The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION_ TO RAILWAY LA-
BOURERS.—Mr. Peto, the railway contractor, with a
view to inculcate a better feeling among the labourers
employed on his various contracts, has engaged a num-
ber of religious teachers, who visit the men daily, and
during the time set apart for meals they read the Bible
to the labourers, and in the evening teach them to read
and write. The plan has been found to answer ad-
mirably. There are two missionaries on the Nor-
wich and Cambridge line, two on the Southampton and
Dorchester line, and several others on Mr. Peto's other
contracts.
RAILWAY NOTICES.--A Supplement to the London
Gazette, published yesterday, contains 49 notices of
intended application for Railway Acts (luring the next
session of Parliament.

On Friday, the 20th of November, being the day ap-
pointed for the election of the annual officers, the fol-
lowing gentlemen were appointed to their respective
offices:—
Vice-Provost of Trinity College.—The Rev. Dr. Wray.
Proctors.—The Rev. Dr. M‘Donnell and the Rev. John
Malet, M.A.
Deans.—The Rev. Dr. Singer and the Rev. William
Lee, M.A.
Bursar.—The Rev. Dr. Moore.
Senior Lecturer.—The Rev. Dr. Lloyd.
Greek Lecturer.—The Rev. Joseph Carson, M.A.
Assistants.—The Rev. Thomas Stack, M.A., the Rev.
George Longfield, M.A., and the Rev. John William
Stubbs, M.A.
Morning Lecturers.—Mr. Haughton, Mr. Stubbs, Mr.
Townsend, and Mr. Ingram.
Examiners for Honours in Mathematics.—Mr. Jellett,
Mr. Salmon, and Mr. Galbraith.
Examiners for Honours in Classics.—Mr. Carson, Mr.
Stack, and Mr. Longfield.
Examiners for Honours in Logic and Ethics.—Mr.
M'lver, Mr. Haughton, and Mr. Stubbs.
The Rev. Joseph Carson, M.A., to be one of the Uni-
versity Preachers, in place of the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, re-
signed.
The Freshman class of this year is likely to be the
largest that has been in the University for many years;
the matriculations in Trinity College this year will, pro-
bably, number 400. This, in part, arises from the largo
and increasing number of students from England.
The Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College
have contributed the sum of 1,5001. within the last year
out of the College revenues to relieve the distress of the
poor on their estates.

