The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Oxionn, DEC. 9.—The following subjects are proposed for
the Chancellor's Prizes, for the ensuing year, viz. :

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For LATIN YERsES—MOntge Pyre Wei.
For an ENGLISH ESSAY—" ha rude, or a refined age more
favourable to the production of works of fiction ?"
For a LATIN ESSAY—" Quibus prrecipue de causis in
artium liberalium studiis Romani Grrecis vix pares, nedutn
superiores evaserint."
The first of the above subjects is intended for those Gentle-
men of the University who have not exceeded four years from the
time of their matriculation ; and the other two for such as have
exceeded four, but not completed seven years..
Sir ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE, for the best Composition
in English Verse, " not containing either more or fewer than
Fifty Lines," by any Under-Graduate who has not exceeded
four years from the time of his matriculation—Trajan's
THEOLOGICAL PRIZE, instituted June 2, 1825—" The
operation of human causes only will not sufficiently account for
the propagation of Christianity."
The above subject, for an English Essay, apro'nted by the
Judges, is-proposed to Members of the University on the fol-
lowing conditions, viz.

1. The Candidate must have passed his examination for the
degree of B.A. or B.C.L.
.2. He must not on this day (December I.) have exceeded his
Twenty-eighth Term.
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3. Ile nut have commenced his Sixteenth Tenn on or before
the Ist of February next.

In every case the Terms are to be computed from the Marti-
culation inclusively.

On Thursday last Mr. William Cripps was elected to the
Vinerian Scholarship, vacant bp the admission of Mr. Bel-
lamy, of St. John's College, to a Fellowship on that founda-
tion. The other candidates were Mr. Mylne, of Baliol, and
Mr. Evans, of.lesus.
On the same day the following Degrees were conferred :
Doctor in Civil Law.—Philip Williams, Esq. late Fellow
of New College, Vinerion Professor of Common Law, Grand
Compounder.
Masters of Arts—Rev. James Allan Park, Balliol, Grand
Compounder ; Alexander Atherton Park, Palliol.
Bachelors of Arts—George Monnington, Worcester ; .Tohn
May, Exeter; Charles Gilbee, Queen's ; -Horatio Todd,
Queen's; Richard' Lewis, Magdalen Hal; George Tho Mas
Picton Jenkins, Pembroke; William Leslie, Lincoln ; Arthur
Lewis, Trinity ; Wadham Locke, Merton.
On the 27th ult., the Bishop of Hereford held an Ordination
in the chapel of Winchester College ; when the following per-
sons were ordained :

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Deacoxs.—Augustus Hare, A.M., New College, Oxford;
George Jeans, A. 13., Pembroke College, Oxford ; W. Web-
ster, examined Student in Civil Law, Jesus College, Cam-
bridge; Allen \V. Lechmere, A. 8., Pembroke College, Ox-
ford ; 'l'. Taylor Lewis, A. 8., Si. John's College, Cambridge ;
Philip Hall, Palmer, A. 8., Jesus College, Cambridge.
Priests.—Edward Wickham, N. 8., New College, Oxford ;
John Evans, A. 8., Magdalen College, Cambridge ; John Ac-
ton Hanson, Brasenose College, Oxford.

WHlsKy—There is a prospect of our being
soon cheered in London with the real " moun-
tain.dew." By a recent Act of the Legislature,
this pure spirit will be allowed to be imported
and sold in London. We have not time Statute
before us : but to the best of our recollection, it
will come into operation at the beginning of
next year.

It is a curious fact that, not many years ago,
the two Winter Theatres received each 2001. per
annum from one of the Newspapers, for the ex-
clusive privilege of advertising the Play for the
night. At this moment the Theatres pay scarcely
less than 1,5001. per annum to the Newspapers
for doing the same thing.

POETRY.

THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.

NIIW SONG.

Ohl Learning's a very fine thing,
As also-is wiSdoM and knowledge,
For a man is as great as a king.
If he has but the airs of a collage.
And now-a-days, all must admit,
Learning-were wondrously favotted,
For you scarce'o'er your window can spit,
But some learned man is beslaver'd
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c.
We'll all of us shortly be doom'd
• To part with our plain understanding,
For Intellect now has assum'd.
An attitude truly commanding !
All ranks are so dreadfully wise,
Common sense is set quite at defiance,
And the child for its porridge that cries,
;Must cry in the language of Science.
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c„ &c.
The Weaver it surely becomes,
To talk of his web's involution,
For doubtless the hero of thrums
Is a member of some Institution ;
lie speaks of supply and demand,
With the airs of a great legislator,
And almost can tell you off-hand,
That the smaller is less titan the greater !
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c.
The Tailor, in cutting his cloth,
,Will speak of the true conic section,
And no tailor is now such a.Goth
Hut he talks of his trade's genuflection
If you laugh at his handy-legg'd clan
He calls it unhandsome detraction,
• And cocks up his chin like man,
Though we know that he's only a fraction
Sing, tel de rol 101, &c. &c.
The lit.ac asswnt 'midst cinders and smoke,
Whose visage is one of the dimmest,
His furnace profoundly will poke,
With the air'of a practical clrernist;
Poor Vulcan has recently -got
A lingo that's almost historic, •
And can tell you that iron is hot,
Because it is till'd with caloric !
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c.
The MASON, in hook-learned tone,
Describes in the very best. grammar
The resistance that dwells in the stone,
And the power that resides in the hammer ;
-For the son or the trowel and hod
hooks as big as the Frog in the Fable,
While he talks in a jargon as odd
As his brethren the bdilders of Babel
- • Sing, -tot de rol Iql, &c. &c.

