The Hon. and Rev. George Pellew, B.D. of Corpus Christi College, Dean of Norwich, has been admitted to the Degree of Doctor in Divinity, Grand Compounder. DOCTORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. W. Wheeler, late Fell. of Magd. Coll. Rev. Thomas Arnold, late Fellow of Oriel Coll. Head Master of Rugby School. BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, By accumulation. Rev. Clement Madeley, Brasennose Coll. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. Edward Burton, late Student of Christ Church, Grand Compounder. Hon. and Rev. George Pellew, Corpus Christi College, Grand Compounder. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. James Buckingham, St. Mary Hall, Grand Compounder. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. John Hinckley, St. Mary Hall. Rev. Thomas Hornby, Brasennose Coll. Rev. John Barton, St. Mary Hall. Edward Lowth Badeley, Brasennose Coll. Rev. C. Verney Shuckburgh, Trinity Coll. Rev. William Scarbrough, Christ Church. Rev. Francis C. Alderman, Exeter Coll. Rev. William Badnall, Brasennose Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Henry Griffin, Queen's Coll. Philip de Malpas Egerton, Christ Church. T. Morton Gosling, Schol. of Brasenn. Coll. Richard Walker Thomlinson, Univers. Coll. John James, Queen's Coll. Isaac Urban Cooke, St. Edmund Hall. Alexander Reuben Mangin, Alban Hall. Thomas Mozley, Oriel Coll. Todd Thomas Jones, Oriel Coll. JL 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, An putandum sit posthac fore ut gentes Meridionales sub Septentrionalium viribus iterum succumbant? (2) For the Undergraduates, Utrùm apud Græcos Poeta an familiaris sermonis scriptores plus effecerint ad virtutem promovendam et mores emolliendos? N. B. These exercises are to be sent in on or before April 30, 1829. III. Sir William 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 (1) For the Greek Ode, νήσων, Αιγαίῃ ὅσαι εἶν άλὶ ναιετάουσι. (2) For the Latin Ode, Cesar, consecutus cohortes ad Rubiconem flumen, qui provinciæ ejus finis erat, paulùm constitit. (3) For the Greek Epigram, σκότον δεδορκώς. (4) For the Latin Epigram, N. B. These exercises are to be sent in on or before April 30, 1829. The Greek Ode is not to exceed twenty-five, and the Latin Ode thirty stanzas. IV. The Porson prize is the interest of 400%. 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 Degrees conferred. The degree of Doctor in Divinity has been conferred on the Rev. Gilbert Ainslie, Master of Pembroke College, and ViceChancellor, in compliance with the King's Letters mandatory. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. John Brasse, late Fellow of Trin. Coll. HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS. Henry Thomas Hope, Trinity Coll. MASTER OF ARTS. Henry Courtney, Queen's Coll. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW. Alex. Edmund Cockburn, Fell. of Trin. Hall. Rev. George Ranking, Christ Coll. Rev. Joseph Charles Badeley, C. c. c. BACHELOR IN PHYSIC. Henry Charles Duckle, Queen's Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Martin John Lloyd, St. John's Coll. COMBINATION PAPER, 1829. Jan. 4. Coll. Joh. 11. Mr. Perkins, Pet. 25. Mr. Hughes, C. C. Feb. 1. Mr. Mantell, Em. 8. Coll. Regal. 15. Coll. Trin. 22. Coll. Joh. Mar. 1. Mr. Dowell, Pet. 8. Mr. Taylor, Cath. 12. Coll. Joh. "A. ." and "U. Y." on Gen. iv. 1, if possible, in our next. "A Churchman's" proposal shall be attended to. "A Woman," as she will see, is anticipated. Arrangements may possibly be made to meet the wishes of "W. M." Some few of our friends, however, do not concur in his opinion. "R. P." is necessarily deferred till the proper season. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. FEBRUARY, 1829. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. I.—The Last Days: a Discourse on the Evil Character of these our Times, proving them to be the "Perilous Times" of the "Last Days." By the Rev. EDWARD IRVING, A. M. Minister of the National Scotch Church, Regent Square. London, 1828. 