take place on Thursday the 13th of June. Candidates must be natives of the Province of Canterbury, who have attained the full age of 15, and have not exceeded the age of 20 years; and, if Members of the University, must not have been matriculated longer than twelve calendar months.

Certificates of baptism, testimonials, &c. must be delivered to the Provost of the said College, on or before Saturday, the 8th of June.

On Thursday last, Mr. H. Shepheard, of Merton, was elected Scholar of Worcester, on the Foundation of Dr. G. Clarke.

On Thursday last, the following degrees

were conferred :

Masters of Arts-Henry James Hoskins, University; Digby Latimer, Lincoln; Rev. John Rudman Drake, Ch. Ch. ; Rev. William Hutton, Queen's; William Nash Skillicorne, Worcester.

Bachelors of Arts-R. Rothwell, Brasennose, (grand comp.); D. T. Williams, New Inn Hall; J. H. Sharwood, St. Edmund Hall; M. T. Dupree, Lincoln; H. B. Carr, University; J. D. Clark, University; W. Cartwright, University; W. E. Surtees, University; Hon. J. Hewitt, Ch. Ch.; Hon. W. H. Dawnay, Ch. Ch.; Hon. R. C. Boyle, Ch. Ch. ; F. G. Hopwood, Ch. Ch.; J. D. Drake, Brasennose; J. Drake, Brasennose; G. Coltman, Brasennose; W. E. Rooke, Brasennose; G. B. Sandford, Brasennose; R. J. Dawes, Worcester; E. M. Crossfield, Magdalen Hall; W. C. Sole, Wadham; F. H. L. Warner, Balliol; F. A. Marriott, Oriel; W. H. P. Carew, Oriel; J. L. Ross, Oriel; T. B. Powell, Jesus; J. Philipps, Jesus; J. A. Bishop, Jesus; T. B. Ferris, Trinity.

On Monday last, certain alterations in the statutes, by which the Latin Sermon, usually preached by all Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity, will, for the future, be dispensed with, were unanimously agreed to.

"SHEWETH,

They are of opinion that the suppression of sees, and of parochial cures, will necessarily invade the rights, and impair the efficiency of the Protestant Establishment in Ireland.

"That the sale of perpetuities in church lands will convert a real estate into a revenue precarious and unsubstantial; and may eventually lead to an entire alienation of funds set apart by the piety of our ancestors for the diffusion of religious knowledge through the ministration of the clergy.

"Finally, your Petitioners beg leave to represent to your Honourable House their deliberate and firm conviction that these measures, if carried into effect, will inevitably shake the stability of all property whatsoever, and render its tenure insecure.

"Most anxiously and earnestly, therefore, do they pray that the proposed Bill may not pass into a law.

"And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. "Given at our House of Convocation, under our Common Seal, this 30th of April, in the year of our Lord 1833.

Preachers Rev. Dr. Nolan, Exeter, Bimpton Lecture, Sunday morning, at St. Mary's; Rev. Mr. Oakeley, Balliol, afternoon, at ditto; Rev. Mr. Ley, Ascension Day, at Christ Church.

May 18.

Exeter College. An election will take place in this College on Monday, the 10th of June, to Two Scholarships,-one open to all persons who have not passed the examination for the Degree of B. A., without any further restriction; the other open to persons who are natives of Devonshire, or who have been educated at any school in the county.-Candidates are required to signify their intention to the Rector on or before the 4th of June.

Worcester College. There will be an Election of a Scholar on the Foundation of Mrs. Sarah Eaton, on Wednesday, the 12th of June.

Candidates are required to deliver to the Provost, or to the Senior Fellow in College, on or before the Saturday previous to the election, certificates, signed by the bishops of their respective dioceses, by the ministers of their parishes, and by two or more respectable inhabitants of the same, "that they are sons of clergymen of the church of England, and want assistance to support them at the University.”

