CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS. Appointment. Joint Sec. to S. P. C. K. and Chapl. to St. Katharine's Hosp. Head Mastership of Norwich Grammar School. Domestic Chapl. to Lord Crewe. Domestic Chapl. to the Right Hon. the Earl of Portmore. October 26, at Fletton, near Peterborough, aged 36, the Rev. J. J. Lowe, Rector of that Parish, and formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasennose College, Oxford. Mr. Lowe possessed this sure mark of a true Christian, that although he was universally respected for his abilities and acquirements, yet he was always spoken of peculiarly as a good man; the talents which, under other circumstances, would have attracted the principal notice, being reduced in his character to their just estimation, by the uncommon excellence of his principles and practice. Those who knew him well as a young man, amid the temptations of a university life, can bear witness to the mingled love and respect which he excited by the singular amiableness and cheerfulness of his disposition and manners, united to the high and spotless purity of his life. In after years, though a long residence at the University is sometimes thought to be an unfavourable preparation for the duties of a country Clergyman, he so endeared himself to the inhabitants of his first parish, Southam, that when the state of his health obliged him to resign his Curacy, they presented him with a public testimony of their respect and affection. In a word, his whole life was so beautifully Christian, that although he was, year after year, gradually ripening in holiness, the eye of man could scarce notice any thing, even in his youthful character, which was inconsistent with the profession of the Gospel. On Friday, the 27th of November, 1829, at Beeching Stoke, near Devizes, in his 79th year, universally respected and regretted, the Rev. Charles Mayo, B. C. L. upwards of fifty years Rector of that parish, and of Hewish, near Peusey, and formerly of Queen's College. He was presented to the latter Rectory by the trustees of the Duchess of Somerset's Institution for Widows, as their Chaplain, in 1775. Within the last few years, he rebuilt, at his own expense, the parsonage house at Hewish, and endowed two Exhibitions at Queen's College, vesting the presentation to them in the said trustees and their successors. He has given, by his will, 100%. stock to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the Clergy in the diocese of Salisbury, and a small annual sum to future Rectors of his late parishes, for the supply of books to the young, and for the occasional relief of the aged and infirm. His remains were attended to the silent grave on Thursday, the 3d of December, by his brother, his executors, two of his nearest relatives, by the Rev. Archdeacon Macdonald, and by all the Clergy in the immediate neighbourhood, with whom, as with their predecessors during this long period, he lived on terms of the greatest cordiality and friendship.-Mr. Mayo took his Degree of M. A. in 1774, and B.C.L. in 1779. Mr. Richard Payne has been admitted a Founder's-kin Fellow of New Coll. Mr. James Roydon Hughes has been admitted actual Fell. of New Coll. Herman Merivale, B. A. has been admitted actual Fellow of Balliol Coll. Charles Marriott, Commoner of Exeter Coll.; Stephen Charles Denison, Commoner of Balliol Coll.; and Edward Elder; have been elected Scholars of Balliol Coll. Charles Marriott has been also elected Exhibitioner on the foundation of Mrs. Headlam; and John Cook, Exhibitioner on the foundation of Mr. Harris, in the same College. Mr. James Edward Sewell has been admitted actual Fellow of New Coll. The Rev. William Beach Thomas, M. A. has been elected Fellow of Pembroke Coll. on the Foundation of Sir John Philipps, Bart. Mr. Francis Thomas has been elected Scholar on the same Foundation. Mr. James Parker Deane, Fellow of St. John's Coll., has been admitted to one of the twelve Law Fellowships in that Society. The Rev. William Airey, M. A. has been elected Fellow of Queen's Coll. Mr. William Griffith, B. A. Mr. Thomas Jones, and Mr. D. J. Lewis, Commoners, have been elected Scholars of Jesus Coll. The Rev. Joseph West, M. A. Chaplain of New Coll., has been unanimously elected, by the Heads and Bursars of Colleges, to