The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE 30.—A convocation was holden this
morning, when the proposed grant of an additional sum
of 100/. out of the University chest, in aid of a fund
for the extension of parochial burial-grounds in the city
of Oxford, upon the condition that the sum be paid
so soon as the third additional burial-ground
shall have been consecrated, met the ap-
proval of the House. The proposed grant also of
300/. towards the endowment of the new church at
Headington, when consecrated, met also with the ap-
proval of the house.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards, the
following degrees were conferred, viz.:—
Doctor of Civil Law—Rev. George Croke Bowden,
New College.
Doctor of Medicine, with License to Practise—Henry
Wentworth Acland, All Souls College, and Lee's Lec-
turer in anatomy.
Bachelor of Civil Law—Granville Robert Henry
Somerset, Fellow of All Souls College.
Bachelor of Music—John Sewell, Magdalen Hall.
Masters of Arts—Rev. H. Nicholson Ellacombe,:Oriel
College; Rev. William Buckle, Oriel College; Rev.
Thos. dward Powell, Oriel College; Rev. James Yal-
den Nevill, Oriel College; Rev. Arthur Henry Hosmar,
Oriel College; Rev. Thomas A. Yowles, St. Alban Hall;
Rev. Robert Emans Crawley, Magdalen Hall; Rev.
Robert Wilson, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. George Rose,
Magdalen Hall; Rev, William Francis Gray, Wadham
College•, Rev. Henry Walford, Wadham College; Rev.
George Eveleigh Saunders, Fellow of Wadham College;
Rev. Edward Francis Gepp, Wadham College; John
Harrison Miller, Scholar of Wadham College; Rev.
George R. Mackarness, Merton College ; Montague
Francis Finch Osborne, Merton College ; Rev. James
Hughes, Fellow of Jesus College; Rev William John-
stone, Trinity College; Henry Raver, Trinity College;
Rev. William Brown, Trinity College; Augustus Free-
man Boyse, Christ Church; Theophilus Jones, Brase-
nose College; Rev. Assheton, Pownall, Brasenose Col-
lege; Rev. J. Rusb, Worcester College; Rev. John Lo-
vick Johnson, St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. Henry Edwin
Devey, Pembroke College; Rev. Edward Greatorex,
Pembroke College; Rev. Gilbert Francis White, Lincoln
College.
Bachelors of Arts—John Singleton Winder, scholar
of Oriel College; Samuel Hall Fearon, Taberdar of
Queen's College; Edward Fox, Fellow of New College;
Earl of Darnley, Christ Church, Grand Compounder;
William Whitton Allen, Trinity College ; Hon. C.
Spencer B. Hanbury, Brasenose College, Grand Com-
pounder; Thomas Henry Whittaker, Exeter College;
Ederard St. John Mildmay, Merton College; Rev.
Charles Spooner, Magdalen Hall ; Henry Eastfield
Bayly Exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College; Brown-
low Poulter, Fellow of New College ; John Deacon,
Oriel College; Thomas Barker, Queen's College.
This morning tho Rev. Henry Bond; Bowlby, 8.A.,
and Charles Douglas Ross, Scholars of Wadham Col-
lege, were elected Probationary Fellows of that Society;
_ and Messrs. William Bayard Dalby, Commoner of Bal-
iol College, James Andrews, Commoner of Worcester
College, and Frederic Harrison, were elected Scholars of
Wadham College.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 30.—The Vice-Chancellor has ap-
- pointed Saturday, July 1, for Richard Elwyn and Arthur
William Headlain, of Trinity College, and Monday next,
July 3, for Dominus Norris and Dominus Vaughan, of
Trinity College, to recite their prize essays.
The Vice-Chancellor has also appointed Tuesday next,
July 4, for George John Cayley, of Trinity College, to
recite his English Poem for the Chancellor's medal; for
Augustus Frederic Birch, of King s College, to recite his
Exercise for the Camden medal; for Charles Schreiber,
of Trinity College to recite his Greek Ode; for Wood-
thorpe Scholefield Collet, of Clare Hall, to recite his
Latin Ode; for Henry Carr Archdale Tayler, of Trinity
College, to recite his Epigrams for Sir William Browne's
medals; and for Edward Henry Perowne, of Corpus
Christi College, to recite his exercise for the Porson
prize. The prize for this last-mentioned exercise has
been lately adjudged.