May 22.-At a congregation, the following graces passed the

senate:

To authorize Mr. Bassevi to settle the terms of a contract with Messrs. Baker and Son, for the completion of the whole of the interior of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with the exception of decorative painting, according to the designs furnished by Mr. Basevi, and submitted to the senate in connexion with a report, which was ado ted by a grace on the 31st of May, 1848, at a cost not exceeding 28,350.; and to authorize the affixing of the seal to the said contract when drawn.

Whereas, by a grace passed on the 18th of March, 1825, persons who are entitled to honorary degrees are not under any circumstances permitted to undergo their examination until they have entered upon their ninth term at least; that when, in the case of any such person having previously kept six terms exclusive of that in which he was admitted, his eighth shall happen to be the Lent term of any year, he may be permitted to undergo the January examination in that year; and that a certificate of approval delivered by the examiners to the registry shall in that case be valid, if it appear, when application is made for his admission to his degree, that he has kept the said eighth term, and entered upon his ninth term at least.

TYRWHITT'S HEBREW SCHOLARSHIP.

Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholarships have been adjudged to

1. John Headlam, incepting M.A., Pemb. coll.

2. W. F. Witt, B.A., King's coll.

The following are the names, in the order of merit, of such candidates as passed the examination with credit:

1. John Headlam, incepting M.A., Pemb. coll.

2. W. F. Witts, B.A., King's coll.

3. Hyacinth Kirwan, B.A., King's coll.

4. William Castlehow, B.A., Emm. coll.

PORSON PRIZE.

May 25.-The Porson prize for the best translation of a passage in Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, into Greek verse, was adjudged to Edward Thring, scholar of King's coll. Subject, Shakspeare, 2nd part of Henry 1V., act iv., scene 4, beginning-"Thy wish was father," and ending-" into worms;" metre, tragicum iambicum trimetrum acatalecticum.

Tributes of respect have recently been presented to the following:

Adams, H. G., Dunsford, Devon-plate.

Alcock, J. P., even. lect. at St. Bartholomew's c., Chatham.
Brownrigg, T., inc. Boston, Yorksh.-purse.

Clarke, F. J., cur. St. Bartholomew, Birmingham-books.

Dowding, W. C., late cur. and lect. All Saints, Hereford.

Fardell, J. G., late cur. Ryde-plate.

Henderson, W., Arbroath episc. c.-robes.

Henniker, hon. W. C., rec. Bealings Magna, Suffolk-plate. Livesey, J., inc. St. Philip's, Sheffield-plate.

Macguire, J. H., inc. St. Luke's, Chorlton-on-Medlock-plate.
Milton, W., Dewsbury, Yorks.--plate.

Moor, J. C., archd. Isle of Man, from Measham parish, Derbysh.
Whidborne, G. F., Charles c., Plymouth-plate.
Willmott, R.A., late cur. St. James's, Ratcliffe, Middlesex.

BROWNE'S MEDALISTS.

Sir William Browne's medals for the best Greek ode in imitation of Sappho; the best Latin ode in imitation of Horace; and the best Greek and Latin epigrams, the former after the manner of the Anthologia, and the latter after the model of Martial, were on Saturday last adjudged as under :

Greek ode-subject, "Victoria regina academiam suam Cantabrigiensem invisit." To Henry Newport, Pemb. coll.

Latin ode-subject, "Nelsoni monumentum." To the same. Greek epigram-subject, "Non fumum ex fulgore; and Latin epigram-subject, "Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim." To James George Curry Fussell, of Trinity coll.

May 25.-S. R. Carter, B.A. (1842), was elected a foundation fellow of Emmanuel coll.

May 27-E. W. Wilkinson, B.A. (1844), scholar of Christ's, was elected a fellow of that society, on the foundation of sir John Finch and sir Thomas Baines.

THE CAMDEN MEDAL.

June 3.-The gold medal, given annually by the most noble the marquess Camden, for the best exercise in Latin hexameter verse, was adjudged to William Johnson, scholar of King's. Subject, "Archimedes."

THE CHANCELLOR'S ENGLISH MEDAL.