The CODDLER who sits at your gate
Now pensively points his hog's bristle,.
Though the very same cobbler of late
O'er his work used to sing and to whistle ;
But cobbling's a paltry pursuit
For a man of polite education--
Ms-works may be trod under foot,
Yet he's one of the Lords of Creation !
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c. -
Oh ! Learning's a very fine thing !
It almost is treason to doubt. it—
Yet many of whom I could sing,
Perhaps might as well-he without it !
And without it my days I will pass,
.For tome it was ne'er worth a dollar,
,And 1 don't wish to look„like an Ass
By trying to talk like a Se tror.An !
Sing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c.
Let schoolmasters bother their brains
In their dry and their musty vocation;
But what can the rest of us gain
By meddling with such botheration ?
We cannot be .very far wrong,
If we live like our fathers before us,
Whose LEAH N I NG went round in tl►e song,
And whose cares were dispelled in the throlnus.
Singing, tol de rol 101, &c. &c.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE ENSUING WEEK.

llis 31ajeNty's,Stag Hounds. on Monday, at the Crooked Bil-
let, Iver Heath: Friday, at Farnham Common.

Sir It. Sutton's hounds, on Monday, at Harpswell ; Wed-
nesday, at Skillinthorpe ; Friday, at Blankney ; Saturday, at
G reatwell.

The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Hill
Court ; Friday, at Wyre Piddle Village.
Mr. Muster 'a Hounds, on Monday, at Thornby; Wednen.
day, at Arthingworth ; Thursday, at Laniport ; Friday, at
thiston.

The Duke of Grafton's Hounds, on Monday, at Little Har-
wood ; Wednesday, at Titfield ; Friday, at Furzen Field.
The Oakley Hounds, on Monday, at Knuston Fall ; 'Tues-
day, at Bromnarn ; Thursday, at Wooton ; Saturday, at Col-
worth.

The Quorndon Hounds, on Monday, at Hohue Pierrepont ;
Tuesday, at Twyford ; Wednesday, at Bunny Park ; Thurs-
day, at Owthorpe, Notts; Friday, at Keyhani ; Saturday, at
Kettleby.
Lord Ansoh's Hounds, on Monday, at Croft Hill ; Tues-
day. „ at Lindley ; Friday, at Shuttington Bridge; Saturday,
at Kirkby.

Mr. ljewing's I.lounds, on Monday, at El;•nham ( Broom
Green) ; Wednesday, at Bradenham -Hall ; Friday, at Sax-
-1 n„ Siam.

The Westacre Stag Hounds, on Monday, at Barth-lly
Mills ; Friday, at 11 ilbro' Swan.
The East Essex Fox Hounds, on Modday, at Wormingford
Common.

The Conock Harriers, on Monday, at Enford Barn ; Friday,
the Bustard.

The Earl of Harewood's Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Clif-
ford Moor.; 'Wednesday, at Harewoud Bridge ; Friday, at
Kiddall Lane.

Mr. Farquharson's Fox hounds, on Monday, at Honeycombe;
Tuesday, at Elsington Wood.
The Weymouth Harriers, on Monday; at Kennel; Thurs-
day, at Bradford Plantations._ _

Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on Mond ny, at tong Norton ; Thurs-
day. at ; Saturday, at Chillington.
The Chester Harriers, on Monday, at Newton Wood.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Calveley ; Wednes.
day, at Chasle Mill; Thursday, at 'Dunham Massey; Satur-
day, at Minshull. - •

Fox HUNTING IN THE CLOUDS.—(4 fact.)—Monday
last the Worcestershire fox hounds threw off on Bredon Hill ;
and, although the. vale country lay clear beneath the sportsmen
as they ascended, yet, so completely was the high land enve
loped, not merely in mist and snow, but in clouds, that nothing
thereon, even of the surrounding hedge-rows, could be seen at
the distance of 5 yards. The hounds found almost immediately
on entering the cover, and went away in excellent style; but,
after a sharp run of upwards of an hour, Iteynard escaped
under favour of the snow flakes, which fell so densely, that,
combined with the impervious obscurity of the vapour, not one
of the horsemen ever saw the hounds during the chase, but
followed them by the echo of " the tongue." Several gentle-
men who rode from Cheltenham to enjoy the day's sport were
unable in " the darkness visible" to find the hunters they had
sent on before them to the cover, and were obliged to return on
their jaded hacks.-(CheltenhamChronicle.)

On Thursday and yesterday the King's fisher-
men, with a number of assistants, dragged the pond in Ken-
sington-gardens'drag with a large net, when they caught a
great number of tench, carp and roach. The tench were im-
mediately put into barrels of water, and afterwards emptied into
a well' attached to the kitchen of the Palace, from whence they
are shortly to be removed to Windsor, where they are to be
put into the ponds in the Royal Parks. The carp mid roach
were'returned into the pond. Yesterday morning the fishermen
and their assistants endeavoured to drag the basin in Kensing-
ton-gardens, but it proved to be so extremely full of weeds, that
it was found to be impossible for the net to act.

Extract of a letter from Zante :—" You will be sorry to hear
that Mr. tir— has committed himself most seriously. In a
quarrel that took place between T—y and F----, W. and F.
are said to have shot through the body, and F. was ini-
mediately shot dead by servant. Mr. W. was put
under arrest by order of the Government, and afterwards libe-
rated. T—y is slowly recovering from his wound. He has
been received on board one of our frigates, together with his
young Greek wife, only in her 14th year. Mr. H is gone
to England, and left his Turkish Mere amie here, to bewail his
departure. The two gentlemen, Messrs. E— and
sent out some time ago by a London Morning Paper, to coy.
lect information, have also quitted Greece."