The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

TRINITY COLLEGE.

C A MBRIDGE, SEPT. 3.—Thursday week; the 10-th
instant, is appointed for the public dinner to take
place iii Lancaster, given by the inhabitants of that
town to the Rev. Master of Trinity. Professor
Owen, Who is also a native of Lancaster, is, it is said,
to he associated in this public manifestation of esteem.
The old and beautiful fountain - which stands in the
old court of Trinity, and which fin• some years gave no
supply, owing to the leaden pipes which conveyed its
water from the spring, near the Maddingly-road, having
been corroded by time,is about to be restored to its former
usefulness. The master's lodge is undergoing a process
of thorough repair. The modern timber frames have
been already removed from the windows, and their
places supplied with stone mullions, to harmonise with
the-fine old dining-hall alongside. There is to he a
new oriel window of stained glass at the north-west
corner.. In addition to these alterations, the lodge is
being newly roofed.
The examination for the vacant Fellowships takes
place very shortly, and the names of the s&ceAsful
candidates will be announced on the.lst of October.

CHURCH

The following appointments have taken place :
Rev. Benjamin John Armstrong, 8.A., of Caius
College, to the Vicarage of Crowle, in the counties of
York and Lincoln—value 7771.
Rev. John Jackson, M. A., Pembroke College, to
the incumbency of St. James's Church, Muswell-hill,
near Hornsey.
Rev. Henry Windsor, M.A., of Catherine Hall, to
the incumbency of Lockwood, near Huddersfield.
Rev. Thomas Philpot, M.A., of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, tor-bc one of the chaplains to the Lord Bishop of
Exeter.

Rev. H. T. Thompson, 8.A., of St. John's College,
to be Chaplain Priest of the Collegiate Church, Ot-
terv, St. Mary.
Ray. Charles Wright Woodhouse, 8.A., of Caius
College, to be Assistant Minister of St. James's,
Sheffield.

-Rev. Peter William Joliffe, M.A., of St. John's
College, perpetual curate of St. James's, in Poole, to
be official of the peculiar of Great Canford and Poole.

Rev. G.C. Tomlinson, 8.A., of Magdalene College,
to the incumbency of the parislrchurch of the Holy
Trinity, Coverham, in the North Riding of thecounty
of York.

THE MEMBER FOR KNARESBOROUGH.—By a letter
from Keighley, we learn that last Sunday week the Hon.
Member for Knaresborough, Mr. Busfeild Ferrand, pub-
licly left the Church of his fathers and went over to the
Ranters. We are not surprised at this ; the Hon. Mem-
ber having, in our opinion, bceu a Ranter during the
whole session of Parliament. —Leeds Times. _ _

FEMLLE CONVICTS.—Between forty and fifty fe-
males, of various ages, women, girls, and children, ar-
rived at Kingston, on Thursday, between two and three
o'clock, under an escort. of the 4th 'Loyal Dragoon
Guards, and were drafted'on board the convict-ship Na-
varino, which arrived in that harbour on Wednesday,—
Northern Whig.
BANKRUPT GAMBLERS.—For the edification of
these gentlemen, we give the following clause in the New
Bankruptcy Act, which comes into operation next No
vember :—" No bankrupt shall be entitled to the certi-
ficate under this Act, and any such certificate, if ob-
tained, shall be void if such bankrupt shall have lost by
any sort of gaming or wagering in one da y twenty pounds,
or within one year next preceding his bankruptcy have
lost 2001. by any contract for the purchase or sale of any
Government or other stock, where such contract was not
performed within one week after the contract, or where
the stock bought or sold was not actually transferred or
delivered in pursuance of such contract.'
A curious custom prevails among the Solonais, in
the department of Orleans, when a young couple marry
without the means of commencing housekeeping, as is
ordilwrily the case, the contributions of the neighbour-
hood being always forthcoming to supply the deficiency.
The mode of collection is whimsical enough. Five
pparoen;,,etll vhtiock make
eons ists the
()rqu n
young peasant girls, dressed in their best costume de fete,
the assembled.com,
eel:o73°l'g the entire population of
the parish. Their operations are thus conducted : —The
first girl holds a distaff and spindle in her hands, n hich
she presents in turn to the company, while she sings—
" L'epousee a Bien quenouille et fuseau,
Mais de chauvre, helas ! pas un echevan
Pourra,-t-etle done filer son trousseau

The second darnseirect;i;e;theotferingsProduced. by
this appeal in the husband's drinking cup ; the third acts
the part of Hebe, and pours out a draught of wine,
which she offers to each contributor to the store ; and
the fourth carries a napkin, with which she wipes the
month of the guest after his draught; anti thus prepared
the way for the performance of the duty entrusted to the
fifth—always the prettiest of the party—that of rewriis
in' him ter his generosity with a kiss.
The General Steam Navigation Company's new
steam-ship Princess Royal, Captain J. W. Morris, which
left Granton Pier, Leith, on Saturday afternoon, arrived
yesterday morning at nine, at the Company's w harf, Poplar,
after an excellent passage. She .pesied the same Cwn-
pany's swam ship Clareoce, off Cromer, on her way to
Edinburgh. The Princess leaves • for Edinburgh again
to-morrow evening.,

At the Court ot Assizes of the lierault, held JaA
week, a man named Rascal Fabre was tried for having,
on the .2tith of last June, murdered his father. His Ei-
ther went u.s usual to work in the' fields. On his way he
met a neighbour, to whom he expressed his rears that his
son would murder him. The son came up with the fa-
ther in a few minutes after, and eelibefatelv raising the
gun, discharged it in his face and neck. '1 he old man
dropped dead, and the parricide then took to flight. lle
was arrested the same day,. and, at on 'e coalesmt his
guilt. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be
taken td the place of execution -at Montpcliier in his shirt,
his feet naked, and his head covered astir a black veil, to
be there exposed whilst the sentence of t%e Court was
read, and immediately after executed.