The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-03-12 (London, England)

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.--CAMBRICI E, MAR. 11. —At a Congregation on Tuesday last a petition from • this University pp both Houses of Parliament, against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics, was voted by 70 to 38. At the same congregation the Rev. Robert Jefferson, B. D. Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, was admitted Doctor in Divinity; and Henry Revell Revell, of Catherine Hall, was admitted Bachelor of Arts. The Chancellar's gold medals for the two best proficienta in classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were yesterday adjudged to Mr. John Frederick Isaacson, of St. John's College, and Mr. Richard Williamson, of Trinity College. The Rev. John Hollier Stephenson, B. A. of Trinity College, was on Friday last instituted to the Rectory of I)engie, Essex, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Robert Faithful,. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Mr. Thomas Johnson University Marshal, in the room of? the late Mr. John Challis.  It is expected that Sir James Mackintosh will give his •ote for the new Lord Rector on the 6th of April, and as proclamation must he made at the gates of the University, and 24 hours elapse before further proceeding, and the 7th is the fast-day, the installation of the Lord Rector will probably take place on the 9th. It is intended to give the Glasgow public dir.•ner on Friday the Bth.—The public dinner in Edinburgh to Mr. Brougham it announced for the 6th.—Glaaguie Chrolicle. A branch Mechanics Institute is about to be formed in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green. The town of Stamford will be lighted with gas for the first time next Wednesday evening. The congregation of Sleaford church on Sunday morning were surpised by a •ery audible fiirbidding of balms, by a buxom young woman from Swarby, whose ri-eievaat sweetheart (assistant to a maltster) was asked in church to soother woman. • The Minister parried the interruption by requesting her to attend in the vestry-room after divine service. The poor girl there stated her claims to the false swain, who had been unhappily too much favoured by hcr, but ber objections were not held to be valid in law.— Lineal* Merck The extreme briskness of trade last year at Livetpoul is evidenced by all official account just published. The excess of 1424 over 1823 is more than 41,00,006/. The export of cotton-maniffa,ctures and yarn are ttimated at the vast sum of thirty millions !  IV r Muir tt 10.—On Sunday evening it blew a violent gale of wind at S E., accompanied by a very high title. The new works which Mr. Vining has so assiduously erected, even in their unfinished state, firmly resisted the tempest. The gale of wind above mentioned produced a golden harvest to many people in the parish of Chiekerell. During the night it blew (reatendously from the S.W., and the beach, from the effects of a ground see, in the morning produced guineas and a quantity at foreign and English coins; of the former picked up, some butt date tnany year.' previous to the 100 of Admiral (landau's fleet on that part of the most.. Robert Stenhenoon, oat of the preventive service men stationed at Berwick, has heft ledgedia Durham goal, cn verdict of wilful murder found against him for shootirg James Beretidge, near Tweedmouth.