The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, DEC. 24.—Congregations will be held for
the purpose of granting graces end conferring degrees
on the following days in the ensuing term, viz.:—
Monday, Jan. 14. I Thursday, March 7.
Thursday, Jan. 24.
Thursday, Feb. 7.

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No person will be admitted as a candidate for any de-
gree whose name is not entered in the book kept for
that purpose at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or before
the day preceding the day of congregation. On Tues-
day, February 19, a congregation will be held as pro-
vided in the dispensation for intermitting the forms and
exercises of determination, solely for the purpose of
receiving from the deans or other officers of their re-
spective colleges or halls the names of such Bachelors of
Arts as have not yet determined; and their names hav-
ing been so signified to the house, and thereupon in-
serted in the register of congregation, they may at any
time in the same or in any future term, be admitted to
all the rights and privileges to which they would have
been entitled by the intermitted forms and exercises.
And every Bachelor of Arts is desired to take notice,
that unless he has proceeded to that degree on or before
Thursday, Febraary 7, his name cannot be inserted in
the registei of congregation during the present yoar.
F. C. PLUDIPTRE, Vice-Chancellor.
CHRIST CHURCH.

Newton Reginald Smart, Ragland George Henry,
Somerset, and Richard Elliott, scholars from Westmin-
ster School, were this day elected students of Christ
Church; and at the same time Charles Greenwood
Floyd, and Thomas Vere Bayne, Slade exhibitioner,
commoners of Christ Church, were elected students.
The Rev. Thomas Gwynn, 8.A., was this day ap-
pointed Chaplain of Christ Church.
PRIZE SUBJECTS.

I. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Chancellor of
the University, being pleased to give annually a gold
medal for the encouragement of English poetry, the
prime will be given this year to such resident undergra-
duates as shall compose the best elegiac poem " On the
late Queen Adelaide."
N. 13. The exercises are to be sent in to the Vice-
Chancellor on or before March 30th, 1850, and are not
to exceed 200 lines in length.
11. The Most Noble the Marquis Camden being
pleased to give annually a gold medal as a prize for the
best exercise in Latin hexameter Terse, the subject for
the present year is " Mare Arctieum."
N.B. The exercises are to be sent in to the Vico-
Chancellor on or before March 30th, 1850, and are not
to exceed 100 lines in length. _ _

All undergraduates who shall have resided not less
than two terms before the day on which the exercises of
must be sent in, or who shall at least be then in the
course of their second term of residence, may be candi-
dates for this medal.

111. The representatives in Parliament for this Uni-
versity being pleased to give annually:-
1. Two prizes of fifteen guineas each, for the en-
couragement of Latin prose composition, to be open to
all Bachelors of Arts, without distinction of years, who
aro not of sufficient standing to take the degree of
>faster of Arts ;
• 2: And two other prises of fifteen guineas each, to be
opeci -to all undergraduates who shall have resided not
less than seven terms at the time when the exercises are
to be sent in.
The subjects for the present year are:-1. For the
Bachelors—" Monuments prises, artis in Assyria nuper
reeerta." 2. For the Undergraduates—" Homerus et
Shakespearius inter se collati.'
N.B.—The exercises are to bo sent in on or before
April 30, 1850.
IV. Sir William Browne having bequeathed three
gold medals, of the value of five guineas each, to such
resident Undergraduates as shall compose—
'. The best Greek Ode in imitation of Sappho;
. .

2. The best Latin Ode in imitation of Horace;
The best Greek Epigram after the model of the
3. Anthologia, and
The best Latin Epigram after the model of
Martial;
The subjects for the present year are-
1. For the Greek Ode, " Ninus."
2. For the Latin Ode, " Regina Hiberniam visit."
3. For the Greek Epigram, " Cceium, non animum
mutant qui trans mare currunt."
4. For the Latiu Epigram, " 'Ersa vrEpoErecc. 71
N.B. The exercises are to be sent in on or before
April 30, 1850. The Greek Ode is not to exceed 25,
nor the Latin Ode 30, stanzas.
The Greek Ode must be accompanied by a literal
Latin prose version.
V. The Porson Prize is the interest of 4001. stock, to
be annually employed in the purchase of one or more
Greek books, to be given to such resident undergradu-
ates as shall make the beat translation of a proposed pas-
sage in Shakspeare, Ben Johson, Massinger, or Beau-
mont and Fletcher, into Greek verse.

The subject for the present year is—
Shak spere. Merchant of Venice. Act V., scene 1.
" Lorenzo—How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this
bank!"

To the words, " Let no such man be trusted."
N.B. The metre to be Tragicum lumbicum Trimetrum
Acatedecticurn. These exercises are to be accentuated
and accompanied by a literal Latin prose version, and
are to be sent in on or before March 30, 1850.

N.B. All the above exercises are to be sent in to the
Vice-Chancellor privately; each is to have some motto
prefixed, and to be accompanied by a paper sealed up,
with the same motto on the outside; which paper is to
enclose another, folded up, having the candidate's name
and college written within.
The papers coutlining the names of those candidates
who may not succeed will be destroyed unopened.
Any candidate is at liberty to send in his exercise
printed or lithographed.
No prize will be given to any candidate who bas not, at
the time of sending in the exercises, resided one term at
the least.

THE POOR IN TiE CITY.—In the course of yes-
terday the officers of the different wards in the City were
busily employed in distributing the Christmas alms to
the poor residing within their respective limits. The
relief was dispensed in money and coals, and in some in-
stances bread. In addition to this seasonable aid the
clergymen of many of the parishes, through the benevo-
lence of their congregations, were enabled to relieve a
number of poor distressed objects. Most of the civic
companies also contributed a large amount of Christmas
fare, which was liberally distributed amongst the poor
recipients. During Saturday and yesterday several
hundred relief tickets for 55., in accordance with the
vote of the Court of Common Council, were distributed
amongst the widows and distressed relatives of deceased
freemen. The aldermen and members of the Common
Council have the privilege of bestowing this charity.
The tickets, on being presented at the Chamberlain's
office, entitled the holder to ss. in money. The usual
Christmas fare will be liberally apportioned to the iv-
mates of the City workhouses. In Newgate, Giltspur-
street Compter, Bridewell, Borough Compter, Coldbath-
fields, and the other metropolitan prisons, the unfor-
tunate occupants will be allowed a substantial meal of
roast beef, potatoes, and plum-pudding, each adult
being served with a pint of porter.

THE MAILS BETWEEN flu. AND LIVERPOOL.—
In consequence of the great delay that has lately existed
in the delivery in this town of the letters from Liverpool,
a representation of the fact was made to the Postmaster-
General by Mr. Foster, the Belgian Consul at this port.
We understand that to this representation a letter has
been received stating that the delay was occasioned on
the London and North-Western Railway, the night mail
trains upon which have not arrived at Tamworth until
after the mail train from Birmingham for Derby and
York had passed. To remedy the inconvenience, his
Lordship has ordered the night mail train from the north
to be dispatched half au hour eariter.—Hu/Vachet.