On Sunday, January 4th, the Bishop of Hereford held a private Ordination, when the following gentlemen were ordained: Deacons Mr. Thornton, Christ College, Oxford; Mr. E. H. Daniel, Christ's College, Cambridge; Mr. Graves, and Mr. Philps, Oxford. Priests-Rev. Mr. Cliffe, Dublin; Rev. Mr. Churton, Cambridge. ORDINATION OF MISSIONARIES. The Rev. Thomas H. Applegate, the Rev. Robert Maunsell, and the Rev. William Oakley, were, on the 21st of January, admitted to Priest's Orders by the Lord Bishop of London; and Mr. Charles Henry Blumhardt, Mr. Henry Harley, Mr. John Henry Knoth, Mr. Charles Cæsar Menge, and Mr. Christian Frederick Warth were admitted by his Lordship to Deacon's Orders. VOL. VII.-Feb. 1835. 2 E The Lord Bishop of Exeter intends holding an Ordination in the Cathedral, in that city, on Sunday, the 22nd of February. Candidates are requested to transmit their papers to the Bishop before the 2nd of February. A General Ordination will be holden at the Palace, Salisbury, on Sunday, the 7th day of June next. Candidates for Deacon's Orders, who intend to offer themselves for ordination at that time, are hereby informed that they are to attend at the Palace for their first examination on Tuesday, the 10th day of March next, at ten o'clock in the morning. The candidates may be informed of the books and subjects in which they will be then examined by applying to Edward Davies, Esq., Registry, Close, Salisbury, to whom the following papers are to be sent on or before the 10th day of February next—namely, Nomination to a Cure, (in which is to be inserted the date of the incumbent's institution, and the population of the parish ;) Testimonium, Si quis; Certificate of Age; Certificate of Attendance at Divinity Lectures; and letter from the incumbent stating his reasons for requiring a Curate. N.B. No candidate for Deacon's Orders will be admitted whose title is to extend to more than one church, or to a parish, the population of which exceeds 400 persons, if he is to perform the whole duty, or on a temporary title; and no candidate for either Deacon's or Priest's Orders will be admitted to examination who does not come prepared with a creditable knowledge of the original language of the Old Testament. The requisite papers to be sent in by candidates for Priest's Orders are a Testimonium, Si quis, and Letters of Deacon's Orders, if not ordained Deacon in the diocese of Salisbury; which candidates, as well as the candidates for Deacon's Orders, are to be at the Palace on Tuesday, the 2nd day of June next, at ten o'clock in the morning. Registry, Close, Salisbury, Jan. 10, 1835. Bowstead, J......... Borlase, William......... Evans, W. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS. Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol. Chaplain to Exeter Gaol. Fenwicke, G. Owsley, Vicar of Aston, near Birmingham, a Surrogate for the Diocese Fisher, J. H. Fletcher, William Godfrey, William......... of Lichfield and Coventry. Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol. Green, Charles Stroud... Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford. Halifax, John Saville, Vicar of Melton Mowbray, a Surrogate for the Diocese of Lincoln. Harling, Joseph Howarth, Henry. Master of the Free Grammar School of Prince Henry. Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Buckinghamshire. Chaplain to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Chaplain to Horsham Gaol. Vavasour, Marmaduke, Vicar of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a Surrogate for the Diocese. Domestic Chaplain to Lord Duncannon. Salisbury Cathedral Cookson, J., Winchester. Buckley, John, Friar Lodge, Saddleworth. Cooper, Rev. Sir William Henry, Bart., Isleworth House, Middlesex. Lincoln Vicar of Owstone. Chich. Brasen. Coll., Oxon. Empson, Richard, West Butterwick C. Lincoln Heigham, Henry, Hunston Hall, Suffolk. Jane, W. H. {Treadington R. and Caldicot V. Kenney, R., Ashley Magna, Leicestershire. Malthus, T. R. Wailsby R. ... Monkhouse, Isaac, Holwell R. Nosworthy, S...... Brushford R. Parke, Benjamin, and Preb. of Ely Cath. Warwick Worces. Monmouth Llandaff Jesus Coll., Oxon. The Archbishop of Tuam has appointed the Rev. Mr. Goslin to the Rectory of Ballinrobe, vacant by the resignation of Dean Burgh. His Grace has also appointed the Rev. R. Blundell to the Rectory of Lanesborough, in the diocese of Ardagh. OXFORD. UNIVERSITY NEWS. Saturday, January 10. www. Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting Graces, and conferring Degrees, on the following days in the ensuing Term, viz. :-Jan. Wednesday, the 14th; Thursday, the 22nd.