M.A., and Fellowof Magdalen College, having first recapitulated the events of the past year in an elegant Latin oration. The new Proctors, having been previously elected by their respective Societies, were then presented for admission to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor :-Senior Proctor, the Rev. William Ricketts, M.A., Fellow of Merton College. Junior Proctor, the Rev. Thomas Tyssen Bazely, M.A., Fellow of Brazennose College. The former was presented by Robert Marsham, Esq., Warden of Merton College, and D.C.L., the latter by the Rev. James Smith, M.A., Vice-Principal of Brazennose College. After making the Parliamentary declaration, taking the usual oaths, and being admitted, by the Pro- Vice-Chancellor, with the accustomed ceremonies, to the office of Senior and Junior Proctor, the new Proctors nominated the following gentlemen to be their Pro-Proctors for the ensuing year, viz. :The Rev. W. Kerr Hamilton, M.A., Fellow of Merton; Rev. W. Fraine Fortescue, M. A., Fellow of New College; Rev. J. Walker, M.A., Fellow of Brazennose; Rev. G. Casson, M.A., Fellow of Brazennose.

On Thursday, being the first day of Easter Term, the following Degrees were conferred:

Masters of Arts-Rev. F. J. Spring, St. Edmund Hall; W. H. Bayley, Christ Church; Rev. G. C. Berkeley, Pembroke; W. H. Ley, Fellow of Trinity; B. Smith, Fellow of Magdalen; C. Reade, Fellow of Magdalen.

Bachelors of Arts-E. J. Vernon, Magdalen Hall; H. J. Vernon, Magdalen Hall; J. Haigh, Queen's.

May 5.

Pembroke College.-A Scholarship on the Foundation of Sir J. Benet, now vacant, will be filled up on Wednesday, the 20th of June, after an examination of the candidates, commencing on the previous Monday, at nine o'clock. All members of the university of two years' standing are eligible to it. Candidates are expected to send in to the Master their matriculation paper and testimonials of good conduct before Thursday, the 14th.

Merton College-There will be an election of Postmasters in the 2nd week of June. Candidates must have attained the age of 17, and not have exceeded the age 20 years. The examination will commence on Tuesday, the 12th of June, and the certificates of baptism, and testimonials from their respective College or School, must be delivered to the Warden, on Monday, the 11th of June.

Trinity College Election.-There will be an election of Three Scholars on Monday, the 11th of June. Candidates must be above 16, and under 20 years of age, and will be required to present in person, to the President, certificates of baptism and testimonials of conduct, together with a Latin Epistle, to request permission to offer themselves, at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 6th of June.

Wadham College Scholarship. Three Scholarships will be filled up on the 30th of

June. Natives of any county in Great Britain, under 19 years of age, are eligible. To one of the Scholarships the kin of the Founder, if duly qualified, will have a preference. The examination will begin at nine o'clock on Tuesday, the 26th of June, before which time the following documents must be delivered to the Warden-viz., certificates of the candidates' baptism and of their parents', marriage, proper testimonials of conduct, and in the case of the Founder's kin, a pedigree. certified under the seal of the Heralds' College.

In a Congregation holden on Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred :

Bachelors of Divinity-Rev. W. J. Butler, Fellow of Magdalen; Rev. W. Wheeler, Fellow of Magdalen.

Masters of Arts-Rev. J. Williams, Balliol, grand comp.; J. Adams, Student of Christ Church, grand comp.; W. F. Fletcher, Boughey, Christ Chirch; Rev. H. Wood, St. Edmund Hall; Rev. E. C. Kynnersley, Trinity; Rev. W. H. Price, Scholar of Pembroke; Rev. Marsham Argles, Merton; J. E. Chaplin, Fellow of Magdalen; Rev. W. Buckler, Magdalen; C. Richmond Tate, Scholar of Corpus Christi; H. J. Fellowes, St. John's.

The Denyer Theological Prizes have been awarded by the Judges as follow:-" On the Divinity of the Holy Ghost"-The Rev. R. Scott, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College. "On the Influence of Practical Piety in Promoting the Temporal and Eternal Happiness of Mankind"-The Rev. T. W. Allies, M.A., Fellow of Wadham College.

The Professor of Moral Philosophy commences on this day, and continues on the ensuing Saturdays during the Term, in Exeter College Hall, a Course of Lectures on the Republic of Plato, considered as an Anticipation of the Christian Church. These Lectures are open to all members of the university. The Professor also proposes, on Mondays and Wednesdays, at nine o'clock, to deliver a Course of Private Lectures on Butler's Analogy, for the use of Undergraduate Members and Bachelors.

The Reader in Geology commenced on Thursday last his Course of Lectures on the Composition and Structure of the Earth, the Physical Revolutions that have affected its surface, and the changes in Animal and Vegetable Nature that have attended them. These Lectures will be continued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, during Easter and Act Terms.

