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UNIVERSITY crk CLERICAL IVEWN.

OXFORD, JUNE 26. Theological Prize, 1815.—" The
law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ." Toe
above stated, as appointed by the judges, for an English
essay, is proposed ;to members of the University on the
following conditions, viz ,-1. The candidate must have
passed his examinations for the degree of B.A. or B.C.L.
2. He must not on this day (June 26) have exceeded his
twenty-eigth term. 3. He roust have commenced his
sixteenth term eight weeks previous to the day appointed
for sending in his essay to the Registrar of the Univer-
sity. In every case the terms are to be computed for
the n-iatricu!atiou inclusively. The essays are to be sent,
under a sealed cover, to the Registrar of the University,
on or before the Wednesday in Easter week heat ensuing.
None will be received after that day. The candidate is
desired to conceal his name, and to distinguish his com-
position by what motto he pleases ; sending, at the same
time, his name sealed up under another cover, with the
motto inscribed upon it. The Essay, to which the Prize
shall have been adjudged, will be read before the Univer-
sity in the Divinity School on some day in the veek next
before the Commemoration : and it is expected, that no
Essay will be sent in, which exceeds in length the ordi•
nary limits of recitation.
Mrs. Denover's Theo"ogical Prizes.—The subjects for
the year 1845 are—On the Doctrine of Faith in the Holy
Trinity. Ott the Duties of Christianity, incumbent on a
National Community. Persons entitled to write for the
above mentioned prizes must be in deacon's orders at
least, and on the last day appointed fur the delivery of the
compositions to the registrar, have entered on the eighth
and not exceeded the tenth year of their matriculation.
The compositions are to be sent under a serled cover to
the registrar of the university on or before Saturday, the
Ist day of March, 1845. None will be received after that
day. The author is required to conceal his name, and to
distinguish his composition by what motto he pleases;
sending at the same time his natnei and the date of his
matriculation, sealed up under another cover, with tire
motto inscribed upon it.
PREFERMENTS.—ButIer, Rev. W. J.. to the District Church of Wareside, in the parish of Ware; Carr, Rev.
John Anbv, 8.A., of New Inn Hall, to the curacy of
NeWbOrcugi, Northamptonshire; Churton, Rev. H. B.
‘;%, of Brasenose College, to the vicarage of Icklesham.
Sussex ; Flowers, Rev. William Henry, 8.A., to the
vicarage of Ulceby, Lincolnshire : patron, the Lord
Chancellor; Forster, Rev. Charles John Pratt, 8.A., to
the curacy of Harroden, Northamptonshire; Haliburton,
Rev. Walter, 8.A., of Brasenose College, to the curacy
of Dorton Bassett, Leicestershire ; James, Rev. J. C..
8.A., Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, and
Second Master of Oundle Grammar School, to the curacy
of Middleton, in the county of Salop ; Neville, Rev.
James Yalden, 8.A., of Oriel College, to the curacy of
Whitwick, Leicestershire ; Noad, Rev. George Frederick,
8.C.L., of Worcester College, Second Master of Derby
Grammar School, to the vice-principalship of Kingston
College, Hull; Roberts, Rev. George, 8.A., of Magdalene
College, to the curacy of Whitwick, St. George, Leicester-
shire ; Shute, Rev. W. A., curate of Sedgefield, to the
inbumbency of the new district of Thornley ; Stanton,
Rev. Richard, B. A., of Brasenose College, to the curacy
of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire ; Thomas, Rev,
Thomas Kearsey, of St. John's College, to the curacy of
Worlington, near Midenhall, Suffolk ; Vincent, Rev. F.,
of Brasenose College, to the rectory of Sinfold, Sussex,
vacant by the cession of the Rev. G. Bland ; Walker,
Rev. John, 8.A., of Brasenose College, to the curacy of
Benefield, Northamptonshire.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY.—The following Students in
Arts have been admitt: d to the Degree of B.A.:—Arthur
Beanlands Richard John Shields, John Gilby, Nathaniel
Atkinson, John Wharton Mason.
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLlN.—Trinity College His-
torical Society have awarded, for oratory, a gold medal to
Charles H. Hemphill, A. 8.; a silver medal to William
Magee, A.B. For history, gold medal to John I. Robin-
son, A. 8.; silver medal to J. Gumley, A.B.

THE SEES OF ST. ASAFH AND BANGOR.—In the course
of a short discussion, which took place in the House of
Commons, on Tuesday, relative to the bill introduced
into peers, for preventing the union of the Sees of St.
Asaph and Bangor, Sir Robert Peel said that—" If the
speaker were to declare that the consent of the crown was
necessary, he must say, that, as a member of the govern-
ment, he would not advise her Majesty to grant her
consent."

