The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

ISLE OF MAN.—The weather for the past fortnight has
been much more dry than wet, but a part of that time the
atmosphere was so excessively cold, from the prevalence of
northerly and easterly winds, as to invest May with some of
the strongest features of December. For more than a week
many of the Manx hills have appeared, clad in the white
livery of winter, and on Tuesday there were several showers
of sleet and snow, so unusual at this season of the year,
when mildness and warmth are naturally expected, and gene-
rally experienced. At present, although the wind has
changed to a more temperate quarter, the air continues
chilly, and unfavourable to vegetation, which we fear has
suffered considerably in various part of the Island. Manx
Liberal.

BRISTOL.—The snow which fell all over the country on
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, was comparatively inno-
cuous ; but the night frosts have done irreparable and exten-
sive injury ; potatoes, kidney-beans, peas, &c., have suffered,
we fear, irretrievably ; fruit has sustained extensive injury ;
and even forest trees are severely cut in their foliage ; dahlias
and other flowers that have been planted out, have also been
killed in immense numbers—Felix Farley.
SHERBORNE.—The weather has been extremely cold here
for the past week. The boisterous and cutting winds from
the north and north-east, have really made us
.again enjoy
the comforts of a good fire-side. At five o'clock this
morning (Tuesday) we were visited by a heavy snow-storm,
which continued till half-past six, accompanied by an ex-
tremely piercing wind. This afternoon also, at the moment
we are writing, the snow is again descending thickly and in
very large flakes. We fear the fruit trees can hardly escape
injury by these great and suddeh changes, although some
express an opinion that the apple blossom is hardly sufficiently
advanced to be affected seriously, unless the frosts at night
should continue with severity; in such case, • the pros-
pect offered a week ago will, doubtless, be sadly curtailed of
its promising character.—Sherborne Journal.
KENT.—The weather during the past week has been gene-
rally most inclement. Sharp easterly winds have destroyed
a great deal of 'fruit blossom and severely checked the pro-
gress of vegetation. A great deal of cold rain has fallen, and
on Tuesday and Wednesday it actually snowed for a short
time. Kent Herald. _

ILmiNsTER.—We were visited by severe snow storms on
Tuesday and during the night. In the morning the surround-
ing hills presented a very unusual appearance for a May
month, they being quite covered with snow, and the cold
winds which we have experienced for the last few days, and
which continue to prevail, will tend to retard vegetation.
The corn fields and meadows have beyfited by the late
showers.—Sherborne Journal. •_ _

DEVIZES.—The weather during the_ past week has been
exceedingly cold and ungenial, and the progress of vegetation
has been suddenly checked. Tuesday morning was ushered
in with a heavy fall of snow, and the fields were clothed in
an unbroken garb of the purest white ; in the evening there
was a second storm, and so intense was the cold, that a con-
siderable quantity of snow remained on the ground on the
following day. Thirty years ago we had a similar visitation,
on the 14th of May, 1809; so much snow fell that much
damage was done to the trees, particularly in Marlborough
forest, where, the leaves being almost perfectly expanded,
many large branches, being unable to sustain the quantity
snow which had accumulated upon them, were broken off.
The weathey still remains bitterly cold.—Wilts independent

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford University Herald.)

On Tuesday fast, the new statute, Tit. iv., constituting a
PrEelectorship in Logic was submitted to Convocation, and
carried by a majority of 27 to 18. The Prwlector (who must
be a Master of Arts, or a Bachelor in Civil Law or Medicine,
at the least) is to be elected by Convocation, and to hold his
office for ten years, at the expiration of which period* how-
ever, he is eligible for re-election. The salary of thePrm-
lector to arise from a small terminal payment made by all
(Servitors excepted) under the degree of M:A. The Vice-
Chancellor has fixed Wednesday, June sth, at two o'clock,
for the election of the first Prcelector.

On Wednesday se'nnight Mr. Robert Wheeler Bush,
Postmaster of Merton College,_ was elected Scholar of Wor-
cester College, on the Foundation of Dr. Clarke.
Yesterday, Richard Cowley Fowles, Commoner of Exeter
College, was elected a Scholar of that Society.
Yesterday, Mr. Thomas Shadforth, 8.A., Scholar of Uni-
versity College, was elected Fellow of that Society on the
Foundation of King Henry IV. At the Examination in
Easter Term, 1838, Mr. Shadforth was placed in the First
Class in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, and in the
Second Class in Literis Humanioribus.

The Rev. Francis Curtis, M.A., of Balliol College, has
been instituted by the Lord Bishop of London to the Rector)?
of St. Leonard's, Colchester ; patrons, the Master and Fel-
lows of Balliol College.
The Rev. William Henry Carwithen, M.A., of Worcester
College, Curate of Manaton, Devonshire, is elected Chaplain
to the Union Workhouse, St. Thomas, in that county, va-
cant by the resignation of the Rev. C. orthy.
On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. John James Blunt, 8.D.,
late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was unani-
, monsly elected Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, in
"'that University, in the room of the late Bishop of Peter-
borough.