consists of a series of lithographic plates, exquisitely and most faithfully coloured after the original plants, with descriptive letterpress in Russian and Latin.

PRUSSIA.-The King of Prussia, we understand, is about to send to this country three clergymen, one for each of the schools of theology into which Prussia is divided, for the purpose of studying our method of managing the religious affairs of our parishes. The king's strong leading towards the episcopal form of church government is not now a secret, in any well-informed circle; neither can it be doubted, that in the movement of which we have just spoken, higher objects are aimed at than the mere arragement of an improved order of parochial discipline. We are old enough to remember the time, when such German divines as did visit this country invariably threw themselves into the hands of the dissenters, from whom they acquired the most erroneous notions as to the pride and indolence of the hierarchy. A better feeling exists now, and we are sanguine enough to believe that it will issue in such a junction among the great reformed churches of Europe, as must more than counterbalance, in guiding the minds of men, the weight of the church of Rome. France will do her best to oppose it, of course; for though she has no religion herself, she is not blind to the power which a steady religious feeling creates, even in small communities; so doubtless will Russia; for if protestant Germany becomes one with protestant England in faith, in worship, in communion, and moral principle, what will become of the influence of both nations in the great European family? We are standing on the edge of very eventful times, and shall not be surprised if our children have to witness such a revolution as has not occurred in the world since the foundations of Christianity were first laid. And of that, religion will be the instrument.

SAXMUNDHAM.-A meeting for the due observance of the Lord's-day was held at Saxmundham on Tuesday, the 30th of November, W. Long, Esq., of Hurts Hall, in the chair. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. E. Halland, of Benall, the Rev. Curtis, and the Rev. John Baylee, clerical secretary of the parent society.

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THE NEW CHURCH IN WILTON-PLACE, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.-We are informed that it is contemplated to enlarge considerably the chancel of this church, by which means a large additional number of free seats will be obtained, the necessary funds for this purpose having been provided by a charitable individual.

ST. PANCRAS.-The friends of religion will be glad to learn that active steps are being taken with a view to provide a remedy

for the present great deficiency of church accommodation in Kentish-town, in the parish of St. Pancras, either by the erection of a new church in the lower part of the district, or by the rebuilding of the chapel upon a much larger scale. This chapel, with accommodation for not more than 750 is the only place of worship belonging to the established church in a population of nearly 10,000. A committee of several of the resident gentlemen has been formed, and a subscription commenced.

SABBATH DESECRATION IN THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES.-We are happy to learn, that in consequence of the exertions of Dr. Arnould, one of the magistrates for the county of Berks, there is every prospect of a great improvement being made in the observance of the Sabbath by the navigators of the Thames. On the motion of that gentleman, seconded, we believe, by the Rev. Mr. Evans, it was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Thames commissioners, that, "from and after the 1st of March, 1842, no barge or boat shall be allowed to go through any pound lock, within the jurisdiction of the commissioners of the Thames and Isis navigation, between the hours of six o'clock on Sunday morning and twelve o'clock on Sunday night.' Dr. Arnould's motion originally stood from "twelve o'clock on Saturday night," but to secure unanimity it was changed to six o'clock on Sunday morning. The resolution requires confirmation at the next general meeting at Oxford, on the 1st of January. It appeared from a recent report made by the chaplain of the county gaol, that, of eleven bargemen who had been, for various offences, consigned to that prison within the past twelve months, only three could repeat the Lord's prayer, or appeared to possess the least knowledge of their duties as Christians. The probable cause of this extreme ignorance on the part of this class of men was attributed, in the report in question, to their constant employment on the Sabbath.

BEDMINSTER.The parish of Bedminster is to be divided into three districts, containing each about 5000 or 6000 souls. The population having increased during the present incumbent's life about 16,000 souls, two more churches are about to be built, when the present incumbent shall have been met by the liberality of the Christian public. The benefice, with its several chapelries, being all one, will be divided into three or more detached incumbencies, the present patron, the Rev. M. R. Whish, having consented to make them such, in compliance with the suggestions of the venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells, and by his own right of patronage, as prebendary.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 13.

The regius professor of Hebrew commences his lectures on the 14th of February, and the professor of chemistry on the 10th of the same month.

In his letter, taking his farewell of Trinity, the late master, Dr. Wordsworth, presented the college with his portrait, and a donation of 5001., to be added to the fund of the Society for the augmentation of its poorer vicarages.

