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A GRACE has passed the Senate, "to petition both Houses of Parliament against certain clauses in a bill now under the consideration of the House of Commons, upon the subject of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues." The petition was carried in the Black Hood House by 35 to 7, and in the White Hood House by 33 to 3. The following is a copy :To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, now in Parliament assembled: The humble Petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, Humbly showeth, That your Peti

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tioners contemplate with feelings of the deepest anxiety the probable operation of the Bill now before your Honourable House "for carrying into effect, with certain modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," in the event of that bill becoming part of the law of the land.

That, while they acknowledge and deeply deplore the religious destitution of many parts of the United Kingdom, particularly the manufacturing districts, they cannot but be sensible that the fund which it would be possible to raise by the suppression of stalls in cathedrals, to an

extent even greater than that contemplated by the said bill, would be utterly inadequate to meet more than a small part of the present parochial wants of the population, which, moreover, it is obvious, will increase in proportion to that progress in manufacturing and commercial prosperity, which they trust it will please Divine Providence to continue to grant to this country.

That, on the other hand, your petitioners greatly fear that the proposed reduction of dignities in the Church will have a most baneful effect upon the learning of the clergy, and the social respectability of the clerical profession,-both of which points they humbly conceive to be of vital importance in effecting the object which all have most at heart, namely, the maintenance of the christian religion in its genuine purity, and the bringing home its blessings to all classes, high as well as low, within this realm.

They would further, with all deference to your Honourable House, suggest, that in addition to their utility as nurseries of learning, the capitular bodies, without any change in their constitution, may readily be made most serviceable, both for assisting the Bishop of the Diocese in the discharge of his onerous responsibilities, and for diffusing the blessings of a christian education more widely among the people ;-objects of which the importance becomes daily more prominent, and which, after the proposed reduction, could hardly be attainable by their means.

The measure, too, appears to your petitioners to imply an exclusive appreciation of parochial ministrations, highly discouraging to a large portion of themselves, who have devoted their time and energies to the attainment of theological knowledge, or to the cultivation of those branches of learning which are absolutely essential to the defence of the true faith, and cannot be cultivated except under circumstances wholly incompatible with the ordinary performance of parochial duties. Your petitioners greatly fear that the effect of this will be, for the future, to discourage residence in the Universi ties, to diminish the learning of the country, and seriously to debase the standard of that education which those bodies have so long been the means of diffusing among the most influential classes of society.

They therefore entreat your Honourable

House to introduce such modifications of the measure in question, as may prevent the consequences which they

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According to the usual custom at the division of term, a Matriculation took place in the Senate-house, upon which occasion six Fellow-Commoners, thirtythree Pensioners, and one Sizar, were admitted as members of the university.

Mr. Almack, of St. John's College, has been appointed an Examiner at the previous Examinations of the present year, in the place of Mr. Lund.

We understand that a petition against the Dean and Chapter bill, introduced by Lord John Russell, is in course of preparation, and likely to receive the assent of a great majority of the Members of the Senate.

CATHERINE HALL.

A grace has passed the Senate :-" To nominate Richard Allen, a student of this college, to one of the Lady Lumley's exhibitions."

KING'S COLLEGE.

Mr. Thomas Ford Tarver has been admitted a scholar.

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Charles Spencer, Christ's Coll.
Joseph Ware, Trinity Coll.

Charles Sawbridge, St. Peter's Coll.
Andrew Wauchope, Catharine Hall.

BACHELOR IN PHYSIC.

Thomas Barton, Queen's Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Theodore Thring, Trinity Coll.
Thomas Ridley, Catharine Hall.
Augustus Kemp, Caius Coll.
Edward Ridgeway, Jesus Coll.
Edward Charles Sharpe, Christ's Coll.
John Bennett, Christ's Coll.
George Albert Rogers, Trinity Coll.
Henry Thomas Riley, Clare Hall..
Thomas Smith, Caius Coll.

Daniel Fleming Wright, Caius Coll.
William Maw Shaw, Sidney Sussex Coll.

INCEPTORS TO THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF ARTS.

William T. Turner, Trinity Coll.
Michael Angelo Atkinson, Trinity Coll.
John Doudney Lane, St. John's Coll.
Frederick Wm. Collison, St. John's Coll.
Frederick Edw. Tuson, St. John's Coll.
William Henry Bateson, St. John's Coll.
John Farrer Robinson, St. Peter's Coll.
Francis Sheppard, Clare Hall.

Chris. Alderson Calvert, Pembroke Coll.
William John Johnson, Caius Coll.
Henry Headly, Caius Coll.
John Clark, Queen's Coll.
David Thomas Ansted, Jesus Coll.
Wm. George Greenstreet, Christ's Coll.
Henry Hankinson Swinney, Magd. Coll.
Frederick Jones, Magdalene Coll.

John Charles Barkley, Emmanuel Coll.

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