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London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELIAGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE,Imia 1.•
The Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem by a re
'Went undergraduate was on Tuesday last adjudged to Chtistopbe -
Wordsworth. of Trinity College. Subject—TM Druids. Two
other exercises were declared by the examiners to have great merit,
and the authors were desired to communicate thelt names to the
' Vice Chancellor. We tuiderstand that these two exercises were
both written by T. R. Hank'upon, of Corpus Christi College. -
At a congregation en Wednesday last the following degrees were
conferred—
Moroi' am Dretart---Rev. John Lamb, Master of Corpus
Clarlstl College.
BACIIILOS IN Divsorrr —Bev. E. Stubby. Fellow of St. John's
College.
Mamas or Aure—Rev: Thomas Dawkins, St. John's College;
Rev. John Tenon, Clete Hall; Rev. Charles Arnold, Fellow of
Cetus College; Rev. William Ford, Magdalene College; Rev.
Walter blather Ward, Emmanuel College.
Baconian. is CIVIL Law—Frederick Legrey Hesse, Try
Hall.
Bocurt.Osi as Purstc—Charles Barham, Queen's College.
Bacencoits or Aars—John Dimwit., Trinity College; John
Parker Nuttall, St. John's College; Robert Mann Botcheray, St.
John's College; Robert Stevenson Ellis, St. Peter's College; Rev.
Oeo. Hutchins, Corpus Christi College ; Abel Smith, Christ Col-
lege; Francis Miles Willan, Chita College; Phineas Williams,
Magdalene College, (Compounder); Wm. Christopher Porton,
Sidney College; St. John Wells Lucas, Downing College, (Com-
, pounder) James Beauchamp, Clare Hall; Haygarth Baynes,
Queen's College; Matthew Fortescue, Queen's College.
At the same congregation the Rev. Robert Isaac Wilberfors
, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, was admitted ad condom.

MCCLVIIAMC•L PIIO3IIOTIOXIL
The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Rev. Wm. Hildyard,
M.A. Fallow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, one of his
Lordship's Chaplains.
The Rev. ILevison Vernon, Rector of Stokesley, to be Chancel.
inr, and the Rev. Mr. Levitt, vicar of *ay, Berks, to be Subdesn,
of York Cathedral.
The 26th ult. the Rey. Jonathan Chase Matchett, A.M. teas in-
stituted to the Vicarage of Caton, Norfolk.
The Rev. T. Cartiey, has bees instituted to the Rectory of
Sneaten, near Whitby. On which occaalou the worthy Rector dis-
tributed clothing to the whole of the poor of the parish.
At an Ordination held on the 24th instant. by the Bishop of
Dromore, the following candidates were admitted to the holy order
of Priesthood—The Rev. Isaac M. Corry. the Rev. George
Macartney Black, for the diocese of Dromore; and the Rev.
James Crofton, for the diocese of Knish.
Anciereasrecurr.—The United Synod have, in conformity wkh
his own request, appointed John Taylor,,M.D. preacher of the
Gospel, to be Minister of the First Assoilate Congregation In Edin-
burgh, in a case of competition with the Associate Congregutiou of
Lockerby, Dumfries.shire.
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Tea Burro Taavetxts.—The University of Cambridge has re-
cetnly been visited fee the first time by the celebrated blind tra-
veller, Mr. Holman. This Gentleman, who had tbswildisettuse to
lose ids sight about ,Ilfteen years since, has tableland', litlatU
degree of distinction in. the literary world, which persons
possession of all their miens might well be proud to reach. Warm
intrepidity which the present age must wonder at, and which pests-
thy will hardly believe, he explored his way through Russia andthe
'heart of Siberia without permanent guide or compasios. No OW
can have enjoyed the pleasure of his society without being astonished
at his exquisite tact, and the intelligence of Ids obsetuationsim
character rind manners. His address in solleedog the mist Mime
information, and his power of retaining every detail, bicillispisma.
assisted memory, so 'alarmed the jealousy of the late sfer
.
Alexander, that he caused. him to be arrested ass spy, and con.
ereyed by force beyond the boundaries of his dominions. He elm.
mined with the most scrutinising attention many of the curiosities
preserved in the public receptacles of this University, and will pro-
bably be able to give a far clearer idea 'of the value and Interest of
these collections than the larger part of those strangers who merely
visit them to dispel the languor of ennui.. Mr. Holman, we under-
stand, will very shortly leave this country for the coast of Africa,
and it would be a singular circumstance to all but those who have
seen that Gentleman, or perused kis works, if our knowledge of the
interior of that mysterious continent was to be first completed by
the researches of a blind tourist.
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Llv&RrooL.—The following is the reported distribu-
tion of the late THOIIAtiLtYLANP, Esq.'s property :
Two Hundred Thousand rounds to his widow.
Three Hundred Theuiithr Pounds to his nephew, Rickard
Bailin, Esq.
Three Hundred Thousand' Ids to his nephew, Christopher
Bailie,Esq.
One Thousand Pounds per annum to his ulcer, Mrs. Naylor, now
Mrs. Ware. but formerly Mies Mita.
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds to her eldest son now at school,
twelve years of age, and to take the name of Leyland.
Ten Thousand PWaods 'to each of his brothers and sisters.
Ten Thousand Pounds to the Public Charities of this place.
And minor legacies.,