In addition to the ordinations to be holden published some time ago to the 19th of December, the following have just been announced :

Sunday, Jan. 9-Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon.

Sunday, Jan. 16-Bishop of Norwich, at Norwich.

Sunday, Feb. 20-Bishop of Salisbury, at Salisbury.

DURHAM, Nov. 23.

At a convocation holden this day, John Thomas, M.A., made the requisite declaration, on being admitted to the office of junior proctor.

The Rev. John Cundill was nominated by the junior proctor to the office of pro-proctor, and made the requisite declaration.

The Rev. George Reeke, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem by vote of the house.

Charles John Pratt Forster, B.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, was presented and admitted ad eundem.

A statute was proposed by the senate, and approved by convocation, for the management of the estates lately assigned to the University by an order of the Queen in council.

A grace was passed for making some changes in the regulations relating to the Observatory.

Colonel John Anthony Hodgson, of the Hon. East India Company's service, was nominated by the warden, and approved by convocation, to be a curator of the Observatory.

PREFERMENT.

The Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorke Saville, M.A., son of the Earl of Mexborough, has been presented to the rectory of Methley, Yorkshire, void by the death of the Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart. Patron, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; value, 9087. OXFORD, Nov. 24.

The examination for the two open scholarships at Baliol College terminated this day, when Edward Walford, late of Charterhouse school, and Edwin Palmer, scholar, at Charterhouse school, were declared the successful candidates. There were thirty competitors. Nov. 25.

This day a congregation was holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred :—

Doctor in Medicine.-W. A. Greenhill, of Trinity College.

Masters of Arts.-W. Powell, of Exeter College; Rev. T. B. Croome, of Trinity College.

Bachelors of Arts.-C. E. Prichard, of Baliol College; H. Fort, ditto; C. Beswick, of St. John's College; J. Addams, ditto; J. G. Brine, ditto; L. C. Wood, of Jesus College; J. Forbes, of Exeter College; B. Belcher, of Wadham College; S. B. Harper, of New Inn Hall; P. S. Ashworth, of St. Alban's Hall; C. D. Hamilton, of St. Mary's Hall; E. Ellis, ditto; R. M. Martin, of St. Edmund's Hall; C. Cripps, of Magdalen Hall.

Nov. 27.

There will be an election at Corpus Christi College on Friday, Feb. 11, of two scholars, open to natives of Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire respectively; candidates for which must be under nineteen years of age, and are required to present themselves to the President on Saturday, Feb. 5, at eleven o'clock, with the usual certificates and testimonials, and Latin epistles to the electors.

The following scholars of Corpus Christi College have been admitted probationary Fellows of that Society :-The Rev. M. Harrison and the Rev. W. R. Warsdale.

C. J. Dawson, of the Charterhouse school, and J. Taylor, of St. John's College, have been elected Exhibitioners on the Michel foundation of Queen's College.

J. H. Latham, of Brazennose College, has been elected to the Craven scholarship.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 27. The Greek Professor has given notice that the subject of his next course of lectures will be "The Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar." The lectures will be given in the Upper Room of the south-east division of the Pitt Press, and will commence on Tuesday, the 8th of February next, at one o'clock, to be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during term.

The Regius Professor of Hebrew has given notice, that he intends to commence a course of Lectures on the Proverbs of Solomon, on Monday, the 14th of February next, in the Upper Lecture Room of the Pitt Press printing-office, at twelve o'clock.

PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Woodthorpe Collett, M. A., Master of the Grammar school, Woodbridge, has been elected by the Council of King's College, London, to the office of Principal of King's College school, at Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.

At a meeting of the corporation of Winborne, the Rev. Edward Bankes, LL.B. and rector of Corfe Castle, was unanimously elected Official of the Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction of Wimbourne minster, in the room of W. J. Bankes, Esq., resigned.

The Rev. Edwin Prodges, B.D., to the rectory of Upton Lovell, Wilts, void by the cession of the Rev. John Vaughan, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor.

The Rev. Robt. Moulton Atkinson, M.A., curate of Maddington, to the rectory of Great Cheverill, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Morres.

The Rev. R. H. Tripp, the incumbent of St. Sidwells, Exeter, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter to the living of Alternoun, in Cornwall.

The Rev. John Philip Hugo, A.M., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, was presented by the Governors of the church of Crediton to the vicarage of Exminster, Devon.

