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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER

This noble earl expired shortly after five o'clock on Thurs-
day morning, at Longford Cast%, the seat of his lordship,
between Sudbury and Ashburne, Derbyshire. We under-
stand that for nearly six months the deceased had been gra-
dually sinking, from his great age, and that he had removed
from Holkham Hall, Norfolk, for the benefit of the change
of air, having for some years past derived considerable ad-
vantage from his residence in Derbyshire.
The deceased, Thomas Wm. Coke, was son of Mr. Wen-
man Roberts Coke, who assumed the surname and arms of
Coke, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle,
Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester; he was born on the 4th of
May, 1752, and was, consequently, in the 91st year of his
age. He married first, sth October, 1775, Miss Jane Dut-
ton, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James Dutton, and
sister of the late and aunt of the present Lord Sher-
borne, by whom he had issue Lady Jane Elizabeth, born
December, 1777, and married 21st June, 1796, to Viscount
Andover, brother of the present Earl of Suffolk, who died in
January, 1800, without issue, her ladyship since remarried,
in April, 1806, to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Lligby, K.C.8.,
heir presumptive of the Earl of Digby ; Lady Elizabeth
Wilhelmina, married, sth December, 1822, to Mr. John
Spencer Stanhope ; and Lady Anne Margaret, married,-15th
September, 1794, to Viscount Anson, father of the Earl of
Lichfield. After Mrs. Coke's death, in 1800, the noble
earl remained unmarried until 26th February, 1822, when
he married, secondly, Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, third
daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, by whom, who survives
him, he leaves issue, Thomas Wm. Viscount Coke (now
Earl of Leicester), born 25th December, 1822 ; the Hon.
Edward Keppel Wentworth Coke, born 20th August, 1824 ;
the Hon. Henry John Coke, born 3d January, 1827 ; the
Hon. Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke, born 13th July,
1828; and Lady Margaret Sophia Coke, born 7th March,
1832.

The late Earl was descended from Sir Richard Coke,
Knight, the celebrated lawyer, who was recorder of Coven-
try and Norwich, and represented the county of Norfolk for
some years, and was subsequently chosen Speaker of the
House of Commons. He filled the high offices of Solicitor
and Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, and as the Lord Chief Justice of England, was the
last person who bore that title.
His late lordship represented the county of Norfolk from
1774 till 1832, during that long period maintaining a cordial
friendship with Fox, Grey. and the leading whig statement
and zealous opponents to the American and French revolu-
tionary wars. In consideration of his uniform support of
whig principles of government he wa,s elevated to the House
of Lords by the whig administration, in July, 1837, by the
title of Earl of Leicester of Holkham, county of Norfolk,
and Viscount Coke.
The principal portion of the late earl's long and valuable
life had been employed in the advancement of agricultural
science, and it is but in justice to his memory to say that he
was instrumental to many and great improvements in that
branch of our native industry.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)

In a Congregation holden on Thursday, the following De-
grees were conferred :
BACHELOR AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY BY ACCUMULATION.
Rev. Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College,
grand compounder.

DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW
John Lane, Queen's College.

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
Rev. Holled Darrell Cave Smith Horlock, Magdalene
Hall.

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Abraham Kerr Thompson, Queen's College
Rev. Thomas Calvert, Queen's College.
Henry Symonds, Magdalene Hall.
Henry Duncan Skrine. Wadham College.
John Dobree Dalgairns, Exeter College.

BACHELORS OF ARTS

Thomas Evetts, Scholar of Corpus Christi College, grand
compounder.
Francis Hugh Deane, Magdalene Hall.
The election for Fellows at Exeter College has termi-
nated in the choice of the following gentlemen :
The Rev. Matthew Anstis, M.A., Exeter College.

James Anthony Froude, 8.A., Oriel College.
Frederick Fanshawe, 8.A., Scholor of Balliol College
Richard Cowley Powles, Scholar of Exeter College.

George Butler:Scholar of Exeter College.
On Monday, Mr. Edward West, Mr. Henry Longueville
Manse!, and Mr. Leopold John Bernays, Scholars of St.
John's College, were admitted actual Fellows; and at the
same time, Mr. Edward Thomas Austen, Mr. Robert Win-
tle Gilbert, and Mr. Edward Victor Lewis Houlton, all
being of kin to the Founder, were elected and admitted ac-
tual Fellows; and Mr. Thompson Podmore, and Mr.
Christopher Cookson, were elected and admitted proba-
tionary Scholars of the same Society.
On Thursday last, Mr. William Charles Lawrence,
Scholar of New College, was admitted actual Fellow of that

Society.
CRAVEN SCHOLARSHIP.—A Scholarship on the Founda-
tion of John Lord Craven being now vacant, it will be filled
up on Thursday next, the 7th of July. The Electors are
the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professors of Divin ty, Law,
Physic, Hebrew, and Greek, and the Public Orator. Per-
sons of the name or kindred of Lord Craven, being poor,
and Scholars of the University, are entitled to a preference;
and such persons are required to transmit to the Vice-Cban-
cellor, before ten o'clock this day, satisfactory documents in
proof of their said kindred, an account of their standing in
the University, and testimonials from the College or Hall
to which they belong.
Mr. John Collingwood, 13. A., of Pembroke College, has
been appointed Second Master of the Free Grammar School,
Abingdon.
The Rev. John Maynard, M.A., of Exeter College, Cu-
rate of Dursley, Gloucestershire, has been appointed Chap-
lain to the Marquis of Hertford.
The Rev. John Puckle, M.A., of Brazenose College,
Curate of St. Mary's, Dover, has been elected by the
parishioners Perpetual Curate of that Church.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. James Kendall,foTmeriyoiSt. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Lantigler by Fowey ; patron, J.
Kendall, Esq., of Helston.
Rev. William Nassau Molesworth, M.A., formerly of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of
St. Andrew's, Manchester.
Rev. John Murphy, to the Living, of Kilmocomogue,
Ireland, vacant by the promotion of the Hon. and Rev. C.
B. Bernard to the Prebend of Kilbrogan.
Rev. Weeden Butler, Curate of Creaton, Northampton-
shire, to the Vicarage of Wickham Market, Suffolk, vacant
by the :death of the Rev. J. E. Bell; patron, the Lord
Chancellor.
Rev. H. B. Illingworth is appointed Chaplain to the
Madagascar, on the Coast of Africa.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Donald
Jackson to the Church at Lochgilphead, in the parish of
Glassry, , in the presbytery of Inverary and shire of Argyll,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter M'Kichan.

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melNcomE TAX ON PUBLIC COMPANIES.—The subject of
the
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was introduced into discussion at the annual
areholders of the South Australian Bank,
which was held in
when one of the the city of London on Wednesday last ;
been in directors
(Mr. Divett, M. P.), who has
stated that M communicationr with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,. Goulburn had intimated to him that
the government would look
source from which to receive
The
eits impost without any reference
have to be deducted from the amount paid would, therefore,
shareholders, but in this the chancellorroita dividend paid to the
them to arrange that matter as best said nothing, leaving
conve-
nience. Another director said it might
their own
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were not beneficially interested in business that parties
towhich brought them within the operation of the amount
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that case he supposed that such persons would)iasav
and e' as in
tax : in
former times, to get a certificate from government
come
back to the bank and get the amount deducted from he
dividend remitted. The principle as to the imposition of her
income tax set forth at this meeting of course applies to all
public companies, which, it is understood, will have to make
a return of their gross profits, irrespective of the appropri-
ation of any monies for a reserved fund, or other contin-
gencies, and will on that return be taxed.