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Sermon preached on the occasion of the General Fast, Feb. 17, 1808, By George Somers Clarke, D. D. Vicar of Great Waltham in Essex. 1s. 6d.

Six Lectures on the Church Catechism, originally delivered in the Parish Church of High Wycombe, Bucks, 1767-1801, at the Busby Lecture. Now first revised and published, with notes Critical and Expository, By the Rev. W. B. Williams, M.A. Minister of Ram's Chapel, Homerton. 3s. 6d. bds.

Christianity in India.-An Essay on the Duty, Means, and

Consequences, of introducing the Christian Religion among the Native Inhabitants of the British Dominions of the East. By I. W. Cunningham, A. M. late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 5s. 6d.

A Dissertation on the Propagation of Christianity in Asia. In Two parts. To which is prefixed, a brief Historic View of the progress of the Gospel in different Nations, since its first promulgation; illustrated by a Chronological Chart. By the Rev. Hugh Pearson, M. A. of St. John's College, Oxford, 12s.

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mit of the mountain is covered with an immense wreck of stones, supposed to have been thrown out of the crater at the time of the explosion. Myriads of these stones have borne a crystallized form; their great length is from three to six and ten feet; some measure even fifteen or twenty, and one in particular was twenty-two feet, three inches long. The substance of these crystals is of the basalt kind, being the porphyry slate, or clink-stone porphyry of Jameson.

M. Aurivillus has lately published an account of the Greek and Latin MSS. in the university library at Upsal. The formér are sixteen, nine of which are copies of the New Testament, and of the Alexandrine translation of the Old Testament. Among the next are a Commentary on the Acts of the Nicene Council, by Gelasius of Cyzicum; a work of Mebitius on the Nature of Man; thirteen books on the Art of War, by Mauricius; Elian on the Nature of Animals, &c. Among the Latin MSS. are the first ten books of Livy, and an Horace. The former appears to be of the tenth or eleventh century.

The Rev. Johnson Grant, M. A. is about to publish, "A Summary of the History of the English Church, with an account of the Sects which have separated from it." This work obtained the premium given by the Society of St. David's for promoting Christian knowledge and Church Union.

Mr. Churton has nearly ready for the press, The Life of Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's. It will be in one large volume octavo, with three portraits, and several other plates.

A third book of The Minstrel, in continuation of Dr. Beatie's Poem, will be shortly ready for publication.

Dr. Jarold is about to publish "Anthropologia, or Dissertations on the Form and Colour of the person of Man."

Mr. Cohen, a Jew, has in the press a work entitled Sacred Truths addressed to the Children of Israel, residing in the British empire, shewing that they can gain nothing by altering their present Belief, proving their local restoration to the land of their fathers, but demon. strating that Buonaparte is not the promised Messiah !

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGence, and CHURCH PREFERMENTS.

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OXFORD, April 2 N Wednesday last Mr. William Woollcombe of Corpus Christi College, and the

Rev. Orfeur William Kilvington of Christ Church, B. A. were admitted masters of Arts; the Rev. James Henry Maple

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Saturday, the last day of Lent Term, Mr. John Dunkerley, of Brasenose College, was admitted Bachelor of Arts.

The number of degrees in Michaelmas Term was two D.D. one D. C. L. four B. D. five B. C. L. forty six M. A. and twenty-seven B. A. In Lent Term four D. D. twelve B. D. one B. C. L. thirty four M. A. one D. Mus. forty-five B. A. and one B. Music.

Mr. Powell has been elected Fellow of Oriel College in the room of Mr. Abel Hendy, deceased.

9. The Rev. John Bowle, of Exeter College, and Rev. Just ly Hill, of New College, B. A. are admitted Masters of Arts.

The Reverend Thomas Lee, B. D. and President of Trinity College, is admitted Doctor in Divinity. The Rev. Sam. Pitt Stockford, and Rev. George William Hall, of Pembroke College, and Rev. Henry Antrobus Cartwright, of Trinity College, M. A. and Students in Divinity, are admitted Bachelors in Divinity. Charles Grif

fith Wynne, Esq. and Rev. Reginald Heber, of All Souls' College, and Rev. George Waldron, of St. Mary Hall, B. A. have been admitted Masters of Arts, Grand Compounders.

Joseph Ager, M. B. of Pembroke College, in this University, is elected a Fellow of that Society, upon the foundation of Lord Ossulston; and Mr. Abraham John Valpy and Mr. George Hough, Scholars upon the same foundation.

CAMBRIDGE, March 28.

The two gold medals, value fifteen guineas each, given annually by the Chancellor of this University, to two commencing Bachelors of Arts, who having obtained Senior Optimes, and acquitted themselves best in Classical Learning, are this year adjudged as follows:, the first to Mr. Charles Blomfield, of Trinity College, and the second to Mr. Ward, of the same College.

