The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 16.
The following arrangements have been made by agree-
ment between the authorities of New College and those
of Winchester School, relative to the examination-and
admission of candidates desiring to be placed on the
foundation of the latter institution.
At the annual election in July an examination, differ-
ing in difficulty, for boys between 10 and 12 and boys
between 12 and 15 years of age, will be held at Winches-
ter, for thepurpose of supplying the vacancies among the
scholars that may occur within the year following. The
first examination will be held in July next. It is not
recommended that boys who have not yet reached their
10th or have passed their 15th birthday should present
themselves as candidates. Candidates for admission as
founder's kinsmen will be examined with the other
candidates, and the two best will, if properly qualified, be
elected, and their names placed at the top of the roll for
admission. The names of all candidates must be ant in
to J. D. Walford, Esq,. College-street, Winchester, on
or before the Ist of June in each year, and with the
names must be sent the following papers :-1. A certifi-
cate of baptism, with the figures therein, if any, written
also in words by the attesting minister. 2. A cer-
tificate of character, specifying the length of time to
which it applies, from the schoolmaster .or tutor under
whom the candidate has been last placed. 3. Adeclara-
tion, signed by one of the parents of the candidate, or;
if both parents be dead, by the person best qualified to
give the necessary evidence. Forms of the declaration
will be supplied on application to Mr. Walford.
The subjects of examination will be the following :-
1. Elementary Religious Knowledge. 2. English Dicta-
tion. 3. Arithmetic (the younger class of boys in the
first four rules). 4. Latin Composition, verse and prose.
5. Construing and Parsing, in Greek and Latin. The
books for examination will be such as are usually read
in classical schools. The grammars used are, "Grceaz
Grammaticce Rudimenta, Oxford, Clarendon press;" and
King Edward Vl.'s Latin Grammar.
The principle on which candidates will be arranged on
the roll will be their proficiency as exhibited in the exa-
mination, their character, and the circumstances of their
families, as far as is made known to the electors.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 16.

The following will be the subjects for the Previous
Examination in the last week of the Lent Term, 1856 :
" 1. The Gospel of St. Matthew.
" 2. Paley's Evidences.
" 3. The Old Testament History.
" 4. The Perste of iEschylus.
" 5. The first book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputatious.
" 6. The Elements of Euclid, books I. and 11., and
Arithmetic."

VOLUNTARY THEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN NEXT
MICHAELMAS TERM.

On Thursday, the 11th of October next, and the suc-
ceeding days, there will be an examination in the follow-
ing subjects

"The Greek Testament

"The Octavius of Minucius Felix, from chapter 32 to
the end;
" Ecclesiastical History ;
" The Articles of Religion ; and
" The Liturgy of the Church of England ;"
which examination will be open to all students who have
at any time been admitted ad respondendunt qucrstioni ;
or who can produce certificates from the Regius Professor
of Civil Law or his deputy of having performed the exer-
cises required for the degree of Bachelor of that faculty.
The names of those students who shall pass this exa-
mination to the satisfaction of the examiners will bo
published in alphabetical order, and registered in the
usual manner.

Immediately after this examination there will be an
examination in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew for
suck students as, having undergone the former exami-
nation, shall offer themselves for this ; and the names of
the persons who, having passed the former, shall pass
this examination to the satisfaction of the examiners,
will be published also aad registered in the manner
already described.
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Persons desirous of presenting themselves at these
examinations must signify their intention of so doing on
or before the Ist of October next, by a letter addressed
to the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Pro-
fessor of Divinity, and the Norrisian Professor of
Divinity.

REFORM IN TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
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There will be the unusual number of 19 scholar-
ships open for competition at the ensuing Trinity
Term examination. Of these, according to the new
arrangement, four "non-foundation scholarships" may
by superior answering be obtained by Roman Ca-
tholics or Dissenters of any denomination. Had
this concession, trifling as it may appear, been made
come half-dozen years earlier, it is probable that
the zealots of both parties in Ireland would have been
deprived of " a cry," and that a world of invective against
the "Godless Colleges" would have been lost to all gene-
rations, present and future. Nevertheless, it is equally
probable that, but for the establishment of the Queen's
Colleges, Alma Mater would not even at this late period
have dreamt of the relaxation of an old and iron-bound
statute, by which all who refused to subscribe to the 39
Articles were debaired from the petty advantages of a
scholarship, with its accompanying salary of IS/. per an-
num, chambers, and daily rations at 4 p.m,