The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-26 00:00:00

A.D. 1846.

James Spencer Northcote, M.A., First Class Litteris
lltimanioribus, late Scholar of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, Curate of Ilfracombe, Devonshire. Received at
Prior Park, Jan. 17. (Married.)
John B. Morris, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Ox-
ford, author of " Nature, a Parable," a translation of
St. Chrysostem on the Romans, and the " Rhythms of
St. Ephraem," &c. &c. Gained the Indian Prize in
1842. Assistant Hebrew Lecturer, and Lecturer in
Syriac. Received in Birmingham, Jan. 16.
Henry Formby, M.A., Vicar of Ruarddean, Glonces•
tershire, author of a work called " Visit to the East."
Received at Oscott, Jan. 24.
George birder, M.A. Received at Oscott, Jan. 24.
MEMBERS OF THE TWO UNIVERSITIES.

1.-LAY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
Johnson Grant, St. John's College, Under-graduate.
Received at the Epi,spopal Seminary at Brups, Dec.,
1841.
Edward Douglas, 8.A., Christ Church College. Re-
ceived at Rome, Easter,
..1842.

Peter Le Page Renouf, Scholar at Pembroke College.
Received at Oscott, Easter, 1842.
William Lockhart, 8.A., Exeter College. Received
at Loughborough, August, 1843.
Thomas H. King, Under-graduate, Exeter College.
Received at Birmingham, Jan., 1844.

Charles R. Scott Murray, 8.A., Christ Church College
M.P. Received at Rome, 1844.
William Leigh, Drasennosa College, Oxford. Re•

ceived at Leamington, March, 1844.
George Tickell, M.A., Fellow cf University College.
Ist Class in Litteris Humanioribus. Received at Bruges
in the Autumn, 1844.
Thomas Meyrick, 8.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi
College. Ist Class in Litteris Humanioribus. Author
of the Life of the Family of St. Richard, one of the
Lives of the English Saints. Received at Hendred
during Lent, 1845.
John Dobree Dalgairns, M.A., Exeter College, late
Scholar. Author of the Life of St. Stephen Harding,
St. Helier, St. Gilbert, St. Aelred, and other Lives of
the English Saints. Received at Aston Hall, Septem-
ber, 1845.
Albany Christie., M.A., Fellow of Oriel College.
First Class, Litteris Humanioribus. Author of several
works of devotion, Holy Virginity, &c. Received in
London, Oct. 1840.
John T. Calman, 8.A., Worcester College. Received
at Prior Park, November, 1845.
Robert Simpson,_Under-graduate of St. John's Col-

lege. Received at Oscott, January, 1846.
11.-LAY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
Wm. Simpson, Trinity College. Received at Oscott,
1843.
Jas. Aug. Stothert, Trinity College, Cambridge, and
Edinburgh University. Author of "Justorum Semite,"
&c. &c. Received at Edinburgh, July, 1844.
Benjamin Jos. Butland, Trinity College. -Under-gra-
duate. Received at Oscott, September, 1844.
James Boone Rowe, St. John's College. Under-gra-
duate. Received at Birmingham, November, 1845.
E. Fortescue Wells, Trinity College. Under-graduate.
Received at Birmingham, November, 1845.
J. A. Knox, 8.A., Trinity College, Scholar. Received
at Northampton, November, 1845.
Scott N. Stokes, 8.A., Trinity College, Scholar.
Secretary to the Camden Society. Received at Birming-
ham, December,lB4s.
Wm. Hutchisof, Trinity College. Under-graduate.
Received at Birgham, December, 1845.
Henry Mills, Trinity College, Under-graduate. Re-
ceived at Birmingham, January, 1846.
J . B. Walford, Under-graduate, St. John's College.
Received in London, January, 1846.
Henry Bachus, 8.A., Corpus Christi College. Re.
ceived in London, January, 1846.

1845.

OTHER PERSONS OF NOTE.
The Countess of Clare. Received 1842.
Miss Eliot. Received 1842.
Miss Gladstone, sister to the Minester of State. Re
c e
and her sister, Miss Isabella Young,
i3aly ds
s 1 8
Young,42.
Received 1842.
Captain Lawrence. Received 1842.
Mr. Sankey, of Trinity College, Dublin. Leader of a
Religious Sect in Edinburgh, with his wife, four chil-
dren, and many of his followers. Received 1842.
Mr. William Turnbull, Advocate. Secretary to the
Antiquarian Society of Scotland. Received 1843.
Mr. Charles De Barry and his wife. Received 1843.
Mr. Charles ilemans, son of the celebrated Poetess.
Received 1843.
Miss Emily Bowles. Receivedlat Rome, 1843.
Miss Warner, daughter of an Anglican Minister. Re-
ceived 1843.
Mr. Bosanquet, Barrister. Received 1843.
Miss Townshend, daughter of an Anglican Minister.
Received 1843.
Mrs. Seeger' wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1844.
Mrs. Parsons, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1844.
Miss Marriott, daughter of an Anglican Minister.
Received 1844.
Miss Hext. Received 1844.
Miss Harriette Pigott. Received 1844.
Mr. Isaac Twycross, M.D., of Oxford. Received 1845.
Hon. Mrs. Heneage, and daughter. Received at Paris,
11845.

