In Convocation, the names of Mr. Veysie, of Christ Church, as a Public Examiner in Literis Humanioribus, and of Mr. Grenfell, of University College, as Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, have been respectively submitted to and approved by the House.

Mr. James Sayer Ogle has been admitted actual Fellow of New College.

Mr. Henry Birkett, Mr. William Monkhouse, and Mr. George Chester, have been elected Taberdars of Queen's College. Mr. Christopher Benson, and Mr. John Hogarth Swale, have been elected Scholars on the Old Foundation; Mr. John Rowlandson, an Exhibitioner on Sir Francis Bridgman's Foundation, and Mr. Alfred Cæsar Bishop and Mr. John Fenden Smith Phabayn, Exhibitioners on the Foundation of Frederick Tylney, Esq.

The Examiners appointed by the ViceChancellor and the Dean of Christ Church have signified their intention of recommending George Coates, Scholar of Trinity College, for the Writership offered by the Right Hon. Charles Watkins Williams Wynn, as a Prize for competition among the junior members of the University.

Messrs. Jasper Nicholls Harrison and Robert Cox Clifton, Commoners of Wor

cester College, have been elected Scholars of that Society, on Mrs. Eaton's Foundation.

Mr. George Robert Michael Ward, M.A. of Trinity College, has been admitted an actual Fellow of that Society.

The Rev. J. Bramston, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, has been nominated one of the Masters of the Schools, in the room of the Rev. A. Sankey, M. A.

PRIZES.

The Prizes for the year 1828 have been adjudged to the following gentlemen:

CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES.

Latin Verse-" Machinæ vi vaporis impulsæ." Thomas Legh Claughton, Scholar of Trinity College.

Latin Essay-"Unde evenit ut in artium liberalium studiis præstantissimus quisque apud singulas civitates eodem fere sæculo floruerit?" George Anthony Denison, B. A. Fellow of Oriel College.

English Essay-" The domestic virtues and habits of the ancient Greeks and Romans, compared with those of the more refined nations of modern Europe." William Sewell, B. A. Fellow of Exeter College.

SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE.

English Verse-"Richard Cœur de Lion." Joseph Austice, Student of Christ Church.

The following subject is proposed as the Theological Prize for the year 1829:

"What were the causes of the persecution to which the Christians were subject in the first centuries of Christianity?"

The above subject, for an English Essay appointed by the judges, is proposed to Members of the University on the following conditions: viz.

I. The candidate must have passed his examination for the degree of B. A. or B. C. L.

II. He must not on this day (June 17) have exceeded his twenty-eighth term.

III. He must have commenced his sixteenth term eight weeks previous to the day appointed for sending in his essay to the Registrar of the University.

In every case the terms are to be computed from the matriculation inclusively.

The essays are to be sent under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University on or before the Wednesday in Easter week next ensuing, None will be received after that day.

The Candidate is desired to conceal his name, and to distinguish his composition by what motto he pleases; sending at the same time his name sealed up under another cover, with the motto inscribed upon it.

The essay to which the prize shall have been adjudged will be read before the University in the Divinity School on some day in the week next before the commemoration.

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes, for the ensuing year: viz.

For Latin Verses-" M. T. Cicero cum familiaribus suis apud Tusculum."

For an English Essay-" The power and stability of federative governments."

For a Latin Essay-" Quibus potissimum rationibus gentes a Romanis debellatæ ita afficerentur, ut cum victoribus in unius imperii corpus coaluerint?"

The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen, who, on the day appointed for sending the exercises to the Registrar of the University, shall not have exceeded four years, and the other two for such as shall have exceeded four, but not completed seven years, from the time of their matriculation.

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize; for the best composition in English verse, not limited to fifty lines, by any Undergraduate who, on the day above specified, shall not have exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation.

"Voyages of discovery to the Polar Regions."

In every case the time is to be computed by calendar, not academical years, and strictly from the day of matriculation to the day on which the exercises are to be delivered to the Registrar of the University, without reference to any intervening circumstances whatever.

No person who has already obtained a prize will be deemed entitled to a second prize of the same description.

The exercises are all to be sent under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University on or before the first day of May next. None will be received after that time. The author is required to conceal his name, and to distinguish his composition by what motto he pleases; sending at the same time his name, and the date of his matriculation, sealed up under another cover, with the motto inscribed upon it.

EXAMINATIONS.

The names of those candidates, who, at the close of the Public Examinations in Easter Term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the three classes of Literæ Humaniores and Disciplinæ Mathematicæ et Physicæ respectively, according to the alphabetical arrangement in each class prescribed by the statute, stand as follow:

In the First Class of Literæ Humaniores.
Blencowe, Edward, Wadham Coll.
Giles, John Allen, Corp. Chr. Coll.
Lewis, George Cornwall, Christ Church.
Newton, Benjamin Wills, Exeter Coll.
Pearson, John, Balliol Coll.

In the Second Class of Litera Humaniores.
Bateman, John Buckley, Balliol Coll.
Champneys, W. Weldon, Brasennose Coll.
Christie, John, Oriel Coll.
Fisher, James, Exeter Coll.
Gaselee, Stephen, Balliol Coll.

Hammick, St. Vincent Love, Exeter Coll.
Littledale, Charles Richard, Christ Church
Richardson, Joseph John, Oriel Coll.
Scott, Robert, Balliol Coll.

Sharpe, Lancelot Arthur, St. John's Coll.
Townsend, T. Lawrence, Worcester Coll.
Tufnell, Henry, Christ Church
Vivian, Edward, Exeter Coll.

In the Third Class of Litera Humaniores.
Birchall, Joseph, Brasennose Coll.
Birkett, Henry, Queen's Coll.
Boulton, William, Queen's Coll.
Brenton, Lancelot C. Lee, Oriel Coll.
Emra, John, Balliol Coll.

Golightly, Charles Portales, Oriel Coll.
Greenall, Richard, Brasennose Coll.
Hughes, James Henry, Magdalen Coll.
Hughes, Jenkin, Jesus Coll.