The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS

OXFORD, FEB. CTH.—At a convocation the Rev. Jam
Williams. M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. was admito
ad eundein. At the same time the following degrees we
conferred :—.ooelor in Divinity.—Rev. William Thom
son, Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Bacheor in Cit
Lan.—John Henry Wynne, Fellow of All Soul•. Masie
of Arts,—Rev. Jo,eph Tinophil us Toye, Queen's, Gra'
Compounder; Rev. Henry Hanmer, New Inn Hall ; Ri
James Haddelsley Williams, St. Mary Hall ; Constantin
Est lin Pritchard, Fellow of Ralik'. Bachelor of _Arts.'
John Matthews, Exeter.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB 7.—To-day, the following degre
were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—Themas Peckston
Trinity College; Thomas T. Leete, Caius Colleg
Bachelor of Laws.—James Miles, Trinity Hall. Bach
lore of Aqs.—Samuel W. King, Catherine Hall ; 1;
Gilder, St. John's College ; Frederick Bliss, Trial
College ; G. Head, Trinity College ; 11. Nicholls, Tt,
nitv College; J. M. Lukin, St. Peter's College : J.
Ogle. Jesus College ; E. T. W. Probyn, Caius Colleg
W. Sloane Evens, Trinity College.
Mademoiselle D'Este has given a piece of ground
joining some premises formerly occupied by her at barn
gate, as a site fora new church, which will be complete
in a short time. The funds necessary for the erectn
have beer: derived from voluntary subscriptions, and ti
suers of £lOO from the donor of the ground formed part
the same.

TRACTA MAN DEFEAT.—OniThursday, at the meetil
of convocation at Oxford, it was proposed to grant XlO.Ol
for a fund to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Un
versify's galleriei. It might have been supposed that
one could have objected to this appropriation of universt
monies, but a party rallied, and under the generalship
Mr. -Wall, of Balliol, contested the point, when they we
beaten by a majority of 22, the numbers being—Place
39; non-placet, 17. The number of the majority is me
nous for the tractarians.

CONDEMNATION OF TRACTARIANISM.—OUr Made
will be truly gla Ito learn that the requisition to the Hea
of Houses. in Oxford, for the condemnation of tract N
90. having becu Nntoed by 474 members of convocatio
and duly considered by the liebdumadal Board, has bel
favourably entertained. The heads have resold'
to present it to the convocation to be holden on the 13,
inst , when it will be proposed, simultaneously with
condemnation of Mr. Ward's book, and his degradatta
to decree that modes of interpretation such as are au
gested in the said tract, evading rather than explaiall
the sense of the thirty-nine articles, and reconciling au
scription to them with the adoption of errors which th
were designel to counteract, defeat the object, and a
inconsistent with the due observance of the statutes of t
university.

THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD

On Friday, the Queen aad Prince Albert, with t
Prince of Wales, left Buckingham Palace, and reached t
Pavilion, at Brighton, at four o'clock.

Her Majesty and the Prince, it is said, intend to PO
visit to Warwick Castle during the Easter recess.

On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert visited
Haymarket Theatre, and on Thursday, the French plat
Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of her Majest
marriage.

LAW INTEL bIGENCE

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SMITH

This case, which had created much excitement fr
the high respectability of the defendants, and which I
expected to occupy the court three or roux days, came
a sudden close 0:4 the 7th. At the sittirr, of the court.,
Solicitor-General stated, that in consequence of an iM
mality in the writ, he could proceed no further in the
It had arisen through the error of a clerk in the Reme
brancer's office, which he had fallen into through
the first case of the kind he had had under the new
Inde2d, it was his opinion that the court throughout,'
been sitting without proper authority ; but, under all
circumstances, the case would be at present withdr.l
Mr. Kelly complained of the hardship and inconvenie
resulting to his clients from this additional dell'''•
discussion of rather au angry character took place bet
the counsel, which was terminated by the Chief 13!
directing the court to proceed with the Nisi Prius
A model of the premises, at the cost of £6OO, hi'
prepared for the Excise-office, and the last count of
indictment claimed £9,000 as duties due to the Crovil

Lord Denman has decided against barrister being
mitted as an attorney, because be had practised as s
ristcr while serving his apprenticeship to a solicitor.
A verdict for £1.600 was given in the Court of l
quer on Wednesday against Messrs. Porter and Foote
London, for fraud in the importation of silk.
In the Court of Common Pleas, it has been clef.
that a collector of window duties, appointed by the.-
missioners of land-tax, is not disqualified from be
the parliamentary registry of electors.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—FARDE'N v. TIDD 13111"..,1
At the Middlesex sessions, on Friday, an appeal 10"
parish of Cheswick against a certificate granted bl
Tidd Pratt to the Horticultural Society of Lona°°'
daring the society to be exempt from all local and
.!
chial taxes, under a recent act of parliament. 111,
declares that all societies formed for the improvern,
science, literature, or the fine arts, and supported ;
or in part by voluntary subscriptions, shall b.- e,
from such payments, provided such society 1:051„:,,,
partition, bonus, or gift in money, to its ine7l
After hearing the arguments of Mr. Clarkson, in II"
of the Revising Barrister's Certificate, and of MF'
aj
kin, on the other side, the chairman decided agBol
exemption claimed, upon the ground that althons
Horticultural Society never has made, or control
making any partition, bonus, or gift in money, ado
members, yet there is nothing in the bye-laws cgs
restrainins, them from doing so. This decision. o,t
one, virtually repeals the act of parliament and
the claims of the greater part, if not all the scieatv
cittits in the kingdom.

j 10
PROJECTED BAlLWAYS.—Friday's Gaze,.t tit
that the Board of 1 rade have decided on rePr;
Parliament in./at:our of the South Wales Railer/19,0
mouth and Hereford (Great Western) ; NociAv,
Pontypool ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dadle';
Birmingham ; Waterford and Kilkenny Raillb
against ti,e Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway' yp
bury and Wolverhampton (Grand Junction) ; We
and Stafford.