The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. I.—The Rev. Henry Howes, M.A.
of Gonville and Caius College, has been presented by
the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Barton St. An-
drew, Norfolk.

The Rev. Thomas William SalmOn, M.A., formerly o
Gonville and Caim; College, has been presented to Or
Perpetual Curacy of Hoptun, Suffolk, by the Dean and
Chapter of Norwich.
The Rev. S. Vincent Beechy, M.A., of Gonville and
Caius College, has been nominated to the Perpetual
Curacy of St. Peter's Church, Fleetwood, by Sir Hesketh
Fleetwood, Bart.

The Rev. John Witherington Peers. M.A_ of Catha-
rine Hall, has been preferred to the Vicarage of Tets-
worth, in the county of Oxford. Patron, Richard Barry
Slater, Esq., M.D.
The Rev. T. S. Green, M.A., of Christ's College, has
been appointed Chaplain to the A shby-ile-la• Zouch Union.
The Rev. W. OldfiAl, formerly of St. John's College,
haA been appointed to the Curacy of Buell-null and I3ag-
nall, Staffordshire.
The Rev. Chark3 Richard Alford, M.A., of Trinity,
has been licensed by the Bishop of Worcester to the Per-
petual Curacy of St. Matthew, in Rugby, Warwickshire.
The Rev. Nicholson Burrows, 'B.A., formerly of
Trinity College, late Principal of the Hull College, was
on Tuesday, the 21st-ult., elected Head Master of the
Yarmouth Proprietary School.
The Bishop of Lichfield has licensed the Rev. George
Lloyd, B.A , of Emmanuel College, to the Perpetual
Curacy of Willesley, in the -county of Derby.--Patron,
Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart.
OXFORD, JAN. I.—Messrs. H. T. Glyn, G. R. 11.
Somerset, 11. E. Cramer, T. 0. Blackall, W. E. Raw-
storne, and C. Lloyd have been elected actual students
of Christ Church ; the three former are from 'West-
minster school. The following have been appointed
chaplains of Christ Church :—The Rev. P. C. Kidd and
the Rev. J. B. Fawkes.

Sir J. C. Thorold, Bart, has presented the Rev. Edw.
Trollope, of St, Mary Hall, to the Vicarage of Rauceby,
Lincolnshire.

Lord Rolle has presented the Rev. R. H. Chichester,
of Exeter College, to the Vicarage of Chittleham, De-
vcnihire.

The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have pre-
sented the Rev. C. G. Hutchinson, student of Christ
Church, to the Rect )ry of Batsft)rd, Gloucestershire.
The President and Governors of Guy's Hospital have
presented the Rev. John Nelson, of St. John's College,
to the Rectory of Peterstow, near Ross, Herefordshire.
The Trustees of Christ Church, Litherland, in the
county of Lancaster, have nominated the Rev. J. E.
Bates, of Christ Cnurch, to the Perpetual Curacy of the
above-named church, to which he has been licensed.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. R.
Hodges to the Vicarage of Little Barrington, in the
county of Gloucestershire. _ _

The contest for the Professorship of Poetry, which is
carried on with such unprecedented activity, and which
has occasioned such excitement throughout the country,
will, it is understood, be decided this month, Wednes-
day, the 26th inst., being mentioned as the day of election.

