The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-08 00:00:00

THE ➢IAITLAND PRIZE.

This prize for the year 1849 has been adjudged to
Ernest F. Fiske, 8.A., of Emmanuel College.
The Professor of Moral Philosophy has given notice
that he will begin his course of lectures on Monday, Feb.
12, 1849, at one o'clock, in the lecture-room in Trinity
College. The lectures will be continued every Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at the same hour.
The subject of this course will be the ethical doctrines
of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke,
Butler, Paley, Dugald Stewart, Bentham, and Mac-
kintosll.

In order to prepare the way for the operation of the
Moral Sciences Tripos, and the professorial condition for
the degree of 8.A., lately established by the University,
the professor has also given notice, that after his course
of lectures he will hold an examination on the subjects of
the lectures, and on the books therein recommended.
OXFORD, FEB. 7.—lu a convocation to be holden on
Friday, the 9th instant, at two o'clock, it will be pro-
posed, that the annual payment of 1251., which was
authorised by vote of convocation on the 10th of June,
1848, to be made for five years to the incumbent of Holm
Cultram, to be applied towards the stipend of an as-
sistant curate for that parish, be discontinued after the
10th of June, 1849; and that, in lieu thereof, a grant in
perpetuity of 501. per annum be made out of the im-
propriate tithes of Holm Cultram to each of the three
district churches lately built in that parish, to be ap-
plied towards a permanent endowment for the stipends
of the respective incumbents of the same. The Ecele-
siastical Commissioners in England have signified their
readiness to make a permanent grant of 501. to each of
the said three new churches, provided the University will
secure to each of them a similar amount. The present
proposition is made with the entire concurrence of the
incumbent of the parish church.

CAMBRIDGE, FL. 7.—The Vico-Chancellor has given
notice that, at the Congregation on Wednesday next, the
14th instant, the following Grace (amongst others) will
b offered to the Seeate:—" To appoint the Vice-
Chancellor, the Master of Jesus College, the Dean of
Bristol, the Master of Pembroke College, the Master of
St. John's College, the Master of Trinity
College, the Master of Catherine Hall, the Regius
Protessor of Divinity; the Regius Professor of Law,
the Regius Professor of Physic; Mr. Stokes, Senior
Proctor; Mr. Edwards, Junior Proctor; the Registrary;
Mr. Williamson, of Clare Hall; Mr. Hand, of King's
College; Mr. Waller, of Magdalene College; Mr.
Sykes, of Downing College; Mr. Rickards, of Sidney
College; Mr. Wratislaw, of Christ's College; and Mr.
Power, of Emmanuel College, a Syndicate, to revise the
statutes of the University, and to present them to the
Senate in their revised form before the division of the
Michaelmas Term, 1849."
The Professor of Mi❑eralogy will commence his lec-
tures on Thursday, Feb. 15. These lectures will be
given gratis, on Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Saturdays,
from two to three, in the Mineralogical Museum, under
the west end of the new library.

DISTRESS IN TILE WEST OF IRELAND.—A Trea-
sury minute of the 16th of January says:—The Poor-
law Commissioners report that of the 131 unions into
which Ireland is divided, 100 will not need extraneous
assistance, ten or eleven more may be rescued from em-
barrassment. There remains but twenty to be consi-
dered separately. A list is given of twenty-one unions,
all along the west coast from Sligo to Bantry. Their
expenditure during the year was 968,0001., of which
237,0001. was sent from England, nevertheless the debt
of these unions increased in the year by 48.0001. The
minute states the available potato crop of 1848 as less
than that 01 1847. Each individual relieved during the
severe three quarters of the year cost 1/. The 367,500 L
furnished by British charity to Ireland saved the lives
of at least 200,000 people. The out door relief, which in
the week ending on the 6th of May, 1848, amounted to
184 millions, sunk in the last week of September below
6 millions. In the last week of November it was 7i mil-
lions. The number of inmates of workhouses was 130,000
in the beginning of June, 108,000 in the middle of Sep-
tember, and 163,000 at the end of November. From
September, 1847, to September, 1848, there was spent on
the poor of Ireland 1,856,0001. Of this 1,627,700/. was
raised in rates.

SwicsoN.—A very ludicrous scene was recently
witnessed on the platform at the station here, on the ar-
rival of a train. A sergeant of a regiment of the line
with a number of recruits, who were on their way to
London to be attested, left the train to procure refresh-
ment. One of the recruits, a fine tall young man, wear-
ing very long trousers, stumbled as ho stepped out of
the carriage. The sergeant, haring great regard for the
limbs of his recruits, turned sharply round to the
stumbler, when, to his great horror, he discovered that
the recruit had a most singular defect. The amazed
sergeant, as soon as ho could recover from the effect of
his astonishment, shouted to the unfortunate recruit,
" By —, sir, you have only one leg!" The man coolly
replied, " Well, I know that;" and upon a closer inspec-
tion it appeared that the man actually bad a cork leg, a
fact which had escaped the penetration of the soldier.
The poor sergeant seemed to be driven to his wits' end,
and endeavoured to persuade the recruit to return to the
place from whence he came, but he persisted in going to
London—" He had been 'listed to go to Lunnun, and to
Lunnun he'd go." The bell rang, and all parties re-
entered the train to fight out the battle.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAT.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's strain-ship Pacha, commanded by
Captain John Weeks, with the mails from Spain, Por-
tugal, and Gibraltar, left this afternoon. She had a full
cargo of general merchandise, of about 90 tons, with one
package of specie, of the value of 3001. Her passengers
amount to twelve only. The next homeward-bound Pe-
ninsular steam-ship is the Madrid, due nn the 11th. She
will be here about Tuesday next.