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John W iliiam Mence, Rev. John Ht-nry Nurse, Wor-
cester; William
George Bust, Pembroke; Rev. William Cobb,
Christchurch.
Bachelors of Arts.—Thomas Patridge Nunn, St. Mary
Hall, George Ridley, Cnristchurch, Grand Compounders;
John Buller Yarde Buller, flinty Ochtellony Middle-
ton, St. Mary Hall • William Balf Jur, Lincoln; Richard
Bright, Fa;Kax William Cartwright, Burringtoit Stopford
Thomas Mills, Christchurch ; John Charles Bagshalvt
Henry Brooks, Samuel Plant, scholar of Brazenose ; John
Lowder Ray, Magdalen-hall ; Louis Balfour Clutterbuck,
Wadham ; Aneurin Lloyd Lodge, Je-us ; Cr ail,s William
Lawrence, Fellow of New College ; Edmund Du Buisson,
Oriel; John Balguy, Morton; Henry Clarence Pigott,
scholar of University ; Charles Inglehy, James Thomas
Boles, Richard Seymour Conway Ch-rrnside, Exeter;
George Poingdestre, scholar of Pembroke.
The Bishop of Chester has nominated Richard Wall,
B.A. (tvventy-fourth Wrangler, 1844,) to theVice-Princi-
palship of the Training College, Chester.
Rev. James Garbett, Professor of Poetry at Oxford,
has been collated by the Bishop of Chichester to the pre-
bendal! stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the deatk
of the Rev. Thomas Heberden.
The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, the recent convert
to the komish faith, who is on a visit to the Rev. Thos.
Dikes, at the Charter House, in Hull, partook of the
sacrament in St. Joha's Church, in that town, on Sunday
week.
The Rev. Edward Field, D.D., was consecrated Bishop
of Newfoundland. in the chapel of Lambeth Palace,. ow
Sunday week. He was presented to the Archbishop of
Canterbury by the Bishops of Bangor and Worcester,
the Bishop of London being the other consecrating bishop.
Several clergymen were present, and among them the Rev.
D. Jarvis, of the diocese of Connecticut, United States.
ETON COLLEGE, MAY I.—lt has just been notified to
the authorities of the College that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will lay the foundation-stone of the eaten-.
sive new buildings which are to be erected forthwith, at
an expense of £26,000, immediately cun'iguous to the
ancient edifice, in that portion of the premises known as
Weston's-yard. It having been considered for some time
past that the manner in which the boys on the foundation
of the College were lodged was not in accordance with the
present habits and feelings of society, and being also in
many respects objectionable and injurious to the best in-
terests of the institution, the authorities of the College
determined upon making great additions to the fabric, in
order that extensive and commodious apartments might
be provided for sleeping and for study, and likewise for
those meals which the boys do not take at present in the
College hall.
COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Colonial Church Society was held on Wednesday
evening, in Exeter Hall. Captain Sir E. Parry, R.N.,
presided. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Mr. J. P.
Plumptre, M.P. Mr. G. Finch, Mr. J. Labouchere, the
Rev. A. Thelwall, and a great number of the lay and de.
rical friends of the society were on the platform. The
secretary read the report, which gave a detailed account
of the society's operations in Nova Scotia, Western Aus-
tralia, the Cape of Good Hope, the Bahama Islands, and
various other parts of the world. The subscriptions and
donations received during the past year amounted to
£3.775 exclusive of collections in the colonies. The last
accounts received from Syria announced that 200 inhabi-
tants of Hasbeya, a village situate at the foot of Mount
Lebanon, had abjured the Greek orthodox religion to em-
brace Protestantism.

