BIBLICAL LITERATURE.-A work has lately appeared, entitled "Motives to the Study of Biblical Literature," by Mr. William Goodhugh, which exhibits to the general reader the advantages of such study in a more clear and popular form than any work of the kind which has fallen under our observation. His medium for effecting his object is a series of lectures, of which six are devoted to the Old, and six to the New Testament; and he takes a full range of the various editions and versions of each, and also of the literature contemporary with the various inspired writers, so as to afford all the illustrations necessary to the effectual study of the sacred writings. Mr. Goodhugh has proved himself to be both a sound scholar and a man of industry and research. · ORDINATIONS.-1838. The Bishop of London requests the attention of the Clergy to the following notices:1. That for the future, six months' notice, at least, will be required of every person who wishes to be admitted as a candidate for ordination in the diocese of London. 2. That no letters testimonial will be received or countersigned by the Bishop of London, unless it be stated therein that the parties signing them have had opportunities of observing the conduct of the person in whose favour the testimonials are given for the period specified in such testimonials. The Lord Bishop of Ely will hold an Ordination, in the Cathedral at Ely, on Sunday, December 2. The Lord Bishop of Lincoln's next Ordination will be held at Lincoln, on Sunday, December 16. The Lord Bishop of Winchester will hold his next General Ordination on Sunday, December 16. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol will hold his next General Ordination on the Sunday before Christmas day, in the cathedral at Gloucester. His Grace the Archbishop of York will hold an Ordination at Bishopsthorpe, on Sunday, December 16. The Lord Bishop of Oxford will hold an Ordination on Sunday, the 23d of December. The candidates for Deacons' Orders will be examined on Monday, the 17th of December, at 10 o'clock; the candidates for Priests' Orders will be examined on Wednesday, the 19th of December, at the same hour. The degree of B. D. has been conferred on the Rev. JOSEPH JAMESON, Precentor of Ripon Cathedral, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in compliance with the unanimous request of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. At his rooms, in Queen's College, Cambridge, John Lodge Hubbersty, Esq. M.D. many years Senior Fellow of that Society, Deputy High Steward of the University, and late Recorder of Lancaster, in the eighty-first year of his age. Mr. Hubbersty was a native of Lancaster, and entered at the usual age at Queen's College, where he took his degree of B.A. in the year 1781, being ninth wrangler; he was elected Fellow of that Society in 1782, and at the usual time was called to the bar, where he practised for some years. The statutes of his College, however, allowing only two lay Fellows, one of whom must graduate in Law, and the other in Medicine, and the law fellowship being then occupied, Mr. Hubbersty proceeded in due course in medicine, though he never practised in that profession. Dr. Hubbersty's late years were chiefly spent in college, where his polite, amiable manners rendered him a most agreeable companion. His illness was rather a decay of nature, than any positive disease, and he was mercifully exempted from any painful suffering. For the last two months he was confined to his room, and for three or four weeks to his bed, where in humble preparation for his solemn change, he departed in peace on the 17th of November, about eleven o'clock, deeply regretted by a very extensive circle of acquaintance. At the funeral the executors and friends of the deceased assembled at Queen's Lodge at nine o'clock, where they were received and hospitably entertained by the President, Dr. King. At ten o'clock the company repaired to the hall, where the corpse had been deposited the preceding night, when the procession moved to St. Boltoph's church in the following order : The Undergraduates of Queen's, and private friends of the Deceased, two and two. College Servants, &c. On arriving at the church the service in the desk was read by the Rector, when three verses of the 90th Psalm were sung, and a dirge performed while the corpse was depo. sited in the vault, when the remaining part of the service was read, and the mourners and whole party retired to Queen's Lodge. In Convocation the following Letter of thanks to Queen Adelaide, for the Portraits of herself and her late Royal Consort, recently presented to the University, was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be sealed with the University Seal:: To Her Gracious Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager. May it please your Majesty, We, the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, in Convocation assembled, are desirous of expressing to your Majesty our grateful sense of the distinguished honour recently conferred upon us by the presentation of your Majesty's Portrait, together with that of your Royal Consort, our late revered Sovereign, King William the Fourth. We shall regard these Portraits, not merely as contributing to adorn the gallery in which they are placed, but as affording additional proof of that gracious favour and condescension already evinced towards us on the occasion of your Majesty's visit to our University; an event to which we shall ever look back with feelings of sincere gratitude and loyal devotion. That your Majesty may, by the blessing of Providence, derive that benefit which is to be anticipated from a residence in a southern climate, and return to England with renovated health, is our earnest and devout petition at the throne of grace. Given at our House of Convocation, under our Common Seal, this 23d day of November, in the year of our Lord 1838. It has been agreed to augment the stipends of the Under-Librarians of the Bodleian, 100l. per annum each, to be paid out of the University chest. The Rev. H. Coxe, M.A. of Worcester College, has been nominated one of the Under-Librarians of the Bodleian. J. W. Wing, Esq. M.A. Fellow of University College, and G. S. Law, Esq. M.A. of Oriel College, have been called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn. The Rev. H. Cary, M.A. of Worcester College, has been appointed by the ViceChancellor to act as a Proctor in the University Court. 1 ALL SOULS' COLLEGE. E.C.Egerton, B. A. Probationary Fellow, and the Hon. G. C. Talbot, B. A. of Christ Church, of kindred to the Founder, are admitted Actual Fellows of this Society; and T. H. Lloyd, B. A.of Brasennose College, is admitted Scholar. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. An Election will be held in the above College, on Friday, the 8th of February, of two Scholars-one for the county of Oxford, and one for the county of Glou cester. Candidates must be under 19 years of age on the day of election; and they will be required to present in person, to the President, certificates of the marriage of their parents, and of their own baptism, an affidavit of their parents, or some other competent person, stating the day and place of their birth, and testimonials from their College or School, together with Latin Epistles, at eleven o'clock on Saturday, the 2d of February. The Rev T. Pelly, M.A. and the Rev. H. Slight, M. A. Scholars of Corpus Christi College, have been admitted Fellows of this Society. LINCOLN COLLEGE. Two Exhibitions on the Foundation of Lord Crewe, now vacant, will be filled up on Wednesday, December the 5th. Candidates must be natives of the Diocese of Durham; (or in default of such, of North Allertonshire or Howdenshire, in the county of York, of Leicestershire, and particularly of the parish of Newbold Verdon, or of the counties of Oxford and Northampton,) and are required to call on the Sub-Rector on or before Monday, December the 3d, and to present the usual testimonials, accompanied by an affidavit of the place of their birth. ORIEL COLLEGE. An election of two Scholars will take place on Wednesday, December the 5th. QUEEN'S COLlege. Mr. E. H. Knowles has been elected an Exhibitioner on the Michel Foundation. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. The election of a Vinerian Scholar, in the room of Mr. Faber, of University College (whose Scholarship becomes vacant by lapse of time) will take place on Thursday, the 29th inst. DEGREES CONFERRED. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Hon. and Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard, Ch. Ch. Grand Compounder. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. R. J. Phillimore, Esq. Student of Ch. Ch. DOCTORS IN MEDICINE. R. H. Goolden, Queen's Coll. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. F. Rogers, M. A. Fellow of Oriel Coll. and Vinerian Scholar. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. G. Hodson, Magdalen Hall. Rev. W. C. Edgell, St John's Coll. Rev. G. E. Bruxner, Ch. Ch. grand comp. BACHELORS OF ARTS E. Pritchard, Christ Church. G. E. Maunsell, Christ Church. J. R. Crawford, Scholar of Lincoln Coll. J. H. Borrer, Brasennose Coll. H. J. Bigge, University Coll. |