The rev. Archdeacon BISSETT, to the .. Bishoprick of Raphoe.

Briscall, S. late fellow of Brasenose college, to the rectory of St. Mary South, Kelsey, with St. Nicholas, South Kelsey, annexed, in the county and diocese of Lincoln; patron, the LORD CHANCELLOR.

Campbell, Charles, to the rectory of Bilchamwell, alias Bycham All Saints, with the rectory of Shingham; also to the vicarage of Weasenham All Saints, and the vicarage of Weasenham St. Peter, in Norfolk.

Chevalier, Temple, M.A. fellow and tutor of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, to be lecturer of Great St. Andrew's parish, Ipswich.

Colson, J. M. jun. to the rectory of
Peatling, Leicestershire.
Corfield, Richard, to the rectory of
Upton Parva, Salop.

Deane, William Henry, B.A. to the rectory of Hintlesham, Suffolk; patron, WILLIAM DEANE, esq. of Alton Hall,

in Stutton.

Gleig, G. R. perpetual curate of Ash, Kent, to the rectory of Ivy Church, void by the resignation of the archdeacon of Canterbury. Grimes, George Dixwell, M.A. and fellow of Merton college, Oxford, to the vicarage of Emildon, in Northumberland; patrons, THE WARDEN AND FELLOWS OF THAT SOCIETY. Heming, George, M.A. to the rectory of Thundersley, Essex. Lowther, Henry, to the rectory of Bolton, Cumberland.

Leiceston, Oswald, curate of Altrincham, Cheshire, to the vicarage of Harlington, Bedfordshire ; patron, JoHN COOPER, esq. Nicol, Alexander, M.A. of Baliol college, to a canonry of Christ church, and the regius professorship of Hebrew, both vacated by the promotion of Dr. Laurence, to the archbishopric

of Cashel.

Oakley, Herbert, chaplain to the Bishop of London, collated to the rectory of Weeley, Essex; patron, the BISHOP OF LONDON.

Paul, Robert B. M.A. fellow of Exeter college, to be one of the domestic chaplains to the earl of Falmouth. Silver, Thomas, D.C.L. to the vicarage of Great Stoughton, Huntingdonshire; patrons, THE PRESIDENT AND FEL LOWS OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Oxford.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Degrees conferred May 25.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Daniel Cave, esq. Exeter college, grand compounder; rev. William Boycalt, demy of Magdalen college; rev. W. Roch, exhibitioner of Trinity college; rev. John Bonham, Brasenose college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Sir Alexander Malet, bart. Christ church, grand compounder; Charles Harbin, scholar of Wadham college; Bryan Taylor Nurse, Queen's college; Alexander Poole, St. Edmund hall; Charles Richard Ward, Magdalen hall; James Linton, demy of Magdalen college; Carew A. St. John Mildmay, Oriel college; Robert Green Rogers, Oriel college; John Stuart Wortley, Christ church; David Frederic Markham, Christ church; William Mayd, Exeter college; Charles Moffat, exhibitioner of Brasenose college; William Henry Walton, Brasenose college; John St. Vincent Bowen, Brasenose college; John Lloyd Philips, exhibitioner of Brasenose college; honourable Alfred Curzon, Brasenose college; Archer John Langley, University college; Richard Mayo, law exhibitioner, St. John's college; George Dandridge, Worcester college; John Owen, Worcester college; Thomas K. W. Harries, Jesus college.

The whole number of degrees in Easter Term was: B.D. 2-M.A. 28—B.A. 66— Matriculations, 87.

