The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

PUNCH'S PRIZES fur the SESSION.
Mr. Punch's Sessional Examination of his 3 oung wit
(.1d friends of the St. Stephen's School, Westminster,
which is breaking up for the holidays, took place this
week, in the presence of a numerous and distiegnisli..:
audience of the nobility, gentry, and public in general.
Mr. Punch has much pleasure in furnishing the fol-
lowing list of prizes bestowed on the occasion:—
To Master John Russell, the head boy of the estab-
lishment, the first prize, for General Inefficiency; and an
extra prize (a medal, with the motto, " Vox et pra-terea
nihil") for an essay, illustrated with practiced exsreples,
"On the Art of doing the Least Possible Work in the
Greatest Possible Time." For this last prize t re were
a great many competitors, but Master Russtlfs essay
was by much the most successful.
To Master George Bentinck, the first prize for Arith-
metic and Artificial Memory. This young gentleman ex-
hibited the most extraordinary feats in mnemonics, com-
mitting to memory, within an incredibly short time, long
tables of figures and statistical returns upon every sub-
ject, and repeating them without any regard to order or
natural arrangement. In order fully to test his powers,
subjects were purposely chosen on which he possessed no
previous knowledge whatever.
To Master Benjamin Disraeli, the first prize fcr
Elocution, with extra prizes for an essay "On the Use
and Abuse of Words," and a disquisition " Oa the Cau-
casian Theory of Civilization," which showed much in-
genuity in contradicting all the theories of ethnographers
on European languages and races.
To Master Chisholm Anstey, prizes for scme re-
markable pieces of Crochet Work, and an Essay on
" The Art of Unpopularity in Addressing Popular As-
semblages."
To Master Urquhart, a Certificate of Honour, for a
Fixed Idea, manufactured entirely by himself in his
leisure hours, and an amusing comic recitation with
Master Anstey, called " The Impeachment."
To Master Brotherton, a prize for au essay " On the
Advantage of Early Hours," and general regularity.
To Master Bowring, a certificate for procuring the
greatest number of useless returns.
To Master Morpeth, a prize for Good Temper, and
obliging readiness to give way to every body in every-
thing, with marks for his diligence in undoing his own
work.
Prizes were also awarded to Master Wilson, for unre-
mitting attention in the discharge of his duties to himself.
To Masters Sibthorp and Ty rell, for grinning through
horse collars, and generally promoting the amusements
of the young gentlemen.
To Master Hume, for Essays " On Economy in the
use of Pocket Money," and " A Cheap Method of
Writing, by which crosses on t's and dots over i's are
entirely got rid of."
To Master Palmerston, for his intrepidity in jumping
into hot water on all occasions.
To Master Charles Wood, for his pursuit of financial
knowledge under difficultses.
And to the Irish Class, in a body, for their ingenious
definitions of the following words:—" Treason," " Saxon
Oppression," " Job," " Duties of Property," and " Jas-
. tice to Ireland."—Punch.

REMOVAL OF THE QUADRANT COLONNADE.—The
Quadrant Colonnade will in a few days be removed under
the Act recently obtained (the 11th and 12th of Victoria,
cap. 50). The statute gives the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests power to take down the Colonnade
and dispose of the materials, also to erect balconies in
front of the houses, with other improvements. The ex-
pense of executing the works, including the money to
be realized on the sale of the materials, is not to exceed
9.5001, which amount is to be repaid by assessment on
the houses in the Quadrant. Money may be raised by
mortgage to effect the alteration. The Act contains
28 sections, with a schedule of forms to be used in carry-
log the same into effect.
MILLEANK. PRISON.—By an Act passed on the 4th
instant (11 and 12 Vic., cap. 104), for amending the Act
for regulating the prison at Millbank, the functions of
the inspectors of Millbank prison ceased and determined,
and power is now given to the Secretary of State to ap-
point in their place " visitors" to the prison, who are to
perform the duties with respect to the prison,
_ which the
visiting justices perform with respect to their prisons.
'1 he visitors are to be a body corporate, by the style of
1" The Visitors of Nlillbank Prison." _ _

The Lady Charlotte Montgomery was safely de-
livers d of a son at Grey Abbey, county Down, onl hurt-
lay last.
A BOLD COACHMAN.—We mentioned recently that
the Niagara Falls had been bridged, and had been crossed
by the engineer in a one-horse vthicle. The American
papers give the following letter from Mr. Ellett, dated the
29th of July:—" This morning I laid the last plank of
my foot-bridge on the Canada side, and then drove over
and back again in a buggy. :500 feet of the bridge was
ithout railing on either side. Aly horse, though spi-
rited, went along quietly, touched up occasionally with
a whip, just to show him that he was in command and
give him courage. On returning, 1 directed one of the
drivers to bring on his team, a two-horse close carriage,
weighing over a ton and a half. I took his place on the
box and drove over and back. The horses went quietly;
the flooring is but eight feet wide, 220 feet high, and
762 feet long, and without railing, over such a torrent
as you never saw, and never will see anywhere else."
Examiner.

We are pleased to learn that the tin works at Aber-
earn are to be resumed immediately.—Monmouthshire
Merlin.

