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sad pleasantry, the definition of language as an instrument invented to conceal our ideas; and take, indeed, for witness of its efficacy in that point of view, the piles of protocols touching the Belgian question, built up through different parts of Holland into stacks of rustling parchment, and which a patriotic king, I boldly aver, would be justified in distributing through the tailors of the land, considering what a lack of measuring-lines must be among artificers of this order, called on to appreciate, as they ever are, the vast external surfaces of his Dutch Majesty's loving subjects. I aver, that in the general purpose of words, a nobler end should ever be placed in view, and hold that its then nature is most nobly brought out, when an exact impress of the heart is, through their means, transmitted to the world, and language becomes transparent thought."

Mr. C. then proceeds or rather plunges into a curious speculation respecting language, as an instrument of philosophie inquiry, but which we purposely omit. He then returns to the subject of the invitation to breakfastand becomes evidently more and more interested, in spite of his previous deelaration, in the idea of meeting such noble spirits, particularly Woodsworth of whom he says, "with him I would delight once more to meet, to witness and gaze once more with an eye of intense admiration, on what your countryman Charles Philipps, when speaking of Richard Brinsley Sheridan called, with a magnificent mistiness of meaning that I could never completely penetrate (I quote from a distand memory)

"The vast Atlantic of his face The morning of his eye." On this subject it would appear like presumption in us to attempt, after the failure of Mr. C. to decypher the sense of this passage in Mr. Philipps's work, supposing, which is not always the case with this eloquent writer's productions, there was any sense to decypher. But we think that Mr. C. must have misquoted the lines. It is well known that Philipps is an Irishman, and is intimately acquainted with the habits of his compatriots, whose

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We had referred in our note of invitation to the concentration of Toryism our rooms would contain, and the awe which would thus shake the hearts of the unfortunate Whigs to the very core. Our calculations were not unfounded, and after spending two pages more of letter paper on a train of splendidly expressed reasoning, he intimates his determination of being present, and concludes his answer in the following terms:

"As I therefore am now overborne by the weight of this argument, the more that I deem myself to have placed it in a somewhat more impressive point of view than your letter effected, I have to request that at some respectable hotel, there be pre-engaged for me a bed, but on that bed no quilt. The cause of this, which is connected with my determination by a curious but regular tissue of thought, I shall probably explain to the waiter as he precedes me at night with the candle; and as I foresee the train of exposition will be long and too close to admit of anything but onward motion in the expounder, let my appointed chamber be placed in the very attic--as, including the launding places, which indeed I would rather reserve for recapitulating the argument propounded during the ascent of each flight--justice to my sentiments will require me to reason up at least five pair of stairs.

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figure in the driving seat endued with a fine old ruin of a “Thatch,” still in considerable preservation, one-fourth of its primaval rim beiny extant, and the deficiency of its upper lid being, from the elevated position of the wearer only visible to an Aeronaut, assuring Poplar, privately, at intervals "that he'll off with yer honor in one minnit's time," which, literally interpreted, means an hour, the rest of his time being employed in proclaiming to the world, that "there's room for five and no delay." (Exeunt car, &c., after not more than an hour's stoppage, and finally dies away the distant chaunt of Tidi

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

DUBLIN.

At the late Quarterly Examinations the following honors were adjudged :—

The Gold Medal for Science was adjudged to Mr. Haig; the Gold Medal for Classics to Mr. Pomeroy.-Mr. Haig, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. O'Connell (Morgan John), and Mr. Hyde, were placed at the head of the Candidate Bachelor Class.

CERTIFICATES IN SCIENCE were obtained by Armstrong (George), Mr. Rutherford, Turner, Orr, Andrews, Young, Willis (James), Baggot, Lee, Tickers, McDowell, Mr. Shaw, Sandes, Conway (Cornelius), O'Leary (Goodwin), Hallowell, Biggs, Kyle (Pallam.)

PREMIUMS IN SCIENCE, by Drought, Meade, Dennehy, Purdon (George R.), Mr. Montgomery, O'Brien, Webb, Finlay, Perry, Kane, Mr. Leader, M'Intire, Johns, O'Farrell, Edgeworth, Jacob, Mr. Synnott, Smith (Richard), Digby, Walsh (Albert J.), Battersby (William H.), Higgins, Kyle (John T.), and King.

CERTIFICATES IN CLASSICS, by Crawford (Francis), Mr. Goold, Turner, Mr. Leader, Bruen, Lee, Woodward, Lyons, Mr. Verschoyle, Johnston (Benjamin), Eccleston, Wrightson, Hickey, Marshall, Callaghan.

