DUBLIN.

At the late Quarterly Examinations the following honors were adjudged :

The Gold Medal for Science was adjudged to Mr. Haig; the Gold Medal for Classics to Mr. Pomeroy.-Mr. Haig, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. O'Connell (Morgan John), and Mr. Hyde, were placed at the head of the Candidate Bachelor Class.

CERTIFICATES IN SCIENCE were obtained by Armstrong (George), Mr. Rutherford, Turner, Orr, Andrews, Young, Willis (James), Baggot, Lee, Tickers, M'Dowell, Mr. Shaw, Sandes, Conway (Cornelius), O'Leary (Goodwin), Hallowell, Biggs, Kyle (Pallam.)

PREMIUMS IN SCIENCE, by Drought, Meade, Dennehy, Purdon (George R.), Mr. Montgomery, O'Brien, Webb, Finlay, Perry, Kane, Mr. Leader, M'Intire, Johns, O'Farrell, Edgeworth, Jacob, Mr. Synnott, Smith (Richard), Digby, Walsh (Albert J.), Battersby (William H.), Higgins, Kyle (John T.), and King.

CERTIFICATES IN CLASSICS, by Crawford (Francis), Mr. Goold, Turner, Mr. Leader, Bruen, Lee, Woodward, Lyons, Mr. Verschoyle, Johnston (Benjamin), Eccleston, Wrightson, Hickey, Marshall, Callaghan.

PREMIUMS IN CLASSICS, by Franks (John), Armstrong (Geo.), Savage, Mr. Massie, Mac Donnell (Richard G.), Acton, Orr, Mackinnon, Wheeler, Mr. Blosse, Hopkins (Robert), Fitzgerald (Gerard), Clement, Caher, Mullins, Mr. Welsh, Griffin, Wade, O'Leary (Cornelius), Ringwood, Ryan, Haines, and King.

PREMIUMS FOR GENERAL ANSWERING were obtained by Nash and Tibbs.

The next Quarterly Examinations will be held for Senior Sophisters on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 18th and 19th of June; for Junior Sophisters, on Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22d; for Senior Freshmen, on Monday and Tuesday, the 24th and 25th; and for Junior

Freshmen, on Thursday and Friday, the 27th and 28th June.

STEPHEN C. SANDES,

Sen. Lecturer.

On Friday, May 17, Dr. Longfield delivered his opening lecture, as Professor of Political Economy, in the Law School of our University. This Professorship was instituted by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, in the laudable spirit of assimilating the Irish and English Universities so far as to make equal advantages derivable from the resources of both. After an examination, for some days, of the several candidates, Dr. Longfield was elected by the Board from the number recommended to their notice by the Archbishop; the condition of his appointment to the chair, being, the delivery of nine lectures during a specified term, and their subsequent publication.

The object of Dr. Longfield's opening address was to show the great and increasing importance of the science of Political Economy, and to remove the idle and frivolous objections which the ignorant and casuistical are too apt to indulge in, to the prejudice of what they attempt to disprove, probably without any, or at best only upon an indifferent and partial study. The charges of impiety and irreligion to which the science has been considered liable, upon the grounds of its supplying both scope and encouragement to one of the worst passions of human nature, Dr. Longfield refuted at once by proving that national wealth and national prosperity were the grand object of the political economist, and not individual aggrandisement or avarice, which must ever tend to eradicate the principles which for the benefit of society at large, it is his praiseworthy aim to inculcate and enforce.

The absurd and fatal error into which too often the rude and unthinking artizan has been seduced, that the demolition of his employer's capital must lead to the alleviation of his own distress, in

unfavourable times, was exposed in the course of this lecture in language of great nerve and energy; while the deductions from the arguments of the Lecturer, tending to show that the extension of the science of Political Economy should inevitably lead to the manifestation of truth, were no less forcibly than justly drawn.

The objections to the study of Political Economy on the score of novelty, were likewise ably met and answered; Dr. Longfield having clearly evinced the impossibility of the science having existed, as such, during any except modern times. We would not be understood by the foregoing brief sketch, to have attempted to follow the Professor either in the order or variety of his topics. We merely wished to give a brief outline of the whole, which we shall notice at greater length at the conclusion of the course,— Dr. Longfield's style and taste are admirably adapted to this most interesting subject, for the discussion and elucidation of which he is still further qualified, by extensive study, and abilities which have deservedly ranked him among the most distinguished members of our University.

A considerable addition has been made to the College Botanical Garden, which now presents an exceedingly beautiful front to the Rock road. The ground enclosed was most judiciously purchased by the Board, as it prevents the possibility of the gardens being shut in by the buildings which are extending so rapidly in that direction, and the injury which should necessarily result to the trees and

flowers.

We

The "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit," may, with equal truth, be applied to the active and enterprising spirit of our respected Provost, since whose appointment a rapid and progressive improvement has been strikingly observable in every thing connected with our University. have been led to this remark, by the more immediate subject of our notice, but shall enter upon the matter more at large in a future number, when we trust to lay before our readers, in detail, the salutary changes which are now in preparation, as affecting Collegiate discipline.

Students in Medicine are to take notice, that after the month of November, 1834, all Candidates for Degrees in Medicine must produce certificates of attendance on the course of Lectures on Midwifery, delivered in the College of Physicians; and also that credit will be al

lowed for only three medical courses in each winter Session.

OXFORD.

Saturday, March 2.

On Tuesday last, in full Convocation, the University seal was affixed to Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying that they would be pleased to take into their early consideration the laws relating to the observance of the Lord's Day, with a view to their amendment.

Master of Arts. Rev. C. Childers, Ch. Ch.

Bachelors af Arts.-W. E. Ellwell, University; G. Garrick, University; A. J. Sutherland, Student of Ch. Ch.; C. Leslie, Ch. Ch.; W. Hornby, Ch. Ch.; A. G. S. Shirley, Ch. Ch.; J. Barrow, Wadham College.

On Friday, the 22d ult., W. Burton Dynham, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, was nominated and admitted to practice as a Proctor in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Preachers at St. Mary's.-Rev. Dr Nolan, Exeter, Bampton Lecturer, Sunday morning; Rev. W. Griffiths, Wadham, Sunday afternoon.

FIRST CLASS.

Ds Bunbury, Trinity,
Hildyard, Christ's,
Francis, St. John's,
Walford, Trinitys,
Wilson, St. John's,
Barnes, Trinity,
Whittaker, Qu.
Bury, St. John's,
Begbie, Pembroke,
Lydekker, Trinity,
Kempe, Clare H.

SECOND CLASS.

Ds Tate, Emman.
North, Trinity,
Inman, St. John's,
Smith, St. Peter's,
Nicholson, Christ's,
Howlett, St. John's,
Brown, Trinity,
Taylor, St. John's,
Chambers, St. John's,
Stockdale, Trinity,
Raikes, Corpus,

Fowler, Trinity,

Jones, Queen's,

Roots, Jesus.

THIRD CLASS.

Ds Evans, Qu. 1
Jacob, Emm. S
Dusautoy, St. John's,
Rose, Clare Hall,

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Huxtable, Trinity, Alford, Visct. Magd. Fawcett, Mag.

Andras, St. Jo.}

Sale, St. John's, Couchman, Cl. Hall, Langdon, St. John's, Barker, St. John's.

After

A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, Professor Sedgwick, the President, being in the chair. Among the members elected were Lord Braybrooke, M. A., of Magdalene College, and the Hon. Peter John Locke King, M.A., of Trinity College. Various presents of books were announced, among which was a Memoir, by Cacciatore, the astronomer at Palermo, concerning the reduction and comparison of Meteorological Observations made in different places. The Rev. W. Whewell read a continuation of his Memoranda on the Architecture of Normandy. the meeting Professor Airy gave an account, illustrated by models and diagrams, of his recent researches concerning the mass of Jupiter, by means of observations of the fourth satellite. It was observed, that the proportion of the quantity of matter of Jupiter to that of the Sun, is the most important datum in our reasonings concerning the Solar System, after the elements of the planetary orbits. But though this is the case, considerable uncertainty has recently prevailed concerning this quantity. The calculations of Laplace and Bouvard made Jupiter 1-1070th of the Sun, by means of the perturbations of Saturn; but the German astronomers, Nicolai and Encke, by means of the perturbations of Juno and Vesta, obtained a mass larger by about 1-80th than that of Laplace. But in the meantime the observations which seemed to promise the most simple and decisive means of obtaining the value of Jupiter's mass, those of the periods and distances of his satellites, had never been put in practice since the time of Newton, at whose request Pound made such observations. The question concerning this mass is not only of consequence in the calculations of other perturbations of the Solar System, of which Jupiter is "the tyrant," (to use Sir John Herschell's expression); but was also of sufficient magnitude to decide the existence or not, of a resisting medium as deduced from Encke's comet. Professor Airy determined therefore to repeat these observations, and to endeavour to calculate from them the mass of Jupiter, with greater

certainty and accuracy than had hitherto been obtained. In his statement on Monday evening, he described the various adjustments which he found it necessary carefully to make in order to insure the requisite degree of accuracy in the observations; and the difficulty and embarrassment which occurred in consequence of considerable errors which exist both in the signs and in the numerical values of Laplace's theory of the satellites of Jupiter. Finally, all these difficulties were overcome; and the result is, that the mass of Jupiter is most probably 1-1050th of the Sun, 1-1054th (Nicolai's determination) being much less probable, and 1-1070th (Laplace's) very improbable.

March 8.

On Monday last, the Norrisian prize essay was adjudged to Thomas Myers, B.A. Trinity College.-Subject, The intent and use of the Gift of Tongues in the Christian Dispensation.

March 15.

The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best proficients in classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were on Wednesday last adjudged to Edward Herbert Bunbury, of Trinity College, and James Hildyard, of Christ's College.

Herbert Jenner, Esq, L.L.B., of Trinity Hall, eldest son of Sir Herbert Jenner, the King's Advocate-General, has been elected a Fellow of that Society.

A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, the president, being in the chair. A memoir by the Marchese Spineto was read, containing objections, founded on astronomical considerations, and on the examination of ancient authors, to the chronological system of Sir Isaac Newton; and reasons for preferring the more extended chronology which is suggested by the study of Egyptian antiquities. After the meeting, Dr. Jermyn exhibited various ornaments of glass and enamel, a bronze bracelet, and other implements of metal, and vessels of earthenware, some of them of the kind called "Samian." These relics were found in association with bones, partly interred and partly deposited in urns, which have been discovered at Exning and at Bartlow, in this neighbour hood. The skeletons have invariably been found lying in threes, with their faces downwards. Professor Sedgwick

also gave an account, illustrated by drawings and sections, of the geology of North Wales. He stated that, by various traverses across Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, it was ascertained that the strata of that district are bent into saddles and troughs, of which the anticlinal and synclinal lines occur alternately, and are all nearly parallel to the "great Merionethshire anticlinal line." The direction of these lines is nearly N.E. by N., and S. W. by S.; and they appear to pass through the following points:-(1) Near Caernarvon, (2) Myndd Mawr, (3) Garn Drws y Coed, (4) Moel Hebog, (5) Moel Ddu, (6) Between Pont-Aberglas-lyn and Cnicht, (7) The great Merioneth anticlinal, (8) The West side of the Berwyns, (9) The calcareous beds to the West of Llanarmon Fach. The bearing of these facts upon the general views of Elie de Beaumont was noticed; and it was observed that the approximate parallelism of the most prominent mountain chains of Wales, the Isle of Man, Cumberland, and the South of Scotland, corroborate the justice of this theory up to a certain point; although on a wider lines may be found to be portions of curves scale these apparently parallel straight

of small curvature.

British Association for the Advancement of Science. It is fixed that the next meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science shall commence in this University, on Monday the 24th of June next, and end on the following Friday.

The objects of this Association are, to give a stronger impulse to scientific inquiry; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers; to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. We extract the following from the Rules, for the information of our readers:

1. The Fellows and Members of Chartered Societies in the British Empire shall be entitled to become members of the Association upon subscribing an obligation to conform to the Rules.

2. The office-bearers and members of the councils or managing committees of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become members of the Association.

3. All members of a Philosophical Institution, recommended by its council or managing committee, shall be entitled in

like manner to become members of the Association.

4, Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be eligible, upon recommendation of the general committee, to become members of the Association.

N.B.-Persons wishing to become members of the Association in virtue of Rule 4, are requested to apply to any member of the council of the Philosophical Society.

5. The amount of the annual subscription shall be one pound, to be paid upon admission; and the amount of composition in lieu thereof, five pounds. N.B.-Subscriptions will be received by J. Crouch, at the Rooms of the Philosophical Society.

March 22.

Notice was given that at the congregation on Wednesday last petitions to both Houses of Parliament would be proposed to the Senate against "A bill to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church of Ireland." The petitions were, however, withdrawn, in consequence of the motion upon the subject being postponed.

At a meeting of the Syndics appointed by a grace dated Feb. 18, 1833, to consider of what standing candidates for the degree of B. A. ought to be, before they are allowed to be examined for that degree, and also to consider for what period

after examination the certificate of approval signed by the Examiners shall remain in force, and to report thereupon to the Senate

1. The Syndics recommend to the Senate that hereafter no person shall be admitted before Ash-Wednesday in the Lent Term, of each year, ad respondendum quæstioni, who shall not have been publicly examined at the usual time of examination in the month of January of that year, and produce a certificate from the Examiners of examination and approval; except those who, in consequence of ill-health, may, by the permission of the Examiners, have absented themselves from such examination.

2. That no person be admitted to examination for the degree of B.A. until he has entered into his eleventh term, he having previously kept nine terms exclusive of the term in which he was admitted, and that no certificate of approval, in the case of a person so examined in his eleveuth term, shall be valid, unless it shall appear when such person applies for his admission ad respondendum quæstioni, that he has kept the said ele

venth term.

These regulations shall not apply to those persons whose names shall appear in the List of Honors at the examination in January, 1834.

A grace will be offered to the Senate at the congregation this day, to the effect of the above resolutions.

The Royal Dublin Society proposes, with the concurrence and assistance of the Manufacturers, Artists, and Artisans of this country, to institute an Annual Exhibition of Irish Manufactures, Productions, and Inventions, conformable to the plan which, for several years, has been followed with signal advantage in Paris, and other capital cities on the continent; -and also in London and Edinburgh.

By the opportunity which will be thus afforded of seeing the variety and excellence of articles really manufactured in Ireland, and of which many persons at VOL. I.

present are little aware, the public will, doubtless, be gratified, and will be induced to patronize their improvement; and the spirit of emulation which can scarcely fail of being excited among the Exhibitors, must tend to national advantage.— Honorary distinctions, in the form of medals or certificates, are to be conferred for any extraordinary excellence, whether in workmanship or invention.

Several distinguished manufacturers in the city of Dublin, and its vicinity, have already signified their approbation of the plan, and their intention to assist and

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