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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, J' NE 13.—At a Congrega-
tion just held the following degrees were conferred :—B. D.
Robert Phelps, Master of Sidney College; Alexander Tate,
Fellow of Emmanuel College ; George Wray, Felloc
John's College ; and David F. Morgan, Queen's Co _
B. A.: Robert Whyte, Downing College; and Fielding
Nalder, Magdalene College.—M. B. : .1. H. Webster, Jesus
College; Herbert Davies, Queen's College; and C. H.
Jones, Catherine-hall.—The following gentlemen were ap-
pointed Barnaby Lecturers for the year ensuing ;—Mathe-
matics, Mr. Smith, St. Peter's College; Philosophy, Mr.
Colenso, St. John's College ; Rhetoric, Mr. Mathison, Tri•
nity College ; Logic, Mr. Hose, Queen's College.

The rector of Morpeth has contributed £l,OOO, the Earl of
Carlisle the site, valued at £4OO, Lady Elizabeth Grey £5,
Lady G. E. Grey, £5, towards the projected new church at
Morpeth. _ _

The Bishop of Durham has given £5O towards the pur-
chase of the Presbyterian meeting-house, in Spring-garden-
lane, Sunderland. It will in future be used as an episcopal
chapel, under the care of the rector of Sunderland.
DR. PUSEY'S SERMON.—The Rev. J. J. Randolph has
addressed a letter- to the Times, stating that his name was
attached to the address to the Vice-chancellor of Oxford, on
the subject of Dr. Pusey's sermon, without either his know-
ledge or authority ; and the Rev. E. M. Goulburn has also
written to the London papers, stating that he affixed his
signature to the same document from a wish to know in de-
tail what were the condemned propositions, and without the
slightest idea that in doing so he implied either approbation
of the sermon or censure of the sentence which condemned it.
The latter gentleman says that he is stating the case of others
also.
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TRACTARIANISM AND POPERY.-At the annual meeting
of the Roman Catholic Institute a very geueral theme of dis-
cussion seems!to have been the improving prospects given to
Romanism by the Tractarian heresy. The scandal which Dr.
Pusey has so recently brought upon the University of Oxford
was instanced by nearly every speaker as a proof of the pro-
gress which Popery has made and is making in the Church
of England ; and one priest, in the fervour of his zeal, nar-
rated an incident which, if true. ought most assuredly to
excite the hierarchy of the establishment to increased vigi-
lance, and the laity to greater reflection. We give it as the
reverend speaker told it to the meeting :
"The Rev. Mr. O'Neal congratulated the meeting upon
the progress which the Church of England was making. to-
wards their faith. Not long since of the Oxford divines was
speaking to a Roman Catholic clergyman, who reproached
him for his want of promptness in giving in his adhesion to
the Church of Rome. The Oxford divine answered that he
certainly did believe every part of . the Roman Catholic re-
ligion ; that he believed in the real presence, in the efficacy
of priestly absolution, in the comfortable consolation of the
invocation of saints ; that he did believe in purgatory and
every other point of Catholic doctrine, but that he also be-
lieved the time for joining the- Catholic religion was not yet
arrived,
though he hoped it soon would. (Cheers.)"
Five years ago we would at once have bestowed the lie direct
on such a statement; that we cannot do so now is the fault
of the Tractarians. Be this statement true or false, similar
ones are in the months of every Romanist, and names once
familiar as the bulwarks of Protestantism are now claimed
as converts to, and said to be believers in, the tenets of
Popery.

RUGBY SPEECH DAY.—On Friday the annual recitation of
the compositions which have obtained prizes took place in
the large school-room. The following is a list of the subjects
of the prizes, and of the successful competitors :—Latin
Essay.—Conington,maj.—Quisnam inter veteres historiarum
scriptores, sett Grvecos, seu Romanos, prtetantissimus haben-
dos sit? Latin verse.—Sandars—Arabes. Englieh prose.
—Day—On the causes which led to the rise of the power of
the Commons in England. Greek lamb!cs.—Hon. F. C.
Lawley.—Elissa. English T erse.—Hardy, tnnj.—Anstralia.
Fifth Form Verses.—Cholmondely, maj.—Thebte Agyp-
time.