The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN,

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KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
The annual meeting and distribution of prizes of this
college took place on Friday afternoon, in the large hall
of the institution, in the presence of a very numerous
assemblage.
Earl Howe took the chair, supported by the Earl of
Harrowby, Lord Radatock, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the
Right Hon. W. Gladstone, Sir G. Staunton, Sir W.
Riddell, Sir B. Brodie, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, D.D., principal
of the college, and other gentlemen.
The report of the council, which gave a very favour-
able review of the condition of the college having been
rest!,
Tho following gentlemen received prizes for profi-
ciency in the various subjects mentioned :
Senior Scholar—Francis Nottidge Macnamara. Second
Year Scholar—Edward Dowson. Junior Scholars—
Thomas Buzzard, Charles Nottidge Macnamara, Samuel
Dougan Bird.
Divinity—Fourth year, John Kent Spender; third
year, Alfred Payne; second year, William John Palmer;
first year, James Howard Thornton. Warnefurd Endow-
ment—First prize, Francis Nottidge Macnamara; second
prize, William Edward Illasfen. Leathe's Endowment--
Edward Liveing.
Anatomy—John William Palmer. Second year—Ri-
chard Burford Searle, John Withington Roe, Ephraim
Matthews Oridge. First year—John Propert, Henry
Cayley, William Woodward.
Physiology—Maxwell Tylden Masters. Second year
—Geo. Kirkwood Curme, John W. V. Blackburn, John
Craske Webb, Charles Stone. First year—John For-
taom Straker, John Lumedaine Properr, William Wood-
ward, and Vaughan H. A. Holberten, equal.
Chemistry—William John Palmer. First year—
Christopher Heath, William Woodward, Henry Cayley.
Practical Chemistry—John Whittaker Hulke, Edward
Liveing.
Materia Medica—alward William Alexander, Max-
well Tylden Masters, Richard Burford Searle, William
Henry Dodge.
Surgery—John Whitaker Hulke, Maurice Davie,
William Henry Dodge, Edmund M. Pb.Rendle.
Medicine—Maurice Davis, Tnomas Henry Cheatle,
'William Pearl, Edward William Major.
Midwifery—William Edward Maslen, Charles Julian
Jackson, Edward Liddon, John Whitaker Hulke.
Botany—Maxwell Tylden Masters, Edward Dowson.
Forensic Medicine—John Whitaker Hulke, Henry
William Lewer.

C umparativeAnatomy—Samuel Bowen Partridge.
Medical Clinical (Winter)—Thomas Henry Cheatle.
Medical Clinical (Summer)—Francis Nottidge Mac-
Inman, Maurice Davis.
Surgical Clinical (Winter)—Maurice Davie, John
Kent Spender, Eiward Atkinson.
Surgical Clinical (Summer)—Samuel B. Partridge.
Medical Society's Prize—Alfred Playne.
Associates—Thomas Bridgewater, Thomas Chaytor
Beale, James Balfour Cockburn, George Elen, Alex-
ander M. Edwards, Edward A. H. Head, Thomas F.
Hardwick, Frederick W. Headland, William Hoar,
James Henry Lakin, Edward Liddon, Francis N. Mac-
mantra, Henry T. L. Hooke, George R. Skinner, John
Kent Spender, Albert Daniel Smith.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT OF
POSTAL REGULATIONS.

The irregularities and delays in the forwarding of
mails from London and other places to Manchester
have been the subject of frequent representations
addressed to the Post-office by the Manchester Com-
mercial Association. At a meeting of the directors
of that association held lest week, it was resolved to
send a deputation to London to bring these mat-
ters more particularly under the attention of the
Postmaster-General in detail than it was convenient to
do by correspondence. An interview was fixed for
Thursday, and on that day Mr. IVlalcolin Ross, vice-
president of the Association, Mr. Atherton, Mr. Leo-
pold Reiss, Mr. Leo Schuster, and Mr. W. Gibb,
were introduced to Lord Hardwicke and Colonel
Maberley, and were favoured with an audience which
lasted upwards of an hour. The late arrival of the
day mail in Manchester from London was the first
subject to which attention was called. At present his
dispatched at 10 A.M., arrives in Manchester at 5, and ,
letters are delivered from 6 to half-past 6 in the evening.
It waa suggested that if these bags were dispatched by
the express train now leaving Euston-square at 9.30
at they would arrive at 2.40 P.rd , and be de-
livered by 4 o'clock, which would be an important
saving of two hours to commercial men. The next sub-
ject was with reference to the dispatch of mails from
Manchester and Liverpool to Glasgow. At present let-
ters have to be posted in Manchester by 3.15 P.M.,
and reach Glasgow at 1.30 5.,31., so that they remain
in the post-office there six hours before delivery.
The deputation urged the necessity of altering
the time for receiving letters to a later hour, so
as to admit of all the business in the day being em-
braced in them, which could be done so as to still leave
time for their early delivery next morning. The third
subject was the detention of foreign letters in South-
ampton, the letters there being frequently twenty-
four hours before reaching Manchester. The fourth
subject had reference to the inequality of the Brazilian
postages, the nearer ports paying 2s. 9d. while the
further ones are only ls. Fifthly, the deputation urged
th© propriety of a mail steam communication between
Hongkong and Shanghai—the present mail-steamers
stopping at Hongkong. The deputation complained,
sixthly, cf the unnecessary detention of the Ame-
rican mails fur Manchester at Liverpool, these letters
being frequently delayed twenty to twenty-four
hours after the arrival of the American mail-
steamers, although the distance is only thirty
miles to Manchester. The 7th. object was to urge the
desirability, where new lines of steamers are likely to be
fitted up and competition established,
. of attempting to
secure more rapid communication and. reduction of ex-
penditure. The Earl of Hardwicke listened with much
attention to the subject of the first suggestion, and,
although Colonel Maberly started some objections,
.
the Noble Lord appeared favourably impressed with the
reasonableness of it, and promised that it should receive
early attention. As to the mails from Manchester to
Glasgow, his Lordship also appeared disposed to order
the change. On the third and sixth subjects the Noble,
Lord required further information, and the copy of
a return which the deputation had read. The de-
putation were informed that matters were in progress
tor accomplishing the change required in the fourth
propo%ition, and it was expected the arrangements
woall be immediately completed, but, as regarded the
steam communication to Shanghai, no immediate hopes
ceuld he held out. Lord Hardwicke said the seventh
suggestion of the deputation should receive every at-
tention.

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THE LEIPSIC BOOK Fant.--The catalogue of the
Faster Book Fair at Leipsic contains 4,527 works as pub-
lished, and 1,163 to be published. This is an increase of
700 volnrms compared with the Michaelmas fair, and of 800
more than the last Easter fair. The number of publishers
by whom the works have been brought out i 4 903. One
house at Vienna has produced IN; and the Magician. Brink-
haus, 95.—Literary Gazette.