one of the Chaplainships to the Radcliffe Infirmary, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. James Lupton. The Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle, has been admitted Nobleman of Christ Church. The nomination of the following persons to enter upon the office of Select Preacher before the University, in Michaelmas Term, 1830, has been unanimously approved in Convocation : The Rev. the Warden of New Coll. now Rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. The Rev. Mr. Majendie, Fell. of Magd. Coll. The Rev. Mr. Miller, late Fell. of Worc.Coll. DEGREES CONFERRED. The Degree of Doctor in Divinity, by Diploma, has been conferred upon the Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Bagot, Lord Bishop of Oxford, formerly of Christ Church, and late Fellow of All Souls' Coll. BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, By accumulation. Rev. W. Y. Churchill Hunt,' Exeter Coll. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. William Michael Lally, St. John's Coll. Grand Comp. William Morgan, Esq. Fell. of Magd. Coll. BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. J. Norris, Fell. of Corp. Christi Coll. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. By commutation. William Morgan, Esq. Fell. of Magd. Coll. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. T. F. A. P. Hodges, Fell. of New Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Joseph Saville Roberts Evans, Queen's Coll. Grand Comp. Henry Reynolds, Schol. of Jesus Coll. Rev. George Ferris Whitborne Mortimer, Rev. H. W. Gleed Armstrong, St. John's C. BACHELORS OF ARTS. John Netherton Edwards, Worcester Coll. Grand Comp. Thomas Furnivall, Queen's Coll. Henry Rogers, Jesus Coll. Robert Blagden Hall, Corpus Christi Coll. Hugh Polson, Exeter Coll. Antony Francis Butler St. Leger, Brasennose Coll. Grand Comp. Joseph Theophilus Toye, Queen's Coll. Charles Croft, Scholar of University Coll. H. Hollingworth Pearson, Lincoln Coll. E. T. B. Twisleton, Schol. of Trinity Coll. William Dod, Magdalen Hall William Duke, Magdalen Hall G. Dunbar Haughton, Worcester Coll. Nathaniel Bond, Oriel Coll. Grand Comp. Henry Blisset, Balliol Coll. William Hunt, Wadham Coll. Albert Mangles, Postmaster of Merton Coll. J. P. Pearce, Queen's Coll. Grand Comp. The names of those candidates, who, at the close of the Public Examinations in Michaelmas Term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the three Classes of Litera Humaniores and Disciplina Mathematica et Physica respectively, according to the alphabetical arrangement in each class prescribed by the statute, stand as follows: In the First Class of Litera Humaniores. Bazeley, Thomas Tyssen, Queen's Coll. Eden, Charles Page, Oriel Coll. Johnson, Herbert, Wadham Coll. Ormerod, T. Johnson, Brasennose Coll. Price, Bonamy, Worcester Coll. Twisleton, E. T. Boyd, Trinity Coll. In the Second Class of Litera Humaniores. Biscoe, Frederick, Christ Church Hughes, Henry, Trinity Coll. Humphreys, Salusbury, Brasennose Coll. Mangles, Albert, Merton Coll. St. Leger, A. F. Butler, Brasennose Coll. Whatley, Thomas Denman, Queen's Coll. Young, John, Corpus Christi Coll. In the Third Class of Literæ Humaniores. Ashe, Edward, Balliol Coll. Owen, Briscoe, Jesus Coll. Parker, Edward, Oriel Coll. Toye, Joseph Theophilus, Queen's Coll. ELECTIONS. CAMBRIDGE. The Rev. John Haymes. B. A. of Clare Hall, has been elected Fellow of that Society. Francis Minoch Randall, Esq. B. A. of St. Peter's College, has been elected a Travelling Bachelor, on the foundation of the late Mr. Worts. PRIZE SUBJECTS. The Vice-Chancellor has issued the following notice : Sidney Lodge, Dec. 15, 1829. I. His Royal Highness the Chancellor being pleased to give annually a third 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 Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the subject for the present year is Byzantium. N. B. These exercises are to be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor on or before March 31, 1830; and are not to exceed 200 lines in length. II. The Representatives in Parliament for this University being pleased to 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, Quantum momenti, ad studium rei Theologica promovendum, habeat literarum humaniorum cultus ? |