8vo. 12s. bds. WE solemnly assure Mr. Irving that we have read his Discourse, however he may be pleased to doubt the truth of our assertion; and though he has expressed himself with peculiar bitterness against the periodical writers of the religious world, as "ill discharging the office of chroniclers to the church" (p. 474); as replete with "uncharitable severities, and the unprofitable memoirs of unprofitable persons, and the condemnation of books neither reviewed nor read by those who judge them" (p. 475); as men who "modestly, timidly, and humbly hide their names, and under the appearance of lambs conceal the rage of the lion, and the cruelty of the tiger" (p. 434); as "triflers in Reviews and Magazines," of whom it is said that "they are as ripe at twenty as they are at forty," and that "at sixty they are generally dead" (p. 462); as mere "babes," the whole of whose religious ideas might be set down "within the compass of a page" (p. 266); yea, though our author have emptied the vials of his contempt upon all our tribe, as "mighty men without a name, flooding the world with an unfathered progeny" (p. 367); as "strange children, whose tongues are a sharp sword, and whose right hand is a right hand of violence, and over whose wrath, and envy, and evil-speaking he could even weep" (p. 265): we freely forgive him this wrong, and confess ourselves ready to sit in judgment upon his elaborate Discourse, unbiassed by anything like wounded pride, or vindictive remembrance of contumelious aspersions. The present work contains seventeen sermons, from 2 Tim. iii. 1—6, in which it is attempted to prove that the present are the "perilous times of the last days," for that they are characterized by all the signs which are enumerated by St. Paul in the text. Those of our readers who are acquainted with the characteristic powers of the Minister of the National Scotch Church, will have perceived that the subject of his present Discourse is but little suited to his talents. He seems to riot in the maddest orgies of declamation. His style, redeemed, indeed, by occasional beauties, (an oasis in the desert,) is flowery, bombastic, and unchaste. His arguments, though sometimes ingenious, are often inconclusive. His oration wears the aspect of a violent Philippic, in which he has summoned his imagination to accumulate upon the devoted head of his victim every possible crimination, without regard to truth, hoping to gain a verdict by the multiplicity rather than the establishment of his charges, and appealing to the passions rather than to the reason of his hearers. If we give him credit for zeal, we must yet deny him the better palm of wisdom; and though we take pleasure in confessing that our author has sometimes satisfied us with maxims of religion, morals, and politics, orthodox, scriptural, and sound; we are bound to enter our decided and solemn protest against the many alarming and unwarrantable (not to say blasphemous) crudities which disgrace his pages. He may advocate the frightful dogmata, which are peculiar to Calvin, (many pious and learned theologians have embraced his uncomfortable creed;)- he may shoot the poisoned arrows of his malice against the conductors of the periodical press, (for "the galled jade will wince"); he may utter unmeaning panegyrics upon the barren land of his nativity, (" dulces reminiscitur Argos"); -he may dedicate his labours to "William Dinwiddie," or to "William Hamilton," with fulsome acknowledgments of gratitude, and proud confessions of humility; he may boast of the "honour" of having preached the Gospel (Dedication, p. 9) "to every rank and degree of men, from the lowest, basest of our press hirelings, up to the right hand of royalty itself;"-these expressions of his faith, this ebullition of his wrath, this stirring of patriotic affection, this payment of his debts of gratitude,—this advertisement of his popularity, uncourted, it should seem, and short-lived,--we pass by without a comment. Not so with those mischievous errors, which would rob us of our best hopes, and degrade the holy character of our pure and blessed Redeemer! We are indignant, and we own it too, that this Caledonian enthusiast should be imported hither, not only to decry the manners and the principles, the discipline and the doctrine, the science and the pursuits of "all sorts and conditions of men," but also to impugn the humanity of the sinless offspring of the virgin mother of Christ! The vile notion that our immaculate Saviour "took upon him our fallen, sinful nature," is no tenet surely of the Kirk of Scotland, is expressly renounced by the Church of England,—is in flat contradiction to the testimony of Holy Writ, and is utterly subversive of the vicarious mediation of that |
