The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

BELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 4.—At a meeting of the electors
holden this day, the following gentlemen were elected
to the vacancies on this fouAation:—Hammond Robe-
son Bailey, St. John's College; Charles Spread Towns-
bend, Jesus College.
At a Congregation holden this day, the undermen-
tioned degrees were conferred:—
Honorary Master of Arts—The Hon. Frederick
George Ellis (eldest son of Lord Howard de Walden),
Trinity College.
Masters of Arta—J. W. Neat, Corpus Christi Col-
lege; T. W. H. Gurney. St. John's College.
Bachelors of Arts—R bert Stafford Edwards, St.
John's College; Robert Warrener, Catherine Hall.
Doctor of Music—Henry Wilde, Trinity College.
The following gentlemen were admitted M. A.
Inceptors :—F. 0. Adams, Trinity College ; John
Caldecott, Trinity ; W. T. Collings, Trinity ; B. F.
Westcott, Trinity ; Augustus Jessopp, St. John's ;
Isaac Todhunter, St. John's ; G. E. Yate, St. John's ;
Stephen Hanson, Caius ; John Lamb, Camas ; C.
F. Mackenzie, Caius; J. W. Wiglesworth, Caius;
John Wisken, Caius; J. A. Wallace, Trinity Hall; S.
T. Gibson, Queen's College; John Raven, Magdalen
Hall.
At the same Congregation the following Graces
passed the Senate. The first was nen-placeted in the
White Hood House, but carried by 8 placets to 7 non-
pacets :-
1. John Disney, esquire, of St. Peter's College, and
of the Hyde, in the county of Essex, having offered to
transfer 1,0001. Three per Cents. to the Chancellor,
Masters, and Scholars 'of Cambridge for the purpose of
founding and endowing a Professorship of Classical
Antiquities, to be called " The Disney Professorship of
Archaeology."
To accept Mr. Disney's offer, subject to the conditions
specified in a motion to the Senate by the Vico-Chan-
cellor, dated March 31, 1351.
2. To appoint Dr. Bond, Regius Professor of Physic,
a member of the Syndicate appointed March 17th, to
consider whether any and what alterations may be made
in the regulations which fix the standing of candidates
for Honours in the Moral Science Tripos and Natural
Science Tripos.
3. To authorise the Vice-Chancellor to expend a sum
not exceeding 501. for the purpose of completing tbo
principal walk in the Botanic Garden.

TH PROJECTED VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC

REGIONS.

Of the nature of the projected voyage to the Arctic
Seas by Mr. Kennedy and his crew of Orkney men, in
search of Sir John Franklin, a few notes are supplied by
the John o' Groat Journal. Mr. Kennedy is now at
Aberdeen, where the little ship, the'' Prince Albert,"
is fitttng out. The route to be followed is
by Lancaster Sound, then down Prince Regent's
Inlet as far as possible. The ship is then to be moored
in some harbour, and two boats will be dispatched in
various directions according to circumstances, or as
the openings in the ice may present. One
boat it is intended to bring overland to the western
shore, at Cresswell or Brentford Bay in the direction
of the magnetic pole. The other will be sent south-
wards to Felix Harbour, and will cross Boothia
Isthmus, and after striking the sea-coast will pro-
ceed by Sir James Ross's Strait to meet the other
boat. After meeting, they will again diverge and
explore westward. It is then intended that one of
the boats be dispatched in the direction of Simp-
son's Straits, whilst the other will be directed north-
west with a view to come on the track of Dr. Rae and his
party. Mr. Kennedy has been thirteen years in the
service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and spent eight
years of that period in Labrador. Knowing the country,
and the abundance of deer, salmon, and marine animals,
he has the firm persuasion that at least a portion of Sir
James Franklin's party are yet alive. He goes out with-
out fee or reward, animated by a pure devotion to the
service. The crew consists of seventeen persons, nearly
ail natives of Orkney. The expedition is to be conducted
on teetotal principles; and the ship will be ready for
sea by the end of this month. She carries three boats
—one of mahogany, one of common materials, and
one of gutta percha. Messrs. Duthie, of Aberdeen,
are building a boat specially for Mr. Kennedy's use.
It is to be twenty-two feet long, only two feet wide at
the midships, or broadest part, and after being covered
with hide or gutta percha, with one person set in it—
canoe fashion—is calculated to draw only three inches of
water, the depth of the boat is to be twelve inches
at the seat. It is intended to propel this extraordinary
craft after the manner of the natives of these regions—
the Esquimanx—by a double-bladed oar, and the person
seated in it will be so covered up with a skin dress, but-
toned to the chin and fastened to the deck, that in the
event of its being swamped, it can easily be righted again
without any water getting into it. Mr. Kennedy con-
templates not only using this boat for crossing rivers
over ice, and down rapids, but to make it his couch of
repose all night, by simply pulling a blanket over him,
and there repose in a temperature that makes one freeze
to think of it. He has been accustomed to these hard-
ships, and has stood many nights in similar circum-
stances, with the thermometer 40 to 50 degrees below
zero; often, too, with no covering but the canopy of
heaven. The Prince Albert will be provisioned for two
years. All success attend her.
Letters have b3en received from Commander Pullen,
the officer in charge of the boat party from the Mackenzie
River, in search of Sir John Franklin. They are dated
Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie River, July 17, 1850, and
detail the proceedings of the party, who were upon the
point of starting, and hoped to reach the sea about
the 23d of that month. The season had been extraordi-
narily fine, and the party were confident of an open sea.
Others also, natives of tho country, were of the same
opinion. Should they find provisions and fuel plentiful
on, Banks's Land, it is possible that they might winter
there, for the further prosecution of the search next
season.—lnverness Courier.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE NEW YORK PACKET.
SHIP IVANHOE.

