Edward Bushby, M.A. St. John's College. George Skinner, M.A. Jesus College. Ashmore, Chr. Atherton, Qu. Althorpe, Beath, Caius. Bowstead, Joh. Emm. A Subsyndicate has been appointed to consider the means of increasing the funds of the Public Library. The Christmas Holidays at the Library are abolished, and the following are those alone, on which it will be closed in future:--Christmas-Day; the Epiphany; the Purification; Ash-Wednesday; Good-Friday; Easter Monday; Easter Tuesday; Holy Thursday; Whit-Monday; Whit-Tuesday; November 5 (Gunpowder-plot); appointed Fast-days and Thanksgivingdays; the day after each Quarter-day; and the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, in the week after the commencement. On Saturdays, it is open from ten to one; on Saints' Days from twelve till three; and all other days from ten till three. The King has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A. of St. John's College, to the Regius Professorship of Botany, vacant by the death of Professor Martyn. The Marquis Douro, eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, and late of Christ Church, Oxford, is admitted of Trinity College, in this University. April 12. The Rev. John Brown, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, was elected a Senior of that Society, in the room of the late Rev. William Pugh, M.A. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. (Continued from page 321.) THE Great Rebellion having come to a close, and Charles the Second being restored to the throne of his father, Episcopacy was for the last time, in Scotland, placed on the firm basis of a legal establishment; and the episcopal succession once more renewed in that country, by the consecration of four bishops, for the sees of St. Andrew's, Glasgow, Galloway, and Dumblane. This consecration took place in 1661, and seems to have been performed at different dates by the Bishop of Winchester, and two other of our Prelates. Nor was this return to the ancient form of church government at all disagreeable to the majority of the people. The troubles and contentions to which they were subjected during the twenty-four years which had just expired, had rendered them heartily disposed to receive an ecclesiastical constitution, which was likely to secure to them the enjoyment of peace. All the moderate Presbyterians attended the episcopal worship in the parish churches and, indeed, at the period in question, there was scarcely any distinction between the two parties, in faith, in religious service, or in discipline. The old confession of faith, drawn up by the first reformers, and ratified in 1567, had all along been the received standard of doctrine to both; though the Presbyterians had of late introduced the Westminster Confession, which was in many points different from the former, and in some directly contrary to its more sober tenets. Since the attempt to read the new book of service at Edinburgh, no liturgy, or appointed form of prayer, had been any where used in public worship. Many of the episcopal clergy, no doubt, are said to have compiled forms for the use of their particular congregations, with some petitions and collects taken out of the English liturgy; and all of them uniformly concluded their devotion with the Lord's Prayer, and their singing with the doxological; both of which observances the zealots of the other side denounced as being superstitious and formal. The two sacraments were administered by both nearly in the same manner, without kneeling at the one, or signing with the sign of the cross at the other: only, in baptism, the episcopal clergy required the Apostles' Creed as the symbol of faith, while the Presbyterians insisted on the Westmin |