The Regius Professor of Divinity has given notice that his public Lectures will be delivered to the Candidates for Holy Orders, beginning on Monday next, the 20th of May: his private Lectures are postponed till Michaelmas Term.

On Monday last, the following gentlemen were elected Students of Christ Church from Westminster :-Mr. William Charles Fynes

Webber, Mr. Robert Hickson, and Mr. W. Goodenough Penny.

On Thursday last, Mr. Erroll Hill, Scholar of New College, was admitted an Actual Fellow of that Society.

On Wednesday last, the following Degrees were conferred :--

Masters of Arts-W. Cayley, Ch. Ch., (grand comp.); H. H. Evans, Magdalen Hall; R. J. Gould, Wadham; Rev. E. Rolles, Pembroke.

Bachelors of Arts-N. Kendall, New Inn Hall; R. Smith, Ch. Ch.; C. T. Cunningham, Ch. Ch. ; A. Hayton, Queen's; H. Herbert, Balliol; H. Drummond, Balliol; J. P. Hugo, Wadham; W. Morgan, Wadham; A. F. Wynter, St. John's.

Preachers at St. Mary's-Rev. Dr. Nolan, Exeter, Bampton Lecture. Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Stone, Brasennose, afternoon.

May 25.

Exeter College.-There will be an election in this College on the 30th of June to a Fellowship, founded for natives of the county of Devon, who at the time of their election shall be of at least two years' standing in the University. Candidates are required to signify their intention to the Rector on or before the 25th of June.

Preachers at St. Mary's-Rev. Mr. Denison, Merton, Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Richards, Exeter, afternoon; Rev. Mr. Churton, Brasennose, Whit Monday; Rev. Mr. Perkins, Brasennose, Whit Tuesday; Rev. Mr. Evans, Jesus, Latin Sermon, 29th inst., at nine o'clock; Rev. the Principal of St. Mary Hall, the Restoration, at half-past ten.

Rev. the

Preachers at St. Martin's Rector, Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Brown, afternoon.

Bachelors of Arts-W. Bond Clements, Trinity (compounder); G. E. Clarke, Trin.; W. Hughes, Trinity; W. Palin, Trinity; E. Batchelor, Trinity; C. Onslow, Trinity; W. S. Bucknill, Trinity; J. K. Smythies, Trinity; L. Gregory, Trinity; W. Hughes, St. John's; H. R. Francis, St. John's; C. Cookson, St. John's; J. W. Skelton, St. Peter's; J. Leach, Pembroke; T. K. Bowyear, Caius; H. G. Hopkins, Caius; S. F. Montgomery, Corpus Christi; W. J. Irwin, Queen's (compounder);

D. Pugh, Catharine Hall; A. B. Power, Catharine Hall; J. Mitton, Jesus.

At the same congregation the following grace passed the Senate:-"To carry into effect the alterations in the Iron Fence of the Senate-house yard, recommended in the Report of the Syndics read to the Senate, March 27, 1833."

A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, the President, being in the chair. Among the presents announced to the Society, were various objects of Natural History from China, given by Mr. Vachell. A communication from Professor Miller was read, containing an account of some experiments made by him in conjunction with Professor Daniell, of King's College, London. Sir David Brewster announced, at the last meeting of the British Association, the discovery of a series of fixed lines in the spectrum formed by light that had been transmitted through nitrous acid gas. Professors Miller and Daniel obtained a similar result when the light of a gas-lamp was passed through a jar filled with vapours of Bromine, Iodine, and Enchlorine. The vapours of Chlorine and Indigo were not found to produce such lines. After the meeting, Mr. Whewell explained some of the difficulties which had attended his researches concerning cotidal lines.

May 3.

On Thursday, James Dalziel Simpson, Esq., B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, was elected Mathematical Lecturer of that Society.

