The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. S.—THE lIULSEAN PRIZE.—This pri z
(1001.) has just been awarded to Charles John Ellicott, B.A.
St. John's. The subject was—" The obligation of the Sab-
bath, with a history of the institution, and its influence from
the earliest times to the present day."
The subject fur 1844, just announced, is as follows :—" The
lawfulness and obligation of oaths in a Christian community,
and the influence which they have had upon society at different
periods."
THE SEATONIAN PRIZE.—The subject 2 just announced is
Esther.

THE MATHEMATICAL Tatros, 1844.—The examination for
honours commenced on Wednesday morning; there were 141
candidates.

EXAMINATION OF THE QUESTIONISTS NOT CANDIDATES
FOR HONOURS.—This examination begins next Wednesday,
and continues seven days. Thore are in the first division 87
candidates, and in the second 84.

CLARE, HA LL.—The 'following gentlemen have been re-
cently elected Junior F.ellows of this Society : —J. Hulbert
Glover, 13. A., Rev. Joseph Power, 51. A., a graduate of this
college, but afterwards elected Fellow and Tutor of Trinity
Hall.

ST. KATHERINE'S HALL.—John .Furfovr, one of the last
exhibitioners from St. Peter's School, York, has been recently
elected to the Yorkshire Scholarship at this college.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The Rev. Sampson Kingsford, 8.A.,
has been appointed to the Mastership of the Seven-oaks School.
THE Cu uncn.—The following appointments have taken
place :—The Rev. Lord John de la Poer Beresford, M.A., of
Trinity College, to the living of the Union of Baronstown,
value 300/. The Rev. William Lucius Coghlan, 111. A., of
Trinity College, to the vicarage of St. Mary-de-Lode, Glou-
cester, value 7t3•1/. The Rev. Charles Granville Wheeler
Stuart Menteath, M.A., of Trinity College, to the vicarage of
Ilanceby, Lincolnshire, value 165/. The Rev. Algernon
Wodehouse, 8.A., of Trinity College, to Cle rectory of Carle-
ton-Forehoe, Norfolk, value 1201. The Rev. William Bor-
ten, 8.A., of Caius College, to the rectory of Thornton-le-
Moors, Lincolnshire, value 3191. The Rev. Thomas Sandon,
M.A., of Queen's College, to the perpetual curacy of Barlings,
value 55/.

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" Are you the box- keepor ?" drawled a puppy to a
gentleman who was looking through a box-door of the late
Covent-garden Theatre. " No," quietly retorted the gentle-
man ; " are you ?"—New Mc

he described as residing at Nos. 10 and 11, Stoneybatter.
The discrepancy between the number of Mr. Fallon's resi-
dence in the Sheriff's list and that given in the above de-
scription having been noticed by Mr. Whiteside, and ad-
mitted to be fatal by Mr. Brews'er, the name was inserted
on the list, the objection on the part of the Clown, of course,
falling to the ground, as far as the officer's devisiun was con-
cerned.
Mr. Fallon is reported to be a Repealer.
The following are the rest of the list of 48 : —Messrs. R.
Carolan, builder ; J. Fry, coach-till-inning msnufacturi r (ob-
jected to by traversers for non-residence) ; W. Hendrick, me r-
chant ; Fitzpatrick, grocer (objocted to as being a town-
coum illur) ; Henry Flinn, pianoforte-u akc r ; Henry Thomp-
son, a ine-merchai.t ; Mi. hael Dunne, brazier; Anson Floyd,
china merchant; N. W. 3lontsei rat, wine-merchant; John
Denman, wu e cooper; John Rigby, gun-maker; Robert
Hanna, merchant ; Jo a Holmes, merchant , George Whit-
taker ; Robert. Chamlev, merchant; William Longfield; Wil-
liam Orr, turner ; Vv. J. Cainen, jeweller ; R. S. Stubbs,
linendraper ; Joseph M‘Cormiek, merchant ; William Scott,
cabinetmaker; John White, seedsman ; W. M. Wo..droofe,
merchant ; G. Mitchell, tobaeconist ; J. Waller, engraver ;
J. Cawlin, builde.• ; G. Fowler, merchant ; J. MaGloln,
grocer ; T. Green, publican ; J. Hamilton, wine-merchant ;
L. Gorman, grocer ; J. Boileau, wine-merchant ; J. F.
Smith, law-student ; J. C. Papworth, arehitect ; Captain
Roper ; S. Parker, pawnbroker; W. Ring, hosier; J. C. St.
George, merchant ; E Clarke ; B. Eaton, builder ; J.
Thwaites, sodawater-maker ; J. Irwin, D.L. ; J. Falkner,
wine-merchant ; and J. Croker, wholesale merchant. . _

