The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-12 00:00:00

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS-LAW.

The Downing Professor of Laws will examine in the
subject of his lectures given last term on Wednesday, the
17th inst., at 12 o'clock, in the senate-house.

BOTANY.

The examination for the professorial certificate in botany
will be held at the museums and lecture-rooms on Tuesday
next, from ten to one o'clock.

ASTRONOMY.

The Plumian Professor will commence a course of lec-
tures on "Practical Astronomy" on Oct. 24. The lectures
will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at a quarter past one o'clock, in the Astronomical
Lecture-room of the new museums. Arrangements are
made near the lecture-room for practice in taking astrono-
mical and geodetical observations, and in the course of
the lectures the Cambridge Observatory will be visited.

THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL IN GLASGOW.
—The arrangements in connection with the visit to
Glasgow of the Duke of Edinburgh, on the occasion of his
unveiling the statue of the late Prince Consort, have be en
slightly modified since they were recently announced-.
The freedom of the city, instead of being presented to his
,royal highness in the City Hall, as at first contemplated,
will be conferred in the Council Hall, to which he will

proceed immediately after the interesting ceremony in
George-square. Before dining in the evening in the Cor-
poration Halls with the Lord Provost, the subscribers to
the Prince Consort Testimonial, and other citizens, his
royal highness will visit several places of interest in the
city. After the banquet, which will be over at an early
-.hour he will leave for Edinburgh.
THE REFORM AGITATION.—In reply to an invita -
tion to attend the Manchester Reform banquet, Mr. E. H.
Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., one of the Lords of the Trea-
sury of the late Government, has forwarded the following
letter to Mr. J. D. Morten, the secretary : " Smeeth,
Oct. 8, 1866. Sir,— I think it right to decline the invita-
tion of the National Reform Union to the contemplated
Reform banquet at Manchester. Those who held office
under Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell are, in my opinion,
bound to give a fair trial to the present Government. The
leader of the Tory party in the House of Commons has de-
&wed Am flap i4...n02-,eason
my duty to abs4ain from joining in- any demonstra-
tion which might embarrass the Government before
their intentions upon the subject have been declared."
The committee appointed by the National Reforns Union
to make the necessary arrangements for the forth-
coming great Reform banquet to be held in Manchester
met at 12, Newall-buildings, in that city, on Wednesday
evening last. It was reported that owing to various cir-
cumstances the banquet could not be held on the day first
fixed upon and already made public, and that conse-
quently it would be necessary to fix upon another day.
After some conversation it was finally arranged that the
most convenient day would be the 20th of November next.
The price of the tickets will be one guinea each, including
wine. A large number of leading gentlemen in the poli-
tical world have been invited to attend, and from many of
these letters have been received (among them 31 from
members of Parliament) accepting the invitation. The
committee express themselves in the most sanguine manner
as to the successs of the gathering, which, they say, will
have only been equalled by the old Anti-Corn-Law League
banquets.

EXTRAORDINARY- TRIAL OF A TURKISH STUDENT
AT BRUSSELS.—M. Lachaud, the well known advo-
cate, who distinguished himself on the occasion of the trial
of Madame Lafarge, is to plead at the trial of Risk Allah
Effendi, at Brussels, for the supposed murder of his pupil at
an hotel in that city. The press in France andßelgium has
been for some time occupied in preparing the public for the
denouement of one of those romantic dramas which large
cities occasionally afford. The career of Risk Allah Effendi
has been full of incident. The gay circles of London
abounded at one time with gossip relating to the then
young Turkish student, who was following the lectures on
medicine at the Loudon University. His Oriental cos-
tume, his prepossessing appearance, and the fluencyrwith
which he spoke most languages, rendered him a general
favourite. He received from the Ottoman Embassy in
London the title of medical attache. After paying atten-
tion to several ladies of fortune, he eventually attached
himself to a fair dame, who, having been twice the
widow of men of fortune, was possessed of consider-
able wealth. The world said they were not so happy as
they might be, and after a short residence at Boulogne the
lady died, bequeathing the greater portion of her wealth
to her husband, Risk Allah Effendi ; but a sum of money
was left to a young lad, a relation of a former husband, on
his attaining his majority. Risk Allah was by will ap-
pointed his guardian, and was to possess the amount be-
queathed by this legacy if his ward died before coming of
age. Risk Allah took the young man to Turkey, where he
assumed tho rank of bey or colonel. It was said that the youth
escaped from various dangers whilst in the East. Together
they eventually returned to Europe. As it may be remem-
bered, a great sensation was produced by the accounts in the
journals of Brussels of the suicide of a young lad in that
city towards the end of last year. This was the young
man to whom Risk Allah was guardian. A judicial in-
quiry took place, and Risk Allah Effendi was placed in
confinement for several days, but there was a want of
evidence that he was in any way connected with the
death of the youth. He camp to Paris after the inves-
tigation, where he was received by numerous friends,
anxious to show their sympathy for a person accused
of a crime of which he was declared to be altogether
innocent. Ho at this period published a volume, con-
taining a narrative of his life and adventures, which
wat, eagerly read by a wide circle, for he had many
acquaintances. In this way he penetrated certain circles
in Paris, and was regarded as an amusing person. Not
very long since he returned to London again. Meanwhile
the Belgian police bad got hold of some correspondence of
a Turkish servant of Risk Allah's connected with the death
of the youth, who was found dead in bed with the pistol
by his side which had inflicted the mortal wound. The
Belgian Minister at London was ordered to demand his
arrest for a criminal offence, and he is now in prison at
Brussels waiting a second trial, which comes off at the end
of this month.—Post.

TRADE OF CARDIFF.—During the month of Sep
tember the exports of coal from this port reached
151,720 tons, as compared with 162,769 tons in the previous
month, and 142,564 tons in September, 1865. Theio was
no falling off in the demand for steam coal, but the un-
favourable weather that prevailed restricted shipping ope-
rations to a material extent, and hence the returns are not
so high as would otherwise be the case. Coastwise there
was cleared 59,503 tons, against 78,129 tons in August
and 73,670 tons in the corresponding month of last year.
The large decrease here shown was mainly attributable to
adverse weather, as in the case of the export trade, and
the purchases of coasting buyers wore also below the ave-
rage. Since the commencement of the present month the
demand has improved, and as the winter is fast approach-
ing it is expected that for the next few weeks the require-
ments of coasting merchants will be considerably increased.
The exports of iron during September reached 9,077 tons,
as compared with 7,767 tons in the previous month. New
York took 1,575 tons, Baltimore 1,249 tons, Kurrachee
1,463 tons, Gottenburg 1,436 tons, and Cronstadt 1,300
tonE,