The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-09 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAT 9.—At a meeting of the Heads of Colleges,
on Tuesday last, the Rev. Charles Atmore Ogilvie, M. A.
Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and late Fellow of
Balliol, was appointed to preach Canon Bampton's Lectures
for 1836.

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On Wednesday last Frederick Holme, M. A. and Scholar
of Corpus Christi College, was admitted a Probationer Fellow
of that Society.
Yesterday Mr. Frederic Hathaway, of Trinity College,
Cambridge, was elected Scholar of Worcester College, in
this University.
Thursday the following Degrees were conferred
BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
The Rev. James Hardwicke Dyce, Fellow of Trinity College,
Senior Proctor for 1835-6.
MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Henry Wightwick, Scholar of Pembroke.
Rev. Thomas Francis Barker, Brazen-Nose.
Rev. John Garwood, Magdalen Hall.
The Vice-Chancellor has fixed Wednesday the 20th of this
month, at two o'clock, for the Convocation, in which it will be
proposed to substitute a Subscription to a Declaration of assent
to the Doctrines of the Church of England and Ireland, in the
room of Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, as heretofore.
At a general ordination, holden in the Cathedral Church of
Peterborough, on Sunday se'nnight, the Lord Bishop of
Peterborough admitted the following persons into holy
orders :

DEACONS.
John Croke, B. A. Jesus College, Cambridge.
Richard Knight, B.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
William Pennefather, B. A. Balliol College, Oxford.

John Osborne Seager, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge.
Alex. Philip Thompson, B.A. Corpus Christi Coll. Camb.
Henry White, M. A. Downing College, Cambridge.
Samuel Caldecott Walker, B. A. Queen's College, Oxford.
Joseph George Cumming, B. A. Emmanuel Coll. Camb.
Waddington Clarke Hanson, B.A. Pembroke Coll. Camb.
Henry Cotterill, B. A. St. John's College, Cambridge.

PRIESTS.
Robert Burdett Burgess, M.A. Queen's College, Cambridge.
George Garrick, B. A. University College, Oxford.
John Harwood Hill, B. A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
John Price, B. A. Queen's College, Cambridge.
Tits REV. R. MONTOOMERY.—We understand that Robert
Montgomery, the well-known author of " The Omnipresence
of the Deity," " Woman," the " Angel of " Life," &c. &c.,
was ordained on Sunday last by the Bishop of St. Asaph, to
the curacy of Whittington---a picturesque village, about two
miles from Oswestry.
The valuable Rectory of All Saints, in the town of South-
ampton, is now vacant, by the death of the late respected in-
cumbent, the Rev. Thomas Mears.
We have pleasure in announcing that Sir Robert Peel,
Bart. has most liberally contributed 2001. to the funds of the
Lichfield and Coventry Diocesan Church Building Society.
Birmingham Gazette.

ECCLESIASTIACAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. T. Gamier, jun. B. C. L. Fellow of All Souls'
College, and Curate of Old AlresfOrd, Hants, has been pre-
sented by the Warden and Fellows of All Souls to the Vicarage
of Lewknor, in this county.
The Rev. H. W. Maddock, M. A. Fellow of Brazen Nose
College, and late Minister of Stepney New Church, to the
Vicarage of Kington, Herefordshire.
The Rev. Thomas Sikes, M. A. Corate of Luton, Beds,
to the Rectory of Puttenham.
The Rev. John Perowne t.) the Rectory of St. John of
Maddersmarket, Norwich ; and the Rev. C. Alcock, M. A. to

the consolidated Rectories of Witchingham St. Faith's and
Witchingham St. Mary, Norfolk ; patrons, the Warden and
Fellows of New College.
The Rev. Henry Churchman Long, B. A. to the Rectory of
Newton Flotman, with the Rectory of Swainsthorpe annexed,
Norfolk.
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The Rev. Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, A.B. to the
Rectory of St. Switfiin, Norwich, and to the Vicarage of
Bedingham, Norfolk.
The Rev. Edward Bethell Cox, LL.B. has been presented
by the Rev. John Barker to the Vicarage of Longstock, vacant
by the resignation of the Rev. John Barker, the last incumbent.
The Rev. James Hargreaves, M. A. Vicar of Shenston,
has been presented to the valuable Rectory of Handsworth,
near Birmingham, void by the death of the late Rev. Thomas
Lane Freer.

