The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-09 00:00:00

ELECTION 6F MGR STEWARD.

The following official notice was issued yesterday af-
ternoon :—" The Vice-Chancellor, having appointed
Wednesday, the llth instant, for the commencement of
the election of a High Steward of this University, gives
notice to the members of the Senate• that the polling-
will begin on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at nine
o'clock in the forenoon, and will continue to tour o'clock
in the afternoon, when it will be adjourned to the next
day. It will be resumed on Tnursday, the 12q: inst.,
at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and will continue to
four o'clock in the afternoon, when it will be again ad-
journed to the next day. It will be resumed on Friday,
the 13th instant, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and
will continue to ten o'clock in the forenoon, when it
will be finally closed."
On Monday last the following students were elected
Scholars of St. John's College :—Robert Inchhald,
Francis Bagge Scott, John Pettit Beard, Thomas Pow-
nall Baultbee, Henry John Bull, John W. S. Watkin,
John Miller, William Riggott, Charles Braddy, Thomas
Bennett, Arthur Parish, George Edward 'Fate, Hugh
Parnell, Frederick James Gruggen, William C. D.
Deighton, Thomas M. Goodeve, Churchill Babington,
George T. Hoare, James C. James, William ilarbury,
George Babb, William Mills, George J. Christian,
Richard Boteler, Blackburn, Mason, A. M. Hoare,
and Hilly.
Platt Scholars.—J. W. S. Rugeley, J. W. M. Bout-
flower.

The anniversary meeting of the Philosophical Society
was held yesterday, the Gth inst., at which the fo.lowirg
Officers of the Council were elected :
Prosident.—Mr. Hodgson.
Vice-Presidents.—Dr. Peacock, Professor S,2.dgwick,
Professor Whewell.
Treasurer.—Dr. Paget.
Sucretaries.—Mr. Hopkins, Professor Pre-
ft.ssor Miller.__

Old Council.—Mr. Stokes, Mr. Earnshaw, Mr. Gar-
nops, Mr. lA. Jenyns, Mr. BAbington, Mr. Anstcad,
Mr. Gaskin.
New Council.—Mr. Merles, St. John's ; Mr. Fisher,
Downing ; Mr. Tozer, Caius.
It was moved and carried, that his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland, Chancellor of the University, be
requested to accept the office of Patron of this Society ;
and that the Marquis of Northampton, President of
the Royal Society, be requested to accept the office of
Vice-Patron of the Society.—Cambridge Chronicle.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT LI-

VERPOOL.

IH consequenc' of information having been received at
the police-office of a robbery being committed on the pre-
mises of Mr. Forsyth, in Grove-street, several officers of
the constabulary force were appointed to discover the de-
predators. A clue was eventually found to a i,ouse in
Laurel.street, in which it was suspected that the property
was secreted. Precautions were taken to prevent, ws far
as possible, the escape of any guilty parties. Teo men
were placed in front of the house, and one at the heck. An
entrance was effected by the front at about one o'clock on
Friday. The officers were immediately and reverely at-
tacked by three men and one woman. One of the mcn had