The Regius Professor of Divinity will give a Private Course of Lectures in St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, commencing on Wednesday next, at nine o'clock.

The Regius Professor of Divinity will give his Public Course of Lectures in Act Term, commencing on Thursday, the 7th June, at twelve o'clock.

At a meeting of the Heads of Colleges, on Tuesday last, the Rev. W. D. Conybeare,

M.A. of Christ Church, was elected to preach the Bampton Lectures for the year 1839.,

On Friday the 4th inst. Mr. J. Barrow was elected Scholar on the Michel Foundation at Queen's College.

On Tuesday last the Rev. T. W. Goodlake, M.A. Senior Scholar on the Teesdale Foundation in Pembroke College, was elected a Fellow of that Society, on the same Foundation, in the room of the Rev. G. W. Mahon, M.A.

May 12.

In a convocation holden on Saturday last the following Petition was unanimously agreed

to:

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, the Humble Petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford,

Sheweth,

That your Petitioners have been informed that a bill has been presented to your honourable house intituled "a bill to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the fourth report of the commissioners of ecclesiastical duties and revenues.

That the great purpose of the commissioners, as appears from their second report, was to provide a remedy for the acknowledged deficiencies of the parochial system of the established church and with this purpose your petitioners are anxious to express their cordial concurrence. But with a deep sense of the spiritual destitution of many populous districts, the impoverished condition of a large proportion of the benefices in England and Wales, and the consequent inadequacy of the existing parochial system to meet the exigency of the case, your petitioners nevertheless believe that it is our bounden duty to remedy these evils by means of the national resources, and not by the sacrifice of our institutions; and they implore your honourable house not to afford a partial relief to one great defect in the national establishment by introducing another.

That the cathedral institutions are an integral branch of the establishment, tracing their origin to the first planting of Christianity among our Saxon ancestors, and, many of them, revived and re-established, with the most comprehensive views of the general wellbeing of the church, by the great authors of the reformation.

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That, although the commissioners doubtedly professed and intended not to deprive the cathedral bodies of anything "requisite for the purposes of their institution," but to "maintain them in such a state of efficiency and respectability as may enable them fully to carry those purposes into effect," yet the proposed measure, whilst it only palliates the necessities of the parochial system, will, in the judgment of your petitioners, effect the virtual extinction of the cathedral institutions. It would leave to them, indeed, a bare provision for the solemnities of their daily services, and VOL. XIII.-June, 1838.

the maintenance of their venerable fabrics, but it would deaden all their capacities of usefulness in relation to our extensive dioceses, and to the church at large, and to those important interests more especially, which have a peculiar claim upon the attention of your petitioners, and which are intimately connected with the reputation and stability of the established church, the advancement of religious education and of sacred learning.

That your petitioners are far from being adverse to the renovation and improvement of cathedral and collegiate churches, or to the better employment of their revenues in order to the sacred purposes contemplated by their founders. Propositions of this nature could, doubtless, be suggested, and carried into full effect, by the local experience of the several chapters. And your petitioners regret the interruption offered by the present bill to the operation of a just and salutary measure of this description, sanctioned by the wisdom of parliament in the commencement of the late reign; the act for the augmentation of benefices by ecclesiastical corporations [1 and 2 Wm. IV. c. 45.]

That your petitioners, nevertheless, upon considerations both of principle and expediency, are opposed to the suppression of cathedral dignities, and the formation of a common fund out of the revenues abstracted from these foundations. They deprecate the application of these revenues to purposes, however good and important, yet foreign to the intentions of the founders; and they believe, that whilst the proposed measure destroys the moral influence of the cathedral bodies, it will disappoint the calculations of those who recommend it, by the very expense and waste connected with the management of the fund.

That your petitioners would also particularly invite the jealous attention of your honourable house to the constitution of the commission to which it is proposed to entrust this fund and its distribution, and, by necessary consequence, the virtual control of all the cathedral institutions; and which your petitioners cannot but regard as in itself not entitled to the sanction of your honourable house, composed, as that commission would be almost exclusively, of persons both appointed, and removable, at the sole pleasure of the crown.

That entertaining these strong objections both to the principle and to the leading provisions of the proposed bill, your petitioners believe further, that it has been founded upon the assumption, too hastily conceived, that the spiritual destitution of the country can only be relieved out of the remaining resources of an establishment greatly impoverished in former ages by the lavish improvidence of the state. Your petitioners do not thus distrust the justice and piety of the nation. And they humbly, therefore, but earnestly, pray your honourable house to withhold your sanction from the proposed bill, and not afford some partial remedy to the necessities of the parochial system at the cost of those offices and dignities, and encouragements of sound learning and theology, which

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have contributed greatly to the harmony, stability and efficiency of the church of England, and the general welfare of the country.

