The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCT 21.—The Reader in Experimental Phi-
losophy will commence a course of lectures on me-
chanics, at the Clarendon, on Monday, the 26th instant,
at one o'clock. The lectures will be continued at the
same hour every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until
eompleted.
The Camden Professor of Ancient History will begin
on Thursday morning, at one o'clock, a courre of
lectures on the Romans of the second century, and in
Britain ; consisting of dissertations on their manners,
finance, jurisprudence, public works, &c., and on the
introduction of Christianity into Britain. The lectures
will be delivered in the Clarendon, On Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, and Saturdays, and are free of admission to mem-
bers of the University.
Mr. Boden, Professor of Sanserit, will commence his
lectures on Monday, the 2d of November at the Cla-
rendon, at two o'clock. ,
The Professor of Political Economy proposes to com-
mence a course of six lectures in the Clarendon, on
Monday, the 26th of October, at two o'clock, to be con-
tinued on the following days, at the same hour. The
subject of the course will be the history of the science
from the sixteenth to the conclusion of the eighteenth
century. The subsequent history will form the subject
of a future course in the approaching Hilary Term.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 21.—At a congregation held this
day the following degrees were conferred :

M. A.
George Smith Drew, St. John's College.
Robert Whytehead, St. John's College.
Robert Evelyn Roy, Corpus Christi College.
B. A •

Charles Edward Douglass, Trinity College.
Frederick James Abbott, Corpus ClirLti College.
Samuel Prince, Jesus College.
At the same congregation a number of graces were
passed, too numerous to specify at length. The result
of the day's proceedings in the Senate-house may be
given as follows:

- The Porson Scholarship.—Archdeacon Burney's pro-
posal to found, from the residue of the Porson fund, now
in his hands, and the interest thereon, a scholarship, to
be called the Porson Scholarship. Accepted. The
scholarship to be founded as soon as the investment in
the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities shall
have accumulated to such amount as to produce 651. pt r
annum. The Porson scholar to receive 60/., the other
Si. to be invested in the like stock for the general pur-
poses of the trust. The holding of any other university
scholarship not allowed. Term of scholarship three
years and a half from the Michaelmas. day preceding the
election. Residence for the major part of each term re-
quired. Candidate must have been matriculated, and
not of more than one year's standing. Examination ex•
elusively classical and in Greek, confined to h
Pindar, JEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Theocritus,
Demosthenes, lEschines, Herodotus, and Thucydides,
and the critical and metrical writings of Porson. Exa-
mination to take place between the division and the end
of the Michaelmas term. Examiners—Vice-Chancellor,
Provost of King's, Masters of Trinity, St. John's, Christ's,
and Caius, Public Orator, and Greek Professor.
Regencies.—Allo ed to resume:—
Mr. Skinner, Jesus College.
Mr. Frere, Downing College.
Mr. Hall, Clare Hall.
Mr. Marsh, Trinity Hall.
Examiners.—Those for mathematical and classical
honours, for the poll (the great B.A. Examination at the
opening of next year), and the Previous Examination
1847, appointed—their names will appear when the
results of the examinations shall have been aflnounced.
Books, manuscripts (the loan of ), grants of money,
leases, &c., conceded to members of the University, and
other applicants.

.omer,

PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.
This examination took place on Monday. The eta.
miners were—

Rev. J. Power, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College.
Rev. L. W. Sampson, M.A., Fellow of King's College,
C. W. Goodwin, M.A., Fellow of Catherine Hall.
J. Edlestone, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College.

TIIE CHURCH.
The following appointment has taken place:—
The Rev. William Selwyn, M.A. of St. John's Co
ege, to the vicarage, of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
?atron, Dean and Chapter of Ely; value, 250/.

