The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

POSTSCRIPT.

Monday (Noon), 30th Sept., 1850.
The apparent termination of warlike opera-
tions to the eastward was recorded by us in our
journal of proceedings with heartfelt satisfae-
don. Sikonyella had been promptly punished
for crossing the boundary, and causing' the death
of four persons. Molitz tni, for killing 20, was fired
on, 15 of his people killed in a skirmish with our
brave soldiers, and 3,500 head of cattle, or thereabouts,
were taken from him, besides 10 waggons taken from
his allies. It struck us rather as a misfortune that
Sikonyella should one week be fined 300 head of
cattle, and a few days afterwards be presented with
250 by the British Resident—but not knowing the
circumstances of the case we presumed all wts right.
We had great doubts of the policy of dividing the
c Atte taken from Molitzani amongst the very people
he had just plundered. It would, in our humble
judgment, have been as well, to say the least, to have
sold the cattle (if in condition, or able to be driven) in
a distant spot, and given the people other cattle or
value of some sort. But we were so rejoiced at what
seemed to be a happy result of all the measures lately
adopted, that we were resolved to avoid remark.
What was our surprise, then, as our fine fellows
came into Bloem Fontein yesterday, at three r. at.,
to receive accounts from the eastward, that soon after
the skirmish with Molitzani, the British troops returned
home by a route, giving a " wide berth" to the tribes
—that ever since the skirmish, the country has been
in a most excited state ; and we state it as a fact, that
Morocco, who so readily came forward to help our
troops against Molitzani, is now left single-handed to
maintain his ground against Moshesh's people ; and a
private letter from the scene of robbery and murder
now before us says—" We have had awful doings here
of late. Morocco went out with Major Warden, at
the cost of bringing upon himself a war that is not
likely soon to end. He has lost 3,800 horned cattle
and 800 horses, not to mention the number of his
people who have been massacred. Is it possible
thst our Government will leave him to recover his
cattle without prompt and efficient help ?"
Another letter from the same quarter, dated " Sa-
turday Forenoon, Sept. 28, 1850," says—" The land
is in a blaze. Worse than ever."

