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Best Intentions; or, Refledions and Thoughts for Youth'
Maturity, and Age. 12mo. pp. 240.
This tasty little volume answers well to its title. The
following are extracts :
" 4;anstag.—Gaming is one of the most pernicious prac-
tices, and yet few are more enticing and bewitching; a
man gains, he gains more, and he looks forward to the
absolute possession of immense wealth ; he calculates of
certainty on the foundation of deceit, and I,ecause he has
7.aiiied once, and yet a second time, he thinks himself
secure in the layout itism of Fortune. Now he loses once,
hot fascination whispers it is but once : he still loses, the
storm gathers round its victim, and he is still uncon-
scious Of his danger ; he now risks all his possession, and
his possession is in an instant flown from the power of
his grasp ;he loses everything—he is in absolute misery
and disquietude; he sinks into nothing, he is lost, his
spit its fail, his fortune is vanished, his fond expectations
of immense wealth are passed like a dream, and now he
is penayless. Still he retains that curse of habitual pro-
pensity to this sad delusion ; he scrapes from every cor-
ner the pittance of his goods, and them also he sacri-
fices at the shrine of the uncertain idol—he becomes in
actual want, and dies with the most agonised feelings of
regret for his past folly."
fdkness.—ldleness is a two-fold sin ;it not only de-
stroys time and prevents proper employment, but is the
most certain method of receiving easily the suggestions
of that wicked st irit who watches every opportunity
when the mind is vacant to endeavour to instil into the
heart thoughts subservient to the world, and which ren-
der the smil more liable U eternal perdition ; if through
the malicious subtlety of Satan these thoughts do enter,
it is decidedly best, at the same time that we repent our
negligence has suffered them, not to entertain the recol•
lection of them."

UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE
The Chancellor's Gold Medal for the best English Poem by a re-
sident undergraduate, was on Friday List adjudged to Winthrop
Mackworth Mars', Scholar of Trinity College. Subject, :lawns.
At a Congregation, on Friday last, the following Degrees were
conferred :
Doclors IN CIVIL LAW—The Rtv. Daniel Guildford Wait, St.
John's College, Rector of Blagdon, Somerset,
141.:Eci.on or Ants—(lunge Alexander Paske,
At an Ordination holden by the Bishop of Ilristol, is the Chapel
Of Christ College, in this University, on Sunday last, the following
liertlesnen were admitted into Holy Orders, vie.
Dexcosa—Williain I'. Spencji, M.A. St. John's College, Cam-
bridge; Thomas Ward Franklyn. B.A. St. John's College, Cam-
tridge ; John Both, 13. A. Qacen's Collev„ Cambridge; Edmund
C. Hamard, M.A. Jesus College, tJanihridge; Robert Ewing, B.A.
Trinity College, Dublin; Thomas Ferris, B.A. St. John's College,
Cambridge ; Joseph lbbetson, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge;
Edward Cooke, Morale ; Frederick Holmes, 13. A. St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge; James Whiting, B.A. Queen's College, Cam-
bridge; Bernard .lloure, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge; Henry
Cbetwode, Literute ; Edward Mew, 11. A. Oriel College, Oxford.
Pear,rs—Fdward Miller, 13. A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge;
Even Nrpean, ILA. Trinity College. Cam bridge; Alfred Yeasty,
11. A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Richard Twopenny, M.A.
St. John's College, Cambridge; Leonard Jearyris, B.A. St. John's
Cand;ri,ige ; Wi i I i“mi Robert nawsher, Ti init y College,
Cambridge; %Va. am I I. Presco: .1. Drasennose Cullege,Os ford.

