The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 15.—The funeral of the late Lord Bi-
shop of Ely will take place in the Cathedral at 11 o'clock to-
morrow morning. We understand that many of the clergy of
the diocese will attend. The Very Rev, the Dean (Dr. Wood,
Master of St. John's College) will read the funeral service.
At the congregation on Saturday next, notice will be given
to the Senate of the vacancy of the office of Public Orator by
the resignation of Mr. C. Wordsworth, of Trinity College;
and a day fixed for the election of a person to fill the said
office. It is expected that Mr. Wordsworth on the same day,
in presenting to an honorary degree, will make a farewell ad-
dress to the Senate.

On' Wednesday last the Rev. H. H. Hughes, B. D., Fellow
and Tutor of St. John's College, in this University, was pre-
sented by - the Master and Seniors of that Society to the rec-
tory of Leyham, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm.
Walker. -

The following gentlemen of Trinity College were yesterday
elected Scholars of that society :—C. M. Phillips, Thacker,
Sadler, Stooks, Sykes, Blake, Maitland, Hodgkinson' Howson,
Grant, Barton, J. A. Frere, Heath, Gregory. Vaughan,
Edlestone, Pollard, ten., Hardcastle. Messrs. Murray, Fisher,
and Stedman, are Westminster Scholars.

The designs for the enlargement of the University library
have been deposited in the library for the inspection of Mem-
bers of the Senate.

Meetings of the Cambridge Philosophical society for the
present term :—Monday, April 18 ; Monday, Ally 2 ; Mon-
day, May 16.

WlGTowN.—Judging from the number of recent
commitments to the gaol of Wig-town, we fear that crime .is
not much on the decrease in that part of the country. No
fewer than eight men and one woman have been incarcerated
in that prison within the last month or so. Notwithstanding
all precaution, the prisoners had the hardihood to attempt au
escape on Wednesday evening last. It appears that five of
those confined on the second story, had possessed themselves
of several small pieces of iron, and with these they began to
pick the lime from the walls to loosen the stones, and they
had proceeded so far as to make a considerable hole in the
wall, when they were fortunately discovered. The guard
gave the alarm by ringing the bells, while the prisoners kept
bawling out at the top of their voices, " Fire, fire," to keep
up the deception. Almost instantly the gaol was surrounded
by hosts of the inhabitants, whom the bells roused from sleep.
Foiled in their attempts, the wretches now became despe-
rate. They wrenched off the supports of their beds, which
they applied in battering-ram fashion to the walls, with a
determination which induced the authorities to cause a bat-
tery of huge grey stone to be erected against the wall, the
more effectually to prevent their escape. —Du/Vries Courier.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. GODWlN,—Yes-
terday afternoon, at a little past one o'clock, the mortal, remains
of this venerable man were conveyed from his Chambers, at
the Exchequer Office, Whitehall-yard, to the old church of
St. Pancras, in St. Pancras'-road. In the burial-ground of
this church is interred the celebrated Mary Wolstoneeroft, the
first wife of Mr. Godwin, and authoress of an " Answer to
Burke on the French Revolution" --." Vindication of the Rights
of Women"—" Thoughts on the Education of Daughters,"
and other works. Strange to say, although nearly 4o years
have elapsed since the death of Mrs. Godwin, her coffin was
fuund in a state of nearly perfect preservation. Mr. Godwin
was buried in the same grave. The chief mourner was young
Shelley, son of Shelley the poet, by Mrs. Shelley, who is the
only daughter of Mr. Godwin by Mary \Volstonecroft.
Amongst the mourners were Trclawney, the author of the
" Adventures of a yOunger Son ;" Thomas Campbell, the
author of the " Pleasures of Hope ;" Kenny, the dramatist ;
Dr. Uwins, and Mr. Caunter, by all of whom the deceased
was most sincerely respected.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 15.--
The demand for Cotton continues to be only to a moderate ex-
To-day's sales 1,500 bags, without change in prices.

A most violent storm of thunder and lightning,
attended with hail and rain, took place at Gainsbro' last
Thursday; at Blyton, a village within six miles, a man was
severely burnt by the electric fluid, and at Wharlton, another
village, between Blyton and Gainsbro', the cupola, or dove-
cote part of a barn was knocked down, with much other da-
mage.—Lincoln Gazette.

IRISH STEAM.—The Dublin Evening Post has
taken the field vigorously in behalf of the iniquitous attempts
of the Irish steam-boat proprietors to procure, by Act of Par-
liament, certain rights and privileges which are utterly incom-
patible with justice to all others embarked in the same line of
business. With a boldness of front altogether national, our
Dublin Contemporary speaks as if the Scottish steam-boat
proprietors were in possession of peculiar privileges, and that
their opposition to the Dublin Steam Packet Company's Bill
arose from a wish to keep, from their Irish rivals, certain le-
gislative benefits which themselves enjoyed. This is a gross
mystification of the question, for the Clyde steam-boat pro-
prietors possess no privileges which arc not common to all his
Majesty's subjects —Greenock Advertiser.

DEATH FROM DRINKING.—On Sunday morn-
ing, an old woman residing in Lauriston-street, met her death
in a very distressing manner. She was seen about one o'clock
in the morning a little intoxicated, and about twelve at noon,
the policeman on the station perceiving the window shutters of
her house unopened, began to examine the premises, and
having procured access to the house, found the old woman
lying dead on the floor, her clothes entirely consumed, and her
body presenting the most shocking appearance. The unhappy
woman was much addicted to smoking ; and it is supposed
that some ashes from her pipe had fallen upon her clothes,
and produced the above dreadful catastrophe.—Edinburyh
Courant.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—Ort Saturday a meet-
ing was held in the Hopetown-rooms, Edinburgh, to promote
the abolition of punishment by death. A series of resolutions
condemnatory of the punishment of death under any circum-
stances, and an Address to his Majesty, with petitions to both
Houses of Parliament founded on them, were adopted unani-
mously.

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We have abstained from remarking on the gross
partiality of Ministers in appointing to the municipal benches,
because it has been but too much practised by all parties, and
was only to be expected from the connivers at seat-selling and
the manufacturers of fagot-votes.--Liverpool Courier.—[Wc
cannot understand how partiality could have " been practised
by all parties," and yet "to be expected" only from one. This
is rare logic, and can be matched only by the self-denying vir-
tue of the public Conservative who abstains "from remarking
on the gross partiality of Ministers."]
EMIGRATION.—Ors Wednesday,
the American
ship Louisa left St. Katherine's Docks for New York, with
upwards of 100 passengers on board, principally agricultural
labourers and small farmers, with their wives and families,
from Berks, Norfolk, Essex, and other counties, who intend.
bound to New York,
settling in America. The Gladiator was hauled out of the
same dock last week with 150 emigrants,
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Diemen's Land.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

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