it being obvious that the pew was origi: nally intended to form two pews. Inde pendent of that circumstance there can be no doubt that mere possessory right ceases when a family leaves the parish; when Mr. Dolbeare moved to Plymouth, his right ceased.

When the widow returned to the parish, she took possession of the pew as a matter of right. She was, however, a mere intruder, and the Churchwardens might have ejected her, but however sitting there as she did, with the families of the Lloyds and Edwards's, she might, perhaps, be considered as acquiring a pos sessory right in conjunction with them. On her death, Mr. Parham took possession as if the pew belonged to him exclusively. The sentence of the Court below, so far as Mr. Parham complains of it, is substan tially correct.

The suit having been brought criminally, the defendant is entitled to every favourable circumstance arising out of the

cause,

If Mr. Templer had altered a pew without any legal authority, he ought to have been proceeded against, in a cause of perturbation of seat. Mr. P., however, has proceeded by articles, and, having done so, has failed in proof of the very groundwork of his proceedings, namely, of his prescriptive right. It is quite clear that the Churchwarden was not violating the right of Mr. P.; it is equally so, that the proposed alteration had the approbation of the Churchwarden before and after it took place, though the alteration was made by the immediate direction of the Carate. The pew will hold twelve or fourteen persons; the Curate and Churchwarden agree to afford room in it for a parishioner Mr. Soper, Mr. P. had only four in family; and it is manifest that the pew was originally intended to be two, so that the

whole front of Mr. Templer's offence is reduced to this, that he gave directions to the carpenter to make the alterations; all that was done must be considered the joint act of the Curate and Churchwarden; it is true that if the Curate had assumed this authority in opposition to the of ficers of the parish, the case would have been very different. Taking it then that Mr. Templer was acting in concurrence with the Churchwarden, I am next to consider whether a faculty was so necessary as to authorize me to say that the alteration was made without any legal authority.

It is impossible to say that every little alteration requires a faculty where no parish or prescriptive rights are infringed. Such a trifling alteration as the one in question is surely within the power of the Churchwarden, when acting in concur rence with the Minister, though in law such Minister may have no substantial right. For great alterations a faculty is very necessary. The parishioners being subject to the payment of rates in support of them. In these times when population is every where increasing, when a million of money has been granted by parliament for building and enlarging Churches, and Societies have been established in furtherance of the object in view; it would be monstrous to say that the Curate has been guilty of an ecclesiastical offence for doing this, without a faculty. I think the Churchwarden and Curate did not exceed the authority they conjointly possessed. On the whole, I think that Mr. Parham has failed in proof of the articles exhibited by him in this criminal suit, and I therefore pronounce against his appeal, and for that of Mr. Templer; I reverse the sentence of the Court below, pronounce that Mr. P has failed in proof of his articles; and he is fined £100 nomine expensarum.

The rev. W. P. Jones, A.M. of Pembroke college, Oxford, appointed by the

dean and chapter to be under-master of the King's School, Canterbury, on the resignation of the rev. John Francis.

The rev. Thomas Nottidge, instituted to the consolidated rectories of St. Helen and St. Clement, in Ipswich, on the presentation of H. S. Thornton, Esq.

The rev. Henry Bishop to the vicarage of Cretingham, Suffolk; patron, the King.

The rev. W. Villars to the vicarage of Chelmarsh, Salop; patron, sir J. Sebright, Bart. M.P.

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A dispensation » has passed the seal enabling the rev. Thomas Wright, M.A. chaplain to lord Somerville, to hold the consolidated vicarages of Steeple and East Claydon; patroness, Mrs. Verney of Claydon-house.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, June 30.-On Monday last, J. Ball, F. J. Blandy, and E. P. New, were admitted fellows, and H. B. Wilson, scholar of St. John's college.

Yesterday, R. Eden, of St. John's col lege, was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi college.

Saturday, June 23.-The following degrees were conferred:

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.-Rev. J. W. Bellamy, M.A. St. John's, and Head Master of Merchant Taylors' school.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-R. C. Pole, Esq. Balliol college, grand compounder J. H. Lane, scholar of Worcester college; W. L. Townsend, A. Thomas, J. Yolland, Worcester; H. A. Woodgate, fellow of St. John's; C. J. Hume, scholar of Wadham; N. Smart, University; C. F. Johnson and W. Bathie, Queen's; W. B. Thomas, scholar of Pembroke college.

On Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred:

BACHELOR AND Doctor in DIVINITY. -Rev. H. B. Harrison, M.A. some time fellow of Magdalen college, and now rector of Bugbroke, in the diocese of Peterborough, grand compounder.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Le Gendre Starkie, Esq. Brasenose college, grand compounder; rev. J. C. Prince, Brasenose college; rev. J. Randell, Pembroke; W. Grove, Oriel; J. Evans, Christ Church; rev. T. F. Horsford, Wadham; F. B. Hawkins, Exeter; C. G. Round and H. B. Wrey, Balliol college.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.-R. H. Cheney, Esq. Balliol college, grand compounder; rev. W. Hutchins, St. Alban hall; J. Smith, St. Edmund ball; R. Sneyd, Brasenose college; N. Germon, Oriel; E. D. Legh, Balliol college.