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Mr. Clements. Received at Rome, 1845.
Mrs. J. Campbell Smith, wife of the Anglican Minister,
who has become a Catholic. Received 1845.
Mrs. Ward, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1b45-
Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole. Lawyer. His wife and two
unmarried daughters. Received 1845.
Mrs. Anstice, daughter of Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole.
Authoress of several works. Received 1845.
Mrs. Spencer Northcote, daughter of Mr. J. R. Poole,

and wife of the Anglicun Minister who htts become a
Catholic. Received 1845. S T - ---_ •
Ur. Mathias Woodmason, wife, two -4syglatea, ar,ll_,,
a son. Received 1845. ;......'„ ' k i ! -• •••,N
Mr. F. W. Tarleton, Lawyer. iXi,a 'wife- anti herv....
sister. Received 1845. 1,!" 7.--, --
Mr. Geo., Talbot Bridges, BarriAteii.-;:11,6-*vea i SB4A. ;* •/:
Lady Annabella Acheson and np,ay-,oAlCh'esol),l .._„.. 1
daughters of the Eard of Gosford. Vtedeivkd,lB‘.s: =
Mr. Edward T. Hood, Barrister. ittzeived.lB4s.,' - '• "
Mrs. and Miss Wood, the wife atia:4l44.4t?er.: of tbe,
Rev. Mr. Wood, the Author. Received 1845.
Mr. Leicester Buckingham, Secretary to the British
andForeignlnßu sell,sti:ute and
Miss Watts Institute. Received 1845'
Mrs. Watts
Russell, wife and
sister of the AngliclaB.
nMini_ste_r, who has become a
Catholic. Received 1845.

Miss Munro, daughter of La Doherty. Received

Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Anglican Minister of
Swnllow Cline, who has become a Catholic. Received
1845.

Mr. J. Capes, Prcetor of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury. Rece'.vr.'d 1845.
Mr. James Robert Judge, Lawyer. Received 1345.
Mrs. Cape, wife of the Apglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1845.
Mr. Grenvrlle Wocd, Received at Antwerp, 1846.
Mr. Ilenry LA ye-r. Re:xived 1346.
Mr. Gilbe.-t Ploiner, Lawyor. Received 1846.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ONCE
A LAKE.

On a clear day, a p,rson standing on the highest part
of Barton Moss, perceive that the vall,y watered by
the rivers Irwc 11 and horses is completely encircled by
an amphitheatre el hills, except at the point where the
united waters of those two rivers discharge themselves
into the estuary of the Mersey at Runcorn Gap. The
opening through which they flow into that arm of the
sea, is not more than two or three miles in width, and if
it was closed up, the greater part of South Lancashire
and of the northern part of Cheshire, would be turned
into a vast lake, bounded by the Yorkshire and Derby-
shire hills on the east, by the high land, which extend
from this great chain across Delamere Forest, aixl as far
as Halton Castle on the south,by a corresponding range of
which Rivington Pike and Haigh and Billinge hills are the
most conspicuous objects on the north, and by the range
of high land crossed by the two inclined planes on the
otherlatter
high
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the west. This
rangeis
grounds,continued _
to by
within
a wa),
coupleo o
of P exf Bill,
iles oafndßothne.
Run-
corn Gap, and the Cheshire hills. At some very remote
period, the waters flowing from the high grounds which
surround this valley, and which aro now carried off by
the channels of the Irwell and the Mersey, and the
Sankey Brook, were probably thus collected in a lake
is this great natural basin. It was at this time,
prebably, that the vast deposits of marl, rich in limo
and beds of sand and gravel, the latter containing
stones altogether different from the red sand stone
rock of South Lancashire, were deposited on the
great Lancashire plain. Here they are still found
in every direction, altering the natural features of the
country, and entirely changing the constitution of:
the soil. It is only at few spots that the red sand
stone rises to the surface of the ground, whilst the coal
strata, in which the northern part of this district is so
rich, are nearly all buried at great depths below thick
beds of clay. * * * The only part of the township
of Barton in which the marl does not form the principal
constituent of the soil, is in the rich meadows on the
banks of the river, which appear to have been covered
by the waters of a much smaller lake, at a comparatively
recent period. The ancient banks of this lake eau be
clearly traced, on both sides of the river, from its higher
extremity, which is close by a ledge of sandstone rock,
at the point where the Duke of Bridgewater's canal
is carried across the river Irwell, , by means of an
aqueduct, to a point about two miles lower,
where the stream appears formerly to have been
again blocked up by a ridge of red sandstone rock,
through which, however, it has gradually worked its
way. After heavy rains, this valley still resumes its
former appearance of a lake, the waters covering it on
both sides of the stream, and leaving behind, on retiring,
a rich deposit of slime, resembling marl in some respects,
but not containing any portion of lime, owing to the
circumstance of there being no limestone in any
part of the district watered and drained by the river
Irwell, which produces these floods. Still, notwith-
standing the absence of this fertilising substance, the
meadows are preserved in a state of perpetual fertility
by these deposits alone. They are never touched by
the plough or mmured, and yet they have yielded heavy
crops of hay in snmmer, and abundance of grass in the
winter, as long as the memory of man, without either
labour or care. In the midst of this rich valley is an
orchard of thirty or forty acres, which is generally
flooded, as well as the surrounding meadows, and which
bears fruit of all kinds in abundance.---Liverpool Times.

MACCLESFIELD AND LICHFIELD
OR CHURNET AND BLYTHE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—In your paper of Thursday last, in the Parlia-
mentary proceedings, under the head of Manchester end
Lichfield Railway, it is stated that Mr. Muntz withdrew
a petition in favour of the Macclesfield and Lichfield
Railway, and presented one in favour of the North
Staffordshiro (Churnet Valley line).
Now, I beg to inform you, that the facts were just the
reverse, as the petitions really presented were from
two individuals withdrawing their opposition on standing
orders to the Macclesfield and Lichfield ; and another
from the inhabitants of Cheadle, against the North
Staffordshire (Churnet Valley line.)
1 shall feel obliged by your correcting this misstate-
ment in your next paper.—l am, &c.
C. T. RATTENBURY, Secretary.
11, New Palace-yard, Feb. 25. 1846.