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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS

OXFORD, Nov. 2
In a convocation holden this day permission was given
to Mr. Charles Henry Barrett, M.A., and Fellow of
Magdalen College ,to commute the degree of Master of
Arts for that of Bachelor of Civil Lac
In the same convocation George tidwill Shannon,
M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted ad eun-
dem

In a Congregation holden at the same time the follow-
ing degrees were conferred :

Bachelor in Divinity.—The Rev. John Rouse Bloxam,
Fellow of Magdalen College.
Masters of Arts.—The Rev. John Thomas Spring,
Edmund-hall ; the Rev. Thomas Jackson, Queen's ; the
Rev. Lloyd Sanders, Christ Church; the Rev. William
Edward Allfree, Wadharn ; The Rev. Edward James G.
Hasluck, Pembroke ; Arthur Bigge, University ; John
Barber, Worcester.
Bachelors of Arts.—The Rev. Henry Fyffe, New Inn-
ball ; Samuel Harward Archer, Exeter College ; John
O'Brien, Queen's (incorporated from Trinity College,
Dublin),

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3.
At a Congregation on Wednesday last the following
Degrees were conferred :

tiOCIOR IN DIVINITY.—Jacob Henry Brooke Moun-
tain, Trinity. -

MASTERS OF ARTS.—Charles Griffith Smith, Clare
Hall; Fred. Edward Long, King's; Samuel Longhurst,
Queen's ; Joseph Spence, Christs ; Alfred Hudson Shad-
well, St. John's; Charles John Bayley, Trinity.
BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.—Henry William Fuller,
Caius.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.—J. Gawen, Trinity Hall

PROMOTIONS

Allen, Rev. Henry, Vicar of St. Mary-le-Wigford,
Lincoln, to the Vicarage of Patchatn, Sussex ; patron, the
Lord Chancellor.

Angley, Rev. J. G., 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin,
to the Curaly of St. George, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Burgess, Rev. Robert, 8.A., of Christ's College,
Cambridge, to the Curacy of Sandiacre, Derbyshire.
Harrison, Rev. Henry, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and Incumbent of Christ Church, Kilndown,
to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Viscount Beresford.
Kidd, Rev. Richard Bentley Porson, M.A., formerly
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of
Potter Heigham, Norfolk ; patron, the Bishop of Nor-
wich.

Tate, Rev. Thomas, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, Curate of Edmonton, Middlesex, to that Vicarage,
vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Tate; patrons, the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's.
Williams, Rev. Lewis, Curate of Monton, Monmouth-
shire, to the Rectory of Matherne, near Chepstow, vacant
by the death of the Rev. J. Probyn ; patron, the Bishop
of Llandaff.

Williams, Rev. Thomas. Rector of Lianvapley, Mon-
mouthshire, to the Arcdeaconry of Llandaff.
Yorke, Rev. Philip Wynne, to the Rectory of Hawkes-
well, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. Walling-
ton ; patron, R. Bristow, Esq.

The Bishop of Chester has arrived at his palace at
Chester, and intends to reside there until the close of
February.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of
the National Society, has appointed the Rev. W. J. Ken-
nedy, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and curate
of Kensington, to be secretary of the National Society.
We are happy to announce the safe arrival in this
island, on the Bth inst., of the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Gibraltar, and suite, by Her Majesty's steamer Virago,
from Gibraltar.—Malta Times.

DIVISIONS.—A letter in the Record, signed, "A Mas-
ter of Arts," mentions that Mr. Palmer, Dr. Hook, Mr.
Gresley, Mr. Perceval, Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Paget,
have relinquished their connection with Dr. Pusey and
Mr. Newman, although it is still doubtful how far they
have abandoned the peculiar views of these Anglo-
Ii omanists.

In the Arches Court, on Thursday, a motion was made
that the Rev. H. E. Head, rector of Feniton, Devon.
(who had been sentenced to suspension for three years,
and condemned in the costs, for publishing matter in de-
rogation of the Book of Common Prayer,) might be re-
lieved from the costs attending the protest in the first
instance, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to
which tribunal the case on protest was appealed, not
having condemned Mr. Head in the costs of that appeal—
Sir H. Jenner Fust said he had condemned the party in
the costs generally, which necessarily included the costs
of the whole proceedings, and he rejected the motion.
THE NEW BISHOP.—It is confidently stated that Arch-
deacon Lonsdale has received an intimation of his selection
for the vacant see of Lichfield. The appointment may be
considered an average one. The Archdeacon is one of the
old High Church school ; but declares his decided hostility
to Tractarianism. He vacates, on his elevation, several
important offices. He is Preanher at Lincoln's-inn. His
successor there will be nominated by the Benchers, and
we should not be surprised if a Tractarian were to be
brought forward as a candidate. His Archdeaconry is in
the gift, we apprehend, of the Bishop of London. The
Headship of King's College is in the hands of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; and the valuable Prebendal Stall
in St. Paul's Cathedral will fall into the treasury of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. So that the government
will derive nu patrunage whatever from the Archdeacon's
elevation.

REV. MR. SIBTHORP.—The Rev. G. S. Faber, of Dur-
ham, has just published a very interesting letter on the
subject of Mr. Sibthorp's recent conversion to Roman-
ism and subsequent departure from her communion, in
which he says—" Relying o❑ the fidelity of representa-
tions such as that of Dr. Wiseman, and thence believing
the charge of idolatry to be without foundation, Mr.
Sibthorp is induced to quit the pure communion of the
protestant church of England for the supposed still purer
communion of the popish church of Rome. Thus, by
the actual practice of the party which he joins, he has a
full opportunity of testing the correctness of the explana-
tion afforded by that ingenious gentleman, Dr. Wiseman.
And what is the result? Why it is nothing less than a
conscientious departure from the very society into which
he had entered through a full belief that Rome was un-
justly charged by England with idolatry ; a departure,
moreover, be it specially observed, on the avowed ground,
as I have been led to understand, that lie was required to
pay a species of adoration to the Virgin Mary, which,
after all the ambages of Dr. Wiseman, plain unsophis-
ticated common sense told him was palpable idolatry or
creature-worship. In other words, as soon as the veri-
table practice of the Latin church was exhibited to him in
its undisguised deformity, all Dr. Wiseman's painful ex-
planations, and all other essays to boot of the same
stamp and tendency, vanished into thin air. Mr. Sib-
thorp, after quitting England for Rome in the full honest
belief that Rome is not idolatrous, finds it necessary to
return from Rome to England on the equally honest
practical conviction that Rome is idolatrous."