The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

KING'S COLLEGE

The annual distribution of prizes to the successful candi-
dates amongst the pupils in the carious branches of educa-
tion at this institution took place on Friday. The chair was
taken at three o'clock in the newly-erected hall of the college,
a very elegant and appropriate room for the purposes of ge-
neral- business, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
who was supported on his right hand by the Duke c•f• Cam-
bridge, and on his left by the Bishop of London. There
were also present the Bishops of Llandaff, Lichfield, and
Calcutta; Sir Robert Inglis, Bart., M.P.; Mr. Pownall, and
many other supporters of the establishment. The remaining
seats were crowded with the students, and with ladies and
gentlemen. The Principal and the Professors were seated
on the platform. The business was commenced by the
Archbishop, who briefly stated the object of the meeting,
after which the Principal arose, and announced the names of
the students to whom the divinity prizes had been awarded.
The students were then presented to the Archbishop, who
handed the prizes (books) to each in turn, and addressed to
each a short compliment. The various professors then an-
nounced to his Grace the names of the prizemen in the
espective classes, and his Grace delivered to each the prize
assigned him.
The PRINCIPAL then announced the scholars for the pre-
sent year, and the students recommended for admission
to the associateship of the college, and afterwards the stu-
dents in engineering.
The following is the list of the successful students, and of
the professors of the different faculties:—
Divinity (the Principal)—Henry John Burfield, Roger
Gadsden, Charles Bosworth Thurston, Fielder Hemmans,
Edward James Hubbard, and Edward Jaques.
Latin Verse, Latin Essay, English Verse, and Classics
(Mr. Browne) Alfred John Church, George William
Kitchen, George Oakley Vance, John Fenn Russell, Charles
Walter Devis, John Brooks, and Thomas Waddington.
Mathematics (Mr. Hall)—Henry William Watson, George
Greenwood, George Rawlinson, Thomas Wiltshire, and Ar-
thur Finch.

English (Mr. Maurice)—Alfred John Church, and James
Jeakes.

Stephen's Prize—Frederick Hyde Salter.
Hellrew (Dr. M'Caul)—William Middleton Snell, J. J.
Heywood, George Greenwood.
French (Professor Brasseur)—Charles William Maugham.
German (Professor Bernays)—Joseph Benjamin M'Caul.
and Robert Gerard Anderson.

Mathematics (Rev. J. G. Hall)-..William Norton Lawson,
Edward Kingston, and George Fuller.
Natural Philosophy and Mathematics (Rev. M. O'Brien)
—Henry Whitcombe, William Norton Lawson, Edward
Kingston, and George Fuller.
Chemistry (Dr. Miller)—John Phillips Nunn and John
Hicks.
Geology (Mr. Ansted)—John Robert Campbell and John
Hicks.

Mineralogy (Mr. Tennent)—John Phillips Nunn.
Manufacturing Art and Machinery (Mr. Cowper)—Thos.
Bradbury Winter and John Robert Campbell.
Geometrical Drawing (Mr. Bradley)—Thomas Bradbury
Winter and John Phillips Nunn.
Surveying (Mr. Castle)—Thomas Bradbury Winter,
Richard James Strachan Harman, and Samuel Blunden
DanielL

Workroom (Mr. Cock)—George Wells, George Walker,
and Charles Thompson Guthrie.
Literary Union (the Principal)—George William Kitchin.
The presentation of prizes having been concluded, the
PRINCIPAL addressed his Grace the Visitor, and testified.to
the good conduct of the students.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE then rose,
an proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman. His Royal
Highness expressed his gratification from what he had wit-
nessed; he regretted that he had not been present on former
occasions, but said he would, for the future, if his life were
spared, not fail to attend.
The Bishop of LONDON seconded the motion in an appro.•
priate speech.
The vote was carried by acclamation, and, the Archbishop
having returned thanks, the meeting broke up.

THIRD REPORT of the COLONIAL
BISHOPRICS' COMMITTEE.

