rewards of different kinds, as Scholarships, Medals, &c., granted to the most distinguished.

Various exemptions with regard to the preliminary courses of study and other conditions were made in favor of those candidates whose studies had commenced at the epoch of the first publication of the regulations.

The first Examination that took place was that for Matriculation in November, 1838, and since that time Degrees have been granted annually in all the Faculties. The whole number of Graduates at this moment (June, 1842) amounts to 145:* of Undergraduates to 201; a number which will probably receive a considerable increase when the Examinations for the current year have taken place.

The Senate grants nearly one thousand pounds annually in Scholarships and other rewards to deserving Students; and as this sum absorbs the whole amount of the fees received for the Examinations, (which have been purposely fixed very low,) the University is supported at present by a Parliamentary grant, the principal part of which is expended in the remuneration of the Examiners, Registrar, Clerk, &c. The duties discharged by the Senate are gratuitous.

* No Honorary or "ad eundem" Degrees are conferred in this University, the Charter requiring in all cases a previous Examination.

APPENDIX.

THE following is extracted from a paper entitled "Statistical Illustrations of the Principal Universities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: by H. Longueville Jones, M.A., late Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association at Newcastle, August 21, 1838."

"The sources from which the information contained in the accompanying Tables has been derived are partly public and partly private. Of the former kind are the Oxford University Calendar for 1838, the Cambridge University Calendar for 1838, the Dublin University Calendar for 1838, and the Parliamentary Report on the Scottish Universities, drawn up by the Commission appointed in 1826 and 1830, and published in vol. xii., 1831, p. 115, &c. of the general collection of Parliamentary Papers of the ComBesides these works much private information has been used in determining the value of Professorships, Fellowships, &c., points on which the above works are mostly silent. In determining the revenues of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as distinct from those of the Colleges, local information is almost all that can be obtained for arriving at an approximate estimate of their amount. There are no published returns on the subject, or none that give sufficiently detailed information.

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"The Collegiate Revenues consist principally of landed estates, of tithe impropriations, of the rent of rooms leased out to students, of fees paid by all members of the College, generally of trifling amount, and of profits upon various minor charges for articles of consumption, such as ale, &c. used by the students. These sources of income vary in different societies; some exist in one which do not in another. They by no means bear the same relative proportions in all Colleges; and they are very difficult to be calculated with anything like accuracy. The accounts are, however, strictly audited by the bursar and the governing portion of the collegiate body every year; but they are open to the inspection only of the persons auditing; and, with the exception of the value of some Fellows' and Scholars' stipends, the University Calendars are totally silent on the subject of the collegiate accounts. No published returns upon the actual revenues of any College are known to exist.

"It is obvious from this that the results collected in the accompanying Tables must, as far as these three Universities are concerned, be considered as only approximative; they affect variable quantities, and cannot, therefore be taken in themselves as constant. In all cases, however, where a doubt existed, the minimum value has been taken, it being the safer error to underrate rather than exaggerate the amount of income belonging to any public body, especially when so much room is left for calculative conjecture. The averages, where averages occur, have been taken rather at low than at high estimates, when pecuniary matters are concerned. In the point of numbers of students, &c,, very little room has been left for conjecture,, the information of the Univer sity Calendars being positive on this part of the subject, and the Tables in this respect may be considered as nearly exact,

"DESCRIPTION OF THE TABLES,

"TABLE I.-College Revenues

exhibits a summary of the revenues of the Colleges in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, subdivided under the following heads; 1st, Number and Income of the Heads of Houses; 2nd, Number and Income

of Fellows; 3rd, Number and Income of Scholars. In the cases of New College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge, it is not easy to determine the actual number of scholars, on account of these institutions being so connected with the Colleges of Winchester and Eton, that the line of separation can hardly be drawn ; no scholars therefore have been put down in the Table. At Dublin there is an uncertainty connected with the number of Erasmus Smith's Exhibitions; whether they are to be considered as belonging to the University, or to the College, or to neither; but to the schools established by that Founder. 4th, The head College Officers includes not only the tutors, but also the lecturers, deans, stewards, &c.; and though they do not all derive their emoluments of office from the tuition-money, yet in general the sums they receive from other sources are so small, that they may be considered as merged either in the tuition-money or in the general article of College Revenue. 5th, Number and Value of Prizes. No definite information is given on this point by the Oxford Calendar, nor are the Cambridge and Dublin Calendars so explicit as they might be. In the case of Cambridge, the amount of College Prizes is much greater than what is stated at page 65, (viz., £600 ;) probably on account of the value of books not having been taken into the estimate. 6th, Number of Incumbents and Benefices, with their Average Value. In this division, all benefices are counted as single distinct benefices, when they are separately entered in the King's Books; and their average annual value is in all cases assumed to be £300. This sum is too large perhaps in the case of some Colleges, such as Trinity College, Cambridge, where the benefices are mostly vicarages; and is too small in others, such as Magdalen College, Oxford, where the value of the benefices is proverbial; but as a general average it is believed to be far beneath the real value. The number of cases of pluralities will be observed to be remarkably small, in proportion to the total number of benefices. 7th, The Rent of Rooms is assumed to vary from £10 to £15 per annum; and is believed to be very nearly correct. In certain cases, such as All Souls' College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge, where the members of the foundation