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London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

AND NEWCASTLE EXTENSION

The Committee were occupied the whole of the day with
the customary local and general evidence in favour of this

The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

GROUP XLV.
EZINBVIZGH AND NORTHERN (BURNT..
ISLAND AND 'DUNFERMLINE BRANCH).
The Committee met at twelve o'clock, and after hearing
unimportant evidence passed the preamble of this Bill,with the
exception of that portion which referred to the Halbeath
Railway.
The Committee then proceeded to consider and arrange
the clauses of the Bill, and then, having disposed of all their
business, they broke up.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.)
Their Lordships decided that the following Bills do pass :
Dundee and Newtyle Railway.
Parkgate, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway.
London and North-Western Railway.
Newport Pagnel, Olney, and Wellingborough Branch.
Bristol and South Wales Railway and :lust Ferry.
The following Bills were adjourned for want of compliance
with Lord Wharnclitre's order :
Dublin and Drogheda Railway) Purchase of the Navan
Branch).
DuWin and Belfast Junction and Navan Branch Railway.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 12.—The most active preparations
are now making for the installation. The appearance of
the interior of the Senate House is undergoing rapid
transformation by reason of the erection of the neces-
sary temporary fittings for the accommodation of the
company at the approaching ceremonies. The good people
of Cambridge appear to have dismissed every other matter
from their thoughts, and now the dignitaries of the
University appear to have relaxed a little in the severe
stoicism with which they look or profess to look upon
pomp and ceremonies. The profits of the horticultural
fit.: are to be given to Addenbrooke's Hospital; and, in
order to ensure the institution against loss, an indemnity
fund is being raised, to which 9001. has already been
subscribed. The bands of the Ist Life Guards and the
Coldstream Guards are to be in attendance to enliven
the scene by the dispensation of merry music. The
Chancellor will, on Monday afternoon, confer honorary
degrees in the Senate House. The municipal authori•
tie t meet on Friday next, to rehearse the parts they are
to play, prepare addresses, &c. The high sheriff of the
county and his javelin men will be present at the
reception of the royal party at the railway station. A
gr..nd display of fireworks will be got up by the towns-
people, and it is not improbable that the poorer classes
will be entertained at a public dinner on Parker's Piece.
The subject has been already mooted, and it being too
light in the evenings for thinking of illumination pro-
ducing a compensating effect, it is proposed to substitute
tha entertainment I have mentioned. The Bishop of
Norwich, Marquis Cam len, Earl of Devon, Baron
Pa ke, Lord de L'lsle, M. and Madame Van de Weyer
(B-lgian Minister), the Chevalier and Madame Bunsen
(Prussian Minister), and Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., have
accepted invitations to be present, in addition to the
diF'inguished persons before enumerated.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The English Declamation prizes
ha. o been adjudged to-1, Barry; 2, C. B. Scott; 3, Hon.
E. if. Stanley.
.lEsus COLLEGE.— The following gentlemen have
be. n elected foundation scholars:—T. C. Durham, W.
Kirkby, and C. Smyth. To a Marsden Scholarship, W.
Ki:kby. To Sterne's Exhibition, E. C. %Vyvill, and
Bo.thby. To Rustal's Gratuities:—A. P. Sander-
sor, 8.A., 22/.; J. A. C. Helm, 221.; E. C. Ince, 8.A.,
204; W. M. Kingsmill, 8.A., 20/.; P. R. Sandilands, 204;
S. W. Merry, 181.; Boothby, 181.; A. Hutchins, 8.A.,
12/ ; J. M. Morgan, 61.; J. A. C. Helm (for declama-
tion), 21.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.—Prizes for Latin dissertation
have been awarded to Fowler and Richards (iEq.); for
Ea.:Usti, to Ford and II Watson (2Eq).
I',MMANUEL COLLEGE.—Scholarships have been con-
ferred on the following students:—C. W. Dyer, J. H.
Butcher, Sale, Irving.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.—IIeRry Colsom, M.A., of this
College, has been appointed head master of Tavistock
fir Lamar School.
TILE CHURCH.—The following appointments have
bee'i made :
The Rev. Sampson Kingsford, B.A. (1815), of Trinity
Co to the head mastership of the Grammar School,
Faversham, Kent.
The Rev. George Martin, 8.D., of St. John's Col-
leg', to the Bodley lectureship of St. Paul's Church,
Exeter.
=he Rev. T. G. Gallwey, B.A. (1336), of St. John's
College, to the chaplaincy of her I,l4jesty's ship Terrible.
The Rev. Richard Lewis Brown, M A., of King's Col-
lege, to be chaplain to the Marquis of Downshire.
The Rev. John Couchman, ALA., of Clare Hall, to
the rectory of Thornby, Northamptonshire, on his own
petition.

