The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-30 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JaN. 27.—At a Congregation on Monday I
:eat the following Degrees were conferred :-
31asTztt OF ARTS.—John Hammill, Trinity College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—Frederick Tennyson, Trinity
College ; Charles Tennyson. Trinity College ; John Henry
Buxton, Queen's College; James Grant, Queen's College;
James Hough, Queen's College,
On Friday last the Rev. William Langstaff Weddell,
B.A. of Catherine Hall, was instituted to the rectory of
Chillisford, Suffolk, on the presentation of Mrs. Catherine
Susanna Smear, of Orford.
On Saturday hat the Marquis of Granby, son of the Dnke
of Rutlan,l, was admitted of Trinity College.
Chalks Lesingbain Smith, Esq , 8.A., Fellow of Christ
College, on Ilse foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir
Thomas Baines, was on Tuesday hat elected a Fellow of the
lame Society, on the foundation of King Edward the Sixth.
William Wigan Harvey and John Hibbert, Scholars of
King's College, were lately elected Fellows of that society.
The Rev. W. B. Rennel, Fellow of King's College, has
been presented to the Ministry of the new church at
Paddington.
The Rev. Dr. Wellesley has vacated the vicarage of
Chelsea, which is now divided into two parishes, Upper
and Lower Chelsea ; and Lord Cadogan has appointed the
Rev. H. Blunt, late Fellow of Pembroke College, Vicar
of Upper Chelsea.
Oa Tuesday last the Rev. W. E. Chapman, M.A., Mini-
ster of Edenham, and Domestic Chaplain to the Right
Hon. Lord Willoughby de Eresby, was instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Lincoln to the rectory of Somerhy, near
Grantham, on the presentation of the abovementiohetl
nobleman.

THE NEW ASSOCIATION FOR THE RE;
LIEF OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES.—(From a Corre-
opondent.)--We are informed that this association is laying
a solid foundation for success in its ulterior object.. It
has been determined by the Directors and Conamittee of
Management, to lease the premises for a term of years, in
the first instance, and-e*,soon as the funds will admit, to
purchase them. Thecrotiatiop,s and subscriptions already
amount to upwards of 800 "with the promise of other
4)
...
la tie sums as the good wor rogresses. The object of
the association beilltto'gr fairly with the causes of
the evils which aftlickeni*VO- ' order to remove them not
only'for the resent,‘W.ilimanently, we, with all who
wish well fo exery at.pt to improve the sad condition
intollVA the I;Ceire'llsses have fallen, cannot but
desire that a fair trial of the measures proposed by the as-
suciatiou should be made.— Tuner.

TITHES-A CLERGYMAN STONED TO

DEATH.

From the Dubltn Freeman's Journal of Saturday.)

By accounts received in town yesterday from Tipperary, is
appears that the Very Rev. Archdeacon Whitty was stoned to
death on Wednesday last in the vicinity of his residence. The
cause of this melancholy catastrophe we have heard from a very
respectable gentleman. It seems that the Archdeacon and his
parishioners have been for some considerable time at variance
about a composition of tithes. The former not choosing to
come into the terms of the parishioners, a meeting of" hurlers"
was about a month ago to have taken place for the purpose of
coercing the Archdeacon to accept of their proposal—a fair one
we are told. The stipendary magistrate attended on the day of
meeting—and, a large multitude having been present, he read the
riot act. Some of the peasantry retired : others refused to dis-
perse, and about forty of the latter were arrested, sent to Bride-
well, and thence fully committed to Clonmel gaol to abide their
trial at the ensuing assizes on a capital charge. These are the cir-
cumstances which, it is supposed, led to the perpetration of the
frightful and detestable crime we have mentioned.
While we denounce as the worst enemies of the prosperity
of Ireland, the perpetrators of these crimes, are not there
other persons deserving of censure ? Treating the peasantry
as serfs often goads them into fierce resistance ; and the Legis-
lature and the Ministry who, in contempt of public opinion—in
contempt of facts and in the teeth of discretion, disregard the
universal complaint of a nation, are much to be blamed for the
crimes which an infuriate and unenlightened populace, driven
by poverty and taxation into madness, may commit. If, instead
of appointing a High Church Committee, the Ministry had
framed a fair and liberal one—if, instead of talking about the
intactability of church property, Mr. Stanley had spoken com-
mon sense, and admitted the right of Parliament to interfere,
and the necessity for such interference ; if these things had hap_
pened, we verily believe that there would have been an end of
the " Hurlers" in the south of Ireland.

There is a third party upon whose heads no small portion of
the guilt lien. The Orange faction in this country—and their
organs in England and Ireland—the Standard and the Mail—
have not only been traducing the leaders of the people—calum-
niating the peasantry, and flagitiously maligning their religion
—but actually bullying this country into a payment of tithe.
War has been their cry for the last six years—and the heart-
rending consequence we daily witness. The Farnhams and
Rodens, and Mandevilles call for the fray—and having flung
down the gauntlet in a moment of rabid rage—having called
the Irish people cowards, and threatened to exterminate them,
we should not be in the least surprised if these valiant orators
were now to turn round and call the Government to task for
those excesses their own fatuity and malignity provoked. That
the Government are blameable we admit; but their fault con-
sists in having too much consulted the temporal interests of the
Established Clergy, and too much neglected those of the people.