The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

The underme-.tio-ned gentlemen were elected Fellows
Ois society en Thursday last:—
Campion, William Megan, Fourth Wrangler, 1849.
Gibson Stanley Taylor, Thirteenth Wrangler, 1848.

MANCHESTER, SATURDAY.
Preliminary proceedings have been taken in this
city in reference to the great Exhibition of Arts and
Manufactures to be held in the metropolis under the
auspices of his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the
year 1851. The Manchester Committee has been
nominated, the Lord Bishop of the diosese having
been elected president; the Mayors of Manchester
and Salford, Mr. J. Brotherton, M.P., and Mr. A.
Henry, M.P., vice-presidents; and Mr. H. Fleming,
honorary secretary. These nominations were made
on Thursday, at a private meeting held in the Mayor's
parlour at the Town-hall, on which occasion a desul-
tory conversation took place, which showed that the
gentlemen present were by no means satisfied with
the conduct of the L mdon management. The gen-
tlemen who took part in this discussion were—Mr.W.
Entwisr, late Member fir South Lancashire ; Mr.
J. Brothertor, M.P.; Mr. A. Henry, M.P.; Mr.
Alderman Nield, Mr. A. Turner, Mr. J. Potter (the
Mayor), and others. Toe chief ground of complaint
was, the unseemly haste with which the London
proceedings had been conducted. It was stated that
on the 6ih of November las', the deputation ap-
pointed by niece Albert met a numerous assembly
of merchants anl mauLf ieturtrs ( f M tnchebter and

the neighbourhood, convened by the Mayor, fur the
purpose of explaining his Royal Highness's design,
and of receiving the opinion of the. inhabitants of
this great seat of practical art and manufactures
thereon. The assembly then convened were di•posed
to discuss various details as to the plan ; but the de-
putation it was alleged at the meeting on Thursday
rather checked than invited discussion, on the ground
that nothing had yet been determined upon in Lon.
don beyond preliminary matters, and that no final ar-
rangements would be adopted till the whole country
had pronounced upon every point. Mr. Cole,
one of the deputation said, "We shill, in a
short time, send you a forat which will include
every particular in a tabularized manner; and, after
the Prince has caused these forms to be collected in,
then will every point be settled conformable with the
opinions thus collected, and Manchester, as you may
suppose, will have much weight in the decision." It
was further stated at the meeting on Thursday, that
on the 7th of November (the day after Mr. Cole
thus spoke) the contract was signed in London with
the Messrs. Monday for erecting the building in
which the exposition is to be held, and fur providing
20,0001. for prizes ; and hints were thrown out that
these arrangements had been determined upon seve-
ral weeks before that period. Only one opinion was
expressed at the meeting in reference to the contract
entered into, and that was in reprobation of the hate
with which it had been made, and of the principle of
a private contract in a great national undertaking,
designed to bring forth the art and industry of the
entire kingdom. The language used by the speakers
was strongly condemnatory of the contract affair,
which, if not an actual job, was considerectto be
somewhat approaching to it. A resolution, expres-
s sive of these opinions, was unanimously adopted, and
ordered :forthwith to be firwarded to the Central
Commission in London.

Madame Sontag suffered so severely from being
snowed up in the railway train in the noitb, that on
reaching York, where she was engaged to give a conceit
on Monday, she was so extremely ill that Dr. Simpson
was called in. The concer t was abandoned, to the great
disappoiLtment of the Yorkshire families, and the fair
voesli-t has been confined to her bed at the Bleck Swan
Hot 1, in York, for several d iys. We are happy to state
she is recovering.
RETURN OF AN OUTWARD-BOUND INDIAMAN.—The
ship Columbus, A. Batton, master, which loaded in the
West India Docks with a cargo for Bombay, and cleared
out from London on the 21st tilt., having put into the
port of Ramsgate in distress, part of ber cargo has been
transhipped into the vessels John and Pandora, tor the
purpose of being returned . to the West India docks to
which place the ship will also be towed by steamers as
soon as it can conveniently he done.

GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EiRTER.—The Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council will assemble to-morrow
to confer upon their decision in the case of " Gorham
against the Bishop of Exit ••," and will not deliver their
judgment until they shall have ceefarei awl gat them-
selves on the intereng subject.
BRISTOL, SAT URDAT.—D uring the week Mr.
Miter. aely hag bk en performing to crowded houses at the
Theatre, Old King-street, in this city. The course of
characters define attql has embraced Macbeth, Werner,this
Balilet, and Richelieu, and the announcement that
.athßtriatol
the stage
a of the citizens,
called forth all the hi,trionic sy t_
awitadsitehnecelapsrtioartea:ahnisceficifaMl
n4are'ilieed t overflowing,
r.
fir each evening the thcatecoorovt
tAlraecar,evai,dtyfberomf
maeucemebt crowds war
of taking a farewell of the
Mr. Mama y on two evenings per.*
popular actor.
at Bath, where he was most
danisdaplopnogintbeedfoirne
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warmly receieed.
firma setday, in Bristol is limited t) the ensuing week.
nee GALE or LAST WEEK.—A correspondent of
the Caledonian Mercury gives the following details from
3
had sought shelter under the Fern Islands;
but personalfrom the fury
sail
On Thursday morning last,
iservation:—.
of the tempest, and many not being
able to get near enough to the island, also from parting,
abouts
slipping, and driving, the fleet had by Friday evening
been reduced to 15 afloat, and four suck—viz., the
Liberty, of Leith, Captain Lawson, (having been run into
by the Britannia steamer of Leith) sunk at 5 A M. on
Friday, alongside of the Arab, crew transferred on board
the latter; by 11 A.M the Arab, of Limekilns, Munro
master, having picked herself on the mast of the wreck,
senile on the top of her ; both crews then transferring
themerlves on board the Mary Key, of Dundee. The
Nelly, of Montrose, Pcrehore master, having rolled away
her masts in the morning, was found to bo in a sinking
state, and by 10 A.M. the crew were conveyed on board
the John, of Dundee, Captain Roger, being hauled
terough the water by a rope, thrown from one ship to the
other. By 3 P.M. on Friday the dismasted ship swung
up under the stern of the John, and in a fow minutes
stove her, k 0 that they both sunk together. Tke crews
of both vessels had then to escape in the utmost haste on
board the Margaret and Elize, of North Berwick,
which vessel's chains were then overlaid by the wrecks,
and consequently bad to be slipped on Sunday, when
she stool out to sea with windlass broken in two."

LEICESTER TRADE.—WhiIe no material activity
prevails in the market, business on the whole is in an
apparently healthy Etat-, and a good t•ade is expected.
The prices eriAl remain firm,—.Nottingham journal.