We regret to state that little doubt now remains as
to the fate of the splendid New York line of packet-ship
Ivanhoe and her officers and crew, respecting whose loss
grave apprehensions have recently been entertained.
Hitherto no public notice of the fact of the ship's non-
arrival has been taken, from a disposition to hope even
against hope; but by the royal mail steam-ship Asia ac-
counts were received from Savannah, on Saturday evening,
which render it unnecessary and futile, we fear, any
longer to preserve silence. Most of our readers will
remember that some months ago the Ivanhoe, whilst in
a storm at sea, lost her Commander, Captain Knight,
who was swept overboard, unseen, from the poop. Her
then chief mate afterwards received the command,
and when the Ivanhoe last left New York, early in
February, was makihg, we behave, his voyage hither
in that capacity. Subsequently to her depar.ure
from New Y,,rk the Ivanhoe wes oherved by
the Joseph Walker, which arrived in the Mersey on the
13th ultiwo, ashore on Nantucket Shoals during afresh
gale of wind, with hair sails ,:pread. Her arrival at this
port was, however, daily expected, but without avail;
and at length grave fears of her safety were awakened
by the fact that large quantities of wreck such as
would belong to a ship of the Ivanhoe class had
been passed off the Shoals in question. On Saturday,
however, circumstantial evidence of a more marked
character arrived in Liverpool ; namely, a re-
port from Savannah that the ship Julia Howard, whilst
on her passage from Boston to that city, passed, on the
12,h tilt., in lat. 30 34, long. 71, a quantity of wreck and
picked up a broken oar, upon the blade of which the word
Ivanhoe was stamped. Bales of cotton and casks, with the
private marks thereon, had also been picked up; and, al-
though the discovery of a broken oar cannot alone be taken
as evidence of the ship being,' entirely lost, with all her
crew, yet, combined with the other evidence already
alluded to, we fear it must destroy even the remotest
hope
entertained of the Ivanhoe's safety. The Ivanhoe
was a fine ship, of about 1,300 tons register, and was
formerly commanded by
as having made several quick passages in' her between
this port and New York. She was quite :favourite
ship with both passengers and shippers of merchandise.
—Liverpool Albion.

ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL.- On Friday afternoon a
general court of the governors of this institution was held in
the board-room, for the purpose of receiving the report of
the financial condition of the hospital during the past year,
and on general business. The minutes of the last qnarterly
court having been confirmed, the financial report was pre-
sented. The balance in hand on the 31st of December,lB49,
was 8051.45. 9d. The annual subscriptions amounted to
3,367/ 14s. 10d., and the life subscriptions to 255/. The di.
vidends were 2,3781. 188. 2d., and these sums—added to the
receipts room pupils, benefactions, and legacies—gave a total
ordinary income of 6,973/. 4s. 4d. The sale of stock during
the year realised 7,6011. 17s. 11d., and 111/. Bs. 4d. had been
received from the Sun and Westminster Fire Insurance
offices for damages done by the late fire at the hospital.
The total
receipts for the year amounted to 15,5061. 14s.
7d.
eildrrinhe
The
receipts on behalf of the convalescent fund were
2 55L
17osf.
year were 12,199/.6. 4d and 2,520 E had been paid on ac-
count3s2/. 9s. Bd. had been paid expenses of the establishment for the
g contracts and architect's. commission.
I claims ; making
the expenditure 15 alid to answer special
18s. in favour of the
charity. This statement was received,
and, after the tranzact.
__, 65., and leaving a balance of 434/.
I°4 of some routine business, the board
separated.

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