The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 20.—The s:,ndicate appointed to
take into consitho a tion the practice of degrading in the
University, have made the following report to the Senate:
" Conctivios: the practice of degrading without any
limitation to be liable to abuse, they recommend to the
Senate the a loiri,z) of the following regulations :
" 1. That from and after the 10th day of October,
1830, no person who has degraded be permitted to ber-
fome a candidate for University scholarships, or.sny other
academical honours, during his under graduateship, or for
honours in the mathematical tripos, unless he shall pre-
viously have obtained special permission for so doing, from
a syndicate hereafter to be appointed for that purpose.
"2._ That this syndicate do consist of the Tice-Chan-
cellor, the Public Orator, the Greek Professor, and the
two Moderators for the time being, who shall be invested
with full power to examine into the cases of applicants for
permission to become candidates for honours after they
have degraded, and to grant or withhold such permission,
as may think proper.

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" 3. That this syndicate do meet on a certain day in
October in each year, of which notice is to be given by
the Vice-Chancellor, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration the cases of .applicants, and that all applications
be made in writing by the tutor of the person or persons
making such application, accompanied with certificates
of ill health, or such other certificates as he may consider
necessary."

It is said that Sir John Elley is to be Comp-
troller to the household of his Excellency the Duke of
Northumberland.--, Cork Mercantile Chronicle.

Letters received from Dublin assert that it is
the determination of the people of Ireland to purchase Ln
estate for Mr. O'Connell, to remunerate him for his com-
plete retirement from his profession, in order that he may
be able to devote himself in Parliament exclusively to the
advancement of his country. There
.is no doubt that a
sum of immense amount will be at once contributed for this
purpcse.—Morning Paper.

ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BISHOPS AT
THE MANSION MUM —On Friday last the Anniversary
Meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts, was held in Bow Church, when an ex-
cellent Sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Win-
chester. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor afterwards en-
tertained, with a sumptuous dinner, at the Mansion-house,
his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of
London, Durham, Winchester, Bath and Wells, Exeter,
Gloucester, Bristol, Chester, and Barbadoes ; Dr. Russell,
Dr. Doyley, Archdeacon Cambridge, and other Dignitaries
of the Church ; Mr. Justice Burrough, Mr. Justice Gaze-
he ; William Manning, Esq., M.P. ; and several Members
of the Court of Aldermen. This was the third great dinner
given by the Chief Magistrate during the week. On Tues-
day, after Aldermen Copeland was sworn in as a Member
of the Court of Aldermen, his Lordship entertained the
whole Court; and oa Wednesday he entertained the prin-
cipal Officers of the Corporation.

CONVERSIONS.—An accurate estimate can-
not be formed of the state of the public mind relative to
the Catholic Question, Irons the country newspapers. Be-
fore the declaration that the disabilities were to be removed,
all the Tories thought that in opposing concession, they
pleased the Ministry. Government, which their principles
bind them to support, right or wrong, has resolved to
emancipate; and they are now accommodating themselves
to the altered state of things ; and as few of them have
committed themselves in writing, it is easy to turn a little,
without being branded as apostates. But with the News-
papers it is a different thing. They were the mouth-
pieces of the .intolerants, when intolerance was thought
pleasing to the powers that be. They cannot, therefore,
turn all at once, without snaking themselves ridiculous.
Hence their apparent zeal in opposition. They will cool
by and by. We have taken some pins to ascertain how
the old opponents of emancipation in this town feel upon
the question, and we find that most of them are very
laudably disposed to believe that Ministers, who they allow
must be much better inforinad than themselves, arc doing
all for the best. Manchester Times.

