The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, OCT. 10.—In congregation holden this day,
being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the following
degrees were conferred :—Bachelor in Civil Law—Rev.
J, Marsh, Fellow of New College. Masters of Arts.—
Rev, J. De Lasaux Simmonds, St. Edmund Hall ; Rev.
A. Peache, Wadham College. Bachelors of Arts.—B.
E. Watkins, Wadharn ; C. Cutcliffe. Magdalen flail ; A.
F. Stopford, Balliol ; F. B. Pryor, Fellow of New Col-
lege ; F. Phillott, St. John's.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 10.—Trinity Fellowships.—The fol-
lowing are the successful candidates announced this day :
—Fenn, Clark. Bowring, Hadley.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 11.—At a congregation to-day the
following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor of Divinity.
—Charles Paglar, St. John's College. Masters of Arts.
John Tagg, Pembroke College; Martin Stephen Cole,
Christ's College. Bachelors of Arts.—Charles Auber,
Trinity College; James Bell, Catherine Hull; Robert
Warner Wheeler, Jesus College.

OXFORD VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP.—The election of
Vice-Chancellor for the ensuing year took place on Tues-
day, and the unprecedented influx of members of Convo-
cation fully justified the anticipations which had been
formed of its importance. On no occasion, since the
memorable defeat of Sir. R. Peel, in 1829, has such ex-
citement prevailed among the electoral body of Alma
Mater. The proceedings commenced about half. past one
o'clock, when the usual forms were gone through, and
the Chancellor's letter, nominating Dr. Symons as Vice-
chancellor, was read. Upon the" assent" of the masters
being demanded to the nomination, the cry of " placet "
was answered by that of " non-placet," and a scrutiny
was demanded. The voting, owing to the immense num-
bers present, occupied a considerable time, and, at the
end, it appeared that the numbers stood thus—placets,
882; non-placets, 183. The Vice-Chancellor and his
successor then addressed the Convocation. This weighty
condemnation of Tractarianism, will, we hope, prevent
for some time to come that body so unnecessarily and
wantonly disturbing the peace of the university.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. F. Wood-
ward. 8.A.. to the curacy of St. Woollos.—Rev. W. H.
Twyning, B A., to the curacy of Roatb.—Rev. W. S.
Chapman, B.A, to the vicarage of Kemble, Wilts, vacant
by the death of the Rev. R. Goddard.—Rev. W.Clement-
son, A. 8., to the curacy of St. Paul's, Nottingham.—
Rev. W. Adamson, late curate of Slinfold, to the incum-
bency of St. Augustin's church.—Rev. W. P. Babington,
8.A., to the assistant curacy of Great Yarmouth.—Rev.
W. J. Clayton, 8.D., to the vicarage of Ickleton, Cam-
bridgeshire.—Rev. G. R. Harding, L.L.8., to the curacy
of Rodney Stoke, Somerset.—Rev. T. Hare, B A., to be
assistant curate of Yeovil, Somerset. —Rev. S. Pagan,
B.A. to the new district of Leverbridge. Bolton-le-Moors.
—Rev. W. B. Flower, 8.A., curate of Knutsford, Cheshire,
to be chaplain to the workhouse, Nether, Knutsford.—
Rev. H. Faulkner, 8.A., to the curacy of Stroud, Glon-
cestershire.—Rev. H. F. Atherley. M.A., to the curacy
of Upper Beeding. Sussex.—Rev. A. F. Halt, M.A., to
the vicarage of Arundel, vacant by the death of the Rev.
H. J. Parsons.—Rev. F. F. Hole, 8.A., to the curacy of
She pton, Mallet.—Rev. H. T. Lee, B.A. to the curacy of
Wenvoe, Glamorganshire.—Rev. W. G. Tucker, 8.A., to
be chaplain to H.M. ship Albion.
The munificent sum of one thousand pounds has been
bequeathed by the Rev. H. T. Barnwell, of Bury St. Ed.
mund's, lately decea-ed, to the institution for the
indi-
gent blind at Norwich.
CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of Calcutta, in
a letter to the secretary of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, dated May 3d. 1844, states that
the tower of the new Cathedral at Calcutta " is now
raised to the first tiers of stones above the lancet win-
dows about ninety feet from the plane of site, and pre-
sents a most commanding object. The internal scaffold-
ing of the lantern is being removed with the centering,
to allow of the stones being elevated with greater ease
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months,
than they could from the outside. The building has not
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ance. Up to April Ist, we had expended 209,028 C. ru-
pees, 13 anal, 5 pice, about 1;21,000—not more than we
expec.ed."

The Rev. C. J. Plainer, vicar of Norton, has presented
the sum of five hundred pounds to the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel.
NEW CHURCHES.—On 30th ult. the Bishop of
Salisbury consecrated a new church at Westbury, Wilts;
on the Ist instant, Horningsham Church ; on the 2d, !he
Church of Codford St. Mary ; and on the 3d, the parish
church of Newton Tony,--all in the same county.

It is stated that the Rev. Mr. Ward, of Baliol College,
has been removed from the office of chaplain, which he
held in Baliol College, retaining the emoluments of his
fellowship. We are informed that the rev. gentleman
has also been prohibited officiating in the diocese of Lon-
don.—Oxforri Chronicle.

A CONVERT TO THE CHURCII.—The Rev. J. Kelly
who has been for a number of years a dissenting preacher
at an Independent meeting-house, Wakefield, where he
has always had a large congregation, has just been or-
dained by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, and licensed to the
Curacy of Wakefield.

HARROW SCHOOL.—Her Majesty has been pleased to
confer upon the Rev. Dr. "Wordsworth, head master of
this institution, the prebenJal stall in Westminster vacant
by the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Bayley. An
annual residence of three months being required, Dr.
Wordsworth resigns his present post, which therefore be-
comes vacant at the end of the present year. The present
head-master has held this important station since Easter,
1836, his predecessor, Dr. Longley, having been then
elevated to the episcopal bench, and being now Bishop of
Ripon. That right rev. preate had held the office of
head-master of Harrow for seven years, having succeeded
the present Very Rev. the Dean of Peterborough, Dr.
Butler who had occupied the same position twenty-four
years.