The gold medal annually given by his grace the duke of Northumberland, chancellor of the university, to the undergraduate who shall compose in English the best ode or poem in heroic verse, was adjudged to E. H. Bickersteth, Trinity coll. Subject, "the Tower of London."

June 5.-E. Thring, scholar, was elected a fellow of King's college.

THAMES CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY.

This society has been formed for the purpose of endeavouring to promote the religious welfare of the crews of colliers and other vessels frequenting the port of London, especially in that part of the river which extends from Blackwall to Gravesend. In compliance with the existing port regulations, colliers are anchored in large numbers at appointed sections in the river (particularly in Long Reach); and are frequently detained, for want of room in the pools, for two, three, and even four weeks together, until they are permitted to come up and deliver their cargoes in London. From official documents, the committee are enabled to state, that the average number of vessels detained at the different sections throughout the year is 213 daily, and that the average number of men employed in these vessels amounts to about 1,800. When it is considered that these seamen, after a period of severe toil and exposure, are thus brought into a state of comparative inactivity, it does appear that a most favourable opportunity is afforded of endeavouring, with God's assistance, to lead their minds to a knowledge of the blessed truths of the gospel. Owing to the extensive marshes on each side of the river, the seamen in the colliers have but little opportunity of attending any place of worship, even if so inclined. The board of admiralty have kindly lent the "Swan" cutter, of 140 tons burden, for the use of the mission, and this vessel will serve as a chapel for a hundred or a hundred and twenty seamen. A clergyman will be appointed, who shall reside on

board, and perform divine service at least twice on every sabbath-day. On the week days the chaplain wiil vṛslt from section to section, as convenient, for the purpose of imparting religious instruction to the seamen, and of supplying them with bibles and religious publications, and of urging them to avail themselves of the means of grace thus offered. The committee, therefore, earnestly appeal to their fellow-Christians for aid, to enable them to carry out the proposed plan for the spiritual benefit of that neglected class, "the seamen of Great Britain ;" and they are the more encouraged to commence this important work, by the success which has attended the rev. Dr. Ashley's exertions in the Bristol channel, where his reception on board the numerous wind-bound vessels has been most satisfactory and gratifying. Patron, his grace the archbishop of Canterbury; vice-patrons, the right hon. and right rev. the lord bishop of London, the right rev. the lord bishop of Winchester; president, the right hon. the lord mayor, conservator of the river Thames; vice-president, sir John Henry Pelley, bart., deputy master of the Trinity house. Corresponding members of the committee, rev. W. W. Champneys, M.A., rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., rev. H. Higginson, M.A., rev. Charles A. J. Smith, M.A.

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.

"Temple Chambers, Falcon Court, "Fleet-street, June 14, 1844. At the meeting of the general committee, on the 6th of June, one grant of 90%, for a curate in deacon's orders,

during the month 50%.; and fifteen grants for additional curates were redistricts aided having been recently endowed by the with a population of 14,000, that he might have a second Twelve grants were reported to have been relinquished resources, to make up the requisite amounts of stipends. four of the incumbents from their own, or from local newed, amounting to 1,2581., to meet 90l. provided by additions were made to three other grants, amounting to the children belonging to the Sunday schools. Small the sanction of the bishop conduct a service specially for curate to take charge of an assigned district, and with six of them in consequence of the

disposal from the recently relinquished grants, must wait mittee, who, after appropriating the amount at their applications from incumbents are now before the comcumbents are without parsonage houses. Thirty-one with the charge of 8,400 souls; while the average amount bents, with a charge of 1,877,273, or each on an average present grants of the society are in aid of 225 incumapplied for a continuance of the society's assistance. The for additional funds to provide for the remaining cases. of their income is of incumbents, the successors to the benefices not having is only about 1707. ; and 131 of these in

OPERATIONS OF THE CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY, MAY 7, 1844.

The average population under the ministerial charge of each Incumbent aided exceeds 8,100. The average amount of their incomes is only £169, and 135 are without parsonage houses,

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• 212 of these grants are for additional curates for large parishes, and 1 for a cusate to our among bargemen; the remaming 23 ase grants towards the maintenance of clergymen for hurches without endowment, or sufficient means for the support of a resident minister, including 1 grant to enable the incumbent with a very small income to give up tuition, and devote all his time to the work of the ministry.