The Rev. William Waring, M. A. to the Vicarage of Wel-
ford, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
John Terreby.
On the 28th ult. the Rev. Peter Spencer, son of Peter
Spencer, Esq. of Park House, Cheltenham, to the Vicarage
of Ewel, in Kent, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor
Lyndhurst.
The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the Rev.
Walter Kitson, Vicar of Brislington, Somersetshire, to the
Rectory of Marksbury, in the said county, on the presentation
of Edward William Leyborne Popham, of Littlecott, Esq.,
patron.
On the 4th instant, the Rev. Alexander Templeman, M. A.
was licensed by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to the
perpetual and augmented curacy of Lopen, vacant by the
death of the Rev. A. Templeman, on the nomination of Earl
Poulett.

KING'S CONCERT ROOMS,

HANOVER SQUARE.

Mr. J. B. Sale, the musical instructor of Her Royal
Highness the Princess Victoria, held his Annual Benefit
Concert at these Rooms yesterday morning, under the pa-
tronage of the Duchess of Kent, and her illustrious
daughter. Mr. Sale had secured the able assistance of
Mademoiselle Grisi, Mrs. Bishop, and Misses C. Novello
and F. Healey ; Master Howe, Messrs. Braham, Hawkins,
Goulden, Hobbs, Vaughan, Walmisley, Phillips, and
Signor Tamburini. An excellent band was engaged, em-
bracing the members of the Philharmonic and Ancient
Concerts led by Mori. Mr. George Sale was the conductor.
The scheme embraced a numerous selection of excellent
compositions; in the dramatic school, from the works of
Purcel, Beethoven, Spohr, and Rossini ; in the madrigal
and glee, from Cooke, Arne, Walmisley, and Elliott ;
instrumental, Mozart, Weber, and Hummell ; choral,
Handel, and Haydn. The glees were well sung, and their
choice reflected the highest credit upon Mr. Sale's taste
and judgment. Moore's Anacreontic Glee was given with
much feeling by Messrs. Hawkins, Hobbs, Walmisley (the
composer), and Sale. The last movement is elegant and
novel ; and Mr. Hobbs, in his performance of the accompanied
melody, left us nothing to desire. The interrupted ca-
dence upon the A with the sharp sixth, is a good
adaptation of an instrumental position for the voices. Mr.
Braham sang with great feeling the beautiful scena entitled
Adelaida, by Beethoven, and was accompanied upon the
pianoforte by Mr. sale with corresponding taste. Mr.
Hobbs, in the song from Purcel, and Miss Novello, in the
Tyrolienne, ascribed (but with what truth we know not) to
the sound composer Panseron, severally obtained the
favourable opinion of the audience. The solo in C minor
from the Arther and Emmeline of Purcel, sung by Mr.
Phillips, is so dramatic in its character, and its modulations
are so unexpected and varied, that if it had the advantages
of the modern disposition of an orchestral score, it might be
imagined to be the composition of a Weber or a Spohr.
The progression from the E natural to the F, bearing the
chord of the flat sixth at the words
" Let me, let me freeze again,"
is a splendid instance that genius is of no clime or country
—no age or time. Weber's overture to the Ruler of the
Spirits was delightfully performed, and Mrs. Anderson,
in Hummell's rondo (from the concerto in A flat, dedicated
to her Majesty), displayed a most powerful finger and a
just appreciation of the many excellent conceptions of
the composer. The chorus from the Alexander's Feast of
Handel, " The many rend the skies" upon a ground bass,
is incomparable in its apparently simple, and yet learned
dispositions, and abounding in the most graceful and varied
melody. We have lately had occasion to mention the quin-
tett in A of Mozart, which was performed by Willman,
Mori, Watts, Moralt, and Lindley. The same remark ap-
plies to the fine fugue from the first Grand Mass of Haydn.
Grisi and Tamburini sang the duett in the second act of
L'Assedio di Corinto, which is one of the most favourable
specimens of Rossini's abilities. But with such a voice, and
such capabilities as this lady possesses, she might sing the
music backward to an untutored audience, and yet secure
unrestained and enthusiastic admiration. Mr. Phillips fol-
lowed her steps, and insinuated an encore from the audience
in a foolish ballad which it is unnecessary to dignify by par-
ticularizing. Tamburini secured the silent homage and
grateful remembrances of those who had " music in their
souls," by his performance of the grand scena in E major,
from the second act of the Faust of Spohr. It is one of
those compositions which draw " tears of deep delight" from
the heart, and, under the influence of its effects, the soul
becomes—