CHURCH ScnooLs.—A great increase has taken place
in the number of church schools throughout the kingdom.
It is calculated that national schools alone have within the
last four years increased from 6,778 to 10,087 ; and the
number of scholars fir whom accommodation is provided,
from 587,911 to 875,194, or at the rate of 71,820 a•year.

LATV INTELLIGENCE'.

COURT OF REVIEW.-LINCOLN'S-INN, JUNE 25.

EX PARTE ZWILCHENBART, IN RE JOHN MARSHALL,

AND IN RE WM. MARSHALL AND HENRY ROGERS.
This was a questionb:tween two bankrupt estates as to
the disposal of a certain fund, the produce of the Lion
Foundry, at Liverpool. John Marshall and a relative
took a conveyance of the property from Marshall and
Rogers, covenanting to pay all the creditors of the latter
firm 10s. in the pound on their debts. The counsel for
the petitioner, an assignee, held that the transaction was
a sale, and did not constitute an act of bankruptcy. For
the respondents it was urged that the assignment was
literally a disposition of all their property, thereby dis-
abling themselves effectually from carrying on their busi-
ness, and must therefore be deemed an act of bankruptcy.
Mr. Bacon supported the petition ; Messrs. Swanston
and Prior appeared for the respondents.
The Chief Judge felt bound to treat it as a valid fiat as
far as concerned the parties who had acted under it. There
was a question whether the assignment was an act of
bankruptcy as related to John Marshall; whether he and
his father took it for their own benefit. If not, it was an
act of bankruptcy. He was of opinion that it was not a
sale so as to come within the principle of " Rose and Hay-
cock" and " Baxter and Pritchard," kboth in 1 Adol. and
Ellis,) but an act of bankruptcy, substantially disposing
of the whole of the estate of traders who had little separate
property available to creditors. Mr. Vicars was entitled
to treat it as an act of bankruptcy and had issued a fiat
thereon. No case of order and disposition intervened.
The fund must be treated as part of the property of the
firm of Marshall and Rogers. Costs of both parties to be
deducted out of the fund in dispute before paying over the
residue to the assignees of the partnership fiat.

BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEYS.—The Dublin Court
of Exchequer has permitted Mr. Sims to retire from the
bar and become an attorney. The application was inef-
fectually resisted by the law club, Mr. Whiteside stating
that the court might, with as great propriety, convert a
half-pay officer into a solicitor, as make an attorney of a
barrister.

Lord Huntingtower was to have appeared on Thursday,
in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, London, but he refused
to attend, The court was crowded with creditors and
others interested in ,he affair, and it appears from the
schedule filed that the insolvent claims to be released
from debts (principally " renewed': debts) to the amount
of £87,720, while the assets comprise a little wearing ap-
parel and a few pictures.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, the Baron de Bode's
case, which has been so long litigated, was decided on
Monday week by the jury returning a verdict for the
Baron's claim on the government to the amount of
£364,266, with interest. The Baron has been struggling
with the English government for twenty years. Our
government received from France money to pay all just
claims to French emigrants, his claim to a share of which
the Baron has now succeeded in establishing. It was
alleged by the Solicitor-General that the government
never received the money from France to liquidate the
Baron's claim.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAYS REGULATION BILL.

We have received a copy of " A bill to attach certain
conditions to the construction of future railways autho-
rised or to be authorised by any act of the present or
succeeding sessions of parliament, and for other purposes
in relation to railways," which was ordered to he printed
on the 20th ult. The bill was introduced by Mr. Glad-
stone, and has therefore, we presume, the support of her
Majesty's government.
The first clause provides, " that if at any time after .
the end of fifteen years from and after the first day of
January next, after the passing of any act of the present
or of any future session of parliament, for the construc-
tion of any new line of railway," the clear annual divina-
ble profits shall, on the average of the three preceding
years, equal or exceed ten per cent. on the paid-up capi-
tal, it shall be lawful for the board of trade, on giving
one month's notice in writing of their intention, to revise
the scale of tolls, fares, &c., allowed by the act for
making the line, and to lower them so as to reduce the
aontuodn trt ahine
allowed
dividend to ten per cent. ; but this revised scale is not to
take effect until parliament has enabled the board of
trade to guarantee the proprietors ten per cent., so long
as it shall subsist.--The second clause exempts the board
from liability, when the falling-off of the dividend can be
shown to arise from bad management on the part of the
company.—By the third clause, the revised scale of
charges is to be published in the Gazette,
charges,
atrrgaedse,,soafltoenr
ggaivsitnigleyodnoe
quires the validity of law.—The fourth enables the board
important one.
attic:
by the company's act ; but prohibits them from reducing
them oftener than once in seven years, without the con-
sent of the company.—The fifth clause enacts that a com-
pany, while under revision, shall not increase its capital;
e regulations con
and the sixth, that it shall b trol of the
board of trade with regard to its as to traffic.
not months
exceed
theoti notice,
It gives the board of trade the power of purchasing, on
behalf of her Majesty, any railway authorised by parlia-
ment in the present or succeeding sessions, at any time
after the expiration of the before-mentioned term of fif-
teen years. on giving the company a month's notice of
—The seventh clause is an exceedingly
their intention, and paying a sumequal
to twenty-five
years' purchase of the annual divisible •
profits estimated
on the average of the three preceding
dividend shall exceed ten per cent., in which case it shall
only. be taken at that amount No railway is to be pur-
chased while any revised scale of charges is in force.—
The next
seventeen clauses relate
merely to details in the
;
conditions of purchase the thirteenth gnew oblig in
com-
panies to keep accounts which shall be open to the in-
spection of the board of trade.—The twenty-fifth clause,
which is also a very •
important one, and much more gene-
, ral in its bearing,
enacts that, " whereas it is expedient
to secure to the poorer class of travellers the means of
i travelling by railway at moderate fares, and in carriages

