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Appointment.

Domestic Chaplain to Sir J. Rogers, High Sheriff of Devonshire Chaplain to the Union at Mistley, Essex.

Curacy of Axminster.

Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Wiltshire.

Rural Deanery, in Essex.

British Chaplain at Ostend.

Rural Dean of the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry.
Fellowship in St. Mary's College, Winchester.

Rural Deanery of Chesterfield.

Lectureship at St. Mary-le-Strand.

Chaplain to the Chesterfield Union Workhouse.
St. Margaret's Chapel, Brighton.

Chaplain to Lord Eldon.

Mastership of Free Grammar School, Coleshill.

Chaplain to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.

Chaplaincy to Buckinghamshire Union.

Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Berks.

Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Radnorshire.

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OBITUARY.

Appointment or Residence.

Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Curate of Weaverthorpe.

Master of Kepier Grammar School, Northumberland.
Fellow of New College, Oxon.

Domestic Chaplain to the Countess Dowager Paulet, and Curate of Armathwaite Chaplain.

Of Bangalore.

THE UNIVERSITY STATUTES.

OXFORD.

In a Convocation holden on Thursday last, another portion of the statutes, as lately revised and agreed upon by the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors, namely, Title XV. "De moribus Conformandis," was submitted to the House. It may be fairly asserted that the proposed alterations were of a nature not at all calculated, generally speaking, to provoke hostility; on the contrary, they mainly consisted of the omission of penalties and punishments in themselves nugatory, and imposed upon offences now almost or altogether obsolete, whilst everything tending to preserve the discipline of the University, and promote the moral improvement of its younger members, was retained, or an attempt made to supply it. Accordingly, with the exception of the first section, which was passed by a majority of 56 to 14, no other division took place (the opponents of all change, or at least of all change emanating from the Hebdomadal Board, contenting themselves with a mere expression of their dissent, without asking for a scrutiny), till the 15th, "De reprimendis sumptibus non

academicis." This provides that no Undergraduate shall keep a horse or a servant, unless an express request in favour of such indulgence be made, by his parent or guardian, to the Head and Tutor of his College, and, if granted, such allowance to be communicated to the Vice-Chancellor, and by him inserted in a book kept for that purpose. The penalties, on the part of the Undergraduate, are an admonition, and if the offence be repeated, rustication: on the part of the stable-keeper allowing Undergraduates to keep horses, without leave first obtained, a fine of 40s. for the first offence, and for subsequent breaches of the law, discommuning for different periods. The same statute forbids the keeping of dogs, horse-racing, or subscribing to races, &c., &c. This was opposed, (on what particular ground we confess we know not,) and a scrutiny demanded, the numbers being-placet 56; non placet, 25.

The sixteenth section, "De ære aliendo non contrahendo," was that which attracted the greatest attention. It is, we believe, generally allowed, that the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors had

bestowed much time and great attention upon the subject of debts contracted by the thoughtless and inexperienced during the early part of their University career, and that they forbore to legislate, only on account of the difficulty of doing so with effect. In the course of the present Term, however, a memorial signed by most of the Tutors in the University, was presented to the Board, requesting them to attempt some definite remedy for an evil universally acknowledged to exist, and in accordance with this request, we believe, the present section was brought forward. It provided that all tradesmen should deliver their bills twice in each year, namely, in Lent and Act Terms; that such as were unpaid one month after the commencement of the subsequent Lent Term, should be reported, and copies of them sent to the Tutors or Heads of Houses. In order to check, if possible, usurious transactions, the proposed section next forbade any Undergraduate to give any note of hand, or promissory bill, unless with the approbation of his parent or guardian, or the Head of his House or his Tutor, and punished the academic so offending with suspension from his Degree, or rustication or expulsion: the tradesman or townsman obtaining such security, to be discommuned.

It had been rumoured, for some days, that this part of the proposed statute would be opposed. By some persons the wording of the clauses was objected to as too general, and not altogether correct; and two papers on the subject were circulated by their anonymous authors, one Member of Convocation condemning the use of the word syngrapha as applying to "any written engagement," other stoutly affirming that the term did "strictly and necessarily apply only to the case of money-borrowing and promissory notes."

