official situations. Notwithstanding, however, these marks of royal favour, and the handsome subscription which has been above alluded to, it is to be regretted that the funds at the disposal of the college have never yet been so ample as to place it on the liberal footing which was originally contemplated. Two only of the professorships have yet been filled up, the income of the college not being adequate to the maintenance of the other two, in consequence of which the course of education pursued at the college is necessarily confined within narrower limits than it would be, were the corporate body complete. The professorships of inathematics and natural philosophy are at present only nominally filled. The latter of these studies has in consequence been entirely neglected, and the former only just entered upon, the time and attention of the existing professors being necessarily taken up by their own immediate duties.

During the last two years, a very important benefit has been conferred upon the college, by the establishment of several permanent scholarships, or exhibitions, which, by attracting a larger number of competitors, and being in all cases made the result of merit, will, it is confidently expected, infuse a spirit of generous emulation among the students, while at the same time they will supply the principal and professors with those means of conferring distinction and reward which they had heretofore been unable to bestow.

The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, whom the college gratefully acknowledges as its founder and earliest friend, has been pleased to endow four scholarships, of the annual value of ten pounds each, the funds for the support of them being in part derived from two bequests left to his lordship's disposal-the one, by Francis Burton, Esq. late one of his Majesty's Justices for the North Wales Circuit, consisting of 100l. and a share in the Regent's Canal; the other, the sum of 1791. by Mrs. Martha More, sister to the late Mrs. Hannah More, devised to his lordship for "his charities in Wales." The remaining and

principal part of the endowment is derived from his lordship's own munificence. By his direction, two of these scholarships are to be called “the Eldon Scholarships," in honour of Lord Eldon, who, at the Bishop's request, obtained from the crown the three sinecures and the three benefices which are annexed to the college; and the third "the Burton;" and are "to be adjudged, severally, to three of the students, natives of the Principality, who shall pass the best examination in Hebrew, the classics, and the Welsh language, and in the evidences of Christianity: the last (the knowledge of christian evidences) to be indispensable to the prize for the other subjects." The fourth, which is to be open to all the members of the college, is to be called "Mrs. Martha More's Scholarship," and to be given "for the best examination in the history and contents of the Bible and in the Evidences of Christianity."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham, formerly Bishop of Llandaff, has placed 500l. at the disposal of the visitor, which his lordship has appropriated to the establishment of one open scholarship, of the value of sixteen pounds per annum, to be called "the Van Mildert Scholarship;" the proceeds of which for the present year have been absorbed in the expenses of the deed of settlement.

J. S. Harford, Esq. Blaise Castle, has established an open scholarship of ten pounds per annum, to be called "the Harford Scholarship."

John Jones, Esq. late of Dery Ormond, Cardiganshire, during his lifetime, founded an open scholarship of the same value, to be called "the Dery Ormond Scholarship;" and at his death bequeathed the sum of 3331. 6s. 8d. 3 per cent. consols, in trust for the maintenance of the same.

From the various sums, donations, and bequests, which the college has received, and which is specified in the Calendar, it is obvious that it will henceforth be in the power of the principal and professors to accomplish, in an important degree, the object which they have long had at heart; and that it will depend upon the diligence and exertions of the students

themselves to obtain the advantage of such an education as the college will afford, at a considerable reduction of expenditure. By the attainment of a scholarship of ten pounds, the amount of college bills may in any individual case be brought under forty pounds per annum; and as this circumstance does not preclude the student from afterwards becoming a candidate for a scholarship of higher value, a further reduction is held out as the reward of increased diligence.

It may perhaps not be amiss in this place to give a short outline of the plan of study which has hitherto been pursued in the college. The period of residence required before a testimonial can be applied for, is four years. During the first two years and a half the course of study is chiefly classical, embracing also logic, as read at Oxford, and the six books of Euclid. At the close of this term, the students are subjected to an examination, when if they are found to have attained a competent proficiency in the previous studies, they are advanced to the Divinity Class, where they employ the remaining year and a half in theological reading and the study of Hebrew, preparatory to their immediate profession, at the same time keeping up their classical knowledge by attending occasionally the lectures of the first division. The subjects of lectures during the last year were ;—

DIVINITY CLASS.

