In the First Class of Discip. Math. et Phys. In the Second Class of Discip. Math. et Phys. AUGUSTUS PAGE SAUNDERS, Examiners. Rev. Howel Hughes, Jesus Coll. Rev. Mourant Brock, St. Mary Hall Wm. Palmer, St. Mary Hall, Grand Comp. Rev. Samuel Lane, Exeter Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. C. T. Gaskell, Trinity Coll. Grand Comp. Wm. Jacob Thomas Dodgson, Queen's Coll. Thomas Sutton, St. Edmund Hall John Robert Redhead, St. Edmund Hall Charles S. Twisleton, Schol. of Balliol Coll. J. George Phillimore, Student of Ch. Ch. Horatio Nelson Goldney, St. Alban Hall T. Willingham Booth, Brasennose Coll. Francis Thomas New, St. John's Coll. E. Ernest Villiers, Postm. of Merton Coll. Edward Auriol, Chr. Ch. Grand Comp. John Martyn Longmire, St. Edmund Hall William Hockin Braund, Magdalen Hall Henry Bayley Williams, Jesus Coll. Thomas William Lynne, Worcester Coll. William Hellington, Pembroke Coll. J. Oliver Willyams Haweis, Queen's Coll. Francis John Hext Kendall, Exeter Coll. Henry Birkett, Scholar of Queen's Coll. Hon. Edward Phipps, Trinity Coll. Henry Smith, Queen's Coll. J. F. E. Warburton, Brasennose Coll. William Robert Ward, Balliol Coll. DOCTOR IN MEDICINE, (By incorporation from Dublin.) Daniel Chambers Macright, Magdalen Hall. The Rev. Wm. Thomas Parr Brymer, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been admitted ad eundem. On the first day of Act Term, the following gentlemen were nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, to be Masters of the Schools for the ensuing year : The Rev. G. F. Thomas, M. A. Worc. Coll. John Willams, M. A. Student of Chr. Ch. The Rev. R. Sankey, M.A. Fell. Corp. Coll. MARRIED. The Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, M.A. Fell. Oriel Coll. second son of the late Hon. Philip Pusey, to Maria Catherina, youngest daughter of the late J. Barker, Esq. of Fairford Park, Gloucestershire. CAMBRIDGE. A. I. E. Cockburn, and T. P. L. Hallett, S. C. L. have been elected Fellows of Trinity Hall. PRIZES. The Porson Prize (for the best translation of a passage from Shakspeare into Greek verse) has been adjudged to C. Wordsworth, of Trinity College. Subject-Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Scene 3. Beginning, "Time hath, my Lord, a wallet on his back," &c. And ending, The following gentlemen have been appointed Barnaby Lecturers for the year ensuing: Mathematical-Rev. Wm. Joseph Bayne, M. A. Trin. Coll. Philosophical-Rev. John Hind, M. A. Sidney Coll. Rhetorical-Rev. Joshua King, M. A. Queen's Coll. Logical-Rev. Richard Newton Adams, B. D. Sidney Coll. A Grace has passsed the Senate, to appoint Mr. Hind, of Sidney Coll. Deputy Proctor in the absence of Mr. Turnbull. Degrees conferred. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Samuel Birch, St. John's Coll. Preb. of St. Paul's, (Compounder). BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. John T. Austen, Fell. St. John's Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Stephen Davies, Queen's Coll. (Comp.) Robert Shaw King, Sidney Sussex Coll. LICENTIATE IN PHYSIC. Henry Burton, Caius Coll. BACHELORS IN PHYSIC. James Farish, B. A. Trin. Coll. William Penrice Borrett, B. A. Caius Coll. Richard Elmhirst, Caius Coll. Charles Morgan Le Mann, Trin. Coll. Henry Trowbridge Moor, St. John's Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. William Henry Gorton, Trin. Coll. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. The suggestion of "Amicus" would be nearly as expedient as a union between the University in Gower Street, and King's College, London. Of the communications to which he alludes, one is now inadmissible; the other may probably appear. "Mentor" is under consideration. We thank a country correspondent, who will understand us, for his civility; and we shall be happy in receiving any information from the Clergy generally, by which our Ecclesiastical Intelligence may be rendered as complete and as correct as possible. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. AUGUST, 1828. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. I.-Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible, with two Preliminary Lectures on Theological Study and Theological Arrangement: to which are now added, Two Lectures on the History of Biblical Interpretation. By HERBERT MARSH, D.D. F.R.S. and F.S.A., Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, and Bishop of Peterborough. London: Rivingtons. 8vo. 1828. 