BRIDGEWATER.-The sums subscribed for the erection of a new church in Bridgewater have increased within these few days; they now amount to 1,5117. 16s. LIVERPOOL. A numerous and respectable meeting of the lay-members of the Church of England, residing in Liverpool and its neighbourhood, comprising many of the most wealthy and influential inhabitants, was lately held in that town, John Wright, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair, when the following Resolution was unanimously agreed to "That, at the present eventful crisis, it is highly desirable that the friends of the Church of England, resident in the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, should make a public and solemn declaration of their undeviating attachment to the doctrine and discipline of the Episcopal Establishment, which, by the blessing of God, has been the means of conveying inestimable advantages, religious and moral, to all classes of the community." A Committee was afterwards formed, the declaration issued by the Central Committee in London adopted, and the necessary arrangements made to obtain the signatures of those of the inhabitants who approved it. The same has been done in numberless other parishes, and with such success that Infidels and Dissenters are somewhat dismayed. Barlow, Thomas William. Chapl. to the Northampton Infirinary. Chapl. to the Earl of Aberdeen. Bissett, T. Chapl. to Lord Godolphin. Gray, Stuart Head Mast. of the Grammar School, Aldenham, Herts. Greville, E.. Newbolt, R. W. . Prendergast, Joseph Strange, W. A.. Lect. of St. Peter's, Port of Guernsey. Surrogate for Bath and Wells. Head Mast. of the Grammar School at Lewisham. Head Mast. of the Free Grammar School, Coventry. Second, Mast. of the Royal Liverpool Institution. Wynward, John Montague Chapl. in Ordinary to his Majesty. CLERGYMEN DECEASED. Died, on Monday, January 6, deeply lamented, the Rev. Thomas Henry Hume, M. A., Canon Residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was the son of Dr. John Hume, who preceded Dr. Barrington as Bishop of the Diocese of Salisbury, and of Lady Mary, daughter of Earl Kinnoul. For some time past, the health of the Rev. Gentleman had been in a very declining state, and he had removed to Lyme, in Dorsetshire, to try the effects of a change of air; and there he closed his earthly career. He was a Clergyman of most exemplary piety: the very severe afflictions under which he laboured during his last years he bore with the most marked patience and resignation; and in the various relations of life, he displayed an example well worthy of general imitation. The poor of Salisbury will lose in him a most kind friend and benefactor. Haggitt, W. Byfleet, R. Sen. Chap.of Chelsea H. S Jefferson, R. Roles, William Wade, T.' Whitfield, T. South Kilvington, R. Sidney Coll. Camb. Salisbury Rev. A. Meyrick London C. Smith, Esq. Lancast. Chester Vic. of Bury Bristol St. John's, Oxford Blunsdon, St. Andrew, R. Wilts OXFORD. INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Many erroneous accounts of the recent ceremony at Apsley House having found their way into the public papers, we think the following authentic detail may not be unacceptable to our readers: On Friday the 7th February, the installation or admission of his Grace the Duke of Wellington to the office of Chancellor of this University, took place at Apsley House in London. The Vice Chancellor and Proctors, together with the several officers of the University and Members of Convocation, who had been nominated as delegates on the occasion, assembled at Batt's hotel in Dover-street, where they were joined by Mr. Estcourt and Sir Robert H. Inglis, the representatives of the University in Parliament, and proceeded in carriages to the Duke of Wellington's mansion in Piccadilly, about six o'clock, P. M. in the following order : The Esquire Bedel in Theology. The Yeoman Bedel in Arts and Medicine. Coll. Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Rev. Dr. Jones, Rector of Exeter, Pro- The Rev. Dr. Gilbert, Principal of Brasennose, Pro-Vice-Chancellor. The Rev. Dr. Wynter, President of St. John's. The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principle of New Inn Hall, Public Orator. The Rev. Dr. Kidd, Regius Professor of Medicine, Christ Church. The Rev. Dr. Ashhurst, Fell. of All Souls'. The Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the Uni versity. The Rev. Mr. Bellas, Fellow of Queen's, Proctor of the University. The Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, Fellow of Exeter, Proctor of the University. The Rev. Mr. Wintle, Fellow of St. John's. The Rev. Mr. Rigaud, Savilian Professor of Astronomy. The Rev. Mr. Maude, Fellow of Queen's. The Rev. Mr. Plumptre, Fell. of University. The Rev. Mr. Ogilvie, Fellow of Balliol. The Rev. Mr. Wilson, Fellow of Queen's. The Rev. Mr. Glanville, Fellow of Exeter. The Members for the University. The Delegacy, having alighted, passed through the several apartments, which were brilliantly lighted for the occasion, to the Waterloo Gallery, where the ViceChancellor (taking his seat at the upper end, the Registrar on his left, and a vacant chair being placed on his right hand for the Chancellor, the Proctors seated a little lower on either side, the other members of the Delegacy occupying their respective stations according to their rank, down the centre of the room,) opened the Convocation by announcing that the cause of their assembling was the admission of his Grace the Duke of Wellington to the office of Chancellor of the University, vacant by the death of Lord Grenville, to which office he had recently been elected by the unanimous voice of the Doctors and Masters of the University in Convocation assembled. The Bedels (Mr. Forster and Mr. Brown) then left the room, and immediately returned, followed by the Chancellor elect, who appeared in his full robes of office, and took his seat, uncovered, on the right of the Vice Chancellor, the whole assembly rising at his Grace's entrance, and continuing to stand till he had taken his seat. His Grace was accompanied by the following royal and illustrious friends, who were present during the whole ceremony: His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber land, Chancellor of the University of Dublin. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Earl of Eldon. The Bishop of Exeter. Sir Charles Wetherell. As soon as the Convocation was reseated, the Bedels deposited their staves of office upon the table, and the Vice-Chancellor handed the instrument of Election to the Registrar, who having read it aloud, returned it by the hands of the Bedel to be deposited on the table. The oaths of allegiance and supremacy were then taken by the Chancellor elect, before the senior Proctor, and immediately after the oath of office was administered to his Grace, by the Vice-Chancellor, the Duke reading the former, and responding to the latter in an audible voice and most impressive manner. The oaths having been taken, the ViceChancellor then delivered into the hands of the Chancellor the instrument of Election, the Statute-book, and the Keys and Seals of Office, at the same time addressing his Grace in a speech which, although concise, was admirably adapted to the occasion, and delivered with great feeling and emphasis. The Vice-Chancellor then solemnly admitted the Chancellor to his high office, and placing his Grace in the Chair he had himself previously occupied, took his seat on the right hand and remained uncovered during the continuance of the ceremony, the Chancellor putting on his cap upon assuming his official seat. The Public Orator (Dr. Cramer,) then advanced, and addressed the new Chancellor in a speech of congratulation, in which, after alluding to the degree of Doctor in Civil Law formerly conferred upon his Grace by Diploma, at the time of the visit of the allied Sovereigns to Oxford, which had already enrolled the Duke among the number of her most distinguished members, he took occasion to revert to his Grace's victorious achievements over the enemies of his country, nothing doubting but that his efforts in the defence of literature and religion would be attended with equal success; and congratulating the University on the election of a nobleman whose high principles, moral courage, and splendid talents were the best security for her happiness and renown. To this address, the Chancellor replied in a speech which excited the warmest admiration in all present, as well for its pure Latinity, as his Grace's correct and emphatic delivery; and above all, for the high and honourable conservative senti ments that were expressed throughout the whole. His Grace modestly referring to the course of his early education and his career in after life, as rendering him unfit to preside over an eminent literary body, but confessing that the same political principles in regard to Church and State, the same respect for the royal authority, the same love for the Establishment, the same veneration for the laws and institutions of the country, expressed and inculated by the University over which he had been called on to preside, rendered the office he had that day been invested with, as peculiarly grateful to him, and engaging to use his best and most strenuous endeavours to preserve the reputation and the rights of the University unsullied and unimpaired. At the command of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor then directed the Bedels to resume their staves of office, and dissolved the Convocation; the members of the Delegacy retiring in the same order they had before observed to the principal drawing-room, where they had the honour of being severally introduced to their new Chancellor. In the evening the delegates partook of a sumptuous entertainment in the great dining-room, and had the honour of meeting the royal and illustrious persons who had been present during the installation. DEGREES CONFERRED. BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. The Honourable and Very Reverend Henry Edward John Howard, Christ Church, Dean of Lichfield, Grand Compounder. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Arthur Jackson Drury, Trinity Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Thomas Archer Houblon, Oriel Coll. Rev. Walter Apsley Bathurst, Wadham, Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. James Boucher, Worcester Coll. William Edward Tucker, Trinity Coll. H. P. Haughton, Schol. of Brasennose Coll. In a Convocation, it was agreed to place at the disposal of the Vice-Chancellor, the sum of 2001. from the University chest, towards, defraying the expenses of the ensuing Enconia. In a Convocation, the consent of the House was given to Arthur Jackson Drury, of Trinity College, to commute the Degree of Master of Arts for that of Bachelor in Civil Law. The Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors have fixed Tuesday the 10th of June for the day of Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors of the University. ELECTIONS. Mr. Thomas Briscoe, B.A. of Jesus College, has been elected a Fellow of that Society. |