IMPORTATION OF CAMELS.
A Sway ABOUT BATTY, THE EQUESTRIAN.
We have mentioned elsewhere the arrival, per the
Achilles, of two camels from Smyrna. These were
purchased through the agency of Mr. Hall, of the
Oriental Company's cffice, for Mr. W. Batty, the
spirited proprietor of the AMphitheatre erected by him,
at an expense of 30,0004, on the site of the building,
formerly Astley's, destroyed by fire five years
ago. Mr. Hall has a commission to purchase
six more camels, and two elephants, for Mr. Batty,
to take part in some of the Oriental specta-
cles got up at the Amphitheatre. The two brought home
by the Achilles are Syrian camels, four years old, the
female being in foal. They ars of moderate height, not
reaching the full size till eight years old, and these being
much less than the Arabian Proper, and much more so
than the native Indian camel. The latterwill rise from the
ground with a ton weight on his back! The cost of the
Syrian camel is not more than 30/., but that becomes
lOU when freight and all charges are paid. They are
collected in Syria, much in the same manner as horses
in England, Isom bret ders in particular localities, and
are purchased from them at 101, or even less ;
but, of course, increase in charge according to
breed and distance to be conveyed. Mr. Batty came
down to Southampton to supezintend the landing of
the camels, and as his friend Ileneler has his circus in
the town, he lent them for his public procession
and for an evening's exhibitb.n in the circle.
he procession was tendered very imposing.
A gaily-painted caravan, drawn by splendid co-
loured horses, contained a fine band, followed by lady and
gentlemen equestrians on very fine horses, arid the roar
brought up by the camels, which were certainly the only
symmetrical and elegant-looking animals of their species
we ever saw, owing to their slender legs and beautifully
curved necks ; the hump was not particularly protrube-
rant, and the body wit dissimilar to a large red-deer.
f'he colour was a pure fawn. Their attendants, being a
couple of heavy Hampshire stable fellows, dressed in
bed-curtain costume intended for Eastern, caused much
fun. Finally, there followed two poneys, one of which
was the smallest we ever beheld, about the sits of an
ordinary Newfoundland pup. We have mentioned above
that Mr. Batty built his Amphitheatre at a cost of
30,000/. Of that sum he laid down 94,0001. cash of his
owe, and paid off the other 6,0001, very soon after-
wards. Besides that large sum in ready money, his stud
and properties were very valuable.
.Yet Mr. Batty be-
gan business on his own account, not above twenty years
ag:), with but 5/., the hard savings of t n apprentice to
a riding-master in a travelling circus. His first decided
advance from mountebanking (selling cloth and other
goods by a species of lottery, the company being at-
tracted by the performance of a single horse in a circle
in a field, now exploded) was in Southampton, where he
picked tip " very considerably. One of his best bar-
gains for a horse at that time was with a late proprietor
of Bevois Mount. Even at that early time, when sh

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were of more account to Batty than pounds are,
or at least need be to him, now, he conceived the idea
of breeding for himself, and that a new patterned horse.
fie observed that the piebalds, and blotched, and be-
daubed horses were common, and with great judgment
and good taste ho selected the mare and sire of almost
all his present stud, whose beatitiful spots on a grey
ground are as handsome as those of the leopard. The
cost and privation in business which the acquisition of
this stock caused for some years was very great, but the
return hts been enormous. We mention this fact as in-
dicative of Batty's foresight. We may add to this no-
tice, that he set out in life with a determination to com-
pel people to respect him. Unlike many other travelling
exhibitions, his accounts were always settled before he
left the town, and those of his people also. lie was,
therefore, always welcomed back again. In his instance,
as in many others of successful adventure in a precari-
ous profession, it will be found, on inquiry, that recti-
tude and perseverance have overcome every disadvantage
of original position.—Hcmpshire Advertiser,

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
BRISTOL, OCTOBER 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 1 —Great
New, 7%—Midland, New, 35%—North British, Quarters,
Extension, 15s. p.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—Shrop-
3;es—teDrnit, to.
shire Union, 11. 19s. 6d.—Taff Vale, 133.