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTIES.—Lcist evening
a meeting of the rate-payers of the parish of St. Mary's,
Lambeth, was held in the Vestry Hall, Church-street, to
adopt measures to obtain the repeal of the window-tax. The
senior churchwarden, R. Taylor, Esq., in the chair, read a
letter from the Hon. T. E. D'Eyncourt, Member for Lam-
beth, unable to be present from illness, but promising his
support to obtain the repeal of the tax. Mr. Williams, M.P.,
addressA the meeting. lie had paid considerable attention
to taxation, and was prepared to sty that none was so oppres.-
sive and odious as the window-tax. Mr. Edwards, Mr.
Murrough, Mr. Rossetor, Lieut. Edwards, and other gentle-
men having addressed the meeting, resolutions calling for a
total and unconditional repeal of the window-tax were unani-
mously adopted, as also a petition to Parliament, praying
the immediate repeal of the window-tax, to be presented and
supported by the Members for the borough. Thanks were
voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
On Wednesday the Lord lii,hop of Exeter enter-
tained at dinner, at Bishopstowe, a large party, among whom
were the Earl and Countess of Wicklow, Lord Sinclair, the
Venerable Archdeacon and Lady Caroline Berens, the Rev.
Canon Bartholomew, the Hon. and Rev. Henry Ilugh and
ILady Anna Maria Courtenay, Rev. Prebendary Ford, Mr.
Josceline Courtenay, &c.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
THE UNIVERSITY OE LONDON.
BACHELOR OF ARTS-1850.
EXAMINATION FOR HoNOURS.
MATHEMATICS AND iiATURAL PHIL9SOPIIY.—Francis
Guthrie (scholarship). University College.
CLASSICS —William Flavel Hurndall (scholarship),
University College (Coward); Henry James Piggott,
Wesleyan College Instit., Taunton ; William Giles;
University College ; Russell Martiueau, University
College.
Cuer,lisTn7.—Edward Hunt (prize of books), Uni-
versity Cellege.
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY. —James Austey Wild, Wesley
College, Sheffield; William Thomas Greenhow, Uni-
versity College; George Aitchison, University College.
VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL BOTANY.
Hooper, Caius Collega, Cambridge.
EXAMINATION IN THE HEBREW TEXT OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT. THE tiREEK TEXT OF THE NEW TESA-
MENT. AND SCRIPTURE HISTORY.
FIRST CLASS.—Johu Brown Paton, Spring Hill Col-
lege; H ,hert Ainslie Redford. Spring Hill College.
SECOND CLASS. —J.),Lut .Girling Fech, University
College; Samuel Sharp Walker, Lancashire Indepen-
dent
TniaD '.2lAss —Jame: L-orard, Highbury College.
M. 13. SECOND EX A MINATION-1850.
PASS EXAMINATION.
FIRST DIVISION.—Jorin Syfr Bristowe, St. Thomas's
Hospital; R ,bert Grone?e, Guy's Hospital; William
Morse Graily Hewitt, University College; Robert Ben-
son Lewis, Leeds School of Medicine; Edmund Manley,
Royal Manchester School of Medicine; Henry fiyce
Salter, King's College; Charles James Shearman, Uni-
versity College; William Henry Thornton, Royal Mae-
cheater School of M, dicine.
SECOND DIVISION.—WiIIiam Filliter, University Col-
lege; James Newton Heale, St. Thomas's Hospital;
James Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland;
James Robertson, St. Thomas's Hospital.
EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.
PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.—John
Syer Bristowe (gold medal), St, Thomas's Hospital, and
Robert Growse (gold medal), Guy's Hospital—equal;
William Morse Graily Hewitt, University College;
Charles James Shearman, University College.
SURGERY.—John Syer Bristowe (scholarship and
gold medal), St. Thomas's Hospital; Robert Benson
Lewis (gold medal), Leeds School of Medicine; Robert
Growse, Guy's Hospital; Charles James Shearman, Uni-
versity College; William Morse Graily Hewitt, Univer-
sity College.
MEDICINE.—Robert Growse (scholarship and gold
medal), Guy's Hospital; Charles James Shearman (gold
medal), University College; John Syer Bristowe, St.
Thomas's Hospital; Robert Benson Lewis, Leeds School
of Medicine; William Morse Graily Hewitt, University
College.
MIDWIFERY.—WiIIiam Morse Graily Hewitt, Uni-
versity College.
M.D. EXAMINATION-1850.
FIRST DIVISION.—Matthew Baines, King's College;
Edward Enfield Barron, Guy's Hospital; George Bir-
kett, Charing-cross Hospital; John Burford Carlill, Uni-
versity College; Peter Eade, King a College; William
Thomas Edwards, University College; Charles Elam,
Leeds School of Medicine; Stephen Mouckton. King's
College; William Henry Ransom, University College;
William Henry Octavius Sankey, St. Bartholomew's
Hospital; *Samuel Wilk's, Guy's Hospital.
SECOND Ayre, London Hospital;
James Newton Heale, St. Thomas's Hospital.
CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 5.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to appoint
the hour of a quarter-past twelve o'clock on Tuesday
next, the 10th instant, at Windsor Castle, to reaeive the
address on this subject voted to her Majesty at the con-
gregation oa Thursday, Nov. 14.
DAVIES SCHOLARSHIP.
There will be an examination of candidates for the
scholarship upon this foundation, lately holden by
Franklin Lushington, M.A., of Trinity College, com-
mencing on Monday, the 27th of Jan., 1851, at nine

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o'clock.
The caudidates are required t 3 signify their intention
of offering themselves, by writing a Latin letter to each
of the electors, which is to be delivered personally, on
Friday, the 13th, or Tuesday, the 31st of Dec.
The electors are, the Vice• Chancellor, tl►e Provost of
King's College, the five Regius Professors, and the
Public Orator.
In order to facilitate this delivery, one or more of the
electors will attend in the Law Schools on the above
days from one o'clock till two; and no candidates will
be admitted who do not signify their intention in the
above manner.

* To Wilks was awarded a gold medal for his com-
mentary on a case in medicine.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEC. 5.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to Lon-
don this morning, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie. His Royal
Highness and suite travelled by a special train on
the Great Western R Ail way, and returned to the
Castle at twenty minutes past four o'clock this
afternoon.

Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge left the Castle
to day.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in
the Castle yesterday (Wednesday) evening, and per-
formed the following pieces :
Overture, " Gustave"
Finale, lat act, " Z iuberfl )te "
Priere and Barcarole, " Masaniello Auber.

ChorusL" Nachtlagei "

.Auber.
......... Mozart.

..Kreutzer.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived at
elevten o'clock yesterday morning at the building
erecting fur the Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde-park.
His Royal Highness inspected the state of the works,
and ut twelve o'clock presided at a meeting of the
Royal Commission for the promotion of the Exhibi-
tion of the Works of Industry of all Nations, to be
held in the year 1851.
The Commissioners present were Earl Granville,
Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir
Charles Eastlake, Mr. Barry, Mr. Barley, Mr. Cubitt,
Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr. Pusey, M.P.,
and Mr. John Shepherd, chairman of the East India
Company.

