25 JUNE 1853, Page 10

Tho appointment to the vacant Head Mastership of Durham School

will be made by the Dean and Chapter on the 20th of July.

The Council of the Royal Geographical Society has furnished some very valuable instruments to Dr. Sutherland, who is about to depart for South Eastern Africa.

The prize of 100 guineas, offered by the Associate Institution for the best essay on the laws respecting the protection of women, has been awarded to Mr. Y. E. Davis, barrister-at-law, of the Oxford Circuit. The adjudicators were the Bishop of Oxford, Vice-Chancellor Wood, and Mr. Roundell Palmer M.P.