Uplifted to the purest sky
Of undisturbed humanity.
The Signor's conception of this magnificent scena was fully
equal to that of Lablache, who gave it with such power at
the last Philharmonic Concert. In either hands Mephisto-
pheles would have a most able representative. To the mu li
-
sical student this composition is a profound study, and in it
is apparently condensed the peculiar characteristics of this
author's method of orchestral writing. We should recom-
mend the Directors of the Ancient Concert to have this
song inserted in the programme of one of the concerts of
that society, in order that they might (for once) be intro-
duced to and learn to appreciate the prodigious power of
that harmony called the German sixth. This chord, either
in a simple or compound state, occurs many times in the
composition ; and in several instances Spohr gives it the
character of three distinct and opposite harmonies, by the
consummate skill displayed in disposing it for the instru-
ments. In one or two cases, where it appears upon the C
natural, the effect conveyed to the ear is as if the composer
had simultaneously employed the anomalous triads of C
natural, F sharp, and E natural. Truly, as Christopher
North says, " Genius is naturally a holy thing," and " the.
spirit bows before it" with humble and thankful devotion.
The composition abounds in the most abstruse and enhar-
monic modulations, and yet are so artfully constructed, that
few have an idea of their remote connection ; and the in-
version of the subject, which appears towards. the close of
the movement, is the result of the most ingenious and fer-
vid imagination. We are exceedingly desirous to hear these
great and accomplished musicians (Lablache and Tam-
burini) in this splendid specimen of operatic writing, and
after the decided success of the Fidelio of Beethoven, no
reasonable doubt can exist of the same result attending the
production of this best specimen of Spohr's learning and
genius. The room was crowded with a most numerous as-
semblage of beauty and fashion ; and their Royal High-
nesses testified their gratification by witnessing the whole of
the performance.

Viscount Fitzharris arrived in Park-street, a few
days ago, from a tour.
SUBSCRIPTION TO SUPPORT MESSRS. O'CON-
NELL AND RUTIIVEN.—A meeting has been held at the Royal
Hotel in this city, to defray such expenses as may be incurred
by the sitting Members, in consequence of the Commission
now sitting on the Dublin Election Petition, and to defeat the
audacious attempt of the Tory party to destroy the freedom of
election in Dublin. The meeting, though not announced in
the public journals, was most respectably attended, and in less
than a quarter of an hour 4001. was subscribed by a few of the
gentlemen present.

CHURCH RATES.—We have heard, although we
doubt the truth of the statement—.but we have just heard, that
the late Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary, having instituted
proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court against several
respectable individuals of that town, who object on principle
to the payment of Church Rates, have actually proceeded so
far as to issue an attachment for taking the body of Mr. John
Childs, in order to his being lodged in our County gaol. We
understand, the Churchwardens of Bungay have set up a troop
of choristers in their Church, for the payment of whose sa-
laries, and the washing of whose surplices, they are about to
consign those of their respectable neighbours to a prison, who
conscientiously refuse to pay. Our informant assures us (and
he has given us his name), that the warrant is actually in the
hands of the Sheriff's officer for execution, whenever Mr.
Childs returns from London, where he is known to have been
transacting business during the last week. We wait the re-
auk, reserving such remarks as naturally arise until we see the
development of this extraordinary proceeding. But, we re-
peat, that we can scarcely believe the truth of this statement,
because we know that Mr. Bobbit, one of the prosecutors, was
himself, until very lately, a Dissenter, and that Mr. Scott, the
other, was brought up in similar principles, his father having
been for many years, and was at his death, a Member of the
Independent Meeting here, and his mother was originally one
of the Society of Friends.—Correspondent of the Suffolk
Chronicle.

The vanity of our Gallic neighbours has long been
proverbial. A better proof of the truth of this accusation
cannot be given than that which occurred a few nights ago in
the opera-box of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, when it
was invaded by a colony of newly-arrived French, who loudly
maintained the ignorance of the English, and their want of
taste in music. A gentleman who ventured to differ with
them in opinion, and who supported his argument by pointing
out the good taste and discrimination with which every fine.
passage in the opera was applauded, was silenced, though 'act
convinced, by being gravely told that the London aw...tience
only applauded what they had heard had been aPPl.auded at
Paris, on the same principle, we suppose, as the E:,,glish ladies
adopt the Paris hats and bonnets. We trust l'„at our French
correspondent will inform us, by return of post, of the pas-
sages that we ought to admire in the
.WQ new forthcoming
operas, otherwise we may commit se
plau-
dits.—Morning Paper. sole solecism in our