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John Thoyts, Esq. Brasennose College.
Henry Forster, Student of Christ Church.
William Adams, Scholar of Trinity College.
The Rev. John Henry Hume BaWig College.
William *Brown Queen's College.
John Edward Willis, Demy of Magdalen College.
The Rey. William Rees, Pembroke College.
The Rev. Thomas Richard Ryder, ditto.
Richard French Laurence, Scholar of Pembroke College.

Of • /113.

William Leader Maberlg, Brasennose College, Grand Comp.
The whole number or Degrees in Lent Term was—D.D.
Seven; D. Bled. One; B. D. Five; B. C. L. Two; M.A.
Thirty-one; B.A. Twenty-two; Matriculations, 121.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

The Rev. Thomas Holmes, M.A. to the Rectory of Ilol-
brooke, Suffolk.
The Rev. P. A. French, to the Rectory of Thorp Falcon,
Somersetshire.
The Rev. R. T. Whalley, M.A. Prebendary of Wells, has
been collated, by the Bishop of Bath and Wells,to the Rectories
of Ikhester and Yeovilton.

The Rev. John Turner, to the Vicarage of Corston, void by
the cession of the Rev. It. T. Whalley.
The 4th instant, Mr. John Ramsay was set apart to the pas-
toral inspection of the Associate Congregation in Providence
Chapel, Dukinfield, Cheshire, by. the United Associate Pres-
bytery of Loudon.
Thursday sennight, the Rev. T. Dobbs, M.A. of Oriel Col-
lege, Rector of Cossington, Somerset, was instituted to the Rec-
tory of Templeton, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. Charles
Buckland.

Mr. Roberts has been appointed, by the ltshop of London,
one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapel ltuyal, to succeed
Mr. llartkman.

A very elegant mural monument has lately been
raised in Beccles Church, executed by CNA NTREY, in
memory of Dr. JOSEPH ARNOLD, Naturalist to the
Honourable East India Company in the Island of
Sumatra, where he fell a victim to his thirst for science
in that most pestilential climate.
IneLawo.—At a time when so many persons are''
contemplating a visit to this interesting portion of
the British Dominions, we hasten to direct the at-
tention of the Public to the very interesting Aecount
of a Residence in the Island, recently published by
ANNE PLUMPTRE. The Literary Gazette, speaking
of this Work, says—" We heartily wish that this
agreeable Volume may be the means of inducing our
countrymen to visit an Island which they are, for the
most part, utterly unacquainted with : yet from which
England fills one-third of her granary with corn, half
her fleets with provisions, and a great part of her any
with soldiers."

LImERICK, APRIL 11.—Between eleven and twelve
o'clock on Sunday night, a party of those nightly des-
peradoes, to the number of thirty, who infest that part
of the south Liberties of Litherick, assailed the house
of John Torrance, Esq. at Cunnigar. The attack com-
menced by the party shouting, hallooing, and smash-
ing almost all the windows in the house-front; and
here their utmost.exertions were directed against the
parlour windows, the whole of which they forced in
with sledges and large stones. The servant-man, on
hearing the noise, came to his master's door to ren-
der assistance, but Mrs. Torrance could not open it.
Mr. Torrance immediately got his arms and went to
his bed-room window (which had no fastening), and
attempted to fire several shots on the party, who were
then just under him, but they all missed fire. The
robbers having now got into the house, rushed up
stairs, and throwing a large stone at Mr. Torrance's
door, one of the upper pannels of which they broke
in, they demanded his arms, and asked if he would
promise to quit the place? he said that he would
never give his arms up, nor would he make any
promise at all about leaving Cunnigar. Two of them
having been placed as centmels on the servant, whose
head they cut very severely, they commenced firing
through the door at Mr. Torrance, which he returned
most gallantly, Mrs. Torrance rendering every as-
sistance by charging the arms and handing them to
her husband ; the conflict here continued for some
time, they then with a sledge endeavoured to break
through a partition wall, which, had they effected,
would have placed Mr. Torrance between two fires;
but, he taking deliberate aim at the person so em-
ployed, disabled him, and he was dragged into the
servant's room. The firing now ceased, and the party
ordered two large bundles of hay, which they had
brought into the parlour to be set on fire. Mr. Tor-
rance said, if they did so, some of their companions
should also suffer; he knew he had killed one, and the
rest should never go down stairs alive, but that he
would let them away quietly if they promised to leave
the house, and also one man might come up stairs ;
this being agreed to, the man did so, and a ladder
being put to the servant's window, the whole of
which was forced out, they dragged the dead man
to it, and carried him down that way, and having
taken a door from the premises, on which it is sup-
posed they placed the body, they went off. Mr.
and Mrs. Torrance escaped unhurt, except that his
face and legs were slightly burnt with the powder
of his assailants, whose guns were fired off quite
close to him. A great number of balls have been
picked out from the walls of Mr. Torrance's sleep-
ing-room, and a_ very handsome pistol was left
behind by these desperadoes, who broke every article
of furniture that came in their way, including look-
ing-glasses, chairs, tables, glass, and china. Too
much praise cannot be given to Mr. Torrance, for
his most spirited and resolute conduct, he having,
single-handed, if we except the admirable support
he received from his wife, fought and expelled from
his house this most daring gang of villains.
Monday, Alderman Gabbett, Wm. T. Monsell, of
Tervoe, Esq. and the Rev. Richard Dickson, attended
by a party of Major Going's Police from the county,
made a vigilant but ineffectual search in the district
of Cunnigar, and many miles around, for the persons
wounded at Mr. Torrance*
A paper has been most respectably signed by the
Gentlemen of the City and Liberties, expressive of the
deep sense entertained by them of the manly and spi-
rited conduct of J. Torrance, Esq. ip the above affair.

