The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 23.—We are requested to state that
her Mjesty will receive the address from the University at
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next, at two o'clock.
At the congregation on Monday last, a petition to the
House of Commons was unanimously agreed to in favour
of Church Extension in England and Wales.
BELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.—The Vice-Chancellor has given
notice that an election of two scholars upon this foundation
will take place on Friday. the 3d of April next. That the
members of any college, (except King's college and
Trinity hall) sons or orphans of clergymen, who were
admitted between the Commencements of 1835, and 1839,
may be candidates. The candidates are require Ito signify
their intention of offering themselves on or before Satur-
day next, the 29th instant, in a Latin Epistle, to be pre-
sented to each of the electors, who are : The Vice-Chan-
cellor, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius
Professor of Civil Law, the Luca•ian Professor, and the
Public Orator.—The examination will commence on Mon-
day, the 9th of March, at ten o'clock, at the Law Schools.
On the 14th instant the Lord Bishop of Peterborough
instituted the Rev. Sir George S. Robinson, Bart., to the
rectory of Crauford St. John, in the county of Northamp-
ton, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. D. Bagley, on
the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
- On Monday last the Rev. Thomas Maurice, M.A., was
instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
to the vicarage of Driffield, in the county of Gloucester,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Edward Ashe. Patron,
the Rev. Robert Ashe, of Langley House, Wilts.
On the 14th inst., the Rev. Henry Freeland, rector of
Hasketon, Suffolk, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of
London to the rectory of Ovington, together with the
chapel of Albright; and on the same day to the rectory of
Silbury (juxta Clare), in the county of Essex.

The Westmoreland Spring Assizes commenced
on Tuesday last, before Sir John Taylor Coleridge and the
Right Hon. T. Erskine.

