
parlour, had some w eels, and Mrs. Brawn said see
would not Live any friend t f hei's insulted, whilie
he (the deceased) and his children lived on the effects
of her prostitution. They all went t ► dinner, except
the deceased, who went out again. This hapeeeed at
two o'clock. The prisoner then sent a leolette•gle s
to be pawned, andget her trunk down into the kitchen.
and began to pack up her things. Aboutthree o'clock -
Brown returned, when his wife said in him—e I ant
going to leave you to-night, and I'd .ake Louiet with
me ; as for Rebecca (the eldest) y :u mar k 'ep her."
Brown n. lid, he did not care ;;but he woilla hr d—d if
Brant should come—it was a shame—far he w:s a
married min. Witness could not hear her they, and
Brown then went np stairs into the bail-roans. He
had been gone a gored while, and the prisoner co iii-
nued India parlour, packing up her things ; and the
witness went down into the yard, where she cond- •
nued about ten minutes. When she case up, she
found Mrs. B. sitting at the parlour window. Ttepsi.
soner then went out 'to Mrs. Hopwood's door, No. 4.
Witness soon after heard a noise over her ho id, as of
the lumbering ofa chair, on which die ran out, ands rid -
to Mrs. Brown, 0 Go tie waiis, there's s nnething the
matter." Witness thought the deceased had fallen
off the bed. The prisoner wade not go up stairs, bet
desired the witnass to go, and to fetch the little boa'
with the duplicates, out of arm ill drawer. Witness
went tire and saw the dece +sea hinging toe bed:per.'
the' cord being fastened round the kn ib of the be&
post. With a small keile, which see had in her head,
aid with which she had been ripp ug stays, she cut
him down, and he fell on the bed, wite Hs lees on thee
Axe'. She then ran down stairs, and cried, M G. Mrs.
B. he has hanged himself," and she (the witness)
immediately Threw the cord in the tire., The pis
tier desired Rebecca to go ue starts, as her whar
was in a fit, the child won cerne down, and the prie
soner desired her to fetch Mr. Bennet, the. Sergeon,
who, on his arrival, pronouncel the &missed so he
no mere. Mr. Bennet was not t.dd the /situation in
which the deceased had been found; hut the witness
told him she had feuticthim in 'a fit, and the prisoner.
who was present; did not contradict it. Winvist had
no reasod for tieing this unless fright. Mr.-Brnuet
went away, and witness then unbuttoned his collar.
and taw a mark of the cord round his neck. • 'l'd
Mrs. Hopwood, and a servant who cams in. they
said that he died in a fit ; and the first time the wite
nest mentioned how she had found the deceased. wed I
at Whitechapel Police office., When she w.ts before
the Coroner she did not mention th it she hid fcrinsi
him hanging, as she was up night and d ty with the
Lady with whim she lived, and. her heel was ex•
tremely bad. She thought the deceased was about
40; he had been in the hospital for a month,' and
was lame in his knees; but he could eat aid drink
heartily. A chair always stood near the bed-sideer-e
On her cress-examination, she tai I the deceased was
strong and spiteful—and she iltouebt few people
would have been able to have hanged him. There
were no marks of vielence on the prisoner.
Ann Hopwood deposed that Mrs. Brown askel
her to help her to Icy her husband out.; and that
when she went for that purpose she discovered the
mark of the cord round his neck. Next morning
Mrs. Brown appeared to be very 101 l of grief.
Mr. Bennet, the Surgeon, deposed. that on the •
second time of his going to see the corpse of the de-
ceased, Mrs. Hopwood told him of the mark on his
neck, and from examining. it, he hid no doubt bet
that he died of strangulation. He told Mrs. Brims
that he must inform the High Constable of that cir-
cumstance ; to which she replied, " I leave it to yee.
Sir, do as you please ; for 1 know not welt is preps=
to be done."
Mary Smith deposed, that she 10.1 next door to
Brown and his wife; and that on the sth of No.
vember, she heard a noise in Brown's house at h..lt
an hour atter three ; she w.is ironing, and rut het ear
to the dresser, on doing which, she heard Mrs. Brenu
say, " bl—t yeur eyes," to which a wants voice re-
torted—," d—n your eyes." The noise was great,
and ceased on a sudden.
Ann Maberly deposed, that w'iren she went down
at Mis. Hopwood's desire, and told the prisoner cleat
there was a mark on his neck, Mrs. B. exclaimed,
e 0 dear LORD, whatever is done, he has done to
himself." -
Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence in
the most impartial manner, and tee Jury, after a -
few minutes consideration, returned. a verdict of—
Not Guilty.
The Court was srawAid to excess durir, the whole
of the trial, which lasted four hours. Theiprisoner
was very corpulent, and of a prepossessing counse-
nance. She was dressed in mourning, and was atA
tended to the bar by one of her children, na interest-
ing-looking child, about 7 years of age.
. CHILD argALINO.
Eliseketh Runk • dial Rescioe, was next put to the
bar to take her trial on an incfictment, charging her
with stealing sundry articles of wearin4 apparel
charged in one count to be tke property of daises
Dillon, and another of Thomas Dellow. •
Mr.BOLLAND having stated the case tosthe Jery,
and explained to them the reason of the piton, r
indicted for seceding wearing apparet, and not