27 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 13

THE UNIVERSITIES.

OXFORD, Nov. 25.—In a convocation holden this day, the following gentlemen, who have been nominated to succeed to the office of Select Preacher at Michaelmas next, were approved of by the House :—The Rev. T. V. Short, B.D. Student of Christ Church ; the Rev. C. Girdlestone, M.A. late Fellow of Balliol ; the Rev. H. W. Buckley, M.A. Fellow of Merton ; the Rev. J. H. Newman, M.A. Fellow of Driel ; the Rev. J. Ball, M.A. Fellow of St. John's. On the same day the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts—Rev. .E. Osborn, Oriel, Grand Compounder ; J. P. Simonet, St. Edmund Hail ; J. Kaye, Brasennose ; R. Seymour, Student of Christ Church; Rev. C. Gilbee, Queen's- ' Bachelors of Arts—G. Bird, St. Edmund Hall ; E. Greene, Demy of Magdalen ; G. A. Haigh, University; J. R. Mitford, Christ Church ; H. P. Dawson; Brasennose ; . J. G. Headlam, Brasennose ; B. C. Windham, Brasennose ; H..H. Healey, Lincoln ; E. W. Holland, Worcester ; G. E. Gepp, Scholar of Wadham ; T. Burningham, Trinity ; J. Dobson, Queen's; J. Hodgson, Scholar of Queen's; R, Collinson, Queen's; J. Taylor, and It. Haynes, Pembroke.