The Committee appointed to arrange measures 4 in con-
cert with her Majesty's Government, for the erection and
endowment of additional bishoprics in the colonies and
dependencies of Great Britain, cannot commence their third
report without an expression of joy and thankfulness at
the progress which, by God's blessings has been made in
the great work since the time when it was committed to
their care.
During the past year the important colony of New Bruns-
wick and the Island of Ceylon were constituted independent
dioceses, by the erection of bishops' sees at Fredericton and
Colombo; and the committee are happy in being enabled to
state that her Majesty the Queen has given her royal con-
sent to the immediate subdivision of the diocese of Aus-
tralia into three distinct bishoprics, by the establishment of
one see at Morpeth for the northern division of New South
Wales, and of another at Melbourne for the district of Port
Phillip.
These new sees, which could not have been constituted but
for a generous sacrifice of private interest of the part of the
Bishop of Australia, will derive a considerable portion of their
endowment from the colonial bishoprics fund.
Thus, then, within the space of five -years, which have
elapsed since the 4. declaration of archbishops and bishops"
was signed at Lambeth, nine new sees have been erected.
Of these, two—namely, Gibraltar and Fredericton, derive
their endowments almost exclusively from the fund placed at
the disposal of the episcopal trustees; and four others—.
namely, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Morpeth,
receive important assistance from the same source. The re-
maining three—namely, Antigua, Guiana, and Colombo, have
been endowed by means of a different distribution of the funds
at the disposal of the imperial or colonial Government for ec-
clesiastical purposes.
The foregoing summary will show that of the original de-
sign, as set forth in the " declaration of archbishops and
bishops" great part has been already accomplished; and the
Committee have much satisfaction in reporting that no less a
sum than 15,0001. has been contributed towards the endow-
ment of a bishopric (not originally contemplated) within the
British possessions in the Chinese seas.
Of this endowment fund the sum of 5,0001. has been most
liberally given by two individuals (over and above their
donation of an equal sum for the erection of a college);
6,0001. was raised by congregational collections in the dio-
cese of London, under the authority of the Bishop's pastoral
letter ; a grant of 2,0001. was voted by the Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, and about an equal amount
has been remitted to the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, by individual contributors. But a considerable addi-
tional sum will yet be required, and a special committee has
been named to collect such further funds as may be neces-
sary to make a permanent provision for the see.
Of the colonies still remaining without episcopal superin-
tendence, the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia have
been mentioned in preceding reports as presenting the
strongest claims; and it would have been the duty of the
Committee on the present occasion to renew the appeal on
their behalf, had it not pleased God to put it into the heart
of an individual member of the Church, by an exercise of al-
most unexampled liberality, to guarantee adequate endow-
ments for a bishvric in each of those colonies.
It is well known that the Lord Bishop of Calcutta is using
the most strenuous efforts to obtain a subdivision of his own
enormous diocese, by the erection of a bishopric at Agra, for
the north-west provinces. Such an arrangement is impera-
tively required for the welfare and extension of the Church
of England in Northern India : while the recent wonderful
spread of Christianity in the southern provinces of Tanjore
and Tinnevelly must, ere long, force attention to the im-
portance of sending forth a chief pastor for the special over-
sight •f those infant churches.
The Committee, before concluding their report, consider
it a duty incumbent upon them to specify those other pos-
sessions of the Crown which, from their imp3rtance, aswell as their distance from any existing see, appear to re-
quire resident bishops. They are principally Sierra Leone,
Western Australia, the Mauritius, and Prince Rupert's
Land.
But it is obvious that a further subdivision will ere long
be required in many of the existing dioceses, and even at
present, the rapidly-increasing population of Canada, taken
in connexion with its vast territorial extent, demands for
the efficient administration of the Church within that pro-
vince an addition of at least two bishops.
Upon the whole, although the Committee do not look for-
ward to an early termination of their labours, they cannot
but regard the success which has hitherto been vouchsafed
to them as an encouragement to persevere in the good work
which they have undertaken, till the Church, by the Divine
blessing, has been fully organised in every dependency of the
British Crown.
This important end, however, cannot be attained without
a strenuous and united effort on the part of the church at
home ; and the committee feel assured that they shall not
call in vain upon the faithful members of that church to help
forward its extension, by their active co-operation and their
continual prayers.
W. CANTUAR. C. WINTON.
E. EBOR. E. DUNELM.
JOHN G. ARMAGH. G. ROCHESTER.
RD. DUBLIN. J. LINCOLN.
C. J. LONDON.
79, Pall-mall, May 18, 1846.
The statement of the accounts, appended to the report,
shows the following results :—Received from the commence-
ment of the fund, January, 1841, 81,8901. I ls. 4d. The ex-
penditure consists of—Payments for New Zealand, 4,0701. 7s.
2d. ; Tasmania, 7,101/. 2s. Bd. ; Gibraltar, 5,415. 9s. 6d. ;
Frederickton, 1,274/. 10s. ld. ; Miscellaneous expenses, 891/.
9s. Id. ; Capital purchased, Three-and-a-Half per Cent.
Stock, 12,0001 t; Exchequer-bills, 1,130/. 13s. 9d.; London
and Birmingham Railway Debenture, 50,000/. ; Balance
in Bank of England, May 1, 1846, 61. 19s. ld. Total,
81,890/. lls. 4d.

EAGLES.—A great number of eagles' nests have ap-
peared on the estate of Applecross this season, and notwith-
standing the exertions of the gamekeeper to get the birds
destroyed, they seem to increase. It is singular that game
is increasing very rapidly in the immediate vicinity of these
eyries, and it would appear that the eagle will not molest
game if it can obtain carrion. Applecross abounds naturally
to a very great degree with vermin, and it is nevertheless as
well stocked with game as any estate in the Highlands. A
number of corn- fields close to the villages were perfectly
destroyed last harvest, by herds of red deer which invaded
them.—lnverness Courier.

AN INFIDEL. WIFE.—We read in a letter from Berlin
of the 20th, published by the Gazette des Tribunaux, " About
three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Aston, natives of London, ar-
rived at Berlin with their daughter, two years old, and
soon afterwards fixed their residence here by virtue of a spe-
cial authorisation from the Minister of Justice. Towards
the end of February last Mr. Aston applied for a divorce
from his wife, on the ground of her having for some time
openly professed atheism, and he at the same time demanded
that the child might be given np to him, in order to prevent
its being educated in the atheistical principles of the mother.
The Tribunal of First Instance of Berlin, after having re-
ceived from the mouth of Mrs. Aston an avowal that she did
not believe in God, pronounced the divorce, and ordered that
the child should be given up to the father within a week.
This sentence was, upon appeal, confirmed by the Upper
Court. Scarcely an hour after the confirmation of the judg-
ment, Mrs. Aston received an order from the director of
police to quit Berlin in two days, and the Prussian territory
within a week. She appealed to the King, but received for
reply that there was no ground for modifying this order;
and talie has left Berlin for Strasburg.