The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

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OXFORD, - FEn. 3.—The Professor of Chemistry (Dr.
Daubeny) will begin his course of lectures at the Laboratory
on Tuesday next, the Gth instant, at eight o'clock in- the
evening.
The Professor of Geometry is under the unavoidable neces-
sity of postponing his lectures till further notice.
The Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy will deliver
his second lecture on the mechanical methods of improving
the land, at the Botanic Garden, on Monday, the sth inst., at.
two o'clock.

The Reg-ins Professor of Hebrew (Dr. I'usev) proposes to
lecture on the Psalms during this term, on Mondays, Tues-
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at nine o'clock.
the meetings of the Ashinolean Society will be held on the
12th and 26th inst., and March 11.
The Responsions commence on Wednesday next.
The Oxford Society for the Study of Gothic Architecture
will meet on the 14th and 18th instant, and March the 13th,
at eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Montague Bernard, of
Trinity College, has been elected to till the vacant Vinerian
Scholarship for the study of the Common Law, tenable for
ten years, stipend 304 per annum. Mr. Philip Williams,
from Winchester School, has been admitted a Probationary'
Fellow of New College. T. W. Mellor, lisq., has presented
the 11ev. T. W. Mellor, to the perpetual curacy of Wood.;

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bridge, Suffolk, value 5110/. per annum.
Earl De Grey has presented the Rev. E. L. Sayer to the
living of Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, value 247/. per annum.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtler, of Revere House, have presented the
Rev. J. Palmer to the rectory of Dovesdale, Worcestershire,
value 2021. per annum.
Mr. W. W. Foulkes has been elected a Scholar of Jesus

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College.
CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 3.—The Vice-Chancellor has just an-
nounced to the• Senate, that a proposal has been made by
John Barnes, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, to place the
sum of 2,0001., Three per Cent. Consols, in the names of
trustees, upon trust, that during the life of his sister, Ann
Barnes, the dividends and annual income thereof be applied
for her use and benefit, or upon certain contingencies
f?r the benefit of the said trustees, and that after her death,

the said Bank Annuities be transferred to the Chan-
cellor, Masters, and Scholars of this University, upon trust,
for the foundation of a scholarship, to be called " The Tho Mas
Barnes' Scholarship," in memory of his brother, Thomas
Barnes, M.A., deceased, late of Pembroke College, subject to
cartain regulations, to be :.übrn'tted to a congregation on
Wednesday next.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON

TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

The inquiry into the circumstances attending the deaths of James
ilanney and Proctor William Scott, the engine-driver and ptoket
of a luggage train on this line of railway, who were killed near
the Springfield ballast-hole on the morning of the 28th tilt., was
resumed yesterday forenoon, before Mr. C. C. Lewis, Coronei for
Essex, at the Three Cups Inn, Springfield.road, Chelmsford.
Major. General Pasley, the Government Inspector of Railways,
was examined as to the state of the line at the spot where the ac•
cident occurred, and a watchman on the line also deposed that
the man usually in attendance on the points at the ballast-bole was
I addicted to drinking, and seldom at work more than three day, a
week. Strangers were put on to tut fi I hie ditty occasionally Our
instructions do not tell us to look at the "points" and cose.raila
after every train has passed. We are, however, expected to de
so, and it was owing to the irregularity of the, arrivalot the lug.
gage train, which usually passes Chelmsford before the snail, that
I did not do so on this occasion. The luggage train Is never re•
gular, and varies as much as an hour sometimes.
Mr. George Henry Phipps, resident engineer of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, said _that be accompanied Mr; Mall to
the spot where the accident occurred, about twelve o'clock on Stitt.
day the ?Rh ultimo. Witness made a minute Inspection or
the engine, and, front that inspection, was convinced the
accident had arisen through one of the driving wheels coming
in contact with some hard substance, placed in the same position
the "cross rail" was described to have been in. There. was a deep
indentation on the flange of one of the wheels, but the axles and
other wheels were uninjured. Witness bad carefully examined the
piece of rail produced, and could not find any mark on it to corres.
pond with that on the wheel of the engine, or indeed any appear.
ance that would lead him to the conclusion that it was the substance
which had come in contact with the engine and cadged the aeci.
dent. Mr. Phipps gave his evidence at great length, and with a
clearness which appeared to give the greatest satisfaction to the
Coroner and all present.
Several other witnesses were examined at considerable length,
whose testimony was of a very conflicting nature, and at
halt past nine o'clock the Corener adjourned the inquiry to a
future day, when it is expected that some evidence of an extraordi.
nary character will be adduced.