DISSENTERS.—We understand that Mr. Mark
Philips, whose vote, of course, would have been in favour of
religious liberty, was out of town on business, and that Mr.
Fenton, of Rochdale, had, from indisposition, been confined at
home. Still there were many from this district whose absence
has net been accounted for ; and we should be glad, in eur
columns, to give them an opportunity for explanation.
Amongst the majority, sanctioning the imprisonment for life of
John Thorogood, because he has a conscience, we find Sir R.
Inglis and Lord .1. Russell; Mr. Herries, the ex-chancellor of
the Exchequer, and Mr. Baring, the present Chancellor ; Mr.
Goulburn, another Tory ex-Chancellor, and Sir J. C. Hob-
house, an ex-radical; Mr. Shiel, the President, and Mr. la-
bouchere, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; Sir
Francis Burdett, and the new Catholic Lord of the Treasury,
Mr. Wyse; Lord Morpeth and Sir James Graham, Sir
Robert Peel and Sir George Grey, Mr. Egerton of Tatton,
and Mr. E. J. Stanley, Sir Edward Sugden and Mr. Fox
Maule ! In the same company we find, appropriately enough,
Mr. W. Bolling and Mr. T. Grimsditeh—but why was Mr.
J. Fort there ? We recommend to the especial consideration
of the SLeeders of Dunfermline the vote of Lord Dalmeny on
this question. Will the followers of the Erskines sanction this
intolerance on the part of their representative ? Sir Henry
Parnell has thrown the Independents and the Dissenting Pres-
byterians of Dundee overboard. Will this be tamely submitted
to? Is there no spirit of religious freedom in Edinburgh and
Leith, that both Dlr. Macaulay and Mr. Rutherford are per-
mitted to be on the persecutor's side ?—Manchester Timrs.
ALLEGED SHORT WEIGHT OF FOOD GIVEN
TO THE POOR IN MARYLEBONE WOREHOUSE.-011 Friday,
at the meeting of the Marylebone Board of Directors and Guar-
dians of the Poor, held at the Workhouse, New Road, Mr.
Lowe in the Chair, Mr. Thorne, the Secretary, stated that he
had received the following communication from Sir P. Laurie,
as Chairman of a Petty Session holden at the Court-house on
Monday last :—" Middlesex.—At a Petty Sessions of her Ma-
jesty's Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the said county,
assembled at the Court- house of the parish of Saint Alaryle-
bone, present, Sir Peter Laurie in the Chair, Edward lodge,
Esq, W. M. Nurse, Esq., E. Pepys, Esq., Peter Laurie,
Esq., Charles Elliott, Esq., John Alirehouse, Esq., John
Gibbons, Esq., Thomas Carvick, Esq., J. Edward Conant,
Esq. Resolved—That the clerk to the Magistrates be directed
to inform the Board of Directors and Guardians of the poor of
this parish that it has been communicated to the Magistrates
that certain weights need in the workhouse for weighing the food
issued to the paupers are defective, and have been marked as
such by the persons appointed to rectify them; but that, not-
withstanding such notice, the defective weights are still in use.
The Magistrates themselves having no jurisdiction, beg to call
the attention of the Board to this complaint. ( Signed) P. Laurie,
Chairman." Mr. Atting, the master of the workouse, was called
in and questioned as to the accuracy of this report. He
stated that the annoyaace jury had called and inspected the
weights, but he.was not aware that anyof them were marked ex-
cepting one, which had a slight cross put upon it, and it had not
been used since. Some time ago a rate-payer had called, and
made a complaint to him that the weights used in the allotment
of food to the paupers were defective, and he allowed him to
take one away. He returned it in the course of a couple days,
saying that it was deficient a grain and a half in the quarter of
a pound. This, however, could not affect the poor, inasmuch as
he always gave the poor the draft of the scale. After some dis-
cussion a Committee was appointed to inquire into the subject,
and the Board brokeup.
DRAMATIC AUTHORS' SOCIETY.--The Dra-
matic Authors' Society have been thrown into considerable con-
sternation and confusion (vide the neighbourhood of a fire !)
during the last few weeks by the opposition to their proceed-
ings manifested by one of their body (Mr. Moncriel). This
member has frustrated two notable resolutions which had been
made absolute by unanimity--one to compel the managers of
Royal Theatres not to pay less than fifty pounds an act for any
of the pieces written by the members of the Society, whether
• good or bad, translations or adaptations • and the other, that
none of the proceedings of the Society should be made public,
but that the business of their meetings should be transacted
with closed doors, on pain of expulsion for the violation
tof eihther
of these regulations. Notwithstanding, the Soiec
yielded to the single reasoning of Moncrieff on bothy these
points. A portion of them, from motives best known to them-
selves, have felt so enraged, that after a fruitless
attempt pttosilence their opponent, they have at length come to the
to expel him altogether, on the singular charge of having
laughed at them.
The Government have been offered terms of a
very advantageous description by the trustees of the Gloucester
and Berkeley Canal Company, in liquidation of the debt of
200,0001. owing to the Exchequer Loan Office, 60,0001. to be
paid .down, 60,0001. more in ten years, and the remainder in
twenty years, with 3i per cent. interest in the mean time, and
4,600/. a year to be reserved from the profits to insure the pay-
ment of the instalments. A subscription was ordered towards
paying the first sum, and_3o,oo/.was put down at the meeting.
Worcester Journal.

A memorial signed by members of the Church of
England, has been presented to the Archdeacon and clergy of
Bath, calling upon them to remove from all Protestant churches
in their district every form and ceremony partaking of the Ro-
man Catholic form of worship, particularly all pictures and
images. _Bath Gazette.
Messrs. Coutures Brothers, of Bordeaux, glass-
blowers, have just introduced an important improvement into
the art of blowing black or bottle glass, by using a flexible tube,
worked by machinery, for injecting air ir.to the parcels of fluid
metal instead of letting their men continue to blow them by
mouth. An ingeniously-contrived cock allows them to consume
just as much or as little air as is wanted. These gentlemen
have declihedtaking )1t tt 3 (J.* Chair invention.