same shall be deposited by the latter in a chest, to be provided for that purpose, and kept in the same church, &c.

"19. After a marriage by banns, such affidavit need not be proved, nor shall proof that it was not made and delivered as by this act required, be admitted in any suit touching the validity of such marriage: por shall such marriage be avoided for want of, or for defect in such affidavit, or on account of the true name or names of either party not being used in publication of such banns, or for such name or names not having been affixed as in s. 17.; but evidence may be given in support of such marriage, that the persons actually mar ried by the names specified in such publication of banns were so married, and such marriage shall be valid, though false names, or a false name assumed by both or either of the parties in the publication of the banns, or at the solemnization of such marriage.

"20. Whenever a marriage shall not be had within three mouths after complete publication of banus, no minister shall proceed to solemnize the same, till the banns have been republished on three several Sundays, in the manner prescribed in this

act and 26 G. 2. c. 33. or by licence duly obtained according to this act.

"21. All the provisions of this act touching publication of bannns, and mar riages solemnized thereby, shall commence on Sept. 1, 1822.

"22. Whenever a marriage is not had within three months after a licence is grauted, by any archbishop, bishop, or any ordinary or person having authority to graut such licence, no minister shall solemnize marriage till a new licence has been obtained, or by bauns openly published, according to this act.

23. The Royal Family are exempted from the operation of this act. "24. Exempts Jews, Quakers, and persons marrying beyond sea.

25. The act shall be read in all churches, &c. by the minister after morn. ing prayer, or if there be no morning prayer, after evening prayer, on some Sanday in each of the months of October, November, and December, 1822, aud on the Sundays next after March 25, June 24, and September 29, 1823.

"26. The act extends only to Eng land."

CAMBRIDGE PROFESSORSHIP OF

MINERALOGY.

WE stated in a recent Number that Mr. Henslow, of St. John's college, after being nominated, together with Mr. Lunn, by the Heads of Colleges, as a Candidate for the Mineralogical Professorship, had on Wednesday, the 29th of May, been ad mitted to the office. It was at the same time stated, that a majority of votes had been tendered for Mr. Jephson, of St. John's college, and that the Members of the Senate, who denied the right of nomina tion, intended to institute a suit in one of the higher courts for the purpose of obtaining a legal determination of this important question. The following respectful representation, signed by 74 resident Members of the Senate, had previously to the nomination been pre

sented to the Vice-Chancellor, by a deputation composed of three Professors of the University.

To the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Colleges. The respectful Representation of the un

dersigned Members of the Senate. We learn with surprise and concern that an intention is entertained by the Heads of Colleges of asserting a right to nominate two candidates for the Professorship of Mineralogy.

This Professorship is founded in a manner, and upon a principle exactly similar to those of Chemistry, Anatomy, and Boferring the title upon its first holder, and tany; that is, a Grace of the Senate consubsequently another Grace decreeing the election of a successor. In none of the elections to these Professorships has a nomination by the Heads taken place; but the appointment, except in the cases where by election More Burgensium. it was made by Grace, has always been

It is understood, however, that the Heads of Colleges ground their present

claim upon the words of the 40th Statute of Queen Elizabeth, De nominatione et electione Lectorum et reliquorum Officia riorum. "Nominationes et Electiones lectorum, bedellorum, stationariorum, gageatorum, vinopolarum, et aliorum ministrorum, seu officiariorum academiæ quorumcunque, de quibus aliter a nobis non est provisum, sequentur modum et formam in electione Procancellarii præscriptum, fientque intra quatuordecim dies post vacationem nisi aliter statutis nostris aut fundatione cautum sit. Quæ aliter factæ

fuerint ipso jure nullæ sint et irritæ." Now we beg leave respectfully to submit, that the form of the election of Vice-Chancellor is not to be followed in the present instance, inasmuch as another mode of election has been fixed in the Foundation

of this Professorship, which is no other than the following Grace, passed May 15, 1822:-"Cum per mortem Edvardi Danielis Clarke nuper Professoris Mineralogiæ, munus istud jam vacans existit:Placeat vobis ut alius ad idem munus exequendum a vobis eligatur?"

The words of the Foundation" a vobis eligatur" appear to us sufficiently to determine that the election is to be an open one by the Senate; since the form is exactly copied from a Grace which passed Jannary 23rd, 1732-33, for continuing the Professorship of Botany, vacant by the death of Richard Bradley, its first holder; in consequence of which a successor, John Martin, was elected by the Senate, withont any previous nomination by the Heads. The meaning of the term " a vobis eligatur," is therefore decided by the practice on this occasion, as well as on the election of a successor to George Rolfe, the first Professor of Anatomy: the latter Grace, passing at a convocation, April 17th, 1724, was in English, and concludes thus: "May it please you that his Professorship be declared vacant, and that another by you be chosen to succeed in office and title." The election which ensued was without any previous nomination of the Heads.