PREMIUMS IN CLASSICS, by Franks (John), Armstrong (Geo.), Savage, Mr. Massie, Mac Donnell (Richard G.), Acton, Orr, Mackinnon, Wheeler, Mr. Blosse, Hopkins (Robert), Fitzgerald (Gerard), Clement, Caher, Mullins, Mr. Welsh, Griffin, Wade, O'Leary (Cornelius), Ringwood, Ryan, Haines, and King.

PREMIUMS FOR GENERAL ANSWERING were obtained by Nash and Tibbs.

The next Quarterly Examinations will be held for Senior Sophisters on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 18th and 19th of June; for Junior Sophisters, on Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22d; for Senior Freshmen, on Monday and Tuesday, the 24th and 25th; and for Junior

Freshmen, on Thursday and Friday, the 27th and 28th June.

STEPHEN C. SANDES,

Sen. Lecturer.

On Friday, May 17, Dr. Longfield delivered his opening lecture, as Professor of Political Economy, in the Law School of our University. This Professorship was instituted by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, in the laudable spirit of assimilating the Irish and English Universities so far as to make equal advantages derivable from the resources of both. After an examination, for some days, of the several candidates, Dr. Longfield was elected by the Board from the number recommended to their notice by the Archbishop; the condition of his appointment to the chair, being, the delivery of nine lectures during a specified term, and their subsequent publication.

The object of Dr. Longfield's opening address was to show the great and increa sing importance of the science of Political Economy, and to remove the idle and frivolous objections which the ignorant and casuistical are too apt to indulge in, to the prejudice of what they attempt to disprove, probably without any, or at best only upon an indifferent and partial study. The charges of impiety and irreligion to which the science has been considered liable, upon the grounds of its supplying both scope and encouragement to one of the worst passions of human nature, Dr. Longfield refuted at once by proving that national wealth and national prosperity were the grand object of the political economist, and not individual aggrandisement or avarice, which must ever tend to eradicate the principles which for the benefit of society at large, it is his praiseworthy aim to inculcate and enforce.

The absurd and fatal error into which too often the rude and unthinking artizan has been seduced, that the demolition of his employer's capital must lead to the alleviation of his own distress, in

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The objections to the study of Political Economy on the score of novelty, were likewise ably met and answered; Dr. Longfield having clearly evinced the impossibility of the science having existed, as such, during any except modern times. We would not be understood by the foregoing brief sketch, to have attempted to follow the Professor either in the or der or variety of his topics. We merely wished to give a brief outline of the whole, which we shall notice at greater length at the conclusion of the course, Dr. Longfield's style and taste are admirably adapted to this most interesting subject, for the discussion and elucidation of which he is still further qualified, by extensive study, and abilities which have deservedly ranked him among the most distinguished members of our University.

A considerable addition has been made to the College Botanical Garden, which now presents an exceedingly beautiful front to the Rock road. The ground enclosed was most judiciously purchased by the Board, as it prevents the possibi. lity of the gardens being shut in by the buildings which are extending so rapidly in that direction, and the injury which should necessarily result to the trees and

flowers.

The "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit," may, with equal truth, be applied to the active and enterprising spirit of our respected Provost, since whose appointment a rapid and progressive improvement has been strikingly observable in every thing connected with our University.

We have been led to this remark, by the more immediate subject of our notice, but shall enter upon the matter more at large in a future number, when we trust to lay before our readers, in detail, the salutary changes which are now in preparation, as affecting Collegiate discipline.

Students in Medicine are to take notice, that after the month of November, 1834, all Candidates for Degrees in Medicine must produce certificates of attendance on the course of Lectures on Midwifery, delivered in the College of Physicians; and also that credit will be al

lowed for only three medical courses in each winter Session,

OXFORD.

Saturday, March 2.

On Tuesday last, in full Convocation, the University seal was affixed to Petitions to both Houses of Parliament; praying that they would be pleased to take into their early consideration the laws relating to the observance of the Lord's Day, with a view to their amend ment.

Master of Arts. Rev. C. Childers, Ch. Ch.

Bachelors of Arts.-W. E. Ellwell, University; G. Garrick, University A. J. Sutherland, Student of Ch. Ch. C. Leslie, Ch. Ch.; W. Hornby, Ch. Ch.; A. G. S. Shirley, Ch. Ch.; J. Barrow, Wadham College.

On Friday, the 22d ult., W. Burton Dynham, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, was nominated and admitted to practice as Proctor in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Preachers at St. Mary's-Rev. Dr Nolan, Exeter, Bampton Lecturer, Sunday morning; Rev. W. Griffiths, Wadham, Sunday afternoon.

March 9.