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April 4. This day the follow. ing Members of St. John's College were elected Foundation Fellows of that Society :rard Beecher, A. M.; John Henry Brown, A. M.; Thomas Holmes, A. M.; Robert Towers, A. B.; Thomas Jephson, A. B.; John Fiot, A. B.; and Miles Bland, A. B.-At the same time, Henry Atley, A. B. was elected a Piatt Fellow.

The subjects for the Members' Prizes for this are for the Senior Bachelors, Quæ præcipue sint labentis Imperii Indicia? For the Middle Bachelors, Quanquam Histrionis Artem miremur, quærendum tamen, utrum Mores Hominum emendet magis, an corrumpat Scœna ?

Mr. Robert Walker, of Pembroke Hall, is admitted B. A.

The Rev. Thomas Browne, Master of Christ College, has been admitted to the degree of D.D.; and E. Collins, Esq. of Pembroke Hall, Bachelor in Physic.

11. The Rev. Henry Manning, of Clare Hall, Rector of Stokeintinhead, Devonshire, is admitted a Doctor in Divinity.

Messrs. Charles Blick, of St. John's College, John Cooke, of Emmanuel, Thomas Turton, of Catherine Hall, George Broadrick, of Jesus College, Henry Finch, of Christ's, and John Clarkson, of Trinity College, are admitted to the degree of Master of Arts; and Mr. Joseph Blandford, of Trinity Hall, to the degree of Bachelor in Law.

Mr. Benjamin Pullan, B. A. of Clare Hall, is elected a Fellow of that Society.

Mr. John Lincoln Bond, of Emmanuel College, and Mr. Samuel Reeve, of Caius College, are admitted Bachelors of

Arts.

Mr. C. Mathews, A. B. of Trinity College, is elected a Fellow of Downing College.

The subject of the Poem for Mr. Seaton's Prize for, the present year is "The Holy Wars."

The King has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Frederick Blomberg, M. A. the place and dignity of a Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster, void by the death of D. Samuel Smith.

Lately was instituted, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, to the Living of St.

Mary-le-Bow, Middlesex, the Rev. Frodsham Hodson, B. D. Senior Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, in this University, on the presentation of the Right Rev. the Principal and Fellows of that Society.

The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have presented the Rev. Charles Phillpott, M.A. Curate St. Michael's Bath, to the perpetual Curacies of Badsey and Wickamford, in the county and diocese of Worcester, vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. Hay Drummond.

The Rev. J. Radcliffe, Minor Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, has been presented, by the Dean and Chapter, to the Vicarage of Littlebourn, vacated by the death of the Rev. Joseph Price.

The Rev. John Holme, M.A. Fellow of St. Peter's College, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor to the vicarage of Hinton St. Andrew.

The Rev. Daniel Ferguson, B. A. late of Emmanuel Col lege Cambridge, Rector of Broughton Sulney in Notting hamshire, has been instituted to the Rectory of Walkington, in Yorkshire, worth 10001. an. per num, on the presentation of William Thompson, Esq. of Leeds.

The Rev. George Howes, M. A. Fellow of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, is presented by the Master and Fellows of that Society, to the Vicarage of Gaze ley-cum-Kentford, in Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Dove.

The Rev. John Harvey, late Curate of March, in the Isle of Ely, is presented, by the Bishop

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of Ely, to the Vicarage of Cuddicot, Herts.

The Rev. Joseph Stephen Pratt, Vicar of Peterborough, has been collated by the Lord Bishop to the Prebendal Stall in that Cathedral, vacant by the death of S. Smith, LL. D.

The Rev. J. Ford, A. M. and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, has been nominated by the parishioners, on the cession of the Rev. F. Lee, B. D. President of the same College, to the perpetual Curacy of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, to which he has been licensed by the Bishop of Norwich.

The Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, have presented the Rev. Robt. Prichard, B. D. and Fellow of that Society, to the Rectory of Rotherfield Peppard, in the county

of Oxford.

The Rev. James Oakes, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Rector of Tostock, has been instituted by the Bishop of Norwich, to the Rectory of Battlesden, in Suffolk, on the presentation of his father, James Oakes, Esq. of Bury.

The Rev. H. F. Bates, B. A.

of Queen's College, Cambridge, has been elected Lecturer of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, in the room of the late Dr. Gregory.

The Rev. E. A. Bush, B. A. late of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, is presented to the Rectory of St. Andrew's with St. Mary Bredman, Canterbury.

The Lord Bishop of Durham, has collated the Rev. Dr. Pros--` ser, to the Archdeaconry of Durham, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Pye; and has presented the Rev. Henry Phillpots, .one of his Lordship's domestic Chaplains, to the Rectory of Gateshead, void by the preferment of Dr. Prosser.

The Rev. John Surtees, is presented by the Lord Chancel lor to the Rectory of Edmonthorpe, in the county of Leicester.

The Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, M. A. has been instituted by the Bishop of Worcester, to the Rectory of Hadsor, in t at county, void by the cession of the Rev. John Amphlett, D. D.

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