The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-05 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY I.—At a congregation on Wednes-
day last, the following degrees were conferred :

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.—Wm. Johnson, St. John's
College.
MAsTERs OF ARTS.—Morgan Thomas, Trinity Col-
lege ; Charles Pelham Villiers, St. John's College Robert
Harkness, St. John's College; John Goodman Maxwell.
Caius College; Edwin Guest, Coins College; Charles
Austin, Jesus College ; Thomas Grainger Hall, Fellow of
Magdalene College ; Rev. Robert Bentley Buckle, Fellow
of Sidney College ; Wm. Brooke Kempson, Sidney College.
BACHELOR IN PHYSlC.—Nicholas Francis Davison,
Cams College.
BACHELORS OF ART5....40h1l Hamilton Hall, Trinity
College; James Lloyd Wallace, Trinity College; Evelyn
Waddington, Trinity College; James Davis, St. John's
College ; William Braithwaite, St. John's College ; John
Gwyther, St. John's College; Win. Wheler Hume, St.
John's College ; Wm.4Scott, St. Peter's College ; Brad-
field Sanders, St. Peter's College ; John Biddulph, Clare
Hall; Edward Richard Poole, Trinity Hall ; Thomas
Nicholl, Trinity Hall; Daniel Capper, Queen's College;
Joseph Medlicott, Queen's College ; Joseph Singleton,
Queen's College; Lewis Marcus, Queen's College; John
White, Queen's College ; Gustavus Warner, Queen's Col-
lege ; William Grice, Queen's College; Richard Stain-
forth, Queen's College; Edward Barlow Seckerson, Ca-
tharine Hall ; John Jennings Smith, Catharine Hall ;
Wm. J. J. Leach, Jesus College ; Benjamin Agar, Jesus
College ; Thomas Boydell, Magdalene College; Francis G.
Rawlins, Emmanuel College; James Joseph Hamilton
Lawson, Sidney College.
A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on
Monday, the Rev. Professor Cumming, the President,
being in the chair. The commencement of a paper by
Mr. Sutcliffe, of Trinity College, was read, on the appli-
cation of matheiriatics to political economy, and to the case
of tithes in particular. A paper was also read by Mr.
Whewell, on the rules of perspective to be observed in
drawing panoramas. After the meeting Professor Sedg-
wick exhibited a very large pair of horns, found near Wal-
ton, in Essex, and a specimen of the Icthyoramus from
Lyme.
The Rev. Win. Pakenham Spencer, M.A., Fellow and
Assistant Tutor of St. John's College, has been presented
to the Rectory of Starston, in Norfolk, vacant by the death
of the Rev. W. Whitear.—Patrons, the Earl of Suffolk
and the Hon. H. Howard, of Greystoke.
The Rev. G. D. St. Quintin, 8.A., of Trinity College,
has been presented to the Rectory of Broughton, with the
Chapel of Bossingten, Hampshire. /
On Wednesday, the 25th ult., the Bishop of Peter-
borough instituted the Rev. Thomas Mercer, M.A., to the
Rectory of Arthiugworth, in the county of Northampton,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Langham Rokeby.—Pa-
tron, Langham Rokeby, Esq.
The Hulsean Lectures for the present year, will be con-
tinued at Great St. Mary's Church, at eleven o'clock, on
the following mornings :—Friday, May 11 ; Friday, May
IS ; Friday, May 25 ; Friday, June 1.

TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, MAY 4.—There will be
an Election to a Scholarship at the above college on Trinity
Monday. Natives of any County, between the ages of six-
teen and twenty, whether members of the University or
not, are eligible ; apd candidates are required to appear,
with certificates of baptism, and the usual testimonials, be-
fore nine o'clock on Wednesday morning the 6th of June.
OXFORD, MAY s.—On Tuesday the Ist inst., the Rev.
Thomas Home, B.D. formerly Student of Christ Church,
was nominated by the Heads of Colleges to preach the
Baropton Lectures for the year 1828.
On the same day Evan Morgan, B.A. Commoner of
Jesus college; was elected Scholar of that Society.
On Wednesday last the Rev. John Shuldham, M.A.
Student of Christ Church, was nominated a Public Exa-
miner in Literis Humanioribus.
On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred :
BACHELORS IN DiviNrry.—Rev. Charles Henry Wat-
ling, Fellow of Jesus, Bachelor in Medicine, with License
to practise; Herctiles Moore Boultbee, Merton.
MASTERS OF ARTS. -Rev. Thomas Alban, Worcester ;
Rev. Henry Wood, Edmund-hall ; Joseph William Moss,
Magdalen-hall : Rev. Geo,ge AndreWs, Trinity ; Rev.
Wm. Francis Harrison, Demy of Magdalen ; James Ro.
bert Pears, Fellow of Magdalen; Rev. Henry Linton,
Demy of Magdalen ; Rev. Frederick Grmeme Middletoa,
Denny of Magdalen.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Lawrence Eberall Judge;"New
College ; John Scot, Edmund-hall ; John Frederick
Leach, Brasenose ; Charles Washington Lawrence, Bra.
sense; Edward Hughes Chamberlain, University; John
Usborne, University : Edward Bridges Richards, Jesus.

DIVIDENDS.
C. Watson and A. Wood, Shrevisbury, milliners, July
11, at one, at the Fox Inn, Shrewsbnry—R. Hill, lligh-
street, Southwark, stationer, May 29, at nine, at the Court
of Commissioners—T. L. Bellamy, South Crescent, Al-
fred-place, Tottenham-court-road, music instrument-seller,
May 25, at eleven, at' the Court of Commissioners--G.
Lamb, Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill, merchant, May
29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners--J.
Zimmer, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, merchant,
May 25, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—
T. Maltby and H. Buckland, Gutter-lane, Cheapside,
lace manufacturers, May 25, at eleven, at the Court
of Commissioners—S.. Peake, jun. and J. Bothwell,
Halliwell, Lancashire, calico printers, May 25, at eleven,
at the Bridge Inn, Little Bolton, Lancashire—R. Rich-
mond, Leicester, woollen draper, May 30, at two, at
the Three Crowns Hotel, Leicester—S. Crosland and
B. Worth, Engine-bridge, Almondbury, Yorkshire, fancy
goods manufacturers, May 25, at eleven, at the. White THE NEW MASTER OF THE ROLLS.--Sll 1 THE GLOVE TRADE.--.-We have much plea-
Horse Inn, Hudd&sficld, Yorkshire—J. Proudlove and T. John Leach, the late Vice-Chancellor, was the i sure its stating, that in this city the Glove Trade
Swift, Blackburn, Lancashire, calico manufacturers, May
28, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester T. Crowder and
son of an ironmonger at Bedford, who was fa.- I and the branches connected with it have expe-
H. T. Perfect, Liverpool, merchants, May 26, at eleven; mous for making steel spurs. Sir John was I rienced some improvement ; this circumstance,
at the George Inn, Liverpool—T. Crowder, Li- first intended for an architect, and was placed with combined with other causes, incident to the sea-
verpool, merchant, May 25, at two, at the Geor"ge Sir John Taylor, for that purpose ; but subset son, has diminished the application at the House
Inn, Dale.:street; LiVerpool-4.' and .1: Sills, Tipper
fluently, and very fortunately, as the result has of Industry by at least twenty weekly.--.Worces-
Thames-street, merchants, May - 25, at twelve, at the
Court of Commissioners—J. Somers, Ilolywell-street, shown, for himself, his destination was changed. ter Journal.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Augustus Asgil Colville, M.A. and Student of
Christ Church, has been presented by the Dean and
Chapter of that Society to the curacy of Hampton, in tilt
county of Worcester.
The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to
pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Brit
taro and Ireland, nominating the Rev. John Thos. James,
M.A. to the Bishopric of Calcutta, void by the death of
Dr." Reginald Heber.— Gazette.
The Rev. William Norris, M. A. on his own petition, to
the Rectory of Warblington, Hants, vacant by the death of
his father, the Rev. WilliaM Norris.
The Rev. Geo. Hall, 11I.A. on his own presentation, as
patron, to the Vicarage of Tenbury, and the Rectory of
Rochford, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Rocke.