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procure an alteration in the existing law, if he be so
minded. For the present, however. the bishop denounces
everything in the guise of a lay tribunal, or a state court,
adjudicating on church questions. But, observe the in-
consistency : the denunciation is not yet cold ere he
applies to a state tribunal to overthrow the judgment of
the two archbishops, and to pronounce that he is justified,
and that his opponents are children of unrighteousness.
And to whom does he apply ? To one of the very judges
who has already conscientiously pronounced him wrong."
CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 13.—The undermentioned gentle-
men have been elected to scholarships at Trinity College :
J. A. Wilson, V. Harcourt, R. Williams, Rendel, Cowie, A.
Rudge, Macnaghten, Seeley Hunter, Dickinson, Sharpe, J. L.
Hammond, E. W. Benson, Robertson, A. Johnson, Clapcote,
Westminster. The following prizes have been adjudged :
English Declamation: (1) Vernon Harcourt, (2) Gorham, (3)
James. Latin Declamation: (1) J. D. Williams, (2) Lightfoot.
Mr. Edward Henry Perowne (first classic 1850)- has been ap-
pointed a fellow on the foundation of Corpus Christi College.
Francis Edmund Stacey has been appointed a scholar of King's
College.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 16.—At a Congregation holden
this day the undermentioned degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts: H. R. Luard and Joseph Simpson, Trinity
College; H. F. Corrame, Clare Hall; *A. G. Day, A. R. Ash-
well, and C. T. Smith. Caius College; G. C. Pollard and R.
Watson, Queen's College; Joseph Milner and J. S. Purton,
Catharine Hall; W. du Heaume and A. P. Sanderson, Jesus
College. Bachelors of Arts: James Coling and Johnoodies
St. John's College; John Stevenson Caius :College; A. A.
Isaacs and Edward Lama Corpus Christi College; F. G. Pol-
lard, Queen's College. G. Richards, M.A., of Pembroke Col-
lege. was admitted ad eunclens.
OXFORD, APRIL 18.—In a Congregation holden this
day the following degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts: Rev. Frederick Silver and Rev. Sween Mac-
donald Mackey, Worcester; William Harrison Devey. Lincoln;
Rev. Henry Percy Smith, Balliol ; James Baker, University ;
Edward Graham Moon and John Ommanney M`Carogher,
Demies of Magdalen; John Goss, St. Mary Hall; William
Young Sellar, Fellow of Oriel; Edmund Savory and George
Henry Beevan, Oriel ; John Llewellyn Roberts, Michel Scholar
of Queen's; John Bateman Wathen, Queen's. Bachelors of
Arts : Arthur Perceval Cust and Edmund Waller, Brasenose ;
Mark Dewsnap, Christ Church; Henry John Stephen Smith,
Balliol; William Henry Deane, University.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A COLLEGE IN MANCHESTER.--
A report has just been published by the trustees of the
late Mr. J. Owens, of Manchester, who, in 1846, be-
queathed £lOO,OOO for the establishment of a college in
that city, containing a detailed aceount of the general
character and plan of the institution, in pursuance of the
directions of the testator:—

" It is recommended that the subjects of instruction should
include classical literature, mathematics, natural philosophy,
logic, moral and mental philosophy, history of political philo-
sophy; and the English language and literature, with the addi-
tion, as needed, of chemistry, various branches of natural
history, physiology, and (with a special view to commercial
education) book-keeping, the geography of commercial pro-
ducts, the history and progress of arts and manufactures, and
the general principles of commercial jurisprudence. The six
more important branches of knowledge are to be confined to
as many professors ; .while the modern languages, book-keeping,
and other commercial studies, may be intrusted to occasional
teachers and lecturers. The salaries of the professors, it is
proposed, should not at first exceed two-thirds of the expected
annual income of the trust fund (.e3,000), or £1,700, exclu-
sive of .tlOO additional to one of the professors. as principal,
and of the remuneration of occasional teaching. The com-
mittee think it desirable that the Owens' College should be
placed in connexion with the University of London ; but at the
same time they invite attention to the important subject of the
establishment in Manchester of a university, conferring its own
degrees without resort to the metropolitan university."
DR. HOOK ON THE GORHAM CASE.—The Vicar of
Leeds has just published a pamphlet on the present posi-
tion of the church. He advocates the right of Mr. Gor-
ham to toleration. He does not think the latter gentle-
man correct, and he rather believes that the granting of
toleration in such matter will only lead to a separation
between church and state, and he closely hugs himself on
the anticipation of such a consummation. Dr. Hoot is as
difficult to fix on either side as ever he was. For instance,
here he is lauding Mr. Simeon. He says to both parties
that, whatever they may hold with reference to regenera-
tion, they will certainly allow that "regeneration is the
grace of baptism," whenever such grace may be vouch-
safed. "So thought the late Mr. Simeon, of Cambridge.
I have been accustomed to refer to his exposition of the
doctrine of the Church of England, with respect to the
grace of baptism, as a clear and Scriptural exposition of
the doctrine. I hope that, in these days, it will be exten-
sively read." He enters then at large into the subject,
but we need not give his opinions further. With the ex-
pression of a conviction that the decision of the Queen in
council does no damage to the church, but is likely rather
to bring men together and to settle down in the via
media of truth, and with another expression of something
like contempt for the men who pronounced rather as
politicians than as judges, the author concludes with a
desire that the church may have a court of appeal of her
own. In the meantime, he says, " Let us be careful,
while we maintain our rights as Englishmen and church-
men, not to Romanize : let us remember that if by the
existence of the present court of appeal we are suffering
much inconvenience, we may, in our struggles to extri-
cate ourselves,' fall into a position still more painful. Let
us be persuaded that it is better

