OXFORD.

Ashmolean Society, Oct. 31.-President in the chair. T. S. Davies, Esq. F. R. S. L. and E. and Professor at the R. M. Academy, Woolwich, was elected an honorary member.-A handsome set of the "Dictionnaire de l'Histoire Naturelle" was received as a present from Sir Joseph Lock.-Mr. Johnson, of Queen's Coll., read a Paper on the cause of motion in Plants. -An anonymous Paper was read on a singular optical phenomenon.-The Secretary gave a short account of his researches on the Achromatism of the Eye.

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Saturday, November 1.

In a Convocation holden on Thursday last, the Rev. Ashurst T. Gilbert, D.D., Principal of Brasennose, was nominated (and the nomination approved) a Delegate of Accounts, in the room of Mr. Ogilvie, of Balliol, resigned.

In a Congregation holden the same day, the following Degrees were conferred:

Masters of Arts-E. Vernon, Ch. Ch., grand comp.; Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, Fellow of All Souls'; F. L. Popham, Fellow of All Souls'; Rev. T. Goodson, Worcester; J. Cannon, Magdalen Hall.

Bachelors of Arts-T. Butler, Demy of Magdalen; W. B. Holland, Wadham; H. N. T. Busfield, Worcester; W. P. Prendergast, Trinity.

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

November 8.

On Monday last, Charles Walter Bagot, B. A. Student of Christ Church, (third son of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford,) was elected to a Fellowship of All Souls' College.

On Wednesday last, Mr. John Price, from Winchester School, was admitted Actual Fellow of New College, being of kin to the founder.

Ashmolean Society, Nov. 14.-The following gentlemen were elected members :-E. Thornton, Esq., B.A. Ch. Ch.; Rev. T. Pearson, M.A. Queen's; M. Atkinson, Esq., B. A. Lincoln College.-A Paper was read by the Secretary on the repulsion produced between bodies by heat.-A Paper was read by Mr. Twiss, of University College, on the Grotto Blû in the Island of Capri: illustrated with drawings.The following query was proposed by a member-Are there any proofs of the generally received opinion that the component parts of living animals are constantly changing?

November 15.

In a Congregation holden on Thursday last, the following Degrees were conferred :

Masters of Arts-H. Norris, Balliol, grand comp.; Rev. W. S. Richards, Scholar of Jesus; N. B. Young, Fellow of New College; Rev. G. Murray, Magdalen Hall,

Bachelors of Arts-R. Richardson, Brasennose, grand comp.; J. Pell, Exeter, grand comp.; Lord T. P. Clinton, Ch. Ch.; Lord C. P. Clinton, Ch. Ch. ; H. E. Bell, University C. R. Pettat, University; R. Crosse, Balliol; D. Brice, Queen's; W. J. Irons, Queen's; J. Aldersey, Queen's; R. Cole, Queen's; G. Marsland, Brasennose; H. Knowles, Brasennose; J. D. Matthias, Brasennose; Rev. N. Oxenham, Fellow of Exeter; R. E. Copleston, Fellow of Exeter; C. Cobbe, Exeter; R. H. Jackson, Jesus; J. Morris, Jesus; B. Rees, Jesus; J. Parry, Jesus; J. B. Alexander, Trinity; C. M. Leir, Trinity; G. A. Payne, Pembroke; W. W. C. Hayward, Oriel; R. Mudge, Oriel; J. C. Savage, Oriel; R. P. Allen, Magdalen Hall; D. C. J. Cookes, Worcester; W. Holden, Worcester; H. Woodward, Worcester.

In the same Congregation, the Rev. J. W. Hughes, M.A. of Trinity College, was nominated by the Vice-Chancellor to be one of the Clerks of the Market, in the room of the late Mr. Brown, of Magdalen College.

In a Convocation holden yesterday, Mr. F. Rogers, B. A. and Fellow of Oriel, was unanimously elected to a Scholarship on the Vinerian Foundation, vacant by the death of Mr. Povah, of St. John's.

On Monday last, Mr. Hugh Jones, of Jesus College, was elected a Scholar of that Society.

On Thursday last, Mr. John Burdon, B.Á. of University College, was elected and admitted a Scholar on the Michel Foundation at Queen's College.

We have heard, to our great regret, that on Monday last, in the University of Oxford, it was determined by the Heads of Colleges and Halls, at their weekly meeting, to propose in Convocation a repeal of the University statute requiring every member above sixteen years of age to signify, by subscription, his assent to the Thirty-nine Articles. We conclude, but do not know for certain, that some vague declaration of conformity is to be substituted for this subscription. But be that as it may, the bare fact of such a compromise with the spirit of the age being made at this moment, and after all that has passed on the subject, must fill every true churchman, and especially every Oxford man, with many sad and foreboding thoughts. We will at present only just mention one simple, but, as we think, most weighty consideration. It was only last April when, churchmen in aid of the Oxford Declaration all England over, an appeal was made to against Mr. Wood's tyrannical bill, of which declaration the substance was, that the Heads of Houses and others, concerned in religious education at Oxford, thought it their duty, and were fully "determined" to "maintain their present system inviolate to the utmost of their power." And now, in November, these same Heads of Houses have discovered that the very groundwork of their system (for such the