Oxford was on Thursday the scene of unusual excite-
ment. The morning trains from town, and the coaches
from all parts of the country, brought up vast numbersof
the clergy, all apparently on one errand, and of one mind,
as was proved by the result. At two o'clock the Convoca-
tion-house was filled to overflowing, and the Vice Chan-
cellor proposed the new statute, which had for its object
to settle the existing perplexities as to the con:it'ons and
exercises requisite for theological degrees, by creating and
granting to the Regius Professor of Divinity (Dr. Hamp-
den at present) an absolute doctrinal authority in the mat—
ter, with a reference, on questions of Foam, to the Vice
Chancellor. The statute was proposed in four clauses.
The subject of the first was totally irrelevant, relating to
degrees in law, and seemingly introduced to embarrass the
voters, committing them, however, to a certain mode of
examination, in a matter in which they would probably
feel indifference. By anticipation it showed the fate of
the rest of the statute, and was rejected by a large
ma-
jority. The second clause contained the proposed form
,
of exercises, and was the substratum of the two remain-
ing. It was rejected by a majority of 341 to 21 . On
the result being declared the two last clauses were dis-
creetly withdrawn by the Vice Chancellor, and the Con-
vocation dissolved. It is said that Dr Hampden himself
and his friends voted against the proposed statute, on the
ground that the reference on ques,ions of form to the-
Vice-Chancellor was an invasion of his supposed absolute
and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the
non-resident members were Dr. Hook, the Dean of Chi.
chester, Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and
a host of other characters well-known by name both here
and elsewhere.— Times.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The forty-fourth
anniversary meeting of this society was held on Tuesday,
at Exeter Hall. The Earl of Chichester, President of
the Society, took the chair. Amongst those on the plat-
form were the Bishops of Chester and Ripon, the Dean of
Salisbury, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir R. H. Inglis,
Bait., M.P., Mr. J. P. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. J. hound,
M.P., Major-General Latter, Hon. E. Curzon, Right
Hon. Sir G. Rose, Bart., Hon. Capt Waldegrave, R.N.,
Hon. Captain Maude, R.N., Archdeacon Hoare, Rev. FL
Stowell, Drs. Marsh, H. Stewart, H. Green, J. Cunning-
ham, and sveral o'her clergymen. The proceedings
having been open; c 1 by prayer, the noble Chairn an very,
briefly addres..ed the meeting. With the exception of
Jama'ca, there had been no contraction of missionary
labour. During the past year, nine additional missions-
. ies had been sent out, 54 branch associations and 18
juvenile societies established, and 24 missionaries admitted
to holy orders. The Duke of Manchester, Viscount
Sandon, and Lord Lurgaik had accepted the office of
vice-presidents. The report stated, that two yeprA ago
the society was in a position of considerable embarrass-
ment, arising from excess of expenditure over income ;
but last year, through the liberality of the Christian pub-
lic, that difficulty had been overcome. The committee
had taken their stand upon those sound Evangelical and
Protestant principles which had from its very foundation
formed the chief characteristic of the society, and to which
its prosperity and usefulness were attributable. The fi-
nancial statement, which was next read, gave the following
results :—General fund. £97,791 2s. 3d. ; special fund for
China mission, £1556 16s. I d .; capital fund, £2618 Is. 6d.;
Fourah Bay Buildings Fund. £llBl 17s. ; Disabled Mis-
sionar.es Fund, £1145 19s. Total receipts, £104,323 159-
10d. The expenditure of the yent-, including contribu-
tions to local funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The
expenditure of the year, including contributions to local
funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The excess of income
had been applied in part to the erection of buildings at
Sierra Leone, with the view to the training of native
youths as local missonaries, to the discharge of a debt of
£lOOO, remaining due on the last account, and the r, shine
of £4318 15s. it had been deemed advisable to transter to
the amount of capital, in order that the society's opera-
tions might not hereafter be interrupted by tempo.rary
fluctuatlons in its financial department. The committee
had raised the maximum of expenditure from £85,000 to
£87,000 a year, exclusive of local funds in the resveetive
missions.—On Monday evening, the Lord Bish,p of
London preached the forty-fourth anniversary sermon at
St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street.

THE SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this
" conciliation" measure has passel a second reading On
the motion of the Lord Chancellor without observation.
This case, which involves the property and rights of the
Presbyterian laity, as well as the principles of the law of
the land respecting trusts, and the fundamental articles
of the faith of Jesus Christ, can scarcely, we hope, 1)456
the legislature as it were sub silentio, notwithstanding the
"conciliation" spirit of a nothingarian or anythingarian
minhtry. The following description of the bill is taken
from a letter by J. Cook Evans, Esq. to Lord Lynd-
hurst :

I hope that your lordship will permit me, without any sur
picion of a want of that r• spect which is due to yo,ir lordship
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rank, and that profound lea) ning which is at once till
foundation and the ornament of your elevation, to state who;
in my humble judgment, ought to have been the preamble, a"
enacting clause in the bill in question. It should have 110'
I think, in the following words :—" Whereas nearly three hat
dred chapels, &c., rected, and in some cases, endowed,
Trinitarian Presbyterians, and the maintenance and spreg
of Trinitarian doctrines, ave, hy the lap e f time, and the al;
faithfulness of trustees and ministers, he-n perverted to To"
maintenance and spread of doctrines common'y called tUnita-
rian. entirely opposed to and subversive of those entertaio_,
.
by the pious founders, and for the maintenance of which do-
trines trines the said chapels, were erected and endow. d, anu-
the sanction of the law; and whereas the intentions of the
founders of the said chapels are clearly asccrtainabl • by °fein
rules of interpretation which the Cour a of Equity adopt„'
the interpretation of all deeds of trust, whether for religic2,,e
purposes, or for purposes purely civil; and whereas some of ',t
chapels, &c., so erected have been restored to the purposo
ei-
which they were originally intended, and used, under the 4:1!od
sions of the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords; 40
whereas it is expedient that the parties who have violated ;10're.
trust, and have peeve ted property from its lawful use, as 9 0
said, shall not be called to account for their malversatiol!!:, of
heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possessPiu"py
the property which they now do or shall hereafter uolanhich
possess, us IT ENACTED. by, &c., &c., that, in all cases in ,ovt
the d ctrines to be taught in such chapels are not laid ~..osts_
in the deeds declaring the trusts in 'express terms,' al Pitie, or
otherwise clearly ascertainable, according to the pi pf' eor,'
law, founded on common sense and-common justice.' the sts
gregation for twenty years In violation of the original tSUcb
shall be a perpetual bar to all suits for the recovery of that
property to its rightful use. And BE IT FURTHER ENACTED fre-
the usage of the congregation for the last twenty the
i
questing such chapel shall be conclusive evidence' 'l7eThisec
Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, &c.,Wdoetrioe,
for the propagation of Unitarian, and not Trinitarian ets.:
for the subversion of their own faith, and not for itswrsese, or
Hon, any presumption of law, or principle of Wu°
common justice,' notwithstanding. " • ,irt- .
In
We still hope that this bill, repugnant as it. is ice
ple both to "common sense and common le
yet be at res'ed. . The
the
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clergy la but 26. Two stations are ui.ocre,r:r their Ego
where are clergymen more gladly reeeiveol
rebuildingf st,
vices more eminently blis.ed. The ce.rtish elittrA 0 it.
Civil drill. which will be also the a 11 01 tlie in'? to
John's, mai; estimated at £7,000, end but fivonit
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liree ileficient y in the funds.
ants tt had the means row libutedtl
complete the work without further aid•
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