Mr. Scott Russell, secretary to the Royal Com-
mission, was in attendance. Mr. Bowring also at-
tended.

Colonel Reid, chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, was present ; Colonel Lloyd (special commis-
sioner, and Dr. Lyon Playfair (special commissioner)
also attended.

The meeting broke up at twenty minutes past three
o'clock.

The numerous workmen employed on the building
assembled at the entrance, and on Prince Albert tak-
ing his departure greeted his Royal Highness with
loud and enthusiastic cheers.

Prince Albert, attended, by Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Buuverie, proceeded
to the Great Western Railway terminus, at Padding-
ton. on his return to Windsor Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House, last evening.
The Hon. C. Clements, M.P., had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Colonel
Anson had also an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

SHIP LAUNCH AND MELAIVCHOLY
ACCIDENT.

On Tuesday, at high eraser, about eleven o'clock, a
time new barque, of about 300 tons burden, was launched
from the buoding-yard of Mr. Thomas Ro)den, west
side of the Queen's Dock. She is named the Annie
Worrell, has been built for the firm of John Worrell and
Co., blockmakers, Salthouse Duck, will be under the
command of Captain Foster, an able and experienced
seaman, and is intended for the Valparaiso trade. The
Annie Worrell is a neat little craft with square stern,
and demi-temaie figure-head. She is 109 feet in length;
breadth of beam, 24 feet; depth of hold, 15 feet 10 inches.
Mrs. Worrell, the wife of the principal owner, stood
sponsor at the time of the launch, and bestowed upon the
barque its appointed name.
The day was fine, and a considerable concourse had
assembled to see the vessel's introduction into its " na-
tive element;" but we regret to say that the event
was attended with a melancholy casualty, fatal to
Robert Miller, a young man about 19 years of age
(son of Mr. Miller, of the firm of Mackie and Miller,
shipwrights), one of the apprentices employed in the
yard. Just as the vessel was leaving the stocks
a coil of rope was thrown, as usual, by those on
board over the bow. The unfortunate young man placed
his foot on this when it descended, as the readiest mode
of securing it; but, unfortunately, his foot slipped in-
side, the rope encircled his leg, and in a few moments,
to the consternation of ail present, he was dragged into
the river. He was spun round with the action of the
rope, now at some height up the vessel's side, then
struck with force against the " spur shores" attached to
the bottom launch-ways, and eventually dragged be-
neath the water under the bottom of the vessel. The
barque was taken in tow, as usual in cases of launch, and
was led into the Quen's Dock Basin, those on board
being quite unconscious that any accident had occurred.
After tieing submerged for about ten minutes or a quar-
ter of an hour altogether, we should think, the untortu-
nate suff,rer was released, and brought on shore without
delay. There were still some signs of animation, and he
was promptly conveyed to the Southern Hospital, where
the usual restoratives were attempted, but he died, we
believe, very shortly after admission. It will be easy to
conceive :he gloom which an accident so untoward pro-
duced on all assembled.

We observed in the yard that the keel and flooring
have been laid for a noble vessel of 700 tons. Mr. Roy-
den is also building a small yacht, which is expected to
prove a elipptr.—Liverpool Courier.

WHITBY, DEC. s.—The Mountaineer, of this port,
from Quebec, struck the East Pier in entering, and stove
her bow.

REPORTED ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
RAILWAY.— It was stated last evening that a coal train, com-
posed of 49 trucks, having two guards, and drawn by two
engines, bad run into a goods train at Hatfield station, both
trains being on the up line. The guards of the goods train
were on the line with their signals, but the drivers of the two
engines could not prevent the collision. The drivers of the
engines of the coal train are much injured,
and the two en-
gines, With some of the trucks, are quite destroyed.

