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THE CHURCH 4- THE UNIVERSITIES.

OXFORD, JUNE 30.
A congregation was this day holden for granting de-
grees, &c., when the following were conferred :
Doctor in Civil Law.—Rev. E. B. Dean, fellow of All
Souls College.
Bachelor in Civil Law.--William Venables, of Exeter
College.
Masters of Art.--Rev. Henry W. 0. Polhili, of Uni-
versity College ; Rev. Thomas Bacon, Merton College ;
Rev. Charles R. Hay, Merton College ; Rev. Henry
Petley, Wadharn College ; Rev. H. S. Cheshire, Wad.
ham College; George Patterson, Wadham College; Rev.
Robt. S. Hunt, Exeter College; J. G. Faithful, Exeter
College; Rev. 0. F. Owen, Christ Church ; Rev. W. G.
Rawlinson, Magdalen Hall; F. Dyson, New Inn Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Charles Goring, of Christ
Church (grand compounder) ; E. H. Willes, Christ
Church ; Talbot H. B. Bake., Christ Church ; Rev. Robt.
S. Sutton, fellow of Exeter College.
The Rev. R. P. Smith, of Pembroke College, has been
elected to the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholarship.
C. F. Secretan, of Wadham College, has been elected
to the Kennicott Hebrew Scholarship.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 30.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The Porson Prize has been just
awarded to William George Clark, of this College :
Subject :—Shakspeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream.
Act 1, Scene 1.
Beginning —" Gon speed fair Helena! Whither away?"
And ending--

----- " e must starve our siht
From lovers' food,W till morrow deep midngight."

The following appointments bare taken place :
The Rev. Charles John Fisher, 8.A., of Jesus College,
to the rectory of Ovington, and chapelry of Allbrights an-
nexed, with Tilbury rectory, by Clare, Essex. Value, £467.
The Rev. George John Collinson, 8.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, to the vicarage of Swanbourne, Bucks. Value, £l5B.
The Rev. George Horatio Nutting, 8.A., of Trinity
Hall, to the curacy of Hatch, Beauchamp, Somerset.

Of the ten churches required for the parish of Bethnal-
green (London) nine have already been erected.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Ten Churches'
Association was held on Tuesday. £60,000 have been
collected since its establishment, and £21,000 more was
required to carry out the scheme as originally submitted
to the public.
thisEV. H. E. EAD, OF HONITON.—In consequence of
R clergyman'sH
suspension in accordance with the sen-
tence lately pronounced in the cause prosecuted against
him by the Bishop of Exeter, he preached his farewell
sermon on Sunday, 18th of June, taking as his text the
words, " The first principles of the oracles of God."
We learn from authority on which we can rely, that the
appointment of an archdeacon to the proposed bishopric
of Manchester has been made, and that the choice has
fallen upon a most zealous and indefatigable clergyman,
who has devoted his energies unsparingly to the promo-
tion of the best interests of the establishment—Mace/es-
field Courier.

CONTRIBUTIONS BY CHURCHMEN.-At the annual
meeting of the Ten Churches' Association, Manchester,
on Tuesday, the Hugh Stowell, adverting to the voluntary
efforts of the members of the Established Church, said
that they had, in the last ten years, raised no less than
three millions sterling to circulate the truth at home and
abroad.

NEW CHIIRCHES.—On Wednesday last the Bishop of
Chester consecrated a new church on Stretford new road,
Manchester. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and has
been erected through the munificent donation of XlO,OOO,
from Miss Atherton, of Kersall ; and on the following
day, the bishop consecrated two new churches in the
neighbourhood of Bury ; All Saints, Elton, and St.
George's, Unsworth.
DR. PUSEY.—Notwithstanding all that has been said as
to the difference of opinion between the six doctors, it lis
a positive fact that they were unanimous in agreeing that
the parts of the sermon complained of were dissonant
and contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England ;
and it is no less true that communication after communi-
cation with Dr. Pusey took place through the medium of
a friend ; so that the tale of never having had a hearing
is extremely disingenuous.—Standard.
The University of Oxford has conferred the degree of
Doctor in Civil Law on Mr. Everett, the American
Minister, and Professor Daniell, of King's College, Lon-
don. Mr. Everett was formerly an Unitarian preacher
in the United States. At the time when his name was
proposed by te Vice Chancellore der raduates began to hiss an unpopular proctor, , which prevegnted the
non-placets, of which there were several, from being
heard. A protest against the legality of the deree so conferred has since been signed by nearly forty megmbers
of the University.
DR. PUSEY'S SERMON.--We have not yet seen a copy
of this much canvassed production. The preface to the
sermon, however, appears in the Times of yesterday.
The doctor says that the " sacred subject of the Holy
Eucharist" came in the order of a course of sermons
which he was delivering on the comforts provided by the
gospel for the penitent, and that it was his object to point
out the " comforting character of the eucharist in two
ways; Ist, indirectly, ,'_cause it is the body and blood of
his Lord, and is the c4-„,nnel of his blessed presence to
the soul : 2nd, because-, in holy scripture, the remission
of sins is connected *ith it." The following paragraph
is all we can extract frinn the preface, which is only short.
" Once more to repeat my meaning, in order to relieve
any difficulties which might (if so be) be entertained by
pious minds, trained in an opposed and defective system
of teaching before whom the sermon may now be brought.
My own views were cast (so to speak) in the mould of the
minds of Bishop Andrews and Archbishop Bramhall,
which I regarded as the type of the teaching of our
church. From them originally, and with them, I learned
to receive in their literal sense, our blessed Lord's solemn,
words, " This is my body," and from them, while I be.
lieve the consecrated elements to become, by virtue of
His consecrating words, truly and really, yet spiritually
and in an ineffable way, His body and blood, I learned
also to withhold my thoughts as to the mode of this great
mystery, but, "as a mystery," to " adore it." With
the fathers then. and our own great divines, (explaining,
as I believe, the true meaning of our church,) I could not
but speak of the consecrated elements as being what,
since he has so called them, I believe them to become his
body and blood ; and I feared not, that, using their lan-
gnage, I should, when speaking of Divine and " spiritual"
things, be thought to mean otherwise than " spiritually,"
or having disclaimed all thoughts as to the mode of their
being, that any should suppose I meant a mode which our
church disallows." It wonld appear that an appendix
accompanies the sermon, giving, as was anticipated, a
number of extracts from ancient divines.

