The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-28 00:00:00

POETRY.

THE BIRD OP PASSAGE.
Away ! away ! thou Summer Bird,
For Autumn's moaning voice is heard,
In cadence wild and deepening swell,
Of Winner's stern approach to tell.
Away ! for vapours, damp and low,
Are wreathed around the mountain's brow ;
And tempest clouds their mantles fold
Around the forest's russet gold.
A way ! away ! o'er earth and sea,
This land is now no home for thee !
Arise! and stretch thy soaring wing,
And seek elsewhere the smiles of Spring !
The wanderer now, with pinioni spread, ,
Afar to brighter climes has fled,
Nor casts one backward look, nor grieves
For those sere groves whose shade he leaves.
Why should he grieve ? the beam he loves
Shines o'er him still where'er he roves,
And all those early friends are near
Who made his Summer-home so dear.
Oh ! deem not that the tie of birth
Endears us to this spot of earth ;
For wheresoe'er our steps may roam,
If friends are pear, that place is home !
No matter where our fate may guide us,
If those we love are still beside us !

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, ,SEPT. 27.--The Rev. William Vaux, M.A. late
Fellow of Balliol College, and Domestic Chaplain to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, has been collated by his Grace to the Rec-
tory of Patching_ with Tarring, in the county of Sussex.
The Rev. W. Thursby, M.A. of Oriel College, in this Uni-
versity, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the same Gentleman to the
Vicarage of Hardingstone, near Northampton ; and the Mayor
and Corporation of Northampton have presented him to the
Rectory of All Saints', in that town. ,
The Rev. Henry Tattam, Clerk, Rector of St. Cathbert's, in
Bedford, to be Chaplain to the English Church at the Hague.
Yesterday se'nnitzht the Rev. H. Ayling, M.A. of Magdalen
Hall, was unanimously elected by the Mayor and Corporation
of Guildford, Head Master of the Grammar School in that
town, on the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Stedman.
The Rev. William Briggs, M.A. resident on Wood Green,
near Witney, in this county, as Bishop's surrogate, continues
to grant, under the new Act, Marriage Licences, Probate' of
Wills, Letters of Administration, &c. &c.

BATH, SEPT. 27.—Yesterday the Hon. and Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Gloucester (the advanced years and infirmities
of.our venerable Diocesan preventing his own personal attend
ance) held a Confimatiun in the Abbey Church of this city,
when above 1,200 individuals
_partook' of that truly solemn and
interesting Rite of our Established Church. At each close of
the ccrernony (for the Church was twice filled) the Right Rev.
Prelate delivered, in the most impressive manner, a Charge pe-
ctin:A.ly adapted to river on the minds of those to whom it was
more immediately addressed, the sacred obligations of those
Baptismal Vows which they had just, with their own mouths,
ratified and confirmed. Before his Lordship quitted the Church,
he expressed to Messrs. Pritchard and Shaw, the Churchwar- ,
dens, his fullest approbation of their admirable arrangements,
in the accommodation afforded to the numerous assemblage,
which completely secured that regularity and good order, so
essential to give proper effect to the sacred service of the day.