The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-01 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 30. —On Saturday last, George Ga-
briel Stokes, 8.A., of Pembroke College, the Senior
Wrangler of this year, was cleetcd a Foundation Fellow
of that Society.

SMITH'S Parzns.--The Examiners yesterday evening
adjudged the first prize to Ds. Stokes. of Pembroke Col-
lege, Senior Wrangler; and the second to Da. Jones, of
Trinity College, the Second Wrangler.
The Rev. Dr. Graham, Vice-Chancellor and Master
of Christ's College, in this University, has been appointed
Chaplain to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.—The
following gentlemen have likewise been appointed
Chaplains to his Royal Highness :—Rev. Lord Wrioth-
esley Russell, Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce, and the
Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
The Norrisian Prize for this year was on Monday last
adjudged to the Rev. Daniul Augustus Beaufort, 13. A., of
Jesus College, for an essay on the following subject :
" Both in the Old and New Testament, everlasting life is
off,Ted to mankind, only through Christ.
On Monday last the Rer. W. P. Musgrave, M.A.,
Chaplain of Trinity College, in this University, was col-
lated by the Lord Bishop of Hereford to the rectory of
Eaton-Bishop, in the same county and diocese.—And on
Tuesday last, the Rev. Fred. Custance, M.A., late in-
curnb:!nt of Ripponden, Yorkshire, was collated by the
Lord Bishop; of Hereford to the rectory of Colwall,
also in the same county and diocese.
On Thursday week the Rev. George Henry Clarke
Bidwell, 8.A., of Clare Hall, in this University, was in-
stituted to the Rectory of 13lessingliam, Norfolk, on the
preiontat'ea of Leonard Shelford Bidwell, Esq. of
Thetford.
The Rev. John P. Greenly, of St. Peter's College in
this University, has been presented, by W. R. A. P. T.
Long Wellesley, Esq , of Scagry House, Wilts (but now
residing at Brussels), to the united rectories of WurLs-
ton and Athelhamstead, Dorset, void by the death of the
Rev. G. H. Lang,don.

The Rev. William Adams, M. A., of Queen's Coller_Te,
in this Univers:ty, and Curate of Newton Bromswold,
Northamptonshire, has been instituted to the Rectory of
Throcking, Herts-Patron, Rev. W. Adams.
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WAGES OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.—
It appears that the custom of boroughs maintaining their
Representatives in Parliament had not ceased in the
early portion of Tart century. Hall, whose collections
were brought down to about 1739, speaking of llel-
stone says, " This place and others in Cornwall, arc not
able t.) maintain their burgesses in London during the Ses-
sions at their own p►oper costs and charges (as of old was
accustomed) in any tolerable post or grandeur ; but have
found that profitable expedient (as many others) of making
country gentlemen free of their town, who bear the bur-
den and heat of the day for the honour of their cor-
porations, distress their paternal estates to exalt the
reputation and perpetuate the privileges of a petty so-
ciety, made up of mechanics, tradesmen, and inferior
practioners of the law." The same author states that
" Padstow, Lelent, and Marazion, formerly sent Members
to Parliament. but were excused upon their petition on the
score of poverty."
IRE FRENCH CAVALRY.—GeneraI Count de
Sparre has, according to the Echo de In Frontiere, arrived
at Valenciennes as Inspector-General of the horses pur-
chased for remounting the cavalry at that town and Dun-
kirk. This Journal adds—" The Remount-Commission
at Valenciennes, presided over by General Dandre, has
already received about 3,500 horses, and expects only be-
tween 800 and 1,000 more. The lowest price paid has
been 4031., the highest 850 f. The first are intended for
the waggon train, and the last for the Carbincers. The
paymaster at Valenciennes has paid for horses to the
amount of more than 2 000,000 f. The prohibitions in
Germany against the expert of horses have not had any
sensible effect on the supplies brought to this place."—
Galiyirairi's 411essolyer.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, J,tv. 39.
CHEESWadAN AND OTHERS V. COUNT AND HAANI.EY.

This was an action brought by the creditors to a trust.
estate against the trustee, for money due upon an account
stated. The defendants disluitcd some of the items, hut
the Jury found for the plaintiffs. Mr. Sergeant Bompas
since obtained a rule nisi fora nonsuit on the ground that there
had been no account stated, that is,the document put in by the
plaintiffs was not legally sufficient for that description, in-
asmuch as the defendants had not recognised it as an ac-
count between them and the plaintiffs. Yesterday Mr.
Sergeant Channull showed cause against the rule, and
the reply was then heard. The argument was of
great length, but purely technical, and the Court dis-
charged the rule, holding that the account set out in the
declaration was an account stated according to the legal
meaning, the defend ints having admitted the greater part
of the items, and so far recognised the account. The ver-
dict on the whole was according to the evidence, and there
was no reason to disturb it.

