The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 19.—0 n Tuesday the installation
took place of the new master of Trinity.
At a meeting of the Philosophical Society, on Monday,
Mr. Power gave notice that at the following meeting,
November 29th, he should communicate to the Society,
some remarks on. the late accident on the Brighton Rail-
way, with a mathematical investigation
of the pitching mo-
tion of locomotive engines, and the mode of preventing it.
At the congregation held on Wednesday, Mr. Banbury,
of Trinity, and Mr. Bateson, of St. John's, were ap-
pointed examiners of the classical tripos.
At the same congregation the following degrees were
conferred :

BACHELOR OF DIVINITY.—Bev. Vincent Shortland,
Catherine Hall.

MASTER OF ARTS.—Thomas Edward Marshall, Em-
manuel College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Richard Currage, St. John's ;
Henry Halkett. Trinity ; Frederidi Pearce Pocock, St,
Peter's Darey Tancred, Christ's ; William Sawers,
Trinity ; Richard Snowdon Smith, Caius ; Edward Brine,
Queen's ; Edward Lewis Knight, Trinity.
BACHELOR OF LAWS.—Simon Haughton Sherrard,
Christ's. •

The Rev. Thomas Pitts, 13. A., of Queen's College,
Curate of Otley, has been presented by the Venerable the
Archdeacon Musgrave to the incumbency of St. George's
Church, Sowerby, vacant by the cession of the Rev. G.
M. Carrick.

Rev. F. T. Blackburne, 8.A., of Jesus College, has
been presented to the perpetual curacy of Cannock,
Staffordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Shiel—Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.
The Rev. John Vaughan, 8.C.L., formerly of St.
John's College, and Rector of Upton Lovell, is about to
relinquish the pastoral care of that village for the more
onerous duties of the populous parish of Brixton, Surrey.
The Rev. C. A. Vignoles has been instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Chichester to the vicarage of Bodiam,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Sir John Thomas Be-
vont, on the presentation of Lady Elizabeth Thomas.

DEATH OF MRS BLAKESLEY.—INQUEST ON
THE BODY.—On Saturday evening a Coroner's inquest
was holden before W. Payne, Esq., the Coroner for the
City of London, for the purpose of inquiring by what
means Sarah Blakesley, the short-lived widow of the
malefactor who was executed on Monday, came by her
death. A jury was summoned by Mr. Burford, the
ward beadle, to meet at the Blue Anchor, St. Mary-at-
Hill, at five o'clock, and there was no delay on the ground
of non-attendance. Mr. Payne said he was aware that
there were some persons who thought that an inquest on
the present occasion was unnecessary, but he and many
others thought to the contrary, and, whatever might be
the result of the inquiry, there were matters connected
with it that would well warrant it. After a few more
observations, the Coroner said they would go and take a
view of the body of the deceased. They then proceeded
to the King's Head, Eastcheap, and the parties were
ushered into an upper room, where lay the deceased
in a handsome black coffin. On their return to the
Blue Anchor, the Learned Coroner proceeded to call wit-
nesses. Evidence was adduced similar to what has
already appeared, and the Coroner, after a few observa-
tions, said, judgment had already been passed, and sen-
tence executed upon the guilty perpetrator, so that the
verdict could have no further effect upon him. Verdict
—" Wilful murder against Robert Blakesley."
CONFINEMENT OF AN AUGUST PERSONAGE
IN LONDON.—The prisoner, with whose case we wish
our readers to be acquainted, has suffered cruelly from
his tenderest infancy until now, as a pure and guiltless
victim to 'unheard-of injustice, by which he has never
ceased' to be oppressed, ill-used, and spoliated. From
splefidOiir and happiness suddenly hurled, he became
at the .iige` Otdeven years the inmate of the darkest pri-
sons, *here hb:ivas compelled to spend the greatest part
of his 'youth. He is now father of a numerous family,
and this last imprisonment is for an alleged debt.. He is
neither accused of having borrowed money nor of being
unwilling to settle with his creditors ; his present cus-
tody has only been caused by the accusation of one of
his creditors, who, on an affidavit, procured a Judge's
order and warrant against him on the assertion that he
was on the point of quitting England privately. The
august personage we speak of is the Duke of Norman-
die, the last son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antionette,
Queen of France. Though we are far from pretending
that the offspring of France's hapless Royal Family
should tread a thornless path in life, we cannot help
thinking it a crying disgrace to the French nation to
abandon their last legitimate King to the insults of any
individuals. Did even the unfortunate Duke owe any
sum whatever to his accuser, it will he publicly proved
that the attestation/of his intention to leave the country
privately alone caused his arrest.—British Queen.
HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL.—The re-appear-
ance of Mr. Hood's Comic Annual must be welcomed
with no ordinary glee. The volume for 1842, just pub-
lished, is fully equal, if not superior, to any of its prede-
cessors. " For the thirteenth time," observes the Athe-
nceum, " the master spirit of modern whim and drollery
offereth his hand to the public ; and never, surely, did
Frolic proffer a merry greeting to his million friends
better timed. What care we for Spanish insurrections ?
What for warlike movements with ' Eastern Indies; as
Dominic Sampson called them ? or, the struggle in
China ? In short, we have home-matters of rejoicing
sufficient to absorb all distant cares and foreign anxieties.
Half the day, at least, we are in fancy at the Palace
taking our turn of loyal watch by the cradle of the Heir
Apparent ; the rest, at our own firesides, in that mood
of cheerful thankfulness which makes fun and frolic
welcome. As to our friend of the Comic, his wit grows
racier year by year. His new volume, and welcome evi-
dence of life and vigour, is well set off by Mr. Leech's
illustrations."
SACRIFICE TO SCIENCE.—We lament to re-
cord the death of Mr. Brittan, the druggist, of Dame-
street, which was caused under the following affecting
circumstances :—He had been, for some time past en-
gaged in writing a work on chemistry, and one of the
experiments which he intended making was, the extent
to which hydrogen gas could be inhaled by a human
being without injury to him. He made the experiment
on himself, and fatal results followed; he became debili-
tated in mind and body, and was obliged to go to bed,
where he remained in a state of stupefaction for two or
three days. Medical aid was called in, but all their
efforts were unsuccessful. Mr. Brittan died an Friday
night, thus furnishing a melancholy proof of the danger
of his experiment,---Dublin Paper.