The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-29 00:00:00

LONDON UNIVERSITY.

On Saturday the distribution of the prizes by Lord
Brougham, who presided in the Chair on this occasion, to
the students of the London University who have most distin-
guished themselves in the session 1834-35, took place in the
presence of the Members of the Council and the patrons and
friends of the institution. The theatre was crowded in every
part; amongst the company were a great number of ladies.
We observed the Speaker of the House of Commons ; Mr.
Tooke, the Member for Truro ; Professor Milne; Mr. James
Booth, Dr. Bostock, Mr. Gibson, and other eminent indivi-
duals present.
The business of the day was opened by the Dean of Faculty
reading the Report. He stated that the period which had
elapsed since the University was founded was too short for
them to be able to boast of any who bad been educated there
having distinguished themselves in public life, but many who
had been compelled to resort to Cambridge to obtain those
distinctions which " at present" the London University could
not confer, had carried off the honours.—(Applause.) In ad-
dition to those who had distinguished themselves at Cam-
bridge, two of their students had been successful competitors
at the University of Glasgow.—( Cheers.) The Report then
went on to state that the progress of the students had been
very satisfactory. During the late session 26 courses had
been given, which had been attended by 465 students, this
being a greater number than had attended in the previous
session. It was also stated that a Chair of Geography had
been established, and the University had the honour of being
the first in the kingdom to appoint such a professor.
Lord BROUGHAM, after the reading of the Report, proceeded
to distribute the prizes and honours of the University, as de-
scribed in the following list
In the Mathematical Classes.---Junior class, upper division,
first prize, Philip Smith, Coward College; second prize, Lio-
nel Davidson, London. Junior class, lower division, the prize,
H. Cumming, London, first prize, W. Best, Poole ; second
prize, equals, R. A. Margary, St. John's-woad, and Richard
Enfield, Nottingham.
In the Latin Classes—Senior class, first prize, Mr. Jacob
Walley, of Stockwell-park, Surrey; second prize, Lionel
Davidson' London. Junior class, first prize, Philip Smith,
Coward College; second prize, Wm. H. Griffith, Coward
College.
In the Greek Classes—Senior class, first prize, Wm. Best,
of Poole; second prize, Jacob Walley, of Stockwell-park.--
Junior class, first prize, Philip Smith, Coward College; second
prize, Charles Leathly, London.
In the Hebrew Classes—Senior class, first prize, S. Spald-
ing, London ; second prize, Henry Toiler, Coward College.
Junior class, J. V. %.Itimmerey, Coward College.
In the English and Rhetoric Classes—Senior class, prize,
Rich. Enfield, Nottingham. Junior class, prize, 0. H. Curtis,
Stoke-Newington.
In the French Classes.—Senior class, prize, Lionel David-
son, Loudon. Junior class, first prize, R. A. Maude, Lon-
don ; second prize, F. Hayward, London.
In the German Classes— First prize, W. Smith, London ;
second prize, C. Dowding, London.
In the Natural Philosophy and Astronomical Classes—
Experimental course, first prize, J. Foster, Hampstead; se-
cond prize, Joseph Elliot, Coward College.
In the Philosophy of Mind and Logic Class—First prize
Joseph Elliot, Coward College; second prize, Henry Toiler,
Coward College. -
In the History'Class=First prize, R. Potter, Manchester;
second prize, John Forster, Hampstead; third prize, R. En-
field, Nottingham.
In the Botany Class—The prize, H. Plank, London.
In the English Law Class—Equal prizes, Charles Tag-
gart, London; and Patrick Power, Bellevue, near Water-
ford.

Lord BROUGHAM then rose to address the meeting, and
was most enthusiastically cheered. Hit
,Lordship said, the
very important and gratifying business of this day having been
brought to a close, and in such a manner as he thought must
have afforded great satisfaction, as well to the visitors as to
those who were immediately connected with the University, it
was now his duty to sum up and conclude the whole by offer-
ing them a few observations, and he assured them they should
be a few, for but a few were required. —( Hear, hear, hear.)
Every one who had attended to the progress of the University
must have been gratified by observing the quality and the kind
of instruction afforded; in this respect the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the projectors, founders, and patrons of the Uni-
versity had been more than realized.—( Applause.) They a ere
ma to commemorate the ability and industry of the students,
and their good conduct, without which no attention to their
"studies could have succeeded in obtaining these prizes—they
were met to commemorate the ability, industry, and general
good conduct of those who had distinguished themselVes in that
important faculty, the faculty of Arts, which consisted of va-
rious classes, all of which were unprofessional, with a single
exception. if he could call the study of the laws professional—
if it could be maintained that a knowledge of the laws of a
man's country was not a necessary element of general educe-
tion..---( Hear, hear.) Though it was evident that the quality

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Whitehall, June 19, 1535.

