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UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL ,NEIT's.

OXFORD, JUNE 14.—1 n a Convocation holden this day,
the degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred, by de-
gree of convocation, upon the Rev. Edward John Po2son,
Fellow of St. John's College, now resident on account of
his health in Van Diernan's Land, but who is required by
the statutes of his college to proceed to his degree this
term. In a Congregation, holden the same day, the
following degrees were conferred :—Doctor in Divinity.—
Rev. Edward Greene, Fellow of Magdalene College.
Doctor in Medicine.—Arthur Tawke, Trinity College,
Grand Compounder. Bachelor in Medicine.—Henry
Monro, Oriel College. Bachelor in Civil Law.—Rev.
Charles Leopold Stanley Clarke, Fellow of New College.
Masters of Arts.—Thomas Evetts, Corpus Christi, Grand
Compounder; Thomas Alexander Falkner, St. John's,
Grand Compounder; William Robert Seymour Fitz
Gerald, Grand Compounder ; Rev. James Humphrey,
Trinity, Grand Compounder • Drummond Percy Chase,
Fellow of Oriel ; Thomas Compounder;
Peyton, St. John's ;
Rev. Henry Albany Bowles, St. John's; Harry William
Forrester, Trinity ; Rev. Robert Lewis Bomptield, Tri-
nity ; Michael Terry, Linco n ; Rev. Alfred Clifton, Lin-
coln; Rev. Brabazon Hallowcs Lincoln ; William Beckett
Turner, Queen's ; John Cowley Fisher, Queen's ; Rev.
William Henry Jones, Magdalen Hall; Rev. John Hem-
stead, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. Charles Wilson Heaton,
Jesus ; Rev. Henry William Wynne, Jesus ; Rev. Her-
bert Sidney Hawkins, Jesus ; Rev. Samuel Shedden,
Pembroke; Rev. William Ewart, Exeter; Rev. William
Jackson, Scholar of Worcester •, Arthur Thomas Whit-
more Shadwell, Bailiol : Rev. William Tylden, Balliol ;
Edmund Round, Balliol. Bachelors of Arts.—Robert
Scarr Redfern, Queen's • Frederick Thorpe Pearson,
Queen's ; Thomas Waltham Were, St. Mary Hall ;
Greville Morier, Christ Church ; Robert Arthur Currey,
St. John's ; Edward Spooner, Exeter; Ric.:ard B. Tur-
ner, Exeter; Robert Sawyer, Merton.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 12.—At a congregation just held
the following degrees were confirmed :—Bachelors in
Divinity—John Rowlands. M.A., Queen's College;
George Bullock, M.A. and Frederick Morton Walter, St.
John's College.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 14.—At a Congregation, held
yesterday, the following degree was conferred :—Bachelor
of Divinity.—Willinm Aldrit, Magdalene College.
TESTIMONY OF RESPECT.—On the 31st ult., the Rev.
J. H. Macguire, minister of St. Luke's Church, Charlton-
upon-Medlock, had presented him a very beautiful
Pocket Communion Service by the candidates for
confirmation.
Lawrence, rector of Maraham, when closing
was taken suddenly ill. He was removed to the Rector's
house, where he instantly expired.
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curred on Suno'clock •
m the afternoon, intending to sail up
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to Burgh Castle, for a little recreation. On ar-
riving river
where between the half mile point B ' point on rel-
riving some • afternoon. i pF'N l.
don and the boarded Bank, a blast, termed by seamen
Roger's blast," sprang momentarily up ; two sails were
at this time up, which they commenced taking in ; all
their efforts, however, were unavailing as the boat ran
down head foremost. Two of them tried to swim to
shore but sunk in the middle of the channel. A third
sunk close by the boat, and the fourth clang to the main-
mast,choly iivents
and was saved—the water not being deep enough
to cover the " shrouds" of the boat. A shrimping boat
was near by when the accident occurred—they proceeded
to rescue him. They found the bodies of the other three,
but were too late to restore animation.

June 18,

IRELAND.

THE STATE TRIALS,

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—JoNt tot
It hiving been fully expected, in consequence Of
what transpired in the court on Saturday, that the Writ
of Error would be argued on Monday, the court was
crowded to excess. At eleven o'clock all the members.%,
the Court were present, with the exception of the Chief
Justice ; in a frw minutes, however, his lordship entered
the Court, and took his seat amongst his learned bre-
thren ; at. this time the Attorney and Solicitor-Generalt
Messrs. Bennett, Q C., Holmes, Smyly, and Napier►
were present, as counsel for the Crown, the Crowe-
Solicitor Mr. Kemmis was also in attendance; the 0011
counsel who appeared on behalf of the traversers was Sit
Colman O'Loghlen.

