The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 13.
EXETER COLLEGE.—An examination will be holden
in this College on Monday, May 13, for the purpose
of electing to five scholarships-Ist and 2d. Open to
all persons above the age of sixteen, and who, if
members of the university, have not exceeded two
years from their matriculation.-3d. Limited to per-
sons born or educated in the county of Devon.-4th
and sth. Limited to sons of clergymen resident in
the county of Devon or Somerset (one for each
county), and who will not have exceeded the age of
nineteen on the 30th of June next, with preference
to the kin, if any, of the late Rev. Thomas Howe,
rector of Huntspill. The two last are tenable for
seven years. Candidates are required to call on the
rector on or before Saturday, May 11, and to bring
with them their baptismal certifieate, testimonials of
good conduct, and, in case of their being candidates
for any of the three last scholarships, proof of their
being duly qualified according to the limitations
above stated.

WADHAM COLLEGE—There will be an election to
a scholarship on the 30th of June next. Natives of
Great Britain, under 19 years of age, are eligible,
and the founder's kindred are entitled to some pre-
ference. Candidates are requested to call on the
warden on Wednesday, the 26th of June, at four
o'clock, bringing with them certificates of their
parent's marriage, and of their own age and baptism,
as well as testimonials of good conduct.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE—There will be an examina-
tion for a Bible clerkship in St. John's College, on,
Tuetday, the 23d inst. Candidates are desired to send
their names to the President on or before Saturday,
the 20th inst

BAMPTON LECTUREP.—The }lnds of colleges will,
on Tuesday next, elect a lecturer fur the year 18.51,
under the will of John 13ampton, M.A., canon of
Salisbury.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 13.
ASTRONOMT.—The Plumian Professor will corn-
mence a course of Lectures on Practical Astronomy
and Astronomical lostrumerts on Monday, April 15,
at one o'clock. The course will consist of twelve
lectures, and will end on April 27.
Divirirrv. —The Regius Professor of Hebrew will
resume on Saturday, the 20th of April, both his pub-
lic lectures on the Psalms, at the Divinity Lecture-
rocm, and his elementary lecture at his rooms in
Trinity Collego ; the former to be continued during
term on every Wednesday and Saturday, at hall-past
eleven, A AL; the latter every Tuesday and Saturday
at one P.M.

LLw.—The Regius Professor of Laws will recom-
mence his course of lectures on Tuesday, April 23.
There will be examinations in civil law on Wednes-
day, May 15, and Thursday, May 16.
ARABIC.—A room in the Pit Press has been as-
signed to the Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic for
his lectures on Persian literature on Tuesdays, Wed-
nesdays, and Thursdays of the Easter Term. com-
mencing April 16, at two P.M. The lectures on
Tuesdays and Thursdays will be grammatical; on the
Gulistan of Sadi, and the Thohfet Ul Ahra of Jami.
The lecture on Wednesday will be descriptive, com-
prehending the languages of Persia, notices of Per-
sian poets, and the doctrines of the Sufees.
TRINITY COLLEGE.--The under-mentioned gentle-
men have been elected to scholarships at this col-
lege :—J. A. Wilson, V. Harcourt, R. Wiliams,
Rendel, Cowie, A. Rudge, Macnaghten, Seeley,
Hunter, Dickenson, Sharpe, J. L. Hammond, E
Benson, Robertson, A. Johnson, Clapcote (West-
minster).
The following prizes have been adjudged :—Eng-
lish Declamation : (1) Vernon Harcourt, (2) Gor-
ham, (3) James. Latin Declamation: (1) J. D.
Williams, (2) Lightfoot.
Tom Taylor, Esq., barrister-at-law, and fellow of
this society, has been appointed Assistant-Secretary
of the Board of Health, in the room of Professor
Bain, resigned.
CORPUS COLLEGE.—Mr. Edward Henry Perowne
(first classic, 1850) has been appointed a fellow on
the foundation of this society.
KING'S COLLEGE.—Francis Edmund Stacey has
been admitted a scholar of this society.
At a Congregation on Ttiesday next a grace will
be offered to the senate to appoint Dr. Jeremie, the
Regius Professor of Divinity, a member of the syn-
dicate for revising the statutes of the University.
The Reverend Professor has resigned the office of
Dean and Professor of the East India Company's Civil
College, Haileybnry.

