Robert Philips, Esq., of the Park, near Manchester, have been awarded, in the second year's class, to Mr. Wright; and in the first year's class to Mr. Darbishire. In the second year's class, Mr. Fearon has attended very sedulously to his classical studies this term, and Mr. Lloyd has done himself much credit; and it would have been a pleasure to the lecturer if three prizes had been at his disposal. The successful competitor in the second year's class will make his election between Wordsworth's Greece, and a beautiful edition of Milton, by Sir Egerton Brydges. (Here Mr. Wright chose the edition of Milton, and Mr. Darbishire received Wordsworth's Greece from the hands of the Chairman.)—Mr. Darbishire has earned the prize by very hard and successful exertion. In closing the proceedings of the session, I am requested to state, that it is considered very important that the students should reassemble punctually on the day fixed upon for the opening of the next session, Saturday, September 30; so as to proceed effectually to work on the following Monday.' The examination was attended each day by a considerable number of the friends and supporters of the College, visitors and strangers.

Mr.

The examination in the Theological department commenced on Wednesday, June 22nd, at a quarter before 9, a. m., with readings in Hebrew from Genesis and Exodus by Professor Robberds's junior and middle classes. These were followed by Professor Wallace's class in Old Testament Theology, consisting of fourth-year students. Wallace stated that the answers read by the class were the results of three separate examinations conducted in writing, at Christmas, Easter, and the close of the session; and that of the one hundred and forty-five questions proposed, one or other of the students had answered all except five. The examination of Professor Tayler's class in ecclesiastical history next followed. In this also the answers read were stated to be the result of three examinations conducted in writing at intervals during the session. Mr. D. Davis, a student of the fourth year, then read an oration upon War; from what Causes may we expect a Diminution of its Frequency and its ultimate Abolition?' Mr. George Heap, of the same year, was prevented reading his oration by indisposition.

"After a short interval, the examination proceeded with Professor Robberds's senior class in Hebrew. The students of this class were examined in Isaiah. To this succeeded Professor Wallace's class in New-Testament theology, consisting of fifth-year students. Mr. Wallace made a similar statement to that which he had made respecting the Old-Testament class; and that out of one hundred and forty-five questions, four only remained unanswered. Next followed the examination of the class in Syriac, by Professor Robberds. Both fourth and fifth year students composed this class. Before commencing the examination, Mr. Robberds stated that one part of his Professorship, viz. Pastoral Theology, did not furnish matter for examination; but that every Thursday all the Divinity Students and Professors assembled in the common hall for a regular religious service, on which occasion a sermon was supplied by a member of the Pastoral-Theology class (fourth and fifth year students). Twenty-one sermons had been composed during

the session by the class, and one had been delivered by Mr. Heap from short notes. Thirty-six schemes of sermons had been written. After the sermons and schemes have been read before the three Divinity Professors,' continued Mr. Robberds, they have been given to me, and I have made them the subject of careful attention. When we have afterwards met at class, my remarks and mutual conversation have very frequently filled up the whole hour. At times we have read together the chapters of Whately on Elocution at the end of his Rhetoric; and hints from Brydges on the Christian ministry, and more especially this session on pastoral duties. Our attention has been directed to the means of usefulness which a minister has in social intercourse; also to what he may do in classes of young people of his congregation, and in Sunday and other schools, and in visiting the sick. The book I have mentioned has been taken as a guide, and extracts have been read; but our chief employment has been in the form of conversation, the students freely expressing their opinions. It is obvious, therefore, that as our employment has been chiefly of this kind, it is hardly such as to call for questions of examination; its object having been not so much to put ideas into the head to be accounted for, as to encourage a spirit of seriousness, benevolence and piety, which appears to be the main requisite for ministerial usefulness.' Mr. Robberds then proceeded to examine his class in Syriac, selecting for the purpose, first of all, passages in Matthew, and afterwards a few texts in other parts of the New Testament, to show which of two or more renderings of the same word, or which of two readings, the Syriac Version, which is a high authority, had preserved. These were, John iii. 3, avweev, again, and not from above; 1 Tim. iii. 16, he who, and not God, was manifest in the flesh; 2 Tim. iii. 16, every scripture that has been inspired, &c., is profitable; and 1 Tim. iii. 1, on the bishop's office, where the Syriac preserves the word presbyter's or elder's office. A sermon by Mr. Carr, (of the fifth year) from 2 Thess. iii. 13, and an oration from Mr. Herford (also of the fifth year) on the Employment of the Fine Arts in the Service of Religion,' concluded the business of the examination. The Rev. W. Turner, late of Newcastle and now of Manchester, joint Visitor with Rev. C. Wellbeloved in the Theological department, then addressed the students as follows:

