Star.
London, England, 1828-11-29 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 2s.
Vtiday George Heaton, William Kitcourt Harrison. and Francis
Forster were elected Skirne Scholars of Catharine Hall.
Wednothy the Rev. It. Burgh Byant, M.A. of King's College,
was restated by the Provost and Fellows of that Society, to the
Vicarage of Kew and Petersham.
Same day the Rev. James Thomas Price. M.A. Fellow of
King's College, was presented by the Provost and Fellows of that
Society, to the Rectory of Loys Weedon, 'in the county of
Northampton.
A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday
evening, the Right Reverend the Bishop of Lincoln, the President.
being in the Chair. A memoir was read by Professor Airy, "On
the longitude of the Cambridge Observatory." He observed that
difference of longitude, as determined by geodetical operations, and
by differences of sidereal time, do not necessarily coincide. They
depend upon different definitions, and are useful for difftrent pur-
poses. The geodetical longitude of Cambridge Observatory frost
Greenwich, as proved by the trigonometrical survey, is £4s. 6. of '
time east. But on the List, 22d, and 23d of October last, a com-
parison of tbe,transit clocks at the two places was made by mean,
of sit pocket chronometers, carried four times from one place to
the other; and this gave the astronomical difference of longitude
235. 34. which Professor Airy considers as the quantity to be used
in future. A paper was also read by -Mr. Willis, of Caius College,
" On the Vowel Sounds ;" and after the meeting, experiments
were exhibited illustrative of the doctrines asserted. It appears
that the vowel sounds may be produced by means of a loose reed
in the order 1, e, a, I, o, 6, u • by successively contracting the
aperture of the cavity in front Of the reed. It appears also, that
by fitting on a tube. of gradually increasing length, the sounds pro-
duced are, the above series of vowels in a direct order—and the
same in an inverse order—with intermediate positions giving no
sound; anJ that this cycle Is repeated at equal lengths of the tube.
A variety of other int • g facts and principles were brought
furwud.

OXFORD, Nov. 29.
Thursday the following Degrees were conferred :
NACIIELOILS 1$ DIVINITY.

Rev. Edward Burton, late Student of Christ Church. Grand
Compounder.
Hon. and Rev. Oafs Ole Pe new, Corpus Christi C.ollese, Grand
Compounder.

ISAATIMS 07 ARTS.
Rev. William SearWough, Christ Church.
Rev. Francis Charles Alderman, Exeter-College.
lies. Willi'm Bodin'll, Brasennote College.
isolator's Or •RTS.
William Hall Graham, Recta College, Grand Compounder.
JOhn James, (linen's College.
Isaac Urban Cooke, Sr. Edmund Hall.
Henry Jubn 11.. ton, 'Magdalen Hall.
Thomas Hunipbreys, Jesus College.
Robert Billing. Worcester C..llege.
Alexander Reuben Mangin, Alban Hell.
Joseph Laing, University College.
John Papillon, University College.
Edward Eyre, Postmaster of Merton College.
Robey Eldridge, %Vadlaam College.
Gorge William Mahon, Scholar of Pembroke College,
Charles Mackenzie, Exhibitioner of Pembroke College.
Thema% Mozlry. Oriel College.
Todd Thomas Jones, Oriel College.
&cladls Usher Bolton Lee. Oriel College. •
Reheard Thomas Daniell, Bann,' College. •
Thomas Benjamin- Ho/house, Bailin' College. •

Tuesday the 1314130 p of Pecerburough instituted the Rev. William
Watson Smyth, B.A. to the Vicarage of Murton, in the county of
Flatland, vacant by the death of the Rev. Jeremiah Jackson.
The Rey. George Hudson, M.A. Minister of Chiba Church,
Birmingham, and late Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge,
has been presented, by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, to
the Vicarage of Colwich, in the county of Stafford.
Rev. G. W. Scott, to the Rectory of Kentisbeare, Devon.
The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have appointed the Rev.
/I.i.ry John Lewis, M.A. to a Minor Canonry in the Cathedral.
Rev. J. Topham, M.A. F. R S. L. Head Master of the Grammar
School of King Edward VI. Brorn.grove, to the Rectory of St.
Andrew cum St. Mary Witten, Droitwich.
the Rev. Charles Eddy has been instituted to the Rectory of
Feggiestone St. Peter with Bemerton, in the Diocese of Wilts.
16-v Wm. Thomas, M.A. to the Rectory of Orlotto ,e, Kent.
her. W. Whiter, M.A. to the Rectory of Little flittering, Norfolk.
km John Cuitance, to the Rectory of Brampton, Norfolk.
key. Sparks Byers, B.A. Domestic Chaplain to the Marquis of
Hastings, has been licensed to the Episcopal Chapel of Sc. James,
ac ltyde, Isle of Wight, on the nomination of W. Hughes Hughes,
11,rrister at Law.—Mr. Hughes's brother has also been
licensed to the Curacy of Binstead, adjoining.
new. J. F. S. P. St. John, Prebendary of Worcester, has been pre.
sewed to the Mastership of St. Oswald's Hospital.

The commercial letters from Philadelphia state, that
the greatest exci ement prevailed annong the commer-
cial classes in the Uni n, on account of the repot ted rise
of the coin markets in England. Espress alter nines:
•ac immediately forwarded into the interior for the
Purpose of giving no ice of this important change in
commerce, and the probability of the pints of Great'
itain being opened at a low duty. Flout immediately
rose f,om seven to tea dollars; wheat and other corn
nearly in the same proportion. The eichisnge with
E glattd fell from 11 to to 10.