The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 22.—THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL.
—On Wednesday last the Chancellor's gold medal for
the best English poem was adjudged to John Charles
Conybeare, of St. Peter's College. Subject—" The Death
of the Marquis Camden." The author of the Exercise,
with the motto " Non lugendam esse mortem quam immor-
talitas consequatur," is requested to call upon the Vice-
Chancellor.

INSTALLATION.—It is very confidently stated that his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and his Grace
the Duke of Wellington will ba among the distinguished
company who will honour the installation of the Chan-
cellor with their presence next July.
The Rev. Sutcliffe Sowden, 8.A., of Magdalen Col-
lege, in this University, has been presented to the perpe-
tual curacy of Mytholm, in the parish of Halifax.
The Governors of Oakham School, at their late audit,
were pleased to elect Mr. Thomas Field, of St. John's
College, and Mr. John Lynes, of Christ's College, in this
University, to two exhibitions of 401. a year engh,„
In the medical examination at Gonville and Caius Col-
lege, held on Thursday, May 13, the first place was ob-
tained by W. Wegg.
The Rev. J. G. Cumming, M.A., of Emanuel College
in this University, and Senior Classical and Mathemati-
cal Master in the West Riding of Yorkshire Proprietary
School, has been appointed to be Vice-Principal of King
William's College, in the Isle of Man.

AN AMERICAN DOCTOft.—James Woodward,
a somewhat notorious character, who went by the name of the
" Negro Doctor," died a few days ago at Cincinnati. He was
singularly successful in his empiricism, and had amassed a
handsome property. His pretended manner of discovering the
diagnosis of disease was by having the finger of the patient
dipped in water, which was then inspected by him, and, it
mattered little whether he saw the patient or not, he imme-
diately prescribed for him.—Philadelphia Ledger.

It is a remarkable and awful circumstance that
within a fortnight the hand of Providence visited with
sudden or violent death the four following landowners,
all extensive proprietors of land in the neighbourhood of
Weymouth, and whose properties were consecutively ad-
joining each other, viz., Sir F. G. Johnstone, Bart. ; Isaac
Sparks, Esq. (Laugton Herring); the Rev. George
Gould (Fleet) ; and Joseph Hardy, Esq. (Portesham.)—
Dorset Chronicle.

CORSHAM.—We are happy to state that the
Anti-Corn-law petition in this place has received 142
signatures, a tolerable proof that even in the purely agri-
tultural districts, and of these our neighbourhood forms
one, the impolicy and injustice of restrictions upon the
supply of food are alike felt and acknowledged.—WiltB
Independent.

TEWKESBURY.—At a special meeting of the
Council of this borough, held on Tuesday last, petitions
to Parliament, praying for the immediate adoption of
the proposed Ministerial measures for an alteration of
the Corn-laws and a reduction of the import duties, were
unanimously agreed to, and have since been forwarded
for presentation.— Worcester Chronicle.

We are requested to state, that Mr. Hume did
not dine with the Chancellor .of the Exchequer, on
the Queen's Birth-day, as stated in the Court Circular.

The Derby petition for the repeal of the Corn-
laws was signed in five days by 6,419 males, which is
upwards of 2,000 more than signed the petition to the
same effect last year.—Derby Reporter.
We have seen the analogy between vegetables
and animals in structure and function, as well as in ele-
mentary and proximate principles. The secretions of
both may be innocuous or deleterious. The most re-
markable analogy in secretion respects milk. In South
America, Humboldt saw a tree that, if wounded, yields
abundance of rich milk, which the negroes drink and
grow fat upon, and which affords a caseous coagulum.
The tree grows on the barren rock ; has coriaceous dry
leaves; for several months is not moistened by a shower,
and its branches appear dry and dead : yet, if an inci-
sion is made in the trunk, the milk pours forth. This
" sweet vegetable fountain" is most copious at sunrise,
and the blacks and natives are then seen hastening from
all quarters with bowls to the cow-tree.—Elliotson's Hu-
man Physiology.
A GLORIOUS CHRISTENING.—Last week a
woman attended the parish church at Wootton to have a
christening, and when the Vicar was in readiness he was sur-
prised to find that the woman required him to baptize the
whole of her children, eight in number ! Her reason given
was, that such a proceeding saved a hood deal of trouble, and
was" done under oae head. ",Cambridge Chronicle.