" To bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.' "
An extraordinary scene, which created considerable
excitement amongst the congregation of Bishport church,
took place in the sacred edifice at that village, on Sunday
last. Bishport church, as is probably known to the ma-
jority of our readers, was erected somewhat about eight
years since, and, being one of the chapels of ease to the
old church of Bedminster, is held under the patronage of
the Rev. M. R. Whish, the vicar of that parish. It ap-
pears that on Sunday last, Mr. Whish visited Bishport.
and informed the incumbent, the Rev. Henry Brancker,
that be purposed favouring his flock that day with a
sermon, claiming a right to preach, from the fact of his
being patron to the church. In reply, Mr. Brancker ex-
pressed an unwillingness to be thus patronised ; he
denied the validity of the right that Mr. Whish assumed,
but politely intimated that, if the patron of Bishport
required permission to preach, the incumbent of Bishport
would not deny his congregation the gratification of list-
ening to the patron's eloquence. But this view of the
case was not acceptable to Mr. Whish, who " stood upon
his right," and maintained that he was entitled to preach
whenever he pleased, and this privilege, he was upon the
present occasion, determined to exercise. Upon such
agreeable auspices, therefore, the service for the day com-
menced. The prayers having been duly said by Mr.
Brancker, that gentleman without returning to the vestry,
proceeded to the pulpit, upon which the Rev. Martin
Whish, _ _

t‘ In form and gesture proudly eminent,"
rose from the body of the church and announced his in-
tention to preach, which he claimed to do as a matter of
right. At this unexpected scene the congregation ap-
peared to be considerably taken aback, and stared at each
other from pew to pew, in no little amazement. The
matter, however, was speedily set at rest by Mr. Branc-
ker, who, with much good sense, observed that, if Mr.
Whish determined to persevere, he (Mr. Brancker,)
would not be the means of occasioning a disturbance in
the church, and he accordingly descended from the pulpit.
It was then taken possession of by Mr. Whish, who com-
menced a discourse, upon which, we are informed, the
whole of the congregation, with the exception of two old
deaf women and the charity children, quitted the church.
—Bristol Mirror.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

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On Wednesday a petition was forwarded from Man-
chester to Lord Ashley, for presentation to the House of
Commons, against the adoption by the legislature of any
scheme having for its object the establishment of a system
of mere secular education, and also against Mr. Fox's
bill now before parliament. In eleven hours the petition
received the signatures of 5,006 persons.—[A similar
petition, and more numerously signed, should be sent
from Liverpool.]
STATE OF THE WEST INDIES.—It is with sincere plea-
sure that we observe the expressed intention of Sir Edward
Buxton to bring before the House of Commons the actual
condition of the West Indian Colonies. His name is a
sufficient guarantee for the spirit in which a work at once
so important and so perilous will be undertaken and carried
on, nor could a fitter champion have been selected for the
office. As a Liberal and a Free-trader, his opinion will
carry weight with many of those who, in 1846, voted for
the " great experiment," which now seems likely to share
the fate of most experiments when hastily tried and pre-
maturely adopted. An hereditary philanthropist he will
not be held up as a would-be slave-driver, nor depicted
according to ideas popularly entertained respecting a West
Indian proprietor of the old time, with a whip in one
hand, and a pair of handcuffs in the other, if he dwells
upon the mischief attendant on freedom abused, and sug-
gests to the zealots of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, that
idleness has its evils as well as compulsory labour.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—There is nothing new to
report as respects the condition of the money market.
The accounts received from the agricultural districts,
through the medium of the banks, are every day worse,
and a rapid change is in course of being effected in the
shopkeepers in the towns respecting the advantages to be
derived from the free trade measures of Sir Robert Peel's
Government. We are not mistaken in the opinion we
entertained as to the effects produced at Liverpool by the
accounts received by the Niagara steamer. The facility
with which money can be obtained on warrants and bills
drawn against consignments, has given renewed energy to
the speculators in cotton, aided by the last accounts re-
specting the crop in the United States. As it is perfectly
clear that remunerating prices cannot be obtained for
manufactured goods in any considerable market of the
world at the prevailing prices for the raw material, there
appears to be no remedy but a further suspension of pro-
duction by the ndllowners in Lancashire and Scotland.
The commercial letters received from the United States
are much less favourable as respects the prospects of
business for the season than was at first apprehended.
The truth is that the market is over-stocked with all
the staple articles suited to their consumption, and
the consequence is that it is as difficult to obtain re-
munerating prices as in Brazil, Bombay, and Shanghre.
There is another branch of our industry, now become of
vast importance, respecting which the accounts from the
United States are exceedingly unfavourable. We allude
to the iron trade, and it appears from the accounts re-
ceived by the Niagara, that, paying the import duties and
charges, bar iron is not returning more than £4 15s. per
ton. This is considerably below the cost of production
on the lowest scale that can be calculated, and it is there-
fore obvious that such a trade cannot be carried on, even
supposing there will be no increase in the American tariff.
It is currently reported to-day that this account of the
condition of the market in the United States has induced
some of the leading houses in the iron trade to come to
the conclusion that there
.is no alternative left but to
restrict production by "blowing out," as it is technically
demoninated, a numberot their furnaces. All things, there-
fore, taken together render it perfectly certain that her
Majesty's Ministers will be very soon under the necessity
of reconsidering the boasted free-trade measures which
have placed the country in its present position. In the
meanwhile the glut of unemployed money in the metro-
polis-continues to increase from day to day, simply because
no,persona engaged in industrial pursuits can see their