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grievously irjured that it was found necessary to send them
to the infirmary. Three men were taken into custody who
were found in the house. Mr. Dowling, our active Com-
missioner of Police, was soon after on the premises, and
found the whole of the property stolen from Mr. Forsyth's,
in Grove-street, together with an immense quantity of art--
cies, including plate, jewellery, watches, and other valua-
bles, the evident accumulation of a long and systenvoic
course of depredation. There were also found complete
and most ingenious sets of housebreaking instruments,
some of them so new and crafty that they were worthy of
" a patent," did the Government condescend to grant exclu-
sive privileges to the clever descendants of Jack Sheppard.
A queatity of jewellery was found packed up in sol.
dared tin cases and pick -jars ; also crucibles for melting
metals, and, as a matter of course, making base coin. Two
of the policemen were much injured ; one of them seri-
ously, but, we hope, not mortally. Two of the men taken
• into custody are well known to the police here as well as
in Birmingham. The others rtre understood to be of the
" swell mob" of London. The case will be brought be-
fore Mr. Rushton, at. the Police Court, this forenoon, when
Mr. Dowling will state to the Court the facts.
Mr. Dowling states that the instruments fur carrying on
these netaricus pursuits are the most complete of the kind ,
he ever witnessed. The value of the property captured ex-
coeds 2,0001.
So severely were the two officers struck be the burglars,
on entering the fr cut doer, that the lobby of the house w,!s
covered with their blood. One of the party was captured
in the " midden," where he had taken refuge. The whole
gang, including the female, are now in custody. The pro-
perty captured is doubtless the proceeds of a long and suc-
cessful career of housebreaking.
On Saturday morning the gang of housebreakers were
brought up at the police-office. Their names arc Evans,
alias Stevenson, Fiancis, alias Taylor, Mitchell, and his
wife. The two former are middle-aged men, respectabl
dressed. Mitchell has a more juveeile appearance, and
his wife, through whose instrumentality the robbery was
discovered, is a small middle-aged woman. On being
placed at the bar, some eriminatory evidence was adduced,
and the prisoners were remanded.

The cutter Lalla Rookh, belonging to Messrs.
Deane and Edwards, left Portsmouth o Wednesday last,
bound to Woolwich arsenal, with several more of those an-
tique iron cannon, of which they have recovered so many
of late from the Mary Rose, at Spithead ; two of the above
and the lag obtained are the largest and most perfect spe-
cimens of the primitive guns of any they have recovered,
and clearly show the extraordinary manner in which they
were used, which is by removing two iron wedges and a
block of wood at the breech and sliding back the chamber
from the main body of the gun, which, when charged with
powder, and the stone-shot deposited in the inner part of
the large bore, is to be replaced and again secured with
the wedges and block, so that it appears neither the powder
nor shot was put in at the muzzle-end. There are several
parts of guns of similar make in the Tower of London and
other repositories, but it is believed none to be found but
these which show the precise method by which they were
used. Messrs. Deane and Edwards' operations are closed
for the season, after having recovered one brass and about
twenty iron guns, with iron and granite shot, warriors'
bows, part of the mainmast, an anchor, a pump, several
human skulls, a quantity of timber, and a variety of inte-
resting relics and antiquities, which, although immersed in
the deep for the term of 295 years, are still in a high state
of preservation. Had Messrs. Deane and Edwards been
fortunate enough to have met with one or two more brass
guns, it would have been a better compensation for their
services, which are really of great national importance to
the naval and mercantile interests in improving the desir-
able anchorage of Spithead, their operations being carried
on entirely by means of their own private funds, without
any assistance, depending alone for remuneration upon
their chance of success and the value of the property which
they may discover.—(From a Correspondent.)
ARITHMETICAL EXPRESSION.--HOW easy it
is to speak of millions and billions, yet bow difficult to con-
ceive what even a million is I But still we should endea-
vour to obtain some idea of that mighty number. Suressippose
we speak of the Nationel Debt ; the words expng
the round sum of eight hundred millions sterling are
readily spoken ; but who can form a conception d
of that
amount? We know, however, what a dollar is, an we •
may, for convenience, consider its value equal to a crown
piece, or five shillings. We know, too, what mine
hours, and years are. Then we may form some idea of
the amount, though a remote one, when we discover, by
calculation, that the debt is considerably more there in
an a
dollar per minute from the time our first parents w
Paradise to the present day !—more than fifteen pounds
sterling per hour, through all the ages of man's e
ens xistve
-
ence A billion, however, is a far more comprehi
term ; so much so, indeed, as to be beyond all conception.
Taking the Mosaic date, as nearly as can be computed,
the world has not yet existed even one-fifth part of one
billion of seconds !,The Smith-and-Dolier Copy Books.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NO V.-6.—Our
sugar market has been in a very languid state during the
p` st week, and the sales limited to a few lots, for
1,,,v,(,vcr, hav: „Ai, and tin
‘9ii,ce not the ie..,st (iisp:etiop te h;lcr-
cury.