The Greek Testament.

Hebrew Bible.-Pentateuch. Isaiah, chap. xl. to lxv.

Chaldee; Daniel, chap. ii. &c.

Professor Lee's Hebrew Grammar with the Analysis of the History of Joseph.

Paley's Evidences, and the second part of Bishop Butler's Analogy.

Bishop Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.

Hermeneutica Sacra.-Moses Stuart's edition of Ernesti's Elements as a text book.

Each member of the class writes an analysis every week of a portion of Burnet on the Articles, and the Welsh students compose Welsh themes.

Cicero de Senectute, et de Amicitiâ.
Euclid, and Logic by Aldrich.
Geography, Antient and Modern.
Welsh Grammar.

Latin Themes and Welsh Exercises. The members of the Divinity Class are also required in rotation to deliver an English essay in the college hall, on Saturdays, before the whole Society, on a subject previously approved of by the principal.

The chapel service is conducted alternately in Welsh and English, a selection only of the prayers of the Liturgy, and one chapter of the Bible, morning and evening, being read by the Divinity students in rotation; except on Sundays, when two full services are read, and a sermon preached after each by the principal and professors. It is expected that every member of the college be present on all occasions.

The period of residence in each year consists of between seven and eight months, and is divided into two terms, the first commencing on the 1st of March annually, and the second on the Friday before Michaelmas. Each. member at entrance is expected to deposit fifteen pounds as caution money, which is returned to him, or allowed in his account, whenever his name is taken off the books. He is required also to provide himself with an academic dress, and to furnish his room, which may be done at a small expense. The charge for tuition is twelve guineas per annum, rent five pounds, and the total of college bills, independent of the deductions on

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account of scholarships, does not generally exceed forty-eight pounds. The payments are made quarterly, and no one is permitted to remain in residence whose accounts are in arrear. rules of the college are all framed with reference to economy, and every thing like extravagance in the private expenses of individuals is discountenanced so far as is possible. A strict compliance is expected from each student with the rules of college discipline, which, though it contains nothing irksome to the diligent and well-disposed, is framed with reference to the original design of the institution, and to the sacred profession, which its members are supposed severally to have in view.

It only remains to be added, that although, cæteris paribus, preference is given to natives of the Principality, the college is open to all who apply for admission, the only test being a slight preparatory examination in Greek and Latin.

Cambridge District Committee of S. P. G. A VERY interesting meeting of this Society was lately held in the Town-hall, the Rev. Dr. Archdall, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of Emmanuel College, in the chair.

The chairman, in his opening address, detailed the objects of the Society, and regretted that though it only bent its attention to our own colonies, its resources were totally inadequate to the object. He urged also the naval and commercial greatness of England imposed upon Englishmen the important duty of forwarding such objects as the Society had in view.

The secretary then read a very interesting report of its state and prospects.

After which, the claims of the Society were most ably advocated by Rev. Drs. Graham, Wordsworth, and French; Professors Pryme, Scholefield, and Henslow; and the Rev. H. J. Rose.

DOMESTIC.-The opening of the new year is auspicious. The Whigs during the past month have been signally defeated in Northamptonshire; and such is the despondency of the party, that no one dares contest the representation of North Leicestershire and West Gloucester. The changes which have taken place within the year, or rather since Sir R. Peel's resignation, give a positive increase to the Conservatives of 9, which, as respects the numerical division of parties, is 18. Gentlemen of England, we congratulate you on this happy turn in the tide of our affairs. But we must, at the same time, remind you that an ebb may and will come; we are bound, therefore, to take it at the flood, and the day is our own. One of the most striking features in the history of Rome is, the injunction invariably given to the consuls in times of difficulty and danger, not to despair of the welfare of the state. At the present crisis no advice could be more appropriate. Every man who has studied the constitution of his country,

and observed the naturally favourable temper of Englishmen, cannot choose but confess that the good predominates over the evil. And although, for a time, the wiles of demagogues and evil-disposed agitators may have worked an unfavourable change, the star of patriotism has only suffered a temporary eclipse. We say, therefore, that Britons have no cause to despair of the welfare of the country; the heart is sound, and the constitution will still vindicate its character as the bulwark and protector of high and low, rich and poor,-combining the power of the one, and restraining the licentiousness of the other.

