The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 20.—TRINITY COLLEGE ELECTIONS.—
There will be an election of two fellows in this college
on Monday, June 19. Natives of any county in Eng-
land (Essex and Gloucester on the present occasion
excepted) who have taken the decree of B.A. at least
are eligible. Candidates will be required to deliver in
person to the President certificates of their place of
birth, and testimonials of conduct, on or before Monday,
June 5, when they will receive notice of the time fixed
for their examination. There will also be an election of
three scholars on Monday, June 19. Candidates must
be above 16 and under 20 years of age, and will be re-
quired to present in person to the President certificates
of baptism and testimonials of conduct, together with a
Latin epistle to request permission to offer themselves at
nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, June 14, when the
examination will begin.
CHRIST CHURCH.—The Rev. R. Gordon, M.A., vicar
of Elsfield, to the rural deanery of Islip, in this county.
ORIEL COLLEGE.—The Rev. C. A. Fowler, M.A., to
the rectory of Crawley, Sussex.
WORCESTER COLLEGE.—The Rev. G. W. Kershaw,
Rector of Thwaite, Suffolk, to the rural deanery of
Hartsmere.
At the meeting of the Ashmolean Society on Monday,
Mr. Stackpoole, of New College, will read a paper on
the Parhelia of March 29, and Professor Powell a paper
on meteors.

The Regius Professor of Hebrew proposes to form a
new elementary class for those who wish to begin the
study of the sacred language. Those who wish to
attend these lectures are requested to call upon the Rev.
W. Kay, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, on Wednes-
day next, between the hours of three and four o'clock.
The Sedleian Reader in Natural Philosophy will begin
a course of lectures on Newton's " Principia" on Tues-
day, the 30th of May. The lectures will be free of ad-
mission to all bachelors and undergraduates of the Uni-
versity.
The Professor of Botany proposes to begin a course
of lectures on the Principles of Vegetable Physiology,
and of the Natural Classification of Plants, on Thurs-
day, June 1, at two o'clock. These lectures will be
delivered in the new buildings contiguous to the botanic
garden.

CORN WALL RAILWAY.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.—We learn with pleasure that a
meeting of the directors of this railway has been held at
Plymouth during the past week, at which it has been
resolved to continue the progress of the works of this
line, so as to be prepared for the extension of the opera-
tions immediately that such a course may be deemed
advisable. We are enabled to state that the experiment
with the iron cylinder at Saltash has fully answered the
most sanguine expectations of the superintendent engi-
neer. It will be recollected that a cylinder made of
boiler plate was some time since moored in the centre of
the river, the object being to ascertain whether, by its
sinking in the mud, it would not prove water-tight, and
thus answer the purpose of an ordinary coffer-dam, to
construct which in so great a depth of water would be
impracticable. This experimental cylinder is 6 feet in
diameter, and 85 in length. When moored in its proper
position it sank at once 10 feet into the mud, the depth
of the water at high tide being about 70 feet. On
Tuesday evening the water within the cylinder was
lowered 36 feet under high water mark, and at the end
of 16 hours it bad only risen again to the extent of 54-
inches. Yesterday the water was further lowered 17
feet 9 inches, and in a clay or two the remainder will be
drawn out, when by excavating the mud the full nature
of the foundation will be discovered. The rise of the
51 inches within the tube is fully accounted for by the
heavy rain which fell on Wednesday, and a slight leakage
in the joints of the boiler plates

LITERARY NEWS.—The public will be glad to
hear that a now work of fiction, from the pen of Sir Ed-
ward Bulwer Lytton, entitled ",Harold, the last of the
Saxon Kings," is in the press, and will be shortly pub-
lished by Mr. Bentley.
NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION.—The :day of nomi-
nation for this election is fixed for Wednesday, the 31st
instant, at Knutsford, and the polling days are appointed
for Monday and Tuesday, the sth and Gth of June,
ROBBERY OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.--
WORCESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—For some time past
this city has been infested with a gang of pickpockets,
who avail themselves of the crowded markets to ease
the pockets of the citizens and their wives of their loose
cash. To-day 'a suspected rogue of this class under-
went an examination before Mr. Sidebottom, police ma-
gistrate, on a charge of picking the pocket of a lady on
Saturday last, of gold and notes to the value of about
801., and a banker's draft for 1001. The robbery was
effected on Saturday last in the market-house, at mid-
day. The lady had been to her banker and obtained
the money, and thence went to the market house,
where she was hustled and robbed. The prisoner was
taken as he was leaving the city by railway for Birm-
ingham. A large sum of money was found upon him.
He stands remanded for the present.
IMPROPER BURIAL 01 THE DEAD.—Quite an army
of sextons took possession of ;the Liverpool Police-court
on Saturday, having been summoned, under the Sanitary
Act, for infraction of the law in the mode of conducting
interments. The informations were laid by the direction
of Mr. Fresh; they were for non-compliance with that
clause which requires that two feet six inches of earth
shall be placed on every coffin immediately after inter-
ment. 1). Mulligan, the sexton of St. Anthony's Ca-
tholic Chapel, appeared, in answer to one complaint,
but contended that the Act had been complied with,
which transpired to be literally true. It was explained
that after a coffin was lowered to its bed of rest, by
means of a machine contrived for the purpose, a body of
earth, of the thickness of two feet six inches, was set
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chapel, admitted that after two interments in separate
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ignorance, dismissed the cases; but warned them to
comply in future with the exact conditions of the law,
which was, that rifler each interment earth to the thick-
ness of two feet six inches be placed over the coffin' to
remain undisturbed: until the grave be wanted again.
The defendants promised obedience and departed.
The musical world has lost an important member
in the late Mr. Julian Kench, who expired, after a few
days' illness, on Monday last, at the premature age of
twenty-five. Mr. Kench, though a young was a very
rising man in his profession, yet his life was too short
to enable him to provide for the future necessities of his
family. He has left a widow and two children utterly
destitute.
THE 72D HIGHLANDERS.—On Thursday the depot
of this regiment, nearly 500 strong, under the command
of Major Maclean, recently stationed in Paisley and
Hamilton, passed through this city, and was conveyed
from Granton-pier to the Belleisle, and proceeded to
Sheerness.—Edinburgh Witness.