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and commanded by Marshal Diebitch, (whose military talents have been said to equal those of the Duke of Wellington,) a series of engagements have taken place. The Muscovite general attempted to pass the Vistula, both above and below Warsaw, on the same day. The movements were anticipated by Prince Radzivil, the Polish general, and each division of the Russian army was encountered and repulsed. The division above Warsaw amounted to 40,000 men, and General Dwernichi had only 16,000 men to oppose to it, but of these a very excellent detachment of artillery formed a part; and the Russians having weakened their line by extending it, with the intention of surrounding their enemies, and cutting off their retreat to the river, General Dwernichi found himself able to break their line and repel them this was on the 19th of February. The following day he renewed the attack, and took eleven pieces of cannon. In these actions the Russians lost 7,000, and the Poles 2,000 men. On the 24th, Marshal Diebitch attacked the whole of the Polish posts simultaneously. 100,000 Russians are stated to have been engaged. After bravely sustaining this attack, Prince Radzivil withdrew the troops under his command into Warsaw, and cantonments in the immediate vicinity of that city, on the left bank of the Vistula, only leaving on the right bank a garrison, in the tête du pont at Praga, and demolishing the suburbs,

so far as they interfered with the means of defending that post. The loss of the Russians in these several actions is estimated at 20,000 men, and 6,000 horses; and so badly is the commissariat of that army conducted, that many of the latter have perished for want of food, the scarcity of which has rendered that part of the army very inefficient. The loss of the Poles is said to amount to 11,000 men.

ITALY.-The revolution in Modena and the Papal States continued for some days to proceed; and Ancona, and all the country, to the immediate neighbourhood of Rome, joined the insurgents. In Rome itself, the revolutionary feeling of the populace showed itself so strongly, that the Pope did not dare to shew himself in public, or even to remain in the Quirinal, his usual residence, but shut himself up in the Vatican. The march of two divisions of Austrian troops (one of which has entered Modena with very little opposition, and the latter has taken possession of Ferrara and Bologna) has subdued this rebellious spirit, and the revolution in these countries may be considered as terminated, at least for the present. The Pope has returned to the Quirinal; and Rome, at the date of the last despatches, was apparently tranquil.

SPAIN. The provinces in the south of the Peninsula, are reported to be in a state of insurrection, and Cadiz is said to have joined them.

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In Convocation, the Rev. Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College, has been nominated a Perpetual Delegate of Privileges, in the room of the late Dr. Blackstone.

In Convocation, George Robert Michael Ward, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, and Barrister at Law, has been nominated, by letters patent from the Chancellor, Deputy Steward of the University, in the room of the late Dr. Blackstone, Principal of New Inn Hall.

The following gentlemen have been nominated Public Examiners :

In Literis Humanioribus.

The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principal of New
Inn Hall.

The Rev. Mr. Hampden, Oriel Coll.
The Rev. Mr. Carr, Fell. of Balliol Coll.
James Garbet, M. A. Fell. of Brasenn. Coll.
In Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis.
The Rev. Mr. Powell, Oriel Coll.
The Rev. Mr. Saunders, Stud. of Chr. Ch.
The Rev. Mr. Walker, Wadham Coll.

At a Convocation holden for the election of a Vinerian Scholar, in the room of Mr. Giles, of Corpus Christi College, who had resigned, the Candidates were Francis Povah, Student in Civil Law, and Fellow of St. John's College, and Charles Lewis Cornish, Fellow of Exeter College. The numbers were

For Mr. Povah, 144-Mr. Cornish, 54. Whereupon Mr. Povah was declared to be duly elected, and was immediately admitted by the Vice-Chancellor to the Vinerian Scholarship.

The Examiners appointed to determine the Ireland Scholarship, have signified to the Vice-Chancellor that they had elected Thomas Brancker, Scholar of Wadham.

The following gentlemen have been elected Scholars of Corpus Christi College: Gloucester, Theophilus Pelley; Diocese of Exeter, H. Spencer Flight, and Charles Barnes.

Henry Goldney Randall, Commoner of St. John's College, has been elected Michel Scholar of Queen's College.

Mr. Thomas Chaffers Campbell, Mr. B. A. G. Hulton, and Mr. Edward Bale, have been elected Scholars of Brasennose College.

DEGREES CONFERRED.
BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. E. Leslie, Christ Church. Gr. Comp.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

Rev. Wm. John Chesshyre, Balliol Coll.
Rev. John Hartley, St. Edmund Hall.
Charles A.Heurtley, Scholar of Corpus Coll.
Rev. Wm. Waldegrave Park, Balliol Coll.
John Thomas Graves, Oriel Coll.
John Leach, Brasennose Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Thomas Case, Worcester Coll.
William S. Davenport, Pembroke Coll.
Wm. Edw. Hume, Chr. Ch. Grand Comp.
Thomas James Longworth, Jesus Coll.
William Bromehead, Schol. of Lincoln Coll.
Francis Turnor James Bayly, Schol. of
Pembroke Coll.

Rev. Andrew Sayers, St. Mary Hall.

MARRIED.

At Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, the Rev. T. Grantham, Fellow of Magdalen

College, and Rector of Bramber - cum Botolph, Sussex, to Lucy, youngest daughter of J. Orme, Esq., of Sutton Bonnington.

CAMBRIDGE.

ELECTIONS.

The Rev. Thomas Jarrett, M. A. Fellow of Catharine Hall, has been elected Professor of Arabic, in the room of the Rev. S. Lee, B. D. now Regius Professor of Hebrew.

Mr. Thomas Sanders, Scholar of King's College, has been elected Fellow of that Society.

Messrs. L. Shadwell, B. A. Wm. Martin, B. A. and C. Whitley, B. A. have been elected Foundation Fellows of St. John's College, and Mr. T. Overton a Platt Fellow of the same Society.

Mr. James Hildyard, of Christ College, has been unanimously elected University Scholar on Dr. Battie's foundation.

Bell's Scholarships.-The election hás been determined as follows:Henry Alford, Trinity Coll. of the 3d year. G. J. Kennedy, St. John's Coll. E. T. Vaughan, Christ's Coll.

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1st year. The following gentlemen have been chosen Scholars of Queen's College, their names being arranged according to the order in which they stood at the last general examination for Scholarships: Main Coward Wilkins Breese Kelland Wilkinson Barber Price.

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GRACES.

A Grace to the following effect unanimously passed the Senate:

"To petition the King that, if it should be his Majesty's pleasure to comply with the prayer of a Petition lately presented to his Majesty for a Charter to incorporate under the title of the University of London,' the proprietors of an Institution recently founded there for the general advancement of literature and science, a clause may be inserted declaring that nothing in the terms of the Charter is to be construed as giving a right to confer any academical distinctions designated by the same titles or accompanied with the same privileges as the degrees now conferred by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge."

A Petition against some of the provisions in the Ministerial Reform Bill was proposed in the Senate on Monday, March 21, and carried by a considerable majority, the numbers being for the petition, NonRegents, 48, Regents 43-91; against it, Non-Regents 29, Regents 24—53: majority 38.

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