Parliament meets for the despatch of business on the 4th of February next. (Query? Who will be prime minister on that day?)

IRELAND. The deep, the intense, the gratifying interest displayed by the country at large in behalf of the Irish Clergy of the Established Church, is most highly honourable to the Conservatives. In no part of England has there

been the shadow of lukewarmness; and the Clergy, from the Archbishop to the Curate, have spontaneously contributed, according to their respective means, to the support of their suffering brethren. It is not in our power to portray the dreadful and unheard-of persecutions to which the Protestant Church in Ireland is subjected. The Clergy require the most active exertions for their immediate and effectual relief, for without the support of their English brethren, the Protestant Clergy, and with them of course the reformed religion, is in danger of being starved out of Ireland!!!

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We depend, however, upon the "Rock of ages." Protestantism will never, can never be starved out of Ireland. What! is it for a moment to be tolerated, that the property of our pure and apostolic Church is to be offered up as a peace-offering to the Moloch of Popery-that incarnation of evil Daniel O'Connell! Englishmen sit tamely by and see the temples of the living God desecrated— the sacred office of the priesthood held up to contempt-and the very altars dedicated to our Redeemer's service, polluted by the defilements of idolatry and superstition? And yet such would be the immediate results of the triumph of the Popish faction in Ireland.

Blind, indeed, must be the individual who could not perceive that the attack upon the Irish Clergy had an ulterior view, and that Popery once on the ascendant in the sister island, the fires of Smithfield would soon again become the beacon to light idolaters to the bloody sacrifice of the reformed Church: and that our Liturgy, the blessed legacy bequeathed by a holy army of martyrs, would be made a holocaust to the insatiable maw of a Popish idol. Not only, therefore, is our sympathy as men-our duty as Christians but our very existence as Protestants, compromised in the maintenance of the Established Church in Ireland. And we have no doubt that when His Majesty's ministers see the

determined stand made by Englishmen against the unhallowed spoliation of the Irish Church, they will shrink from the disgraceful attempt, and allow, however reluctantly, the dignity of the law to be vindicated, and permit the Clergyman to receive the just rewards of his arduous and devoted labours. It is indeed impossible that the present system of anarchy and confusion can be tolerated by any government. Can it, for instance, be endured that a Protestant Clergyman, in a professedly christian country, should be unable to insure his life, without a proviso being introduced, that the policy should become void in case he were murdered!!!

Another line is unnecessary; the last paragraph concentrates the very essence of Popery, and will, we have no doubt, be as a watchword to Protestants wherever found

THE IRISH CHURCH MUST BE UPHELD!

FRANCE. A decisive victory has been gained by the French corps d'armée in Africa over the distinguished Numidian chief Abdel Kader. War appears more probable with the United States of America.

RUSSIA. The emperor's speech to the deputies of Warsaw has caused a great sensation on the continent; if correctly reported, which we very much doubt, it was certainly severe.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.-The peninsula is still the scene of civil war; but till spring advances, nothing decisive can take place. The siege of St. Sebastian has been resumed.

AMERICA. The president's message is anxiously looked for both here and on the continent, as on the tone which it takes the peace of the world may be almost said to hinge. Great activity prevails in the American dock-yards, and an alliance offensive and defensive with Russia is broadly hinted at; all this looks warlike.

1836 certainly promises to be a year pregnant with important events both at home and abroad.