The Proctors for the ensuing year have been presented in Convocation by the Heads of their respective Colleges, and severally sworn and admitted into office by the Vice-Chancellor :-

Senior Proctor.-Rev. William Arundell Bouverie, M. A. Fellow of Merton Coll.

Junior Proctor.-Rev. Charles Litchfield Swainson, M. A. Fellow of St. John's College.

Mr. Bouverie nominated for his ProProctors the Rev. Henry William Buckley, M. A. and the Rev. George Tyndall, M. A. Fellows of Merton College; and Mr. Swainson nominated the Rev. Henry Arthur Woodgate, M. A. and the Rev. Edward Parris New, M. A. Fellows of St. John's College.

The Examiners appointed by Dean Ireland's Trustees have signified to the Vice-Chancellor, that they have elected Edward Massey, Commoner of Wadham Coll. a Scholar on that foundation.

Walter John Trower, B. A. and Geo. Anthony Denison, B. A. of Christ Church, and Charles Neate, B. A. of Lincoln Coll. have been elected Fellows of Oriel Coll.

Mr. Robert John Rolles has been admitted actual Fellow of New Coll.

The Rev. Richard Sankey, M.A. Scholar of Corpus Christi Coll. has been admitted a Fellow of that Society.

The Rev. Jos. Dornford, M. A. Fellow of Oriel Coll. has been approved as a Public Examiner in Literis Humanioribus ; and the Rev. Robert Walker, M. A. of Wadham Coll. as a Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis.

The Rev. Edward Burton, M. A. late Student of Christ Church, has been appointed Bampton Lecturer for the year 1829.

At a convocation holden to elect a Curator of the Sheldonian Theatre, in the room of the late Dr. Marlow, President of St. John's Coll. the Rev. D. Jenkyns, Master of Balliol Coll. and Vice Chancellor of the University, was unanimously chosen." VOL. X. NO. v.

Degrees Conferred.

BACHELORS IN DIVINITY.

Rev. Thomas Arnold, late Fellow of Oriel
Coll. Head Master of Rugby School.

Rev. George Dineley, Worcester Coll.
Rev. And. Edwards, Fellow of Magd. Coll
Rev. Thos. Farley, Fellow of Magd. Coll.

BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW.

Rev. Hen. John Ellman, Wadham Coll. Hon. John Duncan Bligh, Fellow of All Souls' Coll.

MASTERS OF ARTS. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Pembroke Coll. grand compounder.

Sam. Platt, Magd. Hall, grand compounder.
Rev. B. J. Harrison, Student of Ch. Ch.
Rev. Geo. Wells, Demy of Magdalen Coll.
J. G. H. Bourne, Fell. of Magdalen Coll.
John Lodge, Brasennose College.
James North, Brasennose College.
Rev. George Harrison, Lincoln Coll.
Rev. John Keal Biging, St. John's Coll.
Charles Woodward, Magdalen Hall.
Rev. W. Latimer Neville, Queen's Coll.
Rev. Ch. Maybery, Scholar of Jesus Coll.
Henry William Hall, Oriel College.
Henry Moresby, Exeter College,
Geo. Riggs, Taberdar of Queen's Coll.
Hon. John Mitford, New Coll.
Rev. Anth. Lewis Lambert, Trinity Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Walter John Trower, Christ Church.
Lord Edward Thynne, Oriel Coll.
Rich. Clayton Browne, Brasennose Coll.
Hen. Geo. Pauncefote Cooke, Exeter Coll.
T. F. Laurence, Fell, of St. John's Coll.
George Adams, Fellow of St. John's Coll.
John Gaselee, St. John's College
William Hardy Vernon, Magdalen Hall.
John Bidgood Bennett, Magdalen Hall.
Robert Atherton Hornby, Oriel College.

MARRIED.

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A Grace has passed the Senate to appoint the Rev. Wm. Whewell, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Professor of Mineralogy in the room of the Rev. J. S. Henslow, now Professor of Botany.

The following Graces have also passed the Senate:

To appoint the Trustees of the Plumian Professorship, Dr. French, Dr. Turton, Mr. Turnbull of Caius, Mr. Croft of Christ's, Mr. Peacock and Mr. Sheepshanks of Trinity, Mr. Gwatkin and Mr. Maddy of St. John's, Mr. Griffith of Emmanuel, Mr. Ramsay of Jesus, Mr. King of Queen's, Mr. Power of Clare, and Mr. Hall of Magdalene, a Syndicate to report on the propriety of augmenting the salary of the Plumian Professor, and on the regulations which it will be advisable to adopt for the future management of the Observatory.

To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of King's, the Master of Trinity, the Master of St. John's, Dr. Haviland, Professor Henslow, Mr. Carrighan, Mr. Whewell, Mr. Ramsay, and Mr. Lodge, a Syndicate to report on the proper measures to be taken for the removal of the Botanic Garden.

To re-appoint the Syndicate empowered by a Grace of Nov. 24. 1824, to treat with the Provost and Fellows of King's College, for the purchase of the Old Court, the property of the said College.

It has been resolved in Congregation, to petition both Houses of Parliament against certain clauses in the Tithe Commutation Bill. The following is a copy of the petition to the House of Commons, which has been presented by the Solicitor-General:

"To the Honourable the Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled.
"The humble Petition of the Chancellor,
Masters, and Scholars, of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge.