ALARMING FIRE AT THE LONDON GAS..
WORKS AT VAUXIIALL.—Ou Saturday afternoon, be-
tween the hours of one and two, the inhabitants residing
at Vauxhall and its vicinity were thrown into a state of
great excitement by the sudden issuing of huge volumes
of black smoke from the premises of the London Gas-
works, situated in the Vauxhall-walk, Vauxhall, and in
a few minutes after its outbreak, so dense had the atmo-
sphere become iu the immediate neighbourhood, that it
bore a close resemblance to a thick black fog. The alarm
of the inhabitants residing near the premises at this mo-
ment, fearful that an immediate explosion would take
place, was extremely painful to behold. It appears that
the fire was occasioned by an overflow of tar on the
hydraulic main in the No. 3 retort-house, which. imme-
diately, on its descending communicated to the mouth-
piece of the furnace, and thus caused a most terrific igni-
tion. Happily, however,-at the time a great number of
workpeople were on the premises, and they were actively
employed in throwing water on the flames, which in the
short space of a quarter of. an hour were so for sub-
dued as to prevent them extending any further. Almost
immediately upon its• being known in the neighbourhood
that the premises were on fire, Messrs. Burnett and Co.,
the eminent distiller!,, of Vauxhall, dispatched two of
their powerful engines, manned by 20 of their own work-
people, to the scene in ease of emergency; but upon their
arrival there was no occasion to put them in operation.
although the assistance of the men was eagerly accepted.
This is not the first time that the Company are indebted
to the valuable aid of MessrS. Burnett and Co.'s work-
people. The engines of the brigade belonging' to the
Waterloo-road station, accompanied by that of.the West
of England, were quickly on the spot after thetouthreak,
but the fire being extinguished before they arrived; they
were not-called into use. The damage done could not be
ascertained, but principally the most destroyed is tar.
Not the slightest inconvenience will be felt at the works
from this accident,. It is a singular circumstance that
yesterday five years ago nearly all the Company's .works
on the banks of the river were destroyed by fire.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.: -Yesterday evening
(Sunday), about half-past six o'clock, a respectable
young woman, about twenty-one years of age, of the
name of Martha Whitney, a servant in the employ of
Mr. Bruce"rickney, .fringemaker, of East-lane, Wal-
worth, committed self-destruction in the following man-
ner:—She had obtained leave of her mistress on the pre-
vious night to go out for the day to visit her mother, who
resides at Fulham. It appears she had spent the day at
her mother's, and was returning home ; her mother and
brother were accompanying her part of the way back,
when they accidentally met a young man, who some time
back kept company with her, but who has since married
an acquaintance of hers. lie asked her to drink with
him ; she consented, and they all went to his house and
had each some brandy ; when they left, and were walk-
ing along the water side, near Battersea-bridge, when
the unfortunate young-woman darted from her mother
and precipitated herself into the water, and before she
could be extricated met with a watery grave. No rea-
son can be assigned for her committing so rash an act,
unless it was the disappointment she had received from
the young man.
TRADE OF DUNDEE.—FIax continues in de-
mand at last week's quotations, with a good deal of bu-
siness doing. For the present there appears little pros-
pect cf any advance in the price. The various foreign
advices received since our last are as follows :—From
Archangel (12th November o. s.) they write—" The
accounts from the flax districts in the interior of the
country, about the quality of the new flax, continue, we
are happy to say, more favourable ; but how, under
these circumstances, taken along with the bad state of
things on your side, there should be found buyers of
Otborney flax in the usual proportions at Re s. 125,
and 2d sort flax cedilla at Ro s. 5.50, we really do not
understand." In St. Petersburgh nothing doing in either
flax or hemp. Riga dates are up to the 10th December,
when prices ofproduce remained stiff, chiefly in conse-
quence of the weather continuing open and mild, which
prevents supplies being received by the sledgeway. At
that date, so little appearance there was of winter setting
in, that two ships had been chartered to load grain. Flax
was there taken at—for Crown Marion, R.S. 31f or
37/. 10s. 3d. ; PTR, R.S. 29 or 34/. 18s. sd. ; DC, H.S.
25 or 30/. 11s. ld. ; R.S, 21 or 26/. 6s. sd. Ex-
change was 39d. per P.S. There is a good deal doing
here in yarns, chiefly for the French market, without
which outlet we must have experienced great stagnation,
seeing the home market is in such a depressed state.—
Dundee Advertiser.

