men, when the cry of peace and toleration has served their turn, and they have thus found opportunity to disseminate their opinions, till they have got the multitude, or at least the power and influence, on their side, will turn out the veriest oppressors and persecutors,-like the Dutch Remonstrants, and like various other bodies of men that might be mentioned, in our own country, as well as in foreign lands. The same game is now playing again in our own times and country by the Roman Catholics, who join with infidels of all classes and descriptions in crying out liberality and toleration; and if ever God, in fearful and righteous judgment, should give us over to our own folly, and suffer us to be beguiled by such mere words, in spite of the experience of ages, no doubt we shall find, that, as soon as they can and they dare, they will turn out the same persecutors, oppressors, and bigots, that they have always been. So few men really think, that the multitude are commonly deluded by mere names; and those words, peace and toleration, have, in various ages, been used by Satan and his instruments merely to blind the eyes of the unwary, and as watchwords to raise a clamour against the upright and conscientious. We ought, therefore, to take care that we well understand what they really mean in the mouths of those who use them. Upon this, facts sometimes throw a strange light-as at the times of which we are speaking, when, certainly, under the name and pretence of toleration not a little of persecution and oppression was systematically carried on. By a resolution of the States of Holland it was declared, that every one who did not conduct himself according to their notion of toleration, should be considered and punished as a disturber of the peace of the commonwealth. This applied to every one who opened his mouth, or took up the pen, to expose and refute the errors of the Remonstrants! And this was at length actually carried so far, that, in direct violation of the Act of Union between the provinces, which laid it down as a fundamental principle that no soldiers should be levied but in the name of the States-General, and under an oath of obedience to the Stadholder, as commander-in-chief, the States of Holland determined, that, in order to enforce their previous resolutions, the governors and magistrates of the respective cities should enlist men under the name of waardgelders, or city guards, who should take an oath of obedience to the States of Holland and the magistrates of their particular city; and who were thereby bound not to obey the States-General and the Commander-in-chief, but even to oppose them, if the magistrates chose to command it;-a measure which, in its natural consequences, would have led to bloodshed and civil war, had it not been for the prudence and decision and energy of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadholder, who, by order of the States-General, went round to the several towns, and dismissed all the waard-gelders. The letter of our esteemed Correspondent, A. S. T., arrived too late for the insertion of the whole in the present Number. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. DEGREES CONFERRED. October 11. M.A. Todd, Rev. Horatio, Queen's Davies, William, St. Edmund hall M. A. Thorpe, W., Merton Wintle, H., Worcester B. A. Harris, John Burland, Trinity November 20. M. A. Ramsden, Wm., Christ Church, grand compounder England, Rev. Wm. Henry, Pembroke, grand compounder Townsend, Rev. Rd. L., St. Mary hall Auldjo, James Alexander, Pembroke Eveleigh, Rev. James, Worcester Dowell, George, scholar of Trinity Duncombe, Rev. Edward, Brasennose Taylor, John, ditto B. A. Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, Bart., Christ Church, grand compounder Clark, Henry, Worcester, grand com. Fawkes, Ayscough, Brasennose, grand compounder Dymock, Thomas Frederick, Balliol, grand compounder Wake, James Hare, Queen's Fulton, John Atkinson, Michel scholar of Queen's Bush, Charles Adam, Queen's George, David John, scholar of Jesus Crook, Henry Simon Charles, Lincoln Dobree, Daniel, scholar of Pembroke James, John, Queen's coll. Eyre, Edw., postmaster of Merton coll. Mackenzie, Charles, exhibitioner of ditto Lee, Sackville Usher Bolton, ditto M. A. Still, Rev. John, St. Mary hall Pugh, David, Balliol, grand com. Riddle, Joseph Esmond, St. Edm. hall Thomlinson, Richard Walker, scholar of University Palairet, Richard, Worcester MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. In a convocation holden Oct. 16, the Hon. Philip