The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-28 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFCRD, JAN. 25. —The Regius Professor of Medicine
has issued a notice that on Wednesday, the 29th inst.; I e
will commence a c.)urse of lectures on anatomy and ph3 -
siology, at two o'clock, in the Anatomy School.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol consecrated
on Tuesday last the new Church at Alstone, near Chelten-
ham. It is a splendid and spacious structure, and contairs
2,085 sittings, 485 of which arc free.
The Vicar of Leigh has presented the Rev. Alfred
Hewlett, of Magdalen Hall, to the Perpetual Curacy of
Astley, near Manchester.
The Lord Bishop of Worcester has admitted, on the
nomination of the trustees, the Rev. Wm. N. T. Marsh
of Oriel College, to the incumbency of the Episcopal
Chapel of St. Mary's, Leamington, lately erected, en-
dowed, and consecrated under the Church Building Acts.
Messrs. E. M. Junes and D. Barttelot (as Frost's kin),
and Mr. F. Naghton, of Oriel College, were yesterday
elected Scholars of Corpus Christi College.
Mr. John Murray, probationary Fellow of New College,
was on Wednesday last admitted an actual Fellow of that
Society.
The Rev. C. P. Eden, Fellow of Oriel College, has,
in addition to his former donations, presented to the new
Church at Littleworth, near Faringdon, a handsome com-
munion service of plat,.

CHINA.—It is satisfactory to find, in the pre-
sent state of our relations with China, that the prospect of an
abundant supply of tea, before many years have elapsed, will
be obtained from the British possessions in the East Indies.
The despatch received by the East India Company by the last
overland mail, states that upwards of 4,000 labourers, inclu-
ing 300 Chinese families, were most actively er.gaged in clear-
ing ground in Upper Assam from jungle, upon which the tea
plant flourished most luxuriantly, and that, with an adequate
number of men, the produce of tea would be unlimited. About
100 chests of tea, consigned to the East India Company from
Assam, have just been received ; and the samples furnished to
the leading brokers in the trade, after due inspection, have been
pronounced to be of very superior quality, and will, no doubt,
informed
that a matter of curiosity, realise high prices. We are
that the xhole of the experimental establishment formed by the
Indian Government in Assam, is in course of being transferred
to the Assam Company, which was established last year in the
City, to promote the cultivation of the tea plant in India.
The whole of the shares allotted to India by the Company, had
been taken in Calcutta and Bengal, before the last advices were
despatched.—Sunday Times.
CAUTION TO COCK-FIGHTERS.—On Tues-
day last James Kempster, landlord of the Parkhouse Inn, Poul-
ton, Gloucestershire, was summoned before the Magistrates of
Cirencester, at the instance of Thomas Gibbing (an officer sent
from London by the Animals' Friend Society), and fined in the
mitigated penalty of 205., and costs lOs., for training cocks, and
preparing a pit or room, for them to fight.—Gloucestershire
Chronicle.

From the American papers, just received, we
learn that Mr. Buckingham, the ,oriental traveller, and formerly
P.,11. for Sheffield, is still travelling and lecturing there, and
with extrat inary success. At Bangor a meeting was lately
held, the M yor in the chair, and the principal clergmen of the
town present, to appoint a Committee to give public expression
to their high estimate of his qualities as a lecturer. And at
Bostost the ladies presented him with a silver vlse, the same
wh.ch att,ined the highest premium at the late Mechanics'
Fir in t 1:

Airnhal Tatham, who lately gained the great
will causes so long disputed, died at his seat, Hornby Castle,
near Lancaster, on Friday. He was in his 84th year. He
has let the Hornby estates, the subject of contention for twelve
years, to Pudsey Dawson, Esq. It was only in August, 1838,
he made his triumphant entry on his estates.

FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE. --A
man, named Samuel Ramsden, was brought up before C. J. S.
Walker, Esq., at the Salford Town Hall, on Thursday last,
charged with uttering a forged a Rank of England note. JrA.
luiggles, the deputy-constable, stated the prisoner went, on the
preced ng day, into the Wilton Arms public-house, and asked
for change for a note. Mrs. Taylor, the landlady, had not
change, but set out to get it ; and it was then discovered that
the note was a bad one. The prisoner, in his defence, said he
was a butcher, and came from Bolton; he received the note at
at the Sawyers' Arms public-house, in Manchester, but he
did not know from whom. He was remanded. The note
which was exhibited in Court, is a very bad imitation.
On the genuine notes of the Bank the signature has been en-
graved, and scratched over with a pen; and the paper has no
water-marks upon it.