The Rev. Paul Johnson, to the rectory of Overstrand, Norfolk, on the presentation of Lord Suffield.

The Rev. Henry Churchman Long, A.B., to the Perpetual Curacy of Dunston, Norfolk, on the nomination of Robert Kellett Long, Esq., of Dunston-hall.

The Rev. Richard Hill, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, has been instituted to the rectory of Timsbury, Somersetshire.

The Rev. Sidney W. Cornish, D.D., Master of the King's school at St. Mary Ottery, Devon, to the vicarage of St. Mary Ottery, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Smith.

The Rev. C. W. Stocker, D.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and Professor of Moral Philosophy in that Univer

sity, to the living of Dracott le Moors, Staffordshire.

The Rev. John Phaye, to be curate of Stanford upon Soar, Notts.

The Rev. Edward Bland, curate of Stonegrave, to the vicarage of Kippax, Yorkshire, void by the death of the Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart.

Lord Granville Somerset, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has presented the living of Cromby, Lincolnshire, to the Rev. Joseph Green, vacant by the death of the Rev. George More.

The Rev. J. J. Frobisher, M.A., of Trinity College Cambridge, to the vicarage of Halse, Somersetshire.

The Rev. John Rowland Berkeley, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cotheridge, Worcestershire.

The Rev. Robert St. John Shirreff, B.A., to the curacy of Barston, Warwickshire.

The Rev. Robert Howlett, B.A., to the united Perpetual Curacies of Longham and Wending, Norfolk.

The Rev. Isaac Hitchen, M.A., late of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and assistant curate of Clapham, to be rector of the Collegiate school, and assistant minister of St. Mary's episcopal chapel, Glasgow.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has been pleased to appoint the Rev. C. M. Fleury one of his Excellency's chaplains.

The Rev. Joseph Gabbett, prebend of Effin, is elected Economist of the cathedral of Limerick.

The Rev. Robert Gage, A.M., vicar of the Union of Tessara, diocese of Elphin, to the prebend and vicarage of Kilmacallen, with the rectories and vicarages of Taunagh and Drumcollum. Patron, Lord Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.

The Rev. Richard Woods, curate of Tallow, to the vicarage of Moccollop, in the diocese of Waterford.

The Rev. S. B. Young to the curacy of Kilcoane, county Cork.

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

At the rectory house, Great Waldingfield, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, the Rev. Francis Cresswell, an active magistrate for the county of Suffolk, and many years one of the alternate chairmen of the quarter sessions.

At the vicarage, Ganton, Yorkshire, the Rev. R. B. Scholefield, sen.

At his residence at Scarborough, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, the Rev. Thomas Irwin, Perpetual Curate of Hackness and Harwood-dale.

OXFORD, DEC. 2nd.

This day a congregation was holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred :

Masters of Arts.-W. H. Hughes, of Christ Church College; M. J. Brickdale, of Christ Church College; G. W. Cockerell, Queen's College; Rev. A. O. Fitzgerald, Balliol College; Rev. R. H. Bentley, New Inn Hall, Grand Compounder.

Bachelors of Arts.-W. D. Bathurst, New College; F. E. Thurland, New College; J. G. Mountain, Merton College; J. Townend, Oriel College; J. Kitcat, Oriel College; H. J. Torre, University College; A. N. C. M'Lachlan, Exeter College; J. Addams, St. John's College; T. R. Roper, St. John's College; R. Sumner, Balliol College; E. Levein, Balliol College; J. P. Marriott, Balliol College; R. Walker, Lincoln College; M. Webster, Lincoln College; E. M. E. Milner, Christ Church College; P. C. Kidd, Christ Church College; J. Mackintosh, Christ Church College; W. T. Hutchins, Worcester College; T. H. House, Worcester College; C. S. P. Parish, St. Edmund Hall; E. Ellis, St. Mary Hall; A. R. Webster, St. Mary Hall.

DEC. 4th.

The following gentlemen have been elected scholars of Jesus College:-R. P. Williams, L. C. Wood, and J. Morgan, all of the same College.

Messrs. R. R. W. Lingen, of Trinity College, and E. K. Karslake, of Christ Church College, have been elected Fellows of Balliol College.

The election of a Fellow on the Michel foundation at Queen's College will be holden on Thursday next.