THE RIGIITS OF WATERMEN.—Yesterday con-
siderable excitement prevailed in that part of Chelsea contiguous
to Battersea-bridge, in consequence of Mr. Hatchett, a magistrate
for the county of Middlesex, who resides at Beaufort.terrace,
having determined to make use of the power given him by the
Court of Conservancy of the River Thames, in the removal of
what has long been alleged to be a great nuisance, and also an en-
croachment upon the right of free watermen. For many years a
plying.place for watermen has existed on the northwestern side
of the bridge, and until the last twelvemonth there was an un-
interrupted approach to it both from the street and by the
river. About a twelvemonth since, however, Mr. Page, a
coal merchant, established a coal wharf there, blocked up the
approach to the river with his waggons, and prevented water-
men landing their fares by keeping barges constantly mowed
alongside. This conduct, on the part of Mr. Page, was
warmly commented upon, not only by the watermen, but
also by many of the influential gentlemen of the neigh-
bourhood, and it was attempted by the latter to put an end to the
nuisance in an amicable manner. This could not be effected, and
the Court of Conservancy was appealed to by Mr. Hatchett and
other gentlemen. The Court declared that the mooring of the
barges was an obstruction, and that the blockading of the landing
place was an et cruachment upon the rights of the watermen. Yes-
terday Mr. Nelson, the water-bailiff, served a notice upon Mr. Page
to remove the obstruction, and as that was not attended to, steps were
taken to forcibly remove the nuisance; the mooring chains and
ropes were cut, the piles to which they were made fast were sawn
off, and the barges set adrift. The waggons were also removed.
The necessary apparatus for driving a row of piles into the bed of
the river, which would prevent the future mooring of barges on this
spot was fixed, watermen commenced plying for fares and obtained
many, and before sunset the Beaufort-stairs once more shone in alt
their pristine glory. It is understood that the matter is likely to
to become one of legal inquiry. A body of police were in attend.
ante to preserve order.
CURIOUS MARRIAG E.—Last week, a clock-maker,
residing in this city, upon whose countenance might be
traced the march of time, and a female, who was about his
equal in Years, presented themselves in the church of St.
Cuthbert, for the purpose of being united in the holy bonds
of matrimony, under the following singular circumstances:—
It seems, from the statement of our correspondent, that they
had " lang sync" been married in " bonnie Scotland," accord-
ing to the rites observed by the church of that country, and
having lately unfortunately discovered that the minister *as
suspended at the time the " gordion knot" was tied, they de-
termined, in order to allay their qualms of conscience, to ap-
pear a second time before the altar of hymen, and accord-
ingly, on the above occasion, they effectually rivetted those
bonds which they supposed had hung too loosely upon them.
—York Courant.
DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-LEAGUERS.—On Saturday
the farmers of Richmondshire met at Richmond, and were to have
carried out the Anti-League policy, but 'the concoctors of the
scheme reckoned without their host. The Earl of Zetland, -whose
intention to be present was generally known, attended, as did also
several persons of importance connected with the landed interests.
A resolution was moved by the callers of the meeting, Word for
word similar to the Derby resolution, but the Noble Earl made An
excellent free trade speech, and showed that the sliding.scale did no
good to the tenant-farmer. As his whole property is landed, the
Yorkshire farmers began to consider that all the fears of the mono.
polists were not to be taken as gospel, and the meeting was ad.
journed without the putting of the first resolution. Of course the
whole string fell through, and the conveners of the meeting retired
to meditate on the fate that awaits those whose estates are encum•
bered with wife's pin-money and daughter's settlements. .
PosT-OFFICE REGULATIONS.--It has for some time
been the practice (in pursuance of directions from the Post.office
authorities to that effect) for the Customs' officers,:in the examina-
tion of the baggage of passengers arriving from all parts of the
world, on finding any letters addressed to parties residing in the
United Kingdom, to take possession of them and, send them by a
special inesenger to the Post-office, in order that they sea, be for-
warded to them by post. An initance recently occurred at one of the
quays adjoining the Custom-house, of a parcel of printed circulars
being found in a package, each circular being directed to a party re-
