subsequent grant towards providing a house of residence, the commissioners will, as a general rule, make a grant, equal to the benefaction in the case of a church in public patronage, and in the proportion of two to three to the benefaction in the case of a church in private patronage.

4. A benefaction from trustees, or from any society or body of contributors, as well as from any individual, whether such benefaction consist of money, land, house, tithe, or rent-charge, any or all, may be met by a grant from the commissioners, either in augmentation of income or towards providing a residence, or both; but neither a grant from Queen Anne's Bounty, nor a benefaction already met by such a grant, nor money borrowed of of Queen Anne's Bounty, nor a charge upon the revenues of any ecclesiastical gift, or benefaction already secured to a benefice or church, can be met by a grant from the commissioners.

5. Every house proposed to be purchased must be surveyed by the architect of the commissioners, and every new house must be built according to his designs and under his exclusive superintendence, the commissioners entering into the necessary contracts.

6. The accommodation, in houses to be built, will comprise two sitting-rooms and a study, kitchen, scullery, the usual offices, and six bed-rooms; the plans being prepared, in each case, with due regard to the peculiarities of the site and the wishes of the incumbent. The estimated average cost of building and completing such a house (including painting, papering, gates, bells, &c., being about 1000, the benefaction required will, according to the above rule of preparation (No. 2), be about 5007. in cases of public patronage, and about 6001. in cases of private patronage; besides any benefaction which may be required towards the site.

7. As, however, such a house may, in some parts of the country, be built for less than 10007., any surplus of the benefaction and grant, after the completion of the house, may be applied to the permanent augmentation of the income, or the surplus of the benefaction only may be appropriated towards any expenses incurred by the incumbent in improving

the premises, upon a certificate from the architect that the works were desirable, and have been properly performed; and, on the other hand, in case of a deficiency, a further benefaction will be necessary, to be met by a further grant in the same proportion.

8. All money benefactions must be paid to the commissioners, and benefactions of any other kind must be fully secured to the living, or conveyed to the commissioners in trust for the living, as the case may be, before any grant can be made in the augmentation of income, or any contract entered into or other step taken by the commissioners, towards purchasing a house or site, or building a house.

9. The title to any house, land, tithe, or rent-charge, to be given or purchased under the foregoing resolutions and rules, must be investigated by the solicitors to the commissioners, and the conveyance prepared by them.

10. Neither the incumbent, nor any other person on behalf of the benefice, will be subjecied to any solicitors' or architects' charges, unless under special circumstances, nor to any other costs or expenses.

The Rev. Dr. Warneford has placed 10007. at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for building churches in poor and popolous districts.

Archdeaconry of Montgomery.-The following scheme has been recommended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and adopted by her Majesty in council: That there shall be founded in the Diocese of St. Asaph a new Archdeaconry, to be styled the Archdeaconry of Montgomery, to consist of the Deaneries of Penllyn and Edeirnion, Pool and Cæreinion, Cædewwan, and Ceifeiliog and Mowddwy, out of the Archdeaconry of St. Asaph. The Bishop of St. Asaph and his successors are authorised to collate some fit and proper person to the dignities of Archdeacon of Montgomery and St. Asaph unitedly, who is to be paid 2007. per annum out of the funds at the disposal of the Commissioners.

OXFORD, MARCH 2.

On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :

Masters of Arts.-Rev. Wm. Hall, St. Edmund hall: Rev. Matthew Calley Morton, Exeter coll.; Rev. John Morton, Worcester coll.

Bachelors of Arts.-Ewan Hugh MacLachlan, Pembroke college; Alexander Penrose Forbes, Brasennose college.

The Election of Proctors for the year 1844-5, took place on Wednesday :

Senior Proctor.-Rev. Henry Peter Guillemard, M.A., Fellow of Trinity coll. Junior Proctor.-Rev. Richard William Church, M.A., Fellow of Oriel college.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.

An election will be held in this college on Friday, the 3d of May, to two scholarships, open to natives of the diocese of Bath and Wells, and the county of Hants, respectively. Candidates must be under nineteen years of age on the day of election, and must present themselves to the President at eleven o'clock on Saturday, the 27th of April, with certificates of the marriage of their parents and of their own baptism, competent evidence of the day and place of their birth, testimonials from their college or school, together with Latin epistles to the Electors.

The Hertford, or Latin scholarship, has been gained by Mr. Conington, a Demy of Magdalen, nominated at the last election for Demies, by the President of that college.

MARCH 8.