July 2, 1841.

in which they may be protected from the weather," all
companies " which shall have been incorporated by any
act of the present session, or which shall be hereafter in-
corporated, or whch, by any act of the present or any
future session, have obtained or shall obtain directly or
ind,rectly any extension or amendment of the powers
conferred on them respectively by their previous acts, or
have been or shall be authorised to do any act unautho-
rised by the provisions of such previous acts," shall pro-
vide at least one train each way on every week-day, by
which passengers s',all be conveyed in carriages provided
with seats, and effectually protected from the weather, at
the rate of one penny per mile. 1 hese trains are to start
at an hour approved of by the board of trade, to travel at
a speed of at least twelve miles an hour, including stop-
pages, and to take lip and set down passengers at every
station. Each passenger is to be allowed half a cwt. of
luggage, not being merchandise carried for hire; and all
excess is to be charged for at the lowest rate for passen-
gers' luggage. Children under three years of age are to
go free, and those under twelve at half-price. These
regulations are to come into force on the Ist of October
on all railways then open to which they will apply ; and
on other lines on the day of their opening, or on the day
after the close of the session in whch they shall become
subject to them, as the case may be.—The twenty-sixth
clause gives the board of trade discretionary power in all
points of detail connected with these cheap trains, and
subjects companies to a fine of £2O for every day du'',,,k
which they shall neglect to obey their instructioe
the twenty-seventh clause, the board may d.,spense with
any of the conditions before mentioned -
twenty-
eighth trains. except that with regard to the.;ares. T .especthe twenty-
these-
eighth provides, that the tax un-
sengers by these cheap train .41 the receipts from pas-
.g shall not exceed half the
amount of the tax on Or geiVeral receipts,—The twenty-
ninth clause fixes the retto at which the. military are to
be conveyed along any line applying for fresh powers, in
carriages with seatss and protected from the weather, at•
ld. per mile for each private, and 2d. for each officer, and
the baggage at 2d. per ton per mile.—The thirtieth clause
compels companies to carry the mails at any speed con-
sidered safe by the inspector-general of railways • and, if
desired by the postmaster-general, to convey the guard
with his bags, as an ordinary passenger, by other than
mail trains.—The thirty-first clause obliges companies,'
upon receiving reasonable remuneration, to allow the
board of trade to lay down and use electrical telegraphs;.
and the thirty-second obliges them to allow the public, at
an equiable rate of charge, to send and receive messages
by them, those on her Majesty's service being first at-
tended to.—By the thirty-third clause, any coach or other
carriage is to have access to the station, at all reasonable
times, " subject to the summary control of the company
over their station-yards, and the bye-laws of the com-
pany, made or to be made, for keeping good order and
furthering the public convenience. and the penalties, im-
posed or to be imposed, for the breach of such bye-laws."
The thirty-fourth clause authorises the appointment of
officers to carry out the provisions of the act.—The
thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh clauses relate
to prosecutions for breaches of the regulations contained
in the bill.—The thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth empower
the company to enter into engagements with the board of
trade, and to give security for their performance.—The
fortieth clause makes the issue of loan-notes illegal, pro-
viding that, after the passing of this act, " any railway
company issuing any instrument purporting to be a secu-
rity for money advanced, otherwise than under the pro-
visiona of some act of parliament, shall forfeit to her Ma-
jesty the sum for which the instrument purports to be a
security."—The forty-first clause enacts that all loan-
notes issued before the 24th ult. shall be paid when due.
—By the forty-second, a register is to be kept of loan-
notes, which is to be open to the inspection of parties in-
terested, and of the board of trade.—The forty-third
clause affords a more effectual remedy for the recovery of
tithe-rent.—The remaining clauses are formal.

