The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 22.—The Regius Professor of
Divinity (Dr. Jacobson) will begin a course of lec-
tures on Thursday, the 21st of February, at one
o'clock, at Christ Church.

These lectures are intended for students of divinity
who have passed their examination for the degree
of B.A.

The Regius Professor of Divinity proposes to re-
sume the reading of Dr. Routh's " Scriptorum Eccle -
siasticorum Opuscula," on Tuesday, the sth of
February. These lectures are open to all members
of the University who have passed the B.A. examina-
tion.

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Patience is power in a man, warning him to rein hip
spirit.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for
the mind as well as for the body.
True art finds beauty everywhere.
It is more noble to make yourself great than to be
born so.

Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer
virtues.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a
day repeated.
When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch;
in our families, our tempers; and in society, our tongues.
Every time a man breaks a Divine law be adds a thorn
to the rod which he puts into pickle for his own back.
It is the prerogative of genius to elevate obscure men
to the higher class of society.

PAROCHIAL WATER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION..—A
meeting of the members of this association was held last
evening, in the vestry -room of St. Paul's Church,
Covent-garden, to receive the report of the committee
appointed at St. Martin's on the 7th instant, and for the
transaction of general business. The chair was taken
by Mr. Moseley. The report stated that about fifteen
parishes of the metropolis had already given in their
adhesion to the principles of the association, and eight
of the vestries had voted different sums for payment of
expenses, &e., umounting in all to about 1604 The
present claims; on the association are 631. J. Wyld,
Esq., M.P. far Bodmin, offered to advance a sum of
500/. to enable the committee to discharge all preliminary
expenses, which was to be repaid when the funds of the
association should be in a suffiaiently prosperous con-
dition, and on the terms that no member should be per-
sonally liable for the repayment of the amount. The
committee recommended that Mr. Wyld's offer should
be accepted with thanks, and that that gentleman should
be appointed treasurer pro tem., until application should
be made to J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., and Baron Roths-
child to become joint treasurers of the association. The
report concluded with recommending an active canvass
of those parishes which have not yet joined the move-
ment. It was stated that the principles which the
association seeks to establish are, that the water supply
~f the metropolis should not be in the hands of join t-
stock companies, and that it should not be subject to
the principle c f centralisation by Government, as in the
case of sewers, but should be under the control of the
ratepayers of the different parishes. The report, after
some discussion on Mr. Wyld's proposal, was received
and adopted. Mr. Browne was appointed the secretary
on a short term of engagement, Mr. Sidney Smith, to
whom the office had been offered, having declined to
accept it. It was referred to the committee to procure
offices in the City for the transa' tion of the business of
the association. The meeting then separated.
BRIGHTON CHAIN PIER.---The annual meeting of
the direct irs e f the Brighton Cbain Pier Company was
held in London last week, at which a letter from Mr. J.
Hume, M.P. (who generally presides on the occasion),
was read, stating his inability to attend, when Rear-
Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, at the request of the
meeting, took the chair. The minutes of the last meet-
ing having been read and confirmed, the secretary laid
before the meeting a general statement of accounts,
showing the income and expenditure of the past year,
which was passed, and the usual dividend of 3 per tent.
declared. It will be highly satisfactory to the resident
inhabitants of the town and the public at large to know
that this noble structure, which is so great an attraction
to Brighton, is in perfect condition, and that it is in •
tended in the ensuing season to give every accommoda-
tion to first-class fast packets, by reducing the pier dues
to merely nominal charges, so that one packet at least
may proceed daily from the pier to Dieppe and other
p iris.
THE BLASPHEMER'S DEATII.—There is something
so terribly startling in the following facts, and so fear-
fully exemplifying the grievous sin and extreme peril of
blaspheming the name of the Eternal, that had we not
made minute and careful inquiry, even among the very
haunts of those living where the occurrence took place,
we should have believed the whole to have been an ex-
aggerated rumour of some ordir ary and every-day ca-
sualty, rather than the awfully true narrative of a
dreadful judgment. On the morning of Sunday last, a
married woman, residing in the Friars' Fields, named
Sarah Morgan, was observed with her infant in her
arms, near her awn house, disputing with a woman.
Elizabeth Velem A quarrel of a very violent charac=
ter, so far as words went, shortly afterwards ensued,
and in reply to an observation made by the woman,
Sarah Morgan exclaimed that she hoped that God Al-
mighty would strike her blind, deaf, dumb, and stiff, if
she did not revenge herself upon her in a particular
manner. Almost directly she staggered, let her child
fall from her arms to the ground, and would herself
apparently have fallen but that her neighbours immedi-
ately assisted her into the house. Dr. Stack was
prowl tly in attendance, who, we need scarcely remark,
email-wed to render 'her every assistance which medical
skill and humanity,'could suggest. From the moment
that she was thus mysteriously stricken to the hour of
her death, at half-past one o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, the only words she uttered, and just after she was
borne in, were, " Lord, have mercy on my poor soul—
have mercy on my children!" and then Ler voice failed
her, and she became dumb; her sense of hearing was
d. strayed; her eyes became glassy and sightless; and
in about sixty hours from the moment in which she was
struck down, death placed his icy hand upon her, and
she became a corpse. This fearful event has produced
a painful sensation even among the abandoned crea-
tures of the locality in which it occurred.—Morimouth
Merlin.

PURCUASE OF PRlOR•PARK.—Manyrumourshaving
for some time past been current in Bath with respect to
the Roman Catholic College of Prior-park, the question
is now decided; inasmuch as Alexander Raphael, Eq.,
of Turbiton-place, M P. for St. Alban's, has purchased
the above property, with all its appurtenances, ;tor
30.060/.; and l as given an extended lease of it to the
same parties at a rental of 3/. per cent. per annum. The
property will be reconveyed to them on their payment of
the, above sum, together with the rents due thereon.
Bet in failure of the strict performance of the several
stipulations and covenants expressed in the lease, their
right to the repurchase of the property will be forfeited.