Various amendments were made in the existing canons, and several new canons enacted, of which we shall only specify the most important. In the case of a bishop feeling himself incompetent for his duties from age, he may now have a coadjutor. Candidates for orders are required to have gone through a regular course of education in some university or college; to submit to an examination on any part of the whole of the Greek Testament; at the bidding of their examiners to compose a discourse in Latin, and another in English; and also to attend the lectures of the episcopal professor of theology, and of the professor of ecclesiastical history, in Edinburgh. The canonical age for ordination has been made the same as in England, and in the case both of deacons and priests a bona fide title is required. Before being instituted to a pastoral charge, every clergyman is required to produce his letters of orders, and (if not ordained in Scotland) also a certificate that he has gone through a regular course of education in some university or college. The clergy are recommended to study the scriptures in the original languages, and also the writings of the fathers of the apostolic and of the two succeeding ages. The Scottish Episcopal Church recognises, as in full communion with herself, the United Church of England and Ireland, the Colonial Branches of the same, and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Every clergyman is required to instruct the young members of his congregation in the catechism of the Book of Common Prayer, and is prohibited from using any other catechism, unless approved of by the bishop of the diocese. Every clergyman is required to keep a register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and of his catechumens and communicants. It is sometimes said, that there is some difference between the service of the Church of England and that of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The following canon, which is given at length, will doubtless set this question at rest : Canon XXVIII. On the Uniformity to be observed in Public Worship. As in all the ordinary parts of divine service, it is necessary to fix by authority the precise form, from which no bishop, presbyter, or deacon, shall be at liberty to depart by his own alterations or insertions, lest such liberty should produce consequences destructive of "decency and order," it is hereby enacted, that in the performance of morning and evening service, the words and rubrical directions of the English liturgy shall be strictly adhered to: And it is further decreed, that if any clergyman shall officiate or preach in any place publicly without using the liturgy at all, he shall for the first offence be admonished by his bishop; and if he persevere in this uncanonical practice, shall be suspended until, after due contrition, he be restored to the exercise of his clerical functions. In publicly reading prayers and administering the sacraments, the surplice shall be used as the proper sacerdotal vestment. Several very important canons were framed, appointing diocesan, general, and episcopal synods; and also regarding a form of process in the case of any accusation being made against a bishop, presbyter, or deacon. Like her sister church in America, the Scotch Episcopal Church has prohibited the admission of counsel into her judicial meetings. In a church circumstanced like the episcopal church in Scotland, congregations must frequently be found where there is no little difficulty in maintaining regular ministrations; to meet this, and in order to promote the Christian spirit of "every man looking, not on his own things, but also on the things of others," the following canon was enacted, which, it is expected, will produce many important benefits to the church :— Canon XL. For establishing and maintaining a Society in aid of the Church. Whereas in the primitive church, and by apostolic order, collections were made for the poorer brethren and for the propagation of the gospel, it is hereby decreed that a similar practice shall be observed in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Nor ought the poverty of the church, nor of any portion of it, be pleaded as an objection, seeing that the divine commendation is given equally to those who from