The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-07 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 6.—The following is the subject of the
Hulsean prize dissertation for the present year:—" In what
respects the Law is a Schoolmaster to bring. us unto Christ."
There will be congregations on the following days of the Lent
Term

Saturday - - Jan. 22, (Bachelors' Corn.) at ten
Wednesday - Feb. 9, at eleven
Wednesday - -- 23, at eleven
Wednesday - March 2, at eleven
Friday - 18, (31. A. Inceptors) at ten
Friday . . -- 25, (end of term) at ten
The Rev. George Haggitt, M.A. Fellow of Pembroke Hall,
has been presented, by the Master and Fellows of that society,
to the valuable vicarage of Soham, in this county, vacated by
the death of the Rev. Henry Fisher, M.A.
At an ordination holden by the Lord Bishop of Bath and
-Wells, on Sunday the 2d of January, in the cathedral Church of
Wells, the following were ordained Deacons and Priests :

DEACONS.
Thomas Harvey, B.A. Christ College, Cambridge
Edward Bower, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge
James Daubeny, B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford
G. Brown Francis Potticary, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford
William Dunn, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge
Joseph Garton, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge

PRIESTS.
Edw. Benj. Bagshawe, B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge
Wm. Baker Bere, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Edward Hyde Cosens, B.A. Catharine Ball, Cambridge
David Smith Stone, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford
John West, M.A. Exeter College, Oxford
John Horsley Dakins, S.C.L. Trinity College, Cambridge
R. Waterfield, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge
George Windus Woodhouse, Saint Mary Hall, Oxford
William Graham, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford
The following Gentlemen of this University were ordained on
the 19th ult., by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, at his Lord-
ship's palace :
DEACONS—Thomas Williams, 8.A., Saint John's College;
John Ward, 8.A., Christ College.
PRIEST—Wm. Henry Dickenson, S.C.L., Christ College.
The following Gentlemen of this University were lately or-
dained by the Bishop of Bangor:--
DEACON—Evan Lloyd, 8.A., Jesus College.
PRlEsTs—Bulkeley Williams, 13. A., St. Peter's College;
Thomas Llciyil Owen, 8.A., Jesus College.
The Rev. Thomas Godfrey was on the 29th ult. instituted to
the Rectory of Newbourn, Suffolk, on the presentation of Sir
William Rowley, Baronet.
The Right Hon. Lord Macdonald has been pleased to ap.
point the Rev. Jeremiah Jackson, M.A. late of St. John's Col-
lege, and Vicar of Swaff ham Bulbeck, in this county, one of
his Lordship's domestic chaplains.
A dispensation has passed the great seal to enable the Rev.
Jeremiah Jackson, M.A. Vicar of Swaffham Bulbeck, and
domestic chaplain to Lord Macdonald, to hold the Vicarage of
Elm cam Emneth, in this county, together with the Vicarage
of Swaffham Bulbeck, on the collation of the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of this diocese,

FRENCH CORONATION,-All the inhabitants of
Rheims, of the Ist class, have signified their in-
tention of giving up gratuitously all the rooms
they can possibly spare in their respective houses,
for the accommodation of the great functionaries
of the Court during the f6te of the approaching
Coronation.

In justice to Mr. ELLISTON It is proper to men-
tion that he made an annual allowance to the
late Mr. WEWITZER during.many of his latter
years. This is the more liberal on the part of
Mr. Er,LisTorr, as Mr, WEWITZEIt, we under-
stand, was never a Performer under his manage.
went. It is said that two sisters of Mr. WE-
WITZEn are living, and in good circumstances,
one of whom possesses an Irish title; but no in-
tercourse between them and the deceased had
taken place for many years, The funeral will
probably be defrayed by a contribution at both
Theatres, always liberally prompt on such oc-
casions.

To READ ILLEGIBLE INSCRIPTIONS ON SILVER
Col/sr.—lf you have a silver coin, the inscription
of which, by much wear, is become wholly obli-
terated, put the poker in the fire; when red hot,
place the coin upon it, when the inscription will
plainly appear of a greenish hue, but will disap-
pear as the coin cools. This method was prac-
tised at the Mint to discover the genuine coin,
when the silver was last called in,