The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 19.—PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—The
lira 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.
CAius COLLEGE. —The Rev. John Gooch, 8.A., has just
be en elected second master to the Wolverhampton Free
Grammar School.
ariSlichcl oio.L.
Tm The
following appointments have taken
place : —The Rev. Charles Maitland Long, M.A., of Trinity
College, to the rectory of Settrington, Yorkshire ; value
1,045 L The Rev. Henry Almack, D.D ,of St. John's College, the rectory of Fawley, Buckinghamshire ; value 391/.
The Rev. Alfred Martell, 8.A., of St. John's College, to the
vicarage of Heaton, Herts. ; value 1001. The Rev. Salisbury
Dunn, M.A., of St. John's College, to the curacy of Haze-
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 vs•
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 ciuidi •
dates.

DEAN IRELAND'S SCROLARSHIP.—The examiners (Dr.
Jeune, 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 liennaway, Christ
Church.

FOREIGN REFINED SUGAR.—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.
big) fir exportation, in order to guard against any deficien-
cies that may arise in the transit, or in the operation of crash-
ing, and to assess the parties on whose requisition such removals
took place with the amount of the duties on such defici-
. . .

enciesi 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
agai st 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 are
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 secretor}, 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, ae
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 halt.
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 Januaries 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 8-57 Inches, of which 3.05 inches feel on the last thirteen
days of the month. Only in three instances .in the last seventeen

yeirs 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 tall of rain
WAS in the two middle weeks of the month, 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 M the
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am
at en early hour in the morning the barometer stood
and nine-tenths, of an in
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fell knduroiwiing
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n
GE,,TS.E.RArTU.S.
re-
nowned General Tom Thumb, 1 the Trades Hall, at Airdrie. eu
portion •f the floor gave way with an
—During kllD
one of
dlasptr'eca largeipltated same 300 men, women, and children,
aliwonin al
y crash, night
a
a distance of fourteen feet. The scene of con •
mingled with the groans ani screechings of
minstioon thean room c:xm excitement,
bel
eineewn,t,
the suffering and affrighted multitude, can scarcely be imagined.
About 1,000 persons were in the ball, but fortunately, and strange to
say, no death was occasioned by the accident. One man, Mr. Win.
Manley, lamplighter to the town, had a leg broken, and several other
parsons, including some of the General's suite, were bruised, but not
dangerously. That portion of the floor which fell was the precise
spot where the General gave his performances, and which the little
fellow had left only two minutes before, and had gone into an ad-
joining room to change his costume. The table on which be exhi-
bited fell with the multitude, and was crushed to atoms. We are
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 if time a serious inconve-
nience to themselves.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN A PAPER MlLL.—Thurs-
day afternoon an accident, attended with most frightful results,
occurred to a young man, named William Tronter, aged nineteen,
which it is feared will terminate fatally. The poor fellow was en-
gaged in an extensive paper-mill at Footscray, Kent, and whilst
cleaning the machinery his left leg slipped hi the cogwheels, and
before the mill could be stopped, his left leg was literally crushed tt
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-eurgeon,
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 hat
night he was progressing as favourably as could be expected,
RECRUITING IN THE NORTH.—Recruiting parties
are now actively engaged in all tke 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.
THE LATE ASSASSINATION IN DRUR7-LANE.-011
Thursday 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 brassfeunder, of No.
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
Bow-street police report. The Coroner summed up in a very
erg.
manner, and the jury, after a short consultation, returned Breda
of " Wilful Murder against Thomas Wm. Wicks," who Ls al
committed to take his trial for the murder.
RUUINL—We are enabled tc set at rest the
lhewv_ehtedve
question as to the re-appearance of the prince of t 3
Seal,
and his
the best authority to announce that his retirement
resolution irrevocable. ,9„,QuAent.-Thure-
ALARMING FIRE NEAR ST. JA
fiorf:atibripmeenters and under-
takers re e eas t
the iB to 36,
dpauyk,
elisettrwe
te,n
St.ee James's.ven an d
occupation of Messrs. Elmore and Clements,
Madame Delacoir. Several
takers ; and the upper P laboured to the utmost,
iture, was deetroyed, au I
by water. Madame Delazoir is said
the lower part serlousiy,firn
and the flames
eebotm'ruutnin
portionetltaken;
of the 91tnise°,nwtihthe
..red
Na v L Ja —1 he strawberry leaf is
the uc: coronet. It is proposed that tide
Is have l7tti:te number
si
gc f t
d be altered to the gooseberry, as being more In-
dicative of the fools tertailjneew:delukealdsElhdabv.ane lkattyeeen making of them.
CoURTERFEITING ENGLISH MARKS.—The Messrs.
Taylor, of Leicester, England, have ebtaine,d a verdict of 800 dollars
against Daniels and Carpenter, in the United States Circuit Court,
Boston, for counterfeiting their marks on their " Persian thread," by
which the interests of the Messrs. Taylor were injured.—American
Paper.
FIRE AT SHOREDITCH WORKHOUSE.—Thursday night,
shortly atter ten o'clock, considerable alarm was occasioned lit Kluge-
land-road, in consequence of a fire breaking out in the laundry of
Shoraditch workhouse. This portion of the building contained a
quantity of linen on the racks, drying, and it is supposed that a por-
tion must have fallen upon an ironing-stove which stood on the floor,
and by that means becoming ignited, the fames would ascend to the
top of the compartment. The parish engine was speedily on the
i spot, and, with the assistance of the inmates, the fire was fbrtunately
extinguished before much damage was done.