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1847 The Fitness of the Time of Christ's coming in relation to the moral, intellectual, social, and political condition of the Heathen.

1848 History of Mahometanism viewed in relation to the Evidences of Christianity. 1849 The Influence of the Jewish and Christian Revelations on Pagan Writings. 1850 The beneficial influence of the Christian Clergy during the first thousand years of the Christian Era.

1851 The History of the Extinction of Paganism in the Roman Empire viewed in relation to the evidences of Christianity.

1852 The Evidences of Christianity as exhibited in the Writings of its Apologists down to Augustine inclusively.

1853 The Position and History of the Christian Bishops, and especially of the Bishop of Rome, during the first three Centuries.

1854 The Influence of Christianity upon International Law.

1804. The Rev. JONATHAN DAVIES, D.D., formerly Fellow of King's, and afterwards Provost of Eton College, remembering that he had himself obtained one of the University Scholarships, bequeathed the sum of £1000 in the 3 per cents., to found a Classical Scholarship, to be called "Dr Davies's University Scholarship," for the greatest proficient in Classical learning, and to be tenable for the same period as the Craven Scholarships.

1810. The Rev. WILLIAM BELL, D.D., late Fellow of Magdalene College, and Prebendary of Westminster, transferred £15,200 stock, 3 per cents., in trust, to the University of Cambridge, to found thereon eight Scholarships, open to the sons of clergymen of the Church of England, whose circumstances and situations are altogether such as not to enable them to bear the whole expence of sending their sons to the University.

The Examination is not confined wholly to Classical Literature, but includes Mathematics and Natural Philosophy as well as Theology.

Two of these Scholarships become vacant every year, and are tenable for four years. Undergraduates in their first year, of any College, except King's College and Trinity Hall, may become candidates, and in cases of equality in merit, that candidate is to be preferred who stands most in need of assistance.

Every Scholar on this foundation is required to proceed regularly to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and if any Scholar shall degrade, or determine, and go out in a bye term, or declare for law, or be rusticated or expelled, his Scholarship shall be vacant.

It is also provided that no person shall ever have two sons Scholars, and that there shall not be two orphans, brothers, Scholars at the same time. If no sons or orphans of clergymen

shall be found properly qualified for these Scholarships, then, and then only, the electors shall elect sons of laymen, being undergraduates, who stand in need of assistance.

1812. His Royal Highness WILLIAM FREDERICK, Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University, gave annually a gold medal, to be conferred upon a resident undergraduate who shall compose in English the best Ode or the best Poem in Heroic Verse. This Prize was given yearly by the late Chancellor, the MARQUESS CAMDEN, and is continued by His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, the present Chancellor.

The subject is given out by the Vice-Chancellor, and the Exercise is not to exceed two hundred lines. Any undergraduate, who has resided one term, may be a candidate for the Prize, and the successful candidate is required to print and publish his poem, and recite it in the Senate-House at the Commencement.

Subject of the Chancellor's English Prize Poems :

1812 Installation of the Duke of

1835 The Death of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. The Empire of the Sea.

1836

1837 Conflagration of Rome in the reign of Nero.

1838 Luther.

1839 Bannockburn.

1815 Wallace.

1816 Mahomet.

1817 Jerusalem.

1818 Imperial and Papal Rome.

1840

1819 Pompeii.

1841

1820 Waterloo.

1821 Evening.

1822 Palmyra.

1823 Australasia.

1824 Athens.

Camden, the late Chancellor of the University.

1842 The Birth of the Prince of Wales.

Richard the First in Palestine.
On the death of the Marquess

1825 Sculpture.

1826 Venice.

1827 Druids.

1847 Sir Thomas More.

1828 The Invasion of Russia by Napo

leon Buonaparte.

1848 The Death of Baldur.

1829 Timbuctoo.

1850

On the late Queen Adelaide.

1830 Byzantium.

1851

Gustavus Adolphus.

1831 The attempts which have been made, of late years, by sea and land to discover a North-west

1852

The Arctic Expeditions, and the

hopes of recovering the lost ad

1813. The sum of £1000 was given by the subscribers to the Statue of the Right Hon. William Pitt, for founding a Classical Scholarship in the University, to be called the “PITT SCHOLARSHIP;" and this gift was augmented by a donation of £500 from "the Pitt Club."

Any undergraduate, of whatever rank, may be a candidate for this Scholarship, provided he be not of more than three years' standing from the time of his first residence. The Pitt Scholar is required to reside, and may hold the Scholarship until he is of sufficient standing to be admitted to the degree of Master of Arts, unless in the mean time he shall obtain any ecclesiastical benefice or preferment. He is also disqualified for holding any other University Scholarship.