IPSWICH.

LIST OF THE MINORITY

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Of 143 (Tellers included) who voted that J. B. Dasent, Earl.
should remain in Newgate till time was given t 6 read the Evi-
dence taken by the Committee.
Adam, Admiral C.
Al t,,n, It.
Angerstein, John
Asz ley, Sir Jacob
Pagshaw, John
Pai.twin, 4 %r.
Bannerman, A.
J'aring, F T.
B krnard, E. G.
Barron, H. W.
Barry, G S.
Bellew, It. H.
Bowes T.
h, R.
Wish; 'l'.
itbke, H. J.
Bowing, Dr.
Brady, Denis C.
prilgman. H.
Brf,lie, 'NV. 1).
Prothertm, J.
Browne, I).
13ulwer, E. G. E. L.
Borden, NV NV.
Butler, Hon. P.
Buxton, T. F.
Wog, George
Callaghan, D.
Cavendish, Hon. C.
Cavendish, Hon. G.
chalrners, Patrick
Chichester, J. P. B.
Clive, E. B.
Codrington, Sir E.
Cowper, Hen. NV. F.
. Crawford, W.
Curteis, Major
Dalmeny, Lord
Denison, W. J.
Dennistoun, A.
Divett, E. •
Dunlop, C.
Ebrington, Viscount
Elphinstone, Howard
Evans, Culonel
Evans, G.
Ewart, NV. •
Fergus, John
Finn, W. F.

Fi.zsirnon, N.
Folkes, Sir W.
G.,skell, 1).
GiVon, \V. D.
tiish::rne, T.
Gordon, R.
Goring,• H. D.
Grattan, J.
Grosvenor, Lord It.
Grote, G.
Guost, J. J.
Hall, B.
H erdy, J.
11.1rland, \V. C.
H..rvey, D. \V.
Hawes, 11.
Ilawkes, B.
Ileneage, G. E.
Hodges, •I'. L.
Hume, Joseph
Ilumphery, J.
Hutt, W.
Jervis, J.
Johnstone, A.
Kerry, Earl ,;f
Lemon, Sir C.
Lister, E. C.
Inch, James
!mailing ton , Charles
Lushington, Dr.
M'Ca!lce, John
Mackenzie, J. A. S.
M•Leod, R.
Maher, John
Mangles, NV. I.
Marjoribanks, 5,
Marsland, H.
Martin, T. B.
Maule, Hon. Fox
Nlilton, Viscernt
Mostyn, E.
Musgrave, Sir R.
Nagle, Sir R.
O'Brien, W. Smith
O'Connell,
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, Maurice
O'Connell, Morgan
O'Connell, J.

O'Ferrall, Ti. M.
or,vart, J.
Parker, J.
Parrott, J.
Pease, Joseph
Philips, 31.
Phillips, C. M.
Pons:mby, J. G. B.
Potter, It.
Power, James
Itarnsbottom, J.
Itoel:e, W.
Hartle, I)
Rundle, J.
ItuseP, Lord C. J. F.
Ituthron, E.
Scholeliehl, J.
Shell, It. L.
Smith, B.
Spiess, A G.
Steuart, It.
FArutt, Edward
Stuart, Lord James
Sullivan, It
Talbot, J. H.
Thompson' P.
Thomson, C. P.
Thorncly, Thomas
Trettwney, Sir W.
Tulk, C. A.
Villiers, Charles P.
Wakley, Thomas
Walker, C. A.
Warburton, 11.
Ward, 11 G.
Wemyss, Capt.
Westeora, I-lon. H.
Wilbraham, G.
Williams, Sir J.
Williams, W. -A.
Wilson, Henry
Winnington, H. J. E.
Wood, Alderman
Wood, C.
WroLtesley, Sir J. B.