A MODERN IllLo.—lf we took up a large lapstone
(such as is used by shoemakers to hammer their work
on) and showed it to the reader broken clean in two by
the blew of a man's hand, it is likely he would hardly cre-
dit his own eyes or our story. Yet such is the fact; there
was in Louth last Saturday a moderate-sized but ex-
tremely muscular Frenchman who performed this feat.
With "nothing at all in his hand but his fist," as the
Irishman sings, he broke by a sheer blow first a large
piece of flint, which was shivered into a dozen pieces,
and then a big granite cobble of the description above
referred to—this he broke clean into two pieces. There
was no trick whatever in the feat; it was done by the
strength and muscle of a man 5 feet 2 inches high.—
Lincoln Mercury.
COMMITTAL Or TEN CHARTISTS PROM BRADFORD.
—BRADFORD, FRIDAY.—The whole of the Chartist pri-
soners at Bradford, who stood remanded until this day,
were brought before Messrs. J. P. Tempest, John Rand,
J. Clayton, and Robert Milligan, in the magistrates' pri-
vate room, at the court-house, and the following were
committed for trial at the next York assizes, viz.:--
James Helliwell, wool-comber, aged 30 ; Eli Wilinan,
ditto, 30 ; Joseph Redehalgh, weaver, 21 ; Thomas
Ibbetson, woolcomber, 20 ; William Wood, ditto, 30 ;
Adam Stratten, ditto, 30 ; Thomas Wilkinson, weaver,
42 ; Edward Power, woolcomber, 42 ; Daniel Linden,
joiner, 34 ; George Hirst, 42, woolcomber. The first
nine prisoners are committed on charges of conspiracy,
and George Hirst, for drilling. The following were re-
mended:—John Smith, cordwainer, Horton, John Bent-
ley, Nathan Smith,. and John Sugden, woolcombere,
Bradford.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The Council of this
University have announced that the examination for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts for the present year is ap-
pointed to commence on Monday, October 23, continuing
until Thursday, the 26th. The subjects of examination
I are mathematics and natural philosophy, animal physi-
ology, classics, logic, and moral physiology, history,
French and German. The examination for honours will
commence on Monday, October 31, conlinuing until Fri-
day, November 17. The Council have fixed the remain-
ing examinations for degrees in the present year as
follow :—For the degree.ot Bachelor of Medicine, Moe-
day, November 6; or the degree of Bachelor of Laws,.
Monday, November 13; for the degree of Doctor of
Laws, Monday, November 13; for the degree of Doctor
of Medicine, Monday, November 27.
Tan NeaTu -WEST EXTRDITION.—A Montreal pa-
per has the following extracts from a letter of Dr. Rae
to his brother, giving a sketch of the progress made by
the north west expedition in search of Sir John Frank-
no, The letter is dated from Cedar Lake, near the west
end of Lake Winipeg, 10th June, 1848 :—"Having
t.keu on board some provisions and left some cases of in-
sTruments, taking some shot and ball instead, we took
our departure again on the 6th, and had not gone fifty
miles when large floes of ice, some of them a mile in ex-
tent, and two or three feet thick, again opposed our pro-
swaigned
foreft us shore r ewopportunely cam e
pro-
gress—we were detained a day by it, when a breeze of
preventedon,
strong breeze a-head, which has raised too heavy a sea
to allow us to make a wide traverse of the lake, but we
faronind cleared a pas-
expect to do so during the night, as the wind is r,_oowrwa
fall-
ing. We learnt a very distressing report at
who
who are
getting in by
house, regarding four of the expedition me D,
er.a.
ed.
said to have lost their way in a snow storm and p I b
are favourably
Neither the men nor boats from
Englandgand the latter fit
spoken of, the former being
whereas you well
know that the usual load is two. W 1
uiu brigade of boats,
are in hourly ex-
!' • thentic accounts regarding t, itb
by which we shall hear au a
to
e cetaartr;yo nonolifymoeneetin
good deal upon them
expedition party, and we depend_
piece
gtheo vsearstak:ptocsrlltini-gheet, _. 1
for a supply of perTe ,
fort the inner man. '
—On Saturday evening Mr.
CRUD MURDER. .
. can dried meat, and tongues to com-
Biggs, coroner,
of Alice Trinham, aged between
NV harf, on the body
held an inquest at the Ship, Essex
n
charged with wilful murder at the
Trinharn, stands b .
as will be sen y our police report.
Mansion House,
five and six years, for whose. death her mother, An
ble No. 41, who,
The only additional evidences was that of Buckley,
Thames Policeo-consta ,
after having
proved the finding of the body, stated that while on the
wayfrom the Mansion House to the Comer with the
mother of the deceased, she said, " I awn only sorry that
I did not go with my child, and I should not have done
it if I had not been driven to it." Inspector Bridges, of
the Thames Police, said that on a future occasion he
informed,
oorr
mt aendt ,
saw evidencethewtoombarnindgefloibrewraartedl.y
epee The
steward and stewardness of the Fawn, Margate steam-
bslolianit,ldhehawvaesi
the bar of the larboard sponson, and with her child
plunge into the water. For this and "
s and other evidence the
inquest was adjourned until Tuesday.
USE OF TIIE DAGUERREOTYPE.—Before Trinity
College church, Edinburgh, was taken down for railway
purposes, every stone was numbered and the building
was daguerreotyped, that it may be rebuilt in some other
,part of the city.
'file cost of staves for the special constables in
Liverpool, during the late anticipated disturbances, ex-
ceeded 6401.
On Thursday morning an old man named Prince
and his daughter were discovered murdered in their cot-
tage at Malherbes, commune of Saint Gavin, arrondisse-
ment of Blaye, in the department of the Gironde. They
were lying on the floor horribly disfigured. The old
man's son, Jean Prince, was the murderer, and on being
arrested his clothes were found to be stained with
blood, and ( VGII patches of the brains of his victims ad-,
hered to them. He had committed the crime with a
agricultural instrument called a tranche, in use in the
i district.— Paris paper.