The above precedents are completely in point; and we beg leave further to state, that twenty-one appointments have taken place to the three Professorships of Chemistry, Anatomy, and Botany, either by Grace, or by election More Burgensium, while no one has been made after nomination by the Heads.

In conclusion, we cannot help respectfully calling the attention of the ViceChancellor and Heads to the following point. The form of the Grace of Foundation having been avowedly copied from that of the Professorship of Botany, it REMEMBRANCER, No. 45.

was passed by the Senate, without any suspicion that it was intended to deviate in practice from the precedent set on that occasion. We therefore respectfully hope that the intention of asserting a right of nomination to this Professorship will be abandoned.

Cambridge, May 24, 1822.

This representation would undoubtedly have been followed by many more signatures had it not been judged expedient, under the circumstances of the case, to present it to the Vice-Chancellor at an early hour the day after it was drawn up.

It is unnecessary for us to restate what passed in the Senate House on the day of election.

On the 30th of May, the day after the election, a public meeting of the Members of the Senate took place in the Law Schools, when it was resolved unanimously,

1. That a committee be appointed for the purpose of conducting the legal proceedings connected with the late election to the Professorship of Mineralogy.

2. That it is the desire and intention of the Members of the Senate to proceed in their legal measures against the Heads of Colleges in the spirit of the utmost amity and courtesy.

3. That it be recommended to the committee, that in determining upon the mode in which legal proceedings are to be commenced, they should endeavour to act in communication with the Heads, provided such course can be adopted with the anthority of the legal advisers of the Members of the Senate.

The subsequent proceedings have been conducted in strict conformity with these resolutions.

On June the 21st an affidavit was filed in the Court of King's Bench, and Mr. Tindal moved for a rule to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue to the Vice-Chancellor, directing that Mr. Jephson be admitted to the Professorship of Miueralogy. The Court expressed some doubts whether the case came under their cognizance, when Mr. Tindal referred to the case of the King v. the Vice-Chancellor. (Bur4 D

July 25.

At an Ordination beld by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, in the chapel of Hartlebury Castle, the following gentlemen of the University of Oxford were ordained:

PRIESTS-Henry Jonas Barton, M.A. and William Brown, M.A. Queen's college; Henry Edward Steward, M.A. Christ church; John Fisher, B.A. and William Cloudesley Faulkner, B.A. Magdalen hall; John Holden Harrison, B.A. and John Edmund Carr, B.A. St. John's college; and James Troughton, B.A, Christ church.

DEACONS. George St. John, B.A. Wadham college; Duncombe Steele Per kins. B.A. Trinity college; and Charles Tookey, B.A. Magdalen Hall.

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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

Married. The rev. J. P. Dobson, to Catharine, youngest daughter of the late James Metcalfe, esq. of Roxton House.

BERKSHIRE.

Died suddenly at Calcot Park, the rev. William Beville, rector of Enford, in the county of Somerset, chaplain to the duke of Manchester, and formerly fellow of Peter House, Cambridge.

Few persons will be more lamented than this truly amiable and excellent man. Descended from an ancient family, Mr. Beville was born in the city of Lincoln, where he received the first rudiments of a classical education, and was at an early age admitted a pensioner of Peter House. Here his assiduity and talents commanded the esteem of the senior members of the society, and when he took his first degree his name appeared high in the list of wranglers. Shortly after obtaining these academical honours he was elected fellow of his college, and receiving holy orders, settled in London, where he excited the attention of the public as an admired preacher, first at the chapel in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and afterwards at that in Spring Gardens. He was also the author of several successful literary efforts, though in consequence of a want of proper confidence in his own abilities, he would never allow his name to be affixed to any of his works. Besides other productions of equal merit, the public is indebted to his pen for an able vindication of Hammond from the stric tures of Dr. Johnson, and for a very elegant translation of Numa Pompilius, from the original French of Monsieur de Florian. His sermons had always practical utility for their object, and

charity he avoided all subjects of theological controversy, and contented himself with teaching the truths of the gospel, and enforcing the virtues which it inculcates. His delivery was dignified, and his language always correct and classical, often displayed the higher powers of impassioned eloquence.

