The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT 21.—The Reader in Experimental Phi-
losophy will commence a course of lectures on me-
chanics, at the Clarendon, on Monday, the 26th instant,
at one o'clock. The lectures will be continued at the
same hour every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until
completed.
The Camden Professor of Ancient History will begin
on Thursday morning, at one o'clock, a course of
lectures on the Romans of the second century, and in
Britain ; consisting of dissertations on their manners,
finance, jurisprudence, public works, &c., and on the
introduction of Christianity into Britain. The lectures
will be delivered in the Clarendon, on Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, and Saturdays, and are free of admission to mem-
bers of the University.
Mr. Boden, Professor of Sanscrit, will commence his
lectures on Monday, the 2d of November, at the Cla-
rendon, at two o'clock.
. _

The Professor of Political Economy proposes to com-
mence a course of six lectures in the Clarendon, on
Monday, the 26th of October, at two o'clock, to be con-
tinued on the following days, at the same hour. The
subject of the course will be the history of the science
from the sixteenth to the conclusion of the eighteenth
century. The subsequent history will form the subject
of a future coarse in the approaching Hilary Term.
CAMRIDGE, OCT. 21.—At a congregation held this
day the following degrees were conferred :
M. A.

George-Smith Drew, St. John's College.
Robert Whytehead, St. John's College.
Robert Evelyn Roy, Corpus Christi College.
B. A.

Charles Edward Douglass, Trinity College.
Frederick James Abbott, Corpus Christi College.
Samuel Prince, Jesus College. . _

At the same congregation a number of graces were
passed, too numerous to specify at length. The result
of the day's proceedings in the Senate-house may be
given as follows:
The Porson Scholarship.—Archdeacon Burney's pro-
posal to found, from the residue of the Porson fund, now
in his hands, and the interest thereon, a scholarship, to
be called the Porson Scholarship. Accepted. The
scholarship to be founded as soon as the investment in
the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities shall
have accumulated to such amount as to produce 651. per
annum. The Porson scholar to receive 60L, the other
51. to be invested in the like stock for the general pur-
poses of the trust. The holding of any other university
scholarship not allowed. Term of scholarship three
years and a half from the Michaelmas- day preceding the
election. Residence for the major part of each•term re-
quired. Candidate must have been matriculated, and
not of more the* one year's standing. Examination ex-
clusively classical and in Greek, confined to Homer,
Pinder, }Eschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Theocritus,
Demosthenes, lEschines, Herodotus, and Thucydides,
and the critical and metrical writings of Boson. Exa-
mination to take place between the division and the end
of the Michaelmas term. Examiners--Vice•Chancellor,
Provost of King's, Masters of Trinity, St. John's, Christ's,
and Caius, Public Orator, and Greek Professor.
Regencies.—Allowed to resume :
Mr. Skinner, Jesus College.
Mr. Frere, D,wning College.
'.fr. Hall, Clare Hall.

Mr. 'Lltrsh, Trinity Hall.
Examiners.—Those for mathematical and classical
honours, for the poll (the great B.A. Examination at the
opening oF next your), and the Previous Examinati,,n
1847. upr: ointed—their names will appear when th
result:; of the examinations shall have been announced.
Book;, manuscripts (the loan oF), grants of rponey,
leases, &c., conc«lea to members of the University, and
other applicAntf.

PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.

examination took 1,1,we on Mond y. The exa-

mir:ers w. re--

fly. J. Powor, KA., Fellow of Pembeoke College.
Rev. L. W. Sampson, M.A., Fellow of King's College.
C. W. t Awin, M.A., Fellow of Catherine Hall.
J. M.A.. Fell,,w of Trinity College.
THE CHURCH.

The 1,,llow;il.. rtppoiritment has taken place:—
'lho Rev. William Selwyn, M.A. of St. John's Col-
to the vicarage of MI-lb ,urn, Cambridgeshire ;
Patron, Doan anal ChniY,or of Ely; vAlue, 2501.