The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-17 00:00:00

UNITEBSITT INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 14.
In a Convocation held this day at 10 o'clock, Mr.
n. Smith, of Balliol, was appointed as Moderator
in the Mathematical School.
The Rev. John Wiebrington Peers, M.A.,Ca-
therine College, and the Rev. Thomas Leah, .A.,
Queen's College, Cambridge, were admitted ad
turas-N.
In a Convocation held immediately afterwards
the following Degrees were conferred :
MASTERS OF ARTS.

Robert H. B. Marsham Merton.
Wyndham L. Williams, and Rev. Richard
C Brasenose.
John D. Middleton' Corpus.
Richard Rowley (Student), Christ Church.
Alexander Wallace, Trinity.
Thomas Marshall, St. John's.
Rey. Walter H. Tribe, Wadham.
Thomas Roberts and Rey. George Steele, Wor-
cester.

BACHELORS OF ART.
Reginald C. Glanville, Newton.
Alain T. Craig, Wadham.
INCORPORATION 8.A., ST. MARY HALL.
James J. Pickford, Trinity College, Dublin.
In a Convocation held at 2 p.m. which was very
numerously attended, a number of votes connected
with tha expenses of the New Museum were put to
the house. Divisions were taken upon all the votes
but two, the entire result being
that four were re-
jected, and 11 carried. On the first vote, granting
2001. annually for the next five years to the Pro-
fessors of Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, and
Pathology, for the maintenance and improvement
of their collection, the numbers were—Placet, 45 ;
Non Placet, 54. On the second vote, assigning
701. a-year to an assistant to the Reader in Experi-
mental Philosophy, after a conversation, in which
Professor Walker, the Principal of Brasenose, the
Rector of Exeter, and the Master of Balliol
took part, the division was--Placet, 45 ; Non
Placet, 40. The third vote, allowing a fee
IA 31. on all pupils attending the Reader's
Practical Class, was rejected, the numbers
being—Placet, 41 ; Non Placet, 48. The fourth
vote, allowing 7W. a-year for an assistant
to the Professor of Chymistry, was carried by 52
votes against 39. The fifth vote, granting the
Professor 5001. for an outfit of chymical apparatus,
arc., was thrown out, there being in favour of it 42,
and against it 51 votes. The sixth vote, allowing
180/. a year for five years to the Professor for the
annual expenses of his apparatus, was carried, the
votes being—Placet, 49 ; Non Placet, 40. The
seventh vote, which raised the same question of
fees already determined by vote three, but in con-
nexion with Chymistry instead of Experimental
Philosophy, was (like vote three) rejected by 49
votes to 39. The eighth vote, allowing 2001. to
the Professor of Astronomy fur an observatory, and
the ninth, allowing 1001. to the Regius Professor
of Mediciae for apparatus, were carried—the former
by 58 votes to 31, and the latter by 59 votes to 33.
The last vote, requiring the Professors to render
an annual account of all sums expended by them
from University funds, was carried unanimously.
On the first clause of the second decree, granting
7571. Is. 4d. on account of building expenses be-
yond the contract, there was no division. The
second, third, and fourth clauses, voting sums for
the levelling, &c., of the ground, and the enclosing
it with an iron fence, and for fitting up the depart-
ments of the six Professors, were carried by
majorities respectively of 19, 5, and 23. The last
clause, assigning 2551. for the erec`ion of a gallery
round the main tower, was rejected by 50 votes
against 30. The proceeding then closed.
The Rev. C. P. Chretien, M.A., Fellow and
Tutor of Oriel College, has been appointed
Examiner in English History and Literature at the
ensuing middle-class examination, in the place of
the Rev. R. W. Church, late Fellow of Oriel,
whoie health does not allow him to act. Besides
the names already published, it has been deter-
mined to appoint three additional examiners. The
Rev. J. E. Sewell, of New College, and the Rev.
G. Rawlinson, of Exeter College, have been added
to the committee for communicating with the
examiners.