The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MARCII 27.—BELL'S SCHOLARS.—The fol-
lowing gentlemen were yesterday elected University Scholars,
on the Hey. Dr. Bell's foundation :—Thomas Field, St. John's
College ; Henry Keary, Trinity College.
The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree
of Master of Arts at the congregation held yesterday : —W.
H. Guillemard, Fellow of PemiToke Colege ; Matthew
O'Brien, Caius College; William Marsh, Trinity Hall; James
Geo. Mould, Fellow of Corpus Christi Colloge ; Joseph Town-
son, Fellow of Queen's College; Richard Potter, Fellow of
Queen's College ; Thomas Hack Naylor, Queen's College ;
Samuel Blackall, Fellow of St. John's College ; Nicholas
Mortimer Manley, Fellow of St. John's College; Henry
Foster, St. John's College ; Joseph Edleston, Fellow of
Trinity College ; John Alex. Frere, Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege; Duncan F. Gregory, Fellow of Trinity College; Dun-
bar Isidore Heath, Fellow of Trinity College ; George Thos.
Kingdon, Trinity College ; Thomas Atwood Walmisley, Tri-
nity College; Joseph Woolley, Emanuel College.
At the same congregation the following degrees were con-
ferred :

DOCTOR IN THE CIVIL LAW,—Rev. Samuel Horatio
Banks, Trinity hail, Vicar of Dullingham.
DOCTeR IN PHYSIC,—Samuel William John Merriman,
Caius Ciiliege.
HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS The Hon. Dudley Francis
Fortescue, Trinity College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS,—Thomas Henry Benjamin Bund,
Trinity College. Henry Christopher Barker, Caius College.
The Rev. Henry Calthrop, 8.D., Senior Fellow and Tutor
of Corpus Christi College, in this University, and Examining
Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, has been collated by
his Lordship to the Prebend of Longdon, in the Cathedral
Church of Lichfield.

'I he Rev. Thomas Sharpies, M.A., late of Emanuel Col-
lege, in this University, has been instituted to the benefice of
St. Peter's Church, Blackburn, Lancashire, on the presenta-
tion of the Rev. J. W. Whittakar, vicar, the patron.
On Wednesday last, the 24th instant, the Venerable Wil-
liam Strong, D. D., Archdeacon of Northampton, was insti-
tuted by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the Canonry in
the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, lately void by the
death of the Rev. I. S. Pratt—the Canonry having been per-
manently annexed to the Arehdeaconry by the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for England.

THE FOUNDER, OF GREVILLE-

STREET HOSPITAL.

On Monday evening a numerous meeting of the fi icnds
of the Grevilic-street Hospital meet at the Committee-
room in Greville.street, to consider the propriety of voting
some tribute to Dr. Marsden, the founder, on which occa-
sion the Rev. Dr. Rice, High Master cf Christchurch
School, was unanimously called to the chair.

The CnaiesiaN said that his first connection with the
great charity of Greville-street was on being called upon to
preach for it. On their investigating its claims to public
support, his principal feeling was regret that he had
been previously ignorant of its existence. The Rev. Gen-
' tleman then alluded in very affectir.g terms to an incident
which had given rise to the establishment of the hospital—
that of a poor girl who bad been found sitting on the steps
of St. Andrew's Church desolate and diseesed, and in a
dying state. The other hospitals could not receive her at
the moment for want of a Governor's recommendation,
which, could it have been obtained with sufficient celerity,
would still have been unavailable for admission until the
regular admission day. Moved by so afflicting an instance
of suffering in the heart of this immense and opulent me-
tropolis, Dr. Marsden determined that if his exertions
could avail, London should not be without at
least one institution for the reception of such
cases, the only tile to admission to which should
be the want and misery of the applicants.—( Hear,
hear.) For thirteen years he devoted his time and his pro-
fessional skill, and exertions, to the accomplishment of the
benevolent purpose, with what success, the present pros-
perous state of the Hospital sufficiently malifested, although
he had had many and great difficulties to surmount, nut
only those incident to all such undertakings, but others, the
result of personal prejudice.—(Cheers.) He (Dr. Price)
felt assured that the friends of an institution which had
accompli,hed so much, and who took so deep an interest in
the exten'ion of its benefits to the afflicted, would not he
slow to record their grateful sense of such services on the
part of its founder.
The Rev. Dr. KNAPP, of St. Paul's, felt gratified by
having had intrusted to him the honour of moving the first
resolution, which was to the effect that the gentlemen pre-
sent bad determined to obtain subscriptions for some tribute
of respect for, and record of, Dr. Marsden's valuable ser-
vices, to be presented to him in some suitable farm, to be
afterwards agreed upon, lie passed a very warm eulogium
upon Dr. Marsden for th t humanity which had led that
gentleman to conceive, and the diligence and perseverance
by which Inc had at length, with the aid of public benevo-
lence, placed beyond all ordinary chances of failure, the
scheme of Christian charity which the hospital was de-
signed to promote. Thousands of the suffering poor had
in each year of late received the best medical assistance
under the most severe of human maladies, and many of
them an asylum in the hospital, with every proper care and
nourishment until restored to perfect health. Nor had the
example been lost on similar establishments, many of
which bad relaxed their regulations, and are now affording
facilities to admission considerably approximating to those
of the Greville-street Free Hospital.—(Cheers.) The
resolution was carried unanimously.

