The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Dkc. 23.

ELECTION OF STUDENTS OF CHRIST Cnuacti.—At
a Chapter of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church,
held this morning, the following gentlemen were
elected Canon's Students, viz.:--Messrs. Charles
Henry Philip Abbot, Samuel R. Gardiner, and
Charles Hampden' Commoners of Christ Church ; and
Messrs. Levie and Balfour were elected Westminster
Studentq.

Mr. William Ridding, Probationary Fellow of New
College, has been made an Actual Fellow of that
society.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 24.
TRINITY HALL-CELEBRATION OF THE FIVE
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUN-
DATION.

The five hundredth anniversary of the foundation
of this College was celebrat3d last Monday evening by
a grand banquet in the ball.
The Venerable Mister of the College, Sir Herbert
Jenner Fust, presided, and was supported at his table
by the Right Hon. H. Goulburn and Mr. Loftus
Wigram, representatives of the University ; Mr.
Baron Alderion, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Sir A. E.
Cockburn, Solicitor-General ; the Masters of Trinity,
St. Peter's, Emmanuel, Sidney, Downing, and St.
Catharine's Hall ; Professor Maine, Rev. Dr. Gel-
dart, late Professor of the Civil Law; R. G. Townley,
Esq , M P. fur the county ; the Hon. W. F. Camp-
bell, M.P. for the borough ; the Bsv. Mr. Bourdillon
and the Rv. Mr. Ebden, formerly Tutors of Trinity
Hall ; Dr. Blake, Dr. Haggard, Mr. Barlow and Mr.
Geldart.

At the other tables sat the following gentlemen :
The Rev. Mr. Marsh, the: Vice-Master; the Rev.
Mr. Romilly, Registrary of the University ; the Rev.
W. Bateson, Public Orator of the University ; the
Rev. Mr. Thacker, Senior Proctor ; the Rev. Mr.
Fen wick, Junior Proctor; the Rev. Mr. Hand,
Vice-Provost of King's College; Drs. Roupell, Jen-
ner, Wyatt, %Voodham, Bayford, Dodson, Wrench,
Matchatn, Bankes, Curteis, Paget (Caius Coll.) ; the
Rev. Mr. Power, of Clare Hall, and formerly
Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall; the Rev. Mr.
Mills, Fellow of Pembroke College ; the Rev. H.
Goodwin, formerly Fellow of Caius College ; the
Rev. Mr. Sampson, Incumbent of Kingston; the
F. Hildyard, formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity
Hall ; and Messrs. Wetherall, Nelson, Haggard, Car-
ter, Latham, Sidney Smith, F. Howes, W. Cooke,
Bristow, Hallam, Greene, Phelips, Curtois, H.
Jenner, Francis, E. R. Cooke, Walton, Cambridge,
Hale, Bayford, Oliver, Hansard, W. Coote, Pigot,
Prendergast, Colquhonn, Badger, C. Jenner, Heath,
Foster, Dilke, Maclean, Day, Cowie, Woodhouse,
and Abdy.
The invitations included Lord Brougham, Mr.
Baron Parke, and the Bishop of Norwich, all of
whom were expected to be present, but were prevented
by illness or engagements.
At the conclusion of the first course the memory of
the Founder was proposed by the MASTER, who
pledged the same out of a grace cup, and his example
was then followed by the remainder of the company
standing. On the removal of the cloth the Master
gave in quick succession, " The Queen," " His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Chancellor of the Uni-
versity," and " His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." These
having been duly honoured, the Master said that with
the next toast he would connect the name of the
Bishop of Norwich, whom he had hoped to have the
honour of seeing present; and should they desire to
know why that prelate bad been selected on that
occasion in connexion with the toast of the
Church, he might remind them that their founder
was also Bishop of Norwich.—(Cheers.) They thought
they should best testify their gratitude for the muni-
ficence of their founder by naming his successor in
connexion with this toast. The Right Rev. Prelate
would have attended, but other engagements had pre-
vented him. He proposed " The Church, prosperity
and stability to it ; and the health of the Lord Bishop
of Norwich."—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. ARCUDALL, Master of Emmanuel
College, acknowledged the toast. In celebrating the
five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the
college, their thoughts would be led back to the me-
diaeval ages, the dark ages of superstition, when war
and bloodshed, and violence and rapine were deemed
the true characteristics of real nobility, and blind
subjection to a bigoted priesthood was denominated
true religion.—(Cheers.) But two hundred years
after the foundation of that college came the Refor-
mation, and the blessed light of God's word shone
through the veil of darkness that had overshadowed the
land and the schools in this place. That college,
though founded more particularly for the study of
the law, bad yet furnished its fair share of eminent
men in other branches, learned divines and skilful
theologians; but of these none, perhaps, more eminent
than he who presided over the house at the present
period, and of whom it might well be observed, " nec
pluribus impar." Amongst the predecessors of the
present Master he alluded to Stephen Gardiner, the
'ferocious Bishop of Winchester, who put to death one
of his own fellows, Thomas Batley, the martyr, be-
cause he denied the truth of the doctrine of transub-
stantiation, and preached the gospel in plain English.
Should they then entertain serious alarm for the
Church, or our other institutions ? He trusted not.
Though Popery was again lifting its head and endea-
vouring to regain by its aggressions our colleges, our
churches, and our cathedrals, yet, spite of Popery and
the infidelity which was always closely allied with it,
in spite of all phases of dissent, in spite of Royal
Commissions and even Parliamentary Commissions
to back these, he should have no fear for the Church
or other institutions, so long as they did their duty
by the country in supplying a sound, useful, and
solid education, based on the principles of gospel
truth and the sound teaching of the Protestant
Church of England.—(Cheers.)

