The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen. and Prince Albert took an airing in an
open carriage and four yesterday. The Equerries in
Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel
Bouverie, were in attendance on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback yesterday, and visited his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, at Cambridge House.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
took an airing yesterday, in a carriage.
Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday. Mr. Hume, M.P., had also an in-
terview with the Noble Earl, at the Colonial-office.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home- office.
A deputation from Liverpool, on the Health of
Towns Bill, accompanied by Mr. Cardwell, arid con-
sisting of the following gentlemen, viz.:—Mr. Lane,
Mr. Tinne, Mr. Shuttleworth, and Mr. Newlands,
had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday,
at the office of her Majesty's Commissioner of Woods
and Forests, in Whitehall-place.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, MARCH B.—At a congregation holden
this clay, the following degrees were conferred:—
Hon, rary Master cf Arts—Lord Alwyn° Compton,
Trinity College.
Bachelors of Arts—Julius Arkwright,Thomas Davies,
F. J. B. Peile, and S. T. Pettigrew, Trinity College;
F. J. Freeman, Ambrose Jones, John Lloyd, and C. J.
W. Ord. St. John's College; D. W. Cameron, and S. F.
Rippengall, Peterhouse College; S. G. Wood, Clare
Hall; C. S. Johnson, Caius College; E. Hawkins, and
F. G. Wilson, Corpus College; C. B. Kerr, Queen's
College; Edmund Pain, Emanuel College.
Richard Jones Hobson, M. 8., of Trinity College,
Dublin, was admitted ad eundem gradum.
Craven Scholars—Out of about sixty candidates, the
following gentlemen have been elected to fill the twu
vacancies for which the examination has lately con-
cluded:—Russell Day, King's College; Richard Elwyn.
Trinity College.
University Funds—The following notice has been just
issued:—The Syndicate appointed to consider whether
any satisfactory plan can be devised for increasing the
pecuniary resources of the University, so as to produce
an annual surplus income sufficient to admit of the exe-
cution, from time to time, of works of general improve-
ment connected with the usefulness and splendour of the
University, having made a report to the Senate on
December 10, 1847, the Vice-Chancellor gives notice
that on Wednesday, the 23d instant, a Grace will be
oao.rod to the Senate to confirm the said report

FAIL OF RAILWAY ARCHES AT MANCHESTER.--.
Yesterday morning seven out of thirteen brick arches,
forming part of a viaduct erecting on the north-eastern
side of Manchester, by the Lancashire and Yorkshire

Railway Company, to connect the lines of that company
with the London and North-Western line at Ardwick,
gave way and fell about ten o'clock. Eight of the thir-
teen arches had been erected before the commencement

of the winter, and had stood till now, with the centres in
them; the centres, however, being required for a conti-

nuous portion of the viaduct, of 'which the abutmenta
had been run up, a number of men had been set to work
during the last few weeks to build in the spandrills at the
top, between the arches, and to throw on the ballast for
the purpose of consolidating the work. They had pro-
ceeded with the work to yesterday morning, and had

taken out the centres froni six arches, commencing at a
heavy stone abutment (intended for a bridge over Ashton
old road) and running eastwards towards Ardwick,

without any reason to doubt the solidity and firmness of
the work. They then, about ten o'clock, removed the

centres from the feveath or central arch, and had not
completed doing so more than a few moments before the
arch sprung upwards from the centre and fell. The
whole of the six arches northward, from which the
centres had been taken, also fell immediately afterwards,
leaving only the stone abutment of the intended bridge
the road standing, and the six arches at the other
from under which the centres had not been taken.

over
end,

The contractors are Messrs. Noell, Hemingway, and
Co., and the loss to them, supposing they are respon-
sible for the whole, will be about 1,0001. It was a
fortunate circumstance that the whole of the workmen
at the time were standing on the other arches, from
which the centerings had not been removed. They all
escaped. The strength of the masonry was within half
a brick of that usually adopted for arches of the same
kind, and it is thought was quite equal to the purposes
for which the line was constructing, and the accident is
attributed to want of scientific knowledge or judgment in
the ballasting at the top of the masonry.
The New League, announced by Mr. Cobden in
the House of Commons, is the subject of very general
conversation in Lancashire. It is to secure " Liberty,
Peace, and Freedom of Trade." The committee is to
be the executive council of the late Anti-Corn-law
League, and its objects are defined:to be :—" To aid in
carrying out, to the fullest extent, the principles of free
trade ; to relieve industry, by procuring the removal of
all indirect taxes, and substituting others more rational
and just ; to procure the abolition of the laws of entail
and primogeniture ; to procure a more fair and equi-
table representation of the people in the House of Com-
mons ; to obtain justice for the people of Ireland ; to
improve the character of our army and navy, by
securing to merit and long service a fair and legitimate
reward or promotion ; to guard against our ever again
being plunged into a bloody and expensive war, through
the dangerous and unootistitutioral tendency of our
aristocrats to interfere in the affairs of other nations."
UNPOPULARITY OF Tur. INCOME-TAX.—The late
proposition of the Ministry to increase the income-tax
has not subsided with the abandonment of the measure
so far as Manchester is concerned, and the course taken
by Mr. Milner Gibson in supporting Government by
his votes on various questions (that of the income-tax
being the principal one) has givt n such offence to many
of th electors that serious thoughts are entertained of
asking him to resign. The following is the copy of a
placard which appeared on the walls of Manchester
yesterday :—" Electors of Manchester ! at the last elec-
tion Mr. Milner Gibson pledged himself to resign his

