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REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY.

OXFORD.

The Gazette of Friday, the 19th March, notifies that his Majesty has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Dickson Hampden, D.D. Principal of St. Mary Hall, the office and place of Regius Professor of Divinity in this University, together with the place and dignity of a Canon of the Cathedral Church of Christ, in the University, being void by the death of Dr. Edward Burton.

OXFORD SATURDAY, MARCH 5.

At a meeting of the Members of Convocation held on the above day, the annexed resolutions were agreed to:

"At an adjourned Meeting of Members

of Convocation held this day in Corpus Common Room, it was resolved unanimously,

"I. That the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, as Chairman of this meeting, be requested to convey to the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor the sincere thanks of the meeting for the attention which he has paid to the former expressions of their wishes.

"II. That the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor be respectfully requested to lay before the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors the following considerations:

"The Members of Convocation whose names are attached to the late requisitions have, in their applications to the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor and the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors, proposed to themselves two distinct objects, each of which is, in their opinion, absolutely required by the nature and urgency of the occasion.

"The one is to guard against danger from Dr. Hampden's future instructions as a professor; the other to counteract the evil tendency of his past publications by some formal and authoritative act of cen

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Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors ha consented to entertain it in any shape; and as an exact knowledge of the decision of the board upon this point must materially influence their own conduct, they request the earliest information upon it.

"With regard to the former object, they feel that their distrust of Dr. Hampden as a teacher in theology (founded as it is on the nature and tendency of his repeated statements), is such as to require the immediate application of suitable and sufficient safeguards; and that no explanation or even recantation of his opinions at this moment can sufficiently restore their confidence: and they cannot but think it a great evil, that Dr. Hampden should be permitted to enter upon the duties of his office without any previous act upon the part of the University, which may serve as a warning to the young men committed to their care.

"Acting upon the deliberate and conscientious conviction, that, under such circumstances, nothing can justify the University in shrinking from its solemu duty both to its students and the Church, they most earnestly deprecate any delay, which may throw doubt on its intention, and protract, perhaps to another term, all the evils of this unhappy discussion.

"However unwilling to depart from the ordinary practice of the University, they feel it their bounden duty, as individuals, no longer to postpone the adoption of such measures as may seem best calculated to obviate the dangers apprehended, and secure the objects proposed. It is, therefore, with greatest respect, that they feel themselves bound to add, that, after Tuesday next, they should consider themselves at liberty to pursue the course they may think best adapted to satisfy the claims of duty. "III. That the Chairman sign on behalf of the meeting.

(Signed)

"VAUGHAN THOMAS, B.D., Chairman."

It is indeed not merely discreditable, but disgusting, says the Standard, that, on no less than two occasions, Dr. Hampden has been permitted, and has availed himself of the permission, to sit as judge in his own case; and that on one of these occasions, he has actually shielded himself from the inquiry into his qualifications by his own single vote.

On Tuesday, 22d March, a Convocation was holden, which excited more than common interest, and occasioned a greater influx of Members of Convocation than we ever remember to have seen, except on strongly contested elections, or public celebrities of the highest importance. The question to be decided was the adoption or rejection of the following statute :

"STATUTUM NOVUM.-Quum ab Universitate commissum fuerit S. Theologiæ Professori Regio, ut unus sit ex eorum numero, a quibus designantur selecti Concionatores, secundum Tit. XVI. § 8, necnon ut ejus consilium adhibeatur, si quis Concionator coram Vice-Cancellario in quæstionem vocetur, secundum Tit. XVI. § 11. quum vero qui nunc Professor est, scriptis suis publici juris factis ita res theologicas tractaverit, ut in hac parte nullam ejus fiduciam habeat Universitas.

"Statutum est, quod munerum prædictorum expers sit S. Theologiæ Professor Regius, donec aliter Universitati placuerit. Ne vero quid detrimenti capiat interea Universitas, Professoris ejusdem vicibus fungantur alii; scilicet, in Concionatores selectos designando Senior inter Vice-Cancellarii Deputatos, vel eo absente, aut ipsius Vice-Cancellarii locum tenente, proximus ex ordine Deputatus (proviso semper, quod sacros ordines susceperit), et in consilio de Concionibus habendo Prælector Dominæ Margaretæ Comitissæ Richmondiæ."

