The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-30 00:00:00

THE ANNUAL,DISTRIBUTION OF
PRIZES AT 'RING'S COLLEGE.
The annual distributiOn of priz 's amongst the students
of King's College took plane yesterday. The business
of the day was fixed to commence at one o'clock, and at
that hour his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
entered the sp!endid hall of the college amidst the most
enthusiastic cheering; he was accompanied by his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London
and Lichfield, the Earl of Waldegrave, Monsieur Guizot,
the American Minister, the Principal of the College
(Dr. Sheppard), and the professors, in their full costume.
The hall was crowded in a very short time. His Grace
the Archbishop occupied the chair.
The ARCHBISHOP said a very short time would suffice
for him to state the interesting object of their meeting
there that day. The agreeable object was to give praise
where praise was due—to learning;and assiduous labour
in the attainment of knowledge, and to uniform good
conduct, and moral behaviour. It was agreeable to
award such praise on many grounds; but for no less
important object did we employ it than as belonging to
those secondary motives which it was often necessary
and just for us to use in the promotion of great and
worthy objects. Amongst the most valuable of such
secondary motives were the desire of praise and the love
of distinction. Those who were ambitious of being dis-
tinguished in the walks of science, literature, and the
useful arts, and who attended on this occasion to receive
academical honours,, thereby afforded the best example
of the useful application of the motives employed, and
the best test of their conducing to the welfare and hap-
piness of society.
The Rev. Dr. SHEPPARD, Principal of the College, then
addressed his Grace, in acknowledgment of the honour
conferred upon the college by the distinguished indivi-
duals present, particularly enumerating his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, M. Guizot (one of whose
sons was a medical student of the college), the American
Minister, and others. He then proceeded to give a
short sketch of the advance of the college during the
past year, and spoke in the most
pleasing manner of
the uniform moral and intellectual bearing of the
pupils of the schools. After dwelling
upon the import-
ance of the several branches of study pursued, the Rev.
Principal presented the names of the successful students
in the learned branches of the department of general
literature and science.
The names of the successful candidates in this depart-
ment were as follow:
Divinity.—Edward Armstrong Vicars, James Sellers,
third year; William Elgood, William Sheldon Reece,
second year; Edward Headland, William Stebbing, first
year.
Classics.—Henry Ware, Charles Henry Pearson,
William Stebbing, George Blizard Abbott, Thomas
Lander.
Latin Verse.—George Murray.
Latin Essay.—Henry Thomas Stephen Dicey.
English Verse.—Frederick Anthony Stapley, Charles
Henry Pearson.
Mathematics.—William Dundee Gardiner, Henry
Arthur Morgan, Francis James Candy, George Murray,
Richard Newstead Hobart, William Elgood.
English Literature.—William Stabbing.
Modern History.—Charles Henry Pearson.
Composition.—Henry Thomas Stephen Dicey.
Stephen Endowment.—Frederick William Farrar.
Historical Prize Essay.—Edward James Stephen
Dicey.
Hebrew.—Robert Lubbock Bensly, Samuel Green,
Beauchamp Ts rwhitt.
French.—Horace W. Smith.
German.—Owen Davies, John Grabham.
His Grace delivered the prizes to the several candi-
, dates, accompanying each presentation with approving
and encouraging remarks.
Each of the several professors then in succession an-
nounced the names of the prizemen in his class, and his
Grace thereupon delivered the prizes.
In the department of the applied sciences, Professor
Miller then gave ir. a- short report on the progress of
his department ; and the names of the prizemen in each
class here announced for the most part by the several
prolessots, and the rrizes were distributed by the
Chairman.
The following are the names of the successful candi-
dates in this department :
Divinity.—Gcorge Williams Lee, third year; James
William Newton, second year ; Alexander Graham,
first year.
Mathematics.—Edward Sturges, Herbert George
Russell Fripp, Abd. Elrahim Ghanim, Madbi Ahmet.
Natural Philosophy.---Thomas Bolton, third year;
Edward Sturges, William Grain, second year; H. G. R.
Fripp, first year.
Arts of Construction.—John Thomas Lepard, George
Williams Lee.
Managing Art and Machinery.—William Somerville
Boulton, George Parkinson.
Surveying.—John Thomas Lepard, third year;
Themas Charles-Thompson, second year; Francis Edgar
Martineau, first year.
Geometrical Drawing.—George Philip Charlton, Wil
Liam Somerville Boulton, William Grain.
Chemistry.—Edward Walter Mantel!, Charles Henry
Grant.
Chemical Manipulation.—George William Lee.
Geology.—Thomas Ridout, two prizes.
Mineralogy.—Joseph John William Watson, Charles
Henry Grant.
Workshop—William Somerville Boulton, William
Nathaniel Wynn.
Certificates of Approval.—R. W. Buckley, T. Ridout,
J. 11. Kidd, nine terms; G. P. Charleton, eight terms;
W. S. Boulton, W. Grain, C. H. Grant, E. Sturges, T.
C. Thompson, J. W. Watson, six terms.
The Rev. Principal then announced the names of the
scholars for the year.
In the General Literature Department. Senior classi-
cal, Henry Ware; senior mathematical, William Dun•
des Gardiner; junior classical, Frederick William Fer-
rer; junior mathematical, William Horace Smith.
In the Applied Sciences Department.—Junior scholar,
Edward Sturges.
The Associates E'er the year were, for
The General Literature Department.—Henry Augus-
tus Bourdin, Alfred Godrich, Henry Godrich, Samuel
Green, John Melville Guilding, John Bawell Plumer, I
Beauchamp T3rwhitt, William Henry Walker, Henry
Ware, Robert Chapman Webb.
The Applied Sciences Department—Robert .John
Arthur, Thomas Bolton, Richard Wilson Buckley, '
John Howard Kidd, George Williams Lee, John
Thomas Lepard, Thomas Ridout, Joseph John William
Watson.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE then
rose, and expressed the high satifaction he felt in being
present to receive so excellent an account of the ad•
vances in learning and science, and in a most feeling
speech moved a vote of thanks to the council of the
college.
The Bishop of LONDON replied, and concluded by ex.
pressing the obligation of the college to the Archbishop.
His GRACE replied in a speech full of Christian feel-
ing, and invoked the Divine blessing on the labours of
all engaged in the work, for by that alone could they
succeed in rendering it efficient.
The interesting assembly then broke up, his Royal
Highness leaving at five o'clock.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
COWES, JUNB 29.
ARRIVALS.
June 23. Petrel cutter, Earl of Ilchester from South-
ampton.
25. Dream yawl, George Bentinck, Esq., from Guern-
sey.
27. Elizabeth cutter, Hon. Colonel Moreton, from the
eastward ; Water Lilly, John Hibbert, Esq., from Ports-
mouth.