And your petitioners will ever pray.

Given at our house of convocation, under our common seal, this 5th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1838.

On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :

Bachelor and Doctor in divinity, by accumulation The Rev. J. E. Nassau Molesworth, Trinity, Prebendary of Canterbury, grand comp.

Doctor in Medicine-H. Sumner Dyer, Worcester.

Masters of Arts-W. J. Phelps, Oriel, grand comp.; T. Allen, Balliol; Rev. J. Talmage, Chaplain of Christ Church; C. Raymond Barker, Wadham.

Bachelors of Arts-Sir R. W. Colebroke Brownrigg, Bart. Ch. Ch. ; J. Marryat, New Inn Hall; C. Newport, Bolton, St. Edmund Hall; J. Round, Balliol; T. Crossfield, Queen's; G. T. Berkeley, Queen's; H. Downing, Trinity; W. Maude Cosser, Trinity; J. H. Dart, Exeter; E. E. Estcourt, Exeter; C. Brodie Cooper, Wadham; H. Annesley Tyndale, Wadham; F. Stonhouse, Oriel; S. Brazier Arnott, St. John's.

On Friday, the 4th inst. J. G. Domville, Esq. M.A. of Ch. Ch., and T. W. Smith Grazebrook, Esq., M. A. of Brasennose, were called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the Hon, Society of Lincoln's Inn.

On Tuesday last the following gentlemen of this University were called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the above Society:-H. Halford Vaughan, Esq., M. A., Fellow of Oriel; H. Stormont Murray, Esq., M. A. of Ch. Ch.; and W. Harley Bayley, Esq., M. A. of Ch. Ch. May 19.

Exeter College.-An examination will take place on Wednesday, the 13th of June, in order to election to three Scholarships in this College. One open to all persons above the age of 16, and under the degree of B.A. The second limited to sons of Clergymen of the county of Somerset, under the age of 19, with preference to the kindred of the Rev. Thomas How, late rector of Huntspill, Somerset. The third limited to the kindred of Myriel Symes, or failing such, to natives of the counties of Somerset and Dorset, with preference to members of the college. Candidates are required to call on the rector, with the necessary certificates, on or before Tuesday, the 12th of June.

Worcester College.-An election of a scholar, on the foundation of Mrs. Sarah Eaton, will take place in Worcester college, on the 21st of June. Candidates must produce certificates signed by the Bishops of their res pective dioceses, by the ministers of their parishes, and by two or more respectable inhabitants of the same, that "they are sons of clergymen of the Church of England, and want assistance to support them in the University.' Certificates, with copies of the registry of the parents' marriage, and the candidate's

* suose nut al birth, must be delivered to the acting ViceProvost on or before the 18th of June.

Thursday the following degrees were conferred:

Masters of Arts-W. Hussey, Balliol, grand comp.; Rev. J. Scobell, Balliol; Rev. C. Hodge, St. Edmund Hall; Rev. E. Crane Streeten, Queen's.

Bachelors of Arts-W. Taylor, All Souls'; W. Green, Worcester; J. C. Harris, Worcester; J. Topham, Worcester; A. W. Wallis, Magdalen Hall; G. Weight, Magdalen Hall; J. D. Astley, Pembroke; H. J. Marshall, Pembroke; W. W. Lovell, Trinity.

The board of heads of houses and proctors have fixed the commemoration of founders and benefactors for Wednesday, the 27th of June.

Yesterday, the Rev. G. Renaud, M.A., and the Rev. J. Wilson, M. A., scholars of Corpus Christi college, were admitted Probationary Fellows of that society.

May 26.

Exeter College. There will be an election to a Fellowship in this College, on Saturday the 30th of June, open to natives of the county of Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Oxford, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Middlesex, Hants, and Kent. Candidates are required to deliver to the Rector certificates, by affidavit, of their birth within the counties above mentioned, together with testimonials from the College or Hall of which they may be members, on or before Saturday the 23rd of June. It is necessary that they be of the standing of Senior Sophist in the University.

Corpus Christi College.-An Election will be held in the above College on Friday, the 15th of June, of Two Scholars-one for the county of Hants, and one for the county of Lancaster. Candidates must be under 19 years of age on the day of Election; and they will be required to present in person, to the President, certificates of the marriage of their parents, and of their own baptism, an affidavit of their parents, or some other competent person, stating the day and place of their birth, and testimonials from their college or school; together with Latin Epistles, at 11 o'clock on Saturday, the 9th of June.

University College. -An Election to a Fellowship, now vacant, on the Foundation of King Henry the Fourth, will be holden on Wednesday the 4th of July. This Fellowship is open to all Members of the University, with a preference to persons born in the diocese of York or Durham. The Fellows on this Foundation are required to enter into holy orders before they can be admitted Actual Fellows. The examination will commence on Saturday, the 30th of June; and candidates are required to present to the Master certificates of their baptism and place of birth, together with the usual testimonials of good conduct, on or before Tuesday the 26th of June.