In a Congregation holden yesterday, the following degrees were conferred :Masters of Arts.-Jens Pell, Exeter college, Grand Compounder; the Hon. Edward Frederic Leveson Gower, Christ Church; Henry King, Scholar of Wadham; Rev. George Pretyman, New Inn hall; Augustus William Warde, New Inn hall.

Bachelor of Arts.-Francis Alexander Dawson, New Inn hall.

This day Mr. Worsley, B.A., of Exeter

college, was elected a Michel Scholar of Queen's.

MARCH 14.

This day the following degrees were conferred:

Masters of Arts.-Rev. William l'Anson, University; Rev. George Appleby Cuxson, Magdalen hall; Rev. Henry Wickens, Exeter; Rev. George Francis Turner, Trinity; Rev. Samuel Edward Maberly, Christ Church; Rev. John Griffiths, Christ Church; James Wickens, Christ Church.

Bachelors of Arts.-Edward Stokes, Student of Christ Church; Edward Wm. Newcome, Balliol.

MARCH 17.

Mr. Morgan, of Balliol, has been elected to the vacant Craven scholarship.

Mr. Conington, Demy of Magdalen college, has been elected to the University scholarship.

MARCH 20.

The examination at University college for three scholarships, has this day terminatrd in the election of Mr. Thomas Arnold (son of the late Dr. Arnold, head master of Rugby School) to the Bennet scholarship; and Mr. George Herbert Curteis, commoner of University college, and Mr. James, from Rugby School, to the two open scholarships. Mr. Arnold, before this election, was a scholar of University college, having last year gained an open scholarship.

CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 2.
CLASSICAL TRIPOS.
Class 1.

Maine, Demy, Pembroke college.
Clarke, Demy, Trinity college.
Keary, Demy (Eq.), Christ Church coll.
Wratislaw, Demy (Æq.), Trinity college.
T. Field, Demy (Eq.), St. John's college.
Heare, Demy (Æq.), St. John's college.
Stewart, Demy, Trinity college.
Kingdon, Demy, Trinity college.

Class 2.
Byers, Demy, Christ Church college.
Hodgson, Demy, St. Peter's college.
Welldon, Demy, Queen's college.
Holmes, Demy, Trinity college.
Martineau, Demy (Æq.), Caius college.
Trevelyan, Demy (Eq.), Caius college.
Richards, Demy, Trinity college.
Hedley, Demy, Trinity college.
Bowring, Demy, Trinity college.
Harris, Demy, Trinity college.
Sells, Demy, Clare hall.
Mould, Demy, Trinity college.
Class 3.

Dalyel, Demy, Trinity college.
Baker, Demy, Trinity college.
Walker, Demy, Trinity college.
Waddingham, Demy, St. John's college.
Mason, Demy, Pembroke college.
Rastrick, Demy, Trinity college.
Hon. Lord W. Denman, Demy, Magdalen,
college.

Taylor, Demy, Magdalen college.
Snowball, Demy, St. John's college.
Rev. James Hildyard,
Rev. George Currey,
George Augustus C. May,
Rev. Philip Freeman,

Examiners.

TRINITY COllege.

The Rev. Fielding Palmer, M.A. (B.A. 1839) of Trinity college, has been appointed one of the chaplains of this Society.

MARCH 9. CONGREGATION.

At a Congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred :Masters of Arts.-Robert William Essington, King's college; Rowland Williams, King's college; William Burdett, Queen's college.

Bachelors of Arts.-Henry Mann, Trinity college; William Ager, St. John's college; John Potter Jones, St. Catherine's hall; Thomas Clark Onion, St. Catherine's hall; Robert Wallis Belt, Emanuel college.

D.D. ad eundem.-Rev. Thos. Drew, Trinity college, Dublin.

ST. PETER'S College.

On the 8th inst., George Druce, B.A., scholar of St. Peter's college, was elected a Fellow on the foundation of Dr. Perne.

VOL. I.

MARCH 13.

The progress of the ecclesiastical branch of Popery in Cambridge will be illustrated by the following paragraph:

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Last evening a debate on the subject of Monasteries took place at the Union, a debating club and news-room of long standing and high repute. The question proposed was, That the dissolution of Monasteries by Henry VIII. has been highly injurious to this country; and that the circumstances of the times imperatively demand the restitution of similar institutions." The numbers were, For the motion, 88; against it, 60. Majority, 28.

The question was argued with more than usual ability on both sides. The great interest it excited in the university may be gathered from the fact of the discussion extending over theee evenings, on the last of which, Tuesday, the 12th, there was a larger house than has been assembled for many months.- Church and State Gazette.

MARCH 21.

Honorary Masters of Arts.-Viscount Feilding, Trinity college; Hon. Lewis William Denman, Magdalen college.