DUTY ON NEwsrersas.—A return of the stamp
and advertisement duty paid by newspapers has just been
published. The aggregate number of stamps issued for
newspapers in 1849 was—For England and Wales, 66,159,502 '
penny and 10,309,233 halfpenny stamps; for Scotland,
1 6,288,205 penny and 205,000 halfpenny ; for Ireland.
6,345,227 .penny and 38,843 halfpenny. The number of
London newspapers from which advertisement duty was
collected in 1149 was 160; the number of advertisements,
886,108; and the total amount of duty at the rats of Is. 6d.
each, 66,4581. 2s. The number of English papersprovincialu
was 232, from which 12,6041. 13s. 6d. was received
vf, ril duty
newspapers
on 834,729. advertisements. In Scotland 94ofn
furnishedlB,o7:./. 16s. 6d. duty, the number advertise-
mentsPthe rate of Is.
duty collected was 11,0261. 4s , befog
being 240,901. In Ireland the amoutnt of advertise-
mentpapers was 117.
each for 220,524 advertisements. The numbera of Irish nova-
sa(norAe)n,:ocnnuieos:
taken place from the
ports the Isles, from Islay?
ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The following arrivals of
specie, in bullion and coin, justhave
ports mentioned :—The vessel Queen
rconsigned to order • the
'
has brought 437 bars of coPPe
C'boaugrsi eorf, copperfr from from Callao, eight box
Alpha, from Port Adelaide, 2,544
signed' to order; the Mapler .
ep
'tons weightof cover regulus,
from Valparaiso, 323 bars of
of silver, esr,ocuonthsigAnmederitocao,rd3
~
addressed;
355 bar of silver ore, addressed to a firm in the
copper and
o al Alice, from M
Madras Pondicherry,
metropolis; the
boxes and
and the Cape, two 0 . one other package pf specie,
the Mary WI,
consigned to order; the Sir Robert Peel, from Dunkirk, pne
case of bullion, addressed to a most eminent house; the City
of London, from Dunkirk, two boxes of gold coin, addressed -
to a metropolitan house; the Minden, from Calcutta and the
Cape, two boxes of specie addressed to houses in Loaddrf,
and two boxes of specie consigned to order; the Maria, from ,
Huancliaco and Callao, 136 bags of copper .(ore), and 176
bars of copper, addressed to a metropolitan firm ; and the
Sir Henry llardinge, from Canton and the Cape of Good I
Hope, three packages of gold from the latter place, consigned
to order.

TEIN
CONDEMNED CONVICT IN ITORSEMONGER.•
LANE
GAor..—Yesterday, Mr. Keene, the governor of the
above
gaol, received a respite from the Home-office, for
Thomas Denny, the young man now under sentence of death
for the murder of his illegitimate child at Ewell, the circum-
stances of which have been so recently before the public. It
may be recollected that the chief evidence against him was
his own child, an illiterate lad about seven years old, and
Eliza Tarrant, the mother of the infant. The lad swore that
both of them stabbed the child with the *awl, but the female '
denied it. In consequence of such evidence being taken the
Secretary of State has thought proper to commute his sen-
tence, and it is likely that he will have a free pardon. The
unfortunate man received the respite with heartfelt gratitude,
and expressed his thanks to those parties who had interceded
for him. Since his conviction he has hardly eaten apyttim , •
being so overcome with grief at his awful positiom—Meada •
,Paper.