"SHEWETH-That your petitioners have seen with great alarm a bill introduced into your Honourable House to enable rectors, vicars, and other incumbents of ecclesiastical benefices, to make a permanent commutation of their tithes by agreement with the owners of land.

"That in the judgment of your petitioners such permanent commutation is unjust in principle, inasmuch as it makes the average produce of the seven years immediately preceding the date of such commutation, the standard by which the incomes of the clergy are for ever thenceforward to be regulated.

"That the property of Collegiate bodies and others who are entitled to part only of the tithes within a parish, and have no controul over the ecclesiastical patronage of

such parish, may be materially injured by any commutation made, as it might be by the provisions of this bill, without their

consent.

"That your petitioners cannot but consider it unjust that the rector, vicar, or other incumbent of an ecclesiastical benefice should continue subject to taxes, rates, and other assessments, after having commuted his tithes, and thereby actually transferred to others the occupation of those tithes, which occupation alone renders him legally liable to these assessments.

"Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honourable House, that all commutations of tithes to be made by agreement with the owners of land, may be limited to such reasonable time as to your Honourable House shall seem meet.

"And your petitioners further pray that the consents of all the parties entitled to tithes within any parish be required before the issuing of any commission for the commuting of any part of the tithes of such parish; and that ecclesiastical incumbents during the continuance of any commutation of tithes to be made under the authority of this bill, may not be subjected to any rates, taxes, or other assessments, from which the owners of land not being the occupiers thereof are exempted."

Bell's Scholars.-The following gentlemen have been elected University Scholars on Dr. Bell's foundation:

St. Paul, including the Epistle to the Hebrews."

April 4.-Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.-The Syndicate appointed to "consider whether any, and what alterations may be made with advantage in the examination for the degree of B. A." have made the following Report to the Senate, with reference to the final examination of the Questionists, not candidates for Honours:

It appears to them expedient,

That in future this examination commence on the same day as the examination of the candidates for honours.

That of the six Examiners, two confine themselves to the Mathematical subjects, two to Homer and Virgil, and two to Paley's Evidences, Paley's Moral Philosophy, and Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding.

That on the Monday previous to the commencement of the examination, the Examiners publish the names of the candidates arranged in alphabetical order, and separated into two equal divisions.

That these divisions be examined at separate times.

That the distribution of the subjects and times of examination be according to the following table :

That the examination be conducted entirely by printed papers.

That each of the Euclid papers contain twelve propositions, selected from the first four books, with additional questions apart from the former, in the fifth, sixth, and eleventh books, and in Trigonometry, at the discretion of the Examiners.

That each paper in Arithmetic and Algebra consist of questions entirely elementary; to which may be annexed Questions in the elementary parts of Natural Philosophy, at the discretion of the Examiners.

That the papers in Homer and Virgil consist of passages to be translated, which may be accompanied with such plain questions in Grammar, History, and Geography, as arise immediately out of those passages.

That the Examiners be strictly enjoined to take care, that the number of questions to be answered, and the length of the passages to be translated, in any one paper, do not exceed what a person well prepared may be expected to answer and translate in the time allowed.

That the Pro-Proctors attend in the Senate-House during the examinations. That two of the Examiners be present during each portion of the examination.

A Grace to confirm the above regulations will be submitted to the Senate at the Congregation on Wednesday, the 21st of May.

Degrees conferred.

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. Robert Walpole, Trinity Coll.

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Warwell Fenn, Catharine Hall.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

John Bishton, Trinity Coll.
Frederick Solly Flood, Trinity Coll.
Winthrop M. Praed, Fell. of Trin. Coll.
Henry Davis Ward, Trin. Coll.

Rev. J. F. Isaacson, Fell. of St. John's Coll.
Rev. C. H. Hartshorne, St. John's Coll.
Rev. Wm. Christopher Twiss, Caius Coll.
Edward Hyde Cosens, Catharine Hall.
Rev. John T. Bennett, St. Peter's Coll.

M. A. INCEPTORS.

James Challis, Fellow of Trin. Coll.
Thomas Riddell, Fellow of Trin. Coll.
Edward Johnstone, Trinity Coll.
Rev. William Goode, Trinity Coll.
Charles William Bollaerts, Trinity Coll.
Rev. J. H. Pooley, Fell. of St. John's Coll.
Rev. Henry Cleveland, St. John's Coll.
Rev, F. C. B. Earle, St. John's Coll.
Rev. Edward Ventris, St. Peter's Coll.
Rev. Benj.W. Beatson, Fell. of Pemb. Coll.
Rev. John Graham, Fell. of Queen's Coll.
Rev. Sam. W. Waud, Fell. of Magd. Coll.
James Grundy Cross, Downing Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Henry Davis, Trinity Coll,
Charles Hayes, Trinity Coll.
Michael Le Mann, Trinity Coll.
George Rose, Trinity Coll.
Thomas Rotton, Trinity Coll.
Albert Way, Trinity Coll.
David Bristow Baker, St. John's Coll.
Richard Chapman, St. John's Coll.
John Clay, St. John's Coll.
Thomas Fawcett, St. John's Coll.