The MASTER said his next toast would be " The
Old llouse," which, though it had arrived at so con-
siderable an age, was still bale and hearty, and he
trusted it would continue in that state for many years
to come.—(Cheers.) The college was somewhat
peculiar, as the only one immediately devoted to the
study of the law. It was originally founded by
Bishop Bateman for promoting the study of the
civil and canon law. That, then, was the appro-
priate character of the hall at the time previously
mentioned (by Dr. Archdall); and it had been the
original intention of the founder to make the
foundation more extensive than it had been pos-
sible to carry out. He had intended that it
should be endowed for a master, twenty fellows,
and three scholars, but his death unfortunately
happened before he could carry his desig❑ into effect,
and the original admission consisted of a master,
three fellows, and one scholar ; but through the be-
neficence of various benefactors the society
had amounted to a master, twelve fellows (ten
lay and two clerical), and they had that day had the
satisfaction of electing a member of the college into a
fellowship founded by a former member of the col-
lege, Mr. I3ourdillon.—(Applause.) They had
elected a third clerical fellow to assist the two others,
and looking at the purpose of the original foundation,
which was, as he had stated, the study of the civil and
canon law, they had thought proper to extend, as far
as they could, the benefit originally intended to arise,
and had founded scholarships to enable those who had
received their education on the foundation, who had
kept their terms, and had graduated in arts, or had
performed the exercises for the degree of bachelor of
laws, to maintain themselves for two or three years
after leaving college, and to pursue their studies at
one of the inns of court, or to procure admission as
advocates at Doctors' Commons.—(Applause.)
Though the more appropriate object of the members
of the college was the study of the law, yet
they were not very deficient in persons who
had made a figure in society in other branches.
Of these the first he would mention was
Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely, afterwards Bishop of
Westminster, and the only person who held that title
until the present moment, and the only legitimate
possessor of it.—(Cheers.) Next came one who had
been mentioned already, and that not to his credit, he
meant Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester and
Lord Chancellor. However, "De mortuis nil nisi
bonum." Sir Walter Hatton came next, and the
changes had been rung between him and Gardiner,
eminent men both, but different in principle and
character. Among the profession of the law
he might mention some of modern date, whom,
if his hearers were not personally acquainted
with them, they still knew by the perspicuity of
the judgments in which they had been concerned;
he alluded to Sir Eardley Wilmot, Sir Benjamin
Holland, and Sir Simon !e Blanc. There was yet
another person to whom he must refer from the cha-
racter he bore, and the station he held in the world
of belles-lettres, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterfield—(Applause)--and next he might men-
tion the Earl of Fitz,villiam, to whom belonged the
honour of the foundation of the magnificent building
know❑ as the Fitz william Museum. After thus enu-
merating the members of whom they had just reason
to be proud, he begged once more to propose " The
old House and health and prosperity and stability to
it."—(Drank with three times three, and one more.)
The MASTER now proposed " Her Majesty's Judges
of the Courts of Common Law," coupling with the
toast the health of his excellent and Honourable
Friend on his left hand (Mr. Baron Alderson), and
the Learned Judge opposite (Mr. Justice Talfourd.)
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, who was warmly received,
said, it was his pleasurable duty to return thanks for
his brother Talfourd and himself and the other judges
in their absence, who, he doubted not, would have
been present had they known the scene they would
have witnessed. For himself, he might say that he
had been connected with the University for a long
period of time ; he had been born and bred, and had
struggled amongst them, and might say with Horace
"Militavi non sine gloria."—(Cheers.) One of the
greatest satisfactions he had ever experienced was in