The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-20 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 19.—PIIILOSOPIIICAL SOCIETY.—The
lint meeting of this Society for the present term will take
place on Monday evening next, at seven o'clock.
CHRIST'S COLLEGE.—Christopher Parr Mall, 8.A., has
been appointed to an assistant mastership at King Edward's
School, Birmingham.
CAMS COLLEGE. --The Rev. John Gooch, 8.A., has just
been elected second master to the Wolverhampton Free
Grammar School.

THE CHURCM—The following appointments have taken
place: —The Rev. Charles Maitland Long, M.A., of Trinity
College, to the rectory of Settrington, Yorkshire ; value
1,0451. The Rev. Henry Almack, D.D., of St. John's College,
to the rectory of Fawley, Buckinghamshire ; value 397/.
The Rev. Alfred Martell, 8.A., of St. John's College, to the
vicarage of Heston, Herts. ; value 1001. The Rev. Salisbury
Dunn, M.A., of St. John's College, to the curacy of Mize-
leigh, Essex. The Rev. Oswald Marriott, M.A., of St. John's
College, to the curacy of Langham, Suffolk. The Rev. John
Edward Knipe, M.A., of Clare Hall, to the incumbency of
the new church now building on the east side of Charlotte-
street, Fitzroy-square. The Rev. David Morton, M.A., of
Trinity-College, to be one of the domestic chaplains to the
Right Hon. Earl Spencer.
OXFORD, FEB. 19.—The Colquitt Clerical Exhibition va•
cant at Brasenose College, has this morning been awarded
(after a four days' examination) to Mr. John Harris Back-
house, scholar of that society. There were seven candi-
dates.

DEAN IRELAND'S SCHOLARSHIP.—The examiners (Dr.
Jeuue, Rev. R. Hussey, and Rev. E. Massie) appointed by
the trustees of Dean Ireland's Foundation, give notice that
an examination will be holden in the schools on Monday, the
16th of March, and following days, for the purpose of elect-
ing a scholar on that foundation.
In a congregation holden this morning, the following de-
grees were conferred, viz.:—
MASTER OF ARTS.—Rev, John Joseph Jackson, Exeter
College ; Rev. Charles Ward, Exeter college.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—Richard James Halke, Worcester
College; William John Springett, Wadham College; James
Wright Tomkin, Wadham College : Theophilus Jones,
Exhibitioner, Brasenose College; John Edward Hill, Christ
Church ; George Charles Irving, Christ Church ; Francis
Lear, Christ Church ; George Glass Kennaway, Christ
Church.