We refer with high gratification to the very
condensed report, in another part of our paper, of the pro-
ceedings of the Meeting at Sheffield, held yesterday. No
place in the kingdom, not even Leeds, has done itself more
hon►ur on the great subject that now almost exclusively
occupies public attention. This was no exclusive Meet-
ing, like another packed assembly that has been held in the
same town by the Anti-Catholic party during the present
week, and at which only one side could be heard. It is
not to be supposed that all the persons in Sheffield un-
favourable to the Catholic Claims were assembled in- Para-
dise-square yesterday. There were, doubtless, hundreds
entertaining those sentiments who were absent from the
Meeting, but the demonstration of the public sentiment in
that large and populous town, was sufficiently strong to
prove that bigotry and exclusion are at their last gasp; arid,
that as far as the voice of the people of England is 'con-
cerned, the Duke of Wellington, and the Cabinet over
which lie presides, may settle the Catholic Question—may
grant the Claims of that body without any im►ninent
danger to tle tranquillity of the state f►om those agitators
who wish to intimidate the Duke of Wellington, and to awe
him from his purpose of rendering Great Britain and Ire-
land in reality what they arc in name—an united King-
dom.—Leeds Mercury.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 18.—In consequence
of the unexpected course which his Majesty and his Cabi-
net have adopted, the fag-end of intolerants here are quite
disconcerted. Liberals of every description hail emancipa-
tion as the forerunner of an extensive reform ; the Catho.
lies appear to enjoy their triumph with a deep, though
noiseless, satisfaction ; whilst the despair of the Orangemen
and Brunswickers is expressed by bitter and unmeasured de-
nunciations, which they vent in private—by their tamed
attitude and lowered tone—and by their downcast eyes,
which they scarcely dare to uplift in public, lest they
should encounter looks, the interpretation of which would
require a painful exertion. It has been expected that these
people would do something by way of evincing their attach-
ment towards their long-idolized system—that the alarum
would be blown—the tocsin sounded ; and that a last
public Meeting would have assembled to bestow a farewell
howl, and " one howl more," on expiring intolerance.—
But nothing of the kind has yet been done, and the ardour
of their ascendancy is quietly escaping in occasional under-
growls, that burst involuntarily from certain slender groups
still seen lingering around the Exchange. When Mr. Peel
was down here in October last, Mr. Hutton, of Hulton,
at a public dinner, declared that he had " pinned his po-
litical faith on the sleeve of that gentleman," and " that
he would he. led by him," as the shadow followed the sub-
' stance. Since Mr. Peel has retraced his steps people here
have been looking after the shadow, expecting, very naturally,
that it also would move " ten degrees backwards on the
King's dial ;" but wonders will never cease, for the shadow
stands still, and a voice has been heard to declare that it
shall no longer be a shadow, but a mass of animated mat-
ter, capable of acting on its own accord ; and in proof of
its new existence, it has already sent in its resignation to
the Stockport Wellington Club. All this is imputed by the
Lancashire people to the influence of a most powerf-1
witch, who, they say, resides somewhere in the neigh-
bourhood of Holton-lane-end. The words " No Popery,"
" No Wellington," "No Peel," " No Catholic King," are
chalked on the walls in various parts of the town—all,
however, in the same hand-writing. A poor weaver from
the country, with his clogs broken out behind, his elbows
bare, and his nose pinched blue by the cold, stood spelling
one of these heart-stirring inscriptions. lie avas not long
in malting it out; then pronouncing the words, " To your
tents, 0 Protestants !" he added, "Aye, yo, an'
tarry theer," as he swung his wallet on his shoulder,. and
hobbled away.

STATE "OF TRADE.---There have been larger
sales effected this week than there were last week, and it.
may reasonably be expected that there will he an increase
in sales for several weeks to Come. This increase, which
always take place in the spring, when compared with the
winter months, seems to have deceived some of our con-
temporaries into a belief that there has been an improve-
ment in trade. We regret to say that so far from there
being any improvement when compared with its state at
this season last year, there is a decided falling off. There
are not so many goods selling now, as there were sold last
February : the profits of the manufacturers are less ;' the
wages of the weaver are less; and there im a great number
of spinners and weavers out of employment—voluntarily,
it is true, as at Stockport—but it is a proof that their em
ployers are not very sanguine of improvement when they
permit them to be unemployed at the present lo .v rate of '
wages. We have seen nothing yet in the state of things to
alter our opinion that there will be a considerable depres-
sion of trade till prices shall have accommodated them-
selves to the alteration in the value of money which. is fol-
lowing, and will continue to follow, the diminution in the
amount of the currency. It would give us great pleasure
to find that we have taken a too gloomy view of the state
of trade ; and we shall eagerly seize the first opportunity
of announcing a favourable change whenever it may take
place. In the meantime we should consider ourselves as
totally undeserving of public confidence, if we called out
" fair weather, fair weather," when a storm hangs over
us.....4lfanchester Times.