The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-14 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 14.—0 n Tuesday last, the 10th inst.,
being the first day of term, the following gentlemen were
elected University Officers :
PROCTORS.—Rev. Edward Baines, M.A., Christ's Col-
lege ; Rev. John Harrison Evans, M.A., St. John's College.
MODERATORS.—Rev. Edwin Steventon, M.A., Corpus
Christi College ; Rev. Professor W. H. Miller, M.A., St.
John's College.
SCRUTATORS.—Rev. James Saunders, 8.D., Sidney
Sussex College ; Rev. George Frederick Nicholas, M.A.,
Kirtg's College.
TAxoas.—Thomas Barrow Burnham, M.A., Trinity
College; Rev. Robert Birkett, M.A., Emmanuel College.
At the same congregation the degree of Master of Arts
was conferred upon Charles George, of St. John's College.

On Thursday last the following gentlemen were ap-
pointed The Caput for the ensuing year :
The Vice-Chancellor.

George Arcbdall, D. D., Master of Emmae.
James William Geldart, D. C. L., Trinity-hall—Law.
Jphn Thomas Woodhouse, M.D., Caius College—Physic.
Henry Arlett, M. A., Pembroke College—Sen. Non Regent.
Edward Harold Browne, M. A., Downing Colt —Sen Regent.
The Fitzwilliam syndicate have just issued the following
report to the Senate :
" That Messrs. Robert Hicks and Son, builders, have
offered to complete the whole work of building the carcase
of the Fitzwilliam Museum, according to the drawings and
specification of Mr. Basevi, for the sum of 33,262/. The
Syndics having compared this tender with the others, which
have been sent in, beg leave to recommend the Senate to
accept the same on the production of proper securities."
A grace to confirm the above report will be offered at
the congregation on Wednesday next, the 18th instant.
Mr. Richard Stevenson, Fellow of. Trinity College,
whose death we recorded in our last week's obituary, was
third wrangler in the year 1834, and the author of some
memoirs on mathematical subjects. For some time before
his last illness, he was engaged in the preparation of a
" Complete System of Analysis," a work for which he was
in every way qualified by his great knowledge and his un-
commonly clear and vigorous understanding. A very se-
vere attack of influenza in January last was followed by
symptoms of consumption, under which he gradually sunk,
to the great grief of his parents and friends.
On Friday se'nnight, the Rev. Edward Postle, of Colney,
was instituted to the rectory of Yelverton, Norfolk, on the
presentation of the Queen.
The prebendal stall in the Cathedral Church of Carlisle,
vacant by the decease of the Venerable Archdecon Mark-
ham, has been presented to the Rev. C. G. V. Harcourt,
M.A., rector of Rothbury.
Meetings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society for the
present term :—Monday (the anniversary), Nov. 6 ; Mon-
day, Nov. 13 ; Monday, Nov. 27 ; Monday, Dec. 11.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—On Saturday last the
7th instant, the Bishop of Exeter instituted the Rev. Regi-
nald Pole to the rectory of Sheviock, Cornwall, void by his
own cession, on the presentation of William Henry Pole
Carew, Esq ,of Antony House, in the same county. On
the same day his Lordship instituted the Rev. John Du-
rand Biker to the vicarage of Bishop's Tawton, vacant by
the cession of the Rev. George Landon, the last incum-
bent,- on the presentation of the Venerable Whittington
Landon, D.D , Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Pe-
ter's, Exeter. On the same day his Lordship licensAi the
Rev. John Carslake Duncan Yule to the perpetual curacy
of Brushford, void by the resignation of the Rev. Richard
Syndereombe Bryan, the last incumbent, the nomination
for this turn belonging to his Lordship by reason of lapse.—
Weste: n Luminary.