The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

Halifax Union

Halifax Township ....
Barkisland

Elland-cum-Greetland
Midgley
Northowram
Orenden
Rastrick

Shelf
Southowram

Sowerby
Soyland
Stainland

Worley

This shows that while the poor-rates for the township
of Halifax have only increased in the ratio of 33 per
cent., other townships have increased three-fold, four-
fold, and in one case nearly five-fold, of that proportion,
—proving that any deduction drawn from the state of
that town, will not apply to the district generally.—l
am, yours,

A YORKSHIRE MANUFACTURER.
[Our Correspondent has sent us his name and address,

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, Au°. 6.—There will be an election at Cor-
pus Christi College, on Friday, October the 28th, of a
Scholar on the foundation of this College. This scho-
larship is open to natives of this county ; the candidate
for which must be under nineteen years of age on the
da-y of election, and are required to present themselves
to the President on Saturday, October 22, at eleven
o'clock, and produce certificates of their parents' mar-
riage, their own baptism, evidences of the time and place
of their birth, testimonials from the college or school
where they have been educated, and Latin epistles to
the electors.

The Rev. T. K. Thomas, of St. John's College, has
been appointed curate of Norton Midsomer, near Bath.
The Rev. J. P. Griffith, late Fellow of Wadham Col-
lege, has been appointed to the curacy of Limington,
Somersetshire.:
The Rev. W. Maskell, of University College, has, on
his own petition, been presented to the valuable rectory
of Corscomb, Dorsetshire.
B. Grant, Esq., has presented the Rev. E. Richardson
to the rectory of Oxcomb, Lincolnshire.
The following members of this. University have been
ordained by the Lord Bishop of Chester :
DEAcoNs.—T. Goff, of Oriel College; T. Hugo, Wor-
cester; C. C. Southey, Queen's; J. Paul, Magdalen Hall.
PRIESTS.—G. H. M‘Gill, of Brazennose College ;R.
Powell, Worcester; D. D. Stewart Exeter ; J. B. Sweet,
Balliol ; I'. C. Maule, Fellow of St. John's; D. J. Yonge,
New Inn Hall.

CAMBRIDGE, AUG. 6.--Mr. James, the Senior King's
Scholar upon the foundation of Eton at the election,
1842, has succeeded to a Fellowship at King's College,
which was rendered vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. W. Elliot.
This is the day of the visitation of MSS. Library of
Corpus Christi College.
The Rev. Richard Heighway Kirby, 8.A., of St.
John's College, has been recently appointed to the Se-
cond Mastership of the Felsted Grammar School.
The Rev. Zachary Shrapnel Warren, M.A., of Sidney
Sussex College, has resigned the Mastership of Beverley
Grammar School.

THE CHURCH.
The following► gentleman of this University have been
appointed :--

- 'The Rev. Edward Bird, M.A., of Magdalen College,
to the Rectory of St. Thomas's, Birmingham.
The Venerable Archdeacon Raymond, M.A., of
Trinity College, to the Rectory of Morpeth.
The Rev. Francis Smith, 8.A., of St. John's College,
to the Rectory of Tarrant, Rushton.
The Rev. J. Browne, M.A., of St. John's College, to
the Vicarage of flashy, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. W. IL Brookfield, M.A., of Trinity College,
to be assistant preacher of St. James's, Piccadilly ; also
to the incumbency of St. Luke's District Church, Ber-
wick-street, Oxford-street.
The Rev. Benjamin Sanderson Finch, 8.A., of Trinity
College, to be domestic Chaplain to the Earl ofßuchan.

- -
NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.— The returning officer
made the official declaration on Saturday. The numbers
were announced to be—for Mr. Walter, 1,885 ; for Mr.
Sturge, 1,801 ; majority, 84. The warrants against
Mr. Frearson and Mr. Feargus O'Connor will not be
followed up. A petition against the return has been
already drawn up, and will be presented before Parlia-
ment separates.
IPSWICH, AUGUST B.—Mr. Gisborne and Mr. Mof-
fat are again in this borough. Their arrival was so sud-
den that we believe none of the Liberal party were aware
of it. till they appeared in Alderman Denham's pew at
the Tower Church yesterday. No Tory candidates have
appeared at present.