-Feb. Thursday, the 5th; Thursday, the 19th; Thursday, the 26th.-March, Thursday, the 5th; Thursday, the 12th; Thursday, the 19th; Thursday, the 26th.April, Thursday, the 2nd; Saturday, the 11th. -No person will, on any account, be admitted as a Candidate for the Degree of B.A. or M. A. or for that of B.C.L., without proceeding through Arts, whose name is not entered in the book kept for that purpose, at the ViceChancellor's house, on or before the day preceding the day of Congregation. On Tuesday, March 3, a Congregation will be holden, as provided in the Dispensation for intermitting the Forms and Exercises of Determination, solely for the purpose of receiving from the Deans or other Officers of their respective Colleges or Halls, the names of such Bachelors of Arts as have not yet determined: and their names having been so signified to the House, and thereupon inserted in the Register of Congregation, they may at any time in the same, or in any future Term, be admitted to all the rights and privileges to which they would have been entitled by the intermitted forms and exercises. **And every Bachelor of Arts is desired to take notice, that unless he has proceeded to that Degree on or before Thursday, February 26, his name cannot be inserted in the Register of Congregation during the present year. January 17. On Thursday, the 8th inst., a Convocation was holden for the purpose of electing two Burgesses to represent the University in Parliament, when, after the usual preliminaries had been gone through, T. G. B. Estcourt, D.C.L. of Corpus Christi College, and Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. D.C.L. of Ch. Ch., were unanimously elected. The former was proposed by the President of Corpus, the latter by the Very Rev. the Dean of Ch. Ch. On Wednesday last, being the first day of Lent Term, the following Degrees were conferred: Masters of Arts-C. Thornton, Ch. Ch., grand comp.; Rev. G. S. Menteath, Magdalen Hall; Rev. J. G. Lawford, Wadham; J. H. T. Allen, Brasennose; Rev. H. Jelly, St. Alban Hall. Bachelors of Arts-J. A. Harvey, St. Edmund Hall; E. W. Pears, Demy of Magdalen College. January 22. Corpus Christi College.-An Election will be held in this College, on Friday, February 27, of Two Scholars, one from the county of Wilts, and one on Frost's foundation. All persons are eligible who are natives of the above county, and who may not have exceeded their 19th year on the day of the Election. All candidates must appear personally before the President on the 21st day of February, and must produce certificates of the marriage of their parents, and of their own baptism; an His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, High Steward of this University, has been pleased to appoint John Lodge Hubbersty, Esq., Senior Fellow of Queen's College, as his Deputy. On Wednesday last, the Hulsean prize was adjudged to Mr. Wm. N. Curtis, of Catharine Hall, for his dissertation on the following subject:-"How far the political circumstances of the Jewish nation were favourable to the introduction and diffusion of the Christian Religion." The subject of the Seatonian prize poem for the present year is “Ishmael." The select preacher at St. Mary's Church, for the present month, is the Rev. Charles Lawson, of St. John's College. On Wednesday, the 24th ult., the Rev. G. Otter, M.A., was presented by the Lord Bishop of Norwich to the perpetual curacy of All Saints, in Newmarket. January 9. On Tuesday last, the Rt. Hon. C. M. Sutton and the Rt. Hon. Henry Goulburn were unanimously elected Representatives of this University in the ensuing Parliament. On Wednesday week, the Rev. Henry Howarth, B.D., was elected Hulsean Lecturer for the year ensuing. The following is the subject for the Hulsean prize dissertation for the present year:-"The resemblance between Moses and Christ is so very great and striking that it is impossible to consider it fairly and carefully, without seeing and acknowledging that He must be foretold where He is so well described." 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, with Abbott, Pemb. Barber, Joh. Beadon, Joh. Berkeley, Jesus Bishop, Joh. Bradstreet, Emm. Burnet, Trin. Clarke, Pemb. Clarke, E., Trin. Claydon, Trin. Coape, Christ's Cooper, Queen's Cooper, J., Trin. Curtes, Joh. Coventry, Emm. Darwall, Trin. Davidson, Clare. Davis, Corpus Drake, Joh. Dunn, Trin. Ellison, Trin. Etty, Joh. Eyre, Cath. Ferguson, Trin. Fox, Queen's Forrest, Queen's Garvey, Emm. Gibbons, Joh. Girdlestone, Trin. Hutchinson, Joh. Kempe, Joh. |