The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

OBITUARY,

In London, in the 79th year of his age, the Rev. Friskncy
Gunnts, for 55 years Rector of the valuable living of Leasiit.
ham, Lincolnshire.
At the house of his father, at Southampton, after a short
illness, the flee. Robert Teyetrnere Pilgrim, M. A., Rector
of Shaw, near Newberg, Berks. He was in the 34th year of
his age.
The Rev. James Howell, M. A., Vicar of Arlington,Berks.
At Llandinabo, Herefordshire, after a long illness, aged
73, the liev. John Weston Phillips, Rector of that parish,
Vicar of Brocknatnpton, and formerly Curate of Fownhope.
At Luckhatn Rectory, near Minehead, Somerset, the Rev.
Robert Freke Gould, aged 86, Rector of that place and of
Thorvarton, Devon.
The Rev. Richard Clarke, thirty-seven years Chaplain of
St. Michael's, Portarhngton, and twenty-six years Sovereign
of that borough.
At Auchinern House, near Glasgow, after five days' severe
illness, the Rev. James Graham Campbell, jun., of Peterhill
and Auchinern, aged 34 years.
The Rev. Thomas Harrison, of Firby, YorF shire, aged 69.

The Rev. W. L. Glover, Vicar of St. Paul's. Bedminster.
At Weymouth, the Rev. W. T. Price, of Hinton St. George
Somerset.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

OXFORD, Nov 17.—1 n a congregation, holden on Thurs-
day last, the following degrees were conferred :—Doctors in
Medicine R. H. Goolden, Queen's; A. J. Sutherland, Stu-
dent of Christ Church.—Bachelor in Civil Law :—F. Rogers
M.A., Fellow of Oriel, and Venerian Scholar.—Masters of
Arts :—ltev. G. E. Bruxner, Christ Church, grand comp.;
Rev. E. J. Randolph; Student of Christ Church; Rev. W.
W. Blandford, St. Edmund's-hall; Rev. G. C. Lamutte and
Rev. C. Sweet, Balliol; Rev. J. A. Owen, and Rev. E. L.
Davies, Jesus; R. Courtenav, Magdalen-hall; and the Rev.
F. S. Gawthorne, Exeter.—Bachelors of A rts :—J. S. Karr,
St. Mary-hall, grand, comp.; J. B. Phelps. Oriel, grand
mop.; J. D. Macfarlane, and J. M. Dixon, St. Edmund-
haL : T. Purnell, Few-inn-hall; J. H. Williams, J. M.
Glenie, B. L. Watson, and R. Shepherd. St. Mary-hall;
Crofts, and J. Hayes, Magdalen-hall ; J. L. Fytche, Lin-
coln; C. E. Thornhill and R. B. Lyons, Christ Church ; F.
Rooke and C. Russ de Haviland. Oriel ; W. Edgecome
and J. Montague. Pembroke ; B. Davy, A. Ansley, J. S.
Whiting, and G. B. Baines, Worcester ; J. Turner, and J.
M. Sumuee, Balliol ; W. Fookes, H. Jodrell, C. B. Wollas-
ton, and G. A. Booth, Exeter; W. D. Hall, Fellow of New;
E. M. I.'ickford, It- H. Baxter, and S. M. H. Champneys,
Brasennuse ; W. Darnell, P;xhibitioner of Corpus Christi;
M. Steel, Jesus; J. ‘Vickesi St. John's; and W. Banister,
Wadhain.
In a Convocation, holden in the afternoon of the same day'
it was agreed to augment the stipends of the under librarians
of the Bodleian 1:100 per annum each, to be paid out of the
University chest.
On Saturday last, Edward Christopher Egerton, 8.A.,
Probationary Fellow of All Souls,' and the Hon. Gilbert
Chetwvnd Talbot, 8.A., of Christ Church, of kindred to the
Founder. were admitteii Aetna' Fellows of that Society ; and
at the same time, Thomas Henry Lloyd, 8.A., of Btaseunuse
college, was admitted Scholar of All Souls'.
On Wednesday last, the Rev. T. Pelly, M.A., and the Rev.
H. S. Slight, 'M.A., Scholars of Corpus Christi coll., were
admitted Fellows of that Society.
On Thursday last, Mr. E. H. -Knowles was elected an Ex-
hibitioner on the Michel Foundation at Queen's college.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 17,—At the congregation on Wednes-
day last, the following degrees were conferred:—Doctor iii
Divinity by. Royal Mandate: Rev. C. Wordsworth. Trinity
—Doctor in Divinity: 11ev. J. Simpson, St. John's college.
—Waster of Arts,- It'. Shutte, Emnt. cull.. Licentiate in Medi-
cine: L'aius.—Bachelor in the ()evil Lau,: E.
C. Brewer, Trinity: B. H. Clerk, St. John's.—Bachelor of
Arts: J. T. Burt, Trinity.
On 'Thursday last, Guillemard, 8.A., of Pembroke
coll., in this University, was elected a Foundation Fellow of
that Society.

The office of Hulsean Lecturer will become vacant at
Christmas next, and the trustees have issued a notice re
questing all persons wishinz to become candidates for that
office to send their names to the Vice-Chancellor, on or be
fore the 10th of December next.

