8 FEBRUARY 1845, Page 12

The papers publish an " opinion " by Sir Frederick

Thesiger, (Solicitor- ‘General,) Sir Charles Wetherell, Dr. Addams, and Mr. Cowling, on the power of Oxford University in Mr. Ward's case.

They pronounce "that the University has the power to degrade, and that that power is by no means limited or confined to cases of prior conviction of an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction"-' "that the extracts [from the Ideal of a Christian Chiorh Considered] set forth in the notice ;contain sufficient cause to justify the House of Convocation in taking cognizance of them "; that there is no ground for impeaching the validity of a degradation by the Convocation; and that an appeal lies solely to the Crown, as visiter of the University.