M.A. ad eundem.-John Price Jone, M.A., Jesus college, Oxford.

CHANCELLORS' MEDALS.

On Wednesday last the two gold medals, value 15 guineas each, given by the Chancellor to the two commencing Bachelors of Arts, who, having obtained Senior Optimes at least, show themselves the greatest proficients in classical learning, were adjudged as under :—

1. H. J. S. Maine, Pembroke college (42d Senior Optime, and 1st Classic).

2. W. G. Clark, Trinity college (18th Senior Optime, and 2d Classic).

BELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following gentlemen were yesterday elected university scholars, on the Rev. Dr. Bell's foundation:-1st, Edward Headlam, St. John's college; 2d, Joseph Simpson, Trinity college.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. The Rev. B. Gibson, M.A., of Corpus Christi college, was last week presented by that society to the united rectories of St. Mary Abchurch, and St. Laurence Pounteney, in the city of London.

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TESTIMONIALS OF RESPECT

Have been received by the following Clergymen.

Rev. E. S. Bull, B.A., Curate of St. Botolph's, Colchester.

Rev. Charles Joseph Camidge, M.A., of St. Samson's, York.

Rev. John Alexander Clarke, of Silverstone and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire.

Rev. William Lyme Fowke, B.A., of Queen's college, Cambridge, late curiate of Stonesby, Leicestershire.

Rev. J. Hallward, Rector of East Thorpe, Colchester.

Rev. J. F. Herschell, Curate of Shipmeadow, Suffolk.

Rev. E. Neville, M.A., Vicar of Prees, Shropshire.

Rev. John William Reeves, B.A., formerly of Christ's college, Cambridge, late Curate of St Mary's, Southampton.

Rev. Doctor Vivian, late Rector of the united parishes of Saint Augustine and Saint Faith, in the city of London.

Rev. G. F. Whidborne, B.A., Incumbent of Charles Chapel, Plymouth.

PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Henry Cadwallader Adams, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen, Oxford, has been appointed Head Master of the Grammar School of that College, in the room of the Rev. Richard Walker, B.D., and Fellow of Magdalen, who has resigned.

Rev. W. Gibbs Barker, M.A., to the Rectory of Matlock, Derbyshire.

Rev. H. H. Beamish, London, Private Chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire, to the Union of Kingsalebe and Grange, in the Diocese of Lismore, and county of Waterford.

Rev. Thomas Bayly, to the Rectory of North Marden, Sussex.

Rev. S. Bridge, late Senior Curate and Evening Lecturer at St. Mary's, Islington, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Matthew, Denmark-hill.

Rev. Edmund Goodenough Bayly, to the Rectory of Langton Maltravers, Dorset.

Rev. Henry Boys, late assistant Minister of St. Peter's, Eaton-square, to a Chaplaincy in the Bengal Presidency.

Rev. James Akroyd Beaumont, of Trinity college, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Mary, Quarryhill, Leeds.

Rev. Albany Bowles, to the Rectory of Send with Ripley, Surrey.

Rev. Richard Bryan, to the Rectory of Cheldon, Devon.

Rev. J. W. Brooks, to the Vicarage of St. Mary, Nottingham.

Rev. C. Bassett, to the Perpetual Curacy of Monknash, Glamorganshire.

Rev. Richard Barton, M.A., Prebend of St. John's, by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, to the Living of St. George's, Dublin, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Bushe.

Rev. James Carnegie, to the Vicarage of Bishopstone, Sussex.

Rev. William Francis Chilcott, Rector of Monksilver, Somerset, and Rural Dean of the jurisdiction of Dunster, to the vacant Prebendal Stall of Easton in Gordano, Diocese of Salisbury.

Rev. J. Corfe, late Rector of Allhallowson-the-Walls, to the Rectory of St. Petrock, Exeter.

Rev. C. Crosthwaite, Dean's Vicar of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, to the Rectory of the united parishes of St. Andrew Hubbard and St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

Rev. James Campbell Crowley, to the Rectory of St. John, Cornwall, on the presentation of Mrs. Crowley, of Torpoint.

Rev. W. Clive, Vicar of Welshpool, to be Archdeacon of Montgomery.

Rev. Charles Butler Clough, Vicar of Mold, Flintshire, to the new Archdeaconry of St. Asaph.

Rev. G. I. Cubitt, to the Rectory of St. Thomas, Winchester.

Rev. F. Cole, to the Vicarage of St. Issey, Cornwall.

Rev. Robert Nathaniel Dennis, to the Rectory of East Blatchington, Sussex.

Rev. Wm. Burton Dynham, late Curate of St. Thomas's, Winchester, and Chaplain to the Garrison, to the Rectory of St. Swithin's, Winchester.

