PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. The following is the List of Honours adjudged at the Examinations for Degrees, holden in the Senate-house, January 22. To Oungov we can only say, at present, that we shall not forget his letter when a favourable opportunity occurs for discussing the subject of it. With the Vicar, to whom he alludes, we have no acquaintance or communication. "A Clergyman of the Church of England" will find, from the general tenour of our pages, as well as from some particular Articles in this Number, that he somewhat misapprehended our sentiments with regard to a (not the) principle of the Reformation. "S. C. not Y," can scarcely be ignorant that the practice of chaunting certain parts of the Service has been continued, if it were not originally adopted, on account of the necessity of sustaining and artificially modulating the voice in large cathedrals. Whether it be expedient to introduce cathedral customs into parish churches, is a question on which there may be some difference of opinion; but so long as the Supplicatory Psalms of David are sung, and it is admitted that they have been sung in all ages of the Church, there seems to be some ground for defending the chaunting of the responses after the Commandments. "Amicus" will allow that an Ecclesiastical Record would be very imperfect without the Proceedings of the Dioceses and Universities. To him, and to several other friends, we have to offer our thanks for the interest they take in our labours, and for their suggestions of various improvements in our plan. We are not inclined to reject advice, if given properly but we may sometimes seem to do so, when, for reasons which cannot be briefly assigned, it is impossible to comply with it. It is with great regret that we are obliged, for want of room, to defer the continuation of "The History of the Episcopal Church of Scotland," together with several other articles, till next quarter. |