PAIRED OFF.
Pelham, C. A. W
Norreys, Lord

FUNERAL of the LATE Mr. COBBETT.

The funeral of this gentleman took place at Farnham, on
Saturday last, at half-past two o'clock. To this town, which
is 38 miles from London, many of those desirous of attendinc,
the funeral repaired in the first instance. As, however, the
procession did not mako its appearance there until twenty mi-
nutes past two o'clock, full time was allowed to all those desi-
ons of inspecting the native town of this celebrated man, and_
of visiting the spot on which he was born, and which his own
descriptions, his character, and his fame, have invested with so
deep and lively an interest. Scarce any of those, too, who
had come the entire way from the farm of the deceased, failed,
after they had seen his remains deposited in the grave, to go
to see the house in which he was born. This House is situated
at the southern extremity of the town. It is, and was as long
as can be recollected, a public-house, and has borne the sign
and gone by the name of the " Jolly Farmer." It is evidently
a long time built, and is of considerable size. It has lately
undergone a good many alterations, and some addition has
been made to it in the rear ; but the present owner, apparently
with no small degree of pride, ushers the visitor into the front
room, and points out one corner of it as that where the cup-
board was placed from which " Cobbett himself" said he got
his bread and cheese when a boy. Immediately at the back of
the house lies an exceedingly steep sand rock, which is now
partly planted, and of which Mr. Cobbett makes the following
mention in his " Year's Residence" in America:—

" Early habits and affections seldom quit us while we have
vigour of mind left. I was brought up under a father whose
talk was chiefly about his garden and his fields, with regard
to which he was famed for his skill and his exemplary neat-
ness. From my very infancy, when I climbed up the side of
a steep sap(' rock, and there scooped me out a plot, four feet
square, to make me a garden, and the soil for which I carried
up in the bosom of my little blue smock frock, I have never
lost one particle of the passion for these healthy, and rational,
and heart-cheering pursuits, in which every day presents
something new, in which the spirits are never suffered to flag,
and in which, industry, skill, and care are sure to meet with
their due reward. I have never, for any eight months of my
life, been without a garden. So sure are we to overcome
difficulties, where the heart and mind are bent on the thing to
be obtained." _ _

This rock commands a full view of the town and the
surrounding country; and as his love for the occupations
which he alluded to in the above paragraph was implanted by
early habit and association, it is scarcely too much to infer that
he imbibed the taste for that richness and beauty in English
scenery which he always professed, from the prospect which
this rock affords.
The funeral procession quitted Normandy Farm at twelve
o'clock. This farm is in the parish of Ash; a small and rather
neat farm house, with barns and other offices immediately
about it, situated in a remote neighbourhood, between the two
main London roads—the Bagshot road and the Guildford road
—was the one in which this eminent man closed his life. It
stands on Normandy-green, which is a small common, being a
continuation of that immense waste called Bagshot Ik ath ; it
may be said, indeed, to be the southern extremity of that heath,
for not half a mile south of the farm house it ends, and you
begin to mount the side of the ridge, in ascending which the
first object of curiosity is Great Warnborough, whence the
unfortunate but enterprising Morris Birkbeck went forth to the
prairies of North America. In this secluded spot, miles. from
any great road, and free from all intrusion, surrounned by
everything that was truly rustic and homely, Mr. Cobbett ap-
pears to have indulged in his fancy for that simple mode of
life in which he was born and nursed ; from which he was im-
pelled by chance or fate, but to which he seems to have leaned
with delight during the whole of his life. The spot on which
he first conceived the idea of mounting the coach, and corning
to London, is close by. The scenes of his boyish days are
scarcely out of sight-of the house; and " Crooksbury-hill,"
which he describes with so much enthusiasm in the first
chapter of " The Year's Residence," shows its head a few
miles to the west, and close to Farnham;
" And, as the hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from Whence at first hc flew," •
he wrote of it and spoke of it as his resting-place from tile