It being generally understood that the Proctors intended to interpose their veto, and by this means negative the statute, great excitement prevailed; and this was considerably increased by a rumour that Mr. Vaughan Thomas was prepared to argue from the statutes that the proper time for such interposition was after, and not before, the scrutiny had taken place. As we are enabled to give Mr. Thomas's speech at full length, we shall only recount, and that very briefly, the actual proceedings of the Convocation. The Convocation House being manifestly incapable of containing the numbers assembled, the Vice-Chancellor determined upon holding the Convocation in the Theatre, and shortly after three o'clock the procession moved from the Delegates' Room; at the head of which, and immediately following the Vice-Chan

cellor, appeared the venerable and learned President of Magdalen College. The Doctors and Noblemen having taken their respective places in the semicircle, the ViceChancellor opened the Convocation, and after a short time consumed in the admission of Members of Convocation to their Regencies, the Registrar read the statute, and the Vice-Chancellor inquired if any one desired to offer any observations on it:-Ecquis sententiam suam exprimere vult? Upon this, Mr. Thomas, who stood immediately in the centre of the area, addressed the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, and another gentleman uttered a few words, but as he commenced his speech in English, he was immediately stopped by the Vice-Chancellor, and reminded that the Latin was the only language to be statutably used in that assembly. The statute was then read a second time, and the ViceChancellor put the question first to the Doctors, "Placetne vobis, Domini Doctores?" There were, as usual, several who cried "Placet," and a smaller number "Non." Upon the question being referred to the Masters, "Placetne vobis, Magistri?" the Proctors rose simultaneously, and imposed their veto, saying, “Nobis Procuratoribus non placet." The ViceChancellor then immediately dissolved the Convocation.

As no scrutiny could be taken, the friends of the measure adopted a mode, not unusual, of displaying the comparative numbers of the assentients and dissentients; the Placets filed off to the right, leaving the Non Placets on the left, side of the Theatre; and a gentleman who is well versed in the subject, and whose calculation we can depend upon, assures us, that the numbers in the area, on the one side, (the Non Placets), were exactly 34, whilst he considers the Placets to have amounted to as nearly 480 as possible.

Upon the result of the Convocation being generally known, a very full meeting took place at Brasennose College, where the following requisition was determined on, and, as we are given to understand, very numerously signed :—

"A Requisition to the Rev. the ViceChancellor.

"We, the undersigned members of Convocation, having found that the University of Oxford has been precluded, by the intervention of the Proctors, from publicly expressing an opinion on the nature and tendency of principles promulgated in certain publications of the Rev. Dr. Hampden, the Regius Professor of Divinity, still consider it our duty to state our

deliberate conviction that on this momentous subject some formal act of censure on the part of the University is imperatively required.

"And we hereby respectfully request, that at the earliest opportunity which may seem to you fitting, you would be pleased once more to lay before the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors, this earnest entreaty, that some measure may be again submitted to Convocation, to clear the University from the charge of sanctioning such principles, and to prevent, as far as possible, the dangers which are likely to arise from them."

And at the same time the following de claration was unanimously agreed to:"Oxford, March 22, 1836.

"We, the undersigned non-resident members of Convocation, who have come to this place for the purpose of taking part in the deliberation on the proposed statute respecting Dr. Hampden, desire also to express our feelings of admiration and gratitude towards the great body of resident members, and especially towards the members of the committee which has prepared the several documents, circulated at this crisis, for the wisdom and energy, the christian zeal and christian charity, with which they have laboured in this painful and sacred cause.

"And we do hereby pledge ourselves to promote, here and elsewhere, according to our means, the efficiency of the protest which the University is now called on to enter against a false and dangerous system of theology; as also to render that protest, if possible, only the more solemn, complete, and decisive for any temporary obstruction which may occur, through advantage taken of the forms of our academical constitution."

The number of Essays delivered in for Mrs. Denyer's Theological Prizes is as follows:-"On the Doctrine of Faith in the Holy Trinity," eight; on the "Sufficiency of Holy Scriptures for the Salvation of Man," five.

Mr. Linwood, of Christ Church, the same gentleman who so recently obtained the University Scholarship for the encouragement of Latin Literature, is the successful candidate for Dean Ireland's Scholarship for 1836.

The Examiners appointed to elect a Mathematical Scholar for 1836, have announced their election of Mr. Nicholas Pocock, B.A. Michel Scholar of Queen's College.

In a Convocation, the names of the following gentlemen, who had been nomi

nated Public Examiners, were submitted to the House, and unanimously approved :

In Literis Humanioribus.-Rev. Frederick Oakeley, Fellow of Balliol College.

In Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis.-Edward Hill, M. A. Student of Christ Church.

The election of the Proctors for the ensuing year having taken place in their respective Colleges, according to the Caroline Statute, the names of the gentlemen appointed to fill that office were, on Wednesday, announced to the ViceChancellor. They are

Rev. R. Hussey, M.A. Stud. of Ch. Ch. Rev. H. Thorpe, M.A. late Fellow of St. John's Coll.

DEGREES CONFERRED.

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Hebrew. (grand comp.)

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. Richard Greswell, Fellow of Worcester College.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

Rev. C. Alderson, Magdalen Hall.
Rev. William Butler, Queen's Coll.
Willoughby J. E. Rooke, Brasen. Coll.
George Benjamin Sandford, Brasen. Coll.
Arthur H. Dyke Acland, Christ Church.
Rev. S. Lysons, Exeter Coll. (gr. comp.)
George Kettilby Rickards, Trinity Coll.
Rev. William Hornby, Christ Church.
Edward James, St. John's Coll.
Robert Lowe, Fellow of Magdalen.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Humfrey W. Freeland, Christ Church.
John Frederick Fagg, University Coll.
Theodore Augustus Echalez, Trinity Coll.
Edward Hicks, C. C. C. (grand comp.)
George Lowe, Merton Coll.
Alfred Gatty, Exeter Coll.