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We believe we could convince "Another Member of Convocation" that the word is used for a document unconnected with money, and would refer him to Plautus, for an example-but this by the way: certain it is that the objections to the clauses were numerous, and the result was, that section 16 was thrown out by an overwhelming majority, the first clause, 71 to 20; the second, 63 to 27; the third, 51 to 37. We may here state that a respectful memorial had been previously delivered to the Pro- ViceChancellor on the subject, by several highly respectable tradesmen of Oxford, representing the hardships likely to

result to them from the enactment of the statute, at the same time expressing their abhorrence and detestation of the system of raising money, at exorbitant interest, upon bills of exchange-a practice which they declare "originated with parties whose habits and interests were never identified with those of the tradesmen of Oxford." It is but fair, however, to say, that several other tradesmen, equally respectable with the memorialists, are of opinion that the statute would have been beneficial, asserting that high prices and long credit are the necessary attendants on the present system, and that low prices and a sure and quick return would have followed the introduction of the clauses now rejected. A division took place on the 17th section, which was, however, carried by 58 to 27.

The following notice has been issued by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor :-The Examiners appointed by the Trustees of Dean Ireland's Scholarships have announced to me that they have elected Mr. Lingen, Scholar of Trinity College, to the vacant Scholarship on Dean Ireland's Foundation. They have also requested that the name of Mr. Frazer, Scholar of Lincoln College, may be mentioned, with the addition of the words "proxime accessit."

The Examiners appointed to elect a Mathematical Scholar, have signified to the Vice-Chancellor the election of Mr. William Goodenough Penny, B.A. Student of Christ Church.

The University seal has been affixed to a power of attorney enabling Mr. Parker, of Woodham Mortimer, to act for the University in and for the parish of Langdon Hills, in the execution of the matter of commutation of the tithes in that parish.

The proposed addition to the Statute, Title VI. sect. 1, par. 2, providing that all Undergraduates postponing their Examination for Responsions (on other grounds than those of indisposition, or some urgent reason approved of by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors), should have their degree postponed one Term for every corresponding Term during which they shall have neglected to comply with the Statute, has been, upon a scrutiny, rejected by Convocation.

The Rev. Robert Hussey, B.D. Student of Christ Church, and the Rev.

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Rev. G. T. Marsh, late Student Ch. Ch. W. Bucknall-Estcourt, Balliol Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

J. Y. Becher, Worcester Coll.
C. J. Marsden, Student of Ch. Ch.
H. G. Coope, Ch. Ch.
H. S. Eyre, Ch. Ch.
E. U. Sealy, Ch. Ch.

A. S. Larken, St. Alban Hall.

The Rev. Harold Hopley Sherlock, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin; and the Rev. Thomas Rothwell Bently, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, have been admitted ad eundem.

BRASENNOSE COLLEGE.

Mr. Joseph Heathcote Brooks, M.A. of Brasennose College, has been elected a Fellow of that Society.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.

Mr. Henry Pritchard, Postmaster of Merton College, has been elected Scholar of Corpus Christi College, on the Surrey Foundation.

JESUS COLLEGE.

Mr. H. W. Lloyd, and Mr. T. Williams, have been elected Scholars of Jesus College.

NEW COLLEGE.

Mr. John Marsh, Mr. E. Huntingford, and Mr.W. D. Mackenzie Bathurst, have been admitted Scholars of New College,

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

Mr. Daniel Race Godfrey, M.A. a Michel Scholar of Queen's College, has been elected a Fellow on that Foundation.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

The following gentlemen have been elected Scholars of University College: Mr. William Henry Anderdon, Browne's Scholar of University College, on the Bennet Foundation; Mr. Francis Tate, Commoner of Balliol College, on the Yorkshire Foundation; Mr. Joseph Cox Algar, of Winchester School, on the Open Foundation.

WADHAM COI LEGE ELECTION.

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 Wednesday, the 20th 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 Herald's College.

