The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-15 00:00:00

THE LEGITIMATE DRAMA.

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
SIR,--Observing in your paper of this day the cor-
reqmndence between Mr. Bunu and Mrs. Butler, calls
to mind the following facts :
In the year 1765 David Garrick was at the head of
the Drury-lane company with a salary per night of 2/.
Iss. 6d. ; Mr. Yates (the famous Othello) and his wife,
31. 6s. Bd. ; Palmer an 3 his wife, 2/. ; King (the colt:.
brated Sir Peter Teazle and Lord Ogleby), 1/. Gs. 8,1. ;
Parsons (the famous comedian), 1/. 6s. Bd. ; Mrs. Ca,-
ner, 21. 103. ; Mrs. Pritchard, 21. 6s. Bd. ; Mrs. Clive,
11. 15s. ; Miss Pone (the first of chambermaids), 13s. 4d.;
Signor Guestinelli (chief singer), 1/. 3s. 4d. ; and Signor
Grimaldi and his wife (chief dancers), 1/. All the above
persons were of first-rate talent ; eating and drinking,
indeed all the necesaries of life were as expensive in the
year 1763 as in the year 1847. Either actors and
actresses in those days were under-paid, or the actors
and actresses of the present day are over. paid.
Your obedient servant,
London, Jan 14. A PLAY-GOER.

East London..• • •• .. • . St.
Grand Junction .... •• 3/. 10s.

Kent.

Vauxhall -- • • • • • . • •

21. 10s.

X 8. d.

100 0 0
41 13 4

100 0 0

5/. per cent. 1100 0 0

West Middlese . . . 5!. Ss. pr cnt. I 63 12 9

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. 14.—This being the first day of term, a
Congregation was holden, and the following Degrees were
conferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. M. E. C. Walcott, Exeter College.
John Townsend, Oriel College.
Thomas Leslie, Balliol College.
Richard Lev, Brasenose
Rev. J. T. Pigot, Brasenose
Rev. R. F. Wood, Brasenose College.
Rev. E. Garbett, Brasenose College.
H. L. Prior, Trinity College.
Rev. H. L. Manse), Fellow of St. John's College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
H. Wright, Magdalen Hall, Grand Compounder.
J. W. Taft, St. Edmund Hall.
The Professor of Pastoral Theology intends to begin his
course of lectures of the present term on Monday, the Bth of
February.
The electors appointed under the will of the late Dean Ire-
land propose to elect, on the 16th of February next, his Pro-
fessor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 14. SUBJECTS FOR PREVIOUS EX.II-
- has been given that the following will
be the subjects of examination in the last week of the Lent
Term, 1843:-1. The Gospel of St. Mark; 2. Palev's Evi-
dences; 3. The Old Testament History; 4. The Phcenisste
of Euripides; 5 Cicero's Oration pro Alumna.

voLuNiAnr THEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN NEXT MICHAEL-

MAS TERM.

On Tuesday, the 12th of October next, and the succeed-
ing days. there will be an examination in the following sub-
jects :—The Greek Testament; the latter part of the Dia-
logue with Trypho, of Justin Martyr, i. e., from the 75th
section inclusive to the end; Ecclesiastical History; the Ar-
ticles of Religion, and the Liturgy of the Church of Eng-
land; which examination will be open to all students who
have at any time been admitted ad respondendum qucestioni,
or who can produce certificates from the Regius Professor of
Civil Law or his Deputy, of having performed the exercises
required for the degree of Bachelor of that faculty.
The names of those students who shall pass this examina-
tion to the satisfaction of the Examiners will be published in
alphabetical order, and registered in the usual manner.
Immediately atter this examination there will be an exa-
mination in the Book of Deuteronomy, in Hebrew, fur such
students as, having undergone the former examination, shall
offer themselves for this; and the names of the persons who,
having passed the former, shall pass this examination to the
satisfaction of the Examiner will be published also and regis-
tered in the manner already described.
Persons desirous of presenting themselves at these exa-
minations must signify their intention of so doing on or be-
fore the 10th of October next, by a letter addressed to each
of the Examiners, wrlo are the Regius Professor of Divinity,
the Margaret Professor of li.viuity, and the Regius Profes-
sor of Hebrew.

FASHIONABLE SWINDLER.—ANDOVER, JAN. 13.
This morning Frederick Selby, with his many aliases, was a
third time brought up for examination, before Thomas Phil-
lips, Esq., mayor, and Wm. Poore, Esq., a magistrate of the
borough, at nine o'clock in the morning, at the Town Hall.
Mr. Nussing attended to prosecute for Mr. Wm. P. Drover,iter
of the George Inn. The prisoner was undefended._
the previous evidence had been read over tho
ttoheprodisffeecruetnet.
witnesses, they were bound over in 50/. each
the Borough
The prisoner was not taken back to
cus-
tody in the hall, to await the opening
Ciaarles Henry B. Ker,
Quarter Sessions (this day), before
who arrived about
Esq., recorder of the said borough,
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in of the grand and petty
half-
past eleven o'clock.
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o'clock, when Frederic
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The Recorder then addressed him very
jury and trial of anot.l;lelarei?rsiwsoner taking up the time till two
he pleaded guilty.
feelingly and forcibly, after. which he sentenced him to six
months'
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on hearing which the prisoner wept bitterly.
EsCAPH OF A FELON FROM GAOL.—lnformation
has been forwarded to Bow-street, that a man, named
Thomas Hayward, twenty years of age, who had been com-
mitted to gaol for felony, had managed to effect his escape.
Theeli
mqeuenertg,
epa from gaol
to his incarceration, had only a
fortnightd
gaol for an assault upon a police-
constable.

DURATION OF THE LIVES OF NOBLES AND SOVE-
REIGNS.—ExcIuding deaths by violence, the average
duration of life among the English aristocracy was at a
very low point in the fourteenth century ; it rose to a
maximum i❑ the curly part of the sixteenth century ;
and thenceforward it gradually declined till the close of
the eighteenth century. The average duration of life
(as inferred from the age at death) of sovereign princes
since the Christian era (excluding violent deaths), is, on
the contrary, gradually and steadily increased from
about 52 years, in the first five centuries, to about 58
years in the last century. The most recent comparisons
give the whole expectation of life at 21 years of age in
the three classes of the sovereigns, the aristocracy, and
the gentry of this country, as 54, 65, and 67i- years
respectively, and at the age of 51 the expectation is 64,
72, and 74 years. Thus kings are placed at the bottom
of the scale.

It is stated by one of our contemporaries that the
French Government is about to take into consideration a
project which Napoleon intended to execute for establishing
a hue of signals along the whole of the French coast, so as
to put them all in immediate communication with each other