SURVEY OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
(From the Alta Californian of Oct. 1.)
We had the pleasure yesterday of an examination
on board of the schooner Ewing, of the United States
coast survey, Lieutenult Williana P. M'Arthur com-
manding, 02 the mass and charts which are the result
of his long and arduous labours along our coast. The
. charts are on a large scale, admirably suited to the
wants of the large marine, constantly increasing,
already engaged along the Pacific shore. They em-
brace the whole coast from the mouth of the Columbia
River to the Bay of Monterey, and are executed in a
manner as creditable to the artistic skill and accuracy
of Mr. William B. M'Murtrie, draughtsman, as the
very successful and satisfactory results of the survey
are to the perseverance, energy, and ability of the
commander of the expedition.
From Cape Disappointment to Point Pinos the
Ewing traced each headland and indentation, every
rock and isle; determining the exact latitude and
longitude of every point of the coast, roadstead, and
infl-ctior, and fixing their position upon the chart
with so much care and accu.racy that with such
guides on board the pasence if n pilot could scarcely
be desirable on the pert of any seuman who may be
navigeting along the coast. The daouchement of
each river emptying into this sea is scrupulously ac-
curate, and not a dangerous rock, or shoal, or reef
has escaped the inspection of this thorough survey.
The chart is accompanied with perspective views
of the principal headlands, &c., along the coast, which
will prove of invaluable service to seamen when in
doubt otb-rwise, from any cause, as to their own
exact position ; aq, for instance, a perspective view of
Cape Mendocine and the country at Trinidad. In
proof of the accuracy with which this whole survey
has been conducted, it may not be amiss to mention
that Lieutenant M'Arthur, after taking his departure
at a point in this bay, determined by Lieutenant
Wilkes, and threading the entire coast, noting its in-
lets and outlets, sounding its waters and locating to-
pographically correct every point that can be of any
interest to commerce, found, upon completing all bis
calculations in the bay of San Francisco, that there
was scarely any discrepancy between the previously-
determined position his vessel occupied and that indi-
cated by his reckoning.
The chart shows the nature of the whole coast,
where it is sandy, where rock-bound, and otherwise,
the series of hills, or mountains, as they overlook the
shore, and the appearance of the country as to its
forests and timber. The charts of Lieutenant Wilkes,
of the United States Exploring Expedition, made
some dozen years ago, have long been known as inac-
curate, to a great degree, as to this coast.
In fact, the survey now made is the only one since
the discovery of the country, upon which the mariner
could trust the safety of his vessel or life. Many of
the points, rocks, &c., as laid down on previous charts
are more than 20 miles -out of their true position.
Islands are laid down which do not exist, while
others that have a local habitation and a name are not
mentioned at all.
Taus the immense benefits which will accrue bo
the entire commercial and mercantile interests en-
gaged on our coasts may easily be undersood. The
trade, already heavy, now carried on between this port
and the various points above us is constantly increas-
ing, and there is great reason to believe that those
rivers, now merely known by name, will ere long be
known to the world as the highways to rich and
populous marts, flourishing under the combined i nflu-
ence of agriculture, trade, and mining. The Umi qua.
the Kiaweth, and others, are already attracting m uch
attention, while the Columbia, so long looked upon w ith
distrust, and since the loss of the frigate Peacock on its
bar considered by many unnavigable, is now known ,
have a perfectly safe and easy entrance through it
south channel. This has been thoroughly surveyeo‘
by Lieutenant M'Arthur and the corps under his com-
mand. Eighteen feet at mean tide can be carried
over the shallowest part; and, assisted by the chart
and directions which will accompany the report, a
stranger may take his ship to Astoria without the aid
of a pilot.
The mouth of the Columbia, as is proved by the
surveys of Wilkes and M'Arthur, is gradually chang-
ing. Where is now the south channel, which was sty
bhallow when the exploring expedition made its survey
that the sea rolled into continuous breakers entirely
across it? On the other hand, the then best entrance,
that surveyed and recommended by Lieutenant
Wilkes, if we mistake not, is filling up, and is so
much altered from its then condition that it cannot
be navigated by his directions.

TOLERATION orNO TOLERATION
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
shall feel obliged by your inserting in your
paper, the following extract from the Edinburgh
Review for April last, page 525-7 ; and I would
beg to ask the ministers of the Christian religion if
they are willing to let the truth of it rest for sup-
port on such a statute as the following one ? and I
would also inquire of those persons who profess to be
the advocates of civil and religious liberty, if there
can be any such thing, so long as such a statute re-
mains on our books ?—I am, Sir, yours, &c.
Dec. Z, 1850. W. H.

" 9th and 10th of William 111., cap. 32.—Whoever,
having been educated a Christian, shall by writing,
printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny any one
of the persons in the Holy Trinity to be Cod, or assert
that there are mere Gods than one, or deny the Christian
religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old
and New Testament to be of Divine authority, shall, for
the first offence, be incapable of bolding any office, or
place of trust, civil, or military; and, fur the second, be
imprisoned for three 3-ears, and be incapable of suing in
any court of law or equity, or of accepting any gift or
legacy.

-66 the punishment for denying the doctrine of the
Trinity was repealed in our own times, but the remain dar
of the statute is in fall force at this day."
The reviewers sum up their observations on tbe
subject in the following words :
It a balance be struck between the infidelity that is
prevented, and the infidelity that is occasioned, by the
absence of free discussion, we have no doubt that the
latter would greatly predominate."

FOREIGN FUNDS.
UAMBURGU FUNDS, Dze._2.

