The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-17 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14.

The Vice-Chancellor met the members of the
Senate in the Art School to-day, for the purpose
of considering the changes proposed by the Council
as to the payment of University officers, and the
fees to be taken on proceeding to degrees.
Professor Selwyn objected to a stipend of 1501.
per annum to the Public Orator in lieu of the fees
now paid ; but Mr. Clark, the Orator, said he en-
tirely agreed in the proposed scheme.
It is also proposed by the Council that the
salaries of the Registrary, the Esquire Bedells,
Proctors, Moderators, and Pro-Proctors should be
paid as fixed sums out of the common chest, in-
stead of by fees, as at present.
Mr. G. Williams' of King's, thought the sum of
2501. for each Proctor too small a sum, consider-
ing the duties they had to discharge, as well as the
sum of 2001. per annum for each Bedell.
Dr. Leaping well observed that if 2001. was
deemed sufficient for an Esquire Bedell, 2501.
ought to be enough for a Proctor, the office being
only for one year, and the holder of it generally a
Fellow of his College, and with a living in per-
spective.
The duties of the Yeoman Bedell having become
extinct, the office, as well as that of school-keeper,
is proposed to be abolished, and two University
marshals appointed instead.
Professor Selwyn objected to the abolition of the
schoolkeeper ; the clause was supported by Mr. C.
C. Babington, of St. John's.
On the proposed new scale of fees for degrees to
be paid to the University-chest, as well as the fee
of 30s. to be paid by every undergraduate before
being examined at the previous examination, Mr.
Emery, of Corpus, thought they might be placed a
trifle higher. The University would now be called
upon to meet a variety of charges, and be did not
see the way it could be effected, and he advised a
moderate increase upon the scale recommended by
the Council, as being no real hardship ou the payer,
and as being, if adopted, of vital importance to the
University.

Mr. Raby, of St. John's, took the same view, and
thought it wrong to hesitate about a small sum on
One side or the Ether.

The Master of St. John's said it.would much
assist the deliberation of the Councilright.
ftthe Senate
would intimate what they thoughtri
It being proposed to charge 201. rorteh'ese
oUfnDiveDr-
sity-chest to all who proceed to the decrees
and LL.D., Professor Selwyn most energetically
contended for a sum of 10 guineas instead*
held u. p a scale, elaborately drawn, showing' the ine-
equality in. the charge as compared with other de-
grees, which created some amusement. He insisted
though it Was stated that the same degrees at Ox-
ford paid the sum of 401., that it would prevent
poor men from proceeding to the degree of D.D.,
and so operate as an injustice.
He was replied to by the Master of St. John's,
Mi. C.C. Babington, and Mr. Campion, of Queen's.
The scheme proposes to confer degrees upon mem-
bers of the University in their absence, which will
be a great convenience to those absent in the colo-
nies.

DUR RANI.
The statute, dated September 28, 1857, for
electing annually two members of the senate, one
by Convocation and one by the Fellows, to be ap-
proved by Convocation, having prescribed that
" the time and mode of election shall be settled by
the Warden and Senate,"

The Warden and Senate, under the powers so
given, have made the following regulations :

ELECTION OF ♦ MEMBER OF SENATE BY
C NVOCATION.

1. The election shall take place annually at the
Convocation holden on the last Tuesday in Easter
term.

2. The name of each candidate shall Le sent in,
ty himself or by some other member cf Convoca-
tion, to the Warden, twenty-one days at least
before the day of eke ion.
3. The Warden shall cause the names of candi-
dates tr) be placed ott the door of the Convocation-
house fifteen days at least before the day of election.
4. In case there shall be no more than one can-
didate the Warden shall declare him elected, at the
Convocation aforesaid.

ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF SENATE BY THE FEL-
LOWS OF THE UNIVERSITY, TO BE APPROVED BY

CONVOCATION. -
1. The election shall take place annually within
the Castle, at 11 o'clock in the morning of the last
Tuesday in Easter term, the senior fellow present
being in the chair, and having an original and a
casting vote.
2. The votes of the fellows shall be tendered in
ps3.i son.
The name of each candidate shall be sent ix,

by himself or by some fellow of the university, to
the Warden, 21 days at least before the day of elec-
tion.

4. The Warden shall cause the names of the can-
didates to be placed on the door of the Convoca-
tion-house 15 days at least before the day of elec-
tion.

5. The name of the person elected by the fellows
shall be sent in by the senior fellow present to the
Warden and Senate ; and the Warden shall sub-
mit it for approval to the Convocation holden the
same day.
6. In case the person elected by the fellows is
not approved by Convocation, it shall be left to
the Warden to appoint another day of election,
provided always that such day shall not be later
than the first Convocation in the following Michael-
mas term.
7. The Pemberton fellow shall have a 'Cote at
the election of a member of senate by the fellows.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE;

Orders have been receivedat Chatham by the officer
in command of the depot of the 24th Regiment,
directing 120 men of that regiment to proceed to
Dover, in charge of Capt. W. B. C. Goodison, for
the purpose of joining the 2d battalion, which is
now being raised.