BAIL COUR'', JA x. 30.
Mr. Justice Williams sat is this Court during the
early part of the morning., and disposed of several cases
of no public interest. His Lordship rose at eleven,
for the purpose of sitting at the Guildhall.
(BeforeM Jr. ustice COLERIDGE.)

IN THE MATTEL', OF W. GREEN.-11AISEAS COLIPU:3.

In this case it appeared that Green was a prisoner
in the Fleet prison, having been committed by the Court
of Review. Application was this day made for a
rule calling upon the Warden of the Fleet to bring him
up by habeas corpus, and to hare the cause of his
committal inquired into. It was submitted to the
Court that the committal was bad, inasmuch as it did
not appear from the warrant of committal that the
Court of Review had committed him for contempt of
the Court, further the warrant ordered the Warden
of the Fleet to detain him during pleasure of the Court,
thus imprisoning for an indefinite term.
Rule granted.

ROLLS' COURT, JAN. 30.
This was the general petition day. The unopposed,
which occupied a considerable portion of the morning,
were taken first.

BOULTER V. BOULTER.

The object of the petition in this case was to have an
account taken of what was due in respect of a mortgage,
and to charge the mortgagee, who had consented to a
sale, with what he had received, or without default
might have received, and with the expense incurred in
respect of dilapidations during the time he had been in
possession.

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The petition was opposed, but after hearing Counsel
Fro and con, the Court granted its prayer.

PURLOINING A CHURCH-RATE

BOOK.

The parish officers of St. Chad's, in this town, for
the present and past years, assembled yesterday in the
vestry, to sign a " declaration," in the nature of an
oath, that they had not purloined the Church-rate
book, nor did they know who had stolen it, nor where
it was. NV. Stokes, Esq., was voted to the
Chair. The Mayor attended to take the "decla-
rations." After considerable debate the officers
proceeded to sign the declaration, with the excep-
tion of two, who said they would not sign it till a
similar oath was taken by the inferior servants of the
parish. Whilst a duplicate of the oath was being
written for this purpose, Mr. Jobson proceeded to the
residence of the late senior warden, who was unable to
attend, and having ascertained that he did not object to
sign the declaration, Mr. Jobson and Mr. Blakemore
attached their signatures : the other dissentient did not
sign it. The meeting then broke up, their proceedings
being ordered to be laid before the Committee of Church
Trustees, to guide them in their future investigations in
this extraordinary transaction. We purposely ab-
stained from stating a single word of the painful dis-
closures and recriminations that have arisen since we
first gave publicity to the fact, that the Church-rate
Book of this extensive parish had been stolen, and all
arrears of rates thereby cancelled :—and our motive
was, to put no impediment in the way of the Book
being returned, and the honest and respectable part of
the parish thereby saved the infliction of paying a
church rate three or four times over.—Shrewsbury Chro-
nicle.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF LONGE-
YITY.—A female pauper named Wbiffin, expired on Fri-
day in the workhouse of St. Luke's, Chelsea, Arthur.
street, King's-road, having attained the extraordinary age
of 107 years. She had been an inmate of the above
workhouse upwards of twenty years, and retained all her
faculties unimpaired until a short time previous to her
death, when she fell into a state of second childhood. Mrs.
Whiffle, who was a most intelligent woman, was born in the
parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in 1734, seven years after
the accession to the throne of King George the Second.
She thus lived during the reigns of five sovereigns, one
of which ( George the Third's) is the longest on record.
The old woman was frequently in the habit of collecting
a number of the paupers around her, and entertaining
them with stories of her early days, and drew amusing
pictures of the ccntrast between the mannrs and
customs which prevailed a hundred years ago and
those of the present day. She described Chelsea in
those days as a quiet, secluded village, the communication
between which and the metropolis was rendered a matter
of some risk, in consequence of the swarms of highwaymen
and desperate characters who infested the " Five Fields,"
the site of the present magnificent buildings composing
l3elgrave and Eaton-squares. About five years ago a
person took the old women to Battersea-bridge, fur the
purpose of showing her one of the steam-boats which plied
between Lonion and Richmond. Upon its being explained
to her bow the vessel was propelled she appeared per-
fectly amazed, and inquired the number of tea kettles ne-
cessary to provide the required quantity of steam. Her
memory was excellent ; and she gave a graphic descrip-
tion of the state of the metropolis during the No Popery
riots in 1780, and the excesses committed by Lord
George Gordon's mob. The old woman had sur-
vived all her relations. It is said that she belonged to a
highly respectakle family, but nothing certain is known re-
lative to her connections.