BUIL Money.

Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent....
Ditto, 3% per Cent.
Bank Shares. •••• • • • ............
Prussian 5-per Cent. .........
Angio-Russian Loan ............ ..
Russian Certificates, 5 per Cent.:—.• .. 96 95
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• •• • •
Ditto Stieglitz, 4 per Cent. ........ 83%
Hamburgh, 3% per Cent. • • ........ • • 86% 86%
Lubeck Loan (1840) .......... 97
Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent.... •••• .. • •
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 72% 72%
Ditto, in 1001. Shares •. •••••• .. • • . • 72% 72%
Ditto,s per cent. .•• • • .... 93
Anglo-Sw&dish Loan
iiitto, Transport Loan .. • .......
Ditto, lisp., 4 per Cents ..........
Norwegian 4 per Cents. • •• • • 99%
Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. 11 10%
Ditto, 3 per Cents. • • ...... 303 30%
Ditto,
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent-.
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • •
National Bank Shares .... ••••• • • • ••
American, 6 per Cent. .. •........... 103% mg
RAILWAYS.

Ditto, Priority Shares ... ........
Berlin and Hamburg .........• • ..... 23% 13
Ditto, Priority Shares .........
Ditto, second emission ............
Magdeberg•Wittenburg ..............
Ditto, 5 per Ceuts. .......... •
Cologne and 51indeu ••••..•• • • • • • • 99 96%
Ditto, Priority Shares ............
Ditto, 5 per Cents.
Frederick-William, Northern ........ 32
Mecklenberg ...................... 26 26
Ditto, Priority Shares, 4% per Cent.
Alton& and Kiel
Gluckstadt .. • ........... ••........
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMIITZIDAM, DEC. 3.
Active Debt, 254 per Cent•• •••••• •• • 54% 55
Ditto, 3 per Cent .......... •• 65 65
Ditto, 4 per 85% 85
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent ••••• • •• • •
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.......... 84% 84%
Frankfort, 3 per Cents. •••••• • • 53% 53%
Russian 5 per Cents., Hope & Co. 104
Ditto, ditto, Steiglitz ........ ••• • .. 84%
Spanish New 5 per Cents. •••• • • • • .... 12 3-16 11 5-16
Ditto, 3 per Cents. •• • • .. 33 33'j
Austrian 5 per Cents., hietallics .... • • 68 69%
Ditto 2% per Cent. •••. • .. 36% 37
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 110 111
Exchangeon London, at sight • • •• 11 67
Two months... • • • . 11 60
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 43
Two m0nth5......... • ....• 35 12
On Paris, at sight...... • 56 0
Tw0m0nth5............... 55 62

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AND CIIRE.—WO find
the following account of an extraordinary cure in the Union'
Medicate :—" Phineas Gage, aged 25, employed in the con-
struction of a railway, was engaged in ch arging a hole made
in a rock with powder, in order to blast it, when, supposing
that the powder had become mixed with sand, he stirred it
andup with long
the
ha
ar wa
a iron
drivenro. A d
completely
pl explosionetel
y
()n g h instantly took
the
he
ad
nplace,
man and fell at a short distance from him, covered with blood
and a part of his brain. The iron rod weighed about 61b.,
and was 34 inches in length, and about an inch thick. It
entered the left angle of the lower jaw, and came out at the
top of the bead behind the bone of the forehead. The
wounded man was knocked down by the blow, but imme-
diately rose again, spoke to the persons round him, got el,
into a cart, in which he kept standing while it was being
driven for more than a mile to an inn, where he alighted and
ascended a long staircase, and went to bed in the possession
of his mental faculties. A surgeon arrived in half an hour
after the accident. 'I he upper part of the head was exten-
sively fractured, and the wound at the side of the jaw was
large enough to admit the finger. The small pieces of the'
skull were removed, the larger bones adjusted, and the
wounds dressed. We shall not enter into the details of this
interesting case, but merely say that the patient promptly
recovered with the loss only of the sight of the left eye."
NEW PIER AT RYDE.—The deputation that
waited upon Sir Richard Simeon, with the plans and esti-
mates of the proposed new pier from the eastward of the
town, on Wednesday last, were welcomed most cordially,
and treated sumptuously; the worthy baronet assured theta
that he would do all in his power to aid them in their spi-
rited purpose, and freely offered them, without rent or
other charge, the land or shore which they might require for
the erection of the pier and baths. Some idea of the libera-
lity of this gift may be given, when we state that upwards
of 401. a year as ground rent is paid to the Lind and Player
families for the site of the PTEI,EIIt pier.--rortsmoude
Guardian.