The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-29 00:00:00

UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 29.—The Heads of Houses will on
Wednesday next, the 4th of February, nominate and prick two
persons, one of which will, on the day following, be elected
by the Members of the Senate at large, to the office of Public
Orator, vow: vacant by the resignation of the Rev. R. Tatham,
B. D., Fellow of St. John's college. We believe that the
gentlemen who have as yet intimated to the Heads their de-
sire to be nominated, are Mr. Isaacson, B.D. of St. John's
college; Mr. C. Wordsworth, M.A. of Trinity, and Mr. H.
S. Hildyard, M. A, of St. Peter's college.
On Friday last the 15th inst. Robert Maine, Esq., B. A.,
of Queen's College, in this University, was elected a Foun-
dation Fellow of that society.
On Friday last John Henry Pratt, 8.A., of Gonville and
Caius college, was elected a Wortley Fellow of that society.
The Norrisian Prize Essay for last year has been adjudged
to Edward Harold Browne, Esq., M.A., of Emmanuel col-
lege, in this university. Subject—" The person, character,
and actions of Jesus Christ afford a satisfactory fulfilment of
all the Prophecies in the Old Testament which relate to the
Messiah."

On Wednesday last, William Alfred Dawson, of Christ's
college, was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts ; and
Thomas Forbes Reynolds, of Sidney college, a Licentiate in
Physic.
On Friday last the Rev. Thomas Harrison was licensed
to the Perpetual Curacies of Walberswick and Blythburgh, in
Suffolk on the nomination of Sir C. Blois, Bart., of Yoxford.

Ludford-Park Estate, approximating upon the ro-
mantic little town of Ludlow, is in the market ; and it is
one of the present on dits, that its influential powers over
the borough will not be lightly appreciated at this interest-
ing moment. George Robins's announcement this evening
seems. to confirm this opinion : it is, however, very deli-
cately:and therefore properly, only hinted at.

Mr. Hall Dare has made another reduction from the
rents of his tenants. The Hon. Gentleman's health would
not permit him to attend his late rent audits in this county,
but he kindly directed that a reduction of ten per cent.
should be made from the rents of his tenants, in consequence
of the continued pressure on agriculture, although several
of the farms bad recently been re-let, when permanent re-
ductions were made in all cases which appeared to require
it.—Essex Herald.

TILE FIELDS OF BLOOD.—The following is a
brief sketch of the statistics of Shandrum and Inniscarra,
both, unhappily, of disastrous notoriety :—" The benifice of
Inniscarra is situated upon the rivers Lee and Dripsey,
County Cork, two miles from Ballincollig, and six miles
from Cork. It comprises the contiguous parishes of In-
niscarra and llatehy (the scene of bloodshed), 6 miles in
length and 41 in breadth, comprising altogether 21,381
English acres, valued for the purpose of assessing the
tithes at 15,032/. per annum. The population of 1834 was
5,862, of which 162 are of the Established Church, and
5,700 Roman Catholics, or the latter to the former are in
the proportion of thirty. five to one. The tithes as com-
pounded, and the valued glebe lands, amount to 1,1761.
per annum. The Rector, the Hon. Wm. Beresford, re-
sides in the glebe house erected for him by a grant of
1,600/. from the late Board of First Fruits. He employs
a Curate, the Rev. James Gollock, to whom he pays 69/.
4s. 73d. per annum for the duties, which arc, performing
divine service once on Sundays, Christmas day, and Good
Friday, to an average congregation of 30 persons. The
benefice of Shandrum is situated upon the confines of the
county of Limerick, in the county of Cork, two miles
from Charleville, containing, with the village of Newtown
(the scene of the last affray), in 1884, 4,820 inhabitants, of
whom 60 are of the Established Church, and 4,760 are
Roman Catholics, or, the latter to the former are as 79 to
1. The tithes, as compounded, amount to 804/. 19s. 10d.
per annum. The incumbent, the Rev. Wm. Isaac Bun-
bury, does not reside, and has no curate. There is no
church. Divine service is occasionally performed in a
school-house,"

FIRE AT NEW YORK.