CONVICT OVERSEERS.—A number of non-commis-
sioned officers and soldiers of the Ordnance corps, just
pensioned off, have been appointed overseers and keepers
of convicts in Van Diemen's Land. Each one has re-
ceived an outfit for himself and family, and 201. for the
passage, with rations during the voyage. Their pay, at
the rate of a guinea and a half per week, commences
from the day of embarkation, and in addition to their
pensions, varying from two to one shilling per diem.
They will embark at Woolwich to-day.
DREADFLTL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning
a report was current in Ashton, that a large number of
the workmen employed at the Victoria Coal Pits,
Dukinfield, had been burned to death ott the previous
night. On our going to the colliery to ascertain the
particulars, we found that a most serious accident bad
occurred, by which four men, who were employed at the
bottom of the pit, had been most severely burned, but
at that time they were all living ; two of the number,
however, were not expected to exist many hours. It
appears that as the men at one particular point of the
pit were driving the foul air out of the jig-brows by
means off' the ventilator, it forced its way along the level
of the pit, and there being a candle lighted near to
where some other men were employed in getting
as al,
the the air came in contact with the light; the result w
explosion, and the poor fellows were most dreadfully
scorched, the skin hanging in shreds from every part of
their bodies.—Another awful occurrence took place in
the same pit on Thursday morning. A boy named
Thomas Jones, aged 15, one of the drivers in the pit,
while standing at the bottom of one of the jig-brows,
took up a pick, with which he commenced to strike near
the top of the roof, when a large stone fell upon him and
killed him on the spot ; the boy had been previously
told it was dangerous to interfere with it. The father of
the deceased was suffocated in the pit some time ago.—
Manchester Examiner.
THE SstrTIIPIELD N msmccE.—On Blackfriars-
bridge, in the early part of Monday, a young child
named Elizabeth Drawbridge, whilst in the act of cross-
ing the carriage way, was knocked down by an ox pro-
ceeding towards Smithfield, was trampled upon and
gored. She was conveyed in a hopeless condition to the
residence of her parents.—ln the market, between three,
and four o'clock, a r
young married
t, woman, residing at
No. 10, Green-street, iar-ee Blackfriars-road,
named Tailor, was run against and knocked down by
oxen. She sustained such injuries that her recovery is
not expected. She was taken to St. Bartholomev'a
Hospital.—Shortly afterwards, in the Blaeldriars-road.,
a child named Wade, crossing the road, was tossed by
an oat vowing from•the- market, .endang.ering the_ child'a
life.—Mary Ann Binical, a married woman, residing at
30, Goswell-street-road, while crossing Farringdon-
street, was run over by no less than four beasts, and
severely wounded.
TIIE FLORES EXPEDITION.—Yesterday and Satur•
day several hundred lads and men were collected near
the Angel public-house platform, Rotherhithe, for the
purpose of engaging themselves in the above expedition,
under the name of emigrants. An officer and a doctor
occupied a large room in the public-house, where the
men and lads were examined by the doctor, and, after
being supplied with sixpennyworth of bread and cheese
and ale, they were shipped on board a steam-tug, and
taken to Gravesend. Upwards of five hundred have en-
gaged themselves already. Inspector Hornsby, M divi"
sion, was there nearly all yesterday, keeping them ill
order. We stated yesterday that the ship Glenelgl,
lying off Gravesend, had been seized for a contemp Act,
fated
breach of the Foreign Enlistment And Equipmen 1 ins
t
and also the Monarch and Neptune gtestm-vessels,
- at Blackwall.'"We are informed that the captains and tyre
cews have been released, their papers havflig been were
Cainead to be perfectly correct. The vessels, however,
remain in the custody of the Custom-house olßcers.
A meeting of the Committee of Spanish American
Bondholders was held yesterday afternoon, on the sub-
ject of the Mexican debt, and the withdrawal of the
agency from Messrs. Schneider and Co. Nothing im-
portant, however, transpired relative to the deliberations
of that body further than the prompt acknowledg-
ment of the receipt of correspondence both from
General Mendoza and Messrs. Schneider and Co. On
the question. From what we can learn, the Committee
appear extremely desirous of moving with great caution
in the affair.
CHATHAM, Nov. 23..--The head-quarters of the
56th Regiment, of which the Earl of Westmorland,
K.C.8., is the Colonel, arrived on Saturday evening last,
and were placed in quarters at Brompton bar rack.% next
Chatham ; its strength being 13 sergeants, 8 drum-
mers, and 204 rank and file, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Eden,i with a number o
women and children belonging to the corps. The troops
left Manchester on Friday. The strength of the regi-
ment is upwards of 1,000 men.
ALARMING ACCIDENT ON TOE EDDTBUZGH AND
RAILWAY.—Last night an occurrence of a
GLASGOW
very serious character took place on this railway. The
half-past eight o'clock train
_from E. dinburgh haring
reached the Winchburgh cut, the engine suddenly came
into violent collision with a mass of rock which had
slipped down the southern embankment and fallen upo*
bothail The effect was to throw the engine across
both rails, and produce a fearful concussion of the car-
riages. The engine was dashed to pieces, and several of
the carriages damaged ; but we arc happy to say that
none of the passengers suffered injury. The driver and
stoker were thrown off the engine, and escaped with
some slight bruises. The ten o'clock train from Edin-
burgh brought on the passengers who had left Glasgow
at eight o'clock, a total interruption of the communica-
tion having been caused by the accident. Edinburgh
Post.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE LORD RECTORSHIP BY LOAD
JOHN RUSSELL.—We are glad to learn that, in a letter
to the Very Rev. the Principal Macfarlan, Lord John
Russell has accepted the unsought honour which has
been conferred upon him, and that he is now Lord
Rector of the University of Glasgow. Ills Lordship
states that, in consequence of the pressure of public
business, he is at present unable to name a day when he
can visit Glasgow for the purposes of installation. We
trust that he will shortly be enabled to do so.—Glasgou,
Argus.

THE ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY AND THE Pors.---
Among the many memorials lately received by his Holi-
ness the Pope, is one from the Animals Friend Society
of London, praying his Holiness to prohibit the cruel
sports of the bull-ring in Spain, and the inhumanity
practised towards animals in the streets of Rome.