On Thursday last, the first day of Act Term, the following degrees were conferred:

DOCTORS IN DIVINITY.-Rev. Ashhurst Turner Gilbert, principal of Brasenose college; rev. John Birt, Christ Church.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Henry William Buckley, fellow of Merton college; William Heald Ludlow, esq. barrister at law, deric Irby, St. Mary hall; Joseph HayQueen's college; the hon. Adolphus Frethorne, St Mary hall; rev. Edward Brown, Magdalen hall; rev. Bernard John Ward, Trinity college; rev. Thomas Charles Henry Cox, student of Christ Lambard, student of Christ church; rev. church; the hon. and rev. Henry Alfred Exeter' college; rev. John Baron, BraNapier, Christ church; David Denne,

Stonebewer

senose college; Francis Newbold, fellow of Brasenose college; Marmaduke Vavasour, Brasenose college; rev. Hugo Moreton Phillips, Worcester college; rev William Henry Mogridge, Jesus college; rev. John Sinclair, Pembroke college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS-William Batchellor, St. Alban hall; Thos. Simpson Evans, St. Alban hall; George St. John, Wadham college; John Olive, Wadham

college; Thomas Hartshorne Harding, Wadham college; Christopher Milnes, Lincoln college; Henry Brown, Queen's college; Thomas Smith, Queen's college; Peter French, Queen's college; John William Goodday, Queen's college; George Radcliffe, St. Mary hall; John Percy Elliott, St. Mary hall; Richard Ballard Phillips, Magdalen hall;

Thomas

Sayer, Magdalen hall; Richard Colston Phelips, Trinity college; Gustavus Ludovic Hamilton, Trinity college; Richard Basnett, Trinity college; Edward Bouverie Pusey, Christ church; Stuart Majendie, Christ church; Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley, Christ church; Henry Norman, Christ church; Dudley Montagu Perceval, Christ church; John Wood, Christ church; Reginald Pole, Exeter college; Bulteel, Henry Bellenden

Brasenose college; William De Capell Brooke, Brasenose college; Thomas Maude, University college; James Ashmore, University college; Gibson Stott, University college; William Stevenson Scholey, St. John's college; Albert Jones, St. John's college; William Pyne, Penbroke college.

June 6.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-George Rooke, fellow of Merton college; rev. George Hemming, Merton college; rev. William Robinson, Magdalen hall; rev. Henry Ayling, Magdalen hall; rev. Henry John Gunning, Baliol college; rev. George Edge Larden, Brasenose college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Griffith Roberts, B.A. of Jesus college, was incorporated from Dublin; the hon. Wm.Wingfield, Brasenose college, grand compounder; William Williams, All Souls college; Edward Wilson, postmaster of Merton college; Charles Hedges, Lincoln college; Edward George Simcox, scholar of Wadham college; Henry Tull, St. Edmund hall; Thomas Coltman, Brasenose college; William Stone, Brasenose college; Henry Trimmer, Exeter college; John Horatio Lloyd, Queen's college; Richard Lechmere, Queen's college; George Sercombe Luke, Queen's college; Thomas Stringer, Queen's college; Robert Howlett, Pembroke college; William Wilkins Gale, Pembroke college; William Weld, St. John's college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-John Alexander

Wilson, Queen's college; William Airey, scholar of Queen's college; Henry Rookin, scholar of Queen's college; Joseph Ballantine Dykes, scholar of Queen's college; George Deane, St. Mary hall; Peter Pering, Oriel college; Henry Palmer, Christ church; William Horne, Christ church; George R. M. Ward, Trinity college; Matthew Carrier Tompson, Trinity college; Henry Allen, Trinity college.

June 19.-In full convocation in the Theatre, the commemoration of the founders and benefactors of the University was holden, when the following honorary degrees of D. C. L. were conferred:-Sir John Croft, of Cowling hall, Yorkshire, bart. knt. of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword, F.R.S.; Richard Heber, of Hodnett, Shropshire, esq. M.A. of Brasenose college, and one of the representatives in Parliament for the University; Lieutenant General Wood; William Owen Pugh, esq. of Nantglyn, Denbighshire, F.A S.; John Scandrett Harford, esq. of Blaise Castle, Gloucestershire. June 20.

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.-Rev. Chas.

Thorp, M.A. and late fellow of University college.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Robert Fitzhard

inge Jenner, Exeter college; rev. William Wood, Exeter college; rev. John

Wynne, Queen's college; rev. James

Feild, Queen's college; rev. John Alington, Baliol college; rev. Joseph Cooke, Magdalen hall; rev. Philip Pering, Brasenose college; rev. John Williams, student of Christ church; hon. and rev.

Henry Edward John Howard, Christ church; rev. Walter Jones, Jesus college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-Sidney William Cornish, Exeter college; James Thomas Duboulay, Exeter college; Joseph SimpSon, Queen's college; Robert Hopton Smith, Queen's college; Hon. Everard Robert Bruce Feilding, Oriel college; Thomas Woodward Gardner, church.

May 30.

Christ

The rev. John Williams, B.A, scholar of Jesus college, was elected fellow of that society; rev. Charles William Stocker, M.A. fellow of St. John's college; rev. C. Atmore Ogilvie, M.A. fellow of Baliol college; and the rev. Charles Miller, M.A. demy of Magdalen college, were approved in convocation as masters of the schools.

May 31.

The prizes for the present year were adjudged to the following gentlemen:

The Chancellor's Prizes.-" Alpes ab Annibale Superatæ."-Latin verse, to Mr. J. Curzon, Brasenose college.

"On Moral Evidence," an English 3.L

Essay, to Mr. W. A. Shirley, New college.

"An revera prævaluerit apud Eruditiores Antiquorum Polytheismus," a Latin Essay, to Mr. J. B. Ottley, Oriel college.

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize.-" Palmyra," English Verse, to Mr. A. Barber, Wadham college.

June 6.

The Rev. Thomas Grantham, M.A. fellow of Magdalen college; and the rev. J. Anthony Cramer, M.A. student of Christ church, were approved in convocation as public examiners, in the room of two who go out of office.

The names of those candidates, who at the close of the public examination this term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the first and second classes of Litere Humaniores and Discipline Mathematica et Physica respectively, according to the alphabetical arrangement in each class prescribed by the statute stand as follow:

In the First Class of Literæ Humaniores.

Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, Christ church; John Campbell, Baliol college; Edward Denison, Oriel college; Richard Greswell, Worcester college; John Ho ratio Lloyd, Queen's college; Dudley Montagu Perceval, Christ Church; Edward Bouverie Pusey, Christ church; William Stone, Brasenose college.

In the First Class of Discip. Mathemat. et Phys.

Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, Christ church; Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Christ church; Richard Gresswell, Worcester college; John Horatio Lloyd, Queen's college.

In the Second Class of Litera Humaniores.

Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Christ church; William Buller, Worcester college; William Henry Butler, Christ church; Sidney William Cornish, Exeter college; James Davis, University college; John Manuel Echalaz, Trinity college; Thomas Evans, St. Alban hall; William Gresley, Christ church; John Archer Langley, University college; Sir Alexander Malet, bart. Christ church; Richard Mayo, St. John's college; Ni. cholas Pearse, Brasenose college; George Radcliffe, St. Mory Hall; Edward George Simcox, Wadham college; Robert Vernon Smith, Christ church; George R. M. Ward, Trinity college; William Weld, St. John's college.

In the Second Class of Discip. Mathemat. et Phys.

Albert Jones, St. John's college; Henry Tull, St. Edmund hall; Edward George Simcox, Wadham college; George R. M. Ward, Trinity college; William WilHams, All Souls college.

Litera Humaniores.

William Airey, Queen's college; Henry A. S. Atwood, Queen's college; Thomas Barlow, Wadham college; Thomas Coltman, Brasenose college; Hon. Alfred Curzon, Brasenose college; John Matson Dodd, Queen's college; George Alexander Hamilton, Trinity college; Chas. Harbin, Wadham college; Samuel Jay, Oriel college; Thomas Maude, University college; John Muckleston, Christ church; Christopher Pemberton, Christ church; Peter Pering, Oriel college; Richard Phelips, Trinity college; John Lloyd Philipps, Brasenose college; Alfred Roberts, Trinity college; Henry Rookin, Queen's college; Edward Wilson, Merton college.

Discip. Mathemat. et Phys. Edward May, Christ church; William Weld, St. John's college.

G. Porter, J. Keble, T.V.Short, J. J. Lowe,

Public Examiners.

The number of gentlemen to whom testimoniums for degrees were granted,

but who were not admitted into either of the above classes, amounted to 93.