-stßrtit
April 16, at Canterbury, the Lady of the Rey. Thant Rea
nett, of a daughter.
Wednesday, the Lady of the see. Tketras Gatehouse; Law
of &oke Charity, Hams, of a daughter.
On the 10th instant, at Newbattle Manse, Mrs. Tlsaussen,
a daughter.
Sunday se'smight, at Clapham, Mrs. William Rolland, of
Adelphi Terrace, of a daughter.
April 15, at Freeland House, Perthshire, the Hos. Mts.
Bore, of a son.
Wednesday se night, the Lady of Captain Bowden, R.N. op
a son.
April 11, the Lady of Captain C. W. Mackintosh, Of e„
12th Regiment Madras Native Infantry, of a daughter.
Friday se'nnight, at Litchfield, the Lady of Sir F. S. Darwin,
of a son.
April 12, the Lady of Captain Patter, of Umtata Lodi,.
of at daughter.

MARRIED.
The Rev. Joseph Gould, of Newton Blossoniville, Buck% ei
Lydia, only child of the late Nathaniel Gould, Esq.
April 12, at Dewsbury, the Rev. Joseph Bailey, late (\mei
of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York, to Miss Parkin, of Dewsburs
daughter of the late Rev. Jonathan Parkin.

April 14, at Bath, Charles IL Cureton, Esq. 16th Tarim's, to
Charlotte Agnes, eldest daughter of liurgoyne Tomtins, ILD.
At Frindsbury, Captain Grover, ILN. to Flizabeth, daeghta
of Mr. Saunders, boatswain of Chatham Sheer Hull.
. _ _ _

Thursday sermlght, at Weymouth, Major Faulkner, to Ifie
Mackay, only daughter of the late Lieutenant Mackay, ILN.
Saturday se'nnighc, at St. Botolph, Aldgate, Lieutenant Wss.
Hall, to Caroline Halsey, second daughter of Nathaniel Brick-
wood, Esq. Crescent, America-square.
Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Dry=
Cooke, Esq. of Huston, Yorkshire, to Charlotte, daughterot SaeG. G. Cooke, Bart. of Wheatly, in the same county.
April 5, at Dublin, Captain George Berkeley, of tke Do*
Fusileers, to Jane, eldest daughter of John Beatty, M.D. of
Molesworth-street.

April 12, at Havre, Henry !aeon, Esq. of the Hoa. Eye
India Company's Civil Service, to Elizabeth, fourth daughtersf
the Rev. Jahn Dampier, Rector of Codfottl St. Peter's, Wilt&
April 12, iMr.Serlez V. Wood, of the lion. East latliaCome
pany's Naval Service, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late lice
Taylor, Esq. of Featherstone-buddings, Holborn.
At Eversley, W. li. T. Hawley, Esq. of %Vest Green name,
'Tants, to Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of John Drought*,
Esq. Captain. R.N. of Lversley.