On Tuesday last the large iron bridge, intended
for the service of the Portsmouth Bridge Company, was
launched from the Bedminster ship-yard ; and on the
following morning a very beautiful steamer, built for the
Austrian Government, and named the Archduke Fre-
derick, was also launched, in capital style, from the same
place. On Thursday an attempt was made to launch the
splendid steam-ship Avon, also built by Messrs. Acra-
man, Morgan, and Co., but unfortunately, after gliding
about twenty yards she hung upon her ways, to the
great
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understand that the failure was occasioned by the effect
produced by the late incessant rain on the new ground at
the lower end of the slip : the ways became slightly de-
pressed by the earth giving way, and approached too
near to a level to continue the moderate velocity which
the vessel had acquired in the first instance. The launch
has consequently been postponed until a greater inclina-
tion can be given to the ways. It is confidently expected
that towards the end of the present month (January),
this splendid steam-ship, and also the Severn, building
on the adjoining slip, intended to form a portion of the
West India mail steam-fleet, will be afloat. The follow-
ing is the measurement of the Avon :—Length between
perpendiculars, 218 feet ; depth of hold, 23 feet 3 in. -
width of each paddle-box, 11 feet ; paddle-boxes to be
surmounted by Captain Smith's life-boat, in lieu of the
ordinary coverings.—Bristol Illercury.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.---All in-
quisition was held on the 28th ult., at Cullompton, be-
fore Charles Brutton, Esq., Under-Sheriff, and a highly
respectable special jury of the county of Devon, Arthur
Chichester, Esq., foreman, to assess the compensation•
money to be paid by this Company for the purchase of
about seven acres and a half of land in the parish of
Burliscombe, required of Richard Hurley, Esq., of
Uffeultn, and for damages resulting to him for the taking
of such land. The sum of 50(1 was awarded for the
laud and timber, including 1401. for the timber, and the
sum of 2301. for damages, including 301. for the te
nant, making in the whole the sum of 7301. the Coin-
pany providing a bridge in lieu of a level crossing.
Mr. Hurley's claim for the items comprised in the
award of 730/., amounted to 1,7721.—0 n the follow.
ing day another inquisition was held in the Town Hall
at Wellington, before Edward Coles, Esq., under She-
riff, and an equally respectable jury of the county of
Somerset, to assess the compensation moneys to be paid
for about eleven acres of land in the parish of Stampford
Arundel, required of T. W. Were, Esq., and for damages
resulting to him, and the following sums were by con-
sent awarded to that gentleman, viz., 1,5001 for the land,
the house and buildings, and the timber. The houso
and buildings were,valued by the claimant's surveyor at
8001, and the timber at 260!., 8001. for severance and all
consequent damages, making a total of 2,300/. Mr.
Were 's claim amounted to between 4,0001. and 5,000/.
In these two jury cases Sir William Follett, with Mr.
Talbot, were the counsel for the Company, and Mr. Ser-
geant
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dlolan dert Mr.
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THE Bere for the land- -
owners.—Brisfel
THE LADIES' MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN
ON THE Coax -LAws.—We understand that this memo-
rial has already received upwards of 50,000 of the signa-
tures of the women of Manchester,—Manchester
chestguer,a—nritay facoheatsermTugingtelse.d.
SMSMUGGLING.---Ala
brandy, 170 casks, was brought to our Custom-house On
Monday last. We are informed it was found buried in
Blue Anchor bay. It is said that the teetotallers -here
arc exceedingly rejoiced.—Sonterset County Gazette.

