The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-24 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY,)

His Honour the MASTER of the ROLL. proceeded with
the remaining petitions set down before him to-day, but up
to the time of our reporter's leaving no case of interest had
come before the Court.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

The VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole morn-
ing with cause petitions, possessing rot the least public
importance.

THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA.—The Lord
Lieutenant, during his short country excursion, from which
he has returned, experienced an acute attack of his dis-
tressing malady ; but we rejoice to state that his Excel-
lency is again quite well. He has resumed his habitual
cheerfulness, and was all day yesterday as hard at work as
even—Dublin Times of Wednesday.

THE CnoLERA.—At the sitting of the Aca-
demy of Sciences at Paris on the 28th ult., a letter
from M. SCONTETEN, of Mentz, was read, detailing some
unsuccessful experiments made at Berlin, in the hope of
effecting a cure of the cholera by the tranfinion of blood
from a healthy to a diseased patient. A singular fact
grew out of these experiments : it appeared that, in the
case of individuals labouring under the chole7a, the arte-
ries at the extremities may be entirely exhausted of their
blood a long time before death occurs. This fact explains
the want of pulse, which is so frequently the characteristic
of the cholera.—Athenceum.

A DISGRACE TO THE CHURCH.—We
have received a letter from a correspondent, who states
that a reverend man, (we will not say ptntleman,) who
is engaged to direct North Riding souls to Heaven, and
whose address is in our possession, lately hired a horse of a
certain innkeeper, " which he rode so hard as to burst the

organs of respiration, and the poor animal died in torture
a few hours after." The same reverend man, our corres-

pondent says, boasts of having rode the first eighteen miles
in one hour—and the servant of his reverence states that

he (the Divine) ki:led his own horse, in the same manner,
a short time ago. It is well said that " a good man will
be merciful to his beast"—what then shall we term this
degraded animal in human form, whore official duties, if
this be con ect, must he an abomination to the Lord ?
For shame, disgusting offender ! repent in dust and ashes !
York Herald.

SLEEP WALKING.—A remarkable case of
sleep-walking occurred at Linlithgow a few days ago. A
young man at the west end of the town, dreaming that
his mother had fallen into the canal basin, got up in his
sleep, opened his door, and walked in his shirt about
half a mile to the basin, into which he plunged, and was
immediately awakened by te shock of the 'cold water.
He scrambled out with some difficulty and returned
home.—Scotsman.

In the course of Friday and Saturday three
men died suddenly in the neighbourhood of Dublin
Dublin Morning Register.

ADVANTAGES OF A SET OFF.—Mr.
Gentleman DAwsox, we find, in eulogising old mother
Church, declared that " it bad added honour and dig-
nity to the empire." He omitted to mention what it takes
away !—Figaro in London.
The inhabitants of Cork have been amused
by a second Doneraile conspiracy, got up by some fellow
who pretended that it was proposed to him to set fire to
the Palace of the Bishop of Cork. The charge has
been investigated, and yet the informer and the pretended
incendi4ry are still at large.—Dublin Morning Register.
EUGENE ARAM.—The individual whose
story is embodied by Mr. BULWER, in the Romance which
is shortly to be laid before the world, lived in the middle
of the last century. He was a student deeply engaged in
the acquirement of the Eastern languages, and in the
formation of a Lexicon; when, impatient of the restraint
imposed by poverty on his pursuits, he committed a rob-
bery and murder, which, fourteen years after the perp.
tration of the deed, brought this gifted scholar, but guilty
man, to an ignominious end. The details of his crime,
and of his life subsequent to it, are of so very remarkable
a nature, as to have tempted the novelist to weave them
into a Romance.

LAWYERS.—A number of years ago, two
wealthy farmers in Peehleshire fell into a dispute about a
bargain, and determined to have their difference settled
according to law. One of them accordingly repaired to
the county town, and stated his case to a lawyer. The
professor regretted that he could not undertake his cause,
having previously been engaged by his opponent, but would
do what was in his power to serve him by recommending
another lawyer. The farmer thanked him, and took from
him a letter of introduction to his friend. The wafer being
wet he thought he might as well take a peep at its con-
tents : he did so, and read as follows :—" There are twa
fat geese come to the town, pluck you the one, and I'll
the other." The farmer immediately waited on his oppo-
nent and showed him the letter. The matter was soon ar-
ranged without the lawyers.—Scotsman.
LIVES OF FEMALE SOVEREIGNS.—A
work, comprising the biography of all the distinguished
women who have obtained a niche in the Temple of
Fame and History, in the exercise of their imperial sway
over the destinies of man, was much wanted. Those
memoirs which will be turned to first by the English
reader are doubtless MARY (of Scotland) and ELIZABETH;
but there are none which surpass in interest JOANNA of
Naples and CHRISTINA of Sweden,—to whom we may
also add the female despot of Russia. The talent of Mrs.
JAMESON has been long since known to the world. We
coincide with the Literary Gazette in regard to her pre-
sent performance, that " a work, equally agreeable to old
and young, could hardly he produced." At a period of
the year, when it is customary to present tokens of affec-
tion or remembrance, we could not name a more valuable
one than this last work by Mrs. JAMESON.
At one period of his life (says Madame
JUNOT) BONAPARTE was decidedly ugly. He afterwards
underwent a total change. Ido not speak of the illusive
charm which his glory spread around him ; but I mean to
say that a gradual physical change took place in him in
the space of seven years. His emaciated thinness was
converted into plumpness; and his complexion, which had
been yellow and apparently unhealthy, became clear and
comparatively fresh. His features, which were angular
and sharp, became round and filled out. As to his smile,
it was always agreeable. The mode of dressing his hair,
which now has such a droll appearance as we see it in the
prints of the passage of the bridge of Arcola, was then
comparatively simple, for the muscadins whom he used
to rail at so loudly at that time, wore their hair very
long. But he used to be careless of his personal appear-
ance ; and his hair, which was ill-combed and ill-powdered,
gave him the look of a sloven. His little hands, too, un-
derwent as great a metamorphosis as any other part of his
body. When I first saw him, they were thin, long, and
dark ; but be was subsequently vain of the beauty of his
hands, and with good reason. In short, when I recollect
NAPOLEON entering the court-yard of the Hotel de Is
Tranquillite in 1795, with a shabby round bat drawn over
his forehead, and his ill-powdered hair hanging over the
collar of his grey great-coat—that great-coat which after-
wards became as celebrated as the white plume of HENRY
the Fourth—without gloves, because be used to say they
were a useless luxury, with boots ill-made and ill-
blackened, with his thinness and his sallow complexion--
in fine, when I recollect him at that time, and think what
he was afterwards, I do not see the same man in the two
pictures.

