The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL

INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT. 22.

On Thursday, the Rev. T. Shadforth, Fellow of University
College, was nominated a Master of the schools.
Responsions commence on Wednesday next.
The Camden Professor of Ancient History will lecture on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at one
o'clock. The first lecture will be on Tuesday next.
The Laudian Professor of Arabic will resume his lectures
on Wednesday next, at three o'clock.
The Savilian Professor of Geometry proposes to commence
a course of lectures on Monday next, at two o'clock.
The Savilian Professor of Astronomy will commence a
course of lectures on Saturday, the 29th inst., at two o'clock.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History will begin
a course of introductory lectures on Thursday, November 3,
at two o'clock.

The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology will begin an
introductory course of lectures on Wednesday, November 2,
at eleven o'clock.

The Regius Professor of Hebrew proposes to continue his
lectures on the Prophet Isaiah, on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, at nine o'clock; beginning on
Saturday, the 29th instant.
The two Elementary Classes, on Wednesday, the 26th,
and Thursday. the 27th.
The Professor of Anglo-Saxon will continue his lectures
on Mondays and Fridays, at one o'clock; commencing on
Friday, the 28th instant.
The Clinical Professor of Medicine proposes to recom-
mence his attendance and lectures at the Radcliffe Infirmary,
on Tuesday, November 1.
The Rev. G. D. Wheeler and the Rev. C. Nevinson have
been admitted actual Fellows of Wadham College.
Mr. T. J. Hearn has been admitted an actual Fellow of
New College, as Founder's kin.

The LOI:d 'Bishop of Gloucester has presented the Rev.
Dr. B. S. Claxson. of Worcester College, to the incumbency
of St. Mathew's, Twigworth, Gloucestershire.

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 22.
!At the last congregation the degree of M.A. was conferred
on Mr. W. Atkinson, of Queen's College.
LECTURES.—TheJacksonian Professor's course on Mecha-
nism, Statics, and Dynamics, will commence on Tuesday,
November the Sth, at the room in the Botanic Garden. Pro-
tessor Walmesley's Lectures on Vocal Music commence on
Monday (this day), on Wilhern's method; the course to
consist of 20 lessons, to be given on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays.

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THE ANTIPATHY OF THE MONICE AI Y.— OSt animals en-
tertain a morbid antipathy to the serpent species, but in no
one instance is that antipathy more sensibly manifested than
among the monkey tribe, as the following narrative may tend
to elucidate :—A company, consisting of about 20 monkeys
(the Hoonoomuns), or black-faced monkeys of Bengal, had
colonised in a lofty tamarind tree, near the little village of
Rhannaserye, a short distance from the town of Dantoon.
This tree was situated on the road side on the route to the
temple of Juggernaut, and was resorted to during the sultry
tide of noon by viatory pilgrims and others, who occasion-
ally indulged the inhabitants of the tree with fragments of
plantains and other fruits (for the Hindoos enumerate the
Hoonoomun monkey among their numerous divinities),
On one occasion an extraordinary excitement manifested
itself among the Hoonoomun corps. A general whooping,
chattering, and screeching simultaneously burst forth from
the tree, which had become the seat of the utmost confusion.
On our approaching the spot, the scene was utterly indescri-
bable; the whole of the branches of the tree were agitated
by the manual exercise of the blank-faced fraternity, as if
they laboured under the convulsive influence of a north-
wester; in short, had not the cause of this very extraordi-
nary commotion been elicited, any cool reasoning person
would have been led to believe that Bacchus had misled this
sober society from the routine of their wonted gravity ; but
upon our casting our eyes upon a bough half way up the
tree, we perceived a huge cobra capello snake lying et full
length, which had ascended thither, with a view, no doubt,
of satiating his appetite with a squirrel or two, with which
animals the tree was furnished. The tree standing by itself,
none other being in juxtaposition with it, the alarmed colo-
nists could not effect their escape by a transit, and to de-
scend one inch nearer their scaly foe than where they then
were, would have been worse than undergoing the chance of
breaking their necks by leaping down upon the ground from
their elevated situation. At length one of the troop made a
tremendous spring, which example was followed successively
by the whole body, and the runagates scampered away into
a jungle on the opposite side of the road. The snake we
succeeded in destroying, but the horror with which the soot
countenanced conanaunitY felt lit the serpent's encroaching
upon their dormitory was so impressive that they were never
again seen near the tree, although many a weary
afterwards found a grateful shelter under its umbrageous
branches.
MADAME CATALINI.—A. notice will of Catalina
always
interest the present generation in England. Mrs. Trollope,
in her " Visit to Italy," has the following :—" Instead of
going as usual to the Casina ;after dinner yesterday, I was
taken a mile or two out of Florence to pay a visit from which
t
I promised myself great pleasure,
to see Europe's wiloni wonder anadnd!eneive_d_ more.
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Valabrique. She resided in delight, Madarre Cric,l
a .very beautiful villa, al .11
stands in the midst of an extensive oder , of which she is
the owner. Nothing could P e the be more amiable than . .
re-
ception she gave us. Ithink,who joined
of all the nations
in the universalchorus in
praise of her high character, her
charming qualities and her unequalled talent, she loves the
English best * 4: * n
perhaps they best understoodher
worth, and the rare superiority of a mind that, i
• the midst
of flattery and adulation which really seems to have known
no limits, preserved all its simple purity and goodness un-
scathed. I was equally surprised and pleased to see to what
an extraordinary degree she had preserved her beauty. Her
eyes and teeth are still magnificent; and I am told that,
when seen in evening full dress by candle light, no stranger
can see her for the first time without inquiring who that
charming-looking woman is. A multitude of well behaved
reasons would have prevented me, especially at this my
first introduction, from naming the vehement desire
I felt once more to hear the notes of a voice that had
so often enchanted me. Perhaps if I had not seen her
looking so marvellously. young and handsome, the idea
might neither have seized upon nor tormented me so
strongly as it did ; but, as it was, I certainly never longed
more, perhaps never so much, to bear her sing as I now did.
Her charming daughter, Madame de V----, was sitting near
me ; and I think I yentured to ask if her mother ever sang
the
next now ; to which she most gaily and promptly answered in
affirmative * * and then * * what happened
hardly know. lam afraid that I must hay I
e said something
about my secret longings * a for the daughter whispered
moment
to the mother a few words, and in a
lint was at the piano. * * * No,in her Madame Cats-
she never smiled a sweeter smile than she very best days
did then, as she
prepared to comply with the half-ex
stran-
ger, who had no claims upon her half-expressed wishes of a
an Englishwoman. I know not kindness but that of being
scarcely had she permitted her voice
it was she sang; but
bravura passages of which he rice to swell into one of those
and so perfectly unequalled, thatexecution was very peculiar.
process was being performed I felt as if some magical
again to something * upon me, which took me back
I know not what to call it * *
which I had neither heard nor felt for nearly twenty years.
Involuntarily, uric
I felt as much onsciously, my eyes filled with tears, and
embarrassed ' lady •
as a young of fifteen might
do, who suddenly f
which she found herself in the act of betraying emo-
tions was very far indeed from wishing to display.' I,