NEW nCOTC,II HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
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THE NNW STOAT OF MODERN LIFE.
I I 3 To
Nls„ I
pest ivo.,
I AL S,
T II E - T
STORY OF 3IODF.RN LIFE,
IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY.
And may he had at all the Libraries, and of all Booksellers.
]chard Bentley, New Burlington-street,

NEW PLAY Bt THE AUTHOR OF
" CROESIN, LING Or LYDIA, " Sce.
JIM pualkned, In Sy() , price as. 6d., sewed,
VANDVIi ; a Play of Genoa. By ALFRED
It .11ICHARDS, Eeq., Author of " Croesns, King of Lydia,"
a Tragedy ; " Gtomwell," a Drama, &c.
Londe* Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT,
Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, Miss Catherine HayeS,
and Mille. Pap,* ; Signori Coletti, Belletti, Lablache, Calzolari, and
*me laves; lies. Carlotta Grist, Marie Taglioni, and Amalia

Ferraris,
W./11 take place on THURSDAY, April 18, when will be presented
• •

:Mozart's Opera,
LE NOZZE DI FIGAIIO.
Faisanna, Madame Sontag ; the Countess, Madile. Parodl; Cheru-
bim, Mdlle. Catherine Iloyes; the Count Almaviva, Signor Coletti;
Flpro, Signor Beletti ; tlasilio, Signor Calzolari; Bartolo, Signor
Labia* h e.
In the Wedding Seene, tbs Zarabanda in A (composed expressly
for this Opera) will be danced by Millie. Carlotta Grisi and 3ldlle.
Marie 'faglioni.
After the Opera will be presented Selections from the admired
_Ballet of LA ESIIIiitALDA, eomp:ising the celebrated Truaadaise,
by Millie. Carlotte Grist and M. Charles.
To he followed by the last scene of Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI
LAMMERMOOR, by Mr. Sims Reeves.
After which will be revived the admired Ice Ballet, by M. P.
Tawlioni, entitled
LES PLAISIRS DB L'HIVER ; on, Les Patineurs.
.The principal characters by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Marie
TAilioul, and Mdlle. Attalla Ferraris.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Bog-ofilc• of the Theatre.
Doors open at Seven, the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven.

HETI MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
(By special desire.)
TO-MORROW EVENING
Will be repeated (by special desire) Donizetti's Opera,
DON PASQUALE:.
Nerina, 3fadarne Fentag ; Ernesta, Signor Caleolari ; Dr. Mala-
testa, Signor Belletti ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache.
To conclude with the principle Tableaux of the highly successful
clew grand Ballet, by M. rani Taglioni, entitled
LES METAMORPHOSES,
In which Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi,Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Charles,
llncl NI. P. Taglieni will appear.
Mozart's celebrated Opera, Don Giovanni, is unavoidably pest-
pneud, and will be repeated forthwith with its present powerful
east.
Signor Baucarde has arrived, and will make his first appearance
eu Saturday next.
' '

Madame Frezzolini is daily expected.
The new tr tral Opera, La Tempesra, founded on The Tempest of
Shaltspere, the music by Malevy, composed expressly for the artists
her Majesty's Theatre, is in active preparation. kll the magni-
ficent resources of this great establishment will be combined to give
elite 1 o its proluction.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office of the Theatre.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN.
Madame Grist, Vera, Herr Formes, M. Masaol, and Signor
Tamborlik,
IiO•MORROW EVENING
The performances will comraenco with Beilinrs Opera of
NUR Nt A.
Worma, Mme. Ovid; Mdlie4Yera (her 2d appearance
la that character at the Royal Italian Opera) ; Clotilde,
Cotti ; Fiavlo, Sir. Sold! ;7. Oroveso, Herr Formes (his 2d appear-
ance in that character in England) ; Pollio, Sig. Tamberlik (his
11 appear.' 'e in that character in England).
To coneNds with the second and third acts of Auber's Grand
and popular Gora,

WASANIELLO.
Venetia, Mlle. Baltin ; Pietro,' Mons. Massc,l; Alphonso, Signor
Mei ; Signor Rommi ; Peseatore, Signor Rache ; Selva,
Signor Gregorio; Mosaniello, Signor Tamberlik.
The Ballet incidental to tha Opera will be supported by Mons.
Alexandre and Mdlle. Louise Taelioni.
The Overture to MasAnie:lo will be played between the Operas.
Corix:oser, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.