Here is the witty little Comus of the stage, who personifies the drunken friar to laugh at the superstitions of Popery, when it is the interest of Popery to play the sycophant and the liberal.

Here is the enlightened patriot-the pink of the march of intellect of the 19th century, who scoffs at "the absurd decrees of old councils and popes," and sends Constance and Lateran to the tomb of all the Capulets, when their dogmas and infernal decrees might impede Popish emancipation. But then, when Popery has gained her object-then, when it is her time no longer to fawn and to impose-when she has grasped her power, and thinks it is the juncture to use it-when she imagines she can arise and assert her intolerant authority, and trample on the Bible, her eternal foe, and on the intellect, the reason, the conscience, the Christianity of the land, then this little Jesuit stands forward and flings off the mask-the convivial lyre of Anacreon -the soothing lute of Orpheus-the paunch of the friar-the liberality of the patriot are all forgotten, and in the plenitude of Popish anathematization he pronounces the doom of perdition on us all; he tells us," however stern and tremendous the decree," no Catholic "could write with any sincerity and pronounce a more lenient sentence," (a sen

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tence then not less severe against his own former sincerity than against our souls.) No matter what may be the purity of our principles-no matter what the innocence of our lives, for this crime alone that we are separated from the dominion of the Church," eternal damnation is our only portion. We are "the spawn of Henry, in vain attempting to sully and perplex the path of the church, shoal after shoal of us monsters" have descended into the abyss of perdition, while the church, the ark, "the one bright buoyant refuge of the faithful, pursues unharmed to the end of time her saving way.”

He may say, indeed, of his own works, like a brother lyrist of old—

COLLEGE COURSE FOR 1834.

ENTRANCE.-Greek. First 8 Books of

Homer's Iliad.-Walker's Lucian.-Four

and Simpson's Trigonometry, to the end of ditional for Prize-men, First 31 Sections the Solution of Plane Triangles. (AdTrigonometry, to the end of Neper's Rules. of Analytic Geometry, and Spherical

Latin.----Sallust.---Horace.---First 6 Books of the Æneid, and 1, 4, 9, Eclogues of Virgil.---The Andrian and Heautontimoroumenos of Terence. 3, 10, 13, 14, Satires of Juvenal, and First 3 Books of Livy.

TERM EXAMINATIONS OF THE YEAR 1834.

JUNIOR FRESHMEN.-1st. Exam. Elrington's Euclid, 1st and 2d Books.Homer's Iliad, Books 9, 10, 11. Additional for Honors, Books 12, 13, 14.) -Virgil's Eneid, Books 7, 8, 9. (Additional for Honors, Books 10, 11, 12.) 2d Exam.-Elrington's Euclid, 3d Book, definitions of the 5th Book and the 6th Book, omitting Propositions 27, 28, 29 -Homer's Iliad, Books, 18, 23, 24. (For Honors, the last 7 Books.)-Virgil's Georgics, Books 1 and 4. (For Honors, the 4 Books.)

3d Exam.-Compendium of Algebra and Simpson's Trigonometry, to the end of the solution of Plane Triangles. (Additional for Prizemen, First 31 Sections of Analytic Geometry, and Spherical Trigonometry, to the end of Neper's Rules.)-Odyssey, Books 8th, 9th, 10th. (Additional for Prize-men, Books 1st 11th, 12th.)-Ovid's Fasti, First 3 Books. (The 6 Books for Prizemen.)

SENIOR FRESHMEN.-1st. Exam.Elrington's Euclid, definitions of the 5th Book, and the 6th Book, omitting Propositions 27, 28, 29. Euripides Hecuba. (Additional for Honors, the Medea.) Ovid's Fasti, First 3 Books. (For Honors, the 6 Books.)

2d Exam.-Locke, from the 21st Chapter of 2d Book to the end of 4th Book, omitting Chapters 30th and 32d of 2d Book, and 6th Chapter of 3d Book.-Sophocles Edipus Tyrannus. (Additional for Honors, Edipus Coloneus.)-Virgil's Georgics, Books 1st and 4th. (For Honors, the 4 Books.)