vexations and the bustle of his active and eventful life, as Isis
last earthly abode.
The body had been enclosed in a leaden coffin, with the in-
scription, " William Cobbett, born March 9, 1762 ; died 18th
June, 1835." The hearse, in which it was conveyed to the
burial place, was followed by three mourning-coaches, in which
we observed the four sons of the deceased, Mr. John Leech,
late Member for the county, Mr. Fielden, M.P. (Mr. Cob-
bett's colleague), Mr. E. Leech, Captain Donnellan, and
other particular friends. It was joined at intervals by parties
in chaises, on foot, and on horseback, at the different little
greens or corners of the by-roads that it passed. De awn up on
the side of one of these we observed Mr. O'Connell and
Mr. Harvey, whose carriage took its place in the procession ;
and shortly after, at another turning, it was joined by that of
Mr. Williams, M. P., and Mr. Wakley, M. P. The train in-
creased as it went on ; and by the time it reached Farnham,
thousands of labourers, with their wives and children, in their
smock-frocks and straw hats, joined in it. The street of the
town was thronged, and every window seemed to have its
party. The ceremony of interment was, of course, the usual
one. The coffin, after the service was read over it, was
lowered into a brick vault securely formed, and in a part of the
churchyard where a i,ead-stone, with the inscription, " George
Cobbett, 1760," indicates the grave of the unconscious grand-
father of this celebrated political writer. Three large stone flags
were placed ever the coffin with a view to greater security.

Mr. STERLING and Mr. ROEBUCK, M.P.

(Cop —No. I.
" St. James's-street, June 27, 1835,
Half past Two o'Clock, P.m.

" Sin,--Within then' two hours a pamphlet has been sent
to me, bearing for its title, The Stamped Press of London
and its Morality,' &c., by J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M. P.
" Probably, Sir, I make no mistake in identifying that name
with yours.

" The pamphlet sets out by an announcement that the
author means to try conclusions' with certain gentry,' whom
he charges with endeavouring to ' frighten him ;' and then, as
if lurhad the slightest reason for insinuating that I was one of
'these gentry,' he applies to me a long series, and -extensive
variety of the foulest epithets in the English language—such
cowardice'—' baseness'—' skulking'—in order to escape
the punishment due to my acts—' dishonesty'--selling myself
to the ' Tory party'—charlatanism in society, to hide my
editorship of the Times'—and a degree of depravity worse
than that of ' an assassin.'

• " Now, Sir, if the folly of such expressions were not ex-
ceeded by their iniquity, as directed against myself, I should
not have deemed them worthy of the slightest notice.
"There is only one word in the English Dictionary by
which they can be fitly characterised; wishing, however, to
write like a Gentleman, I shall just say that from whatever,
quarter they proceed, they are gross and shameful misrepre-
sentations of every part of my principles and conduct.
" I cannot violate confidences reposed in me, by going into
specific refutations of charges, which no man living has the
shadow of right, in truth or justice, to affix to my name or
history.
" I never have been technically or morally connected in
any manner with till editorship of the Times—not possessing
over the course or choice of its politics any power or influ-
ence whatsoever—nor, by consequence, being responsible for
its acts.

" This, however, I beg you to understand, is beside the
subject of my application to you as the avowed author of
the pamphlet in question. . .

" My first purpose is to contradict in distinct and unequi-
vocal terms—generally and individually—one and all of the
assertions which the author of that pamphlet has made with
reference to myself.
" Your absolute ignorance of every fact which concerns
me does not Sacra to have prevented you from assuming
such as are absolutely false in themselves, and of the most
discreditable nature, if capable of being► supported ; nor has
it restrained you from coupling them with language the
most personally, offensively, and wantonly insulting.
I state this one unvarying.absence of truth in each, and
every one of the accusations in the pamphlet, rather as a
warning to your conscience against the injustice of persisting
in them than as any indulgence of temper or resentment on
my part.
" My friend, Colonel Campbell, who delivers you this
letter,. will apprise you of my claim to a retractation of these
outrageous and scurrilous phrases, which the author of the
pamphlet has thought proper to apply to me.
" I cannot permit myself to doubt that you will see the
moral propriety of relieving your own mind from the con-
sciousness of having given them circulation.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " EDWARD STKItLING.
" To J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., Gray's Inn."

(coPy---No. 2.)
" 72, Pall gall, June 27, 1835.

. ,
" Sir Wm.. Molesworth, on the part of his friend Mr. Roe-
buck, remits to Colonel Cdmpbell a letter from Mr. Roebuck,
addressed to Mr. Sterling. the contents of which Sir William
considers as perfectly satisfactory to the honour and gratifying
to the good feelings of both parties.
" Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell."