UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. ELECTIONS. The Rev. Richard Whately, D. D. and Principal of St. Alban Hall, has been unanimously elected Professor of Political Economy, in the room of Mr. Senior, of Magdalen College, who has held that office for five years. In Convocation, the Rev. John Ottley, M. A. late Fellow of Oriel College; the Rev. George Morris, M. A. Scholar of Corpus Christi College; and the Rev. Edward Higgins, M. A. of Brazennose College, have been nominated Masters of the Schools for the ensuing year. The Rev. Richard Martin, M. A. Fellow of Exeter College, and the Rev. G.Moberly, M. A. Fellow of Balliol College, have been nominated Public Examiners in Literis Humanioribus; and the Rev. Henry Reynolds, M. A. Scholar of Jesus College, Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis. The Rev. Henry W. Robinson Michell, M.A. Scholar of Trinity College, has been elected a Probationary Fellow of that Society; Mr. H. Peter Guillemard, Blount Scholar of Trinity College, and Mr. Roundell Palmer, Commoner of Christ Church, Scholars on the Old Foundation; and Mr. John Thomas, of Wadham College, and Craven Scholar, Blount Scholar of Trinity College. The following gentlemen have been elected and admitted Probationary Scholars of Corpus Christi College;-Henry John Onslow, Surrey; George Renaud, Hants; and John Wilson, Lancashire. Messrs. Charles Rew, Henry Hemming, and Arthur R. Adams, have been elected Probationary Fellows of St. John's College, from Merchant Taylor's School. Daniel Vawdry, B.A. has been elected a Fellow of Brazennose College; and Thomas North, Esq. a Scholar of that Society. Mr. John Barrow has been elected Taberdar of Queen's College; Mr. David Cannon Farraday, Mr. Henry Gough, and Mr. William Bushby, Scholars of the above Society on the Old Foundation; and Mr. William Bowring and Mr. Henry Hamer, Bridgman's Exhibitioners. The Rev. John Manuel Echalez, M. A. has been admitted Actual Fellow of Trinity College. Theological Prize, instituted June 2, 1825-"The Evidence deduced from Prophecy in Support of the Truth of Christianity." The subject above stated, as appointed, by the Judges, for an English Essay, is proposed to Members of the University on the following conditions: viz. I. The candidate must have passed his examination for the degree of B. A. or B. C. L. II. He must not on this day (June 16) have exceeded his twenty-eighth Term. III. He must have commenced his sixteenth Term eight weeks previous to the day appointed for sending in his Essay to the Registrar of the University. In every case the Terms are to be computed from the matriculation inclusively. The Essays are to be sent under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University on or before the Wednesday in Easter Week next ensuing. None will be received after that day. The candidate is desired to conceal his name, and to distinguish his composition by what motto he pleases; sending his name sealed up under another cover, with the motto inscribed upon it. The Essay to which the prize shall have been adjudged will be read before the University in the Divinity School on some day in the week next before the Commemoration. The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes for the ensuing year: For Latin Verse-" Numantia." For an English Essay-"On the Use and abuse of Theory." For a Latin Essay-"Quænam fuerit Oratorum Atticorum apud Populum auctoritas." The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen who, on the day appointed for sending the exercises to the Registrar of the University, shall not have exceeded four years, and the other two for such as shall have exceeded four, but not completed seven years, from the time of their matriculation. Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, for the best composition in English verse, not limited to fifty lines, by any Undergraduate who, on the day above specified, shall not have exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation-" The Suttees." In every case the time is to be computed by calendar, not academical years, and strictly, from the day of matriculation to the day on which the exercises are to be delivered to the Registrar of the University, without reference to any intervening circumstances whatever. No person who has already obtained a prize will be deemed entitled to a second prize of the same description. next. The exercises are all to be sent under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University on or before the first day of May None will be received after that time. The author is required to conceal his name, and to distinguish his composition by what motto he pleases; sending at the same time his name, and the date of his matriculation, sealed up under another cover, with the motto inscribed upon it. The exercises to which the prizes shall have been adjudged will be repeated (after a previous rehearsal) in the Theatre, upon the Commemoration Day, immediately after the Creweian oration. The new Statute De Examinandis Graduum Candidatis, has been again submitted for the approbation of Convocation, having undergone several alterations since it was lately proposed in Easter Term. It nevertheless shared the same fate as its predecessor, two out of eleven of the sections submitted to the House having been negatived, in consequence of which the old Statute of 1825-1826 remains in force. UNIVERSITY CLASS PAPER. The names of those candidates, who, at In the Third Class of Literæ Humaniores. JAMES GARBETT, RICHARD MICHELL, W. H. Cox. Examiners. In the First Class of Discip. Mathemat. et Cockey, Edward, Wadham Coll. Harrison, Benjamin, Christ Church. In the Third Class of Discip. Mathemat. et Alford, Walter, St. Edmund Hall. A. P. SAUNDERS, Examiners. The number of the Fourth Class, namely, of those who were deemed worthy of their Degree, but not deserving of any honourable distinction, was 129. DEGREES CONFERRED. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Sir William Heathcote, Bart. late Fell. of All Souls', Grand Comp. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. H. A. Woodgate, Fell. of St. John's C. Rev. Philip Aubin, Fell. of Jesus Coll. BACHELORS OF MEDICINE, With Licence to practise. Thomas Ogier Ward, Queen's Coll. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. William Howard, Fell. of New Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. James John Rowe, Magdalen Hall. Rev. F. T. Gregory, University Coll. Rev. Charles Griffith, Christ Church. Rev. G. Horatio Hadfield, Pembroke Coll. Frederick Pym, Worcester Coll. Wilson Hetherington, Trinity Coll. W. Grant, Brasennose Coll. Grand Comp. Rev. C. Hesketh, Trinity Coll. Gr. Comp. J. Shepherd Birley, Brasennose Coll. Rev. Frederick Maude, Brasennose Coll. Rev. J. Sutcliffe, St. Edmund Hall. Moses Mitchell, Magdalen Hall. William Griffith, Scholar of Jesus. Rev. Francis Marendaz, Jesus Coll. Rev. W. Nicholson Fall, University Coll. Rev. G. B. Hamilton, Corpus Christi Coll. E. Walker Head, Fell. of Merton Coll. Rev. W. Henry Edmeades, Merton Coll. Rev. T. Burne Lancaster, Merton Coll. N. Constantine Strickland, Lincoln Coll. Rev. J. Maude, Michel Schol. of Queen's C. Rev. C. S. F. Fanshawe, Demy of Magd. C. H. Duke Harington, Fell. of Exeter Coll. Lord Clonbrock, Christ Church, Gr. Comp. Rev. Octavius S. Harrison, Queen's Coll. Rev. W. Wheeler, Demy of Magd. Coll. Rev. John Owen Parr, Brasennose Coll. Rev. William John Bussell, Pembroke Coll. Rev. H. Vincent Shortland, Lincoln Coll. G. Anthony Denison, Fell. of Oriel Coll. Rev. James Aldridge, Exeter Coll. Rev. John Savile Halifax, Trinity Coll. VOL. XII. NO. VII. Rev. E. Grevile Ruddock, Trinity Coll. Rev. William Pye, Stud. of Christ Church. BACHELORS OF ARTS. John Fortunatus Stansbury, Magd. Hall. Thomas William Robson, University Coll. James Sayer Ogle, Fell. of New Coll. William B. Smythe, Corpus Christi Coll. Osborne John Tancock, Wadham Coll. 30 Robert Philip Mallet, Pembroke Coll. William N. Skillicorn. Worcester Coll. The Earl of Selkirk, Chr. Ch. Gr. Comp. George Vigne, Trinity Coll. Henry Christopher Wise, Oriel Coll. John Lewis Irwin, Christ Church. The following gentlemen, members of the University of Cambridge, have been admitted ad eundem :-Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M. A. of Trinity College, Professor of Geology; Rev. George Peacock, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College; Rev. William Whewell, M. A. of Trinity College, Professor of Mineralogy; George Biddell Airy, M. A. of Trinity College, Plumian Professor of Astronomy; Rev. John Steevens Henslow, M. A. of St. John's College, Professor of Botany; and the Rev. George King, M. A. Fellow of Corpus Christi College. MARRIED. At Mary-le-bone Church, by the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, the Rev. Charles Baring, B. A. Student of Christ Church, youngest son of Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. M. P. to Miss Sealy, only daughter of the late Major Sealy, of the Bengal Artillery. ELECTIONS. CAMBRIDGE. Mr. Harry Dupuis, Scholar of King's College, has been admitted Fellow of that Society. The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M. A. Professor of Geology, and Fellow of Trinity College, has been elected a Senior of that Society, in the room of the late Rev. Edward Yeats, M. A. Richard Wellesley Rothman, Esq. M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, has been appointed by the Master to the Lay Fellowship held by the late Frederick Malkin, Esq. M. A. Mr. Thomas Sheldon Green, M. A. has been elected a Foundation Fellow of Christ College. The Rev. William John Aislabie, B. A. and John Hopkins Bailey, B. A. of Trinity College, have been elected Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholars of the first class, and declared equal in merit. PRIZES. Members' Prizes.-The Bachelors' prizes have been awarded-the first to Edward Fitzherbert, and the second to Thomas Jodrell Phillips, both of Trinity College. The Examiners consider these Essays as possessing sufficient merit to entitle the authors to the prize of thirty guineas each, and they will be printed. The usual prize of fifteen guineas is awarded to A. W. Chatfield, undergraduate of Trinity College; but the Essay is not to be printed. No second prize is adjudged. The following are the respective subjects: Bachelors.-Quantum momenti ad studium rei Theologica promovendum, habeat literarum humaniorum cultus ? SEN. Undergraduates.-Quæ sit forma ПoλTelus ad Græciæ renascentis statum optimè accommodata. .... The Porson Prize (for the best translation of a passage from Shakspeare into Greek verse) has been adjudged to Charles R. Kennedy, of Trinity College.- Subject, Romeo and Juliet. Act 2. Scene 2. Beginning "He jests at scars," &c. And ending "I'll no longer be a Capulet." The Chancellor's gold medal to a resident Undergraduate, for the English poem, has been adjudged to William Chapman Kinglake, of Trinity College.-Subject, Byzantium. Sir William Browne's three gold medals for the present year have been awarded as follows: Greek Ode.-James Hildyard, Christ College. Latin Ode.-Charles Rann Kennedy, Trinity College. Epigrams.-Wm. Fitzherbert, Queen's College. The following are the respective subjects: Greek Epigram.-Egræscit medendo. The Syndicate appointed to consider the best means of removing the Botanical Garden, reported to the Senate: "That they are unanimously of opinion that the most eligible site for the new Botanical Garden is the ground belonging to Trinity Hall, adjoining Mr. Pemberton's land, at the entrance into Cambridge froin the London Road: And, as the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall have expressed their readiness to accommodate the University with such a portion of this allotment of land, as may be required for the new Garden, on condition of receiving in exchange the allotment of land belonging to the University, in the parish of Barnwell, and that the difference in the value of the property so exchanged (if any) should be paid in money, The Syndics recommend the Senate to sanction the removal of the garden to the above site, and the exchange of land on the proposed terms."-A Grace has passed the Senate, "to confirm the report of the Syndics appointed to consider the best means of removing the Botanic Garden." The Syndicate appointed to consult respecting the Old Printing House, and the adjoining premises, have reported to the Senate: "That, having examined the said premises, and consulted together respecting their value, they recommend that the same be offered to Queen's College (from which they were purchased by the University) for the sum of 70001." At a Congregation the following Grace passed the Senate: Placeat vobis, ut Dominus Procancellarius, Dr. French, Dr. Ainslie, Dr. Turton, Professor Whewell, Mr. Lodge, Mr. M. Thackeray, Mr. Blick, Mr. Jones, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Shelford, Mr. Sheepshanks, Mr. Graham, Mr. King, Mr. Studholme, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Cape, Mr. Dawes, et Mr. Gibson, Syndici nominentur, qui tum de Bibliothecâ vestrâ amplificandâ, tum de Auditoriis Museisque quibus opus fuerit exstruendis consulant, respectu habito ad Gratias super hâc re a vobis jamjam concessas ; necnon inquirant quibus potissimum rationibus facultates idoneæ ad ea opera efficienda comparari possint; denique de his omnibus, aut simul aut separatim, ante proximum terminum finitum, referant ad Senatum. |