S. G. Fawcett, Esq., B.A. of Magdalene College, has been elected a Fellow of that Society.

The

THE PITT PRESS.-This elegant building having been completed, Tuesday last was appointed for the Vice-Chancellor to receive the key from the Marquess Camden and other members of the Pitt Committee. deputation was composed of the following noblemen and gentlemen:-The Most Noble John Jeffreys, Marquess of Camden, K.G., (Chairman); Rt. Hon. John Charles, Earl of Clarendon; Rt. Hon. Dudley, Earl of Harrowby; Rt. Hon. Charles, Lord Farnborough, G.C.B.; Rt. Hon. Sir G. H. Rose, G.C.H.; Henry Bankes, Esq.; Samuel Thornton, Esq.

A congregation was held in the Senate-house at eleven o'clock, when the following Degrees were conferred :

Doctors in Civil Law-Earl of Clarendon; Earl of Harrowby; Lord Farnborough; Sir George Rose.

Honorary Master of Arts-Lord Alford, Magdalene College.

A procession was then formed, which was very extensive, consisting of nearly all the members at present resident in the university.

Having arrived at the building, the Marquess Camden and the other noblemen proceeded into the grand entrance hall; and having invited the Vice-Chancellor to the door, his Lordship, after an appropriate address, presented him with the key of the building; upon

receiving which the rev. gent. made a suitable reply.

At the conclusion of the Vice-Chancellor's speech, the deputation, and a considerable number of the members of the university, passed through the entrance-hall to an ante-room at the foot of the principal staircase, where a handsome printing-press had been fixed for the occasion, in order to give the noble Marquis an opportunity of printing off a copy of the following inscription, (inserted on the foundation stone, which was laid in Nov. 1831,) upon vellum, for his own preservation:

This Copy of the Inscription for the PITT PRESS was struck off by the most noble JoUN JEF FREYS, MARQUESS CAMDEN, on the 30th day of April, 1833; when his Lordship, as Chairman of the Pitt Committee, delivered up the key of this splendid building to the REV. WIL LIAM WEBB, D.D., Vice-Chancellor of this University.

Each of the other noblemen and gentlemen of the committee struck off a copy for themselves, their own name being substituted; instead also of reading "when his Lordship," the words were altered to "when the Marquis Camden, as chairman," &c.

Their Lordships, the Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and other gentlemen then passed up into the very elegant Syndic-room, where they partook of a handsome cold collation, given by the Press Syndicate; and afterwards returned to the Senate house.

In the evening the noble Lords, and a party of nearly forty gentlemen, were sumptuously entertained by the Vice-Chancellor, in the hall of Clare Hall.

On Wednesday the same noble Lords dined in the hall of Trinity College, with a very large party. In the course of the evening, we understand, many eloquent and appropriate speeches were delivered, and received with every mark of approbation.

Throughout the whole proceedings on this interesting occasion, it has been very gratifying to remark, that persons of all political feelings have appeared most anxious to testify their sense of the character of the great stitesman with whose name they are associated.

VOL. III.-June, 1833.

May 10.

The Chancellor's Medal for the best English poem, was on Wednesday last adjudged to Clement B. Hue, of Trinity College. Subject, Delphi.

The admirable portrait of the late Professor Porson, by Hoppier, has been presented to the University Library, by Mrs. Esther Raine, of Richmond, Yorkshire. It is considered the chef d'œuvre of the painter, and an excellent likeness.

At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred :—

Doctor in Physic-C. M. Lemann, Trinity. Masters of Arts-C. Merivale, St. John's; C. Clarke, St. John's; T. J. Roe, Sidney; Rev R. Hornby, Downing (compounder).

Bachelors of Arts-M. B. Beevor, Pemb.; J. B. Edwards, Jesus; S. F. Pemberton, Sidney; T. Yorke, Queen's.

At the same congregation the following graces passed the Senate:

To transfer from the common stock of the University so much stock in the three-per-cent. consols as shall amount to the balance due to the Fitzwilliam Fund, and the amount of the interest due from the University to the said Fund.