THE MURDER AT HORWICH MOOR

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

On Friday morning, at ten o'clock, the adjourned inquest
was held. The jury re-assembled at ten o'clock, and having
been sworn, Daniel Crook was called in. He said that he
was sent for by Mr. Wright. to apprehend the prisoner at the
coal pit where he worked, and the constable of Hatherwell
took him into custody. Mr. Ainsworth and Mr. Wright were
there. The prisoner said that he would go without hand-
cuffs. He asked if it was something about the man that was
killed upon the moor, Mr. Ainsworth said that the man had
no occasion to say anything of himself, unless he thought
proper. The prisoner said that they had not had a gun in
their house since the Sunday fortnight before the sth of No-
vember. He said he had had uo gun with him on Friday
afternoon, but he was out with Mr. Matthew Lambert in the
afternoon. In answer to a question by Mr. Wright, witness
said that he bad shot a bird that day, but witness could nut
recollect the natne,of the bird. The prisoner said lie was in-
nocent of this business, and as he was going along the moor
Matthew Lambert had said to him, "Those that killed this
man ought to be found out." Prisoner replied, that it might
have happened to Matthew himself, that somebody might
shoot hint.

James Fletcher re-examined.—Said that he was on the
road from the stumps to the cabin when he heard the gun
fired, and no person, after the firing of the gun, could have
got into the cabin without witness seeing him. When he got
to the cabin he found the tramp lying asleep on the floor,
who,, on being disturbed by witness, went towards Belmont.
'lbis evidence exonerates the tramp from some suspicions
that had arisen.
Several witnesses were examined whose evidence did not
bear strongly upon the case, until
Joseph Halliwell, in the employ of William Gerard, cattle
dealer, Bolton, was called in. Witness said that on Friday
last he was going over Horwich Moor for the first time in his
life, on his way to Skipton, in Yorkshire, to buy cattle.
Whilst going over the moor he lost his way, and whilst he
was endeavouring to find it he heard the report of a gun,
about 460
yards from the place where the man had been shot.
After he had proceeded about 100 yards, he met a man run-
ning with a gun in his hand. As soon as he heard the report
of the gun, he made the best of his way to the place whence
the sound proceeded; he was on horseback at the time ; he
went there for the purpose of inquiring his way. When he
saw the man running he thought of asking him his way, hut
the man shunned him, and held the gun down, as if endea-
vouring to conceal it. Witness rode towards him until he
got within 30 yards of him, and asked him his way, but he
didn't speak tO him. The man made across the moor-in the
direction of Halliwell, from which place witness had come.
Witness went straight forward in the direction from which
he had seen the man proceed, and arriving at a deep ditch
he saw a- man lying in it. Witness turned back again, and
tried to find his way over the moor ; the man seemed to be
dead. Witness. went. along it because the horse would not
go over the ditch. Mr. Ainsworth and several of the jury
asked the witness many questions e in reply to which he
asked how it was likely he should speak to a dead man. Mr.
Ainsworth said that the man might have been in a fit. Witness
said a man looked very much like being in a fit, when he
was shot through the head. Witness looked at the deceased,
but did not offer to touch him ; he was all in a " maze."
Witness had gone above 100 yards after he heard the gun
fire,m before he met the man running. The
in an was proceed-
ing front, but looked as if he did not like to meet him ;
the nearest point at which he approached the man, he be-
lieved was less than 30 yards. He was positive that the man
had a gun in his hazl. Ile was dressed in a blue surtout,
trowsers, and a blue plush waistcoat. The man was about 5
feet 9or 10 inches, and had a gun with him. Witness was
fetched from his work yesterday (Thursday) by Mr. Perris,
the constable of Blackburn, and was taken to Great Bolton
Dungeon, where he identified Whittle as the man he had
met on the moor. After he left the body, he met with an old
man, and asked him which was the way to Belmont, who
directed him in the right way, end whilst he was getting at
the right track, he passed the five barns a second time, and
called for a glass of ale. He did not tell them about seeing
the man in the ditch. The body of the deceased had then
been taken there, hut witness did not know it. It was about two
o'clock when lie was at the five houses the second time. Wit-
ness was going to Yorkshire to purchase cattle for his master,
and had about £3OO about him at the time. The reason he
did not make any particular alarm was, that he was afraid
that people might suspect that he had committed the murder.
When he heard his master and some persons at Skipton
talking about a man being shot, he stated then that he was
close by when the man was shot.
We have not time, to give the evidence at length, as the
inquest was not over until half-past five o'clock. The evidence
of the last witness was very clear. In a short time the jury
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," against James
Whittle. The coroner complimented the magistrates and
other gentlemen of the neighbourhood for the attention they
had paid in investigating this dreadful transaction.

A contemporary sass that '6 the machinery ofthe Great
Western will last' fur ever;" and adds, that "afterwards it
can be sold for old iron."

Digby Caley, Esq., has declined to take upon himself the
duties of a Ton n Councillor of the Borough of Ripon, to
which he was elected on the Ist instant. It is said that if he
had accepted office he would have been elected Mayor, though
all the Corporation but himself and another are Tories. This
would have been a very difl'erent specimen of "liberality"
from that exhibited by the Whig Radicals, who arrogate to
themselves the title of ." Liberals" at Leeds. Leeds Intelti-
geneer.

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PRIVATE LETTER FROM LORD DCRIIANI.—We have been
favoured by a kind friend with an extract from a letter,
which he has received from his lordship, dated Quebec. 13th
October. This_coininAnication is highly interesting:—`• All
civil governwightikactw impt aid icable here. I return home
to follow out the .obiectijr-ixiy mission in the House of
Lorctsoz,bere; in ertith. the eakernment of the Canadas is
now vsnducted, The post of aflEculty—or action—is now in
that Woule, and there Lmusiliepair. Trust me, my good
friend abuwitin not one iOta-erf the objects of my mission
—on the'Ontrarv, ',Bold to-the-fit as strongly as ever—and I
believrtltaticonirary to their intentions, my enemies have
cr unconiiiiu:si give me, betreOneans to carry them into
effect. No &In be:in F,inglahleby the middle or end of De-
cember. 10n1704,1 ruila/
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