Gentlemen,—It would ill become me to protract this long and most satisfactory examination by any lengthened address to you from me, on the proper application of the knowledge which you have here acquired : but there is still less occasion for this, as I have personally witnessed the excellent practical instructions you have been weekly in the habit of receiving on this subject from your worthy Tutor in Pastoral Theology. I would only venture to suggest the desirableness of a more distinct and accurate pronunciation. In the first place, I would advise that you should endeavour to throw out your voice to its full extent: this may be done without shouting; but it may be well to attend to the following rules: First, to open the mouth, and particularly to keep the teeth separate; to cast the eye, before beginning, upon the most distant person in the assembly, and as you will mechanically make him hear, you will

of course be heard by all the rest. Second, to keep the voice up to the close of the sentence; which, though it may not be so absolutely necessary in English as in the Latin or German languages, in which the essential word is almost constantly left to the close, yet still the sentence will always be imperfectly understood, especially by the less-educated classes, unless they hear it to the end. Third, that you avoid too great rapidity of utterance; in which you will not only consult the comfortable understanding of your audience, who have not in general sufficient quickness of apprehension to take in a discourse too rapidly delivered, but also your own trouble, both in preparation and delivery. May I, not improperly, remind you, in this place, of a favourite Mancunian Poet of the last generation but one, Dr. Byrom, who begins an Address to the Clergy of his day—

Brethren, this comes to let you know,

That I would have you to speak slow;"

and, after pursuing the subject at some length, concludes

"Take time enough, all other graces

Will follow in their proper places."

But I would wish to remind you of the many hints you have received in the course of your education in this place, that you will have many objects to attend to, wherever you may settle as Ministers of the Gospel, besides merely the duties of the pulpit. You have several of you, indeed, already most laudably exerted yourselves in the promotion of villagepreaching, and as assistants to the worthy Minister of the Poor; but when you come to be connected with separate congregations, you will find many additional duties will crowd upon you. In the first place, you will endeavour to become personally acquainted with every individual member: for which purpose I would advise you to prepare a book, in which to enter the names of all the attendants, assigning to each family its separate page, which shall contain the names of the several members of it, its place of abode, the several occupations of each, and such other particulars as you may learn; how many are fit to be entered on your several classes for private instruction, according to their respective ages. In the second place, you will inquire what establishments of this kind have already been formed for their religious and moral instruction, either in the way of regular day-schools, or of Sundayschools, of general classes for familiar lectures, and particularly of classes for candidates for admission to the Lord's Supper. Not that I would wish the Lord's table to be shut against any; yet it is surely desirable that the young who are desirous of joining in this Christian feast should previously have their minds deeply impressed with a sense of their obligations to the Lord Jesus, as, under God, their Leader to the hope of eternal salvation. In this, and in other ways, it is desirable that you should cherish a reciprocal feeling of affectionate regard between the younger members and yourselves. You will thus most effectually secure for yourselves your own personal comfort as Ministers of the Gospel, and also the permanency of your several flocks from one generation to another.

"I cannot conclude this address to you, my young friends who are candidates for the ministry, without expressing my feelings of high satisfaction in the result of the general examination of the various classes during the three preceding days, which has evidently shown, not only the improvement of the Students, but the great ability of the several Professors; at the same time, my deep regret that so little advantage should have been taken of the very important opportunities which have here been provided at such expense, either by the heads of families in this town and neighbourhood, or, more especially, by the Unitarian population of the kingdom at large. Surely, when the reports of this examination shall have been diffused throughout the country by the many respectable persons who have attended it, and by the public press, a considerable addition will in future sessions be made both to the divinity and lay students.'

VOL. IV. No. 18.-New Series.

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ART. VI. TENNYSON'S POEMS. 2 vols. 12mo.

Ar the first appearance of these Poems, (which was some years since,) their merit was widely acknowledged. It was seen at once that they distinguished themselves from the daily outpourings of imitative insipidity or extravagance. It was not indeed to be questioned that the influences of the popular poetry of the day were traceable in them; but this was not the idolatry of any particular master-it was not the rabies of any distinguishable dog-star-but the general, and more or less inevitable impression of contemporary literature upon an open and sensitive mind. The poems were assignable to no specific School, whether erotic, aquatic, romantic, or satanic; yet it was to be seen, that they could only have been produced under the collective impression of the poetry, of which these schools were some of the chief popular departments. Power was felt to be in them; but it was power-if such a distinction may be taken -which we should rather term original than originating; which was characteristic of the individual, and free from any debasing predominance, ab extra, but which, nevertheless, could scarcely be confounded with that vast undefinable Power, which stamps and marks the Poet of Destiny, and hurries along with it the harper, the player, the schoolmaster, or the ploughman-a Homer, a Shakspeare, a Milton, or a Burns-as with a tide of silent, burning and irresistible necessity. To this class, the Poems before us were never supposed to belong; but there were numbers who were disposed to welcome their appearance, as pleasant and spirited variations on some great familiar Melodies of the Heart and of the Past: and among these we should willingly and cordially enroll ourselves, as being at least sufficiently catholic in our taste, not to undervalue the sweetness of the rill, because it cannot have the majesty of the river.

Parts of these volumes appear to indicate, that at some period of his life, Mr. Tennyson had, with the natural and generous ambition of most young Phaetons of Fancy, contemplated the composition of a more extensive Poem. We should not perhaps be justified in saying an Epic, but rather one of those laxer and more approachable Large Poems which have taken the place of the Epos in these latter days of Song. We should imagine that some such work had been contemplated on the subject of King Arthur. It was one which Dryden medi