The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)
COMPARATIVE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE

UNIVERSITY

There are those who pretend to accurate information who
would represent the numbers of the University as sensibly
liminished of late. We refer such to the following table at
We commencement of 1812 compared with that of 1832 :
Members of Members on the
Convocation. Books.

1832. 1812. 1832. 1842.
University lO3 116 207 243
Balliol
Merton
Exeter

1-14 171 293 329

Queen's ...... 166 179 351 299
New
Lincoln
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All Souls
Magdalene
Brasenose ......
Corpus
Christ Church
Trinity
_ ._

St. John's,
Jesus....,

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117 137 218 266
56 58 167 133

Wadham
Pembroke.. ..
Worcester....
St. Mary Hall 4O 24 83 77
Magdalene Hall
New Inn Hall 1 6 10 61
Alban Hall
Edmund Hall

2522 2833 5274 6039
Matriculations .... 377 441

In a Convocation holden on Thursday last a letter of thanks
from the Bishop of Barbados was read, acknowledging the
grant of £l5O from the University chest, to be expended in
books printed at the University press, for the use of Cod-
rington College, in the island of Barbados.
In the same Convocation, the following gentlemen were ad-
mitted ad eundem :
Rev. Francis Duncan Gilby, M.A., Clare Hall, Cam-
bridge.
John Fleming, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following
Degrees were conferred :

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY
Rev. Thomas Evans, Oriel College.

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Edward Francis Witts, Magdalene Hall.
Charles Edward Thornhill, Christ Church.
Rev. Edward Wm. Garrow, Brasenose College.
Rev. Gilbert Sandbach, Brasenose College.
Rev. Henry William Steel, Jesus College.
Rev. Fred. Asheton Iremonger, Scholar of Pembroke

College.
Rev. Henry Combs, Fellow of St. John's College.
Rev. George Armstrong Blakely, Worcester College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Paul Butler, Student of Christ Church.
Greville Phillimore, Student of Christ Church.
John Fenwicke Burgoyne Blackett, Student of Christ

Church.
Wm. Edward Rawsrorne, Student of Christ Church.
Cornwall Simeon, Christ Church.
Melville Portal, Christ Church.
Nathaniel Winter, Magdalene Hall.
Timothy Jones, Magdalene Hall.
Theodore Percival Wilson, Scholar of Brasenose College.
Charles Hartley Langhorne, Exeter College.
In a Convocation holden at twelve o'clock, for the pur-
pose of electing a Professor of Poetry in the room of the Rev.
John Keble, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel College, the Rev.
James Garbett, M.A., late Fellow of Brasenose College, was
unanimously elected.
In a Congregation holden yesterday, the Rev. Thomas
Evans. of Oriel College, and Head Master of the College
School at Gloucester, was admitted Doctor in Divinity.

APPOINTMENTS AND P&OMOTIONS

The Rev. Joshua Stratton, M.A., Precentor of Canterbury
Cathedral, and late Chaplain of New College, was on Friday,
the 21st instant, collated by his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury to the Vicarage of Graveney, with the annexed
Rectory of Goodnestone, near Faversham.
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The Rev. J. Compton, 8.A., of Merton College, to the
Rectory of Minstead, Hants, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. J. P. Hampton ; patron, H. C. Compton, Esq.
The Rev. Alfred Cox, M.A., and late Fellow of Lincoln
College, to the Rectory of Askerswell, Dorset ; vacant by
the death of the Rev. John Colmer ; patron, the Rev. J.
Cox, D.D.
The Rev. M. Atkinson, M.A., and late Fellow of Lincoln
College, to the Head Mastership of St. Bees Free Grammar
School ; and the Rev. H. Gough, of Queen's College,
to the Second Mastership.

Rev. B. Lodge, Perpetual Curate of Theydon Bois, Essex,
to be Chaplain to the British Residence at Buenos Ayres.
Rev. F. Foot, M.A., to the Curacy of Rowley Regis,
Staffordshire.

Rev. Henry Butterfield, M.A., formerly of Christ's Col-
lege, Cambridge, Minor Canon of St. George's Chapel, Wind-
sor, and Rector of Brockdish, Norfolk, to the Rectory of
Fulmer, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. W.
Champnes ; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor.
Rev. J. Bloomfield. 8.D., to the Living of Orsett, Essex,
vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Usko ; patron, the Bishop
of London.

Hon. and Rev. 0. W. H. Forester, M.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Broseley, Salop ; patron,
Lord Forester.

Rev. P. C. Nicholson, M. A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, to the Curacy of St. Peter's, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire.
Rev. J. W. Thornton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, and Rector of Llanwarne, Hereford, to the Prebend
of Wellington, in the Cathedral Church of Hereford.
Rev. W. T. H. Hooper, to the Perpetual Curacy of St.
Paul's Church, Withington, Lancashire ; patrons, the Trus-
tees of the Church.
Rev. Joseph Baylee, to Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead.
Rev. W. E. White, to the Perpetual Curacy of Trinity
Church, Wray, Lancashire.
Rev. P. Cann, 8.A., to the Rectory of Virginstow, Devon.
Rev. R. F. Chadleigh, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of
St. Colurnb, Minor, Cornwall ; patron. Sir J. Y. B. Buller.
Sir T. T. Eager, to the Curacy of Hollingwood, near Man-
chester.

Rev. W. G. Goodchild, 8.A., of Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, has been appointed Private Chaplain to T. Hib-
bert, Esq., of Birtels, Cheshire.
Rev. W. Rushton, 8.A.,0f Trinity College, Cambridge,
has been elected Second Waster of firewood Grammar
School.

Rev. T. Snow, to the Vicarage of Newton Valence, with
Hawkley Curacy, Hants.
Rev. W. Hepworth, 8.A., to the Rectory of Pinningham,
Suffolk; patron, the Right Hon. J. H. Freer.