ther, folded up, having the Candidate's Name and College written within. The papers containing the names of those Candidates who may not succeed, will be destroyed unopened. Any Candidate is at liberty to send in his Exercise printed or lithographed. No Prize will be given to any Candidate who has not, at the time for sending in the Exercises, resided one term at the least. BACHELORS' COMMENCEMENT, January 20, 1838. [Those gentlemen whose names are within brackets are equal.] MODERATORS. Rev. Edwin Steventon, M.A. Corpus | Professor Miller, M.A. St. John's EXAMINERS. Rev. Jas. W. L. Heaviside, M.A. Sidney. | Rev. Hen. Philpott, M.A. Cath. Hall. Pennington, Trin. Walmisley, Fowler, Sid. Montriou, Pet. Christie, Trin. Metcalfe, Joh. Boddy, Joh. Trin. Fitzgerald, Joh. Pooley, Joh. Thompson, Joh. Napier, Trin. Pemb. | Smith, Trin. The Hulsean prize for 1837 has been adjudged to Henry Shepherd, of Clare Hall, for his dissertation on the following ubject:-"To compare the evidence which Christians of the present age have for the ruth of the Gospel with that which the rst converts possessed." The trustees under the will of the lev. John Hulse have given notice, 'that a premium of about one hundred ounds will this year be given for the best dissertation on the following subject:-That a Revelation contains mysteries, is no solid argument against its truth." The following will be the Subjects of 'xamination in the last week of the Lent term, 1839: 1. The Gospel of St. Matthew. 2. Paley's Evidences. 3. The Medea of Euripides. 4. The First Book of Cicero's Epistles "Ad Familiares." DOWNING COLLEGE. Mr. W. W. Fisher, B. M. who had been nominated by Royal Patent to a Fellowship in Downing College, has been admitted a Fellow of that Society. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. James Pullen, B.A., and James George Mould, B.A. of Corpus Christi College, have been elected Fellows of that Society. TRINITY COLLEGE. Prizemen for 1837. Latin Declamations:-1. Vaughan; 2. Latin Verse:-1. Hopper; 2. Neale. Reading Prizes:-1. Vaughan; 2. Thorn ton. English Essay - Hardcastle. MARRIAGES. At Hughenden, the Rev. Charles Gray, Prebendary of Chichester, and Vicar of Godmanchester, to Agnes, daughter of John Norris, Esq. of Hughenden House, Bucks. At Landcross Church, the Rev. Robert Main, M.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, to Mary, only daughter of the Rev. Philip Kelland, Rector of Landcross, Devonshire. Rev. Thomas Bull, Chaplain to the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire, and Curate of Haslebeech, in the same county, to Mary Eleanor, only daughter of J. Slatter, Esq. of that place. Rev. George R. Harding, son of C. Harding, Esq. of Milverton Lodge, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late John Winter, Esq. of Watts House, Bishop's Lydiard. Rev. John Jordan Davies, of Tottenham, to Rachael, eldest daughter of Joseph Fletcher, Esq: of Bruce Grove. At Sunning-hill, the Rev. William Sinclair, to Helen, daughter of the late W. Ellice, Esq. Sampson Kempthorne, Esq. of Clargesstreet, London, to Marianne, youngest daughter of the Rev. Josiah Pratt, B.D. of St. Edmund Hall. At Colchester, the Rev. Hart Draper Sparling, B. A. of Pembroke College, to Harriet Ella, second daughter of D. O. Blyth, Esq. At Hindley Chapel, Lancashire, the Rev. James Kirkland Glazebrook, B.A. late of Magdalen Hall, Curate of Wigan, to Mary, fourth daughter of John Hargreaves, Esq. of Hart Common. At Binfield, the Rev. Richard Paynton Pigott, B.A. of Trinity College, Rector of Ellisfield, Hants, second son of P. Pigott, Esq. of Archer Lodge, Hants, to Emma Phillips, third daughter of the late Lieut.General Sir Francis Wilder, Manor House, Binfield, Berks. At Bath, the Rev. Charles James Quartley, B.A. of St. Edmund Hall, and Curate of Kenilworth, to Marianne, only daughter of Thomas Slater, Esq. of Bath. At St. Pancras Church, London, by the Rev. James Browell, B. A. of Exeter College, the Rev. John Jackson, B. A. of Pembroke College, Head Master of Islington Proprietary School, to Mary Anne Frith, youngest daughter of the late Henry Browell, Esq. of Kentish-town. At Ruishton, near Taunton, the Rev. Robert Crosse, B. A. of Balliol College, second son of Andrew Crosse, Esq. of Fyne Court, to Mrs. Archer, widow of the late Lieutenant Archer, of her Majesty's 16th Regiment of Infantry. BIRTHS. At the Lane House, Burghill, the Lady of the Rev. J. A. Hanson, late of Brasen. nose College, of a son. At the Rectory, East Clendon, Surrey, the Lady of the Rev. E. J. Ward, of a daughter. At the Rectory, Bucknell, in this county, the Lady of the Rev. William Master, B. C. L. late Fellow of New College, of a son. The Lady of the Rev. Edward Dix, Rector of Truro, Cornwall, of a still-born son. At Penryn, the Lady of the Rev. Horatio Todd, M. A. of Queen's College, of a daughter. At Morval Vicarage, Cornwall, the Lady of the Rev. J. G. Harrison, of a daughter. The Lady of the Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook, D. D. of Christ Church, and Vicar of Leeds, of a son. The Lady of the Rev. William Purvis, Rector of Croscombe, Somersetshire, of a daughter. At Pembroke College Lodge, Cambridge, Mrs. Gilbert Ainslie, of a daughter. At the Rectory, Springfield, Essex, Mrs. Arthur Pearson, of a daughter. At Holdgate, near York, the Lady of the Rev. E. H. Abney, of a daughter. The Lady of the Rev. A. H. Barker, Rector of Wouldham, Kent, of a daughter. The Lady of the Rev. Charles Craven, Minister of St. Peter's, Birmingham, of a son. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We beg to call the attention of our Readers to an Advertisement on the cover of our Miscellany, appealing to the liberality of a Christian Public, for the purpose of increasing accommodation in the Parish Church of Chepstow. The Parishioners have contributed 1000/., and the Lord Bishop of Llandaff, with his accustomed liberality, has given 2007. A larger sum, however, is still required: and as we know the claim upon christian beneficence to be in this instance just and powerful, we sincerely hope it will be responded to with that readiness which the urgency of the case requires, remembering that the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. The request of "Humilis" shall be complied with. From the many articles of general interest which are before us, we are again prevented from inserting the Fourth Report of the Bath Church of England Lay Association. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. MARCH, 1838. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. I.-The Primitive Doctrine of Justification, Investigated: relatively to the several Definitions of the Church of Rome and the Church of England; and with a Special Reference to the Opinions of the late Mr. Knox, as published in his Remains. By GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B.D. Master of Sherburn Hospital, and Prebendary of Salisbury. Pp. li. 284. London: Seeley and Burnside. 8vo. 1837. Ir a doubt were entertained respecting the opinions of a deceased statesman, as developed in his epistolary correspondence, and it were possible to obtain from some surviving friend, with whom he had been in the habit of frequent intercourse, a solution of the difficulty, the testimony of such friend would very reasonably be admitted as conclusive evidence of the real sentiments of the writer. Such testimony would, at all events, be allowed to preponderate immeasurably over any counter interpretation, which, at some considerable distance of time, should be put upon them. It would be impossible, for instance, to adduce the writings of Lord Bacon, or of Bishop Jewel, after a lapse of so many years from the period of their publication, in support of any new-fangled theories, which their contemporaries, or immediate successors, never dreamt of attributing to them. By parity of argument, it is far more rational to follow an exposition which Polycarp may have given of the doctrines maintained by his friend and instructor St. John, or the testimony of Clement, to the import of " things hard to be understood," in the Epistles of St. Paul, than the unsupported fallacies of later times, and the traditional illusions of the Church of Rome. Any of the christian doctrines, which were held with undeviating consent from the first ages of the Gospel, and may be traced in the same sense and spirit throughout the writings of the Standard Fathers of the first four centuries, may fairly be viewed as exhibiting the real mind of Scripture; and this principle of written testimony, in due subservience to Holy Writ, as contra-distinguished from unwritten tradition, which the chair of St. Peter upholds above the Word of Truth itself, is precisely what the Church of England recommends to the investigation of her Clergy. Her Canons enjoin that nothing be taught as an article of faith, save what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old and New Testament, and what in the way of interpretation the Catholic Fathers and Ancient Bishops collected from it. (Canon XIX. A.D. 1571.) An appeal to primitive antiquity, in support of the Orthodox Apostolical Faith of the Anglican Church, has been made of late years with a most beneficial and powerful effect, and by none more successfully than by the late Professor Burton, in his " Ante-Nicene Testimonies," and by Mr. Faber, in his treatise on the " Primitive Doctrine of Election." Nothing indeed can speak more plainly to the value and the importance of this mode of testing the christian doctrines, and to the sound judgment and cogent reasoning with which it has been applied by Mr. Faber, than the fact of his receiving two requisitions, from different and independent quarters-one privately, by letter; the other publicly, through the press-earnestly calling upon him, as the person best qualified for the task, to try the doctrine of justification by the same standard. The exposition of this doctrine, as expounded by Mr. Knox, the friend and pupil of Bishop Jebb, will naturally claim considerable attention; and consequently, being essentially identical with the unscriptural views of the Church of Rome, must be calculated to produce the most mischievous results. We cannot, therefore, be too thankful for the ready acceptance with which the learned champion of our Reformed Faith had met the challenge of his clerical brethren-who, by the way, were wholly unknown to him-even before Mr. Hornby, the editor of Knox's " Remains," had unconsciously backed their request. This gentleman, after adverting to the increasing attention with which the voice of antiquity has lately been heard, expresses a hope that the advocates of this principle of interpretation "will not push it too far." "The just principle," says Mr. Faber, " is pushed too far, whenever it advances beyond an appeal to unanimous Antiquity for THE RIGHT INTERPRETATION OF DOCTRINAL SCRIPTURE;" and, in order to satisfy those who may entertain a like "hope," which seems to betray very much the character of a "fear," he has shown in what its legitimate exercise consists. Against the Romanist, the Church of England confines the testimony of the Ancients to "the bare interpretation of Scripture:" rejecting all pretended Tradition whether written or oral, which purports to be "an apostolical deposit independent of and distinct from Scripture," and which propounds "a body of doctrines that Scripture no where recognises and no where teaches." |