Mr. W. PRITCHARD, fully participating in the general
sentiment of admiration for the services of Dr. Marsden,
and of satisfaction to see the growing prosperity of so pre-
eminently useful an institution, proposed the second reso-
lution, the object of which was to give practical
effect to that which had been just adopted, viz.—
the appointment of a Sub-Committee to take the
necessary step, and report from time to time, to
the general body. He felt a difficulty in addirg to the
eulogies so properly bestowed upon Doctor Marsden.
The interesting incident which had first attracted the
humanity and afters vds directed the efforts of Doctor
Mars len had been well alluded to by their respected
Chairman. Happy it was that that lamentable instance of
destitution ami:lst surrounding luxury had fallen within
the observation of one so alive to the better impulses of
our nature as Doctor Marsden, and still better was it
that to such feelings there was joined in Doctor Marsden
the skill and perseverance necessary for giving them com-
plete effect.—( Cheers.)
Mr. ALEXANDER ROGERS seconded the motion, which
was carried unanimously. After some addresses from other
supporters of the institution upwards of 100 guineas was
subscribed in the room. A considerable sum is expected.

SHAMEFUL AND UNFEELING

FRAUD.

A day or two prim. to Saturday the 6th inst., an adver-
ti-ement was sent by post from London, for insertion in
the Guardian, and, being paid for by means of a post-
(Ace order, was of course inserted on that day. It was to
tt,e following effect

" To Engineers, Engravers on Copperplate, Joiners,
and Cabinet Makers.—Wanted, good hands, to proceed
to New York and Philadelphia. A free passage and mess,
with capital wages. Parties must forward age, particulars
of family, if any, present rate of wages, B.:c.—Post free,
with a stamp, to Washington Percival, 11, Southampton-
street, Euston-square, London, who will communicate all
particulars."
In consequence cf this advertisement, so tempting at a
time when employment is generally scarce, many persons
made applicLti.,n by letter, as di:ected in the advertise-
ment ; and, in the course of a post or two, each applicant
received a reply, id, rming him that his services would be
accepted, at a very handsome rate of wages ; but rcqu:ring
from each a remittance of 1/. " to ensure registration, and
prevent disappointment." The general character of theseanswers may be gathered from the following copy of one
addressed to a mechanic who bad made_ application:-
2, Oxford-street, London, March 16, 1841.
Sia,—ln reply to yours, I beg to say, that you will be

required to enter into an agreement to serve Messrs.
Graffe and Tompkins, of New York, for three years, at the
weekly sum of 60s. English money ; week sixty-six hours,
including two hours per day for meals. Your two sons
shall also be engaged, and receive proportionate wages.
Your and their passage, with beddinx and provisions of
the best kind, will be free. Your wife will he charge]
10/., and your youngest son 5/., the child under two years
of age will not be charged. You must remit IL by return
of post, to insure registration on board, and prevent disap-
pointment, which will be returned to you on your arrival
up here, together with 11. 153 for your expenses. The
passage money for your wife, &c., 151., you will have to
repay by instalments of 10s. per week, on your arrival in
America You must be in town on the sth of April. As
your application has been so late, you ha i better remit the
registration money to the above address (No. 2, Oxford-
street) by return of post, provided you make up your mind
to go, as our list is nearly complete.—. 4 am, &c,
WASHINGTON PERCIVAL.
Thomas --

On receipt of the IL you will be considered engaged.
Several of the parties who received these letters had the
prudence to make a little inquiry before sending their
money, and were advised to have nothing to do with Mr.
Washington Percival. Others, however, were not so
careful ; and we have reason to believe, that a number of
sums were forwarded as directed, and some of them, no
doubt, fell into the hands of the scoundrels who had devised
this nefarious scheme of plunder. Amongst others, the
party to whom the preceding letter was addressed, who
bad been some time out of employa ent, and was in very
poor circumstances, pledged his watch to raise the neces-
sary sum, and sent it by post as directed. He would also
have incurred the further expense of conveying himself end
his family to London, if he had not, fortunately, had
his suspicions awakened by what he heard from an-
other applicant, who, instead of sending the money
required, took the precaution of writing to a friend in
London, and requested him to make some inquir:es about
Mr. Washington Percival, at the place indicated in his
letter. The party entrusted with this inquiry found that
No. 2, Oxford-street, was a public-house, the landlord of
which knew nothing of Mr. Percival, except that became
there occasionally for letters. On further inquiry it was
found that there were. then two mechanics in the hove
who had come from Manchester with the view of procuring
enea4ements. A third person in waiting at the same
place, turned out to be a policeman in plain clothes, who
was waiting for Mr. Washington Percival, with the inten-
tion of giving him an opportunity of explaining his conduct
before a Magistrate. Mr. Percival, however, had most
pr Thably received some intimation that " hawks were
abroad ;" and he did not make his appearance, though a
number of letters, some of them evidently containing
money and money-orders, were waiting for him. We un-
derstand that tke attention of the police had been called to
the matter by the landlord of the public-house, who sus-
pected, from the conduct of his visitor, that all was not
quite right, and very properly communicated Lis sus-
picionsto an officer.

We hope that the publication of these facts will operate
as a warning to all parties in this neighbourhood on whom
any similar attempts at fraud may be made hereafter. No
honest man wanting servants or workmen will ever requird
them to advance money; and, whenever any demand of
the kind is made, the applicant may be quite sure that
there is a design on foot to defraud him.—lllanchcster
Guardian.