14s. THE work that forms the subject of our present article, contains the four first parts of Bishop Marsh's admirable course of Lectures, three of which had passed through two editions, and were out of print more than six years ago. To satisfy the demand of the public, the learned author determined to prepare an enlarged edition of this portion of his Lectures, as soon as the completion of the fifth, sixth, and seventh parts of his course, and his numerous diocesan duties, should permit him. The fruit of that determination we possess in the volume before us, the appearance of which we hail with no common satisfaction. It is equally creditable to the sound judgment of the students, who have called for it, and to the learning of the Professor, who, in answering such call, has proved himself to be no idle eater of the bread of that Church, upon whose altar he may lay this “кτýμa ɛiç dɛì,” as an imperishable monument of his earnest contention for the faith, and of the unwearied assiduity with which he has discharged the duties of his dignified situation. 66 The learned Prelate has modestly styled his Lectures a "Book of Directions." They are literally such. They point out the order and connexion in which theology should be studied; and they conduct the scholar to an accurate knowledge of the authors, who have best explained the several subjects. The traveller, who would arrive with ease and safety at his journey's end, must provide himself with a map, from which he may learn "the road which he must take, the stages which he must go, and the places where he must stop." Descriptions of this kind are equally useful to the student, who would explore the paths of knowledge, as to the tourist, who would visit distant lands. And it is precisely a description of this sort, which Bishop Marsh has accomplished in his valuable Lectures. To enter upon the study of divinity without knowing what are the objects of inquiry, and in neglect of the proper arrangement of the branches of theology, in an order at once luminous and consistent, is to commit our vessel to the perils of the sea, without chart or compass to steer us to the haven where we would be; and, even without any haven or purpose at all in view, fruitlessly to encounter the widewasting storm. Many a student has made shipwreck of his labours, because his researches were directed to no specific end. Many a scholar has uselessly perplexed himself in the investigation of truth, because his inquiries have begun from a wrong point, or have been guided by no fixed principles. Many an anxious seeker after knowledge has spent his midnight oil in vain, because he knew not where he might obtain information on the manifold subjects, which solicited his examination. Armed with the Lectures of our learned Professor, the student in divinity may now escape these disappointments. They will teach him what, and in what order he may learn, and from what authors: and he will thence obtain (and we know not where else he can obtain) an insight into the advancement or decline of theological learning, in the different ages of Christianity, together with a knowledge of the persons, whose labours were instrumental to the furtherance of theology, "of the times in which they lived, and of the situations in which they were placed." He who would arrive at the ultimate object of all theological study, the establishment of the truth of Christianity, must have a reason for the hope that is in him." And, however necessary it may be for men, whose daily labours confine their attention to the procuring of the necessaries of life, to depend upon the authority of their teachers for the truth of their creed; that a minister of the Gospel should thus take things upon trust, when he has both time and talent to investigate the pretensions of Christianity for himself, is a position repugnant to every feeling of common decency, and abhorrent from every maxim of common sense. "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge:" and however it may suit the mischievous purposes of some illiterate zealots to decry theological learning, it cannot be denied that the devotion which issues from ignorance is superstition, rather than religion; and he who believes he knows not why, so far from being a fit guide of others, is liable to be tossed to and fro by the capricious fluctuation of public opinion; to be driven at one time into sheer madness by violent enthusiasm, or robbed of his best hopes at another by the assaults of infidelity. Knowledge is the only sure rock of faith:-a learned priesthood is, under Providence, the best defence |