their poverty give a little with cheerfulness, and to those who give largely of their abundance. For this purpose, a society, called "The Scottish Episcopal Church Society," shall be formed, the objects of which shall be-1st, to provide a fund for aged or infirm clergymen, or salaries for their assistants, and general aid for congregations struggling with pecuniary difficulties; 2ndly, to assist candidates for the ministry in completing their theological studies; 3rdly, to provide episcopal schoolmasters, books, and tracts for the poor; 4tlily, to assist in the formation or enlargement of diocesan libraries. To promote these important purposes, a certain day shall be fixed upon, annually, by every diocesan synod, when a collection shall be made in every chapel throughout the diocese, and the nature and object of the society, in reference to the existing wants of the church, shall be explained to the people. Agreeably to the law of the church, no canon was enacted until it had met with the approbation of a majority of both chambers, between which the utmost harmony prevailed, as also among their various members; while every freedom was given to discussion, and to the expression of that variety of opinions which is essential to the wellbeing of a deliberative assembly. The canons having been read over in the presence of both chambers, on Thursday, the 6th of September, were approved of, authenticated, and ordered to be printed; after which the primus dissolved the synod in the same solemn manner in which it had been constituted, and released the members from their attendance. The Rev. Dr. Schroeder, an episcopal clergyman from the United States, was present at the opening of the synod; and from the intimate connexion subsisting between the two churches, declared that he felt himself at home. UNIVERSITY OXFORD. IN a convocation holden yesterday, the nomination of the Rev. Henry Wall, M.A., VicePrincipal of St. Alban Hall, to be a public examiner in Literis Humanioribus, and that of Travers Twiss, B.C.L., and fellow of University College, to be a Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, were unanimously approved. In a congregation holden at the same time, the following degrees were conferred :-- Doctor in Civil Law-R. J. Phillimore, Esq., student of Christ Church. Masters of Arts-Rev. J. H. Butterworth, Exeter, grand comp.; Rev. W. C. Edgell, St. John's; G. S. Law, Oriel. Bachelors of Arts-E. Pritchard, Christ Church; J. J. Rogers, Trinity; J. G. Faithfull, Exeter; H. Balston, Demy of Magdalen. November 10. LINCOLN COLLEGE.-Two exhibitions on the foundation of Lord Crewe, now vacant, Canwill be filled up on Wednesday, Dec. 5. didates must be natives of the diocese of Durham; or in default of such, of North Allertonshire or Howdenshire, in the county of York, of Leicestershire, and particularly of the parish of Newbold Verdon, or of the counties of Oxford and Northampton, who are required to call on the Sub-Rector, on or before Monday, Dec. 3, and to present the usual testimonials, accompanied by an affidavit of the place of their birth. The Rev. Henry Cary, M.A. of Worcester College, has been appointed by the Vice-Chancellor to act as a proctor in the University Court, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Perkins, resigned. November 17. In a congregation holden on Thursday last, the following degrees were conferred : — Doctors in Medicine-R. H. Goolden, Queen's; A. J. Sutherland, student of Christ Church. VOL. XIV.-Dec. 1838. NEWS. Bachelor in Civil Law-F. Rogers, M. A., fellow of Oriel, and Vinerian scholar. Masters of Arts-Rev. G. E. Bruxner, Christ Church, grand comp.; Rev. E. J. Randolph, student of Christ Church; Rev. W. W. Blanford, St. Edmund Hall; Rev. G. C. Lamotte, Balliol; Rev. C. Sweet, Balliol; Rev. J. R. Owen, Jesus; Rev. E. L. Davies, Jesus; R. Courtenay Magdalen Hall; Rev. F. S. Gawthern, Exeter. Bachelors of Arts-J. S. Karr, St. Mary Hall, grand comp.; J. B. Phelps, Oriel, grand comp.; J. D. Macfarlane, St. Edmund Hall; J M. Dixon, St. Edmund Hall; T. Purnell, New Inn Hall; J. H. Williams, St. Mary Hall; J. M. Glenie, St. Mary Hall; B. L. Watson, St. Nary Hall; R. Shepherd, St. Mary Hall; C. Crofts, Magdalen Hall; J. Hayes, Magdalen Hall; J. L. Fytche, Lincoln; C. E. Thornhill, Christ Church; R. B. Lyons, Christ Church; F. T. Rooke, Oriel; C. R. de Haviland, Oriel; W. Edgcombe, Pembroke; J. Montague, Pembroke; R. Davy, Worcester; A. Anstey, Worcester; J. Š. Whiting, Worcester; G. B. Baines, Worcester; J. Turner, Balliol; J. M. Sumner, Balliol; W. Fookes, Exeter; H. Jodrell, Exeter; C, B. Wollaston, Exeter; G. A. Booth, Exeter; W. D. Hall, fellow of New; E. M. Pickford, Brasennose; R. H. Baxter, Brasennuse; S. M. H. Champneys, Brasennose; W. Darnell. exhibitioner of Corpus Christi; M. Steel, Jesus; J. Wickes, St. John's; W. Banister, Wadham. In a convocation holden in the afternoon of the same day, it was agreed to augment the stipends of the under librarians of the Bodleian 100l. per annum each, to be paid out of the University chest. On Saturday last, E. C. Edgerton, B. A., probationary fellow of All Souls', and the Hon. G. C. Talbot, B. A. of Christ Church, of kindred to the founder, were admitted actual fellows of that society; and at the same time, T. H. Lloyd, B.A. of Brasennose, was admitted scholar of All Souls'. 5 A On Wednesday last, the Rev. T. Pelly, M. A., and the Rev. H. S. Slight, M.A., scholars of Corpus Christi, were admitted fellows of that society. On Thursday last, Mr. E. H. Knowles was elected an exhibitioner on the Michel foundation at Queen's. November 24. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.-An Election will be held in the above college, on Friday, the 8th of February, of two scholars, one for the county of Oxford, and one for the county of Gloucester. Candidates must be under 19 years of age on the day of election; and they will be required to present in person, to the president, certificates of the marriage of their parents, and of their own baptism, an affidavit of their parents, or some other competent person, stating the day and place of their birth, and testimonials from their college or school, together with Latin epistles, at Eleven o'clock on Saturday, the 2nd of February. In a congregation holden on Thursday last, the following degrees were conferred :— Doctor in Divinity, Grand Compounder — Hon. and very Rev. H. E. J. Howard, Christ Church. Masters of Arts-Rev. G. Hodson, Magdalen Hall; Rev. J. Byng, Merton; Rev. A. Bishop, Queen's; Rev. J. A. Ormerod, Brasennose; Rev. C. C. Snowden, Worcester. Bachelors of Arts-W. P. Ady, Exeter; G. E. Maunsell, Christ Church; J. R. Crawford, scholar of Lincoln; H. Woodyer, Merton; J. H. Borrer, Brasennose; W. C. Lake, scholar of Balliol; B. C. Brodie, Balliol; G. R. Moncrieff, Balliol; C. W. Holbech, Balliol; R. G. Boodle, Oriel; R. H. D. Barham, Oriel; O. Goodrich, Oriel; H. J. Bigge, University. In a convocation holden yesterday, the following letter of thanks to Queen Adelaide, for the portraits of herself and her late royal consort, recently presented to the University, was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be sealed with the University seal: To Her Gracious Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager. May it please your Majesty, We, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, in convocation assembled, are desirous of expressing to your Majesty our grateful sense of the distinguished honour recently conferred upon us by the sentation of your Majesty's portrait, together with that of your royal consort, our late revered sovereign, King William the Fourth. pre We shall regard these portraits, not merely as contributing to adorn the gallery in which they are placed, but as affording additional proof of that gracious favour and condescension already evinced towards us on the occasion of your Majesty's visit to our University-an event to which we shall ever look back with feelings of sincere gratitude and loyal devotion. That your Majesty may, by the blessing of Providence, derive that benefit which is to be anticipated from a residence in a southern climate, and return to England with renovated health, is our earnest and devout petition at the throne of Grace. Given at our house of convocation, under our common Seal, this 23rd day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1838. CAMBRIDGE. November 3. At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred : Doctor in the Civil Law-A. F. Bangford, Trinity Hall. Masters of Arts S. E. Girdlestone, Trinity; H. James, Corpus Christi. Bachelor