Several of the above were objected to on the ground of
non-residence in their respective places of business, and out
of the reduced list of 48, 11 were Repealers. To-morrow
the list will be further reduced to 24 names, the Crown
and the traversers having, by the statute, the privilege of
striking off 12 names each, leaving 24 on the panel, from
which the jury who are to try the parties are to be selected.
" ATTENIP'T TO SWAMP THE JURY PANEL."
Such is the heading under which the Freeman of this morn-
ing ushers before its readers the narrative of an attempt to
swamp, by a discreditable ruse, the panel from which is to be
selected a jury to try the State traverser,. If this statement
be well founded—and unfortunately there is reason to believe
that it is not altogether groundless—it can only be said that the
silly authors of the ruse have very much mistaken its probable
effects. Subjoined is a portion of the article alluded to. The
imputation that the scheme was in any degree by the conni-
vance of persons in office is, of course, absurd:—
" On the evening of Tuesday last a number of busy emissa-
ries from the 'Tory party, and we believe most firmly that they
were instructed by the Irish Government or by some of its
subordinates, went about the city in the twilight, for the pur-
pose of entrapping credulous Liberals, and thus endeavour-
ing to serve the purposes of the Government, by excluding
them from the special panel. The paper, which was carried
round for signature, purported to be a requisition to the
Lord Mayor, calling upon him to convene a meeting of
the citizens, to enter their protest against the approach-
ing State trials as illegal. The paper on which the sig-
natures were written had a fabricated similarity to that
used by the Corn Exchange. The written portion, purport-
ing to set forth the objects of the suggested meeting, was
a very good imitation of the manuscript of some of the
employes of the Repeal Association, and the creatures who
hawked it round were very free in their use of the names.of
influential parties among the Repealers, as a means of lulling
suspicion, and of more successfully accomplishing their infa-
mous ends. They asked for signatures in the name of the As-
sociation. Those parties avowed that they were engaged and
paid for that special purpose, and it is known that disreputable
parties have been otherwise employed too. It has been freely
asserted by the party, who manifest inexpressible anxiety for a
conviction, that every Catholic on the balloted list of special
jurors would be objected to, and that thus a conviction would
be secured. Ail the gentlemen who were applied to for signa-
tures were of known liberal sentiments, and:mostly of the Ca-
tholic persuasion. And now let us explain how this piece of
impudent chicanery was hoped to be made available, in further-
ance of the objects of those whose fortunes are bound up in the
prosecutions, and whose official and political existence depend
upon a conviction of the " conspirators." Every man on the
special jury may be objected to, for cause, who is known to
have expressed any decided opinion upon the policy or legality
of the State trials; but every man who has been entrapped
into signing this paper has, of course, pledged himself that the
indictment is impolitic and unjust. The presumed effect,
therefore, of this act of shameful chicane is to render those
who have signed the paper ineligible to serve as special jurors.
See, then, the depth of this baseness. Catholics dare not be
objected to because they are Catholics, but this surreptitious
requisition to the Lord Mayor may be made as an engine quite
effective for that end, and yet the brazen front of impartiality
may not be lowered. Liberal Protestants, too, may be sum-
marily objected to on the same account."

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of the locality, including Mr. Walker, M.P. for the borough.
Mr. Bright and Colonel Thompson attended as a deputation
from the League. After able addresses from Mr. Walker,
Colonel Thompson, and Mr. Bright, resolutions in favour of
the League were passed by acclamation. An active subscrip-
tion was then entered into, and it was announced that upwards
of 1,120/. had been contributed by Bury.
A shelf, about six inches from the shop window of
Mr. J. C. Akester, chemist, &c., St. James's-street, Hull,
has been burnt in to the depth of a quarter of an inch at least.
This has been occasioned, no doubt, by the rays of the she
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Ilad not this been timely observed by Mr. A., it might niti.
mately have led to a conflagration.—Hull Advertiser.