Cnuwcn OF SCOTLAND.—The following is given by the
Scotsman as an estimate of the emoluments surrendered
by the clergymen who seceded from the Church of Scot-
land :—" The stipend, in the lowest class of livings in our
Established Church, is £l5B 6s. Bd. ; end the manse and
glebe being valued on an average at £4l 13s. 4d., the
poorest benefice is worth £2OO per annum. Where the
teind (tithes) are exhausted, and do not yield £l5B 6s. Bd.,
the deficiency is supplied from the Exchequer. There
were 196 out-parishes where the teinds were exhausted,
but yielded £255, including manse and glebe; and 470
parishes, with free teinds, yielding about £282. The
average of 872 livings pail from teinds and Exchequer
grants was £257, including manse and glebe. The value
of the livings in towns, which are paid from taxes, seat-
rents, or burgh funds, may average about £350 per annum.
These data being premised, the incomes given up may be
estimated as follow :-
267 parochial ministers, at £370 each ..
17 parliamentary ditto, whose stipend, we
believe, is £120........
17 assistants, say £6O
164 quoad sacra ministers, say £125
4 professors, say £400....

X 72,000

2,040
1,020
20,500
1,500

Machin being nominated, the vicar, without putting the
question to a show of hands, or waiting for any expression
of opinion from the meeting, announced that he would
appoint twelve persons to take a poll, and immediately
appointed six poll-clerks, all in the interest of Machin ;
and, subsequently, six others. He declined, when asked,
to say how long he would keep the poll open. The poll
commenced about half-past eleven on the following day,
and closed at half-past one o'clock (two hours), votes
being taken rapidly during that time, and almost without
intermission. About half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Suck-
ling, an attorney, in the interest of the vicar, having as-
certained from a poll-clerk that Mr. Machin then stood
" very well" or " all right" on the poll, said he would
go to the vicar and get him to close the poll as soon as
possible. At this time nearly all the votes for Machin
had been given ; and, during the hour that the poll re-
mained open, the votes for Oliver continued to increase in
the proportion of four to one to those for Machin ; and
when the poll was closed a very great number of persons
had not voted who came subsequently to vote for Oliver.
The total number of voters in the parish is 11,000, but it
was said that 2,500 only had paid their rates. On the
poll there appeared 225 persons voting for Machin, and
479 for Oliver ; but, on the scrutiny, it appeared that
the votes were, for Machin, 450 ; Oliver, 300 ; majority
for Machin, 153. Mr. Hill, in support of the mandamus
for a new election, referred to Lord Denman, who, in giving
judgment in the Manchester case of the election of church-
wardens, the King v. Archdeacon of Chester, had much
relied on the time for closing the poll being part of the
original appointment ; so that nobody could be deceived.
The Vicar of Aston bad kept the poll open two days in
1842, and he should have given notice if he meantto close
it in two hours in 1843. He argued from the affidavit
that the poll was not slack, and that the voting for Oliver
was increasing and that for Machin diminishing at that
time. At one o'clock only 350 had voted for Oliver, and
225 for Machin; and at half past one the numbers were,
Oliver 479, Machin 225, so that Machin had only taken
30 votes while Oliver had taken more than 200, and that
moment the poll was stopped. Lord Denman, stopping
Mr. Hill, said that the last fact entitled him to have the
rule for a mandamus made absolute.—Rule absolute.