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be consequently affecting the welfare of the com-
munity, it must encourage them to go on and
prosper in their up-hill task. Too much praise can-
not be awarded to those who thus persevere in their
attempts at training and improvements. They are
often surrounded by temptations, and beset with
those who ridicule their endeavours, but if they
succeed in their noble works their reward is certain
and their success is sure. No losses of fortune that
they may meet with in after years can deprive them
of their own intrinsic wealth, a well regulated
heart and a cultivated mind. These will remain to
be their inalienable possessions to smooth the rough
road of the highway of this world, and lead them
on in their efforts to reach another and a better.

It must be a matter of general regret to all who
take an interest in the welfare of trade and the
well-being of their fellows that the attempts which
have recently been made to bring about an under-
standing between the masters and men of the
Midland collieries have hitherto proved fruitless.
The origin of the strike is doubtless familiar to
our readers. There has lately been a fall in the
price of iron at the rate of about £1 per ton, and
in order to neutralise the effect of this it was
resolved to reduce the wages of the colliers six-
pence a-day, many of the masters being both iron
masters and owners of collieries. The colliers
loudly protested against this reduction, but
in vain, and some two months ago twenty
thousand of them struck work. They argue with
some show of reason that the burden should fall on
the workers in iron rather than in coal, but the
masters retort that coal is the principal ingredient
in iron manufacture. The colliers ought to bear
the lose. However this is hardly just, since if the
price of coal were greatly reduced the colliers
would suffer for it, not the iron workers. So the
matter has gone on for two months, with all the
usual features of a prolonged strike, the loss of stop-
page to business, and inconvenience on the part of
the masters, the hardships and struggles on the
part of the men and their families. The iron.
masters have been forced to get their coal
from North Wales and the North of
England, thus introducing a dangerous rival
into the trade whose advent bcth masters
and men may hereafter be disposed to regret. Under
these circumstances Lord LEIGH, the Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county, and some other independent
noblemen and gentlemen, wisely and kindly endea-
voured to meditate between the contending parties.
They convened a meeting of the owners and the
delegates, and made a modest proposition to which
the men acceded, but the masters unhappily refused
to agree. They have thus prolonged the unhappy
dispute which has already occasioned so much dis-
tress to the men and loss to themselves, and we
cannot help regretting they should not have shown
a fairer spirit of conciliation and compromise when
they had so favourable an opportunity of making
up the quarrel.

University Intelligence.

OIPORD, Oct. 10.

In a convocation holden this morning, being the first day
of the Michaelmas Term, the Rev. Samuel Joseph Hulme,
M.A., of Wadham College, was, upon the nomination of the
vice-chancellor, appointed one of the masters of the school,
whose duty it is in conjunction with his three colleagues to
examine candidates for "responsions."
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards the
following degrees were conferred, viz, :
M.A. COMITATIS CAllsa..—Rev. Augustus Kerr B. Gran•
ville, M.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

BACHELOR or ARTS.—henry W%lter Mooro (Fellow),
Exeter College.

NEW COLLEGE —The Itov. T. Rokers, M.A.., of this
college, has been elected to a minor canonry in Durham
Cathedral,

CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 11.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.

The undermentioned appointments in St. John's College
were made on Friday and Saturday last :
Exhibitioners.—Johnssn's, Kemptiloraa and gparin23-
Lupton and Hebtlethwaite's, Pitman and Redhead—Mun •
steven's, Stokes --Newcome's, Gammon—Somerset (Here-
ford School), Bulmer—do, (Manchester School), James
Charlton—do. (Marlborough), Beor—Dowman's, Bower
and Ellis.

Sizars—Ashe, Atkinson, Bower, Braithwaite, Brewer,
Charlton, Ellis, Gannon, Lester, Geo. Smith, G. H. Smith,
Stoddart, and Wilkins.

TRINITY COLLEGE.

The undermentioned gentlemen were this day declared
the successful candidates for fellowships at Trinity. There
were five vacancies and 15 candidates—Thomas Dale, third
wrangler, 1862—Henry Jackson, third classic, 1862—Wm.
Knyvett Wilson, 21st senior optime and fourth classic, 1862
—Edward Tucker Leeke, second wrangler, 1863—Arthur
Sidgwick, 15th senior optime and second classic, 1863, Bell
and Porson scholar.