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

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na the Oxford Herald.)
NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE
UNIVERSITY.

There are those
would represent th
diminished of late.

ho pretend to accurate information who
numbers of the University as sensibly
We refer such to the following table at

Z compared with that of 1832 :
Members on the
Books.
1842.
243

Alembe;s of

Convocation.
1832. 1812. 1832.
University lO3 116 207
Balliol
Merton 67 71 124 152
Exeter
Oriel
Queen's 166 179 351 299
New 72 ' 74 157' 160
Linc01n....
All Souls
Magdalene ...... 123 137 165 170
Brasenose .
Corpus
Christ Church
Trinity
St. John's ll7 137 218 266
Jesus 56 58 167 133
Wadham
Pembroke B9 106 189 174
Worcester BB 120 231 203
St. Mary Hall 4O 24 83 77
Magdalene Hall .
New Inn Hall
Alban Hall
Edmund Hall

Matriculations

5274 6039
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 enndem :

Rev. Francis Duncan Gilby, M.A., Clare Hall, Cam-
bridge.

Join 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. Asbeton Irentonger, Scholar of Pembroke

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.
Ccrnwall 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.

A.PPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

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.

The -Rev. J. Compton, BA., 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, M.A., of Queen's College,
to the Second Mastership.
Rev. B. Lodge, Perpetual Curate of Theydon Bois, Essex,
to be Chaplaid 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
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