A lay assistant is simply to be employed as a district visitor, tract distributor, and scripture reader, and by no means as a public instructor or preacher. Grants towards the erection or purchase of chapels, and the fitting-up of school-rooms, to be used as chapels, made since the institution of the society.

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCA

TION OF THE POOR.

The general annual meeting of the Incorporated National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church, was held on May 22. The bishop of London commenced by prayers from the liturgy. The examination of a number of the children (about thirty of each sex) then proceeded in scriptural knowledge, the doctrines of the established church, geography, English grammar, history, and arithmetic. The examination was most satisfactory, and creditable to the conductors of the schools. The children then went through some vocal exercises, under the direction of Mr. Hullah, to the satisfaction of the company. The children being dismissed, the annual report of the committee was read by the rev. Mr. Kennedy, secretary. It gave a satisfactory account of the labours of the society, and the daily increasing magnitude and importance of their results. The great objects of attention have been the building and maintaining of schools. Liberal grants have been given for teachers' residencies, the enlargement of class-rooms, and providing playgrounds. Great care has been taken in the formation of a body of able and intelligent teachers. In the manufacturing districts, especially, attention has been bestowed on the education of the factory children. The flourishing condition of the society's model factory school at Bradford, Yorkshire, encouraged the committee to expend an additional 3007.; by which increased accommodation has been provided for 250 scholars. The factory children alone in the model school were, 22nd of March last, 429; while the parish church school contained 316 children of the same class. In the two schools there are about 1,000 children receiving a sound Christian education. On the 13th of April the rev. Dr. Scoresby, vicar of Bradford, writes as follows:-" Unless this great work can be steadily and effectually advanced, and a superior church education provided, and this in aid of the other means for improved clerical superintendence, these large manufacturing districts must remain as the peril and the burden of the constitution and government, and turbulence, secularity, and the service of mammon continue to be their distinguishing characteristics. The deficiency of true piety is affectingly great. However, there is ground for much congratulation, encouragement, and thankfulness. The divine blessing has been most conspicuously upon the society's schools. The classes trained in these schools, and the working classes generally, are decidedly and observedly improved. Nothing could exceed the almost savage rudeness of the children, and much of the lower population, within five years of this time. Great numbers of children are now met with, who always meet me with smiles, and treat their superiors with respect. A large body of the working classes, including a considerable proportion of the best and most respectable of them, are cordially with us." With respect to the queen's letter fund, the committee intend that this fund should continue, as in former years, to be

expended in contributions towards building school-room throughout England and Wales. They hope, howeve that the collections now in progress under the authorit of her majesty's letter, together with the donations o private individuals, will enable them to extend to agricultural parishes and seaport towns the advantages already offered to the manufacturing and mining districts. The dreadful extent of ignorance and vice among the working classes employed in mines and factories has been recently exposed in strong but just representations to the public eye, both in parliament and through the press representations calculated to excite the utmost sorrow and alarm in every lover of his country or of his church. But it should not be overlooked that the darkness in our rural villages and hamlets is often not less intense or less deplorable than that of our overgrown towns and cities. Education is as necessary to the rustic as to the operative. In one respect it is even more necessary, since his faculties have fewer opportunities of exercise and expansion. The sums expended since Christmas last amount to 32,8347. The entire amount of the fund specially applicable to these objects, was on the 16th of this month, 150,4351. There was the further fund arising out of the queen's letter, applied, without limitation of place, throughout England and Wales. The aid given out of this source during the last year amounted at Christmas last to 7,7581., by which accommodation had been provided for the education of 25,127 children. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS' INSTITUTE, TRINITY CHURCH PASSAGE, FETTER LANE, FLEET-STREET.

