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an institution would soon be formed of which England would have reason to be proud; an institution in which numbers of young men would be continually awakened to a sense of their powers and responsibilities, and from which they would go forth to be fellow-workers with the ministers of religion and with all who have at heart the glory of God and the welfare of men. Your obedient servant, F.*

The following letter from a Medical Student deserves notice:

SIR, Permit me to trouble you with a few observations on a subject to which you have deservedly called the attention of your readers in the last two numbers of your Magazine; I mean the education of Medical Students.

Being myself one of that body, I can assure you that the subjoined extract presents a picture of their state of spiritual destitution, which, although the last twenty years have brought with them some improvement, still remains, in its most important features, but too fearfully correct. Many there are among them, I am happy to admit, whose uniform diligence and propriety of demeanour, testify their adherence to the principles in which they have been educated; but there are many who, whilst they neglect not their professional studies, have become ensnared by the specious sophistries of the sceptic, and who deem their disbelief of the sacred mysteries of religion to be a sign of the superiority of their intellect, and of their emancipation from the shackels which priestcraft and bigotry have forged to enslave the multitude; whilst there remains a vast number of the low, the ignorant, and the vulgar, who spend their days in sloth, and their nights in debauchery, not less regardless of the demeanour of gentlemen and christians, than of the object for which (frequently at a great personal sacrifice) their friends have enabled them to reside in the metropolis. And then, when the time allotted for their education is drawing to a close, they find a sure refuge in the grinders ;t who, by dint of hard labour, manage to cram into their heads in a few months, the superficies of that knowledge, which the more industrious spend years in acquiring. Thus prepared, they present themselves before the medical authorities for examination; and, aided by impudence and good luck, they receive full authority to diffuse among their fellow-subjects the beneficial influence of their moral principles and professional skill.

Having thus stated the evil, let me shortly propose the means which alone appear to me to be capable of opposing its farther progress:—and these are, rigid domestic controul, and enforcement of religious discipline. By the first, habitual neglect of study and nocturnal debauchery would be prevented; by the second, the contamination of the good might be in some measure counteracted, the irresolute might be confirmed, the bad reclaimed. I am well aware, Sir, that this proposal is but little in consonance with the spirit of the age, that it will meet with no favour from the so-called enlightened opponents of bigotry, the advocates of an unshackled system of education; I do not hope that its approximation to the model of the old universities will please that ingenuous part of my fellow students, who shew by their fondness for interlinear translations of Celsus and the Pharmacopoeia, that their hostility to those venerable institutions is something more than theoretical. But, sir, I presume to offer it as the result of my personal experience and conviction; knowing as I do, that, even by the better disposed, many indiscretions would have been prevented, many temptations resisted, had the weight of authority given an additional motive for attendance in the lecture-room or the chapel.

It would not, I think, be difficult for the authorities of the new university to establish chambers for the students on an economic scale and under due regulations, or to license the houses of responsible persons for that purpose. As for the enforcement of religious discipline, with regard to those of the established religion, it would be easy; the others might be required to attach themselves to some priest of their respective sects, and to produce periodically from him certificates of their attendance on his ministration.

I know not, sir, whether you may think this letter worthy of your attention; but let me in conclusion entreat you to continue your benevolent endeavours for the establishment of a better-regulated system of medical education.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

A MEDICAL STUDENT.

+ Not that I mean to throw any shade of disrespect on the grinders, many of whom are gentlemen of the highest respectability and most extensive acquirements, and the manner in which they perform their task is highly creditable to their ingenuity and perseverance. 4 U

VOL. IX.-June, 1836.

Extract from the Life of Mr. Basil Owen Wood, by his Father, in the “Memoirs of the Rev. Basil Wood and some members of his Family," &c., p. 70.

"His time being wholly at his own disposal, he was free from all control in the intervals of his professional lectures...... He often spoke to me with abhorrence of the profligate language of medical pupils. I knew it full well. Never shall I forget the scene I once witnessed in a dissecting-room; the gross indelicacy of language, the irreverent treatment and exposure of the human body, the hardened indifference with which the most affecting instances of mortality were regarded, the assumed contempt of death, the ridicule with which any serious remark was treated, and the wanton profanation of the Word of God. This reckless mockery of sin, in the midst of that death which sin brought into the world, has been sufficient to create in my own mind a wonder, not that my poor son, irresolute and susceptible as he was, should imbibe the contagion, but that any youth should escape its polluting influence. Sin, alas! hardens, and society assimilates, and the horror of vice is worn off by familiarity with it. Such was the case in the present melancholy instance. Any appearance of serious reflection in my son was treated by his companions with contempt and ridicule; he was assailed with infidel insinuation, with raillery, with wine, with temptations of every kind, presented in their most alluring form, while, as his dangers increased, the strength of those principles which alone were capable of preserving him, were gradually more and more enfeebled."

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The Archbishop of York intends to hold a general ordination at Bishopthorpe, on Sunday, 31st of July. Candidates are to send their papers before the 1st of July, and to attend at the Palace on Thursday, the 28th of that month.

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Corfe, Joseph
Daniel, J. E.

Dowdall, John

CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.

Head Master of Kirby Lonsdale Grammar School,
Westmoreland.

A Priest Vicar of Exeter Cathedral.

Chaplain to the Hoxne Union Workhouse, Laxfield,

Suffolk.

Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Burlington.

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Minister of Tavistock Chapel, Drury Lane.
Minister of the Parochial Chapel at Camden Town,
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Assistant Curate of St. Mark's Church, Woodhouse,

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One of the Chaplains of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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The Rev. Edmond Dalrymple Hesketh Knox, A.B., Rector and Vicar of Rathronan, diocese of Limerick, to the Rectory of Kilflyn, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Herbert.