At the public examination just finished there were forty-eight candidates for University honours; the result is, four in the first class, seventeen in the second, nine in the third, and nineteen in the fourth; a few were placed in the fourth, who, though they were not candidates, yet were judged to merit that distinction, and a few were unsuccessful.

THE CLASS LIST.-MICH. TERM, 1841.

CLASS I.-Chase, Drummond P., Oriel College; Hutchins, William T., Worcester College; Pritchard, Constantine E., Balliol College; Rawstorne, William E., Christ Church College.

CLASS II.-Ashworth, Philip, St. Alban's Hall; Beswick, Charles, St. John's College; Blackett, John F. B., Christ Church College; Brine, James G., St. John's College; Butler, Paul, Christ Church College; Harrison, Christopher R., All Souls College; Hayter, George G., Oriel College; Langhorne, Charles H., Exeter College; Lea, William, Brazennose College; Maclachlan, Archibald N. C., Exeter College; Marshall, James, Christ Church College; Mountain, James, G., Merton College; Pocock, Isaac

J. J., Merton College; Prat, Richard, Merton College; Sumner, Robert, Balliol College; Webster, Alexander, R., St. Mary Hall; Webster, Montagu, Lincoln College.

CLASS III.-Carden, Lionel, University College; Crowder, John H., Merton College; Jones, Timothy, Magdalene Hall; Lempriere, Charles, St. John's College; Mackintosh, Joseph, Christ Church College; Phillimore, Greville, Christ Church College; Soper, John, Magdalene Hall; Townend, John, Oriel College; Wilson, Theodore P., Brazennoze College.

CLASS IV.-Belcher, Brymer, Wadham College; Chapman, Edward J., Wadham College; Collier, Charles J., Magdalene Hall; Cripps, Charles, Magdalene Hall; Ellis, Edward, St. Mary Hall; Fort, Henry Balliol College; Heaton, Charles W., Jesus College; Hemsted, John, Magdalene Hall; Jemmett, George E., Trinity College; Jenkins, William J., Baliol College; Kennicott, Benjamin C., Oriel College; Levein, Edward, Balliol College; Milner, William, Christ Church; Round, Edmund, Balliol College; Smith, Charles J., Christ Church College; Stroud, Richard, A. H., Wadham College; Thurland, Francis, New College; Walker, Robert, Lincoln College; Warneford, John H., Worcester College.

the Bromsgrove union, held on Monday last, the Rev. T. B. G. Moore, curate of that parish, was elected chaplain in the room of the Rev. Mr. Fessey, resigned.

The Rev. Wm. G. Mayne, A.M., late curate of St. John's, Manchester, to the curacy of Prestbury, Cheshire.

John Geale Uwins, clerk, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of St. Matthew, at Ebley, in the parish of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the Rev. W. H. Bowles Daubeny.

The Rev. I. Whytehead, M.A., late curate of Freshwater (Isle of Wight,) is appointed chaplain to the Bishop of New Zealand.

The Lord Bishop of Ely has collated the Rev. James Tillard, M.A., of St. John's college, Cambridge, to the rectory of Connington, Cambridgeshire.

The Rev. Wm. Darnell, B.A., of Corpus Christi College, and chaplain to the Duke of Buccleugh, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Bamburgh, Northumberland. Patrons, Lord Crewe's trustees.

The Rev. Henry Masterman Barlow, B.A., to Christ Church, in the parish of St. Clement, Norwich, on the nomination of the Rev. Arthur Leighton, Irwin, rector of the said parish.

The Rev. John Bentley Waites, M.A., to the vicarage of South Stainsley, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Reynard.

The Rev. G. Platt, M.A., to the vicarage of Sedberg, Yorkshire. Patrons, the masters and fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.

The Rev. Joseph Betton, to be the incumbent minister of Beresford episcopal chapel, Walworth.

The Rev. William M'Clelland, A.M., curate of Castleblakeney, to the vicarage of Lissara, or Mount Talbot; and the Rev. James James to the vicarage of Killan. Patron, Bishop of the Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh.

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

At the rectory, Wootton, near Woodstock, in his seventy-fourth year, the Rev. Launcelot Charles Lee.

At Ashby rectory, Lincolnshire, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, the Rev. George Thomas Laughton, rector of Barton, and vicar of Kempston, Norfolk.

At Chittlehampton, Devon, in his ninetieth year, the Rev. Robert Chichester, for a number of years the highly-respected vicar of that parish.