FOREIGN REFINED S UGA R.—The Lords Commis
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury have issued an order permit-
ting foreign refined sugar to be removed from the bonding
houses in London, for the purpose of being crashed for ex-
portation only, to premises appropriated to that especial
purpose, in the St. Katherine and the London Docks; and
the Customs' authorities having had under their consideration
this order of their Lordships, as to the most proper
means to be adopted for carrying the same into
effect, have given directions that the privilege granted
by the Treasury is to be carried into effect under the fol-
lowing regulations, viz. :—That the removal of the sugars
do take place either in charge of revenue officers, to accom-
pany the same to the crashing floors, at the expense of the
merchant, or in proper vans, to be provided for that purpose,
and secured under the locks of the Crown. That the weight
of the sugar intended to be crashed shall in each instance be
ascertained at the period of its delivery from the warehouse
for removal, and again on the same being packed (after crash-
ing) for exportation, in order to guard against any deficien-
cies that may arise in the transit, or in the operation of crash-
ng, and to assess the parties on whose requisition such removals
took place with the amount of the duties on such defici•
encies. That the shipment of the sugar be made direct from
the floor where the crashing took place, or from other
bonded warehouses in the same docks, and that the same on
exportation be described in the cockets and other official
documents as foreign refined sugar, in order to guard
against its introduction abroad as sugar which has been re-
fined or manufactured in the United Kingdom. This order
of the Lords of the Treasury, and the regulations under
which it is to be permitted and observed, have been com-
municated to the several departments, with directions to
take care that the same be duly carried into effect from the
present time. It may be seen that this order does not allude
to sugar imported into this country in a raw state and re-
fined here for importation, but to sugar of foreign refining or
manufacturing. brought in a completely refined or finished
state, and which requires to be crashed or pounded for the
purpose of suiting particular markets abroad. The importa-
tion of refined sugar is confined chiefly to Holland, who ars
our great competitors in that particular branch of trade,
although from the high rate of duty attaching, it is for ex-
portation to foreign markets, and is brought here merely in
the way of transit to other foreign countries.
PUNCH'S RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. Among the
railways that have complied with the standing orders, is the
" John o'Groat and Land's End Junction, with Branches to
Ben Lomond and Battersea, and an Extension from Panyer
Alley to Peterloo Direct." The standing orders consisted of
an order to stand anything that the chairman liked to call
for at the bar of the house where the company holds its
meetings. We understand that the secretary of one of the
new lines was upset in a cab with all the plans, which were
accordingly thrown out, and the papers are in the position of
dropped notices. The traffic on the Kensington Railway, as
taken from the bed-room window of the house opposite, has
consisted of a ton and a half of coals and a load of gravel.
The pedestrian traffic of boys up and down the line is some-
what increasing. A dividend has just been declared of the
cabbages grown on the bank. The policeman took one half,
and the secretary the other. We are happy to see that there
is to be an extension of the line of lettuces, which will be
carried further north, till they join the trunk of the old
beech-tree at the corner.
FALL OF RAIN IN JANUARY AT MANCHESTER.—Last
month was one of the wettest Jannaries we have had for some years
past. The temperature was never below 30 degrees, and so low only
on the 2d and sth of the month. The total fall of rain during the
month was 3-57 inches, of which 3.05 inches feel on the last thirteen

daye of the month. Only in three instances In the last seventeen
years was January last exceeded in the -uantity of rain. In the Ja-
nuary of 1834 the temperature was remarkably high, never having
fallen below 37 degrees; in January, 1835, the principal fall of rain

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was in the two middle weeks of themonth, with a high temperature.
and very nearly the same quantity fell as inlast month. In 1840 the
temperature was high; and of the total quantity of rain that fell.
1.5 inch fell in the third, and 2.5 inches in the fourth week. In Ja-
nuary, 1843, the temperature after the second was never below 30
degrees; and this was the month of the heavy storm; indeed the
month was stormy throughout. On Friday, the 13th, the violent
storm occurred between three and six o'clock in the morning ; and
at an early hour in the morning the barometer stood
and eleven inforenoon to 27.90, the lowest poi
nt2B degrees,
tenths of an inch of rain fell during
thata day. by
Ina/whey years
era ;h
andGuardain iane.-
SE RIOUS ACCIDENT AND NARROW ESCAPE OF
GENERAL Tont THEACll.—During one of the public levees of the re-
nowned General Tom Thumb, in the Trades Hall, at Airdrie. en
Monday night last, a large portion of the floor gave way with an
awftil crash, and precipitated some 300 men, women, and children,
into the room below, a distance of fourteen feet. The scene of c•n •
fusion and excitement, mingled with the groans and sereechings of
the suffering and affrighted multitude, can scarcely be imagined.
About 1,000 persons were in the hall, but fortunately, and strange to
nttohw::Gth,ehneserdflawarglresgwubihtreio:hweenfree,lalnd several other
say, no death was occasioned by the accident. One man, Mr. Wm.
persons,lad aniigl Hanley,
including
lamplighter to
somep
ot or?ifoe
braised,was
the but
precise not
spot where the General gave his
before,
fellow had left only two minutes
ad-
joining room to change his costume. The on
igowne thicriiito an
he
tableadl
exhi-
bited fell with the multitude, and was crushed to atoms. We are
n
happy to add that the General took immediate steps for alleviating.
in a pecuniary point of view, the injuries of all the sufferers whose
circumstances in life would render a loss of time a serious inconve-
nience to themselves.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN A PAPER MILL.--Yester-
day afternoon an accident, attended with most frightful results,
occurred to a young man, stained William Trontor, aged nineteen.
Which it is feared will terminate fat ally. The poor fellow was en-
gaged in an extensive paper-mill at Footscray, Kent, and whilst
cleaning the machinery his left leg slipped in the cogwheels, and
before the mill could be stopped, his left leg was literally crushed it
pieces. He was extricated with some difficulty and removed t
the nearest surgeon's, who advised his immediate conveyance to St.
Thomas's Hospital. He was promptly attended by the house-surgeon,
but the injuries he had sustained were so great that it was deemed
indispensably necessary to amputate the limb. The poor youth bore
the operation with the greatest fortitude, and at eight o'clock last
night he was progressing as favourably as could be expected,
RECRUITING IN THE NORTH.—Recruiting parties
arc now actively engaged in all the manufacturing towns in Lanca-
shire, in beating up for recruits, and the bounty having been re-
cently considerably increased, large numbers are daily joining the
ranks.