ASHMOLEAN SOCIETY.-At a meeting of the above Society, Mr. Professor Rigaud read a Paper on some early notices of Steam Navigation. The first attempt of this kind, which is mentioned by most writers on the subject, is that of Jonathan Hull, in 1736: but there is in the Register of the Royal Society a paper, in which Papin proposed (Feb. 1709) to apply the Casselion engine to this very purpose. Mr. Rigaud gave the whole of this curious document, with Sir I. Newton's report on it, and the remarks of Captain Savery on the faults in the construction of the engine. These remarks are continued in two letters to Dr. John Harris, of which copies are preserved in the Register of the Royal Society. Mr. Farey is the only person who has been found to have noticed these facts, and he likewise points out that Papin had made a similar proposal in the Acta Eruditorum for 1690. It is remarkable that mention is there also made of projecting balls by the force of steam. As the first of Savery's letters contains some circumstances connected with his personal history (of which nothing has ever been collected), some few further particulars concerning him were added, which have been recently traced out, and which are either entirely new or not generally known. In this part two unpublished letters were introduced, written by the Marquis of Worcester, about his steam engine, and the paper concluded with allusion to the steam vessel, said by

Captain Slidell to have been constructed at Barcelona in 1543.

Mr. Twiss, of University College, delivered a paper on "the Long Walls of Athens, and an inscription relating to them, discovered at Athens in 1829." After a general review of the various statements in ancient authors, which have given rise to the difference of opinion on the subject of there having been three or two walls connecting the city with her ports, Mr. Twiss pronounced himself strongly in favour of the hypothesis of there having been only two long walls. He considered that the allusions to a southern wall, of subsequent origin to the northern wall, were susceptible of explanation, by supposing that the orators alluded to two decrees of the public assembly, by the former of which a sum of money was voted for the completion of the northern, and by the latter for the completion of the southern wall. On this supposition the Phaleric and the southern wall would be identical with each other, and the intermediate wall of Plato, if a single wall is necessarily to be understood in the passage which occurs in the Gorgias, is only another expression for the same work, being intermediate between the city and her ports, in the same sense as Dion Chrysostom uses the word. The argument on this point was thus concluded that the statements in Xenophon and Lysias could not be reconciled with the hypothesis of there being three walls, whilst on the supposition of there having been two only, those in Thucydides, Plato, and the orators, admit of explanation; so that if there were only two walls, all the statements in the historians and orators may be correct, but those in Xenophon and Lysias must be wrong, if there were three walls

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BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Henry Pratt, Trinity Coll.
John M. Wilkins, Trinity Coll.
Wm. Pollard, Trinity Coll.
Joseph Edleston, Trinity Coll.
George Waring, Trinity Coll.
Wm. D. Christie, Trinity Coll.
James P. Wilde, Trinity Coll.
Charles J. Pearson, Trinity Coll.
John Paley, S. Peter's Coll.
Randolph, Knipe, Clare Hall.
John Garvey, Corpus Christi Coll.
Charles Laing, Queen's Coll.
J. W. St. Quintin, Emmanuel Coll.
Peter B. Brodie, Emmanuel Coll.
Henry Bate, Emmanuel Coll.
Thomas B. Shaw, St. John's Coll.
Thomas J. Hogg, Corpus Christi Coll.
Joshua Nalson, Queen's Coll.

Charles Ward, M.A. of Brazennose College, Oxford, was also admitted ad eundem of this University.

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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

At a meeting of the Philosophical Society, the Rev. the Master of Christ's College, the President, being in the chair, Mr. Kelland, of Queen's College, read the first part of a paper on Molecular Attraction. Afterwards, Professor Henslow gave an account of the plants brought by Mr. Darwin from the Keeling Islands. These are coral islets of recent formation, lying to the south of Sumatra. They are of the form called lagoon islands, the average height of the land above the water not being more than six feet. These islands have only recently been inhabited by man. The indigenous vegetable species from them are 24 in number, and Mr. Darwin has brought home 22 of these, belonging to 21 genera and 18 different families.

DURHAM.

The prizes proposed in December last, by the Rev. F. W. Raymond, have been adjudged as follows:

For the two best English Essays, to be written by Students in Theology, on the subject

"The law was a schoolmaster to bring men to Christ."

First prize, Ds. Cundill,
Second prize, Ds. Hick.

For the two best English Essays, to be written by Undergraduates

"On the Policy of Rome in the conduct of her Foreign Wars."

First prize, Meredith Brown,
Second prize, H. R. Watson.

At a Convocation holden at Durham University, Mr. John William Bowden, M.A. of Trinity College, was admitted ad eundem of the above University.

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