Sunday School, and there is only one island which has not one or more large day schools in full and effective operation; in this, one will be opened as soon as a proper master and mistress can be provided. In all these schools the free-coloured and slave are instructed together; in some the white and free-coloured; in others the white, the free-coloured, and the slave. These schools afford religious instruction with reading, writing, and arithmetic, on the national system, and under the superintendence of the Clergy, with several active and excellent laymen. At Bridge Town in particular, there are two excellent schools, one for white boys and girls, and the other for coloured boys and girls; both well conducted and producing great good: the latter has 200 children. In the island of St. Christopher, it appears that upwards of 500 children are receiving instruction. In many parishes a week-day evening lecture has been established, which is generally well attended if obstacles are not opposed by the managers of the estates. We subjoin the following statement of the baptisms and marriages of slaves in the island of St. Christopher for one year. The foregoing account needs no comment; it shews that the friends of education have gained a secure footing, and that the lets and hindrances which they have experienced are, though in some instances too slowly, disappearing. It is gratifying, too, to observe that while the instruction of the negroes is the subject of anxious care, a far greater degree of anxiety is manifested than heretofore with respect to the education of the white population. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has not been backward in forwarding this good work, and its ample and prompt provision of books and a liberal grant of money is gratefully acknowledged by the colonists. At the last general meeting in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the following resolution was passed : "The Society is highly gratified at perceiving from reports and extracts of correspondence now submitted to the general meeting, and from information of a similar nature received during the last year from Jamaica, that so much has been done in a short space of time for the promotion of Christian knowledge in the West Indies; and will be anxious to assist and encourage the exertions now making by the Bishops and Clergy, and by many proprietors and managers of estates for its extension; and resolve to grant the sum of 500%. to the Bishop of Jamaica, and a like sum to the Bishop of Barbados, to be expended under their Lordships' direction, in furtherance of that great object in which the Society and the nation at large have long expressed so deep an interest, the general diffusion of religious instruction throughout the West Indies." PREFERMENTS. THE KING has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, nominating, presenting, and appointing the Rev. WILLIAM WARD, Doctor in Divinity, to the Bishopric of the Isle of MAN AND SODOR, void by the translation of DR. GEORGE MURRAY, the late Bishop thereof, to the See of ROCHESTER. Name. Bowen, John .... Bawdrip, R. County. Diocese. Patron. Somers. {Bath & R. Bush, Esq. and Wells Adm. Sir H. Nicholls Sussex Chichest. V. of Brighton Norfolk Norw. Preferment. St. Deeker, Robert.... Wakerley, R. Dixon, R. S....... Great Tey, Sinec. Rect. Rhuddlan, V. Bath & Wells SRev. L. Cooper, on his own petition. } Lord Chancellor Northam. Peterboro.Marquis of Exeter Edwardes, T. W. { Vidarship in Cath. Church of St. Asaph Bishop of St. Asaph Name. Preferment. County. Diocese. Hammond, G. .... Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Guilford Hildyard, William. Llangeler, V. Howell, Rees Patron. Carmarth.St. Davids Lord Chancellor Glamorg. Llandaff Lord Chancellor Ireland, John .... Lect. of St. Andrew, Plym. Devon. Jenyns, Leonard.. Swaffham Bulbeck, V. Law, Archdeacon.. Camb. Ely Can. Resid. in Cath. Ch. of Wells Bishop of Ely Dn. & Ch. of Wells Rochester D. & C. of Rochester Lincoln E. Palmer, Esq. Norwich O. Godfrey, Esq. Norwich R. of Barking Durham Durham Bishop of Durham { Bath & Wells Lincoln Lincoln Bishop of Lincoln Warne, J......... Minor Canonry in Cath. Church of Bristol Watkins, Thomas.. Wyke Rumbold, V. Worsley, Henry Dom. Chap. to His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon Yarker, Robert St. Olave, Chester, R. Chester Chester Bishop of Chester The Right Reverend ALEXANDER ARBUTHNOT, D. D. Lord Bishop of KILLALOE and KILFENORA. Oxford Oxford Dn. & Ch. of Exeter St.Julian, Shrewsbury, P.C. Salop Lichfield Earl of Tankerville York Pec. & Exempt Bishop of Durham Countess Ormond Mr. Hepworth Norwich Lord Chancellor T. Bury, Esq. Lord Chancellor Suffolk Norwich R. Powell, Esq. Birkby, R. Kirklington, R. York and Skelton, R. York Chester Wickhambrook, V. Suffolk Teversall, R. Notts York Preb. in Cath. Ch. of Bristol Tarrant Gunville, R. Dorset Bristol Capel St. Mary, R. with } Wenham Parva, R. Lenchwick, P. C. University Coll. Ox. Messrs. W. K. Hamilton, P. H. Nind, H. Denison, G. L. Parsons and C. Wordsworth, have been elected Students of Christ Church. Messrs. J. Anstice, J. E. Bates, E. Hill and H. Kynaston, are admitted Students of the same Society, having been elected in May last from Westminster College. Mr. George Cox and Mr. Thomas Broadley Fookes, have been admitted Scholars of New College. Degrees conferred. BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY (by {accumulation.) Rev. Charles Tapp Griffith, Wadham Coll. Master of Warminster School. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Frederick Nolan, Exeter Coll. DOCTOR IN MEDICINE. George Hamilton Neve, Magdalen Hall, (incorporated from Trinity Coll. Dublin.) MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Charles Backhouse Sowerby, Univer- Rev. William Hazel, Christ Church. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Frederick Russell, St. Mary Hall. Hon. Frederick C. Amherst, Christ Church John G. Griffith, Fellow of St. John's Coll. CAMBRIDGE. The Hulsean Prize for the last year has been adjudged to Mr. Edward Young, student of Trinity College, for his dissertation on the following subject:-" The Contention between Paul and Barnabas.” The Master and Fellows of Jesus College have obtained from their Visitor, the Bishop of Ely, a new statute, which has been confirmed by the Crown, and which removes the present restriction with regard to the election of an equal number of Fellows from the Northern and Southern counties, and enables the Society to elect Fellows, without any such restriction, from any part of England and Wales. The new statute is to take effect at the expiration of five years. The following will be the subjects of examination in the last week of Lent term, 1829: 1. The Gospel of St. Luke. 4. The Third Book of Cicero's Offices. PRIZE SUBJECTS, 1828. The Vice-Chancellor has issued the fol lowing notice : I. His Royal Highness the Chancellor being pleased to give annually a gold medal for the encouragement of English Poetry, to such resident Undergraduate as shall compose the best Ode, or the best Poem in heroic verse; the subject for the present year is, "The Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Buonaparte." II. The Representatives in Parliament for the University give annually, 1. Two prizes of fifteen guineas each, for the encouragement of Latin Prose composition, to be open to all Bachelors of Arts, without distinction of years, who are not of sufficient standing to take the degree of Master of Arts: and, 2. Two other prizes of fifteen guineas each, to be open to all Undergraduates, who shall have resided not less than seven terms, at the time when the exercises are to be sent in; the subjects for the present year are, (1) For the Bachelors, De origine Scripturæ Alphabeticæ. (2) For the Undergraduates, Quibus potissimum in rebus Hodierni ab Antiquis discrepent, et quas ob causas? III. Sir W. Browne having bequeathed three gold medals, value five guineas each, to such resident undergraduates as shall compose 1. The best Greek Ode in imitation of Sappho : 2. The best Latin Ode in imitation of Horace : 3. The best Greek Epigram after the model of the Anthologia: and 4. The best Latin Epigram after the model of Martial: The subjects for the present year are, (2) For the Latin Ode, (3) For the Greek Epigram, Τέλος διαφαίνεται, ὧν τις Εξοχώτερος γένηται-PINDAR. (4) For the Latin Epigram, Πόλλ ̓ ἐπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ ̓ ἠπίστατο πάντα.—Η ΜER. IV. The Porson prize is the interest of 4001. stock, to be annually employed in the purchase of one or more Greek books, to be given to such resident Undergraduate as shall make the best translation of a proposed passage in Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, into Greek verse. The subject for the present year is TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Act III. Sc. 3. Beginning "Time hath, my Lord, a wallet on his back," &c. And ending “And drave great Mars to faction." The metre to be Tragicum Iambicum Trimetrum Acatalecticum. These exercises are to be accentuated, and accompanied by a literal Latin prose version, and are to be sent in on or before April 30, 1828. V. The following is the subject of the Hulsean Prize Dissertation for the present year:-How far have the Laws of the Jews been abrogated by the Christian Dispensation? BACHELORS' COMMENCEMENT, January 19, 1828. Those gentlemen whose names are preceded by an asterisk have one or more terms to keep previous to being ADMITTED to their degrees, although they passed their examination in the following order of arrangement. WRANGLERS. Trin. Spedding, Cai. Wichcote, Joh. Overton, Joh. Fitzherbert, Trin: Briggs, Cai. Cockayne, Joh. Selwyn, Joh. Lestourgeon, Trin. Sheffield, Qu. Stokes, Cai. Coddington, Trin. |