CLERGYMEN DECEASED. On Friday, February 24th, at the Vicarage House, Sandhurst, Berks, the Rev. John Bayley Somers Carwithen, B.D., Vicar of that parish, and of Fremley, Hants. He was born April 10th, 1781, graduated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and was appointed Preacher of the Bampton Lectures in 1809, when he chose as his subject "a View of the Brahminical Religion, in its Confirmation of the Truth of the Sacred History, and in its Influence on the Moral Character." In 1829, he published two volumes of "A History of the Church of England;" the narrative of which sound, able, and impartial work, extends to the close of Cromwell's usurpation. The third volume, containing the History to the Epoch of the Revolution, was completely prepared for the press before the death of its lamented Author, and the appearance of it may soon be expected. R. L. Ross, Esq. Rev.G.G.Stonestreet CharlesGordon, Esq. W. S. Poyntz, Esq. Williams, Edward.. Westminster, Regent-st.C. Middlx. London R. of St. George, Hanover-square Name. Moore, Temple Appointment. Chapl. to the Forces at Chatham Head Master of endowed School, at Stamfordham, Northumb. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ELECTIONS. OXFORD. Ar a Convocation holden for the purpose of electing a Professor of Sanscrit, on the Foundation of Colonel Boden, after a poll of several hours, Horace H. Wilson, Esq. was elected, the numbers being-For Mr. Wilson, 207; for Dr. Mill, 200; majority, 7. The Rev. Francis Clerke, M. A. late Fellow of All Souls' College, and the Rev. Richard Young, M. A. Fellow of New College, have been elected, by their respective Societies, Proctors for the ensuing year. The Rev. Thomas William Lancaster, M.A. late Michel Fellow of Queen's College, and the Rev. William Sewell, M.A. Fellow of Exeter College, have been nominated and approved in Convocation, Public Examiners in Literis Humanioribus, and William Falconer, M.A. Fellow of Exeter, Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis. The Rev. William Weldon Champneys, M.A. of Brasennose College, has been elected a Fellow of that Society. John Chandler, M.A. and Scholar of Corpus Christi College, has been admitted Probationary Fellow of that Society. The Examiners appointed to elect a Mathematical Scholar, have announced the election of Eaton Davies Denton, B.A. of Queen's College. They also strongly recommend Edward Cockey, B. A. of Wadham College, and Edward Hill, B. A. of Christ Church, as deserving of highly honourable mention. The Examiners appointed to elect a Scholar on the Foundation of Dean Ireland, have announced the election of Roundell Palmer, Scholar of Trinity College. Mr. Evan Evans, of Jesus College, has been elected a Scholar of Pembroke College, on the Foundation of Sir John Philipps, Bart. Mr. Henry Handley Brown, Commoner of Exeter College, has been elected Scholar of Corpus Christi College. Messrs. Thomas Briscoe, William Lewis Walker, and John Price, Commoners of Jesus College, have been elected Scholars of that Society. In Convocation, the offer of P. Pusey, Esq. M.P. of Pusey, in the county of Berks, the Rev. Edward Ellerton, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, M.A. Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Hebrew, of conveying to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University, a freehold estate, situated at Willoughby and Woolscot, in the county of Warwick, of which the present annual rent amounts to 100., for the endowment of three Hebrew Scholarships, was accepted. The following is a summary of the regulations: -That the sum of 301. annually shall at first be paid to each of the three Scholars, and shall afterwards be increased according to the proceeds of the estate.- Persons under the degrees of M.A. and B.C.L. and not above 25 years of age, to be eligible. The Scholarships to be holden for three years upon certain conditions of Term residence, and attendance on the Professor of Hebrew's lectures, &c. The electors to be the Regius Professors of Divinity and Hebrew, and the Lord Almoner's Reader in Arabic. Examinations to be in Act Term; the first in 1832. DEGREES CONFERRED. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. F. J. Lace, University Coll. grand comp. MASTERS OF ARTS. James Dennis, Exeter Coll. grand comp. Rev. William Manly, Queen's Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Charles Duberly, Christ Church. R. B. Todd, Pemb. Coll. (incorporated from Charles Escott, Exeter Coll. Thomas Green, Worcester Coll. T. J. A. B. Fairbairn, Merton Coll. ELECTIONS. CAMBRIDGE. That the Vice-Chancellor be authorized to communicate the thanks of the Senate to Mr. Whewell, for his liberal offer to present to the University his collection of Minerals, a collection of Treatises on Mineralogy, and the sum of 100%, on condition that the University provide a suitable room for the reception of the minerals. That the Syndics appointed to procure a plan and estimate of expense for erecting Buildings for the accommodation of the Professors of Chemistry and Anatomy in the present Botanical Garden, be further authorized to consider and report to the Senate before the end of the present term, whether, by raising part of these intended buildings to a greater height, without any enlargement of the proposed site, a room can be provided suitable for the reception of the minerals offered to be presented to the University by Mr. Whewell. That, on condition of Mr. Edward Bell surrendering the lease of the house which he now occupies, to the University at Lady-day next, the Vice-Chancellor be authorized to allow him out of the University chest the sum of 531. 