Rev. E. B. Ellman, to the Vicarage of Wartling, Sussex.

Rev. John Barlow, of Burgh, Suffolk, (Curate of Little Bealings,) to the Vicarage of Shalford, Surrey.

Rev. William Thompson, Principal of St. Edmund hall, to the Vicarage of Bramley, Surrey.

Rev. J. P. Eden, Pepetual Curate of Coundon, to the Rectory of Redmarshall, Durham.

Rev. R. Errington to the Vicarage of Mitford, Northumberland.

Rev. E. C. Evans, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ford, Herefordshire.

Rev. Charles English, of Trinity coll., Cambridge, to the Perpetual curacy of Sydenham, Kent.

Rev. W. B. Fry, one of the oldest Curates in the Diocese of Killaloe, to the Rectory and Vicarage of Kilruane, near Nenagh, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Townsend.

Rev. George Farley, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cherhill, Wilts.

Rev. M. J. Finch, of St. Helen's, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. George's Church, Kendal, Westmoreland.

Rev. J. W. Gunning, to the Perpetual Curacy of East Boldre, Hants.

Rev. W. Goodwin, A.M., to the Perpetual Curacy of Benedict, Norwich.

Rev. C. S. Grueber, to the Perpetual Curacy of Westport, Curry Rivell, So

merset.

Rev. James Harrison, B.A., Curate of Killishee, Diocese of Kildare, to the Vicarage of Ballykeane, vacant by the demise of the late Rev. J. Webb.

Rev. J. Halliwell, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Wrington, Somerset.

Rev. G. C. Hale, of Trinity college, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Hayes, Middlesex, on the presentation of John Hambrough, Esq., of Steephill Castle, Isle of Wight.

Rev. John Robert Hall, Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Frodsham, Cheshire.

Rev. G. C. Hawkins, to the vacant portion of Bampton Vicarage (the third portion), Oxfordshire.

Rev. Reginald Hobhouse, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Ives, in the county of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter.

Rev. Henry Harding, Rector of Aldridge, Staffordshire, to the Prebendal Stall of Durnford, in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield.

Rev. J. Disney, Curate of Claypole, Lincolnshire, to the Curacy of Christ Church, Newark.

Rev. C. V. Hodge, M.A., Chaplain to G. S. Foljambe, Esq., to the Vicarage of Clarborough, near Retford.

Rev. H. Hopwood, to the Vicarage of Christ Church, Worthing, in the diocese of Chichester. Patron, the Rector of Broadwater. Value 1507.

Rev. Edward Franks Hodgson, to the Rectory of Holton-cum-Beckering, Lincolnshire.

Rev. Dr. Iliff, to the Incumbency of Liverpool.

Rev. Thomas Jackson, M.A., Principal of the National Society's Training School, at Battersea.

Rev. I. Kenworthy, to the Rectory of Ackworth, Yorkshire.

Rev. T. H. Knight to the Rectory of Allhallows on the Walls.

Rev. W. M. Kinsey, B.D., to the Rectory of Rotherford Grays, Oxford.

Rev. G. Kingam, to the Vicarage of Worstead, Norfolk.

Rev. Robert Lamb, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Mary's, Preston.

Rev. Edward Lane, to the Rectory of St. Mary's, Manchester.

Rev. J. M. Lister, to the Rectory of Luddington, Lincolnshire.

Rev. Joseph Christian Moore, to the Archdeaconry of the Isle of Man.

Rev. Michael Heron Maxwell, to the Vicarage of Frampton, Dorset.

Rev. G. F. Master, to the Rectory of Straton, Gloucestershire.

Rev. J. Mendham, to the Rectory of of Clophill, in the diocese of Ely. Patron, Earl de Grey. Value, 5221. Population, 1066.

Rev. John M'Cormick, M.A., to the Rectory of Creaton, Northamptonshire. Rev. J. Morgan, to the Rectory of Pyecombe, Sussex.

Rev. M. Meade, to the Prebendal Stall of Coombe, Diocese of Salisbury.

Rev. J. Overton, to the Rectory of Rothwell, Lincolnshire.

Rev. H. A. A. Oakes, to the Rectory of Nowton, Suffolk.

Rev. Henry Paddon, late Curate of High Wycombe, Bucks, to the Vicarage of that parish. Patron, the Marquis of Lansdowne.

Rev. William Peete Musgrave, M.A., to the Bishop's Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Hereford.

Rev. Mr. Price, to the Rectory of Wisley and Pyrford.

Rev. George Ray, Fellow of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Statherne, Leicestershire.