In a Convocation holden on Thursday last, the nomination of the following gentlemen to be Public Examiners was approved, viz. :-The Rev. A. Short, M.A., Student of Christ Church, in Literis Humanioribus; The Rev. Arthur Neate, M. A., Trinity, in Discipli nis Mathematicis et Physicis.

In a Congregation holden the same day, the following degrees were conferred :Masters of Arts.-Rev. T. Brooke, Brasennose; Rev. A. Daniel, Exeter.

Bachelor of Arts.-T. P. Lethbridge, Ch. Ch.; F. W. C. Whalley, Ch. Ch.

Preachers at St. Mary's. Rev. Dr. Nolan, Exeter, Bampton Lecturer, Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Smart, University, afternoon.

March 16.

On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred:

Master of Arts. Rev. T. Tolming, Brasennose College.

Bachelors of Arts.-F. Anson, Pro

bationary Fellow of All Souls' Coll. ; J. Ralph, St. Edmund Hall.

Preachers at St. Mary's-Rev. Dr. Nolan, Exeter, Bampton Lecturer, Sunday morning; Rev. Mr. Williams, Trinity, afternoon.

March 23.

WORCESTER COLLEGE.

On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred :

Masters of Arts-Rev. E. T. Lewis, University; Rev. C. A. S. Morgan, Ch. Ch.; Rev. F. C. Parsons, Worcester; W. Dod, Magdalen Hall; J. W. Bruce, Exeter.

The Examiners appointed to elect a Mathematical Scholar, have announced to the Vice-Chancellor their election of H. A. Jeffreys, B. A., Student of Christ Church,

CAMBRIDGE.

CLASSICAL TRIPOS.-Feb. 23. Examiners.-J. Gibson, M. A., Sidney Sussex; W. Martin, M. A., St. John's; W. A. Soames, M.A., Trinity; F. Field, M.A., Trinity.

FIRST CLASS.

Ds Bunbury, Trinity,
Hildyard, Christ's,
Francis, St. John's,
Walford, Trinitys,
Wilson, St. John's,
Barnes, Trinity,
Whittaker, Qu
Bury, St. John's,
Begbie, Pembroke,
Lydekker, Trinity,
Kempe, Clare H.

SECOND CLASS.
Ds Tate, Emman.
North, Trinity,
Inman, St. John's,
Smith, St. Peter's,
Nicholson, Christ's,
Howlett, St. John's,
Brown, Trinity,
Taylor, St. John's,"
Chambers, St. John's,
Stockdale, Trinity,
Raikes, Corpus,
Fowler, Trinity,

Jones, Queen's,
Roots, Jesus.

THIRD CLASS.

Ds Evans, Qu.
Jacob, Emm. S
Dusautoy, St. John's,
Rose, Clare Hall,

Huxtable, Trinity,
Alford, Visct. Magd.
Fawcett, Mag.
Andras, St. Jo.
Sale, St. John's,
Couchman, Cl. Hall,
Langdon, St. John's,
Barker, St. John's.

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A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, Professor Sedgwick, the President, being in the chair. Among the members elected were Lord Braybrooke, M. A., of Magdalene College, and the Hon. Peter John Locke King, M.A., of Trinity College. Various presents of books were nounced, among which was a Memoir, by Cacciatore, the astronomer at Palermo, concerning the reduction and comparison of Meteorological Observations made in different places. The Rev. W. Whewell read a continuation of his Memoranda on the Architecture of Normandy. After the meeting Professor Airy gave an account, illustrated by models and diagrams, of his recent researches concerning the mass of Jupiter, by means of observations of the fourth satellite. It was observed, that the proportion of the quantity of matter of Jupiter to that of the Sun, is the most important datum in our reasonings concerning the Solar System, after the elements of the planetary orbits. But though this is the case, considerable uncertainty has recently prevailed concerning this quantity. The calculations of Laplace and Bouvard made Jupiter 1-1070th of the Sun, by means of the perturbations of Saturn; but the German astronomers, Nicolai and Encke, by means of the perturbations of Juno and Vesta, obtained a mass larger by about I-80th than that of Laplace. But in the meantime the observations which seemed to promise the most simple and decisive means of obtaining the value of Jupiter's mass, those of the periods and distances of his satellites, had never been. put in practice since the time of Newton, at whose request Pound made such observations. The question concerning this mass is not only of consequence in the calculations of other perturbations of the Solar System, of which Jupiter is "the tyrant," (to use Sir John Herschell's expression); but was also of sufficient magnitude to decide the existence or not, of a resisting medium as deduced from Encke's comet. Professor Airy determined therefore to repeat these observations, and to endeavour to calculate from them the mass of Jupiter, with greater

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