The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were last week
conferred :—Masters or Arts—A. Ramsay, J. S. Hay-

garth, R. K. Haslehurst, and J. Jones, Tiinity College;
E. Whitely, Jesus College; G. M. Gould, St. John's
College ; J. M. W. Piercy, Clare Hall ; T. W. Dowding,
Caius College ; R. Leigh, Queen's College.—Bachelors
of Arts—W . B. Grenside, H. Clelan, and R. Lediard,
Trinity College ; W. Kitching, St. John's College ; R.
Knipe, Emmanuel College G. Snowden, Magdalene
College; Z. S. Sharpnell, St. Peter's College ; G. E.
Freeman, St. John's College.—Ad Eundetn—F. T.

1-Vl'iron-g-all,-M.A., St. Mary Magdalene Hall, Oxford

OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees were
conferred :—Masters of Arts—Rev. N. J. Ridley, Christ
Church (grand compounder) ; Rev. Sir C. A. Bisshopp,
Bart., Merton (grand compounder); Rev. W. A. Buck-
Ihnd, student of Christ Church ; Rev. G. F. Fessey, Lin-
coln; Rev. R. W. Hippisley, and Rev. J. B. Simpson,
Exeter; Rev. W. Jackson, Queen's; Rev. W. F. Boyd,
and Rev. L. Stuart, New Inn Hall; Rev. N. Germon,
Oriel ; Rev. J. Hawker, Balliol; Rev. G. Masters, Wor-
cester; Rev. G. Phillips, Merton.—Bachelors of Arts—
H. King, St. John's (grand compounder) • A. L. White,
Balliol (grand compounder) ; F. R. liaggitt, Balliol
(grand compounder) ; F. H. Fitzroy, P. Cumin, G.
Thring, and J. Collins, Balliol ; C. C. Crakanthorp, and
J. W. Darnbrough, Lincoln; W. Clarke, S. W. Neale,
and J. B. Beaton, Queen's; J. W. Conant, J. Daven-
port, and C. A. Wickes, St. John's; A. F. Boyse, and
J. Bentley, Christ Church ; W. C. Jowett, G. Rose, W.
H. Boscawen, J. M. Bridge, S. Clark, and J. Tomlin,
Magdalene Hall; B. Cleave, W. Homfray, J. Menet, R.
G. Botcherby, and G. H. Mitchener, Exeter; A. W. E.
Viner, end J. Hewitt, University; J. Hughes, and H.
H. Owen, Jesus ; J. A. Guthrie, and D. T. Gladstone,
Wadham ; T. Grenall, and S. B. Stewart, Brazennose;
W. W. Bradley, Demy of Magdalene ; W. L. Pope,
Pembroke ; C. W. Edgell, T. E. Powell, and W. Fraser,
Oriel; J. W. Coles, and J. D'Arcy Preston, Worcester.

The Bishop of Carlisle is now much better.
Dr. M. D'Aubigne has joined the Evangelical Alliance

forlChristian
Dr. Buckland, the geological professor at Oxford, has
been appointed Dean of Westminster.
During the last five years 1830 persons have been exa-
mined at Oxford University, and of this number 260 have
failed or been plucked.
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It is said that a party, who visited Stonyhurst recently,
heard, from the authorities, that, besides Mr. Tickell,
there were several University men there, whose names

" were a secret 1"

The free church party of Glasgow have determined to
oppose the re-election of Mr. Rutherford, as Lord Rector
of the University. Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, who is
opposed to the Maynooth grant, will be their candidate.

The Rev. Mr. Paget, the distinguished norel writer,

and hitherto chaplain to Dr. &got,- is not to follow the
Bishop into Bath and Wells. Mr. DPnison, the brother
of the Bishop of Salisbury, is to be the examining chap-

lain of Dr. Bagot

CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—Last Sunday week, nine
Roman Catholics read their recantation from Popery in
the parish church of St. Audoen's Dublin, and were re-
ceived into the Church of England, by the Rev. 'l'.
Scott, a most zealous and excellent clergyman, who
preached on the occasion to a very full congregation,
The Dublin Evening Packet states that more than thirty
respectable inhabitants of Dingle. in the county of Kerry.
have lately renounced Popery and become Protestants.

COLLEGE OF FREEMASONS OF THE CHURCH.—Tues-
day evening there was another meeting of the College of
Freemasons of the Church. The paper read was—" A
Discourse on the subject of Illuminated Books in their
connection with Architecture," by Mr. H. Rogers. The
Rev. G. P. Pocock, L.L.B. was in the chair, and near
him were seated several of the clergy, the Count Vincent,
Colonel S. Anson, Colonel de la Tour, Doctor Verney,
the Professors of the college, &c. A fine collection of
ancient missals, and other works of the middle ages.
were placed upon the table, being contributions from dif-
ferent amateurs.