"M. VAN SCHAICK, &c.,
" Committee of the Assembly."
The several bills mentioned in the report were imme-
diately introduced, and read both a first and second time.
The Albany Argus gives an abstract of these bills. The
first bill empowers the corporation of this city to purchase,
during the ensuing six months, the mortgages belonging to
the insurance companies, to an amount not exceeding
6,000,000 dollars, to issue city bonds on stock for the
same at an interest of five per cent., payable semi-annually.
Seven commissioners ur.to be appointed to examine, with-
out fee or reward, the premises insured. The proceeds
of the mortgages, when paid into the Treasury, are to be
applied inviolably to the redemption of the city bonds on
stock.

The second bill provides that any three directors of an
insolvent insurance company may be the receivers and dis-
tributors of its estate and effects. They are directed to
issue certificates of any ascertained amount of claims, which
certificates may be negotiable by endorsement. If the cor-
poration shall not proceed under this act within thirty days,
any stockholder or claimant entitled to the benefit of this
act may apply for the appointment of a receiver under the
existing laws.

The third Bill authorizes any insolvent Insuranco Com-
pany to make calls upon its stockholders to an amount such
as will replenish its original capital. It provides, that if
any stockholder refuses to pay such calls, he shall cease to
be a member of the Corporation, but shall be entitled to
receive his share of the assets. After the filling up of such
capital, the Company shall be subject to all the obligations,
and possess all the powers, of receivers under existing laws,
so far as all former claims, assets, &c.,are concerned.
The fourth Bill authorizes the Corporation of this city
to loan the City Safety Fund Banks, whatever amount of
the stock horeunto authorized to be issued, or the avails
thereof, that may not be required for the purchase of the
mortgages of the Insurance Companies. It authorizes the
Commissioners of the Canal Fund to issue the Chenango
Canal Stock, and to loan it, or any other State stock, held
under their direction, to banks in this city, and to apply the
funds from the Erie and Champlain Canals for the con-
struction of the Chenango Canal. It authorizes any bank
obtaininc, such loan from the city, or from the Commis-
sioners of the Canal Fund, or elsewhere, to discount on it
as capital, restricting such discount to one-half its actual
capital, and prohibiting any increase of circulation.
The Senate and House of Assembly of the State of New.
York met on January Gth, and the first topic referred to in
the Governor's message was the late calamity. We trans-
cribe the passage

44 Until within; a few days, wherever we directed our view
throughout this flourishing commonwealth, we saw only gra-
tifying evidences of unexampled prosperity ; but we have
now to lament that a portion of our constituents have been
recently visited by a severe calamity. A conflagration,
unprecedented hi the history of this continent, and rarely
exceeded in the past ages of the world, Las consumed
many millions of property, and laid in ruins an extensive
district of our commercial metropolis. Destructive as this
calamity has been to the fortunes of individuals, and ex-
tensive as its influence may be upon the general prosperity
of the State, let us not yield to the desponding belief
that we shall not soon recover from its effects. Though the
sufferers have lost their property, they have not lost every-
thing. Their enterprising spirit and irrepressible energies
still remain—their business relations are suspended, but net
dissolved—their characters as honourable merchants, and their
capacity for business, fortunately are possessions beyond the
reach of the devouring element. With these possessions,
aided by the advantages which it is reasonable to expect will
be liberally offered to them, they will soon resume their
wonted pursuits under favourable auspices, and in a short
time, it is believed, repair their losses."

The Legislative body lost no time in proposing measures
of relief. The energy displayed in remedying this great ca-
lamity is quite worthy of that free and intelligent people.

The Duke of Devonshire does not intend to pro-
ceed farther than Paris this winter. After the gaieties of
the carnival are over, his Grace will return to Devonshire
House, and give a series of parties on the usual scale of
magnificence. The name of the Noble Duke's companion
to Paris has been stated, by mistake, in the French papers,
as General Cavendish Clifford, instead of Lieutenant Ca-
vendish Spencer Clifford, of the Grenadier Guards. De-
vonshire House is undergoing some embellishments during
the absence of the Duke.

We are son), to hear that the Right Honourable
C. Tennyson D'Eynecourt is again confined by severe

iness.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Monday night.
the Antelope steamer, while on her passage from Belfast to
Glasgow, and while within a few hundred yards of the quay
of Greenock, where she was about to stop, suddenly came
in collision with a schooner, anchored -in the stream. The
schooner had no light, nor any person on the deck at the
time. The shock was so severe, that in a few minutes the
schooner went to the bottom, the crew having scarcely time
to save themselves in their boat, and abandoning all their
clothes and other property. The schooner was laden with
coals. We have heard that no blame is to be attached to
the Master of the steamer, who was on deck at the time of
the accident, and who manifested the utmost anxiety to
render the crew of the schooner every assistance in his
power. The schooner has since been raised, and on Friday
afternoon, was brought into Greenock by four lighters and
the Gulliver steamer.—Edinburgh Advertiser..
The writer of " The American in England," among
numerous other inaccuracies, states that the season of the
Opera in London never commences till May.

REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF RELIEF FOR NEW
YORK, MADE TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, JAN. 6.
The Select Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly,
to whom was referred the special message of his Excellenc%
the Governor, and various memorials and bills from the
Assembly, in relation to the late fire, which on the 16th and
17th of December last devastated an important section of
the city of New York, respectfully report—
" That the following information has been obtained from
members of a Committee, delegated by a meeting of citizens
of New York, to represent their views to the officers of the
State Government. The facts stated are also within the
knowledge of individual members of the Joint Committee.
" The loss which has been sustained in buildings, including
several public edifices, is supposed to be about 674. Among
them immense ranges of capacious and valuable stores and
warehouses have been levelled to the dust, and nearly 1,000
mercantile firms dislodged. These firms employed, as is esti-
mated, from 3,500 to 4,000 clerks, besides cartmen, porters,
and labourers, many of whom depend for !support upon their
daily and monthly earnings. The total amount of property
destroyed is believed to be from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000
dollars. The fire burnt over an 'area of 52 acres, comprising
a densely-built and exclusively-mercantile portion of the city,
and destroyed all within that compass except three or four
buildings.
" Before the occurrence of this great disaster, there were
25 fire-insurance companies in the city of New York, nearly all
of which were conducting a prosperous business. The aggre-
gate capital of these companies amounted to 8,170,000 dollars.
14 of them are now believed to be insolvent; four have their
capitals very much impaired, and several of the others are
losers to a very heavy amount. It is estimated that the total
loss of the fire-insurance companies which belong to the city,
is about 7,000,000 dollars, leaving litle more than 1,000,000
dollars of sound capital.
" This statement exhibits an amount of property destroyed
which has seldom been paralleled in the devastations commit-
ted by fire. The losses sustained by individuals are enormous,
and some of them of the most afflicting character. The com-
mittee are aware that the Legislation of the State, in reference
to this event, can only be conducted upon general principles.
To restore to activity the industry and enterprise of thousands,
to save from ruin a large portion of an useful community, and
reconstruct a system which promotes the prosperity of the
State at large, come properly within the scope of duties de-
volved upon the Legislature. It is desirable, therefore, that
promptitude and liberality should characterize the action of the
Legislature in this emergency.
" The following several Bills are reported by the Commit-
tee, in the confident belief that their passage will enable
the City of New York to retrieve in a great measure its
losses, and to retain its commercial relations in full act
vity

" 1. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commonalty of the City of New York, to raise money by
loan, &c.'
" 2. An Act to enable the Insolvent Fire Insurance Com-
panies more conveniently to adjust their affairs.
" 3. An Act to enable the Stockholders of the said Corn.
panics, and others, to replenish their stock, and revive and
continue their charters.
" 4. An Act for the relief of the City of New York.'
" The first Bill comes directly from the Constituted Autho-
rities of the city.
" These several Bills the Committee beg leave, by unani-
mous concurrence, to present for the action of the Legisla-
ture. Their principles will be explained at the proper time.
It is the object of these Bills to restore, as far as practicable,
the capital which has been destroyed. They contemplate se-
curing this result at the earliest possible period, so that the
City and State, in addition to unavoidable losses, may not also
sacrifice the benefits of the spring and summer trades of the
present year.
" The opinion that the restoration of the business pursuits
of our great commercial mart to their wonted activity is not
less important to the country than to the city, is one of general
prevalence, and is a sure indication of the expectations which
the public entertain from the liberal and enlightened counsels
of the State.
" The Committee will only observe further, that the relief,
to be effectual, must be such as will not require much time to
organize and put into active operation. The last mentioned
bill is constructed upon that principle, and its provisions are
drawn in conformity with the recommendations contained in
the special message of the Governor. Any less expeditious
measures than those proposed would defeat some of the most
important objects so desirable to be accomplished.
" In presenting this report, the joint committee do not ask
to be discharged from the further consideration of the various
matters referred to them.

TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1836.