ANNUAL STATE OF NEWGATE, 1825. Statement of the Number of Persons Committed in the Year 1825. Removal to the Penitentiary, Millbank Ditto, by Habeas Corpus, for trial at the Assizes Ditto, having been imprisoned pursuant to sentences Ditto, having been fined 1s. and 40s. Ditto, upon bail, and other causes Removed to Bethlem Hospital Remained in custody 1st Jan. 1826-Males 159, Females 48 Of which number 430 had been in Newgate before. Statement of the Number of Persons Convicted in the Year 1825. Forgery Mutiny and revolt on the high seas Uttering counterfeit coin, having before been con victed as a common utterer 2 1 12217 Stealing a letter, being a postman Stealing in a dwelling house to the value of 40s. and upwards Bigamy. 2 78 4 Manslaughter Receiving stolen goods Forging names of attesting witnesses Selling counterfeit coin Larcenies of various descriptions Misdemeanors Sending a threatening letter to extort money Maliciously killing two mares Perjury Of these there were sentenced Seventeen of whom have been executed for the following offences: Joseph F. Lightbourn, Jesus. Edward J. Stanley, Christ Church. Marwood Tucker, Balliol. In Disciplinis Mathematica et Physica. Arthur J. Beaumont, Queen's. CLASSIS II. Richard M. Bonnor, Christ Church. Hon. Thomas Vesey, Christ Church. CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES. - De Tribunitia apud Romanos Potestate." Latin Essay. Christ Church. Fred. Oakelay, English Essay." Language in its Copiousness and Structure considered as a Test of National Civilization." J. W. Mylne, Balliol. SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZES. Latin-" Incendium Londinense anno 1666." E. P. Blunt, Corpus. English" The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli." R. C. Sewell, Magdalen. An annual prize of Twenty Guineas (secured upon an estate at Horspath, in the county of Oxford) was founded during the last year by Dr. Ellerton, Fellow of Magdalen College, for the encouragement of theological learning, for the best English Essay on some doctrine or duty of the Christian Religion, or on some of the points on which we differ from the Romish Church, or on any other subject of theology which shall be deemed meet and useful. All Members of the University, who have passed their examination for their first degree of A. B. or B. C. L. and who have commenced their sixteenth Term from their Matriculation inclusively, for the space of eight weeks previous to the day appointed for sending in the Essays, and not exceeded their twenty-eighth Term from their Matriculation inclusively, on the day on which the subject of the Essay shall be proposed in each year, are entitled to write for this Prize. The President of Magdalen College for the time being, and the Regius Professor of Divinity for the time being, and the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity for the time being, are the three Judges, who are every year to select the subject of the Essay, and award the Prize. If any of the three Judges shall be prevented by sickness or unavoidable absence from the University, from assisting in adjudging the Prize, or selecting the subject of the Essay, such Judge shall appoint, with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, and of the other two Judges, a Member of the University, of the degree of B. D. or D. D. to act for him in this behalf, provided that the three Judges who award the Prize be in all cases, if practicable, Members of three different Colleges or Halls. If at any time hereafter the President of Magdalen College shall be a Layman, or happen to be either Regius, or the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, then, and in that case only, the Master of University College shall act as Judge, instead of such President, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. Any difference of opinion among the Judges to be decided by a majority. The subject of the Essay to be proposed in Michaelmas Term the first year, and in Act Term before the Commemoration in all future years; the Essays to be sent in on or before Wednesday in Easter week next ensuing. |