15 FEBRUARY 1845, Page 2

A veryunpleasant scene was performed in the Theatre of Oxford

;University on Thursday. Mr. Ward stood there as defendant, hefore the multitudinous and vociferous assemblage called Con- vocation ; and, after feebly defending his Romanizing ambiguities, he was successively censured for his writings and degraded. A proposition was also made for solemnly censuring the famous Tract XC.; but it was defeated, for the time, by the veto of the Proctors. On all sides these proceedings are more to be re- gretted than gloried in, for the Church's sake.