The Rev. Samuel Eccles, to the Chapel of St. George, Dublin, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Barker.

The Rev. James Howie, to the Curacy of St. Mary's, Dublin.

The Rev. Abraham Walker to the Curacy of St. Mark's, Dublin.

The Rev. Joseph Gabbett, Prebendary of Effin, has appointed the Rev. Joseph Gabbett, Jun., to the Curacy of that parish.

Rev. Edmund Lambeth, to the living of Monanimy, diocese of Cloyne.

The Lord Lieutenant has conferred the living of Castletownarra and Burgessbeg, county Tipperary, on the Rev. Edward Hartigan (Domestic Chaplain to the late Lord Bishop of Killaloe), vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Gabbett.

UNIVERSITY NEWS.

OXFORD.

April 30.

Exeter College.-An Examination will take place on Thursday, the 2nd day of June, in order to Election to Three Scholarships in this College. One, open to all, Undergraduates or others about to enter at the University, above the age of 16; the second, limited to sons of clergymen of the county of Devon, under the age of 19, with preference to the kindred of the Rev. Thomas How, late rector of Huntspill, Somerset ; and the third, limited to persons educated in the county of Devon, with preference to Ashburton School.

On Thursday last, the following Degrees were conferred :—

Doctor in Civil Law-Hon. J. D. Bligh, Fell. of All Souls', (grand comp.)

Masters of Arts· Rev. T. G. Simcox, Wadham, grand comp.; Rev. H. D. Phelps, Wadham; Rev. B. Faussett, Corpus Christi; Rev. J. R. Coope, Ch. Ch.; J. B. Michel, Fell. of Queen's; Rev. C. Walters, Merton.

Bachelors of Arts-J. Andrew, St. John's, grand comp.; T. C. H. Leaver, Fell. of St. John's; J. Brenchley, University; J. Butler, All Souls'; J. Boucher, Exhibitioner of Lincoln; H. G. Adams, Ch. Ch.; M. Mills, Ch. Ch.; H. Middleton, Wadham; R. Plakiston, Queen's; E. Barnett, Worcester; W. Newton, Balliol; H. Crawley, Balliol; E. Wells, Fell. of New College; A. Nugee, Brasennose; W. T. Preston, Brasennose; J. Allen, Brasennose; J. J. Maberly, Brasennose; A. Arrowsmith, Magdalen Hall; J. Browell, Exeter.

On Thursday last, Thomas Chaffers, B.A., and Hulme's Exhibitioner, of Brasennose, was elected a Fellow of that Society.

On Thursday last, the Rev. Cooke Otway, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted ad eundem of this University.

The Margaret Professor of Divinity has announced his intention of reading the Epistles with a private class during the present and Act Term.

Ashmolean Society-May 6.-The President in the chair. The Rev. W. Lee, of New Coll., and J. Peter, Esq., of Merton College, were elected members. The Secretary announced that a limited number of copies of the Memoirs printed by the Society were on sale at Mr. Parker's. Mr. Philip Duncan read a Paper on the Remains of Roman Art found in Britain, as illustrated by specimens in the Museum; and Dr. Daubeny made some comments on a passage in Dr. John Davy's recently published Life of his Brother, Sir Humphrey Davy; and replied to some objections brought against the chemical theory of volcanoes in the last number of the Quarterly Review.'

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May 7.

The great meeting of the University on the subject of a proposed statute, limiting the powers to be exercised by the present Regius Professor of Divinity, took place on Thursday last at two o'clock; and long before that hour Oxford was crowded with members of convocation, anxious to record their sentiments upon this important question. It had been previously arranged that the Convocation should be holden in the Theatre, as well as that admission to that building should be strictly limited to those who had a right of suffrage. By this arrangement, strangers, as well as the undergraduate members of the University, were excluded, and some feelings of disappointment, together with certain signs of impatience, were manifested, which, at one time, it was feared, might lead to a breach of academical discipline; for a few windows were broken, and about a dozen of the younger members forced their way into one of the staircases of the Theatre. The quick appearance of the Procuratorial officers, and the remonstrances of the masters, had, however, an immediate effect, and the business of Convocation experienced only a momentary interruption. Everything else was conducted with a decorum, we may almost say with a solemnity, that was peculiarly striking; and the impression made upon ourselves was, that the great majority of voters were performing, what to them appeared an imperative, although a most unwelcome, public duty, whilst the minority were intent upon bearing testimony to the Professor's acknowledged talents, and most amiable private character. It has been said, by a portion of the London Press, that the whole affair has been regarded, both by the proposers and the opponents of the statute, as polítical. This, however, is a decided mistake on the part of our contemporaries; and only proves that they are altogether ignorant of the tone of feeling, and high sense of academical honour, that characterize this University. The great body of the members of Convocation have not suffered either party or politics to sway their opinions on this all-absorbing question; and it is of importance to keep this fact in view for the credit of either side, and for the character of the University at large.

The form of statute read by the Registrar was as follows:

Quum ab Universitate commissum fuerit S. Theologiæ Professori Regio, ut unus sit ex eorum numero, a quibus designantur selecti Concionatores, secundum Tit. XVI. §. 8. necnon ut ejus consilium adhibeatur, si quis Concionator coram Vice-Cancellario in quastionem vocetur, secundum Tit. XVI. §. 11. quum vero qui nunc Professor est, scriptis quibusdam suis publici juris factis ita res theo

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