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THE LATE ASSASSINATION IN DRURY-LANE.—YeS-
terday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, Mr. H. Close Bedford held an in-
quiry at the Plough Tavern, Carey-street, Lincoln's Ina-fields, con-
cerning the death of James Bostock, master brassfounder, of No. 4.
Pitt-place, Drury-lane, who WAS shot by Thomas Wm. Wicks, his
apprentice, early on the morning of Monday last. The evidence ad-
duced yesterday was precisely the same as that already given in our
Bow-street police report. The Coroner summed up in a very able
manner, and the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict
of " Wilful Murder against Thomas Wm. Wicks,' who is already
committed to take his trial for the murder.
RUBINI.—We are enabled to set at rest the vexed
question as to the re-appearance of the prince of tenors. Wne d
his ha
the best authority to announce that his retirement is Baal, .
resolution irrevocable.E
ALARMING FIRE NEAR ST. JAMES'S-SQI7--7.7-,..,5,t:
night, between seven and eight o'clock, a die bWre-roznuiscs is tit the
and
Sep
vdeernr-i
Duke-street, St. James's. The lower part of
a7nthrepeDePitiearco,
occupation of Messrs. Elmore and Clements,.
takers ; and the upper part belongs to Id
31i'lab011red to the utmost,
engines were soon on the spot,
flareboinueti tune o'clock. The upper
and the flames were extlng
by water. Madame Delazoir is said
the lower part seriously injured
portion of the louse, with theuiNS.thalhedueable furniture, was destroyed, an I
•
to hTauveßlNorstsaG OVER A NEW LEAF.—The strawberry leaf is
of jewels and bank notes.
the distinctive slips of the ducal coronet. It is proposed that the
strawberry should be. altered to the gooseberry, as being more ill,„
dieative of the fools certain dukes have lately been making Of them-
' scives.—Pwieh .. .
COUNTERFEITING ENGLISH MARKS.—The Messrs.
Taylor, of Leicester, England, have obtained a verdict of 800 dollars
against Daniels and Carpenter, in 'the United States Circuit Court,
Boston, for counterfeiting their marks on their " Persian thread,"
which the interests of the Messrs. Taylor were initired.—Anierical
yßEafteftrenoS,elHocOttkDlTCll W
PshaE,l%
considerable alarm was occasioned in Kings-
land-road, night,
lqaunand-urotady
0,
finlineoennseqon
Shoreditch workhoute. Thisuentheereacckfs
a fire breaking ant in the
por-
tion must have fallen upon an' laundry of
portionin of the building contained a
idryroningg.,satonvdeitwhils
which stood tPero de do
nt htahteafiTorr,
and by that m
top of the becoming ignited, the flames would ascend to thC.
i
pot and, compartment. The parish engine was speedily on the
with the assistance of the inmates, the Are was trtunattly
1 tat aimed Inftle mush damage was done.