3d Exam. Compendium of Algebra

Prizemen, Sophocles Trachiniæ.) Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14. (Additional for Prizemen, Persius, omitting 4th Satire.

JUNIOR SOPHISTERS.-1st Exam.Brinkley's Astronomy, First 8 Chapters, and 14th, 16th, 18th, Chapters. (The whole including the Appendix, for Honors) -Eschines against Ctesiphon.--- Horace Satires and Epistles. (Additional for Honors, Art of Poetry.

2d Exam. Wood's Mechanics, omitting Sections 6th and 9th.---Demosthenes de Coronâ.---Virgil's Georgics, Books 1 and (For Honors, the 4 Books.)

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3d Exam. Selections from Helsham's Lectures, from page 67 to end, with Stack's Optics, omitting Sections 8th and 9th. (Additional for Prizemen, Vince's Hydrostatics and the Selections from Lloyd's Optics, as stated at the end of the Table of Contents, with Lloyd's Mechanics, Statics Section 1, without the Note. Sect. 2. Sect 6. first 4 Articles, and from Articles 13, 14, to end. Sect. 7. Sect. 12. first 4 Articles. Dynamics, Sect. 1. Sect. 2, first 5 Articles. Sect. 5, Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, with the Notes.)---Sophocles Edipus Tyrannus. (Additional for Prizemen, Edipus Coloneus.) Ovid's Fasti, first 3 Books. (The 6 Books for Prize-men,)

SENIOR SOPHISTERS.--1st. Exam. Burlemaqui's Natural Law, omitting first 4 Chapters of Book 1, and 8, 9, 10, 11, of Book 2. (Additional for Honors, Paley's Moral Philosophy, First 2 Books, with Gisborne's Principles of Moral Philosophy, Chapter 2.) Plato's Phædo. (Additional for Honors, Apologia Socratis.) Livy, Books 21, 22. (Additional for Honors, Books 23, 24, 25.)

2d. Exam.---Butler's Analogy, Part 1, Chapters, 4, 5, 7, and the Conclusion. Part 2, omitting Chapter 7. (For Honors, the whole with 1st Book of Cicero's Tusc. Questions.)---Herodotus, 1st

Book. Additional for Honors, 2d and 3d Books.)---Livy, Books 26, 27. Additional for Honors, Books 28, 29, 30.

3d Exam.---Paley's Evidences of Revealed Religion--- Thucydides, 1st Book ---Tacitus, Annals, Books 1st and 2d.

Nota Bene.--Several Temporary changes having been made in the New Course to meet the cases of Students now in progress, it is to be distinctly understood that this Table will not serve as a guide after the year 1934.

FOR MODERATORSHIPS AT THE DEGREE EXAMINATION IN OCTOBER.

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Mathemathics and Physics.---All the advanced Science of the 1st and 3d years, with Luby's Trigonometry---Analytic Geometry---Lardner's Algebraic Geometry.---Sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21. -La Croix's differential and integral Calculus to end of Section 497.---Lloyd's Mechanics, omitting 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Sections of Statics.---Poisson Mecanique, 3d chapter of Vol. 2.--- Harte's La Place, Chap 1, Book 2d.--- Newton's Principia, Book 1, Sections 2, 3, 7, and first 7 propositions of Section 11th, with Luby's Introduction to Physical Astronomy.

Logics and Ethics.--- All the advanced Science of 2d and 4th years, with Brown's Philosophy of the Mind, Vol. 1st and 2d. Bacon de Aug. Scientarium, Book 5th, with the prefaces to his Nov. Org. Butler, Preface to his Sermons, and Sermon's on Hum. Nat. and Affections, with his Dissertation on Virtue-Cicero de Nat. Deor. Book 1.--Smith's View of Ancient Moral Systems. Classics.--Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetic. Longinus Eschylus, the Agamemnon. Aristophanes, the Clouds. Thucydides, Books 1st and 2d. Pindar's Olymp. Odes. Cicero de Oratore. Lucretius, 5th and 6th Books. Tacitus Annals, with de morribus Germanorum and Agricola.

Fellow-Commoners may answer for their Degree at the Second Examination of the Senior Sophister year.