The steamship Pacific, 1,500 tons, Capt. W. C.
Thompson, having been chartered by the Govern-
ment for conveyance of troops between England
and Ireland, arrived at Bristol from Kingstown on
Sunday week, and disembarked the Royal North
Gloucester Militia (who proceed to Cirencester to
be disembodied), consisting of Col. Kingscote, Cap-
tains Sir J. M. Steele, Jones, Edison, and Fisher,
Lieuts. Hunte, Viscount Andover, Daniel, Born-
ford, Hunt, and Luthbury ; Assistant-Surgeon
Striven, wife, and child, and one female servant ;
540 rank and file, 48 soldiers' wives, and 48 chil-
dren. The Pacific returned to Kingstown, and ar-
rived again at Bristol on Thursday last with the
Ist Royal Surrey Militia, consisting of Col. Sumner
Major Scott, Capts. Penrhyn, Calvert, Barron,
Platt, Forbes, Sumner, Pepys; Lieuts. Whitmore.
Peter•, Medley, Bayne, Carleton, (Ste. ; one lady
and child, four servants, 691 rank and file, 43 wo-
men, and 33 children.
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt. Eyres,
C. 8., flagship for Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey,
superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard, was taken
out of harbour on Friday to try her engines since
her last commission as flagship of the Commander-
in-Chief of the Baltic fleet. Admiral Sir G. Sey-
mour, K.C.8., Flag-Captain Seymour, C. 8., aide-
de-camp to the Queen; Capt. the Hon. G. F. Hast-
ings, C. 8., Captain Eyres, Commander Erskine,
Mr. M*rdoch, inspector of machinery ; Mr.
Tonkin, R.N., Second Master-Attendant of Ports-
mouth dockyard ; Mr. R. C. Allen, Master, R.N.,
and other officers were on board. The object of the
cruise was to test the working of the engines, which
did their work, as formerly, very well.
By letters from the south-east coast of America
station we learn that the Cumberland, 70, Captain
Dickson, flag of Vice-Admiral Wallis, had struck
upon a rock on the 15th of March, in the River
Plate, when going down for a short cruise. Luckily
the water was smooth, and she got off again with-
out material damage, but sustained enough to
necessitate her return to England to be docked and
repaired. She may be expected to arrive about the
end of June. The ship was in the full charge of a
pilot at the time of the catastrophe, and the Admi-
ral was not on board, having some time before
shifted his flag to the Virago steam sloop. Admiral
Wallis had promoted Mr. James Ray, senior clerk
iu the Secretary's office on board the Cumberland,
to the rank of Paymaster and Purser, vice Evers-
field, of the Madagascar, deceased.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steam Navigation Company's screw ship City of
Manchester, 2,109 tons, Capt. James Kennedy,
arrived at Portsmouth on Friday afternoon, from
Liverpool, to prepare for embarkation, this day, of
the following troops : For Gibraltar Brevet
Lieut.-Col. Willes, Brevet Lieut.-Col. Lowndes,
Captains Lloyd, Fuller, Fielden, Phillips, Battis-
combe, Black, Waldy, Grant, Dowglasse, and Good-
win ; Lieutr. Grahame, Harness, Kelson, Pro-
tberoe, Wolseley, James, Ball, and Adcock ; En-
signs Neale, Harrison, Robinson, Morland, Butler,
Rowarth, Gdird, Moriarty, Lowndes, Ensign and
Adjutant Kitchener, Surgeon Hyde, Assistant-Sur-
geon Kerr, Paymaster O'Connor, Quartermaster
Haden, 39 staff sergeants and sergeants, 16 drum-
mers, 812 rank and file of the 2d Battalion of the
6th Poet ; Ensign Taite, wife, and servant ; Ensign
Tibbetts, and Surgeon Atkinson of the 31st Foot ;
2 officers, 98 men, 6 wives and 9 children of the
Royal Engineers for Algoa Bay ; Lieut.-Colonel
FreeEe, R. A., wife, 6 children, and 2 servants.
From Gibraltar she will embark about 36 officers,
871 men of the 2d Battalion of the 31st Foot, with
their families, for Algoa Bay, bringing thence 2
officer., 104 of the Royal Engineers, 14 wives, 36
children, and the Reserve Battalion of the 12th
Foot—about 18 officers, 439 men, 5 officers' wives,
7 children, 22 soldiers' wives, and 55 children for
Portsmouth. The City of Manchester was officially
inspected on Saturday alongside Portsmouth Dock-
yard by Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke
Scarlett, K. C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the South
West District, Lieut.-Col. Wright, Assistant-Quar-
termaster-General, and Rear-Admiral the Hon.
George grey, Superintendent of the dockyard ;
Captain Eyres, C. 8., of the Duke of Wellington,
and Captain the Hon. G. F. Hastings, C.B , of the
Hannibal, also visited her. She will leave to-
morrow.

Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Urgent, Com-
mander M'Donald arrived at Portsmouth on Satur-
day from the Mediterranean with the following pas-
sengers and troops :—From Malta—Lady Montagu
St ,pford and 3 children, Mrs. Logan and 3 children,
Mrs. White and 1 child, Mrs. H. Jones and 2 chil-
dren, Mrs. Collings, Miss Tudor, Miss Richards,
Miss Millar, Mrs. Quinton and 3 children ; Ensign
Bainbridge, of the 21st Regiment, on leave ; Major
and Mrs. Pearson, 32 naval invalid 4, 2 officers, 20
men, 3 wives, and 5 children of the Royal Artillery;
2 sergeants of the Royal Engineers ; 17 men, I wife
and 2 children of the 14th Foot ; Lieut. Cooke (in
charge) and 14 men of the 21st R ; Assistant-
Surgeon Irwin (in medical charge) of the 28th Foot;
4 men el the 31st Foot, 2 of the 28th, 8 of the 57th,
and one wife ; 22 of the 2d Battalion Ist Royals, 5
wives, and 6 children ; 2 men of the 48th. From
Gibraltar—Mrs. General Williams; 4 children, and
2 servants ; Mrs. Admiral Elliot, 5 children, and
3 servants ; Mrs. M'Efferty ; Mrs. Clauben, and 2
children ; Mrs. Richardson ; Mrs. Oxley ; Mrs.
Thorpe, and 2 children ; Mr. and Mrs. Wills, and
5 children ; Mrs. Adams, Mr. Dixon ; Mr. Dun-
widdie ; Mr. M`Killop and 4 children ; Capt. Hay,
92d Regt. ; Lieut. Campbell, 48th, on leave, &c.
She went alongside Portsmouth harbour on Satur-
day afternoon about 5 o'clock, and, by the attention
of Messrs. Rickman and Moore, principal Custom-
house officers, the passengers' baggage was speedily
passed and cleared, and the trains thereby saved
for London.
'Eh° sloop Racehorse, 14, Commander Arthur
Wilmshurst, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Saturday morning, left Hongkong January 6th,
Singapore 27r1f, Cape of Good Hope March 16th,
and St. Helena 27th. She spoke on the line the
ship Somnoth, of Greenock, from Rangoon,
and sighted her again on Friday entering Falmouth
Harbour. The Racehorse was commissioned Nov.
28, 1853, and has been chiefly employed in the
Chinese rivers, and protecting shipping, dm Forty
invalids from the fleet in China have coma in her.

Her Majesty's steam-ship Tulcau, Commander
John' Seacombe, arrived at Spithead yesterday
morning from Malta and Gibraltar, w,hich she left
on the 4th and 10th inst. respectively, bringing the
following passengers :—Commander Nelson, R.N.;
the Rev. Mr. Hind, chaplain RN., to join the
Cambridge ; Lieut.-Colonel Butler, of the 48th ;
Capt. Stewart, of the 48th ; Lieut. Tbackeray,
48th ; Lieut. Mills, of the 57th ; Mrs. and Miss
Beckwith, Mrs. Johnson and two children, Miss
O'Reilly, Miss Parkes ' • Mrs. Steuart, child, and
servant ; the Misses Inglefield (4) and two servants;
Mrs. Nebs, Mrs. Ains and child ; and 500 tons of
obsolete stores from Malta. From Gibraltar-33
of the Royal Artillery, 9 wives and 10 children.
The Vulcan made the passage out in 10 days and
ua were
r,al
23 hours, and home in 11 days 6 hours, including
stoppageeaatGdibwraitltharZ
hours.
and Thethe Buffs
ive
highly pleased
desire to make them comfortable by the commander
and officers. She will go alongside Portsmouth
harbour to-day to disembark.
J. Woolley, LL.D., Admiralty in-
spectorchools, has completed his half-yearly
for apprenticesat .0 -
inspection of the school. Chatham
Tile Rofv's
inspec
and the improvetuent
dockyard, and ho expressed his entire satisfaction
with the state of the school
made by the pupils.
,tt allina and
Charles Richards controller of the. vi ,mt.
Th.
T.
The Lords of the Admiralty have
.appointed Mr.
transport services of the navy, v,ce .1. r. cis.
Grant, F.R.S , retired.
Her Majesty's birthday was celebrated at 'Chat-
ham on Saturday in the usual manner.
The encampment for the troops b longing to. tin
ht battalion of infantry at Caatharn garrt,on,
under the command of Colonel H. Jervis, was
completed on Saturday, and the whole of the ten's
pitched on the site selected to the rear of Fort
Amherst, inside the Spur battery. The &pots
selected to occupy the tents are the officers and men
of the 24th Regiment, the officers and men of the
30th (Royal Sussex) Regiment, and the officers and
men of the 53d Regiment, ample accommodation
having
been provided for the men attached to those
corps.
The 13th company of Royal Sappers and Miners,