John Watson, gentleman commoner of Brasenose, presented by the rev. Ashurst Turner Gilbert, B.D. fellow of the same society: Peter Pole, gentleman com. moner of Brasenose, presented by the rev. James Jackson Lowe, M.A, fellow of the same society.

After these gentlemen were presented to their degrees, the Creweian oration was read by the rev. Charles Thomas Longley, student of Christ Church, in consequence of the illness of the rev. J. Coneybeare, the poetry professor.

Yesterday, William Tahourdin was admitted scholar of New college.

Saturday, June 30.-The following degrees were conferred:

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Rev. Henry Jennings, University college; William Urmestone Eyre, New college; John Leigh, Brasenose college; Stafford Charles Northcote, Balliol college. ༥.,

BACHELORS OF ARTS. Joseph Loscombe Richards, fellow of Exeter college; James Crabtree, scholar of University college.

BACHELOR AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY. -Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp, M.A. of Merton college and rector of Massall, in Wiltshire, grand compounder.

MASTERS OF ARTS.-Henry Clissold, Exeter college; rev. Thomas Griffiths, fel low of Wadham college; rev. John Manley, fellow of Wadbam college. The num ber of regent doctors in the act was 15, and regent masters, 145.

July 14.-Omitted in the account of degrees conferred, June 27,

Francis Hopkins Ramadge, Bachelor in Medicine, of St. Alban hall, admitted Doctor in Medicine.

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July 7.-The last day of act term, the following degrees were conferred:

MASTERS OF ARTS. Most noble William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, marquis of Tichfield, Christ Church ; rev. John Garbett, All Souls college; Walter Henry Burton, fellow of Exeter college; John Toke, and Edward Woodyat, Brasenose college; William Kaye, Christ Church; rev. Charles Ford, Balliol college.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.-Herbert Gower, Christ Church.

The whole number of degrees in act term was D.D. four; D. Med. two; B.D. six; M.A. fifty-two; B.A. eighty-four; matriculations, eighty-one.

July 21. On Tuesday evening, the annual election commenced at Winchester college, when the electors were received at the college gates soon after seven o'clock, and addressed in an elegant Latin oration by Mr. H. Fowle.

On Wednesday, the annual speeches

BERKSHIRE.Died, at Windsor, the rev. J. Graham, vicar, and chaplain to the duke of York.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—Died, at the rec. tory house, at Milton Keynes, in this county, the rev. Lambton Loraine.

DERBYSHIRE. - Died, the rev. Shalcross Jackson, thirty-two years rector of Somersal Herbert, in this county.

DEVONSHIRE.-Died, the rev. George Hawker, in the 25th year of his age. He was in full health a few days before, and Irad just taken possession of the valuable living of Tamerton, in this county.

Died, at Exeter, the rev. Thomas Blackall, vicar of Tardebigg, in this county, and domestic chaplain to the earl of Plymouth.

ESSEX. The new church at Harwich has been presented with a very elegant new service of communion plate, by Thomas Cobbold, Esq.

HAMPSHIRE.-On Tuesday, July 10, the lord bishop of Winchester attended divine service at All Saints church, Southampton, after which his lordship, accompanied by the rev. T. Mears, rector of the parish, Dr. Hill, and several other divines, repaired to the new burial ground, and consecrated the same. Colours were displayed on the churches, and the bells were rang nearly the whole day.

HEREFORDSHIRE.-Died, at Kingsland, in this county, the rev. R. D. Davies.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.-Died, at the rectory-house, Papworth, the rev. Henry Grace Sperling, rector of Papworth St. Agnes, in this county.

At a common council held in the city of Lincoln, the rev. F. Swan, rector of St. Peter's at Arches, had his living augmented 351. per annum, in order that two sermons may be preached regularly every Sunday, instead of one, as heretofore. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Died, at the residence-house, in Southwell, the rev. Wil liam Becher, M.A. vicar general and a prebendary of the collegiate church of Southwell, rector of Waltham in Lincolnshire, and acting magistrate for the county of Nottingham, and formerly a fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge.

SOMERSETSHIRE.Died, at Bath, in the 91st year of his age, the rev. Sir Charles Wheeler, bart. of Leamington, Hastings, Warwickshire, and prebendary of York.

SURREY. Died, at the Mansion-house, Camberwell, the rev. William Smith, A.M. in his 79th year.

SHROPSHIRE.-Died, the rev. D. Evans, vicar of Rayton. dat verileg

WALES.

Died, in Glamorganshire, near Bridge End, the rev. C. Galley, A.M. and rector of Crokorm, Devon.

DIVINITY.

A Speech, delivered in the House of Lords, on Thursday, June 14, 1821, by Herbert, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, in Answer to a Petition presented to the House of Lords respecting his Examination Questions. 1s. 6d.

Trinity Monday, June 18, 1821, before the Corporation of the Trinity House, in the Parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford; and published at their Request, By Charles James Blomfield, D.D. Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate; and of Chesterford, Essex. 4to. 1s. 6d.

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The Connexion between the natural

Inconveniences and moral Advantages of an insular State: a Sermon preached on

Bath Penitentiary and Lock Hospitals, on the 17th of June, 1821, by the Rev. Collingwood Forster Fenwick, LL.B. 18.

The Regeneration of Infants in Baptrine of the Church of England: a Sertism investigated, according to the Docmon preached in the Parish Church of