seat whenever his votes iliould be deemed adverse to the
interests of his constituents, if called upon to do so by a
majority of those who returned him. During the present
session of Parliament he has voted against the repeal of
the window-tax, against Mr. Hume's motion that a re-
duction of taxation is required for the trading and indus-
trious classes of the community ; against Mr. Horaman's
motion to reduce the odious income-tax ; he voted in
favour of the grant of 1,100,0001. for the Kafir war.
Men of Manchester ! this is the first time since you pos-
sessed the power of sending representatives that on the
vital question of taxation you have been misre-
presented in the House of Commons. Electors ! if
you wish to see the taxes reduced, sign a requisition to
Mr. Milner Gibson, calling upon him to resign the trust

he has betrayed.
DREADFUL EXPLOSION. FOUR LIVES LOST.—
We regret that an accident, attended with loss of life,
took place yesterday morning, at the Malleable Iron
Works of Messrs. Murrays and Buttery, the Monkland
Iron Company, near Holytown. The river Calder passes
there through the deep ravine ; on the right bank a
rolling-mill was erected about five years ago, and to
meet the increased demands in railways, another was
erected and put in operation during last summer. It is
understood to be the strongest in Scotland, and of a very
powerful description. Both mills were in full operation,
and all hands were at work in both mills at seven o'clock
yesterday morning, when suddenly a fearful explosion
was heard. It proved to be the great boiler of one of
the steam engines, about 80 horse power, of the new
rolling mill. The boiler was blown into the air; and,
flying across the river, it descended through the roof of
the older mill, spreading devastation all around. Mr.
Buttery was instantly at the spot, and sent for medical
aid, and gave prompt directions for everything useful for
the relief of the surviving sufferers. The Sheriff and
Procurator Fiscal of the Airdrie district were also sent
for to investigate the causes of the accident. Four dead
boJies were found much mangled, and several other
men received severe injuries. The man in charge of the
boiler is unhurt.—. Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCovERT IN A CrtuRcHYARD.
—Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held an adjourned inquest, in
the Board-room of St. James's workhouse, Poland-
street, Oxford-street, on the body of a new-born female
child, which was discovered in the churchyard of St.
James's, Piccadilly, under the following extraordinary
circumstances:—Margaret Wyatt, vestry-keeper of St.
James's Church, stated that about a quarter-past six
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went and picked it up, but finding that it
was unusually heavy she replaced it, until the
arrival of Holland, the gravedigger, when it was
opened, and found to contain the body of a full-
grown child; the body was carefully wrapped in a piece
of new white calico, and a sheet of wadding, and to the
former was pinned a note, evidently written by a female,
bearing the following address:—" To the finder, and
pray do as directed in this paper." On opening it a
half-sovereign fell out; its contents were as follows:
" Dear Christian, whosoever you are, that may find this
dear little innocent, will also find ten shillings with it;
please to get a box and bury it. It had no fault, and
knew no sin." Mr. French, surgeon, said that the child
had breathed, but it was possible it may have died in the
birth from protracted labour. The inquiry_ was ad-
journed in order to trace the guilty parties. Yesterday,
on the re-assembling of the jury, Inspector Squires, who
had had the case in haul, informed the Coroner that he
had been unable to procure any further information in
the case; and, at the suggestion of the Coroner the jury
returned a verdict of " Found dead."
CLOSING OF THE MENDICITY SOCIETY FROM THE
FATAL EFFECTS OF TYPHUS FEVER,—Yesterday the
managers of the Mendicity
Society in Red Lion-squat©
were obliged to close their offices in Red Lion-square,
together with their corn-mills and stone-breaking yards
for the employment of the destitute poor, which are
situate in New Ormond-street, Queen-square, in Con-
sequence of the prevalence of typhus fever, which had
been caught from some of the wretched and numerous
applicants who have lately besieged the office for relief.
All the numerous officers connected with the establish-
ment have been more or less severely attacked, and Mr.
W. Knyvett, who for many years has been the indefati-
gable manager of the institution, has fallen a victim,
having died from the fever on Tuesday afternoon. To
prevent further loss of life and the spread of infection,
by the advice of the medical attendants, the establishment
has been closed until it can, consistently with public
safety, be re-opened. This temporary closing will in
itself be deeply felt by the destitute poor, as between 500
and 600, men, women, and children, have been daily fed,
and work found for many more at the mills and stoat!!
yards.