Henry Abbott, M.A., student of Christ Church, and senior scholar on Mr. Viner's foundation, was elected Fellow on the same foundation, in the room of Mr. Burton, of Exeter college, lately deceased. In a convocation holden Oct. 30, the honorary degree of M.A. was conferred on George Cotes, scholar of Trinity college, the successful candidate for a Writership in India, given by the Right Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, as a prize for competition among the junior members of that University. Mr. Wynn having offered another Writership, as a similar prize for competition among the junior members, it was unanimously resolved, in the same convocation, "That the thanks of the University be returned to Mr. Wynn, for this additional mark of his liberal attention; and that his offer of the Writership be accepted." On the same day, Edmund Hammond, M.A., scholar of University college on Sir Simon Bennet's foundation, was elected Fellow of that society, on the same foundation. On Nov. 7th, the nomination of the Rev. John Henry Newman, M. A., fellow of Oriel college, as a public examiner in Literis Humanioribus, was finally approved in convocation. In a convocation holden Nov. 20, the nomination of the Rev. John Besley, M.A., fellow of Balliol college, to the office of Sub-Librarian to the Bodleian, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Bliss, was approved by the house. On Dec. 4th, the nomination of the following gentlemen to the office of Select Preacher was respectively_approved in convocation : - The Rev. Philip Wynter, D.D., President of St. John's; the Rev. Wm. Jocelyn Palmer, B.D., of Brasennose; the Rev. Wm. Mills, B.D., fellow of Magdalen; the Rev. John Keble, M. A., fellow of Oriel; the Rev. Joseph Luscombe Richards, M.A., fellow of Exeter. The King has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, M.A., the office of Hebrew Professor in the University of Oxford, with the Prebendship of Christ Church thereunto annexed, void by the death of the Rev. Alexander Nicoll. CAMBRIDGE. DEGREES CONFERRED. Maitland, Robert, Trinity college Silvers, Joseph, Trinity coll. Leach, E., ditto Bird, Richard, Magdalen coll. November 12. Doctor in Physic. Graham, Rev. John, fell. Christ coll. B. Č. L. Hallett, T. P. Luxmore, fell. Trin. hall Brookes, Wm. M'Intosh, St. Peter's Hope, Henry Thomas, Trinity coll. Cockburn, Alexander Edmund, fellow of Trinity hall Ranking, Rev. George, Christ coll. Badeley, Rev. Joseph Charles, C. C. c. Bachelor in Physic. Lloyd, Martin John, St. John's coll. Mackie, Charles, ditto Malthus, Henry, Trinity coll. July 25. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. At a congregation holden Oct. 10th, for the election of University officers, the following gentlemen were elected to their respective offices :-Sen. Proctor: Alexander Malcolm Wale, M. A., of St. John's college. Jun. Proctor : Henry Melvill, M. A., of St. Peter's college. Scrutators: Martin Thackeray, M.A., of King's coll.; Henry E. Holland, B.D., of Emmanuel coll. Taxors: T. S. Turnbull, M. A., of Caius coll. ; Joseph Studholme, M. A., of Jesus coll. Moderators: Charles Jeffreys, M.A., of St. John's coll.; James Bowstead, M. A., of Corpus Christi college. The Rev. Gilbert Ainslie, Master of Pembroke college, has been elected ViceChancellor of this University for the ensuing year. The Seatonian Prize, for the present year, is adjudged to the Rev. E. Smedley, of Sidney college, for his poem on "Saul at Endor." The subject for the Norrisian Prize Essay for the ensuing year is-" The Doctrine of Types, and its influence on the Interpretation of the New Testament." The Rev. James Saunders, M. A., and John Gibson, Esq., B.A., of Sidney Sussex college, have been elected foundation Fellows of that society. At a congregation holden Nov. 12th, Thomas Charles Pearson, B. A., of Trinity college, Dublin, was incorporated of this University. On Nov. 17, John W. Budd, Esq., B. A., and Richard T. Fisher, Esq., B. A., of Pembroke college, were elected Fellows of that society. The Rev. W. Hanson, B. A., fellow of Clare hall, has been appointed Fellow and Tutor of Trinity hall, in the room of the Rev. J. C. Ebden, M.A. On December 2, John Collyer, Esq., M. A., of Clare hall, Barrister-at-Law, was elected Fellow of that society, on Mr. Borage's foundation. ORDINATIONS. By the Lord Bishop of Worcester. DEACONS. Roy, Edmund, м. A. Pem. coll., Ox. Perry, Edward, B. A. Worc. coll., Ox. Parker, Samuel Hay, Pem. coll. Ox. PRIESTS. Roberts, Philip, B.A. Jesus coll., Cam. |