The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-07 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMERIDGE, Nov. 6.—This day the following Gentlemen
were elected scholars of St. John's -College :—Messrs. Turner,
Girtuttl, Taylor, Grey, 'Aycock, Jones, Simpson, Birkett,
Smith, W. Wilson. Cowling, Benson, junior, Ponpe, Dayman,
Outram, Daniel, Isaacson, Wingfield, J. Ilills, Darby, Mar-
shall, Antrobus, Bros, Kennersley.

ANECDOTE • or BACON, TUE Sc.vr,P•ron.—One day as
this justly celebrated artist was walking in Westminster Abbey,
he observed a person standing before his principal work, who
seemed to pride himself on his taste and skill
in the art, and
who was exuberant in :his remarks... " This monument of
Chatham," said he to Mr. Bacon, (whom it is evident he mis-
took for an ignorant stranger), " is admirable upon the whole,
but-it has great defects." " I should be greatly obliged," said
Bacon, " if you -,,tould have the kindness to point them out to
me." " Why, .here," said the critic, ' and there—do you not
see? bad, very bad ;" at the same time employing •his stick
upon the lower figures with a. violence that was like to injure
the work. " But," said Mr. Bacon, " I should be glad to be
acquainted why the parts you touched are faulty ?" Ile found,
however, nothing determinate in his reply, but the same vague
'assertions repeated, and accompanied with the same violence.
" I told Bacon," said he, repeatedly of this, while the monu-
ment was forming. I pointed out other defects, but I could
not convince him." " What, then, you are personally acquaint-
ed,with Bacon ?" said Mr. 8.. " 0 yes," replied the stranger,
.4 I have been intimate with him for many years." It is well
for you then," said Mr. -B. taking leave of him, " that your
friend Bacon is not now at your elbow, for he would not have
been well pleased at seeing his work so roughly handled."
DR. iGny.--This Gentleman, who had for
many years held a high character in Norwich, and the county
of Norfolk, not only for his skill as a surgeon, but his general
knowledge and great intellectual powers,. died on the 27th ult.
at his house in Norwich. He had obtained a Doctor's degree,
and practised with great success. A long life of e:zertion, which
had scarcely been chequered either by disease or accident, was
closed by an indisposition of eight days, during which the public
feeling in Norwich was most pal 'ally excited, and the
utmost anxiety hourly betrayed; abou any change of symptoms
that afrxted the continuance cf so great and valu ,tile a man.—
After being presented with the freedom of Norwich, he was
elected one of its Aldermen, and served the offiCe of Sheriff in
1803, and that of Mayor in 1805. Ile was Fellow.of the bin-
nean and Horticultural Societies, and Honorary Member of the
Philadelphia :Society for promoting agriculture; President of
the Philosophical Society of Norwich, a Director the Norwich
Union Fire Insurance Society, and was attached to many other
institutions, both foreign and domestic.
AEROLITE.—The Paris Papers mention, that
the stone which fell from the clouds on tho.23d
of June, at Javinas, in the- department of Ar-
deche, is now exhibiting to the public. Several
amateurs have made proposals for purchasing this
wonderful stone, which has excited great specula-
tion among naturalists. An English mineralogist
has, we understand, offered a considerable sum
for it. •

I,IIS MAJEcTY'S Visit TO SCOTLANII.---It is
stated that his 111A.rusTy's design of paying a
visit to Scotland in 182 Q, is not abandoned, but
will probably take precedence of his Continental
tour. Amongst the gossip connected with his
stay in the northern portion of his dominions,
his Grace the Duke of ATHOL is said to have al-
ready made arrangements for equipping, in the
genuine Highland costume, a body-guard selected
from his tenantry, whose province it will be to at-
tend the KING during his residence at, and ex-
cursions in the vicinity of, Blair Athol.—(Glas-
go7o Chronicle.)
Pekin is now the largest city in the world, it
contains, according to Anderson, a space of nine
miles every way.