2s. 6d., being the amount of five quarters' rent, which will be due from him at Lady-day next to the University and also a farther sum of 92. 10s. for certain fixtures in the house: and that the Syndics of the Press be authorized to give directions for taking down the said house, and disposing of the materials, at such time after the surrender of the lease, and in such manner, as they shall consider expedient. To authorize the Professor of Botany to expend a sum, not exceeding 301., in the purchase of a valuable collection of plants, lately brought from the Western Shores of South America and the adjacent Islands, to be deposited in the Botanical Museum of the University. The Syndicate appointed to inquire "Whether any and what Alterations can be made with Advantage in the Mode of Examination of Candidates for Mathematical Honours?" have made the following report to the Senate : It appears desirable to increase the duration of the examination. There are at present four days of examination in mathematics: on each of the two former the examination occupies seven and a half hours, whilst on each of the two latter it occupies only four hours. It is The lease is for seven years, commencing from December 21, 1829. recommended that in future there be five days of examination in mathematics, commencing on the Thursday preceding the first Monday in Lent term, and that the time of examination each day be five and a half hours. By this arrangement four and a half hours will be added to the whole time of examination: and it is recommended that four of these additional hours be appro. priated to the answering of questions from books, and the remaining half hour to the solution of problems, according to the plan subjoined. It is further recommended that the candidates be arranged in four classes, determined, as at present, by the public exercises in the schools; but that during the first four days of the examination, the same questions be proposed to all the classes. That, as at present, the examination on the first day extend only to such parts of pure Mathematics and Natural Philosophy as do not require the methods of the Differential Calculus. That on the second and third days the questions from books include, in addition to the above subjects, the parts of Natural Philosophy somewhat more advanced, and the simpler applications of the Calculus. That on the fourth day, the examination extend to subjects of greater difficulty, care however being taken that there be some questions suitable for the lower classes. That on the fifth day, the classes be arranged for examination, according to the plan subjoined. That the questions proposed to all the classes on this day be fixed upon by the Moderators and Examiners in common ; but that the duty of examining the answers to these questions be apportioned amongst the Moderators and Examiners, according to the plan. That, as recommended by a former Syndicate, "there be not contained in any paper more questions than students well prepared have been generally found able to answer within the time allowed for that paper." That the result of the examination be published in the Senate-House on the morning of the following Friday, at eight o'clock; but if it should happen that the relative merits of any of the candidates are not then determined to the satisfaction of the Moderators and Examiners, that such candidates be re-examined on that day. That this mode of examination commence in January, 1833. (4) Monday.. 59 to 11 1 to 4 Problems. 9 to 11 (5) Tuesday... 1 to 4 Pure Math. & Nat. Phil., Sen. and Jun. Examiners. 1st Class, Pure Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 2d and 3d Classes, Pure Math. and Natural Philosophy, Sen. and Jun. Examiners. 4th Class, Pure Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Sen. and Jun. Moderators. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, March 5, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, the president, being in the chair. Various books, and other objects presented to the society, were announced. Among these were a collection of British insects presented by A. Badger, Esq. of Trinity College; a specimen of the Northern Diver, presented by Dr. Butler; a map of the island of Teneriffe, presented by Leopold Von Buck; the Works of Otto Guericke, and of Diogenes Laertius, presented by the Rev. B. Bridge; the translation of the second volume of Niebuhr's Roman History, and of Encke's Dissertation on the Comet of Short Period, presented respectively by the translators. A memoir was read by Prosessor Airy on a new analysis of light. The principle of this invention is the following:-The usual experiments consist in polarising the light in a plane, and in analyzing the ray, after transmission through a crystalline body, by some process which suppresses rays polarised in a certain direction, and transmits the rays polarised in a direction perpendicular to this. In Professor Airy's new mode of experimenting, the light is, in the first place, circularly polarised (for instance, in a right-handed direction), and, after transmission through a crystalline body, is analysed by a circular polarisation, which suppresses the rays circularly polarised in one direction (for instance, left-handed), and transmits the others. The result of this process is, that the rings in uniaxal crystals are seen without the usual cross, and the miscates in liaxal crystals without the hyperbolic brushes. Mr. Murphy, of Caius College, also read a memoir on the Inverse Calculus of Definite Integrals, with illustrations derived from its application to the distribution of electricity on the surface of bodies. After the meeting, Professor Airy exhibited experiments illustrative of the phenomena referred to in his paper; and Professor Henslow gave a lecture (elucidated by specimens of wood and by drawings) on the subject of the mode of determining the age of trees, and exhibited the results and defects produced in timber by different methods of pruning. A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, March 19, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, the president, being in the chair, and Dr. Wallich of Calcutta, the distinguished botanist, was elected an honorary member. The following presents were received: - - Two specimens of Hybrids between the common pheasant and the bantam, and a specimen of a Hybrid, dove between the turtle-dove and the ring-neck, presented by J. P. Henslow, Esq.; and a pair of the beautiful tail feathers (7 feet long) of the Phasianus Reevesii. A memoir was read by Professor Airy, "On the Phenomena of Newton's Rings, when formed between two transparent substances of different refractive powers." Also a memoir by the Rev. W. Brett, of Corpus Christi College, "On the Phenomena of Double Stars." After the meeting, Mr. Whewell gave an account, illustrated by charts and diagrams, of the forms and course of the cotidal lines, according to the causes which influence them, and to the observations made in different places. ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL. At the weekly meeting held at Addenbrooke's Hospital, on Monday, March 5, the treasurer produced a receipt for 10007. in the 3 per cent. reduced annuities, transferred to the President and Governors of that charity by the executors of the late Mrs. Catherine Collignon, of .Bromley in Kent, daughter of the late Dr. Collignon, many years an eminent physician in Cambridge, and one of the physicians of the hospital,-being the munificent legacy bequeathed to the charity by that lady; and at the same meeting the treasurer produced a letter from William Lee, Esq. of Upwell, informing the Governors, that the late Mrs. Dorcas Lee had bequeathed to the hospital a legacy of 1007.-Both these legacies are given free of the legacy duty. MARRIED. At Bilderstone, Suffolk, by the Rev. W. Edge, Rector of Nedging, the Rev. G. E. Webster, Rector of Grundisburgh, and late senior of Trinity College, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Growse, Esq. of the former place. DIED. At his rooms in Jesus College, William Hustler, Esq. Fellow of that Society, and Registrary of the University; the duties of which office he discharged for above fifteen years with singular ability, and exemplary fidelity. He proceeded to the degree of B. A. in the year 1811, and to that of M. A. in 1814. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We desire to thank "W.T.B." for his friendly communication, which we shall reserve ; perhaps for an article upon the subject. In consequence of a notice from the Commissioners of Stamps, that the announcement of all books, with the prices affixed, would be considered as advertisements; we have of late, in our reviews and notices, been obliged to omit that useful appendage. We shall, however, be particular in giving the number of pages that each volume may contain, and the size of the book, in order that our readers may make a near guess at its value. We have conversed with several friends, Cleric and Laic, and to a man they disapprove of the Archbishop's Plurality Bill. We sincerely hope that it will not pass in any thing like its present shape. More anon. The late important trials on account of Non-residence will appear in due order. |