To transfer from the common stock of the University the sum of 400l. three-per-cent. consols to the Crane account.

To confirm the regulations proposed in the Report of the Syndicate appointed by grace dated Feb. 18th, 1853, 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.

Rev Dr. Wood, Master of St. John's College, has refused to ratify the appointment of the Rev. J. R. Major, as Master of Stamford School, on the ground that, as visitor, he had a right to be consulted in the cho'ce.

A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, the Rev. George Peacock, one of the Vice-presidents, being in the chair. Several new members were elected, and presents of books &c. announced. A notice was read, containing an account of the conformation and anatomy of a hybrid animal (a lion-tiger) which died in this town, by Mr. Melson, of Trin. Coll. Also a memoir by the Marchese Spineto, on a certain insect which occurs in the hieroglyphics of Egypt; and a memoir by Professor Airy, on Diffraction. In this memoir was noticed an experiment recorded in Newton's "Opticks," where it is stated that a beam of light, passing through a slit formed by two knife edges very near each other, separates into two, so as to leave a black line in the middle of the shadow. By the undulatory theory, the central line ought to be light, and not dark. Professor Airy stated, that in repeated trials he had found no dark central line, and that the same observation had already been made by M. Biot.

May 17.

It is with great concern that we have to announce the death of the Rev. Bewick Bridge, 5 A

of St. Peter's College, in this university, which took place on Wednesday last, at his vicarage at Cherry Hinton, in this county. This amiable and valuable man was a native of Linton, became Senior Wrangler in 1790, was made Fellow of his college, and for some years took a distinguished part in the public examinations of the Senate-house. He was afterwards selected, with other eminent men, and appointed by the East India Company to the new institution of their college; and when his health declined, he was h noured with a testimony of their sense of his important services. He was distinguished for the quickness of his talents, the kindness of his nature, the cheerfulness of his disposition, the warmth of his social affections, the activity of his benevolence, and the steadiness of his ardent, but not obtrusive, piety. He was an admirable man of business, and was a ready and effective member of our charitable and benevolent institutions. Our Savings Bank was mainly indebted for its present existence to his exertions and skill; and his philanthropy was felt by the distant Vaudois. The great character, indeed, of his life, was usefulness; thus his publications were all of an Elementary nature; and when they were successful (his Algebra was highly so), it was evident that he received more pleasure from the letters of schoolmasters, and other instructors of youth, than he would have done from those more splendid testimonies of the philosophic world, to which his mathematical powers tendered him perfectly competent to have aspired. His later years were years of disease; the sufferings of which he bore, in the presence of his friends, with that cheerfulness, not to say gaiety of spirit, that was characteristic of him, and, in secret, with that deep sense of religious duty, which was habitual to him. A few weeks ago, he was brought down to his vicarage to be revived by the spring, but his strength declined; and, humbly trusting in the merits of his Redeemer, and perfectly resigned to the will of his Creator, he gradually expired, in his 67th year, and leaving behind him, among all who knew him, but one common sentiment of affectionate regret and respect.

The Rev. Thomas Fleming, B. A. of Pembroke College, was yesterday elected a Fellow of that society, on Archbishop Grindal's foundation.

A special general meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Wednesday; the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, the President, being in the chair. At this meeting a Seal, executed for that purpose by Mr. Wyon, of the Mint, was declared to be the Seal of the Society agreeably to the charter. The seal represents a figure of Newton, after the statue in Trinity College chapel; with the motto--Societas Philosophica Cantab. Incorp. мDCCCXXXII.

May 24.

Charles James Johnstone, and Richard Norris Russell, Bachelors of Arts, of Genville and Caius College, were on Friday last elected Fellows of that Society on the foundation of Mr. Wortley.

On Tuesday last, James Cartmell, B.A. of Emmanuel College, was elected a Foundation Fellow of Christ's College.

