The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-24 00:00:00

TESTS AT C.AYBSIDG.R.

The following memorial has been presented to the
Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P., Score-
tary of State for the Home Deportment, &c.:
Tai MINOBIAL Or THZ TINDLZBIONID !WINDS OF

EILIGIOCS JABIRTT,

Humbly shenreth,—
That the statutes for the future government and regain-
don of the University of Cambridge, now before parliament,
do not contain suitable provisions for the practical working
of the academical changes introduced by the Cambridge
University Act of 1866.
From the earliest period it has been the custom of the
University of Cambe emphatically expressed in the
statutes prepared by Whitilft, and enforced by Queen Eliza-
beth, in 1670, that • course of secular Bendy in the University
shall precede Usti action in theological learning.
The system of examining all the students who me wadi-
dates for the Ordinary Degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the
History of the Reformation, and in the Arm of the Apostles
in Croak, la inconsistent* with the removal of the Church of
England Bubsmiption Test from that degree, as the answers
to divinity questions are expected to be in accordance
the tenets or the Church of England, and some of the qu• '-
time are framed for students who are supposed to be familiar
with the mrions services of the Book of Common Prayer,
and to be in the habit of regirding that liturgy as their own.

•ietKeTkin of the oompuisory period of residence at Cam-
bridge to six academical terms, or two years, for the
ordinary degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the postponement
of the Di examinations to a time subsequent to the
Degree examination' so as to render attendance on what is
now the Theological portion of the ordinary Degree exami-
nationoptonal on the part of the students, would mast Mom
Ushaetty requirements which moseemrily follow the abo-
lidos of rethtious tests for secular degrees at Camteidge.
Your memaWlets therefore pray that you will be pleased to
advke beg Majesty to withhold her 34jesty's approbation,
so fm• se the candidates for the ordinary Bachelor's Degree
in Arts am concerned, from that portion of chap. 2, met. 1,
of the new statute", in which nine terms of compulsory ma-
Minima residenc• are directed for the B.A. degree, and that
mix terms Eery be substituted for nine terms of residence for
the candidates for the ordinary B.A. degree, and arrange-
ment' be adopted for the postponement of what is now the
Theological portron of the ordinary degree examination in
Arts, at Cambridge, mail after the examination in secular
subjects, and for the classification of the names of =Males
for that degree, according to their success in passing the
general or "scalar examination in Arts, so u to insure the
same religious equality among the students in the ordinary
Bachelor of Arts examination, which the Legislature has
already conferred on the graduates when they take their De-
grees la Arts.
James Heywood, F.H.8., 8.A., Trinity College,
Cambridge; L. L. Diftwyn M.P.; Chem. J. Foster, LL.D.,
Univmeity of London; Wm. /Wort, M.P., 8.A., Christ
Church, Oxford; John Cheatham, 3LP. ; Robert N. Phi-
lips, M.P.• Charles Paget, M.P. • John D. Harris, M.P. ;
J. Aspinall Turner, M.P.. Thornier Thornelsy M.P. • M.
J. 0 Connell, Barrister-L-Law ; Melgund (Vieomint),
M.P., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge J. Locke King,
M.P., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; J. Bonham-
Carter M.P T=ddCollege, Cambridge ; H. W. Wick-
ham, 1k.P.3/. , M.P. ;W. J. Fiz):Lild'.; Adam
Black, N.Y.; H. Morgan Clifford (Co , M.P.; Bd.
Holland, M.P., M.A., Trinity College, Cam gip ;
Brown. M.P. ; James Duke (Baronet), M.P. ; Nrillient
Bcholdeld, M.P. • J. B. Smith, M.P. • 8. Oragetia, M.P.;
Frank Croaky, 'M.P. • James Kershaw, M.P. ; Joseph
Crook, M.P.; William Tits, M. P. ; William P.
Price, M.P. ; Jaws Minton, M.P. ,• J. C. Evart,
M. P. J. W. Donaldson, D. D., TrWity College,
Cambridge; Bray Mob, M.P., 8.A., Trinity
C:111".P. Cambridge; Charles Cowan,owan, M.P. ; Hastings Rumell3

• "No moon shall be reqaired, upon taking, or to oath)
t'm to Mks, any degree in Arts, to make any declaration or
anblet;ption whatever."—Cambridge University Art.

Question' on the History of the Ralcwroatioa, set at the
ordinary Bachelor of Arta Degree Ezteadnatlow, In
348680 f Cam-
, whichwhichen not condelant wlth the opening
la Arts to all desolebnilanit
Ihe ble of
in the Emillik tive of ReAgdat. the Men Ind wasansive alteratkon
Mead= the chief Contkineal Ownholtme of Fah.
From Odell of Chum is say pint of war AAA= derived
Whet are &edew of the Novena Ann at traifora_a—if:
What Hareies-books ware enforced by royal
math= When de the Roman Catholics sewn fink ChtTe
formed a ingenie raglan body in &wind P
Write a short history of the Church of England in the
reign of Edward the Birth. What is the history of the
Reformatia Loom Bociesintionum
Gin ea account of the asp' by which the Latin Benin-
books were gradually altered into our prment Book of Coal-
men Pram. From what Continental Service-book wen
parts added to translations from the Latin P
What parts of the public worship of the Church wee wed
in Beall& babe the compilation of the drat Prayer Book I'
What books were ordend to be set up in church.' before the
same time

Question on the Ads of the Aportles," requiring a want-
artty with the Book of Common Prayer.
Translate Ads 111. 17-72. Its usu►l meaning beta (:rem
to fast ae, (in the sentenee (yene 19) Aerareffewre sip,
K. T. A.,) we have the 'wagon of a similar sentiment ht
one of the prayers width ormolu& oar Burial Berries; art
you call it tone-4?

TH3 LATE DE. Dmatam.—The papers of the
weak announce Use death, me the 17th, of 8. Astley Dunham,
LL.D., with whose name the public are familiar, and whose
works will long survive. Dr. Southey, we know spoke of
his knowledge se marvellous, sad that, too, in a departmat
where Southey himself was moldered eepedaily
the history of the middle ageo His "History of Spala sad
Portugal" won the admiration of distinguishedsplanleh
sokolare; and we have heard learned 8 lards with
amazement of the great original research by which It was
dlainguished—not to be surpassed even by their own
standard hiatoriana.—.4 Memnon.
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THE LATlibiiB.l.ol7Do;.—We beg to call litten-
dos to the claims on the oonntry of the Dikter of this
banatad lady. Mts. London enjoyed a pemn, of 1001. a
year from the Consolidated Fund—a pew= amply mug
by yew of heroic otraygling with dltliculties, both during
her mingle and her married life, and by many senior to Me-
Tatars • end she leaves an only daughter, Min Agar Lou-
don. We trust that, as the child of literary permto on both
sides, this young lady will continue to nacho the saauity
earned by her mother, and that she aal not be left to endure
those triolo which Mn. Loudon too Eloquently empodonned.—
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