22 NOVEMBER 1834, Page 10
Lord Stanley has been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University.
The vote was '298 for Lord Stanley, 163 for the Earl of Durham. The Morning Herald correspondent states, that the question was taken up as one of Church Establishments ; and that Sir Daniel Sandford and some of the other Professors made themselves very busy on behalf of Stanley.
The Lord Chancellor has bestowed the valuable living of Kirby Underdall, Yorkshire, vacant by the sudden death of the Reverend Mr. Ridley, to the Reverend Connop Thirlwall. His Lordship has given the stall at Norwich to Professor Sedgewick, of Cambridge, also held by Mr. Ridley,