The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-11 00:00:00

THE LADIES' COOIPANION.

From the Ladies' Companion—a most graceful and
valuable companion for the boudoir—we quote the
following appropriate " Sonnet to October," in which
the characteristics of the month are most happily
pourtrayed—the lines which describe the brilliant
autumnal tints, as

a hectic verdure,
False as the flush on sad Consumption's cheek,"
are singularly beautiful and effective !

SONNET-OCTOBER.

"'Mid trees that rain their lavish gold around,
October smiles, on either hand a vat
Fresh bubbling with the vineyard's juice, the ground
Meanwhile budding Crysanthemums, whereat
Pale Flora weeps, for these foretell her doom,—
A stern imprisonment, till rosy Spring
Laughs o'er her chains and lifts her from the tomb.
Now fields look bleach'd, and summer swifts take
wing.
O'er all the woods a hectic verdure reigns
False as the flush on sad Consumption's cheek;
While bitter portents moan along the plains,
And distant mountains wear an aspect bleak.
In every gale we hear some farewell sigh,
And red leaves murmur as they fall, • We die r
E. E. M. K."

T VT-P Y I Tri_ LIGEYCE.

be Lint day of Mlehaelmas Term,
the Vice- Chancellor and Proctors' nomination of the
following- gr.:ltlNnen to filo ofliec of
met with the a. pruval or the house, viz. :—Tire Rev.
John Matthias Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy
and Fellow of Corpus Christi College; and the Rev.
William Linwood, M.A. Student o Christ Church,
" In Literis Humanioribus ;" and the Rev. G. Henry
Sacheverell Johnson, Fellow of Queen's College, "In
Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis."
The Rev. Dr. Bliss, Principal of St. Mary Hall,
and the Rev. Edward Wetherell Rowden, Fellow and
Sub wraden of New - College, were again appointed
clerks of the market.

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regation this

In the same Congregation the following degrees
were conferred, viz.:—

BACHELORS or ARTS—Robert Henry Gatty, Tri-
nity College ; Joseph Clark, Magdalen Hall ; Thomas
Williams, St. Edmund Hall.
The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology (Dr.
Ogilvie) intends to begin his course of lectures of the
present term on Tuesday, the 29th of October.
The Regions Professor of Ecclesiastical History
(the Rev. Robert Hussey, 8.D.) proposes to begin
his lectures this term on Monday, October 28, with
two classes, one entering upon the course of history,
the other a year's reading in advance.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 10.--ELEcrioN or UNIVERSITY
OFFICERS.—At a Congregation holden this day the
undermentioned gentlemen were appointed to the
offices described at the side of their respective names :
PROCTORS.—Rer. Arthur Thacker, M.A., Trinity
College; Rev. John Fenwick, M.A., Corpus College.
SCRUTATORS.—Rev. William Haughton Stokes,
M.A., Caius College ; Rev. John Newton Peill, 8.D.,
Queen's College.
TAIORS.—Rev. H. G. Hand, M.A., King's Col-
lege ; Rev. W. Marsh, M.A., Trinity Hall.
MODERATORS.—A. Cayley, M.A., Trinity Col-
lege ; Rev. T. Gastrin, M.A., Jesus College.
KEEPERS OF THE UNIVERSITY CHEST.—The
Master of St. Peter's College; Rev. John Gibson,
M.A., Jesus College ; Rev. John Hays, M.A.,
Christ's College.

At the same Congregation the following degrees
were conferred :

M.A.—De Lisle de Beauvoir Dobree, St. Peter's
College ; W. W. Kirby, Queen's Col!pg,".
The following gentlemen were admitted ad eundent:
—W. Battescombe, M.A., Pembroke College, Ox-
ford ; Patrick Fraser, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
TRINITY COMA G fi.—The undermentioned ni. tubers
were this morni,,g elected fellows of this suciety :
Berry, Davies, Vaughan, Edwards (W. F.), Elwyn,
Thrupp.
LAW—The Regius Professor of Laws has this day
given notice that the following is the order of the
Law Classes for 1849 50:—

FIRST CLA,S—thmings (Curies), Hammond
(Clare), Waraker (Sidney).
SiCOND CLASS—Wielie (Christ's), Parry (Em-
npinuel), Codner (Caius), Weston (Christ':), Grim
(Christ's), Home (Corpus). Swinbaru (Corpus).
PASS DEGREIE.N (ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY)
Carter (Emmanuel), Frances (Trinity HID), Han-
son (Eintnanu4-1), Lancaster (Christi.), Lewi, (Cath.
Hall), Pugh (Emmanuel), Veasey (Trinity), Wood
(Christ's), Yorke (Johu's)—Appleton (Queens'),
Finch (Queens'), Mousley (Magdalene), Sparrow
(Magdalene).

The Professor's lectures will commence on Mon-
day, November 4. The arrangement of subjects will
be that pursued in the Second B )ok of Hallifax's
Analysis. The lectures will be delivered in the Law
School, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Satur-
daye, at eleven o'clock A.M.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, OCT. 8.

Her Mejesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove this morning to the Forest. His Royal High-
ness went out deer-stalking.
The younger members of the Royal Family took
their usual exercise.
There will be no addition to the Royal dinner party
this evening.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer. the Governor of the
Bank of England, and the Deputy Governor, were
present. Sir Alexander Spearman, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, attended.

Tne Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of New Zealand and South
Australia.

THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 9.
A supplement to the Moniteur, dated ten o'clock,
contains the following

"We have only received this morning the follow-
ing bulletin issued yesterday morning at Ostend:—
"' No important change has taken place since last
night in. the state of the Queen; the fever was, how-
ever, not so violent last night, and the weakness is,
consequently, less this morning.
" Sir ROBERT CARSWELL, D.M.
JAINSENS, D AL
H. GUENEAU DE MUSSY, D.M.P.
" Ostend, 7.'"

At noon a second supplement of the Moniteur was
isiued, with news up to midnight preceding. It
Writes that during the evening her Majesty v‘att Ices
calm than in the course of the day. The pule v,as
week and frequent.

WEDN ESDAY NIGHT, OCT. 9.
The following bulletin of the Queen's health was
,saved yesterday :
" The Queen suffered great oppression the whole
of yesterday, -Happily, she was less disquieted during
the night, and her Majesty enjoyed beveral hours'
sleep. This morning there is a slight improvement
n the state of her isjesty.
" SIR ROBERT CARSWELL, D.M.
FR. JANSENS,
H. GUENBAU DE MUSSY, D.M.P

" Ostend, Oct. 8, Ten A as."
The Duchess of Orleans and the Duke de Ne-
mours are expected in the course of to-morrow ; we
are happy to add that the natural excitement of
meeting her mother and brothers and sisters has had
no prejudicial effect upon our beloved Queen. Her Ma-
jesty has addresed an autograph letter to the Arch-
bishop of Malines, thanking him for the prayers put
up for the restoration of her Aisjesty.
Prayers have also been offered up by the Israe-
litish communities, and to-day a solemn service was
to be held at the chief Jewish synagogue.
Although the season is already far advanced a
great number of visitors remain here, in consequence
of the presence of the Royal Family.

THE STORM AT DOVER.-DOVER, THIIRSDAY...-
Owing to the disastrous effects of the atom that visited the
coast, all operations connected with the works of the har-
bour of refuge are suspended. Divers have succeeded to-day
in fishing up out of 18 feet water one of the valuable
diving•bells out of the three that were sunk and employed
in the construction of the great packet-pier, which, after
three years' labour, has been carried out 650 feet into the
sea. It is eventually to be carried out 800 feet. one of
the masonry of the pier has been injured, but all the travel-
ling cranes and the huge piling were drifted out to sea.
Deane, the diver, who was employed on the wreck of the
Royal George, is to be here to raise the other diving-bells,
which weigh about five tons each. Mr. Burgess, the repre-
sentative of Mr. Walker, the Government engineer, was
down here to-day to superintend the operations. There are
200 men employed by Messrs. Lee, the co►itractors, on the
works, and it is expected that on all the apparatus being
recovered they will resume work in a fortnight. About 700
acres of sea room are to be taken in to make the harbour,
and this will occupy another three years. It is now under-
stood that should most of the machinery and apparatus be
recovered uninjured, the damage, which was confined to it
alone, and which has been greatly exaggerated, will be
under 4,000/. The diving-bell got up to-day is uninjured.

During the whole of Sunday night the wind blew
with terrific force, but we have not heard of any resulting
accident in Brighton. The boats from Brighton and other
places employed in the herring fishery off Yarmouth en-
countered the gale. One boat lost all her nets, and a man
broke his collar bone. Another, the Wellington, belonging
to Mr. Cheesman, fared better. She brought home 15,000
fish.—Brighton Gazette.

POWDER MILL EXPLOSION.—FAVERSHAM, WED-
NESDAT.— Some alarm was created here yesterday morning
by an explosion occurring at the well-known powder mills
of measrs. Hall, at Ospringe, in the outskirts of this town.
Providentially, the workmen were not in the mill at the
time, and, as tar as can be ascertained, not a soul appears to
have been hurt. The building in which the explosion took
place was destroyed.
GREENOCK NEW HARBOUR.—Thursday next has
been definitively fixed upon by the provost and magistrates
as the day for laying the plate in honour of the completion
of the new harbour, which it has been resolved to deno-
minate, in honour of her Majesty, the Victoria Harbour.
The day will, we believe, be observed as a holiday in town.
It would be preincure to announce the arrangements of the
procession and ceremony, as these are yet only in progress,
but will be sffieially announced in our next. As we have
already mentioned, the foundation stone of the Wood
Asylum will be laid with masonic Intiours on the same
day, Annvadiately after the ceremony at the Victoria
Harbour. The barque Geelong, belonging to Messrs.
Potter, Wi!son, and Cu., of Glasgow, and at present in the
pi rt of London, is three years and two months old, nine
months of which have been spent in poll. Slum launched
she has sailed over a distance of 113.000 miles, being at the
rate of 130 miles per diem on a straight o urse. She has
been three voyages to Calcutta and one to Port Philip. On
her last voyage the time occupied in going round the world
was only six months, during two months and ten days of
which she lay in port; thus leaving only three months and
20 days as the actual time occupied in the circumnavigation
of the globe! Rather smart woik this. On her last passage
gocrtut
out she passed no less thahnta/besehnips
her and,
dtofo crownne
ah,,lsd
ex-
traordinary history, such as
the
care with which she has been sailed by her skilful com-
mander, Captain W. Wyse, by whom the above facts are
attested,' that we understand she has still the same masts in
use as when she first started.—Greenock Advertiser.
NOVEL BALLOON ASCENT.—The grand ascension
of the aeronaut Montemayor, who announces that he has dis-
covered a certain mode of directing a balloon, is fixed for
the 19th of November. He will attempt to proceed from
Madrid to London.