In "Register" for May last, was contained, p. 37, an erroneous statement, copied (with acknowledgment) from a newspaper, relative to the design of a meeting held at the hall of commerce, Threadneedle-street. The establishment of the Sunday School Teachers' Institute was that design. The objects of this institute are: 1. To promote union among the several Sunday schools, in connection with the church, in and around the metropolis. 2. To supply teachers with such information upon various subjects as shall tend to the better instruction of their classes. 3. To collect and communicate information as to the best methods of organizing and conducting Sunday schools. 4. To afford the means of collecting and recording statistical details as to the condition of church Sunday schools throughout the country, as well as in the metropolis. Means: 1. By establishing a library. 2. By the delivery of lectures. 3. By providing a room for the use of the members, and for the general purposes of the institute. The necessity for such a society is very generally admitted; and it is hoped that, by the clergy affording it their support, and making it known to the teachers of their respective schools, there may be added to the church an institution well adapted to assist its ministrations among the poorer classes of the community. The rooms in Fetter-lane have not been taken for school-rooms, as erroneously stated, but for offices.

CHESTER.

Cathedral.-A circular has been issued by the dean and chapter to direct the attention of the public to some most important alterations which they wish to be made in the building. Of this, the following is the substance:-"The dean and chapter feel called upon to make a public acknowledgment of the obligation they are under to the subscribers to the fund for the purchase of stained glass for the two eastern windows, and to those gentle- | men more especially at whose suggestion and by whose exertions these contributions have been obtained. The prompt and liberal encouragement thus given to an attempt to restore some portion of the ancient decoration of the cathedral seems to indicate an increasing regard for that venerable fabric. The time seems, therefore, to have arrived when they may venture to call on the public, in the city and county, and throughout the diocese, to co-operate with them in effecting still more essential improvements in the interior arrangements of the choir.

It is obviously expedient, that whatever works are to be executed there should be executed at present, that no subsequent injury may be done to the stained glass windows, or other portions of the decorative work of the choir: they are anxious, therefore, to make known the improvements they have it in contemplation to effect, under the direction of an eminent architect. It has long been regretted that the proportions of the choir should be impaired by the two galleries, as well as by an arrange ment of pews, which ill accords with the rich and beautiful examples of gothic wood-work to be seen in the stalls. It is intended to remove these galleries, and to re-model the whole arrangement of the sittings, with a view to the restoration of a uniform and appropriate character; also retaining the altar in its present position, and, at a proper elevation, to erect an open screen behind it, so as to form a separation between the choir and the lady chapel; and, by the extension of the choir and the stalls westward, already partially effected, to render the ac

commodation of the choir more adequate to the increased congregation. The present also seems a favourable opportunity for attempting the completion of that work which, though contemplated by the original architect of the building, has never yet been executed, from want of means the groining of the roof of the choir. The form it was intended to assume is distinctly marked out. The spring of all the ribs and the form of the mouldings exist. The apparently unfinished state of the upper walls, which it was expected that the groining would conceal, tends much to impair the effect of the otherwise beautiful and well proportioned choir. It is probable that, though commenced with stone, it was intended to complete the groining with wood, no buttresses being found against the external walls, which would be necessary to support a stone roof. It is proposed to execute this groining according to the original design, after the same method as that adopted at York minster, using ribs of solid oak, and filling the intervening spaces of the arches with stucco. The dean and chapter think it right to inform those to whom the fact is not known, that they possess no funds from estates, or any other kind of property or endowment, applicable to this purpose. The funds necessary for the annual repair and maintenance of the cathedral and buildings attached are chiefly created by the relinquishment, on the part of the members of the chapter, of a portion of their personal emoluments. The scantiness of those emoluments is such that it is barely sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of residence. It is upon this plea of poverty that the dean and chapter think themselves justified in soliciting from the public contributions towards the improvements of that sacred edifice, for the due care and reparation of which they are alone responsible. They are not disposed to shrink from the duties of making further personal sacrifices, in order to secure the satisfactory execution of these proposed improvements of the choir; nor would they call upon others to discharge a duty in which they are not ready to be foremost themselves."

DOWN.