June 11.-Mr. Francis Russell Nixon and Mr. Henry Thorp, were elected scholars of St. John's college; and Mr. Gerard Edward Smith was elected one of Dr. Andrews's law exhibitioners of the same society.

June 13. Mr. Airey, Mr. Rookin, and Mr. Dykes, scholars of Queen's college, were elected taberdars of that society on the Michel Foundation.

June 21.-Mr. William Goddard, of Jesus college, was elected a scholar of that society.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

Degrees conferred May 28.

MASTER OF ARTS.-Rev. Joseph Dewe,

fellow of Queen's college; William Horton, St. John's college.

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW.- Charles

Pasley Vivian, Trinity hall.

BACHELOR IN PHYSIC.-Edmund Lam

bert, Pembroke hall.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.-Edward Blackett, of St. John's college.

Plan of examination before admission ad

Respondendum Quæstioni.

1. The examination of the first six classes of the questionists shall remain precisely upon its present footing.

2. At the examination in January 1826, and every subsequent year, the seventh and eighth classes shall be examined, on the first two days, in the Elements of Mathematics, as heretofore; on the third day, in Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Paley's Moral Philosophy, and his Evidences of Christianity; and on the fourth day, they shall be required to translate passages selected from the first six books of the Iliad, and of the Eneid; and to answer grammatical and other questions arising immediately out of such passages.

3. In addition to the two members of the Senate who, according to regulations already existing, shall be appointed examiners of the seventh and eighth classes in January 1826, two others, nominated by colleges according to the cycle of proctors, shall be elected by the Senate at the first congregation after October 10, 1825; and so on, in every succeeding year.

4. Whenever an examination for admission ad respondendum Quæstioni shall take place at any other time than that of the general examination in January, such examination shall be conducted by the moderators, with the assistance of the two additional examiners, on principles similar to those laid down in the second regulation.

5. Each of the examiners elected according to the third regulation shall receive 201. from the University chest.

6. The preceding regulations shall not interfere with the composition between the University and King's college. Plan of Classical examination after admission ad respondendum Quæstioni.

1. On the fourth Monday after the general admission ad respondendum Quæstioni in January 1824, and every subsequent year, shall commence an examination in Classical Learning of such persons as shall voluntarily offer them

selves to be examined, provided that every person so offering himself shall have obtained an honour at the mathematical examination of the preceding January.

2. At this examination in classical learning, translations shall be required of passages selected from the best Greek and Latin authors, as well as written answers to questions arising immediately out of such passages. No original composition, either in Greek or Latin, shall be required.

3. The examination shall continue four days, the hours of attendance on each day being from half-past nine o'clock in the morning till twelve, and from one till four in the afternoon.

4. The names of those persons who shall pass the examination with credit, shall be arranged in three classes, according to their respective merits.

5. To conduct the examination in 1824, four examiners, appointed by colleges according to the cycle of proctors and taxors, shall be elected by the Senate at the first congregation after October 10, 1823; and so on for every subsequent

year.

6. Each of the examiners shall receive 101. from the University chest.

7. The foregoing regulations shall not interfere with the composition between the University and King's college.

May. 29-The members of the Senate assembled to elect a Professor of Mineralogy, in the room of the late Dr. E. D. Clarke. J. S. Henslow, esq. M.A. and the rev. Francis Lunn, M.A. of St. John's college, were nominated by the heads of houses. Before the scrutiny commenced a protest was presented by two members of the Senate against the mode of election by nomination, and the rev. Thomas Jephson, B.D. of St. John's college, was proposed as a third candidate. A large majority of the members of the Senate are understood to have tendered their votes for his election. At the termination of the poll the votes so tendered were not read over by the proctor, and Mr. Henslow was declared duly elected. We understand that a great number of the members of the Senate have resolved to institute proceedings in one of the higher courts, for the purpose of obtaining a decision on this important ques

tion.

June 6.-The Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem by a residentundergraduate, was adjudged to Mr. John Henry Bright, of St. John's college. Subject, Palmyra.

June 4-The rev. Thomas Smith Turnbull, M.A. and the rev. Clement Robert Francis, M.A. junior fellows of Caius college, were elected senior fellows of that society.