At a Convocation holden at Oxford, on Saturday, the Duke
of Welling- ton, by letter, nominated the Reverend Frederick Charles Plumptre, D.IY., Master of University, to succeed the Reverend Dr. Symons, Warden of Wadham, in the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University. Dr. Plumptre was sworn into office, and nominated Dr. Wynter, President of St. John's, Dr. Symons, the late Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Radford, Rector of Lincoln, and. Dr. Richards, Rector of Exeter, as his Pro-Vice-Chancellors.
At a meeting of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops, held in Dublin on the 11th instant, the following resolution was unani- mously adopted, among others-
" That having observed that a notice has been given of a Parliamentary motion regarding a State provision for the Catholic clergy of Ireland, we depre- cate such a proceeding. 'That having shared in the prosperity of their faithful flocks, the clergy of Ireland are willing to share in their privations; and are de- termined to resist a measure calculated to create vast discontent, to sever the people from their pastors, and ultimately to endanger Catholicity in this country."
A large and influential meeting was held in Dublin, on Thursday, to promote a public expression of feeling in behalf of Mr. Smith O'Brien.. Mr. Sharman Crawford presided. It was resolved to memorialize the Lord-Lieutenant, entreating an exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. A report having gone round that a warrant for the execution of the sen- tence was already issued, Mr. Crawford and a deputation waited on the Lord-Lieutenant, and were informed by him that "he was happy to say the report was false"; and that he would be happy to receive the memo- rial, when its promoters deemed its signatures enough. He was consider- ing the question, and would "determine as he believed the national inte- rest and public policy required."
The trial of M'Manus terminated on Thursday. In charging the jury, Chief Justice Doherty alluded to some opening observations of Mr. Butt impressing on the jury the duty of independence: it was their duty to treat the observations of the Judge on facts just on the same footing as those of the counsel on each side, and to discard all which did not meet with their full concurrence. The Jury deliberated but a short time, and returned a verdict of "Guilty"; adding an" earnest recommendation to the merciful consideration of the Crown."
The trial of O'Donohoe then commenced.
We are informed that four cases, confidently stated to be of Asiatic cholera, were notified at Uxbridge yesterday. to London scattered attacks were reported, and very numerons cases of diarrhoea, but no fatal CM& From Hamburg we learn that up to the 9th instant the total number of persons attacked was 2,229, of whom 1,043 had up to that day fallen victims; that 411 remained under treatment, and 775 had been cured. The information from Lubeck, where the pestilence had broken out, WRS unfavourable: it was rapidly increasing.—Times.
At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, E. J. Worrall pleaded guilty to an in- dictment for beating and starving his four children. He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the Westminster Bridewell.
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