The Press.
London, England, 1855-06-16 00:00:00

Unihrsitg nitiligtntt.

OXFORD.

It is in contemplation to raise a subscription for the
purpose of founding a prize, to be called " The Gaisford.
Prize," to perpetuate the memory of the late distinguished
scholar and Dean of Christchurch.
The Rev. the Master of Balliol, Dr. Scott, has been
nominated a delegate of the University press, in the room
of the late Dr. Usisford.

The judges of the Denyer theological prizes have
awarded the one on " The Sufficiency of Holy Scripture
for the Salvation of Man " to the Rev. Benjamin Charles
Catlin, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Worcester; the other,
on " The Effect on the Human Heart of the due Dis-
charge of the Duties of Christianity in a Family," to the
Rev. John Smith liilderdale, M.A., Oriel College.
The Mathematical Class List appeared on Tuesday :
First Class. —George Charles Bell, Worcester College ;
Charles Joseph Faulkner, Pembroke College.
. .

Second data.— Charles Theodore Ms o, Pembroke
College.
Third Class.—Wm. Purton, Trinity College.
Fourth Class.—John Burrough, Queen's College; Basil
Tudor Craig. Magdalen Hall; Francis Charles ldingstoo,
Exeter College; Henry Arthur Martin, St. Mary Hall;
Henry Adair Pickard, Christ Church; Arthur Christopher
Thynne, Balliol College.
The following degrees have been conferred :
B.D. and D.D. by Accumulation.—Rev. William Abiah
Newman, Trinity College.
B.D.—Rev. James Hughes (Fellow), Jesus College.
DX; L.—Francis Compton, All Souls College.
M.A.—Rev. Henry Hughes Still (Grand Compounder),
Exeter College ; Rev. George Cuff, St. Mary Hall; Robert
William Howell I Fellow), Jesus College ; Rev. John Skin-
ner Jones, Jesus College; Rev. Edward B. Smith, Brase-
nose College ; Rev. Robert Hawker Kingdom, Pembroke
College; William Henry Goddard, Pembroke College;
Rev. Henry Macdonald Maugham, Oriel College.
.....

B.A.—John William Lace, University College; Henry
Frederick Phillips, University College ; William Henry
Hitchcock, University College • John Coker Banow,
University College ; Hemming Robeson (scholar), Balliol
College ' • Alfred Blomtield (scholar), lialhul College ;
Arthur Christopher Thynne, Balliol College; Edward
Bradford Medlycott, Merton College; James Adey Birds,
Exeter College; Henry Stone, Exeter College; Charles
Daniel Cave, Exeter College ; Thomas Hayley, Exeter
College; Charles Turner Wilton, Exeter College; Francis
Charles Hingston, Exeter College ; Charles Lewes Dash-
wood, Oriel College ; Arthur William Frye, Oriel College ;
George Kimbell Borrett, Oriel College ; William John
Ewins Bennett, Oriel College; John Burrough, Queen's
College ; Frederick William Quilter, Lincoln College ;
Lewis William Cave, Lincoln College ; Reginald Carlisle
Kemp, Magdalen College; George Branson, Magdalen
College ; Edward Powell Nichol!, Brasenose College ;
Augustus William Henry Langford, Brasenose College •,
Frederick Binley Dickinson, Brasenose College; David
Gilbert Birds, Brasenose College ; Septimus Barnes,
Christ Church; Charles John Hampden, Christ Church;
Herbert Barnes, Christ Church; Henry Adair Pickard,
Christ Church; Robert T. Crawley, Christ Church;
William Mouro Wollaston, Trinity College ; Forster Lewis,
St. John's College ; William Henry Crawhall, Wadham
College; Harry Holdsworth Minchin, Wadham College;
Frederick Philip Phelps, Wadham College; Henry Julian
Bigsby, Wadham College; Robert Bowden, Wadham
College; John Lee, Pembroke College; Frederick Shep-
herd, Worcester College ; Frederick Charles Skey, Wor-
cester College; Thomas Langford, Worcester College;
Ebenezer Anderson, Worcester College ; George Brown-
low (scholar), St. Mary Hall; William Barlee, St. Mary
Hall ; Henry A. Martyn, St. Mary Hall; Elford Copeland,
Lethbridge, Magdalen Hall; William Coxon Daniel, Mag-
dalen Hall; Ebenezer Smith, Magdalen Hall; Arthur
Hoskins, Magdalen Hall; William Joseph Baugh, Mag.
dalen Hall.

CAMBRIDGE.

The following degrees have been conferred :

B.D.—Rev. Stephen Parkinson and Rev. Henry Russell,
Fellows of St. John's College ; Rev. Robert Herbert
Cooke, Fellow of Sidney College ; Rev. Philip Bretton
Dennis, Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Licentiate in Medicine.—Thomas Trollope, Pembroke
College.
Bachelor of Medicine.—Charles Izard Beard, Trinity
College.

B.A.—Benjamin Sharp, Queen's College ; George Gur-
ney, Emmanuel College.

Erratum.—ln the list of candidates who passed their
examination at Cambridge, as given in the Pauss of the
2nd instant, the name of " V. Edlin " of Trinity, was mis-
printed " Eldin."

REAR-ADMIRAL EDWARD BoxER, C. 8., who died of
cholera at Balaklava on the 4th instant, was midship-
man of the Doris, and assisted at the cutting out of
a French 20 gun corvette from Camaret Bay in 1801.
He was a lieutenant of the Tigre, and commanded a
detachment of seamen landed in Egypt in 1807, and
a division of boats at the destruction of a convoy at
Rosas in 1809, and also had the direction of the gun-
boats at the siege of Tarragona in 1813. He was
also captain of the Pique in the operations on the
coast of Syria and bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre
in 1840. He was a lieutenant in January, 1807, a
commander in March, 1815, a captain in June, 1823,
and a Rear-Admiral of the Bide in 1863, subsequently
having been promoted an Admiral of the White►