The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

pllorEssm's PRIZES.

An,tom.7—Menal,
Surgery—Med 'I, Jane ; eerti fi cat e, Franks and Salter.
Medicine—Med:lJ, Webb ; certificate, Franks and
Wilkinson.
Chemistry—Medal, Harris; certificate, Lambert.
Materia Msdica—Medal, Jacob; cortificato, Fuwke.
Botany—Medal, Jauncey ; curtificate, Fowke.
Midwifery—Mtaial, Franks; certificate, Fowke.
Forensic Medicine—Medal, Harris.
Demonstrations—Medal, Fo w ire.
CLINICAL PRIZES.
Books (5 guinoas), Medicine—Franks.
Books (10 guines), Medicine—Banks.
Books (5 guineas), Medicine—Wilkinson.
Books (5 guineas), Surgery—Jauncey.
TUTORS' PRIZES.
Classical Prize Books—Bright.
Mathematical Prize Books, First Class—Smith.
Mathematical Prize Books, Second Class—Bright and
Coathupe.
/Medical Tutor's Priz'), Chemistry—Coathupe.
Anatomy nod Botany—&tid.
French Master's Piize—Moore.
German Master's Prize—Bright.
Drawing Master's Priz!—Bond.
MEDICAL STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY.
Books (5 guineas), Prizs Poper—Franks.

GOVERNORS' GOLD DIEDALS.
The Govzrnors' Meth),l3 for regularity and good
conduct fur a period of three years—Nrry and Franks.

The suspension of Messrs. Walter Logan and Co.,
South American merchants, was announced yesterday under
painful circumstances, arising from the disappearance of a
partner, who had recently been admitted to their house at
Lima. The liabilities of the firm are supposed to amount to
about 60,0001. or 70,000/., of which, however, a considerable
portion is understood to be covered.
STROUD'S VALE DAHLIA SOCIETY.—The last dahlia
show of this amateur society was held yesterday (Monday),
at Mr. Samuel Barnes's, the Junction Arms, Stroud's Vale,
and was well attended. There was a choice display of green-
Louse flowers and plants in pots, and the show of cut flowers
and floricultural devices was excellent. Several prizes were
awarded for the best collection of dahlias in boxes of sixes,
*which were given in the following order : Norris, Hoc, ham,
Hollyday, White, Wightwick, and Heather. The fuschias
shown were in good condition, and attracted a great deal of
notice.

DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT COINS.—Some workmen
employed in snaking a culvert for the river Sherbourne, at
Coventry, dug up last week from the bed of the river a large
number of ancient coins and other relics. The most valuable
were two gold coins—a rose noble and a half noble of the
reign of Edward the Third. There were also many small
silver coins of about the same period ; with a number of eccle-
siastical faeces, bearing on one side a floreated cross, and on
the other a figure of the Virgin, with the words " Ave Maria
Gratia ;" but the major portion of the discovery consists of
foreign brass tokens of various sizes, lettered round the
margin " Hans Shules, Nuremberg."
The Windsor Express says the crop of potatoes in
that neighbourhood is nearly all housed, and the general
opinion is that it will be greatly below the average. Even
where tide disease has not affected the tulers, their size is
unusvAlly small, and in very many instances the crop has
not been found worth digging up.
UNIVERSITY or LONDON.—The annual examination
of candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts in this univer-
aitY is appointed to commence on Monday, Oct. 25. The
candidates are to be examined in Latin, Greek, mathematics,
and philosophy, the examiners being Mr. T. B. Burcham,
ALA., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the
Rev. H. Alford and the Rev. Dr. Jerrard, D.C.L.
GREAT BOAT RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF
THE ThamEs.—The great boat race for the championship of
the Thames and 4001., is appointed to take place on next
Thursday week, and creates the most lively interest in sport-
ing circles. The candidates for fame are Thomas Cole, of
Chelsea, and R. Coombes, of Mortlake, the latter of whom
held the proud position of champion of the Thames and
Tyne, until this season, when he was defeated by Cole, but
the match was so closely contested throughout that the
friends of Coombes, anxious to give him an opportunity of
retrieving his lost laurels, made the present engagement for
him. The whole of the stake of 4001. was made good last
night at Mr. Hadland's, Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, and
preliminaries arranged. The race is from Putney to Mort-
lake, and the Messrs. Searle have chartered a steamer for the
conveyance of the elite of the Thames.
Mr. Saville Morton, whose untimely and painful
death we yesterday recorded, was a gentleman of good
family ; a graduate of Cambridge, and a talented and zealous
man of letters. He was attached to the staff of the Daily
News from the day of its commencement,—his first duty
being that of correspondent at Constantinople, from which
place he travelled in succession to Athens, filadrid, Vienna,
13erlin, and Paris. In these different cities he passed the last
eix years of his life, and the readers of this journal are in-
debted to his fluent pen for many a pleasant description of
scenes and events of interest, and for many a valuable dis-
quisition on passing political events. He was an ardent
liberal, and wrote boldly and constantly in support of politi-
cal progress; he had a keen appreciation of that which was
generous and true; fine literary taste, and a lofty idea of his
profession as a journalist. During the revolutionary period
fees
on
after the coup d'ktat of
interfere, with the performance of what he considered to be his duty towards the journal to
which he was attached ; and when a few months ago the
minister of Police in Paris threatened and .attempted to
silence the representatives of the English press in that city,
Mr. Morton was honourably conspicuous for the calm and
dignified—the firm and proper tone he assumed in his com-
munication with Louis Napoleon's agent, and subsequently
With the British Ambassador, Lord Cowley. As a corres-
pondent he ens indefatigable in the performance of his
deities—and his most untimely death is at once a grief and
a loss to those with whom he w honourably associated.
lie was fortunate enough to number amongst his friends
Many distinguished men—most of whom will forget any
faults he might have had in the recollection of his warm-
heartedness, his talent, and his melancholy and painful end,
---,Daily News.

