The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Ozroan, OCT. 9.—The Vice-Chancellor (the Rev.
Dr. Symond's, warden of Wadham) was this day
nominated by the heads of houses, according to
annual custom, before the commencement of term.
This is his fourth year of office.
The Professor of Pastoral Theology will commence
his lectures on the 25th inst.

The Rev. Messrs. M'Dougall, of Magdalen-hall,
and Wright, of Queen's College, are about to proceed
on a mission to Sarawak, in Borneo.

THE TAY.

The recent heavy rains have caused the river to
overflow, and to cause great damage to property. The
mills have been stopped, and the navigation seriously
impeded. It is said that the water has risen 16 feet.
The two Inches are entirely covered, the water being
over the parapet wall between the one on the north of
the town and Rose-terrace. In the shops in North
Port and west end of Castle Gable, and all the places
upon the same level, the depth is about five feet. The
Edinburgh road which passes through the South Inch,
being raised two or three feet above its level, is yet
passable, although it also is partially covered. The
damage up the country must be fearful. The con-
tractors for the bridges across the Almond and Tay,
now constructing for the Midland Railway, must be
large losers, as the quantity of wrought timber which
has floated past the town is immense. A great num-
ber of men have been employed the whole day in
catching it in its progress towards the sea, and they,
certainly have been very successful; but with all
their exertions, what they have brought ashore is not
a tithe of what has passed them. Carcasses of sheep
and cattle, trees, stacks, apparently in as good order
as they stood in the stack-yard, have all been observed
in the course of the day in their progress seaward. It
is also reported that a great number of Memel logs
that were to be used by the Dundee Railway Com-
pany in erecting the bridge across the Tay, have been
floated off Moncrieff island. One good effect of the
flood will be to show the enginec.rs what they will
have to provide against in the construction of their
bridges ; a number of practical men thought that they
were not enough alive to the importance of having
them of the most substantial description.
On Thursday the water rose fully another foot.
Parts of the town, which it was thought would be safe
from all inundation, are (says the writer of the ac-
count) getting under water by the bursting of the
common sewers. The sunk flats in Rose-terrace and
Barossa-place are now nearly filled to the ceiling.
The Blair-Atholl coach, which should have reached
this forenoon, has not yet arrived. It is supposed some
of the bridges must have fallen. The Aberfeldy
evening coach came about an hour after her usual
time. Some parts of the road were so Itooded that the
water covered the seats inside. It is reported that the
whole of the scaffolding, erected for throwing the
arches of the bridge across the Tay, at Kinclaven, has
been swept away, and that one of the piers has gone
along with it. A person says that, among other
things observed floating past, was the carcase of a
horse, saddled and bridled.

The last accounts received state that the water was
still rising, and that the Edinburgh road is nearly
three feet deep at Marshall-place.
During the gale on Thursday night, about ten
o'clock, as Captain Neilson, of the schooner Johan
Augusta, now under repairs in Victoria Dock, was
pas-ing the north corner of the Custom-house, he was
blown into the dock by a heavy gust of wind ; for-
tunately his cries were heard by the watchman of
Arbroath Railway station, who lost no time in giving
the alarm, when the captain was taken out and con-
veyed to the bath at Earl Grey's Dock, where, we are
happy to be enabled to state, he recovered.

The first Cabinet Council of the season will be
held to-morrow, the 12th instant, at the Foreign-office.
It is expected to be attended by all the ministers except
Lord Minto, who is abroad.
REPRESENTATION OF WINDSOR.—The Berkshire
Chronicle says, " that there is a great probability of
Colonel Reid being offered, by the Whigs, either a
companionship, or a governorship of one of our small
colonial possessions,' in order to induce him to retire
from Windsor for the purpose of making an opening for
one of the four members of tho Government, who was
rejected by his former constituents at the last election."
Colonel Reid has not expressed any intention to resign
the representation and is about to leave for the Con-
Anent.

TILE MAILS.---,SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 9.—The Ocean
Steam Navigation Company's steamship Washington,
Captain Heurt, arrived at Cowes late last evening, and
landed the American mails, which were forwarded to
this port, in time for the seven o'clock A.M. train this
day. She left New York at noon on the 23d of Septem-
ber, performing the voyage in fifteen days and a half,
having experienced extremely boisterous weather, with
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marble arch,
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several thousand pounds, will be demolished in the course
ofa few days, and the materials sold to defray the ex-
pense incurred in building the new wing.
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tion, or of the previous ones. Great surprise was
manifested at the liberation of Fay on a paltry bail-bond
of 151.
HORRIBLE DEATH FROM MACHINERY.—On Sa-
turday afternoon an accident, by which a young man
named Henry Ford lost his life under circumstances of a
horrible description, occurred at the St. Pancras steam
sawing and plaining mill, Agar-town, Old Pancras-
road. It appears that about one o'clock the unfortunate
deceased, having returned from dinner, went into one of
the sheds where an immense circular saw, driven by
steam power, is used for the purpose of cutting large
logs of timber. The object the deceased had in going in
cannot be ascertained ; but whilst he was in the ma-
chine was set in motion, and be was caught in the
shoulders by the teeth of the saw. He shrieked, but
before the machine was stopped the whole of the upper
part of the body was nearly sawn through. On being
brought out from the shed life was quite gone, the body
presenting a frightful spectacle, It was removed to St.
Pancras workhouse, where it awaits an inquest.
EXPLOSION IN A COAL. PIT.—An explosion of fire.
damp took place on Tuesday morning last at Bickershaw
colliery, near Wigan, by which two ponies were killed,
and several colliers seriously injured. The explosion is
stated to have been caused by the firing of a shot. The
mine has since been on fire, and the shafts have been
closed to extinguish it.—Manchater Guardian.