WORSE STILL.—We noticed last week that the articles
in the Oxford and Cambridge Review (which professed to
he the organ of the Universities) were s much admired
by the Papists as to be republished by them. No one
suspected—at least, no one ventured to assert--that this
candidate for public favour sailed under false colours, or
with false papers on board. Such, however, was the fact.

Through the Tablet, it came out that among the contri-
butors was a clever, hot-headed, unhesitating young Je-
suit at Stonyhurst, whose contribution, under the charac-
ter of an English University man, was an attractive article
devoted to the defence and advocacy of Jesuits and Je-
suitry. The article was even considered worth reprinting
in a separate form, and forthwith it appears in the pub-
lishing catalogue of an eminent Popish bookseller, as re-
produced by the permission and with the emendations of
the Oxford and Cambridge (cum Stonyhurst) Review.

THE BIBLE SOCIETY AND THE EVANGELICAL ALLl-
ANCE.—Notwithstanding the important flaws, as many now
consider them, in the constitution of the British and Fo-
reignßible Society, who do we find uniting in the formation
of it ? The Bishops of London, (Porteus,) Durham, Salis-
bury, and St. David's ;—Lord Teignmouth, Mr. Wilber-
force, Mr. J. Stephen, Mr. H. Thornton, Mr. Zachary Ma-
caulay, Mr. Charles Grant, and many other men of great
Christia❑ respectability ; while, as our readers know, to

the present hour various distinguished prelates and noble-
men, and gentlemen of the highest character, afford it
their countenance and support. If, then, the British and
Foreign Bible Society, with an object not more simple nor
divine, and at least appearing to stand on ground not so
unquestionably pure and Christian as the other, has been,
and is so widely supported by men of the highest Chris-
tian name and reputation, how can those now of the prin-
ciples and perceptions of Bishop Porteus, William Wil-
berforce, or Henry Thornton, decline, on principle, to
join an Alliance for an object so holy and so divine as
Christian Union, prayer for which has been ascending,
under urgent invitations, from the thousands of the true
Israel within our land ?—Record.
EXETER COLLEGE CONCLAVE.—We have already in-

mated the risk that Mr. Golightly has incurred of tinding

himself entangled with the ltivr, Cu consequence of a chi-
valry by which Mr. Rigaud has, in fact, been more pro-
fited than he need have been pained. We now hear from
Oxford that the rector and fellows of Exeter College have
actually been in council, to consider as to the expediency
of prosecuting Mr. Golightly for slander !--because he has
had the courage to come forward and state a simple yet
pregnant fact, while he left the world to draw its own in-
ferences. Perhaps the considerations—first, that no less
than one-sixth, if not one-fifth, of the whole number of
Oxford deserters to Rome are among the younger mem-
bers of that college : secondly, that the articles contributed
by Mr. Rawlinsou to the Oxford Magazine were among
the most slanderous that can be conceived; thirdly, that
the notorious letters of "N. E. S." in the English Church-
' nzan last year, attacking Vice Chancellor Wynter in terms
of the grossest ribaldry, and which letters were contributed
by a fellow of Exeter College, and a defender of Dr.
Pusey; fourthly, that the rector himself has been the
patron of Mr. Newman and Dr. Pusey, at the Board of
Heads, and that the majority of the resident fellows ap-
pear among those who remonstrated with the Vice Chan-
cellor Wynter against Dr. Pusey's condemnation, and
thanked the proctor for the veto which saved Tract 90—
perhaps, we say, all these considerations may have saved
Mr. Golightly from a prosecution for stating the truth.—
Church and State Gazette.
A letter from Mr. Daly. Bishop of Cashel, to Dr. Low,
Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Argyle, has lately been pub-
lished in various papers. The Bishop of Moray, having
heard that the Bishop of Cashel had shown his sympathy
for the English clergymen in Scotland who have with-
drawn from Scottish episcopal authority, wrate to his
lordship to ask whether the report were true, to which the
Bishop of Cashel replied that it was perfectly true that he
felt a great sympathy with those members of the Church
of England, in Scotland, who have seceded from the
Episcopal Church of Scotland. It had been a source of
great grief to him that the Scottish Episcopal Church
had departed so widely from the doctrines of the Church
of England, and had adopted language and sentiments
which had been advisedly given up by our church. His
lordship adds, that the doctrines of the two churches are
, not the same is an undeniable fact; " and I cannot un-
derstand how persons, who have subscribed to certain doe-
trines in England, can be expected to give their assent to
other doctrines in Scotland. Did providential circum-
stances take me to Scotland, I should think myself bound
to hold communion with the members of the Church of
England there rather than with the episcopalians of the
Church of Scotland. 1 would receive the communion in
their chapels in preference to those of the latter." Against
this the Bishop of Moray strongly protests—pointing out
, the fact that the Church of Scotland is in communion
with the Church of:England and giving additional weight
to a longletter, by telling the Bishop of Cashel, that he
. (the Bishop of Moray) has been longer in the episcopacy
than the Bishop sf Cashel has been in -orders.