It is already known to the readers of this journal,
that a Col- lege has been founded in Bristol, the preliminary steps respecting which appear to have been conducted with great prudence and foresight. We have now before us an inaugural discourse, which was delivered as introductory to a series of Theological lectures for the use of the pupils. The author is the Rev. W. D. CONY.. BEARE, a late Oxford Professor, who has been, by a choice which does honour to the College, selected for their Visitor. Mr. CO,NY-• BEARE is a man of great learning and much modesty, who has long been considered an ornament to his University and the Church. He has now retired, we understand, to a living in a se- cluded part of the world, where, though his more brilliant endow- ments may be somewhat obscured, he pursues his honourable calling with cheerfulness and content. But if learning and taste, combined with piety of heart and decorum of conduct, are held to he claims to preferment, it is to be hoped Mr. CONYBEARE'S ta- lents will be soon called to a more extended sphere of usefulness.
The subject of the present address is the application of classical and scientific education to theology. It necessarily required a divine and a scholar. It is treated by Mr. CONYBEARE with an elegant ingenuity.
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