The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-09 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

DURHAM, Nov. 4.—At a convocation holden yester-
day, the Rev. C. T. Whitley, M.A., and the Rev. David
Melville, M.A., made the requisite declaration, on enter-
ing upon the office of proctor for the ensuing year.
The Professor of Mathematics, the Rev. T. Chevallier,
8.D., was nominated by the Warden, and approved of
by the house, for the office of sub-warden ; and W. 14
Wharton, .A., for the office of auditor of the univer-
sity accounts for the ensuing year.
The Rev. Adolphus Pears, 8.D., Fellow of Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, was presented and admitted ad
eundem.
The Rev. Frederic Watkins,:B.D., Fellow of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundcm by the vote
of the house.
The following degrees were conferred:—
AD EUNDEM M.A.—Rev. W. George Henderson,Tel•
low of Magdalen College, Oxford; Rev. Richard Lox •
hum, 8.A., University College,Daham.

AD EUNDEIII Bond Bowlby, Wadham.
College, Oxford ; Thomas William Pricketf Trinity
College, Cambridge.

8.K.-1-Rev. Henry Veale, University College ; Arthur
Earle Welby, University College.
The Rev. S. A. Pears, 8.D., and the Rev. W. G. Hen-
derson, M.A., were nominated to the office of Proproc-
tor, and made the requisite declarations.

MONMOUTH MUNICIPAL•
ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your paper of this morning appears a state-
ment of our municipal election, the remarks appended t()
which are calculated to produce a false impression of this
real facts of the case. It is not true that the Duke of
Beaufort's influence, or that of any political party what-
ever, bad one jot to do in the matter. The committer,
which conducted the proceedings on the part of those
gentlemen who are elected, was composed of men of aft
parties, as was the public meeting at which the can-
didates were first proposed. One of those gentleme n
(Mr. Burton) is a Conservative, and two of the defeat(
candidates (Messrs. James Davis and James Pugh) are
Reformers. The opposition to the successful candidates
was promoted by two very troublesome and uninfluentia
persons, of whom, to evince again the absence of politicrl
motives, one is a Reformer and the other a Tory. I a
the last two elections it has been the most anxious wi,
of both parties to discourage political bias, and it was
upon this principle that they were distinctly conducted.
I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
W. A. COSSENS.
Monmouth, Nov. 6, 1846.

LADY JOHN RUSSELL'S SOIREE.—A small but
brilliant circle of fashionables congregated at Lady John
Russell's on Friday night. The circle comprised his
Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and the Princess
Callimachi ; his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
and the Countess Dietrichstein ; his Excellency Chevst-
lier Bunsen, his Excellency Baron Brunnow, the French
2hart.6 d'Affaires and the Countess Jarnac, Prince
William Loewenstein W'eithem, Baron Lionel Roths-
child, his Excellency Count Pollon, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricard
and Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, the Earl of Aucklan t
and the Hon. Misses Eden, Viscountess Palmerstor ,
Viscount Ebrington, Lord ai.d Lady John Hay, Lord
Dudley Stuart, Lady Elizabeth Gore, Mr. and Lady
Georgiana Romilly, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon.
Mrs. Villiers, the Earl of Minto, Rear-Admiral D. Dun-
das, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hawes, and Miss Hawes, Mt.
Tuffnell, Hon. Captain Eden, Right Hon. C. and Lady
Mary Wood, Hon. W. Cowper, the Right Hon. Sir J.
Hobhouse, the Hon. Misses Pepys, Mr. H. West, Lady
Charlotte Berkeley, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Bruce, lion.
Colonel Keppel, Mrs. Balfour, Misses Cole, &c.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioncs 4
of Clanricarde, the Earl and Countess Grey, Lord and.
Lady John Russell, his Excellency the American Mi-
nister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Right Honourable Sir
George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. E. Stanley, tilt,
Hon. W. Cowper, and a select party to dinner, on Satur-
day last, at their mansion on Carlton House-terrace..
Her Ladyship received a select circle after dinner, when.
among her Ladyship's visitors were, his Excellency
Prince Callimachi, his Excellency Baron de Cetto, his
Excellency Baron Brunnow, the French Chargé d'Affaires
and the Countess Jarnac, the Countess of Tankerville,
the Earl of Auckland, the Hon. Misses Eden (two),
Viscount Ebrington, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, Sir John C. Hobhouse, Hon. Mrs. D. Darner,
Hon. F. Charteris, Viscount Anson, the Attorney-Ge-
neral, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Rich, Mr. Harcourt,
Mr. F. Byng, Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon. Mrs. Villiers,
Lady Emily De Burgh, &c.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident happened at
the Brimseembe station of the Great Western Railway,
on Thursday night last, owing to the carelessness of
some of the company's servants, which has caused a great
destruction of property, and might have been attended
with loss of life. The policeman on. duty having turned
the switches to enable an engine and tender to pass
into the shed, neglected to replace them, and about
eleven o'clock at night a train of ballast wagons, which
it was arranged should not have reached the station
untill four o'clock on the following morning, came down
the line, and run into the shed. Of course a violent col-
lision was the consequence—the tender and engine being
completely doubled up and driven through the wall at
the end of the building, which is two feet thick. At
the time of the collision, a man was under the engina
cleaning it, but he escaped almost miraculously without
any dangerous injuries. The driver of the ballast train:„
has decamped, but the policeman is in custody on the
charge of neglect of duty.
fewen thrown into tho
distance from the Regent's
circles, residing at no greatdays be
DISTRESSING CASE OF Citric Coic• orvNinligliGnHthLe
filrrEst.
—The members of an ancient family, m
Park, have within these d
ental discovery of
id to have been tom
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dneepcets to
f distress
criminal of
cmoninveirsbaytiotnli,e sacaci
promise, recently returned from India upon
youthfulinl and accomplished wife of a military officer
of great
leave of absence. It appears that the injured husband,
the junior branch of highly honourable parents.,
having united himself but a few years since to this
young lady, whose personal attractions were great,
proceeded to India, and nothing occurred during their
residence in that country to disturb the apparent affec-
tion on her part. Two children were the fruit of the
marriage. Upon their recent return to this country ,
however, all their happiness was blasted, for on Wed.
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Observer.
The Lords of her j M t
aes y s most Honorable Privy
Council have been summoned to meet in the Exche-
quer Chamber at Westminster on Thursday, the 12th of
Sheriffs for
November, to settle the Roll of Sh • y,
the e ensuing
year.

THE NEXT MATOR OF MANCHESTER.—We un-
derstand that at the preliminary meeting of the council
the choice of chief magistrate of the borough for the
ensuing year fell unanimously upon Elkanah Armitage,
Esq., who is now alderman for St. Ann's Ward.—Man-
choler Guardian,