The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

YORK, Nov. 10.

STOCK EXCHAIME.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows: —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), I. Pus. 9d.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 11.

STOCK EXCHANOE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 183/4
Marypert and Carlisle, 29%.
GLASGOW, Nov. 10.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ference, 93s.—Clydesdale Junction, 56 Edinburgh and
Northern (Newport), 61. 4s. —Glasgow General Terminus,
714—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41. 13s. 6d.—Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 50—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 645.
Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 66s.—Glasgow and Garnkirk, 37
Great Northern, 83s.—Monkland Railways, 63—North Bri-
tish, 154—Ditto, Thirds, 77s.—Scottish Central, 24.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, NOV. 11.

The Lord Bishop of Oxford desires to hold a Confir-
mation at St. Mary's Church, on Monday, November 20,
at eleven o'clock, for members of the University.
All undergraduates prepared for confirmation on this
occasion must obtain letters testimonial of their fitness.
signed by the Tutor of their College; and such testimo-
nial must be presented to the Bishop previous to the
commencement of the service.

Christ Church, Nov. 10, 1848.
Henry Halford Vaughan, Eiq„ M.A., who has been
nominated by Lord John Russell to the vacant Regius
Professorship of Modern History, in the room of the late
Very Rev. Dr. Cramer, is nephew to the late Sir Henry
Halford; he was first a Commoner of Christ Church,
and in Easter Term, 1833, his name appeared in the first
class in lileris humanioribus. He was elected a Fellow of
Oriel College in 1835, and obtained the prize in 1836 for
the English essay on " The effects of a national taste of
general and diffusive reading."
Mr. Henry Hughes Cracknell, from Merchant Tailors'
School, has been elected a Scholar of Oriel College.
The Rev. James Henry Ashhurst to the Vicarage of
Great Milton, Oxfordshire; patron, the Bishop of Oxford.
The Rev. Septimus Belles has been presented to the
Vicarage of West Sherborne, alias Monk Sherborne,
with the priory church of Sherborne, commonly called
Pamber Chapel, by the Provost and Scholars of Queen's
College, Oxford, vacant by the death of the Rev. George
Porter, the last incumbent.

Colonel Wyndham has presented the livings of Bignor
and Sutton, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Smith,
to the Rev. H. Sockett, son of the Rev. T. Sockett, rector
of Petworth and Duncton, Surrey.
The Rev. F. S. Bevan, M.A., Rector of Carleton Rode,
to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of
Norwich.

The Rev. J. Garron, M.A., Vicar of Towcester, to
an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Peter-
borough.
The Rev. Edward Huxtable, 8.A., of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, to beVice-Principal of the Wells Theo-
logical College, vice the Rev. C. E. Pritchard, resigned.
The Rev. Hugh Nanny, to the Rectory of Caenby,
Lincolnshire; patron, Sir C. M. L. Monk, Bart.
The Rev. Frederick Smith, M.A., Incumbent of the
new church at Taunton, to the Honorary Prebend of
Whitchurch, in the Cathedral of Wells.

The Rev. J. G. Webster, to the Rectory of Bawdes-
well, Norfolk; patron, E. Lombe, Esq.
The Rev. T. B. Banner, to the Perpetual Curacy of
Southshore, Bispbam, Lancashire ; patron, Thomas
Clifton, Esq.
The Rev. Charles Bldham, M.A., late of Wadbam
College, in this University, and incorporated Member of
St. Peter's College, Cambridge, has been arpointed to
the Curacy of West Bradenham, Norfolk.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 11.
NEW PRIZE.

St. Peter's College Lodge, Nov. 10, 1848.
The Vice-Chancellor has the honour to lay before the
Senate the following statement respecting a new prize
offered to the University:—
A large number of members of the civil service of
India who were students at the East India College, at
Haileybury, at various intervals during the thirty years
that the Rev. C. W. Le Bas, M.A., formerly Fellow of
Trinity College, was connected with that institution,
desirous of testifying their regard for Mr. Le Bas, and of
perpetuating the memory of his services, have raised a
fund amounting to about 1,9201., Three per Cent. Con-
sols, which thy offer to the University of Cambridge
for founding an annual prize, to be called in honour of
Mr. Le Ms the Le Bas Prize, for the best English Essay
on a subject of General Literature, such subject to be
occasionally chosen with reference to the history, insti-
tutions and probable destinies and prospects of the
Anglo-Indian Empire.
It is proposed:—
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1. That the Le Bas prize shall consist of the annual
interest of the above mentioned fund, the essay being
published at the expense of the successful candidate.
2. That the candidates for the prixs shall be, at the
time when the subject is given out, Bachelors of Arts,
under the standing of M.A., or Students in Civil Law or
Medicine, of not less than four or more than seven
years' standing, not being graduates in either faculty,
but having kept the exercises necessary for the degree of
Bachelor of Law or Medicine.

3. That the subject for the essay shall be selected, and
the prize adjudicated by the Vice-Chancellor and two
other members of the Senate, to be nominated by the
Vice• Chancellor and approved by the Senate at the
first Congregation after the 10th day of October, in
each year.
4. That the subject shall be given out in the week
preceding the division of the Michaelmas Term in each
year, and the essays sent in before the end of the next
ensuing Easter Term.
5. That for the present year the two Examiners to be
selected by the Senate shall be appointed, and the sub-
ject for the essay given out before the end of the present
Term.
A grace to accept the above proposal will be offered
to the Senate at the congregation on Wednesday, the 22d
instant.