Yesterday William Wigan Harvey, B. A. of King's College, was elected a Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar of the first class; and Wilham Alfred Dawson, B. A. of Christ's Colleze, a Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar of the second class. At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred:

Honorary Master of Arts-Sir Richard Hughes, Trinity.

Masters of Arts-Rev. L. Brown, Clare Hall; Rev. J. Hooper, Corpus Christi; Rev. F. Johnson, Catharine Hall; Rev. J. Penfold, Christ's.

Bachelors of Arts-R. L. Brown. King's; W. Ford, King's; B. E. G.Warburton, Trinity; T. O. Bateman, St. John's; W. G. Tucker, St. Peter's; H. Allen, Pembroke; W. Dakins, Corpus Christi; C. L. F. Kirwan, Corpus Christi; R. K. Bedingfield, Queen's; T. E. Norris, Jesus; J. G. Fardell, Christ's; W. Corfeld, Christ's; T.R. Dickinson, Magdalene; C. Temple, Magdalene; W. Lowe, Magdalene; R. T. Noble, Sidney Sussex; G. Martin, Sidney Sussex.

At the same congregation the following grace passed the S nate:-' -To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Chafy, Dr. French, Mr. Tatham, Professor Musgrave, Mr. Archdall of Emmanuel, and Mr. Hodgson of St. Peter's, a Syndi cate, to consult respecting the Old Printing House and the adjoining premises belonging to the University, and to report before the end of this term.

There will be a congregation this morning, at eleven o'clock, to consider of petitions to the two Houses of Parliament against a bill entituled "A Bill for the relief of His Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.

At a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society on Monday last, the 20th inst., (Dr. Haviland, Vice-President, in the chair,) seven

new Fellows were elected, and the fo low ng communications were read :- On the attraction of spheroids, by G. Green, Esq. In this paper the author presents certain analytical formule, in reference to triple integrals of a more general form than those offered in the attractions of spheroids of arbitrary form and density, and applies them to the problem of the attractions of ellipsoids, so as to comprise the actions on points, internal and external in a common process, by the addition of a positive quantity under the radical sign in the expression for the reciprocal distance between the point acted on and any point of the ellipsoid, which quantity is afterwards made to vanish. A paper was also read by W. Hopkins, Esq., of St. Peter's College, on the determination of the vibratory motion of elastic fluids in tubes of definite length. The author described a series of experiments made by him with a view of subjecting to an experimental test the different solutions which have been given of this problem. The intensity of the vibrations in any part of the tube are indicated to the

An

eye by the motion which those vibrations excite in a delicate membrane, sprinkled with hight sand, and suspended in the tube. The positions of the nodal points, thus determined with great accuracy, are not such as accord with any solution of the problem hitherto given; but it was shewn how all the observed phenomena are accounted for by the assumption of certain physical conditions more general than those assumed by previous writers. experiment was also exhibited by Mr. Hopkins, shewing the effect of the interference of two aerial undulations proceeding in the same direction. The ends of two equal tubes branching off from one common tube are placed close to two ventral segments of a vibrating plate, by which the vibrations are excited in the branch tubes and interfere in the one with which they communicate. If the vibrations proceeding from the two ventral segments be in the same phase the resulting vibration is one of great intensity, but if they are in opposite phases no sensible vibration results from them. The intensity of the vibration is indicated, as above-mentioned, by a membrane which may be stretched over the mouth of the tube.

(Geo.), Mr. Rutherford, Turner, Orr (Alex. S.), Andrews, Young, Willis (Jas.), Baggot, Lee (Wm.), Vickers, McDowell, Mr. Shaw, Sandes, Conway, O'Leary (Cornelius), O'Leary (Goodwin), Hallowell (John W.), Biggs, Kyle (Hallam).

In Lit. Humanioribus-Crawford (Fras.), Schol., Mr. Goold, Turner, Mr. Leader, Bruen, Lee (Wm.), Woodward, Lyons, Mr. Verschoyle (Jas.), Johnston (Benj.), Eccleston, Wrightson, Hickey, Marshall, Callaghan.