OXFORD, JUNE 12.
Saturday, the last day of Easter Term, the following Degrees
were conferred t
al..tr.tts or Ait Ts.—Pey. Pidlip Gregson I larper, Wailhant col-
Rec. Robert It and Mentlham, College.
Bee:trims!: in, At:M.—Mallard Leonard Adams, k-ip Student of
Christ Church, Grand Compounder; John llorsiden, Exeter Cul-
; Henry Edwin Chamberlain, Exeter College; John Prideaux
Jaelitfoot, Exeter College ; John Bond, Wadhain College; James
Eveleigh, Worcester College; Alexander Templeman, Queen's
College ; John Still, St. Mary Hall; Henry Richards, Alugdalen
Hall; Richard &away, Christ Church; John Perkins. Christ
Church; Lewis Richards, Jesus College; Sail:ucl Owen Priestley,
Trinity Colkge; John Thomas Palmer, Brasennose College; Fre-
d !rick Grmme Middleton, Demy of Magdalen College ; John
Niers King, Scholar of Banjul College.
The whirl: number of Degrees in Easter Term was 1).1). four;
P.C.L. one; 11 D. seven ; B.C. L. one ; ALA. forty-one; B.A.
ti ty-r wo. Matriculations, eighty-nitre.
Wednesday, June 9, the first day of Act Term, the following
I): greys were conferred :
BACII ELOIL ix CIVIL Law.—Licwcilin Meyrick. Queen's College.
Lux or A WVlL—Groge ifs-ridall, Esq. Fellow of Merton
College ,• Henry Bellenden nolteell, Fellow of ENeterCullege ; Rev.
!hairy Richards, Exeter College ; John W. Ready Laittlon, &Am-
t.?. of Worcester College; William Butler, Scholar of Worceater
troller ; Rev. George Clulow, Queen's College ; Rev. Francis
Hole, Queen's College; James Wilson, St. Mary Hall; Rev. Fre-
derick Spring, St. Edmund Ilall ; Rev. Charles Hodgson, Student
o ClarEt Church; Rev. Charles Watkin Wynne Eyton, Fellow of
Jest!, College; Rev. Ilewelyn Llewellin, Scholar of Jesus Col-
lege; Rev. Item Howell, Scholar of Jetars College; Rev. Thomas
S:acey, Jesus College; Richard Ilarrington, Fellow of Ikasetinose
College; Rev. John Wetherall, Brasennose College; Rev. Cluales
.I:loffat, Brasennuse College; John Lloyd Philipps, Brasennuse
Col-
l.ge; Rev. Thomas Horatio Walker Oriel College; Rev. John
Flory Howard, Triaity College; Rev:John Manuel Echalaz, Scho-
lar of Trinity College ; James Robert Chaplyn, Scholar of Trinity
College ; Edward Gardiner, College; Rev. Thomas Disslaud,
Ualliol College; Rev. John Bird, Iltasennose College.
Bactitt.ons or ARTS.—Thomas Prichard, Esq. St. Mary Hall,
grand compound:xi James Walker, Esq. 'Trinity College, grand
conspotine.er; William Thomas Ken:Lir:sop, St. Alban Hall; Charles
Cleeve, St. Alban Hall ; Edward Dix, Exeter College;
Ilecry Edwards Shew, Worcester College; William Houhlaworth,
Tailcoat College ; Benjamin Robert Perkins, Lincoln College ;
Thomas Walmsley Teasdale, Scholar of Lincoln College; Matthew
Ctulmond Sarjant, Queen's College ; Joseph Timothy Radler,
Queen's College; Edward Biage!.in, St. klary Hall; John Robert
Hamilton, St. Mary Hall ; David Davies, St. Edmund Hall ; James
Beaven, St. Edmund ; lion. Aathol:y ‘Vifliani Ashley Cooper,
Christ Church ;Jion. Thomas Atherton Powyss,yhristChorch;

Lewis John Arthur WynnF", Christ Church • is Purbrick, Christ
Church; Thomas Alorgan, Jesus College; John Price, Jesus
Sege; Frederick Ih'illiant Slade, Braseminst: College; Daniel Janies
Eyre, Oriel College ; Charles Langton. Trinity College; Frederick
Goddard, Trinity College; John Sandford, Ralliol College ; Charles
Beauchamp Cooper, Universiiy College; Samuel Richard Capel,
Wadhani College ; Richard .Alicheil, Wadliam College; -Ludes
Scutt, W.iclhain College ; Peter Cotes, Scholar of Wadhani College ;
Nvilliani Ricketts, Merton Culkge.
The *AMC day, in Couvocation, the Elev. C. Davits, 'ALA. Fellow

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of l'entbroke College, the ltcv. Owen Owen, M.A. Fellow of Jesus
College, and the Itev. itichartl William JOI, Fellow of °rid
College, were nominated Nlasters of the School,.

ECCLESIASTICAL pßomonoNs.

The Lord Chancellor has presented the following Reverend
Gentlemen to the under-mentioned Livings :—The ILv. Thomas
S. Gosset, M.A. to the Vicarage of Old Windsor; the Rev. Dr.
French, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of
Cretingham, in the county of Suffolk; the Rev. Solomon Piggott.
to the Rectory of Dunstable, in Bedfordshire; the Rev. /1111C.4
Mahler, to the Vicarage of Cudham, in the county of Kent

ILLUMINATION OT THE ALPS.—MUNICII, MAY 31.
•—Yesterday evening, the weather being very fine, and
the sky serene, we had the pleasure of seeing the illu-
mination of the Alps at Tegernsee, seven German (32
English) miles from this city, which took place in ho-
nour of his Imperial Highness the Archduke FRANCIS
CHARLES. Besides the illumination of the summits of
the Alps, there were splendid fireworks, and the whole
produced the finest effect ever witnessed on such an oc-
casion. Their MAJESTIES will be back at Nyniphenburg
by the 4th of June.

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