EVEN

G SUN

A CHRONOLOGICAL AND STAT AS.
T ICAL TABLE for the YEA.R, IS4I. -
JAN I" ARY.
1. Revo!ution at Valparaiso, which is headed by Ge-
neral Vivanco, against Gamarra.
2. The Committee on the fortifications of Paris announces
to the Chambers that they had agreed to the simultane-
ous execution of the enceinte and the detached forts,
the execution of the works in three years, and the esta-
blishment of works beyond the enceinte.
3. Death of Rear-Admiral Sir Philip B. Vere Broke,
Bart., K.C.B.
Murder of the.Bisltnp of Emerland in Prussia, by
a discharged servant.
Severe thunder-storm over the metropolis, the
spires of Spitulfields and Streatham Church struck by
ghtening. and the latter totally destroyed.
4. The Thames steamer, on her passage from Dublin
to London,. is totally lust off St. Agnes, Scilly, and up-
wards of GO persons perished, four only being saved.
Four persons killed by an exploston of fire-damp
in a canal pit at Ispull, near Bolton.
5. The official statement of the quarter's revenue
shows a decrease on the quarter of 80,0001., and a defi-
ciency of a quarter of a million on the year.
6. The arrival of the India mail brings news of the
death of the King of Lahore, on the sth of November ;
the continuance of negotiations between Captain Elliot
and the Chinese, together with the defeat of the Chinese
by Captain Smith, of her Majesty's ship Druid, on the
19th August last. Accounts also received of the defeat
of Dust Mohammed, on the 2d November last, atd of his
surrender to the English.
The Earl of Cardigan having reprimanded Dr.
Sandhatn, of the 11th Hussars; for leaving the church at
Brighton, when accompanying the regiment, by the nar-
row instead of the broad way, is himself reprimanded by
the Commander-in-Chief, on a complaint being made by
the Doctor.

Wreck of the packet ship Garrick, one of the
New York liners, below Sandy Hook, on the American
coast.

7. The English troops, under the command of Major
Pratt, attack and capture the forts of the Bocca Tigris,
with a loss on their parts of three killed and of between
600 and 700 on the part of the Chinese. The forts are
shortly afterwards again delivered up to the ,Chinese, no
steps being taken by Captain Elliot to insure their ob-
servance of the treaty.
8. Announcement of the discontinuance of the blockade
of the ports and harbours of the coast of Syria.
A collision between the merchandise and mail train
on the Midland Counties Railway, owing to the fog, oc-
casiots the death of the engineer and stoker.
9. Destructive Fire at the General Steam Navigation
Company's premises, situated at the Stowage, Deptford.
10. Collision of trains on the Birmingham and North
Midland Railway; several persons are severely lacerated.
11. Samuel Scott, the American diver, hangs himself
on Waterloo-bridge.
Announcement of peace between France and Buenos
Ayres.
Mehemet Ali restores the Turkish fleet to the Sultan.
12. The Sultan accords to Mehemet Ali the heredi-
tary possession of Egypt.
Shere Singh drives out the widow of Khurruck
Singh, and takes possessios of Lahore.
16. News received in London of a Convention being
agreed to terminating the dispute between France and
Buenos Ayres.
Inundation at Brentford, with much destruction of
property and loss of life, occasioned by the bursting of
the banks and locks of the Grand Junction Canal. Other
parts of the country are also overflowed.
Extensive inundations at Brussels, Bruges, and
other places in the Netherlands.
Death of Sir Samuel Fort Whittingham, Com-
mander in Chief at Madras.
20. The Poor-law Commissioners dismiss Mr. Miles
from his office of master of the workhous3 of the Hoo Union.
Preliminaries of a treaty of peace are agreed upon
between Captain Elliot and the Chinese Commissioners,
the conditions of which are the cession of the island of
Hong Kong to her Majesty, the restoration of Chuenpee
and Tycock Tow to the Chinese, and the evacuation of
Chusan at the earliest period.
In compliance with the treaty the Chinese forts are
evacuated by the British.
22. Landslip near Ca.stellamare, which crushed 60
houses and buried above 100 persons.
Four of the French newspapers are seized for having
published three letters, of a pretended correspondence
between Louis Philippe and Prince Talleyrand, when
Ambassador in England.
Murder of Mrs. Shedden, at Iforfield, near Bristol.

26. Opening of the session of Parliament.
29. An arrangement is come to between Captain El-
liot and the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, by which the Em-
peror cedes the island of Hong Kong to England, ac-
cords an indemnity of 6,000,000 of dollars, Fond establishes
official relations between the two Governments on a foot-
ing of perfect equality.
Lord John Russell obtains leave to bring in a Bill
to continue the Poor-law Commission for ten years longer.