The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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 CaseN, 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 Digby, 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 Fot, 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 was 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 bad 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 CIYIL 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 Fowles, Scholar of Exeter College.

George Butler;Scholar, of Exeter College. -
On Monday, Mr. Edward West, Mr. Henry Longueville
Mansel, 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 SCHOLARSIIIP.—A Scholarship OD 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 Divinity, 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-Chan-
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, t.A., of Pembroke College, has
been appointed Second Master of the Free Grammar School,
Abingdon. . _ _

The Rev. John Maynard, M.A., ckg 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, as been elected by the
parishioners Perpetual Curate of that Church.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. James Kendall, formerly of St. 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
Glassr
Y, in the presbytery of Inverary and shire of Argyll,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter M'Kichan.

INCOME
the income
C
which was held i
l tax AAX OsN introducedP li c
intoo At P
discussionA N t E s. Tha et
tshueb subject
annual o
when one of
meeting of theshareholders of the South Australian Bank,
been in cornmunicati
the
nthe city of London on Wednesday last ;
directorse (Mr. Divett, M. Y.), who has
stated that Mr. communication the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,the government would (l'ulb.urn had intimated to him that
source from which to ook
.to. the company itself as the
receive, its impost without any reference
whatever to individuals.va
thee amount paid would, therefore,
fro rata dividend paid to the
shareholders, but in this the ahnecellor
have to be deducted from
might
their own conve-
.said nothing, leaving
conve-
nience. Another director said it
them to arrange that matter as
smtpereitnieesas to the amount
happen that parties
s wooudhgvetax, as: in
were not beneficially interested inpeebrgusos:
twhhaitcehasberohuegahutpptehaeemd
twhiatthinsuathhe
former times, to get a certificate from government
and
back to the bank and get the amount deducted from cometheir
dividend remitted. The principle as to the imposition of the
.
income tax set forth at this meeting of course applies to all
apurbeititiern of their companies, which, it is understood, will have to make
gross profits, irrespective of the appropri-
ation of any monies fora reserved fund, or other contin-
gencies, and will on that return be taxed.

ARRIVAL OF THE ON

LRLAND

( From yesterday's Times.)

We have received, by express from Marseilles, files of
Indian and China papers, in anticipation of the overland
mail, which left Bombay on the 23d of May. It will be re-
marked that, in order to avoid the monsoon, the mail was
despatched ten days earlier than usual, and thj period over
which our intelligence usually extends is therefore consider-
ably diminished. We rejoice to state that, although the
events which have occurred since the dates of our last advices
are not of so striking a character as those of which the news
has been communicated by the last six mails, the intelligence
is, on the whole, highly satisfactory, and fully bears out the
brief statement of the telegraphic despatch which we pub-
lished on Saturday.