In a Convocation holden yesterday, the nomination of Dr. Ogle and Dr. Daubeny to be Examiners of Candidates for Medical Degrees was unanimously approved.

Masters of Arts-Rev. C. Archdale Palmer, Student of Christ Church, grand comp. ; Rev. W. F. Wingfield, Christ Church; Rev. J. Fisher Hodgson, Christ Church; Rev. W. J. Clarke, Balliol; Rev. R. Stephens, Magda len Hall; Rev. J. Hannay, Fellow of Wor. cester; Rev. T. Parry, Wadham; W. F White, Trinity; H. Beaumont Leeson, Caius College, Cambridge, incorporated of Trinity College, grand comp.

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Bachelors of Arts-O. Lloyd Evans, St. Mary Hall; G. Blisset, Balliol; J. Baron, Queen's; A. Brown, Queen's; A. Hogarth, Queen's; L. G. Browne, Exeter ; J. Carthew, Exeter; H. Gosse, Exeter; C. Campbell, Exeter; C. Carey, Oriel; T. Ryle Smythe, Scholar of Brazennose; W. Lucas Collins, Scholar of Jesus; J. Cadwallader, Scholar of Jesus.

The Public Examinations in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis commence on the 12th of June.

Messrs. Paul Butler and W. Biscoe Tritton, have, this week, been elected, from Westminster School, Students of Christ Church.

CAMBRIDGE.

April 28.

On Wednesday the 11th inst., the Rev. John Henry Pratt, M. A., of Gonville and Caius college, was elected a Frankland Fellow, and William John Johnson, B.A., was elected to a Wortley Fellowship of that society.

On Thursday last the following gentlemen were elected scholars of Trinity college:

C. J. Bayley; J. R. Brodrick; J. P. Gell; G. D. Sismey; H. J. Guillebaud; F. Palmer; C. Marett; W. Joy; R. M'Neill; R. L. Ellis; H. A. Marsh; G. H. Hodgson; T. Taylor. Westminster Scholars: O. B. C. Harrison; R. B. Tritton.

May 5.

On Wednesday the 25th ult., the Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan, M. A. of Christ's college, was elected a Foundation Fellow of that society; and on Tuesday last, Alfred Horatio Darley, M. A. of the same college, was elected a Fellow upon the Finch and Baines Foundation.

At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred :

Masters of Arts-S. S. Greatheed, Fellow of Trinity; J. Cooper, Fellow of Trinity; R.

F. Burnett, Trinity; M. Dunn, Trinity; R. M. White, St. Peter's; S. Ashby, Pembroke; W. Rogers, Catherine Hall, J. N. Micklethwait, Fellow of Magdalene; C. L. M. Phillipps, Magdalene.

Bachelor in Civil Law-J. G. Cochrane, Trinity.

Bachelors of Arts-R. P. Warren, Trinity; W. W. Smythe, Trinity; J. Cookson, Trinity; G. N. G. Lawson, St. John's; J. M. Gipps, St. John's; C. Williams, St. John's; P. Maitland, St. Peter's; W. C. Nagle, Caius ; F. H. Sewell, Caius; J. A. Cook, Corpus Christi; J. W. Maher, Queen's; S. Gall, Queen's; J. Sawer, Queen's; R. D. Mackintosh, Catherine Hall; R. Lawson, Jesus; C. Smith, Magdalene; J. R. Watson, Magdalene; W. Peck, Emmanuel.

At the same congregation, John Frederic Stanford, B. A. of Christ's college, was elected a Travelling Bachelor on the Worts Foundation.

The following graces also passed the se

nate:

To appoint Mr. Browne, of Emmanuel college, an Examiner for Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarships, in the place of the Professor of Arabic.

To authorize the Vice-Chancellor to take and act upon the advice of the University Counsel, in order to the obtaining of a faculty for certain sittings in the nave, galleries, and pews of the church of St. Mary the Great, appropriated to the University under a decree granted in the year 1819, by the chancellor of the diocese of Ely, with the concurrence of the parishioners: -the parishioners having authorized the entering of a caveat against the completion of the faculty then decreed.

A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, Mr. Hopkins, VicePresident, being in the chair. Memoirs were read by Mr. R. Potter, of Queen's college, on a new correction in the construction of the Double Acromatic Object Glass; Mr. Trentham, of St. John's, on the expansion of a Polynomical, and on Symmetrical Functions; Dr. Bond, a Statistical Report on Addenbrooke's Hospital for the year 1837; Mr. Brodie on the occurrence of recent land and freshwater shells, with bones of some extinct animals, in the gravel near Cambridge.