Having been presented by his college to a living in Somersetshire, Mr. Beville resigned his fellowship, and married the widow of the late William Rochfort, esq. and daughter of Henry Sperling, esq. of Dynes Hall, in the county of Essex.. From his first arrival in London, and more particularly after his union with this lady, he lived in the most polished circles of the metrópolis, where his hospitality and urbanity will be long remembered. But while as a companion, a scholar, and a preacher, he cannot fail who enjoyed his intimacy, his loss is irto be generally regretted; to the few reparable. That suavity of manners, which was his peculiar characteristic, seemed only the index of a mind of corresponding benevolence. The firmest friend, the most devoted husband, and the fondest father, he extended his good wishes and his good offices to all mankind. He was in the strictest sense a philanthropist, and the author of this article, after a familiar intercourse of more than forty years can take upon himself to assert, that Mr. Beville was always the zealous advocate of the absent, the injured, and the helpless, and that he never heard an expression drop from his lips, which was calculated in the remotest degree to give pain to his fellow-men. With scientific and classical attainments of the highest order, he united an extensive knowledge of modern literature; with the purest morals, he combined the most liberal sentiments, and with a singular independ❤ ence of conduct, a degree of modesty and diffidence, which kept from the world at large full knowledge of those qualities of mind and heart, which endeared him to his family, and to a small circle of attached friends, among whom no one loved or laments him more than he to whom the melancholy task has devolved of offering this tribute to his memory.

Died. At the vicarage, Bray, in the 63d year of his age, the rev. Edward Townshend, vicar of that place, and rector of Henley-upon-Thames, Oxfordshire.

BUCKS.

Died. The rev. Richard Thorne, curate of Amersham.

CAMBRIDGE.
Married. The rev. T. Fisher, late of

Catus college, to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of G. Nottidge, esq. of Castle Hedingham.

DEVONSHIRE.

Married. The rev. J. Bartholomew, rector of Lympstone, to Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of the late W. Farquharson,

esq.

DORSETSHIRE.

Married. The rev. W. M. Williams,

M.A. to Miss Hitchcock.

Died. Suddenly, aged 67, the rev. James Mayo, many years master of the free grammar school at Wimborne Minster, and vicar of Avebury, Wilts.

ESSEX.

Married. At Rayleigh, the rev. E. Curteis, of Thundersley, in that county, to Susan, eldest daughter of the rev. Nevil Syer, of the former place.

Married. At Manningtree, the rev. H. Norman, B.A. to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Benjamin Carring ton, esq. of Little Bromley.

Died Aged 31, the Rev. R. Villan, vicar of Great Clacton.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Married.-At Chedworth, the rev. William George, of Cherrington, in that county, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late John Whitehead, esq. of Preston, Lancashire.

the rev G. Preston, of Stanfield hall, Norfolk, to Emma, eldest daughter of Richard Van Hey Thuysen, esq. of John street, Bedford row.

Died At his house in Hertford-street, London, the rev. Thomas Combe, D.D. prebendary of Canterbury, and one of the chaplains in ordinary to his Majesty.

Died.-At Chiswick, in his 61st year, the rev. R. Lowth, only son of the late Hants, and one of the prebendaries of bishop of London, rector of Hinton,

St. Paul's cathedral.

NORFOLK.

Married. The rev. Barnard Bowles, curate of East Dereham, to Miss Charlotte Bayley, of that place.

Died.-At Lopham rectory, the Rev. R. Littlehales, rector of South cum North Lopham, and formerly fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge.-The rectory is one of the five advowsons purchased by the late duke of Norfolk from the late sir Richard Hill, bart. of Hawkstone, Salop; and to which the patron must present a foundation fellow of St. John's, Cambridge.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

Married. The rev. G. Evans, of Towcester, to Sarah, daughter of the late Edward Sabin, esq.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Married The rev. John Hutt, vicar of Beeston, to Mary, eldest daughter of A. Wolley, esq. of Matlock.

Married.--At Mansfield, the rev. John Bluck, to Eliza, daughter of the late Frank Ellis, esq.

OXFORDSHIRE.

Died. At his lodgings in the Highstreet, Oxford, after a lingering illness, in his 58th year, Sir Christopher Pegge, M.D. F.R.S. and regius professor of phy sic in the university of Oxford. His remains were removed to Ewelme for interment, accompanied with the regret of all who knew him.

Married-The rev. Charles Lloyd, D.D. regius professor of divinity, and canon of Christ church, Oxford; to Mary Harriett, second daughter of Colonel J. Stapleton, of Thorpe Lee, Surrey. SHROPSHIRE.

Married-The rev. H. M. Philips, M.A. of Condover, to Miss M. Hassell.

Died. At Coton Hall, Alveley, the rev. John Hayes Petit, perpetual curate of Snareshill, Staffordshire, and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for that county.

Died. In the 70th year of his age, the rev. Michael Pye Stephens, rector of Willey and Shineton, and perpetual curate of Barrow.