In one of the speeches made during the presbyterianmarriage ferment of the north, by a minister of the name of Chambers, as reported in "The Derry Sentinel," we find the following passage:-" He was sorry to perceive so much bitterness and exclusiveness in the prelatic church. Scarcely had the presbyterian church thrown off its torpor, and assumed an attitude of vigilance, when persecution and jealousy arose against her. The board of first-fruits, or, as he might have called it, of all fruits, erected another church wherever they had a new erec tion; and, if they travelled through the counties of Antrim or Down, as he had done lately, they would be surprised at the number of churches recently built, with their spires rising towards the skies, and looking down on the humbler but far more scriptural churches of their presbyterian forefathers, as if saying, Stand by, for I am holier than thou." "We note this passage," says "The Dublin Times," "for the sake of the fact recorded in it,

as to the recent growth of churches in Down and Antrim; and in order to suggest the pressing necessity which exists for some organized central body to supply churches to desolate parishes and districts throughout the kingdom. The statistics on this question are absolutely incredible, and ought to be made known. We shall be very glad if any of our readers in the country or in town will supply us with local facts upon the subject. How can a national established church look to stand, or be left at rest, while there are whole parishes and districts without church, school-house, chapel, minister, sacraments, or worship, yet containing protestants and paying tithes? Truly, it is no real love to the church which conceals these matters. The spires of Down and Antrim, referred to with distate by Mr. Chambers, owe their origin to a great movement set on foot, a few years back, in the town and neighbourhood of Belfast, by benevolent and religious persons, who saw and lamented, and desired to remove, the crying destitution of church accommoda tion in those parts. In the parish of Belfast alone, if we remember right, there were nearly 20,000 church of England protestants without church accommodation, which is still but very imperfectly afforded. We have even now under our notice several applications from parishes and districts in various parts of the country, in the most lamentable state of destitution and neglect. We shall return again and again to the subject; and we hope these few words may fall not without effect under the notice of some who will take the matter seriously to heart. Satisfied we are that blessings, temporal and spiritual, follow surely in the train of an active and pious spirit of church extension, when the glory of God and the good of man are truly regarded and effectually promoted. It is a base spirit which is content to see the house of God in a state even of dirt, dilapidation, decay, or nar. rowness. How much worse, then, to behold with uncon. cern its fabric in utter ruin, or, worse still, its foundations never laid!"

ST. DAVID'S.

The dean and chapter of this place have ordered the pews that are in the nave of the cathedral to be removed, and the whole of it to be thrown open. Hitherto the Welsh service has been performed in it. Great inconvenience has been for some time found in the cele bration of divine service in it, in consequence of its being so large and the congregation rather small. Another chapel in the cathedral is now undergoing extensive repairs, and is being fitted up with great taste for the per formance of the Welsh service. This chapel is capable of accommodating about 300, and the whole of the sittings are entirely free; which reflects great credit on the chapter, inasmuch as it shows their anxiety to afford accommodation to the most destitute part of the community. The English service is regularly performed in the choir; so that, when the new chapel is completed, both services will be performed without the one interrupting the other.-Pembrokeshire Herald.

MONTREAL.

At the June meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, a letter was read from the bishop, dated Quebec, 13th May, 1844. The following are extracts:-"I have been so pressed by the occupations coming upon me at the last, before setting out upon my visit to the Hudson's Bay territory, that I am behind hand with my letters; and, in fact, have only space left me for writing to you very hastily. I leave Quebec this afternoon for Montreal. I forward herewith a letter from the rev. George Slack, which supplies the particulars required in your letter to me of the 9th of March. His labours, under the divine blessing, have tended greatly to strengthen the cause of the church in the tract of country in which he is located. His churchmanship is firm and uncompromising; but he is at the same time so discreet, and so universally respected, that he gains upon the dissenters themselves; and the state of things generally

the moral, political, and social tone, as well as the religious condition of the little society in which he fills his part-will, I verily believe, be most sensibly improved by his residence there. It was a rule established by the late bp. Stewart, my venerated predecessor, in the administration of the bounty of the societies confided to his hands, not to make actual payments of money till the building should have been raised and covered in; and 1 have promulgated the same condition in some printed instructions to the clergy comprehending this subject. I desire to add my thanks to his for the grant of churchbooks to his mission, and also to make my acknowledg ments for the grant to the mission of the rev. C. C. Cotton." The following is a portion of the rev. G. Slack's letter:-" The erection of a church in Milton is a matter of vital importance to the protestant cause, as represented and maintained by the church of England in that township. Situated as it is immediately upon the borders of the