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AsruoraomicAL RESEARCRES.—An English gentle-
man of fortune, of the name of Lassell, has lately arrived in
Malta, with a telescope of considerable magnitude, for the
Purpose of making astronomical observations. Mr. Lassen
Juts obtained permission from H.M. Ordnance Department
to erect a temporary observatory on the Cavalier St. John,
which is in course of construction, and will soon be in a fit
state for operatien. The telescope measures twenty feet in
length and two in diameter.
THE CLF.OPATRA STEAMER.—The following is an
extract frona a letter dated Madeira, Sept. 13 :—" From first
to last the, ship is well manned by most agreeable people, and
one of tb.e owners is on board. We anticipate a delightful
day in -Madeira. The captain read morning service yester-
day, in the aft saloon, to a numerous congregation. On
Saturday night there was an alarm of fire, some of the wood-
work round the base of the funnel having caught, or rather
it was found to be smouldering ; a few buckets of water, I
am told, quite extinguished it, and the captain had the
'whole of thia woodwork torn down and thrown overboard.
You will probably Bee some account of this in the papers,
perhaps an exaggerated one; for myse , was asleep, nu
he
quite
morning." unconscious of what was passing, and only heard of it in the
LEGAL FICTIONS.—On the 24th inst. the Common
Law Procedure Act will come into force, when a good many
legit/• fictions will be abolished. In proceedings in ejectment,
Kias already stated, John Doe and Richard Roe will depart, and
th them a great number of technicalities. There will be no
casual ejector," and the pleadings will be simplified so
'that they may be understood. Instead of delivering a de-
claration and notice, a writ is to be issued and served on the
per in possession, and under a penalty of being turned
'out of Possession they must appear within 16 days and make
theirt
defence. In default of an appearance the plaintiff
.... on
aof the sign judgment and obtain possession
property.
under the new law the jury is to find specifically—that
l. Another is, to
'which part of the property the plaintiff is entited
alteratim is that actions of ejectment are not to abate by
the death of a claimant or defendant. There are 51 clauses
in the Common Law Procedure Act with respect to proceed-
ings in ejectment.
Proposals were issued yesterday for a Four per
Cent. Swedish Mortgage Loan of 450,000/., et 93. It is to be
raised for provincial improvements, and is secured„uuder the
authority of the Swedish Diet and a Royal charter,
by the estates of the district in which the outlay is
Made, such estates being valued for the purpose at
two-thirds the
amount of :their rating for public
taxation. The Swedish Government have no doubt
'whatever, and the present loan ;s, analagous to a
county loan in this country. Stock of a similar description
lias from time to time been negotiated in Hamburgh, where
it is popular, and a year ago it
was proposed to raise 300,0001.
in London at the same price as that now fixed. The bonds
in this case, however, were rendered intelligible by being in
marks
payable at banco instead of in sterling, the coupons also being
ILintburL;li ; so that it is presumed a very small
portion, if any, were taken here, and that they were subse-
quently bacrihed in Gerraauv as usual. In the present
instance
lo the dividends will be payable at Blessrs. Palmer,
111ackilp, and co,'S The extinction of the bomls is to take
place at par by drawin,ga to the ex.tent of 1 per cent. per an-
nu
sui m.
of A payment of 13 per cel:t. is; to be made on the is-
of h
September, sotip.
1835. and the last imtalinent will be on the Ist
Tne nnu nal diner of roe tvw•,s of Newizigton ani
Lambeth took place last oyeeing, at the Plinters' Arms,
Lower Kenhington•l%ne, L •mbah, the chair being occupied
by Mr. (-Ikirlsby, and nearly the whole. of the "Knights of
in tho two parishes being present. Alter
the stick and rule"
parthkini: of most of the giod things in season. served up in
kr. nob,‘-t*' wot ilsr!:do. the company were grcaVy enlivened
bY the 'vocal abilities of Messrs. gebbin, James, Noreliffe,
Sie , not fo,getting the originAity of the inimit."l J I
~.,,e o nt
Arden. '
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Vim LATE I".,XPL:,JON IN PiNsturtv. —A notiier of
the p:)0r te.lows who was hatot during the explosion •ivhich
occuir
nre'ed on tne preinisis of Mr. Holyhead, in Finsbury,
briefly eell in this journal of yesterday, expired from the
-- a
_o: fi4e injuries there received.