PREMIUMS: in Artibus-Drought, Meade, Schol, Dennehy, Purdon (Geo. R.), Schol., Mr. Montgomery, O'Brien, Webb, Finlay, Perry, Kane, Mr. Leader, M'Intire (Richard), Johus, O'Farrell, Edgworth, Jacob, Mr. Synnott. Smith (Richard), Digby (Wm.), Walsh (Albert J.), Battersby (Wm. H.), Higgins, Kyle (John T.), King.

In Lit. Humanioribus-Franks (John), Armstrong (Geo.), Savage, Mr. Massie, MacDonnell (Richard G. ), Acton, Orr (Alex. S.), Makinnon, Wheeler, Mr. Blosse, Hopkins (Robert), Fitzgerald (Gerald), Clement, Cathor, Mullins, Mr. Welsh, Griffin, Wade, O'Leary (Cornelius), Ringwood (Fred.), Ryan, Haines, King.

In Artibus et Lit. Hum.-Nash, Tibbs. The examinations in Trinity Term will commence on the 18th of June.

Pomeroy.

BIRTHS.

Of Sons-The Lady of Rev. H. Richards, Salisbury; of Rev. S. W. Dowell, Shorwell, Isle of Wight; of Rev. J. Gray, Dibden P., Southampton; of Rev. W. Newbolt, Brentwood; of Rev. T. W. Peile, Liverpool; of Rev. G. Pickard, jun., Bloxworth R.; of Rev. W. S. Robinson, Dyrham R., Gloucestershire; of Rev. B. T. Williams, Brampton Abbots, Herefordshire; of Rev. H. Stoneman, Newton St. Petrock P.; of Rev. V. F. Vyvyan, Withiel R.; of Rev. H. R. Crewe, Bredsall R., Derbyshire; of Rev. J. Ashley, Chiton; of Rev. S. Middleton, Lymmington; of Rev. J. Pie cy, Elmley Lovett R.; of Rev. E. Osborne, Blendworth; of Rev. M. Tucker, Honiton.

Of Daughters-The Lady of Rev. J. Spurgeon, Foulsham; of Rev. P. Ewart. Kirkfington R.; of Rev. E. B. Pusey, Christ Church, Oxford; of Rev. J. Morgan, Corston V., of Rev. R. Sankey, Farnham, Surrey; of Rev. J. Hawker, Eldad Place; of Rev. G. Macfarlane, Gainford V.; of Rev. C. J. Crawford, Albourne; of Rev. C. Grant, Bishopwear

mouth; of Rev. E. W. Caulfield, Beckingstoke.

MARRIAGES.

The Rev. C. B. Pearson, r. of Chiddingfold, Surrey, and Preb. of Salisbury, eldest s. of the Dean of Salisbury, to Harriet E., d. of the late J. Pinkerton, Esq.,and niece to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury; Rev. E. Wilson, M.A., Principal of King William's College, in the Isle of Man, to Elizabeth Winch, d. of the Rev. J. Pears, B.C.L., r. of Charlcombe, and Master of the Grammar School, Bath; Rev. G. W, Newnham, M. A., Fell. of Corpus Christi Coll., to Helen M., youngest d. of the late Rev. W. Heath, of Inkberghe, Worcestershire; Rev. W. Hallen, of Dursley, to Mary E., youngest d. of the late D. Weight, Esq., of Clingre; Rev. W. Trivett, r. of Bradwell, Suffolk, to Anne E., second d. of J. Nettleship, Esq., of Tickhill; Rev. Z. J. Edwards, M.A., of Chipstable, near Wiveliscombe, to Charlotte, d. of the late Mr. Andrews, of Yeovil; on the 11th of December last, at the Cathedral Church of Calcutta, by the Lord Bishop, the Rev. J. Bateman, M.A., of Queen's College,