The opening of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway is
deferred till Monday next.
MANCHESTER AND HUDDERSFIELD RAILWAY AND
CANAL UNDERTAKING.—The Halifax Guardian states,
that the provisional committee of this company met at
Normanton, on Monday week, for the purpose of allot-
ting shares. There were between 50,000 and 60,000 ap-
plications, and only some 17,000 or 18,000 shares to be
allotted.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—A report of
Mr. Rendel, C.E., to the Admiralty has recently ap-
peared, in which he has answered several questions put
to him on the railway and harbour. With regard to
crossing the Dee at Chester, he considers it immaterial
which of the two proposed places is adopted if the bridge
arches are sixty feet span, and have twenty feet headway
above spring tides. He greatly prefers Captain Beechey's
plan for Holyhead Harbour to Mr. Walker's, and reports
that, if certain alterations are made in the line and works,
to the extent of £50,000 above Mr. Walker's estimate,
he should approve of the plan.
CHURNET VALLEY RAILWAY.—This railway, it is in-
tended, shall commence at or about the terminus of the
Macclesfield Branch of the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway, at Macclesfield, and proceed thence by way of
Leek, Cheadle, Rochester, and Uttoxeter, to a point on
the United Midland Railway, about two miles south of
Derby. Amongst other collateral advantages, the con-
templated traffic and the gradients of the line are repre-
sented to be most favorable, and the railway, by which a
saving of forty-nine miles is to be effected in the distance
between Manchester and Derby, is expected to be com-
pleted between three years after obtaining the sanction of
parliament.
THE GRAND CONNECTION RAILWAY.—This railway,
by being connected on the north with the Grand Junc-
tion Railway, and on the south with the Birmingham an&
Gloucester Railway, would open a direct communication
with Manchester, Liverpool, and Ireland, on the one side,
and with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bestol, and the south
and west of England on the other. The line is proposed
to be formed from the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail-
way, at Abbott's Wood, to be carried through Worces-
ter, Droitwich, (with a branch to Stoke Works,) Kidder-
minster, Stourbridge, Dudley, and Wolverhampton,
into the Grand Junction Railway, at or near Wolver-
hampton.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM AND GRAND JUNCTIOI4
RAILWAYS.—We are extremely happy to hear that the
communication we alluded to last week, from the latter
to the former of the companies, has been received and
replied to, by the London and Birmingham board. in such
a spirit as we think and hope will lead to a speedy and
satisfactory arrangement of the differences. According
to our information, the northern companies are extremely
anxious for peace, and desire nothing but what is fair and
equitable. As we have reason to believe the same is the
disposition of the London and Birmingham Company,
there can be few difficulties to overcome, and we think
our readers may therefore consider matters as good se
settled.—Railway Magazine.
LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY.—On Wednesday,
a special meeting of the proprietors of this railway was
held in London, for the purpose of considering a bill to be
applied for during the present session of parliament, for
amending the acts relating to this company, and for au-
thorising the laying of the necessary atmospheric apparatus
along the line ; and also to sanction an agreement made
by the directors, to guarantee to the subscribers to the
London and Chatham, and Chatham and Portsmouth
Junction Railway, interest at the rate of four per cent.
per annum on the capital to be advanced by them, and
from the time of its advance, upon condition that the
profits of the line, after payment of such interest, shall be
equally divided between the two companies. The bill was
agreed to.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—On Wednesday, a
special general court of the shareholders of the above
railway was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose
of receiving the report of the committee appointed to
take into consideration the propriety of extending the line
from Hertford to Hitchen and Bedford, and to take
measures to carry out that object. The meeting was
numerously attended ; Mr. Henry Bosanquet, in the chair.
The report stated that the estimates had been carefully
prepared from actual survey, and the result was, that the
calculation of income amounted to £38,155, from the ex-
isting traffic, and from that source there would result, on
the main line, an additional revenue of £15,734. making
a total of £48,888. After a proper deduction for work-
ing expenses, that revenue would yield a return equal to
GI per cent. on the cost of the works, computed by Mr.
Robert Stephenson at £535,000 for a double line. The
report concluded by stating that the directors stronglf
recommended the proprietors to authorize them to adopt
all necessary measures for extending the line from Hert-
ford to Hitchen, Biggleswade, and Bedford ; and, in order
to carry out the extension, the directors did not deem it
necessary to create additional stock. A resolution to form
the proposed line was almost unanimously adopted.