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UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL NEIVs.

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 Pogson,
Fellow of St. John's College, now resident on account of
his health in Van Dieman'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.
Grand
Doctor
Cmpoholunde
r.
Medicine.—ArthurTawke' 'Trinity College,
Bachelor
in iVedicine.—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 Griffith Peyton, St. John's ;
Rev. Henry Albany Bowles, St. John's; Harry William
Forres,er, Trinity ; Rev. Robert Lewis Bomptield, Tri-
nity ; Michael Terry, Linco n ; Rev. Alfred Clifton, Lin-
coln; Rev. Brabazon nallowes, 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 Haskins, Jesus ; Rev. Samuel Shedden,
Pembroke ; Rev. William Ewart, Exeter ; Rev. William
Jackson, Scholar of Worcester ; Arthur Thomas Whit-
more Shadwell, Balliol: 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.iard 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. ALA., Queen's College;
George Bullock, M.A. and Frederick Morton Walter Sr.
John's College. ,
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 14.—At a Congregation, held
yesterday, the following degree was conferred :—Bachelor
of Divinity.—William Aldrit, Magdalene College.
TESTIMONY OF RESPECT.—On the 31st u.vn- ~ - the Bev.
J. It C Macguire, minister of St. Luke's Church,
. beautifuly 11 arlton-
upon-Medlock, had presented him a Pocket eommunion Service by the candidatesver for
confirmation.

LAND SCHOOL,—The
Yesterday afternOon week the Rev. John Alexander
Lawrence, rector.of Maraham, when closing his sermon
was taken suddenly ill. He was removed to the Rector's
hoNusoen,
TwithEerßeNhec instantlyoexFpiEresdG.
Rev. Dr. Woolley has been elected principal of this estab-
lishment. He obtained the high distinctions of first _,___
in literis humanioribus, 1836. He is Ope,.. Scholar "6"
II of
Exeter College' Oxford, and Fellow Of University Col-
lege, and has been Head-master of Hereford College
School

ACCIDENTever
.h.--a. 011 e ofthe most melan-
DISTRIC
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cuffed o noon. Four young men started
'clock •
`about four o in the afternoon, intending to sail up
the river to. Burgh Castle, for a little recreation. On Pnened in Yarmouth,
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curred
events which
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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, 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 is, Isti

IRELAND.

THE STATE TRIALS.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—JUNE 10.
It Inving 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 membereof
the Court were present, with the exception of the Chief
Justice ; in a few minutes, however, his lordship entered
the Court, and took his seat amongst his learnedbre-
thren ; at this time the Attorney and Solicitor-Generalo
Messrs. Bennett, Q.C., Holmes, Smyly, and Napier,
were present, as counsel for the Crown, the Crown-
Solicitor Mr. Kemmis was also in attendance; the only
counsel who appeared on behalf of the traversers was Sir
Colman O'Loghlen.
The Chief Justice said, Mr. Attorney-General do you
move anything ? The Attorney. General—my lords
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
a right to commence, and my learned friend the Solicitor-
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 him
(Sir Colman O'Loghlen) in the case did not mean to
argue it, they would suffer judgment to go by default as
their only object was to have the judgment of the court
pro forma' upon the subject, the q,uestion 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.
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league left court, said it would be very
necceaesistaearrdydhfroisersshci6inmlg-
to see that the judgment of the court was properly made
up.
The learned gentleman stated be should attend to
its being duly entered, and then the subject dropped.
As term expired on Wednesday, this is probably the
last time the rase will be mentioned in court. The pro-
ceedings, which thou.A almost unintelligible to civilians,
nevertheless were looked on with a considerable degree
of intereet. 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.
Th

to 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 mo,t numerous meeting of the Repeal Association
was held on Monday at the Conciliation Ball, 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 he obtained. The meeting was not over until
a very late hour. The room was crowded to suffocation :
probably there never was so large and formidable a meet-
ing of the Association. The Repeal rent amounted to
upwards of £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
'lock 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
Repeaters 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 address's already presented been free from
improper charges against the government and-the lawatp,
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'Brien, M.P., at
their head, demanding admittance to the presence of Mr.
O'Connell. Having received this intelligence the depu-
tatlon withdrew very much chap-fallen.
DESPERATE AFFRAY.—A hurling match on a large
scale took place on Sunday week in afield near A rdarostig.
about three mi!es south-west of the town of Cork. The
parties were the men of hlackrock 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. Ina.
little time a riot o .curred 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 burleys and stic"is 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, be the retreat
of the town,men. 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 rn five to six thousand.