1816. The Rev. CHARLES BURNEY, D.D., and the Rev. JOHN CLEAVER BANKES, M.A., the surviving trustees of a fund raised by the friends of the late Professor Porson, and appropriated to his use, during his lifetime, after various dispositions of part of the fund, transferred the sum of £400, Navy 5 per cents., upon trust, that the interest shall be expended in Greek books, as a prize for Greek verses, by the name of the "PORSON UNIVERSITY PRIZE.”

The verses are required to be a translation of a passage in some play of Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, selected by the Vice-Chancellor. The metre of the translation, if the selection be from a tragedy, to be Tragicum Iambicum Trimetrum Acatalecticum, or Tragicum Trochaicum Tetrametrum Catalecticum: if the selection be from a comedy, the metre of the translation shall be Comicum Iambicum Trimetrum Acatalecticum, or Comicum Trochaicum Catalecticum. The Exercises must be distinctly written and accentuated; and accompanied by a literal prose Latin version of the Greek.

Any undergraduate may be a candidate for the Prize, and the successful candidate is required to print his Exercise, and recite it in the Senate-House at the Commencement.

If in any year there be no translation judged worthy of the Prize, the books for that year shall be reserved, and given to the candidate who shall be considered as second best in a subsequent year, and worthy of being rewarded.

The residue of the above-mentioned fund, when it has accumulated so as to produce the yearly sum of £65, has been accepted by the University to found a Classical Scholarship, to be called "The Porson Scholarship.”

1817. The Rev. ROBERT TYRWHITT, M.A., late Fellow of Jesus College, by his Will bequeathed £4000, Navy 5 per cents., for the promotion and encouragement of Hebrew learning, and left the mode and disposition of his bequest to the University.

In 1818 the Senate founded three Scholarships, to be called “Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarships." It was decided that the examination shall be, primarily, in the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament: secondarily, in such other Hebrew Works, and in such exercises, as may be judged most likely to assist and advance the knowledge of the Sacred Writings.

The candidates for these Scholarships shall be Bachelors of Arts who are not of sufficient standing to be created Masters of Arts, and Students in Civil Law or Medicine of not less than four or more than seven years' standing. That four-fifths of the clear annual proceeds of the bequest shall be equally divided among the three Scholars, who may retain these Scholarships for three years: and that the remaining fifth shall form a fund, to be employed from time to time, by the Electors, in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the promotion of Hebrew learning.

In 1824 the Senate decreed that there should be six Scholars, three to be called Scholars of the first class, (if judged worthy), and the other three, Scholars of the second class and that two Scholars should henceforth be elected every year, if found qualified on examination.

That £150 should be yearly divided among the six Scholars, £30 to a Scholar of the first class, and £20 to a Scholar of the second class.

That the residue of the proceeds, together with all accumulations which may arise from the want of deserving candidates to fill these Scholarships, shall form a fund to be employed in ̧ the following manner: namely,—"That a premium of not less than £50 be given, as often as this fund will allow, for such a Latin Dissertation, upon some subject connected with Hebrew Literature, as may be agreed upon by the Electors, or the majority of them."

That the examiners, if they think it expedient, be empowered to print any Prize Dissertation at the expense of the

fund; and that all Prize Dissertations, not printed under their direction, be deposited in the Public Library.

In 1836, it was added, that in case of equality of merit of the two Scholars elected at the same time, the stipend of each be £25 a year. And, if no one of the candidates in any year is deserving of a Scholarship with the stipend of £30 a year, it shall be competent for them to elect one Scholar only with a stipend of £20 a year. Also, in case there shall be a deficiency of deserving candidates in any year, for the two Scholarships, the Electors shall have the power, in the second or third succeeding year, to elect additional Scholars into the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned.

It was also decreed that not more than one third part of the accumulated fund should be expended in any year.

In addition to the Scholarships, gratuities of £20 or £30 have been occasionally awarded after the examination to such as have appeared deserving, in consequence of their knowledge of the Hebrew Language.

Subject of the Hebrew Dissertation:

1828 The nature and extent of the Hebraisms found in the writings of St Paul, including the Epistle to the Hebrews.

1832. The Rev. JOHN CROSSE, late Vicar of Bradford in Yorkshire, left to George Buxton Browne, Esq., on trust, the sum of £2000, free of legacy duty, for the purpose of founding three Theological Scholarships, "for promoting the cause of true Religion.”

By a Grace of the Senate, of Dec. 4, 1832, it was decreed that these Scholarships should be called "The Crosse Scholarships," and that the examination should turn upon a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in their original tongues, Hebrew and Greek, of Ecclesiastical History, of the earlier and later Heresies, and such other subjects of useful enquiry as may be thought most likely to assist in the formation of valuable characters, fitted to sustain and adorn "the cause of true Religion."

These Scholarships are open to all Bachelors of Arts in their first year, and are tenable for three years. The annual interest arising from the fund is divided equally among the three Scholars.