The Chief justice said, Mr. Attorney-General do you
move anything ? The Attorney-General--my lords is
the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and others, if the
gentlemen at the other side intend to argue the writ of
error, as the replication which we have put in on behalf
of the crown is in the nature of a demurrer, we have s
a right to commence, and my learned friend the Solicitol-
General will argue it.
Sir Colman O'Loghlen said it was quite true as stated,
that the replication put in by the crown was in the nature
of a demurrer. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., who was with hint
(Sir Colman O'Loghlen) in the case did not mean to
argue it, they would sutler judgment to go by default as
their only object was t 3 have the judgment of the court
pro
.forma upon the subject, the question intended to be
raised was the same as had already been decided against
the traversers by the court, when the plea in abatement
was under discussion, and they (the traversers counsel)
would not presume to trouble their lordships with a mere
repetition of the arguments which had then been urged
without success.

The CHIEF JUSTICE.—Very well, then. let judgment
be entered for the Crown. Mr. Attorney-General do you.
move any thing else.
The Attorney-General bowed, and having no further
application to make, in a few minutes withdrew.
In a few minutes after, the Chief Justice, addressin{
the Solicitor-General, who had remained after his col-
league left court, said it would be very necessary for hies
to see that the judgment of the court was properly made
up.

-The learned gentleman stated he should attend ,t et
its being duly entered, and then the subject dropped• •
As term expired on Wednesday, this is probably the
last time the case will be mentioned in court. The pro-
ceedings, which though almost unintelligible to civilians,
nevertheless were looked on with a considerable degree
of interest. It seems that it was necessary to have a.
formal decision of the court upon the matters brought
before them by the writ of error, coram nobis. before they
could appear regularly on the record, and be submitted to
the final decision of the House of Lords.

The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday, in reference to
this motion, says—" Another scene of the farce—for it
does not deserve the name of drama—was enacted this\•
day in the Court of Queen's Bench, as will be seen from
the following report ; but we only hope the managers may
have the courage to bring out the whole piece at the great
theatre in Westminster—the Peers and Judges being the•
audience, and we undertake that the thing will be damned
off-hand, and after the conclusion of the first act."
A most numerous meeting of the Repeal Association-
was held on Monday at the Conciliation Hall, Burgh
Quay, Lord French in the chair. No endeavour had been
spared to give it eclat, in fact such were the exertions
made during the week by the priests, backed by the
Repeal rent, to make the unfortunate peasantry bring in
the Repeal rent nolens volens, that the landlords of Ire--
land will stand a very indifferent chance of getting in
theirs next November, the poor dupes being forced to
bring into market, at no matter what sacrifice, produce
which would otherwise be kept over until an advantageous •
price could be obtained. The meeting was not over until
a very late hour. The room was crowded to suffocation
probably there never was so laree and formidable a meet-
ing of the Association. The Repeal rent amounted to •
upwards of X 3,200.

Loss OF A VESSEL AND ALL HANDS.—A letter in the
Cork Reporter of Thursday last, announces the total loss
of the John, of Dunboy, on the previous day, on the Long
Rock of Reagrove, and all hands perished.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday week, as the Mayor
of Limerick was entering the Exchange, for the purpose
of holding a meeting, sympathising with the state pri-
soners, he fell down in a fit of apoplexy, and soon after
ceased to live. He is represented as a gentleman of most
excellent character.

THE " REPEAL BUTTON."—Peremptory orders have
been issued by the authorities to deny all access through
Dublin Castle-yard to persons decorated with the " Re-
peal button," which has been very freely sported in town
by the lower orders since Mr. O'Connell's temporary
retirement from public life. The " orders," it is said.
were read at parade last Sunday ; and two or three ardent
Repealers have complained of summary expulsion from
the Castle by the military placed on duty there.

PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES STOPPED.—The com-
mittee of the Richmond Penitentiary have put a stop to
the influx of deputations which were daily crowding to
the presence of Mr. O'Connell and his friends. Had the
majority of the addresses already presented been free from
improper charges against the government and the law au-
thorities, it is said the committee would not have inter-
fered. On Tuesday the resolution of the prison authori-
ties was put in force on the occasion of a deputation from
the county Limerick, with Mr_ Smith O'Brian, M.P., at
their head, demanding admittance to the presence of Mr.
O'Connell. Having received this intelligence the depu-
tation withdrew very much chap-fallen.

DESPERATE AFFRAY.—A hurling match on a large-
scale took place on Sunday week in a field near A rdarostig,
about three miles south-west of the town of Cork. The
parties were the men of Blackrock and St. Barry's on the
one side, and those of Ballinora on the other. An im-
mense concourse of spectators were on the ground. Ins
little time a riot occurred amongst those who had the ar-
rangement of the course; this soon included the hurlers,
and completely changed the character of the game. Stones
were flung, and hurleys and sticks used, even the women
joining in the melee; and the place soon presented the
aspect of a general battle. Great numbers were maimed
and wounded on both sides, and the affair terminated
after about an hour and a half's hostilities, by the retreat
of the townsmen. A decent person named O'Brien, who
was a looker on, had his head laid open by a blow of a
stone, and was borne senseless from his assailants, and
many others received desperate wounds and contusions.
The number of persons congregated together has been
estimated at fr ,m five to six thousand.