The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

UNIVERSI'T'Y INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, July 25.—The election for demies at Mag-
dalen College has ended in favour of the following :---
Me~-ra. from Rugby school ; Evered, from
Magdalen-hall ; Tanner, from Queen's College ; and
rhorohl, from Worcester CAlege.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. • The Ministers present were Viscount
Palmerston' the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth,
Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Vie.
Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat
two hours and three-quarters.
THE QUEEN'S AUTUMN VISIT TO BALISIOBAL.—The
Queen is expected to pay her annual visit to Balmoral
about the middle of September, and to remain until the
10th or 12th of October. A portion of the new palace
will be ready for her Majesty, and will be occupied dott-
ing the present visit. There is some expectation that
the Queen will pay a visit to Lord Panmure, whose
principal seat, near Arbroath, is within half-a-day's
journey of Balmoral.
/THE CHIEF CLERKSHIP AT GUILDHALL POLICE
CoußT.—Yesterday, at a Court of Aldermen, Mr. George
Martie, the second clerk of the justice room at the Man-
sion-house, was unanimously elected chief clerk of the
justice room at Guildhall, in the room of Mr. Thomas
Wood. The vacant office of second clerk at the Man-
sion-house is to be filled up on Monday next.
THE LATE GREAT ROBBERY IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday
notice of the loss of Mr. A. Barber, goldsmith and
jeweller, Cheapside, was issued by the police, and a re-
ward of 5001. for conviction of the thieves is offered.
The robbery consists of 400 gold rings, set in diamonds,
emeralds, and rubies, diamond necklaces, 158 gold
watches, 43 silver watches, 10') and upwards of gold
Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold pins, diamond studs,
gold brooches, &c.
MADRID, July 21.—The most important event of the
present moment here is the rupture of relations between
this Government and the Pope. The Nuncio, Monsig-
nor Franchi, has not only left in consequence of express
orders received from Rome, but his Secretary and the
other members of his legation have also left with him.
SALE OF SHIPS.—The first sale by public auction of
ships at the newly-opened brokers' sale-rooms of Messrs.
Cunard, Brett, and Austen, Leadenhall-street, took
place yesterday afternoon, and was well attended. The
ship Hebrides, 512 tons, built at Greenock in 1841, now
lying in the West India Docks, realised 1,3751. The
other ships, Lady Raglan, Elizabeth Brown, Henrietta,
Nepaulese Ambassador, and the Retriever, were bought
in.
TURIN, July 21.—The Official Gazette contradicts the
mischievous report of an engagement between the Sar-
dinians and the Russians, on the Tchernaya, wherein
the former were defeated, as well as another emanating
from the same source, to the effect that General della
Marmora had been attacked with cholera, of which the
General himself bad never made mention ; in fact, in
his last written despatch (of the 7th inst., from Kadikoi)
the Sardinian General-in-Chief distinctly says the cholera
may be considered to have ceased.
PERILOUS FLOOD IN THE FLEET SEWER.—Yesterday
bWednesday), about two o'clock p.m., a torrent of water
roke suddenly into the works now in progress for
deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite
Clerkenwell. A temporary canal had been cut from a
point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water
past the position of working to a point 50 yards below.
A weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the
stream into the temporary channel. This had been da-
maged by the floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly
piled and buttressed. Before it could overflow it turned
aside a body of water which ran on a descent six feet deep,
by twelve or fourteen wide, and this torrent rolled over a
fall of several feet into the former bed of the sewer. It
rollod in auoh a body yesterday about two o'clock. The
rains of the present week had swollen the ancient Fleet
rivulet, but up to the instant of peril no danger was ap-
prehended. Either an unusual discharge from the Hamp-
stead and Highgate, or other reservoirs, or heavier rains
than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within the area
of the north-west drainage, and sent down an unexpected
flood. From 30 to 40 bricklayers, with other labour-
ers, were in the dry channel, building piers for the
arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on
narrow ladders and planks—men above men, in the in-
tricately busy working hive—no means of escape but by
one or two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labour-
ers highest on the planks cried that the flood had risen
above the weir. It rolled over, brought down a portion
of the side works, and came roaring and crashing down
the dry channel. The men rushed to the ladders, or
leaped upon their fresh and frail walls, or clung to
planks, helping one another, or crying frantically for
help. The open archway was within a few yards, and
the next outlet was into the Thames, two-thirds of a
mile distant. The roaring torrent dashed underneath
the clinging workmen into the black throat of this
sewer, ar'd every man knew that should the weir give
way and the pent-up waters which were lodged back-
ward towards King's-cross follow its fall, they would
be swept with all they clung to irrecoverably to de-
struction. The imminence of danger for a brief
space produced confusion, but presently courage and
coolness overcame the panic. The weir did not
give way. The men above assisted the men below,
and they stood in safety with many strangers, attracted
by their cries for help, to see the flood washing away
the new brick-work, but otherwise doing no harm.
CAPTAIN ELLisoN, 47TH REGIMENT.—This gallant
officer, aide-de-camp to General Pennefather (with whom
he has returned to England on account of the impaired
health of the latter), paid a visit to Lincoln on Monday,
en route to Boulthain-hall, the residence of his father,
Colonel Ellison. At the Great Northern Railway sta-
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tion on his safe return from the seat of war. A cortege
was then formed, consisting of thirty carriages, bands of
music, banners, &c to escort the gallant captain to
Boultham-hall. The crowd were plenteously regaled at
the park, and the day terminated both at Lincoln and
B in general rejoicing Captain Ellison has
been through the whole campaign, and his military cap
is pierced with bullets,