Scholarship Course.---The Scholarship Course, consist of every Greek and Latin Book read for Entrance; and in the extended Course for Undergraduates, to the end of the Second Examination of the Junior Sophister year: or should the Candidate be of higher standing than that of Junior Sophister, reckoned from the time of his entrance, to the end of the last examination, which he might have answered, had he proceeded regularly with his Class. Sizars who, in the first year, descend to the next Class, to be regarded as having entered with that Class. VOL. II.

At the next examination for Scholarships, the Candidates to be accountable for the Old Course to the end of the Senior Freshman year; the remainder to be in the New Course.

THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS RESPECTING THE PERFORMANCES OF UNDERGRADUATES, AND THE MODE OF CONDUCTING THEIR EXAMINATIONS.

by the Board on the 6th, the 8th, and the The following resolutions were passed 11th of June, 1833.

1. That after the Examinations of next October, the Science taught in the first year of the course shall be Mathematics; in the second, Logics; in the third, Astronomy and Physics; in the fourth, Ethics.

At examinations, Senior and Junior Freshmen to be accountable for the science taught in all the preceding Terms from the beginning of the Course; Senior and Junior Sophisters for the Science taught from the beginning of the third, or Junior Sophister year. But, except for Honor at the Degree Examination, the Science of the Freshmen Classes not to be carried beyond the second year.

2. That to keep his class, a Pensioner must have credit for two out of the three Examinations of that Class; one of which must be the third, or October Examination, if he be either a Senior Freshman, or a Senior Sophister.

A Senior Sophister who may not have secured credit for his October Examination, may qualify himself for his degree, by answering in the same business, at any subsequent examination of Senior Sophisters; and a Senior Freshman may repair the like omission in the same way, at the first Examination of the Junior Sophister year. But such supplementary Examination is not to be counted among those by which he is to save his class as Junior Sophister. Fellow Commoners and Sizars subject to the same rule, with the following exceptions:

3. That Sizars may save their first year by the October Examination of that year; but shall forfeit that privilege, if they degrade into the Junior Freshman Class of the next year.

4. That Fellow Commoners of the Senior Sophister Class shall be entitled to their degree, by having credit for the second or Spring Examination of that class; in lieu of which, they may answer in the same business as supplementalists at any succeeding examination of Senior Sophisters.

5. That to each division of a Class, on

the two first days of its examination, there shall be assigned one Examiner in Science and two in Classics, viz. one for Latin, and one for Greek. The Examinations in Science and in Classics not to be held on the same days for the same class. Each Examiner, whilst engaged in the oral examination of one part, to keep the remainder of the division employed in furnishing written answers to written or printed questions, or compositions written in the Hall, and under his own observation.

HONORS AND PRIZES.

6. The Examiners of the first two days are to select from their divisions such as they deem qualified to become candidates for honors or prizes, whether in Science or in Classics, and are to furnish the Senior Lecturer with lists of the same. All the candidates in the same department, from the several divisions of the class, to be examined together by a Court of Examiners, appointed for that purpose. In order that the same person may seek for honors or prizes in both departments, the examinations in the two departments must not be held on the same days, for the same class; but different classes may be examined on the same days.

7. At the October Examination in each of the first three years prizes of £4. and of £2. to be awarded by the Court of Examiners to the best answerers among the candidates.

The limit of the number of first prizes to be the 1-40th of the entire class, or the next integer above the quotient, should the number in the class not be divisible by 40.

The limit to the number of second prizes to be double of the former.

The successful candidates may be denominated Senior and Junior Prizemen.

At the first and second examinations of each of the four years, honors without prizes are to be awarded, in like manner, by the Court of Examiners; of which honors there shall be two ranks, the limit to the number of each rank to be determined as before.

8. At the October Examination of the fourth year, the Examiners of the first two days to recommend to the Senior Lecturer, from among the candidates for degrees, such as they shall deem qualified to become candidates for honors in any of the three following departments, viz. 1. Physics and Mathematics; 2. Ethics and Logics; 3 Classics. Those belonging to the same department to be examined together by a Court of

Examiners during two days, which are not to be the same for the candidates in different departments.

Of the successful candidates in each department, there shall be two grades, to be called Senior and Junior Moderators. The limit to the number of Moderators of each grade to be determined as in the case of honors and prizes at the previous Examinations.

