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were on that account desirous that the educational advantages of Oxford should be 
rendered more accessible to the sons of parents with limited incomes. Their memo- 
rial in favour of the extension of the universities was signed by many eminent persons. 
“ Our university,” observed these memorialists, “take up education where our 
schools leave it, yet no one can say that they have been strengthened or extended 
whether for clergy or laity, in proportion. to the growing population of the country, 
its increasing empire, or deepening responsibilities.”’ 
The author gave the following table of the Oxford degree examination during the 
last six years, and commented on the general resv.ts :— 
Total ber | Total ber | Total b Ordi 
of Candidates. | didnot pass. | passed. | degrees. | Class Men. 
1840. 424 117 307 210 97 
184], 399 140 259 154 105 
1842. 426 136 290 188 102 
1843, 409 111 298 200 98 
1844. 409 132 277 198 79 
1845. 398 120 278 194 84 
2465 756 1709 1144 565 
Average | 
per annum, 410 126 284 190 94 
On the Duration of Life in the Members of the several Professions, founded 
on the Obituary Lists of the Annual Register. By Dr. Guy. 
The following table exhibits the average of such as had attained or outlived the 
specified ages :— 
S Ss * 
g g | 8 Soh ee ee ene 
: | 2ié./2,| 8 | 12 | 2g 
: B 5 2 = a r s oO a8 
Age. a Ee Ea 4 3 Fs 4 Ee ze | 8 ie 3 ZS 
4 a 3 a i ba 3 areal vegies 3 Rete 8 a) 
e | 2 |] | | ge) 3 | Bed B | ee 
. 5 2 3 3 ae | & BS 
s e |2 | 2 | é?| 6 | 
SAI aie! sake he 
26 & upwards | 65°27 | 67°63 | 6881 | 66-20 | 65°36 | 67:70 | 64:42 | 66-49 | 62°78 | 68:11] .... | .... | 58-00 
31 _ 67°07 |{68°40 | 69°49 | 68°14 | 67°31 | 68°86 | 65°96 | 67°55 | 66°72} 68°74] .... | .... | 59°27 
4. = 68°97 | 70°01 | 71°82 | 70°20 | 70°23 | 71°24 | 68°21 | 69°15 | 68°42] 71°01] .... | .... | 63°82 
) 71°58 | 72°62 | 74:04 | 72°78 | 72°95 | 73°62 | 71°15 | 72°10 | 71°44 | 72°32 | 75°64 | 74°00 | 6821 
If we confine our attention to the last line of the table, we shall see that the dura- 
tion of life among the higher classes is shorter than that of the mass of the people of 
England, and of the provident members of the labouring class. In every age the 
navy possesses a very slight advantage over the army. The longevity of the clergy 
is superior to that of any of the other learned professions. ‘The less favourable dura- 
tion of medical life, in the tables published by Professor Casper of Berlin, is to be 
attributed to his having included a lower grade of the professions than those whose 
deaths are recorded in the Annual Register, probably such a class as the general body 
of medical practitioners in England. Both, however, show that medical men encoun- 
ter the most danger at the early part of their professional career, and this is more ap- 
parent when the column of medical life is compared with that of law life. From his 
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