subscription at matriculation is) is faulty, or injudicious, or unseasonable, or what not; and had better be changed to suit the House of Commons. For let people explain and modify as they will, it will be impossible to convince so much as one in a hundred that anything else is the true motive for such a sudden retractation of a purpose so recently and so solemnly expressed. What, then, becomes of the high character for inflexible courage and downright integrity of meaning, which Oxford has hitherto, by the blessing of God, maintained?which character to the University herself is everything, and to the very church of England a safeguard as important as any on earth. The character of Oxford will be gone; and who in the world, but those who are paid for it, will then care for her privileges and endowments? One comfort is, that it yet rests with the members of Convocation to negative this (to speak tenderly) most ill-advised measure. We trust that they will do so by a majority of hands, and by so doing maintain for their University that place in the confidence and affection of true churchmen, which the proceedings of last summer had, as we hoped, secured to her for a long time to come.-St. James's Chronicle.

November 22.

Yesterday, Mr. Robert Blackburne, B.A. Scholar of Balliol College, was chosen a Fellow of Brasennose College.

In a congregation holden on Thursday last, the following Degrees were conferred :

Masters of Arts-Rev. J. Salt, Balliol, grand comp.; Rev. C. D. Strong, Magdalen Hall; Rev. J. F. S. Phabayn, Queen's; Rev. W. Laxton, Trinity; Rev. A. M. Bennett, Worcester; Rev. W. J. Heale, Wadham.

Bachelors of Arts-J. Sidney, Brasennose; C. E. Radclyffe, Brasennose; R. Moore, Ch. Ch.; W. G. Ward, Scholar of Lincoln; W. West, Scholar of Lincoln; N. Pocock, Exhibitioner of Queen's; E. H. Dewar, Exeter; J. Garnier, Exeter; A. Lowth, Exeter; J. B. Morris, Balliol; R. Sleeman, Balliol; A. F. J. Foster, Trinity; H. J. F. Coxe, Fellow of St. John's; T. Brancker, Scholar of Wadham; W. W. Cooper, Wadham; T. Blencowe, Wadham; J. P. Clarke, Worcester; H. Le Grand Boyce, Worcester.

Joseph Phillimore, D.C.L. of Christ Church, Professor of Civil Law, and Chancellor of this Diocese, has been appointed by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, Vicar General and Official Principal of the Consistory Court and diocese of Worcester, void by the resignation of the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner, who has been promoted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Judgeship of his Grace's Prerogative Court.

On Tuesday last, Sir Walter Buchanan Riddell, Bart., M.A., Gentlemen-Commoner of Christ Church, was called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn.

CAMBRIDGE.

Friday, Oct. 31.

The King's Professor of the Civil Law will commence his course of Lectures on Thursday next, the 6th Nov. The course occupies a

portion of three terms, and is usually completed

about the division of the Easter term.

At a Congregation on Wednesday last, the following Degrees were conferred :—

Masters of Arts-J. Wrey, St. Peter's; B. S. Ffinch, Trinity; W. R. Payne, St. John's; R. J. Tennant, Trinity; G. S. Cantley, Pembroke.

Bachelors of Arts-E. L. Smith, St. John's; R. Hodgson, Trinity.

At the same Congregation a grace passed the Senate to confirm the following Report:

The Syndicate appointed to take such steps on the part of the University as they may think necessary respecting the Nine Wells, beg leave to recommend to the Senate, that a sum not exceeding 150l. be placed at the disposal of the Vice-Chancellor for the purchase and inclosure of land in the neighbourhood of Nine Wells, under the Shelford Inclosure Act.

At the same Congregation the following Graces passed the Senate:

1. To allow the Vice-Chancellor, from the University chest, the sum of 34l. 4s. 6d., the amount of the fees paid for Sir David Brewster's degree, in June, 1833, and omitted to be brought forward at the time.

2. Cum in gratia a vobis concessa de admissione ad respondendum quæstioni 25to die Martii, 1833, exceptio facta est pro iis, qui honores adepti fuerint, in Examinatione publicà mense Januarii 1834-placeat vobis ut eadem exceptio concedatur in Examinatione mense Januarii 1835.

The Seatonian prize poem was, on Saturday last, adjudged to the Rev. T. E. Hankinson, of Corpus Christi College-Subject, Jacob.

On Wednesday last, the Rev. R. Murphy, M. A., Perse Fellow of Caius College, and the Rev. Charles Eyres, B. A., were elected Junior Fellows of that Society; also A. Ellice, Esq., B.A., was elected a Perse Fellow.

The Earl of Compton, eldest son of the

Marquis of Northampton; Lord Haddo, eldes

son of the Earl of Aberdeen; the Hon. G. W. Lyttleton, eldest son of Lord Lyttleton; the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, and the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, have been admitted of Trinity College during the present term.

November 7.

The Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College have given notice that, in the week after the admission of the commencing Bachelors, 1835, there will be an examination, open to candidates from any college in the university, for two mathematical exhibitioners on Mr. One exhibitioner will Taylor's foundation. be elected from those Undergraduates who, in the ordinary course, would become Commenc ing Bachelors of Arts in January, 1896; the other from those who would become Com

mencing Bachelors in January, 1837. The exhibitioners are to receive at least 50l. per annum each, and to have rooms in college rent free; if elected from another college they will be required to move to Sidney on their election. The examination will be confined to MATHEMATICS only. Those Undergraduates who intend to offer themselves as candidates are required to send in their names and testimonials, with a certificate of the terms they have kept, to the Master of Sidney Sussex college, on or before the last day of the present term.

Election of Vice-Chancellor.-The election of Vice-Chancellor for the ensuing year took place, as usual, on Tuesday last, in the SenateHouse, and no one seemed to expect that there would have been anything but the regular order of proceeding-viz., the election according to rotation. Upon the assembling, however, of the members of the Senate, at ten o'clock, it appeared that the heads of houses, in whom is vested the nomination of two fit and proper persons to serve the office, had, on the previous day, nominated the Rev. Dr. French, Master of Jesus college, and the Rev. Dr. Ainslie, Master of Pembroke college; the order of seniority being, Dr. French, Dr. Lamb, and Dr. Ainslie. It seemed to be thought by a portion of the members of the senate, that the passing over of Dr. Lamb, which is indeed an unusual proceeding, was in the highest degree illiberal, and consequently, without the consent of Dr. Ainslie, they placed him in the position of an opponent, and endeavoured to prevent the election of Dr. French. After several hours' voting, the numbers were declared, for Dr. French 73, for Dr. Ainslie 35. The anniversary meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, for the election of officers, was held yesterday, when the following gentlemen were elected for the ensuing year:J. King, Esq., President of Queen's college, reelected President. Dr. Clark, Trinity; Prof. Airy, Trinity; Prof. Miller, St. John's, VicePresidents. Rev. G. Peacock, Trinity, Treasurer. Rev. W. Whewell, Trinity; Rev. J. S. Henslow, St. John's; Rev. J. Lodge, Magdalene, re-elected Secretaries. Rev. R. Willis, Caius; Dr. Bond, Corpus Christi; Rev. J. Bowstead, Corpus Christi; W. Hopkins, Esq. Peterhouse; Rev. T. Chevalier, Cath. hall; Rev. I. Hymers, St. John's, Old Council. Prof. Sedgwick, Trinity; Dr. Haviland, St. John's; Rev. J. J. Smith, Caius; Rev. S. Earnshaw, St. John's, New Council.

The select preacher at St. Mary's for the present month, is the Rev. Hugh James Rose, of Trinity college.

Wednesday last, being the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, a sermon was preached by the Rev. the Master of Christ's college, from the 11th chapter of Hebrews, latter part of 26th verse-" For he had respect unto the recompense of the reward."

On the 3rd inst., Benedict Lawrence Chapman, B. A. of Jesus college, was elected a Fellow of that society.

The office of Hulsean Lecturer being vacant, the trustees of Mr. Hulse's benefactions have given notice that they propose to proceed to the election of a lecturer, on Wednesday the 31st of December.

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

Bachelor in Divinity-Rev. W. K. Clay, Jesus college.

Licentiates in Physic-R. W. Rothman, M.A., Fellow of Trinity; R. Spear, Caius. Master of Arts-W. Curling, Trinity. Bachelor of Physic-G. Budd, Fellow of Caius.

Bachelors of Arts-S. T. Warrington, St Peter's; H. Robinson, Trinity hall; F. J. B. Hooper, Christ's; G. Walter, Sidney Sussex.

At the same congregation the Rev. D. Stephens, B.A. of Exeter college, Oxford, was incorporated M.A. of Magdalene college, in this University; and the Rev. Thomas Edmondes, of Jesus college, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this University.

At the same congregation the following graces passed the senate:

To confer the degree of D. D. upon Mr. Hawtrey, of King's college by royal mandate.To appoint Mr. C. Wordsworth, of Trinity, M. Blakesley, of Trinity, Mr. Hildyard, of St. Peter's, and Mr. W. Selwyn of St. John's, Examiners for the Classical Tripos in 1835.To appoint Mr. Jones, of Magdalene, Mr. Dalton, of Queen's, Mr. Tucker, of St. Peter's, and Mr. Kuhff, of Catharine hall, Examiners at the previous Examination in Lent Term, 1835. To allow Mr. Perry, of Jesus college, to resume his Regency. To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Trinity, the Master of Caius, the Master of Christ's, the Lucasian, Plumian, and Lowndian Professors, Professer Miller, of St. John's, Mr. Whewell, of Trinity, Mr. Bowstead, of Corpus Christi, Mr. Evans, of St. John's, and Mr. Gaskin, of Jesus, a Syndicate for visiting the Observatory till November, 1835.-To authorize the payment of 1974. 9s. 11d. to the Plumian Professor, in conformity with the regulations adopted by grace of the Senate, February 27, 1829; the