TOBACCO AND THE CHOLERA.—The Con-
tinent is poisoned with tobacco-smoke from one end of the
land to the other, and every hour of the twenty-four.
That tobacco may kill insects on shrubs, and that one
stench may overpower another, is all possible enough ;
but that thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of
the lungs, and generally brought on by tobacco-smoking,
is a fact as well known as any in the who!e history of
diseases. How is it possible to be otherwise ? Tobacco
is a poison. A man will die of an infusion of tobacco
as soon as of a shot through the head. Can inhal-
ing this powerful narcotic, in however small por-
tions, be good for man ? Its operation in these small
portions is to produce a sensation of giddiness and
drowsiness. It inflames the mouth, and requires a perpetual
flow of the saliva, a fluid known to be among the must
important to the whole ea,-;nomy of digestion; it irritates
the eyes, corrupts the breath, and excites the throat to
perpetual thirst. No doubt the human frame may grow
so far accustomed to this drain that the smoker may go on
from year to year making himself a nuisance to society;
yet there can be no doubt whatever that the custom is as
deleterious in general as it is filthy and un-English. A
great portion of it has arisen among us from the puppyish
affectation of our shopkeepers' boys and city dandies for
being thought foreign Field Marshals. Every handler of
tapes and ribbons turns a hussar the moment he sallies
forth from behind the counter ; the easily applied mous•
tache, the fur cloak, and the cigar, furnish the hero ; and
England rejoices in her Count Calico and her General
Gingham. The cigar speculation must be overthrown....
Monthly Magazine.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMMRIDGE, Dec. 23.—The following gentlemen were
ordained by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, at Buckden, on
Sunday last the 18th instant

DEACONS.

J. H. Buxton, Queen's College, Cambridge.
G. S. Cautley, 8.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge.
T. Furnivall, 8.A., Queen's College, Oxford.
T. H. H. Belk, 8.A., Jesus College, Cambridge.
T. H. Langton, 8.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge.
H. W. Lloyd, 8.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge.
G. Perry, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.
H. S. Richmond, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge.
R. W. Whitford, 8.A., St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
R. Blakelock, M.A., Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
J. Raine, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
G. R. Tuck, M. A., Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
T. F. H. Bridge, 8.A., Christ Church, Oxford.

PRIESTS.
W. Carter, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge.
E. Cookson, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.
S. V. Edwards, 8.A., Trinity College, Oxford.
G. C. Hale, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge-
Robert Jay.
R. Ingram, 8.A., Jesus College, Cambridge.
D. E. Jones, 8.A., Lincoln College, Oxford.
C. Mackie, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.
E. A. Uthwatt, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.
The Hon. C. Dundas, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.
T. Patteson, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxford.
J. W. Daltry, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.
T. Jarrett, M.A., Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
H. L. Jones, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge.
T. Lund, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
G. G. G. F. Pigott, S.C.L., St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
J. J. Smith, M.A., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge.
T. B. Stuart, M. A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.

OXFORD, DEC. 24.—0 n Sunday last the Lord Bishop of
this diocese held an Ordination in the Cathedral at Christ
Church, when the following persons were ordained :

PRIESTS.

A. R. Mangin, 8.A., St. Alban Hall.
T. Morley, M.A., Oriel College.
E Green, 8.A., Magdalen College.
J. Gillman, S.C.L., St. John's College.
D. Jackson, M.A., Queen's College.
G. A. Jacob, 8.A., Worcester College.
R. Mitchell, M.A., Lincoln College.
W. R. Freemantle, 8.A., Magdalen College.
R. Morgan, 8.A., Jesus College.
E. F. Glanville, M.A., Exeter College.
G. Bellamy, M.A., Lincoln College.
W. Cureton, 8.A., Christ Church.
J. H. Hughes, M.A., Magdalen College.
0. W. Mahon, M.A., Pembroke College.
J. Carter, 8.A., St. John's College.
DEACON'S.
R. Fawssett, M.A. Lincoln College.
H, D. Harington, M.A., Exeter College.
C. 0. Mayne, M.A., Christ Church.
J. Chandler, M.A., Corpus Christi College.
G. Chester, 8.A., Queen's College.
On Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Gloucester held an
Ordination in the Cathedral, Gloucester, at which the
following persons of this University were ordained