21. St. Matthew.

23. Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.
24. Horse Fair at Stourbridge.

29. St. Michael. Scarlet-Day. Two Sermons at St. Mary's. Mayor of Cambridge sworn. 30. Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Dr. Perse's Commemoration at Caius College. Oct. 1. Election of Fellows of Trinity College. 7. Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.

9. Concio ad Clerum by the Regius Professor of Divinity, or his substitute.

10. Cambridge Michaelmas Term begins. University Officers elected.

12. Caput elected.

14. Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.
18. St. Luke.

20. Proclamation of Markets.

21. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.

26. Magna Congregatio.

28. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. St. Simon and St. Jude. Commemoration of Benefactors. Scarlet-Day in the morning only. Nov. 1. All Saints. Two Sermons at St. Mary's. Scarlet-Day.

3. Vice-Chancellor resigns his Office.

4. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. Vice-Chancellor elected.

5. Gunpowder Treason. Litany and Scarlet-
Day. A Sermon in the morning by one
of the Heads, according to Seniority, or
by his substitute. Anthem. Latin Speech
in the Senate-House in the afternoon.

11. Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity.
12. Cambridge Term divides at midnight.
13. Matriculation.

18. Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity.
25. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity.

30. St. Andrew.

Dec. 2. Advent Sunday.

9. Second Sunday in Advent.

16. Third Sunday in Advent. Cambridge Term

ends.

21. St. Thomas.

Jan. 1. Circumcision.

6. Epiphany.

12. Concio ad Clerum by the Lady Margaret's
Professor of Divinity, or by his substitute.
13. First Sunday after Epiphany. Cambridge
Term begins.

14. Examination for B.A. degree.
19. Admission to B.A. degree.
20. Second Sunday after Epiphany.
25. Conversion of St. Paul.

27. Third Sunday after Epiphany.

29. King George IV. Accession. Litany and Scarlet-Day. A Sermon by a D.D. ac

cording to seniority (who is not a Head), or by his substitute. Anthem.

30. King Charles the Martyr. Litany-Day. A Sermon in the morning by one of the Heads, according to seniority, or by his substitute. Latin Speech in the SenateHouse in the afternoon.

Feb. 2. Purification of the Virgin Mary.

3. Septuagesima Sunday.

10. Sexagesima Sunday.

11. Voluntary Classical Examination of B.A. who have obtained Mathematical Honors.

17. Quinquagesima Sunday.

19. Cambridge Term divides at midnight.
20. Ash-Wednesday. Matriculation. Litany-Day,
or else Concio ad Clerum.

21. First Tripos-Day.

24. First Sunday in Lent. St. Matthias. Mar. 2. Second Sunday in Lent.

9. Third Suuday in Lent.

16. Fourth Sunday in Lent. Midlent Sunday. Vice-Chancellor or his substitute preaches at Burwell.

20. Second Tripos-Day.

21. M.A. Inceptors. Election of Dr. Bell's University Scholars.

23. Fifth Sunday in Lent.

25.

Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Founder's Day at King's College. Sermon in the morning before the University at King's Chapel by one of the Society. Sermon at St. Mary's in the afternoon.

28. Cambridge Term ends.

30. Sixth Sunday in Lent. Palm Sunday.

· OBSERVATIONS.

STATUTABLE CONGREGATIONS.-One upon the last day of each Term; two on the 10th day of October; one on the 3d, and one on the 4th of November; two on the day after the second Tripos; two on the 11th of June.

The Divinity, Law, and Physic Schools are open during the whole of every Term, and the keeping of all Acts, except the former which are confined to every other Thursday, is entirely at the discretion of the respective Professors.

All Festivals, Saints' days, and Sundays, are surplice days, and the evenings preceding are surplice evenings; but on January 29, May 29, and November 5, surplices are worn in the morning only.

On Litany days the Doctors and Noblemen wear their robes, and the Proctors their congregation ruffs.

Commem. of Benefactors is at Pet. Clare, Pemb. Caius, Queen's, Cath. Jesus, Christ, and St. John's, the day after the end of each term, on which occasion there is a feast in the several college halls.

THE UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE is a society of students in all and every of the liberal arts and sciences, incorporated (13th Eliz.) by the name of The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. The frame of this little commonwealth standeth upon the union of seventeen colleges, or societies, devoted to the study of learning and knowledge, and for the better service of the Church and State. All these *colleges or halls have been founded since the beginning of the reign of King Edward I. t and are maintained by the endowments of their several founders and benefactors. Each college is a body corporate, and bound by its own statutes; but is likewise controlled by the paramount laws of the University. The present University statutes were given by Queen Elizabeth, and, with former privileges, were sanctioned by Parliament. They are the foundation upon which all new laws are framed.

Each of the seventeen departments or colleges in this literary republic, furnishes members both for the executive and legislative branch of its government. The place of assembly is the Senate-House.

All persons who are +Masters of Arts, or Doctors *Colleges and Halls are here synonymous, though not so at Oxford. Thus Clare Hall is called "Collegiuni sive Domus, sive Aula de Clare."

The first authentic charter is said to be dated 45 Henry III. and to be found among the records in the Tower.

Those Bachelors in Divinity who are Members of the Senate, deduce their privilege from having previously taken the degree of M.A.:

in one or other of the three faculties, viz. Divinity, Civil Law, or Physic, having their names upon the college boards, holding any University Office, or being resident in the town of Cambridge, have votes in this assembly. The number of those who have a title to the appellation of Members of the Senate, is at present upwards of eighteen hundred. Those who erase their names from their respective college boards, lose the privilege of being Members of the Senate, unless they re-enter their names, and reside the greater part of three several terms.

The Senate is divided into two classes or Houses; and, according to this arrangement, they are denominated Regents, or Non-Regents, with a view to some particular offices allotted to the junior division by the statutes of the University.

Masters of Arts of less than five years' standing, and Doctors of less than two, compose the Regent or Upper House, or, as it is otherwise called, the White-Hood House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the Non-Regent or Lower House, otherwise called the Black-Hood House, its members wearing black silk hoods. But Doctors of more than two years' standing, and the Public Orator of the University, may vote in either house, according to their pleasure.

Besides the two houses, there is a council called the Caput, chosen annually upon the 12th of October, by which every University Grace must be approved, before it can be introduced to the Senate.

The CAPUT consists of the Vice-Chancellor, a Doctor in each of the faculties, Divinity, Civil Law, and Physic, and two Masters of Arts, who are the representatives of the Regent and Non-Regent Houses. The Vice-Chancellor is a Member of the Caput by virtue of his office. The election of the other members of this council is effected in the following manner:-The Vice-Chancellor and the two proctors severally nominate five persons properly qualified for the trust, and out of the fifteen, the Heads of colleges, Doctors, and Scrutators, choose five. In general, the Vice-Chancellor's list is honoured with the appointment: and in case any one thus appointed should afterwards be chosen Vice