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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)
In a Congregation holden on Thursday, the following De-
grees were conferred :

BACHELOR AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY BY ACCUMULATION.
Rev. Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College,
grand compounder.

DOCTOR IN CIYIL LAW
John Lane, Queen's College.

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
Rev. Holled Darrell Cave Smith Horlock, Magdalene
Hall.

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Abraham Kerr Thompson, Queen's College.
Rev. Thomas Calvert, Queen's College.
Henry Symonds, Magdalene Hall.
Henry Duncan Skrine. Wadham College.
John Dobree Dalgairns, Exeter College.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Thomas Evetts, Scholar of Corpus Christi College, grand
compounder.
Francis Hugh Deane, Magdalene Hall.
The election for Fellows at Exeter College has termi-
nated in the choice of the following gentlemen :
The Rev. Matthew Anstis, M.A., Exeter College.
James Anthony Fronde, 8.A., Oriel College.
Frederick Fanshawe, 8.A., Scholor of Balliol College.
Richard Cowley Fowles, Scholar of Exeter College.
George Butler, Scholar of Exeter College.
On Monday, Mr. Edward West, Mr. Henry Longueville
Mansel, and Mr. Leopold John Bernays, Scholars of St.
John's College, were admitted actual Fellows; and at the
same time, Mr. Edward Thomas Austen, Mr. Robert Win-
tle Gilbert, and Mr. Edward Victor Lewis Houlton, all
being of kin to the Founder, were elected and admitted ac-
id Mr.
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and Air. Thompson Podmore

On Thursday las
Scholar of New Colle

t, Mr. William Charles Lawrence,
ge, was admitted actual Fellow of that

Society

CRAVEN SCHOLARSHIP.—A Scholarship on the Founda
tion of John Lord Craven being now vacant, it will be filled
up on Thursday next, the 7th of July. The Electors are
the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professors of Divinity, Law,
Physic, Hebrew, and Greek, and the Public Orator. Pert
sons of the name or kindred of Lord Craven, being poor,
and Scholars of the University, are entitled to a preference;
and such persons are required to transmit to the Vice-Chari-
eellor, before ten o'clock this day, satisfactory documents in
proof of their said kindred, an account of their standing in
the University, and testimonials from the College or Hall
to which they belong.

Mr. John 'CollluXood, 8.A., of Pembroke College, has
been appointed Second Master of the Free Grammar School,
Abingdon.

The Rev. John Puckle, M.A., of Brazenose College,
Curate of St. Mary's, Dover, has been elected by the
parishioners Perpetual Curate of that Church.

PROILIOTIONS.
Rev. James Kendall, formerly of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Lantigler by Fowey ; patron, J.
Kendall, Esq., of Helston.
Rev. William Nassau Molesworth, M.A., formerly of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of
St. Andrew's, Manchester.
Rev. John Murphy, to. the Living of Kilmocomogue,
Ireland, vacant by the promotion of the Hon. and Rev. C.
B. Bernard to the Prebend of Kilbrogan.
Rev. Weeden Butler, Curate of Creaton, Northampton-
shire, to the Vicarage of Wickham Market, Suffolk, vacant
by the :death of the Rev. J. E. Bell; patron, the Lord
Chancellor.

Rev. H. B. Illingworth is appointed Chaplain to the
Madagascar, on the Coast of Africa.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Donald
Jackson to the Church at Lochgilphead, in the parish of
Glassry, in the presbytery of Inverary and shire of Argyll,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter M'Kichan.

PRIVY COUNCIL.-SATURDAY

THE VICAR OF GEDNEY AND THE
DISTS.

WESLEYAN METHO-

Escort' V. MASTIN.—Their lordships gave judgment in
this case, which was argued last week, and which has excited
so much interest in the church and among the dissenting bo-
dies. It was an appeal from the Ecclesiastical Court in a
suit against the Rev. Mr. Escott, vicar of Gedney. in Lin-
colnshire, for refusing to read the burial service over the body
of a child, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Cliff, the 16th
and 17th December, 1839, on the ground that she was un-
baptised, i.e., had been baptised by a Wesleyan minister,
which, according to the appellant's construction of the canons
and rubrics of the church, amounted to no baptism at all.
The foundation of the suit was the canon of 1603, entitled,
" Ministers not to refuse to christen or bury," by which it
was ordained, that " no minister shall refuse or delay to
christen any child according to the form of the Book of Com-
mon Prayer that is brought to the church to him upon Sun-
days or holidays to be christened, or to bury any corpse that
fs brought to the church or churchyard, convenient warning
being given him thereof before, in such form as is pre-
scribed in the said Book of Common Prayer; and if he shall
refuse to christen one or bury the other, (except the party
deceased were denounced excommunicated majori creommu-
nicatione for some grievous aua erime, and no man
0 biz repentance')
he Shall be suspended u, • -
the bishop of the diocese Mint his ministry for the space of
three months." The sentence of the judge below was,
" That the Rev. Toornas Sweet Escott, clerk, be accordingly
suspended for the space of three mouths, from all discharge
and functions of his clerical offices."
Lord Brougham went at great length into the arguments
on the part of the appellant, on which it was contended, that
baptism, by a person who had not received episcopal ordina-
tion, was of no more effect than baptism by a layman, and
that laymen were forbidden by the canons and rubrics from
performing this rite ; that, consequently the rite so performed
was invalid, and the person receiving it unbaptised ; and if so
the ministers of the Church were not only justified in refu-
sing to read the burial service in such a case, but "'ere bound.
to do so under severe penalties. Their Lordships were of
opinion, that, taking Wesleyans and other ministers, not
episcopaly ordained, to have no more authority to baptize
than laymen, there was nothing in the canon of 1603, or the
rubrics of Edward the Sixth and Elizabeth, to show that lay
baptism was invalid. There were passages in each which
showed that cases were contemplated in which the attendance
of a clergyman could not be procured, from want of time and
distance of place ; and, although lay persons were subject to
ecclesiastical censures, if they obtruded themselves unneces-
sarily into this or any other office of the Church, it was plain
that the rite was valid by whomsoever administered, if done
in the prescribed form. viz., by the sprinkling of water in
the name of the Trinity. After going very ably and elabor-
ately into the other points, his lordship concluded by ex-
pressing their Lordships' strong disapprobation of the lan-
gnage in which a judgment of Sir John Nichol in a former
case (in which he had come to the same conclusion) had been
spoken of by the appellant, and " other reverend persons,"
and which he could only ascribe to " that heat of temper
which is unfortunately too commonly found in theological
controversies"; and stated that the sentence of the Court
below must be affirmed with costs.