The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes have
directed the surveyors throughout the country to obtain
from the several assessors an account of the number n
houses and cottages in their districts not already assessed
from there being less than eight windows ; and also of the
number of farm-houses at present exempt.
We have been horrified by hearing of the most
extensive mortality we ever remember to have known from
eating noxious food, that occurred within the last few days
near Pantura. It appears that two turtles we,.e caught
and brought to the bazaar, where they were tut up and
sold ; and that every individual who ate part o'f them was
seized in about 24 hours with a species of cholera, of
which it has been ascertained beyond a doubt at least 38
persons (men, women, and children), died, and that up-
wards of 40 more are dangerously unwell.—East India
Telegraph.

THE MURDER IN THE RUE ST. HONORE.-
The water carrier who was taken into custody for the as-
sault on the two diligence porters, is named Tiniere, a
Savoyard. He voluntarily surrendered himself and gave
the name of the man who actually committed the murder
as Roussi, another water carrier. The latter was taken
into custody next morning as he was filling his pails at the
fountain in the Carrefour Gaillon, and was shut up for a
time in the guardhouse of the Pointe Sint Eustache; but
when the police officers came to conduct him to the Pre-
fecture he was found quite dead, having hung himself with
his handkerchief to the window bars.

In the Calcutta Courier of the 16th November,
we find sonic account of a company forming at Bombay
for trading on the Indus. Government, i seems, is r.bout
to establish a steam end monthlypackets on that
river, which will ascend en the Glare)) or eastern branch
of the river as far as Ferozepore, l) ins about sixty miles
south of Lahore, and 1,200 miles from the sea. The un-
friendly spirit of the people on the lower par t of the Indus
will perhaps prevent any considerable trade from being
carried on with them at first; buc in the meantime all the
Punjab will be cpen to us, with its three millions of pihabi-
tants, and the transportation of goods to Affghaaistan will
be ',ready facilitated. The channel of the Indus will even
be the best route to Bokhara, and ultimately it will lay open
countries possessing six or seven millions of inhabitants to
our commercial industry. We cannot help thinking that
due advantage has not been taken of steam navigation as
a means of intercourse with the interior of Asia.. A ship
with no other moving power than sails is helpless in a river, '
especially in ascending, but the use of steam completely
removes this disadvantage. Supposing, for instance, that
we were on good terms with Persia, why should rent some
of our merchants establish one or two steam-boats to ply
on the Euphrates and Tigris? The latter passris through
a well peopled country, and is navigable for three or four
hundred miles ; the territory along the Euphrates is less
populous, but in the season of floods the r',ver is navigable
to the confines of Syria. With two sir three guns the
vessels would be secure against any attack of the predatory
tribes ; and the fact that British goods reach the northern
parts of Persia and the eastern par is of Turkey at present
by an expensive overland journey of 800 or 1,000 miles
from Trebisond, shows how ranch more profitably they
might be carried into these countries by the channel of the
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lIE REV. Mr. MUSOR.AVE, ONE
OF TUE CANONS OF WINDSOR.—WINDSOR, JAN. 29.
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near Brussels, a few days since, whither he had gone to
reside for a temporary period, with his fantil-t, consisting of
a wife and three children. The stall thus Tendered vacant
is the fourth that has lapsed at Windsor since tho Act of
Parliament came into operation for the regulation of ca-
thedral duties and revenues. As it is intended to reduce
the canons at St. George's Chapel from twelve (the origi-
nal number) to four, as deaths may occur, (appoie ting a
new canon upon every third vacancy which may be so cre-
ated), no new appointment will take place upon the
decease of the Rev. Mr. Musgrave, nor until trio more
vacancies in the prebendal stalls arc declared, arising either
from deaths or otherwise.
INTERMENT OF HATFIELD.—After the death
of Hatfield, who attempted to assassinate King George the
Third, his relations, who reside in the neighbourhood of
Clerkenwell, applied to the authorities of Bethlem, to have
his remains dclived up to them for interment, but their re-
quest was not granted. An intimation was made that
Government would undertake the whole of the eEpensea of
the funeral, leaving it to the friends of the deceased to se-
lect a spot for the interment. Arrangements were ac-
cordingly made for the funeral, which took place on Satur-
day in the burial-ground of St. Andrew's, Holborn,