sident in the country, and the officer detained the same for the
Board'a directions as to whether the package was to be delivered to
the party, or sent to the Post-office in the same manner as was
required in the case of written letters; and the Board of Customs
having directed a communication to be made to the Post-office au.
thorities on the subject (the package being forwarded for their in.
spection), an answer has been received from Colonel Moberly, to
the effect, that having taken the opinion of the law-officer of the
department with respect to the package alluded to, he (Colonel
Moberly) had the honour to acquaint the Board of ;Customs, that
the solicitor considered that such packet, containing letters, ought
to pass through the Post-office, and it had therefore been for.
warded according to the' several addresses, charged with postage.
This decision is of much importance, and it will therefore be
evident that in future all letters, whether written, or, as in this
case, printed, being circulars from some foreign house to various
merchants here, will be detained by the Customs' officers, and for.
warded to the Post-office, to be charged with postage, and de.
livered into the hands of the persons for whom they arc intended
by the employes of that department.
EXPLOSION AT MALDON POWDER-MlLLS.—Yes-
terday morning, at the early hour of one o'clock, the inhabitant.
of Maldon, a village between Cheam and Kingston, Surrey, were
alarmed by a loud noise similar to that produced by the discharge
of a park of artillery. It was soon ascertained that -an explosion
had occurred at the powder-mills, which are the property of Mr.
Frederick Taylor, of Ewell. There was no person at work in
them at the time, and therefore the result was not of a fatal
character. From an inspection subsequently made was found
that one of the " corning " mills, in which there was a quantity
of "green" or unprepared powder, had been utterly destroyed.
The process of grinding was in actual operation at the time, and it
is supposed that, prior to the man who had the care of this parti.
cular mill leaving, he had not sufficiently damped the powder, the
consequence of which was that some grit getting intermixed with
the dry powder, caused the latter to ignite by friction with the
machinery. It is a singular circumstance that an explosion oc."
curred at these mills about six months since, at the same early hour
in the morning, and under similar circumstances.
TILE BOKHARA. CAPTIVES.—WC have 'great plea-
sure in announcing that letters from Trebizond of the lath of
December announce the arrival there on the 1 I th of some Bokhars
merchants, who report that Colonel Stoddart is still alive, and
holding the appointment, under the Emir of that place, of corn.
mandant of a fortress, having been compelled to embrace Islamism,
under the name of Abdee Semet Khan. The same passengers
likewise state that Colonel Stoddart has under him a young man,
who acts as his secretary, who, according to their description, is
supposed to be Captain Conolly. Later dates from Trebizond, to
the 31st of December, mention that these reports had been con.
firmed by other persons arriving there from Bokhara on their pil.
grimage to Mecca, and who had left Bokhara between five and
ix months previous, Dr. Wolff had reached Erzeroum nn foot,
rom Tribizond, a distance of 150 miles.
To the pension of 1901. per annum, of which Gen.
John Mackenzie is already in receipt, an addition has been made
of 2101. Major-Generals Helier, Touzel, James Hay, William
Wtod, George Burrell, and Sir Robert James Harvey, are each to
receive 2001. per annum ; and Colonels Alexander Kennedy,
Clark Kennedy. and the Hon. George Cathcar., on the unathiched
half-pay. 100/. per annum each. The pensions of the first six' are
to take effect from the tat of last month, and those of the two
Colonels from .the Ist instant.— Un.ted Service Gazelle.
Mr. Arbuthnot has nearly recovered from his late
severe indisposition.
DEATH OF GENERAL CUNNINGHAstE.---This gad!.
lent officer, whose demise has been officially reported atmthetledn to
House, had been in the service hairs century, and wasui3ps
(Corona-
t he rank of Lieutenant. General on the 28th of June,
Hon brevet).
oncern we have to state that.
or KINTORE.—It is with e
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DAUGHTER OF THE EARL
tile deat o onc o aut, I ers,
bereaveznei
the Eight lion. the Earldr,fPKeirorire ha..s met with
d anothert
painful about ten years of age, who, while
ivi(tibe top of4fhe staircase, at Keith Hall,
rade and alighted on the basement floor,
famirs interestingesver the afl
ice,l
near
a very great height. She was taken up id a state of insen-
sibility and died in little more than an hour.—Aberdee»
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