9. Distinctions of the first order, whether by prizes, honors, or Moderatorships, to be confined to those candidates who shall be prepared in the extended courses, as set out in the card.

10. Fellow Commoners who do not avail themselves of their privilege of taking their degrees at the July Commencements of the Senior Sophister year, may become candidates for Moderatorships at October; in which case, they shall be examined in the same course with the Pensioners.

11. At the conclusion of each Examination, lists of the successful candidates for prizes, honors, or moderatorships, are to be made out by the Senior Lecturer, who is to insert the same in his book, and also have them put up on the College gates, published in the newspapers; and, at the next opportunity, in the University Calendar, and other periodicals; in which lists, the successful candidates of each rank are to be arranged according to the order of their standing on the College Books; excepting only those who shall attain the rank of Senior Moderators at the Degree Examination, who shall be placed according to the order of merit.

The qualifications of Students to rise to the higher classes after the Examination of next October, to be determined according to the old regulations. But should any Student become a Senior Freshman or Senior Sophister, by hav ing credit for only one examination of the present year, he must answer all the examinations of his next year.

Respecting Students in Divinity, it was resolved-That, to become entitled to a Divinity Testimonium, the Students must, in future, attend a course of two years; in which, added to the lectures of the assistants, they must attend Archbishop King's Lecturer in the first, and the Professor in the second year.

Their attendance may begin with their Senior Sophister year.

Junior Bachelors of 1834 may attend both courses in the one year; and Fellow Commoners who shall have credit

for the Easter and Trinity Terms on the old plan, shall be at liberty to complete their attendance next year on that plan.

On Trinity Monday last the following students were elected scholars of the house. Stack, McCarthy, McDonnell, Owgan, Ball, Fitzgerald, Wallis, Fleming, Carson, Adams, Gibbings, Turner, Ribton, Flavel, Reeves, Chichester, Hawthornthwaite.

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The following gentlemen were the successful candidates for sizarships :O'Donoghue, Ringwood, Ryan, Callaghan, Murphy, Eccleston.

We alluded in one of our preceding Numbers to a new edition then in progress, of Cicero's Orations, with English notes, critical, historical, and explanatory, by the Rev. Maurice M'Kay, A.M.-We are now enabled to state that this most important and useful book is on the eve of publication. A very desirable object for the classes, of whose examinations at the ensuing October, the contents of the forthcoming volume form a considerable portion. We have been favoured with a hasty glance at the proof sheets, and are

happy to find our most sanguine expectations realised in the great ability and valuable research which Mr. McKay has brought to bear upon his praiseworthy, and, we sincerely trust, eminently successful task.

We have been favored by the perusal of a MS. which is intended for immediate publication, by a Clergyman resident in our University. It is designed to be a Manual for the use of students in Divinity, containing some most valuable preliminary advices upon the nature and duties of the clerical profession; three hundred ordination questions, by which the candidate for orders may be enabled to judge of his proficiencies in the appointed course of study; and the admirable address of Archbishop Secker to those who have already subscribed the articles. A brief and comprehensive work of this nature is much wanted, and from what we have seen of the above excellent and useful treatise, we unhesitatingly recommend it to general notice, upon its publication, which will be very shortly.

OXFORD, APRIL 27.

The Chancellor of the University has nominated the Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, M.A., late Fellow of the Oriel Coll., Bampton Lecturer in 1832, and at present one of the Public Examiners in the University, to be Princicipal of St. Mary Hall, in the Room of the late Rev. Dr. Dean. This appointment reflects great honour on the Chancellor of the University, as Mr. Hampden has distinguished himself by his literary talents. At the examinations in Michaelmas Term, in 1813, he was placed in the First Class in Literis Humanioribus, and also in the First Class in Disciplinis Math. et Phys. In 1814, he gained the Latin Prize Essay, De Ephorum apud Lacedæmonios Magistratu.

On Wednesday last the following De

grees were conferred:

MASTER OF ARTS---James Garnett Headlam, Brasennose; Thomas Pearson, Michael Scholer of Queen's; Rev. Henry Stevens, Oriel.