of Arts-R. J. Hebden, St. John's. At the same congregation, J. T. Bridges, M. A. of Wadham College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this university. At the same congregation the following graces passed the Senate: To raise the salary of John Glaisher, Junior Assistant at the Observatory, from 70l. to 801. per annum, in conformity with the recommendation of the Observatory Syndicate. To appoint Mr. Baily, of Clare Hall, and Mr. Mills, of Pembroke College, Classical Examiners of the Questionists. To appoint Mr. Steventon, of Corpus Christi, Mr. Bullock, of St. John's, Mr. Heaviside, of Sidney, Mr. Philpott, of Catharine Hall, Mr. Power, of Clare Hall, and Mr. Abbott, of Pembroke, Examiners of the Questionists. To re-appoint Mr. Hildyard, of Christ's College, an Examiner of the Classical Tripos. To re-appoint Mr. G. J. Kennedy, of St. John's College, an Examiner of the Classical Tripos. To appoint Mr. Shilleto, of Trinity College, an Examiner of the Classical Tripos. To appoint Mr. Beatson, of Pembroke College, an Examiner of the Classical Tripos. To appoint Mr. Power, of Trinity Hall, an Examiner at the previous examination in Lent and Michaelmas terms. To appoint Mr. Mills, of Pembroke College, an Examiner at the previous examination in Lent and Michaelmas terms. To appoint Mr. Hildyard, of Christ's College, an Examiner at the previous examinations in Lent and Michaelmas terms. To appoint Mr. Lund, of St. John's College, an Examiner at the previous examinations in Lent and Michaelmas terms. To add the Master of Pembroke to the Syndicate appointed Nov. 16, 1836, to take measures with a view to making a "Voluntary Agreement' for the commutation of the tithes of the parish of Burwell. The following scholars were elected at a meeting of the Master and Senior Fellows of Exhibitions were given to Wodehouse and Wright. At the same meeting, the Rev. W. H. Stokes was elected a Senior of that society. November 10. On Monday last, the 5th inst., the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Master of St. Peter's College, was elected Vice-Chancellor for the year ensuing. The Seatonian prize, for the best English poem upon a theological subject, has been adjudged to the Rev. T. Hankinson, of Corpus Christi College:-Subject- Ethiopia stretching out her hands unto God. The following is the subject of the Norrisian Prize Essay for the present year-" The Divine origin of the Holy Scriptures may be inferred from their perfect adaptation to the circumstances of Human Nature." The following gentlemen of St. John's College were on Monday last elected scholars of that society : Jones, Bainbridge, Morrice, Hill, Ackland, Bailey, Smith, E. P., Leeman, Slight, Marsh, Martyn, Reyner, Browne, T. H., Rogers, Williamson, Clubbe, Ellicott, Sangster, Lovell, Shadwell, sen., Shears, Morse, Ainger, Mayor, R. B., Shadwell, jun., Robinson, Simpson, Sheringham, Balderston, Kirby. The anniversary meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening last, the Rev. Dr. Graham, the President, being in the chair. The Treasurer's report was read, and the audit confirmed; and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year. Dr. Graham, President, (re-elected.) Mr. Hopkins, (re-elected)] Prof. Henslow, Dr. Clarke, Vice-Presidents. Old Council. Bachelors in the Civil Law-Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Trinity Hall; Edmund Hugh Clark, St. John's. Bachelor of Arts-John Thomas Burt, Trinity. At the same congregation, the following graces passed the senate : To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Trinity College, the Master of Christ's College, the Master of Caius College, and Plumian, Lucasian, and Lowndean Professors, Professor Miller, Mr. Thurtell, of Caius College, Mr. Phillips, of Queens' College, Mr. Gaskin, of Jesus College, and Mr. Cookson, of St. Peter's College, a Syndicate for visiting the Observatory till November, 1839. To affix the seal to an agreement for the commutation of tithes of the parish of Raveningham, in the county of Norfolk. On Thursday last, William Henry Guillemard, B. A. of Pembroke College, in this university, was elected a foundation fellow of that society. The office of Hulsean Lecturer will become vacant at Christmas next, and the trustees have issued a notice requesting all persons wishing to become candidates for that office to send their names to the Vice-Chancellor on or before the 10th of December next. A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, Mr. Hopkins, one of the vice-presidents, being in the chair, Professor Whewell made a communication "respecting certain kinds of architecture." DURHA M. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS, MICHAELMAS TERM. 1st and 2nd Examinations for the Degree of B.A. CLASS PAPER. Class I. Featherstonehaugh, Walker; Green, James; Grey, Hon. William George; Thompson, Thomas Charles. Class II. Brown, Meredith; Hodgson, Henry Wade; Robinson, Charles; Whitehead, John. Class III. Boothby, Henry Brooke; Dacre, George; Greenwell, William, sen. Class IV. Bigg, John Fred.; Brooksbank, John; Greenwell, William, jun.; Guise, George; Hayton, George. Class V. Belcome, Henry M. M.; Buckle, Robert; Davison, Edward; James, Charles Saltoun. Class VI. Richardson, Jos. Holliday. Examiners, First Examination of Engineer Students. CLASS PAPER. Class 1. Browne, Stewart; Thompson, R. Anchor. Class II. Beanlands, Arthur; Mitchell, Henry; Taylor, William. 724 BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES, BIRTHS. Of Sons-The lady of the Rev. W. Quarterman, Woolwich; Rev. W. Harding, Hockley R., Essex; Rev. R. H. Tripp, Hill's-court; Rev. D. Macdonald, West Alrington V., Devon; Rev. J. Ford, Combe-St.-Nicholas V., Somersetshire; Rev. E. H. Dawson, Aston-Clinton R., Bucks; Rev. T. Dalton, Whitehaven; Rev. F. A. Jackson, Ricale V., Yorkshire; Rev. R. Biscoe, Whitborne R., Herefordshire; Rev. J. D. Ness, Malthoe V., Devon; Rev. S. Tennant, Blackheath; Rev. B. Woodyard, St. Agnes, Cornwall; Rev. R. C. Bayley, Acrise; Berks; Rev. W. J. Bricknell, Grove V., Rev. T. J. Edwards, Chipstable P., Somerset; Dean of Wells, at St. Leonard'son-the-Sea; Rev. J. W. Barnett, Bromham, near Devizes; Rev. W. Money, Pitchcott R.; Rev. E. H. Cozens, SheptonMallet, Somersetshire; Rev. Jas. Morgan, Corston V.; Rev. Wm. Simeon Bricknell, Incumbent of the Grove, Berks; Rev. W. Pratt, Harpley R.; Rev. T. Woodruff, Somerby, near Grantham (still born); Rev. W. M. Oliver, Bobbingworth R., Essex; Rev. C. Miles, Guildford-street, Russell-square; Rev. L. S. Orde, Alnwick P.; Rev. J. Parsons, York; Rev. F. Hooper, Upton-Warren R., Worcestershire ; Rev. R. Reed, Palgrave, Suf folk. Of Daughters-The lady of the Rev. MARRIAGES. Rev. H. Pearse, r. of St. John's, Bedford, to Maria, eldest d. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Taunton, of Freeland Lodge; Rev. W. Bosanquet, r. of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, to Caroline, youngest d. of the late D. H. Macdowall, Esq., of Castle Scruple; Rev. J. B. Doveton, M.A., to Harriet Mary, younger d. of P. Fenton, jun., Esq., of Saltford and Doctors' Commons; Rev. W. H. Parson, of Pirbright, Surrey, to Charlotte, fourth d. of the Rev. G. W. Onslow, of Dunsborough House, Ripley; Rev. G. F. Dawson, v. of St. Mary Bourne, Hants, to Georgiana Elizabeth, fifth d. of J. Hadfield, Esq., of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight; Rev. W. Palmer, M.A. of Worcester Coll., Oxford, to Sophia, eldest d. of Captain Beaufort, R. N., Hydrographer to the Admiralty; Rev. E. H. Hopper, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Adeline, only surviving d. of the late J. Kerrick, Esq., of Harleston, Norfolk; Rev. G. R. Medley, of Coombe, Suffolk, to Catharine, fourth d. of G. Hollis, Esq.; Rev. J. Dewe, r. of Rockland, Norfolk, to Frances Catharine Fortescue, eldest d. of the Rev. F. F. Knottesford, r. of Billesley, Warwick; Rev. A. Mogg to Elizabeth Vere, youngest d. of the Rev. A. Annesley, r. of Clifford Chambers, Gloucester; Rev. J. Alvis, B.A., of Christ's Coll., Camb., to Fanny, eldest d. of E. Manby, Esq., surgeon of East Rudham, Norfolk; Rev. R. Harris, M.A., of Bromley Lodge, Kingswinford, to Georgiana, d. of the late R. Bird, Esq., Edgbaston; Rev. F. J. Stainforth to Elizabeth, d. of the late E. S. Ruthven, Esq., M.P. for Dublin; Rev. W. Cotter Williamson, P. C. of Marmullane, Cork, to Lucia, d. of the late W. Parker, Esq., of Passage West; Rev. M. B. Beevor, v. of Henley, Suffolk, to Mary, fourth d. of J. Horsley, Esq., of Cottingham; Rev. T. Stoneham, c. of Wrockwardine Wood, and |