STAGE FOOT-LIGHTS DISPENSED WITH IN THEA-
THEs.—I had often been struck with the classical or
picturesque expression thrown over the features of even
a very plain and inelegant countenance by the elevation
of the artificial light, when alone ref-cted on it, from
p ,int exclusively above its level—not directly above
the head, but immediately in front of it, at an ,
angle, probably, of forty-five degrees, so that
the expression of no feature be lost. Again, I
had often admired the purity and serenity, as
well as brilliancy of effect produced on colours
and on scenery under the like circumstances—
en effect which every one must have observed,—so tar
es regards mere colours and shades, or these with
for.-n&,—in the windows of jewellers, drapers, &c. ; and,
far as regards perspective or scenery,—in picture
gareries, where the light in general is also made to de-
scend exclusively from above. The: unnatural glare of
the foot-light, therefore, particularly on the faces of
those on the stage, I got rid of altogether, and that too
Successfully, and to she satisfaction both of actors and
spectators, by the bold substitution of a central con-
geries of lights in the very body of the house, and
almost in the place usually occupied by the chandelier,
with a reflector sufficiently large and powerful to
turn the whole flood of light upon the stage, at about an
angle of 45 degrees. A second congeries, however, was
requisite within the proscenium, to aid in the proper and
uninterrupted display of the scenery on the like prin-
ciple, the complete design for which display compre-
hended the systematic use of scenery so illuminated also
from behind as to give the dioramic effect, as far as pos-
sible. The experiment was carried out, at all events, to
a sufficient extent to prove, not only its practicability,
'get its great superiority to the usual method of lighting
stage; and I believe that nothing else is requisite to
the most brilliant realisation of this striking novelty in
all its details, but the well filled treasury of a metro-
antheatre.—Correspondent of The Builder.
rw _ A 131.15 I' THE LlFT."—Robert Burns has
king since settled the fact, that " twa meens" are occa-
sionally to be seen in the lift
BarLycorn who are out at e'e'nespecially by the sons of John
but a couple of suns is a
phenomenon that was observedt;we should think for the first
time here (Aberdeen), on Saturda
armios Saturday,
since the days when our
forefathers used to see
events by sai:iae,rll2, and prognosti-
wssatthus cast be-
cats tterefrom the coming
even-
The phenomenon which was seen
bo-
on
:iuwnrkad!iLanyagrt the
fore.
in the
in g, however, was singularly beautiful. Tevheer,
Ban, in all the quiet beauty of a summer
west ; then a golden ring appeared around him, and then the
appearance of another sun in the ncrth, with a sickly aspect
and of smaller diameter. The phenomenon continued for
about an hour, and Was an object of much interest to those
who witnessed it.—North (f Scotland Gazette.
INQUEST ON THE REV. Mn. STARR.—An inquest
was held on Monday at Llan beris on the remains of the
above-named unfortunate gentleman, lately discovered
among the precipices of Snowdon, and the jury returned the
following verdict:—" That the Rev. Henry Wellington
Slam in the month of September last, was ascending a
oertai T 1 mountain in the said county, and died on the same,
without any hurt or injury having been done to or committed
upon him by any person or persons whatsoever; but the said
jurors are unable to state whether his death was occasioned
by a fall, by cold, or how otherwise in particular, although
they incline to the belief that it was caused by his acci-
dentally falling over a precipice during the hours of dark-
ness." Oa Tuesday last the remains of this unfortunate
asatliman were buried in Llanberis, the service being read
eff the BeY. William Walas, of Northampton.