Star.
London, England, 1824-12-11 00:00:00

OXFORD,DRCEMBER 11.

Thursday, the std instant, -Mr. Charles Williams, Commoner of
Jesus College, was elected Scholar of thai Society.
The knowing subjects are proposta for the Chancellor's Prima,
for the ensuing year, via.
Fos Lasts Vanass—lncendium Lemdineoseanno 1666.
Fos aw gamut* Essay—Language, in its copiousness and struc-
ture, considered as a test of national civilisation.
Tea • Lasts Essay—De Tribunicia spud Romano; potentate.
The first of the above subjects is intended for those Gentlemen
of the University who have not exceeded four years from the time
of their Matriculation; and the other two for such as have eaeeeded
four, but not completed seven years.
SIR Rana New:am:ea Pants—For the best composition in
English Verse, not containing either more or fewer than Fifty Lines
by any Undergraduate who has not exceeded foot years from the
time of his Matriculation:

The Temple of Vesta at Moll.,

Thursday last, the folloiring Degrees were conferred :
Backmost in Divniery.—The Rev. Thomas Cur, Trinity College.
Bat-slaws is Manicnra.--John Wootton, Balliol College, with
license to practice.
Marmots or Ans.—Russell Ellice, Esq. Brasennose College,
grand compounder; Charles Parkin, Brasennose College; Rev.
John Smith, St. Edmund Hall.
Bacsurtoas or Anew—Joshua Ingham, Esq. University College,
grand compounder; Philip Thresher, University College; Robert
Watts, Scholar of Lincoln College; William Irwin, Scholar of
Queen's College; George Riggs, Scholar of Queen's College;
David Robinson, Queen's College; George Thompson, Queen's.
College; W. Leader, Christ Church ; Henry Somers Cocks, Christ
Church; Thomas Stokes Salmon, Brasennose College; William
Parson Hopton, Trinity College; Henry Francis Earle, Trinity
College ; Francis Philips Hahne, St. Alban Hall ; David Twopeoy,
Oriel College; George Browne Francis Pottkary, Magdalen Hall;
Joseph Charles Philpot,. Scholar of Worcester College.

The Most Noble the• Marquis of Queensberry has presented the
Rev. Dunce► Stewart Singer to the Church and Parish of Mouse-
weld, vacant by the death of the Rev. Jacob Dickson.
The Ist instant, the Associate Congregation of Balbeggie, in the
Presbytery of Perth, gave an unanimous call to Mr. Jas. Brown,
Preacher of the Gospel, to be their Pastor.
Rev.Charks Griffiths, B.A. to the Rectory of Tuna:hoe, Devon,
void by the resignation of the Rev. William Charles Hill.
Tuesday, the 30th November, being the Annual Meeting of the
Venerable the Dean and Chapter of Bristol Cathedral, the Rev.
John Parsons, the Rev. Henry Green, and the Rev. John Latey
having resigned their Miner Canonries, the following Gentlemen
were elected to make up the fuU number of six, as prescribed by
the Statutes of Henry Vlll.—the Rev. Joseph Cross, the Rev.
Ames Heilicar, the Rev. Fred. Rouch, and the Rev. Lambert.
At the same meeting the Rev. Milner was elected Master of
the College Grammar School, in the room of the late Mr. Taylor.
Lord John Thynne has appointed the Rev. William Gale, of
Ashwick, to be his Curate, at Walton, Somerset.

HUNTING.
His blajesty's Stag-hounds Will meet on Monday, at Bracknell;
aad Friday, at Langley Broom.
William Wells, who last Monday se'nnight commenced the es-
traordiamy task of walking from Devoupett to Exeter in one day,
and back the next, for twenty days, ban*, after kw days perse-
verance, gave up the undertaking.

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