by the suicide of the prisoner, Lieut.Colonel Brereton: another has since been called upon Captain Warrington. The special commission for the trial of the rioters there has terminated its session; five prisoners have received sentence of death; thirteen others were found guilty, and the same sentence recorded against them. Four out of the five were executed on the 27th ult. At Nottingham the special commission passed sentence of death on eight prisoners. CHOLERA MORBUS.-We are happy to be able to report that the cases of this disease diminish in number and fatality. We hope in a few weeks to record its entire cessation. The report of the Central Board of Health to the 21st of January, states the number of - cases to that date 1948, of which 648 had terminated fatally. FRANCE. The motion for the abolition of the hereditary peerage has passed the Chamber of Peers-For the abolition, 103; against it, 70; majority, 33. Several of the most distinguished peers immediately resigned their seats in that Chamber. The tumults at Lyons and Grenoble have been suppressed. A very insurrectionary spirit has shewn itself at Marseilles, whose population has ever displayed a very ferocious disposition. At present peace is restored. It has been customary at Paris for the foreign ministers, in their diplomatic capacity, to address the King on New Year's Day, the Pope's Nuncio acting as their spokesman. The peculiar state of the Papacy, and particularly the relation between the Papal and Austrian Governments, prevented the Nuncio sustaining this office on the last occasion. The Prince of Castelcicala, the Neapolitan ambassador, was selected for it. The reply of Louis Philippe, which is always considered as indicative of the policy of the French government, was pacific. In the Chamber of Deputies, the civil list has been passed after great opposition, and a reduction from 15,000,000 f. (600,000l.) as proposed by ministers, to 12,000,000 f. (480,0001.) BELGIUM. The affairs of this petty kingdom continue in the same unsettled state. The King of the Netherlands refuses to accede to the arrangement proposed; and it no longer admits of doubt that he is supported by the Emperor of Russia. THE PENINSULA.-Alarm prevails throughout this fine, but oppressed, portion of Europe. Ferdinand is daily more apprehensive of danger, placed between revolutionary France on one side, and the fear of constitutional King and government on the other. Hence his eagerness to support Miguel, and ally himself with Russia, which seems disposed to enter into his views. General Torrijos, with a party of sixty Spaniards, refugees, have been decoyed to land in Spain, near Malaga, where they were immediately seized, and every one shot the following morning. SWITZERLAND is exposed to turbulent measures, almost amounting to a civil war; the causes and interests of which are so imperfectly stated, that we feel quite unable to explain them. PAPAL STATES.-These are in a state of revolution. These people are eager to be delivered from the oppressive government of the Pope and his cardinals. We do not hear of any acts of violence on the side of the insurgents, nor of energy on the part of the governors. AMERICA-UNITED STATES.- The President's message to the House of Representatives has been received. We have only space to allude to it very briefly. It notices the benefits the States have derived from the arrangements with Great Britain for a colonial traffic; that these had given employment to 30,000 tons of shipping, and activity to every branch of commerce connected with navigation. It reports the highly flourishing state of agriculture; and calculates that the whole of the public debt will be paid off before the end of the present year. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW CHURCHES. His Grace the Duke of Portland having disposed of his three chapels in St. Mary-lebone parish to Government: viz. Oxford-street Chapel, in Vere-street; Westmorelandstreet Chapel, Portland-place; and Portland-street Chapel, Portland-place;-each has undergone a complete repair, both internally and externally. Portland-street Chapel was consecrated, on Saturday morning, Dec. 31, at Eleven o'clock, by the Bishop of London. The royal arms, with the initials "W. R. the Fourth," and superbly painted, are placed in the front of the west gallery. A large concourse of the nobility and gentry were present at the performance of the ceremony. Vere-street and Portland chapels have changed their names to St. Peter, and St. Paul. The new church, recently consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the diocese, is made, by Act of Parliament, the parish church of Kingswinford; and the old church a chapel of ease. Name. Ware, George Preferment. Winsham, V. Somerset B.&Wells Dean of Wells to hold by disp. Ashton, R. Devon Exeter Webster, Wm.....to Easthope, R. .... Weddall, W. L. Chillesford, R. Cawood, C. Church Oakley, R. with Southampton Holy Hants to Preb. in Cath. Ch. of Winchester Calbourne, R. Worseley, Wm..... Norbury, C. Trin. Coll. Camb. Mrs. C. S. Smear Winchest. Queen's Coll. Oxf. Beds Lincoln Bp. of Winchester Duke of Bedford I.of Wht. Winchest. Bp. of Winchester UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ELECTIONS. OXFORD. The Rev. Dr. Stocker, late Fellow of St. John's College, is appointed Vice-Principal of St. Alban Hall. Messrs. William Smith, Edward Fitzroy Talbot, the Hon. James Bruce, and Charles Archdale Palmer, have been elected Students of Christ Church. Henry Woolcombe, William Law Hussey, Henry Blair Mayne, and Robert Richard Anstice, who were elected from Westminster in May last, have been admitted Actual Students. The Rev. Ernest Hawkins, M. A. of Balliol College, and one of the Sub-Librarians of the Bodleian Library, has been elected Fellow of Exeter College. George William Newnham, M. A. Scholar of Corpus Christi College, has been elected Fellow of that society. Mr. Robert Jackson, Scholar of New College, has been admitted Actual Fellow of that society. DEGREES CONFERRED. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. L. A. Sharpe, Fel. of St. John's Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. John Samuel Broad, St. Edmund Hall. On Tuesday, January 10, a piece of plate was presented to the Rev. Allen Wheeler, B. D. of Wadham College, Head Master of the College School at Worcester, by several gentlemen there educated. He was invited to a dinner at the Star Hotel, in that city, where he was met by several of his old pupils. Sir C. S. Smith was in the chair. When the cloth was removed, the chairman presented the plate to Mr. Wheeler, who returned thanks in a very neat speech. The piece of plate is an elegant salver of 164 ounces, on which is the following inscription : ELECTIONS. CAMBRIDGE. The Rev. John James Blunt, B. D. Fellow of St. John's College, is continued Hulsean Lecturer for the present year. Frederick Hildyard, Esq. M. A. of Trinity College, has been appointed Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, in the room of the Rev. William Hildyard. James Edward Dalton, Esq. B. A. of Queen's College, has been elected a Foundation Fellow of that society. The Rev. John Croft, M. A. and Charles Otter, Esq. B. A. of Christ Coll. have been elected Foundation Fellows of that society. Charles Lesingham Smith, Esq. B. A. Fellow of Christ Coll. on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines, has been elected a Fellow of the same society, on the foundation of King Edw. VI. William Wigan Harvey and John Hibbert, Scholars of King's Coll. have been elected Fellows of that society. The Marquis of Granby, son of the Duke of Rutland, has been admitted of Trinity Coll. PRIZES. The premium for the Hulsean Dissertation has been adjudged to George Langshaw, B. A. Fellow of St. John's College. Subject-" The Evidences of the Truth of the Christian Revelation are not weakened by Time." PRIZE SUBJECTS. I. Seatonian Prize.-The subject of the Poem for the present year is-" The Plague stayed." (Numb. xvi. 48.) |