G. Newnham Phillips, Merton Coll.

PEMBROKE COLLEGE.

Havilland de Sausmarez, B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, has been elected a Fellow of Pembroke College, on the nomination of the Dean and Jurats of the Island of Guernsey.

CORPUS CHRISTI.

Mr. Richard Joynes (from the Charter House) has been elected Scholar of Corpus Christi College, for the county of Kent.

MAGDALEN HALL.

Mr. William G. S. Addison, Commoner of Exeter College, has been elected Lusby Scholar of Magdalen Hall.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

George Kettilby Rickards, M.A. of Trinity College, has been elected and admitted a Fellow of Queen's College, on Mr. Michel's Foundation.

Mr. Edward Penrose Hathaway has also been elected a Middlesex Exhibitioner of the same Society.

LINCOLN COLLEGE.

A Fellowship is now vacant, to which an Election will take place on Friday, the 20th day of May next.

It is open to natives of the old Diocese of Lincoln.

N. B. Candidates are required to give in their names to the Sub-Rector, together with the usual College Testimonials, and a certificate of their place of birth, on or before Saturday, the 14th of May.

Messrs. J. Fraser and William Kay, and Messrs. George Atty, of Brasennose College, and F. P. Morris, of Worcester College, have been elected Scholars of Lincoln College; and at the same time, Messrs. E. H. Adamson, of University College, and C. R. Martyn, of Lincoln College, were elected Exhibitioners of the same Society, on the Foundation of Lord Crewe.

NEW COLLEGE.

Mr. Thomas Richard Agnew, Scholar of New College, has been admitted Actual Fellow of that Society.

TRINITY COLLEGE.

There will be an Election of Three Scholars on Monday, May 30. Candidates must be above sixteen and under twenty years of age, and will be required to present, in person, to the President, certificates of baptism, and testimonials of conduct, together with a Latin epistle, to request permission to offer themselves, at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, May

25.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Two Scholarships in this College, open to persons born in any part of England; and one, confined to natives of the county of Kent, will be filled up on Friday, the 11th of March.

Candidates, who must not have exceeded the eighth Term from their Matriculation, are required to present, in person, to the Master, the usual testimonials of good conduct from their respective Colleges, together with certificates of the place of their birth, on or before Monday, the 7th of March.

GRACES.

CAMBRIDGE.

The following Graces have passed the Senate :

To authorise the Registrary to transfer the University Muniments from the present office in the Old Court of King's College to a room in the Pitt Press, as a temporary Register Office.

To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Jesus, the Master of Christ's, Mr. Peacock, Mr. Whewell, Mr. Hughes, of St. John's, Mr. Bowstead, Mr. Isaacson, Mr. Smith, of Caius, Mr. Philpott, and Mr. Phillips, of Queen's, a Syndicate, to consider whether any and what alterations may be made in the Previous Examination, and in the Examination for B. A. degrees.

A Grace also passed the Senate to appoint Dr. French, Dr. Adams, Professor Lee, Professor Musgrave, Mr. Phillips, of Queen's, Mr. Rose, of St. John's, and Mr. Browne, of Emmanuel College, a Syndicate to reconsider and renew the Tyrwhitt's Scholarship Regulations, which have ceased to be in force.

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The Rev. Stephen Reay, M.A. of St. Alban's Hall, has been admitted ad eundem in this University.

Mr. Francis Nicholas, M. A. of Wadham College, has been admitted ad eundem in this University.

The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree of Master of Arts, on Friday, March 18:

Robert Phelps, Trinity Coll.
John Henry Brown, Trinity Coll.
John H. Howlett, Fell. of Trinity Coll.
Clement Fisher Sculthorpe, St. John's Coll.
Rev. C. B. Lockwood, St. John's Coll.
Joseph Bowstead, Fell. of Pembroke Coll.
Rev. J. H. Pratt, Fell. of Caius Coll.
Luke Jones, Queen's Coll.
Rev. James Hildyard, Fell. of Christ's Coll.
Rev. James Cartmell, Fell. of Christ's Coll.
Rev, S. G. Fawcett, Fell. of Magd. Coll.
Alexander Tate, Emmanuel Coll.

CLASSICAL TRIPOS.-Mar. 1, 1836.

EXAMINERS

J. F. Isaacson, B.D. St. John's Coll. J. Gibson, M.A. Sidney Sussex Coll. H. S. Hildyard, M.A. St. Peter's Coll. C. Merivale, M. A. St. John's Coll.

The following summary of the Members of the University is extracted from the " Cambridge Calendar" of the present year ::

Membs. of Sen. Membs. on Eds.

Trinity Coll..... 817 St. John's Coll... 527 Queen's Coll..... 117 Caius Coll.

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