[Examinations on November 16th. [nation, and MATRICULATION HONOUR and SCHOLARSHIP Latest date for receiving entries for the SENIOR PUBLIC Exami- [MATRICULATION Examination on November 16th. Last day for receiving applications for the Law Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity. Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity. SENIOR PUBLIC Examination and MATRICULATION [HONOUR and SCHOLARSHIP Examinations begin. [LAW MATRICULATION Examination. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity. 24 W 25 Th 26 F 27 S 28 S Advent Sunday. 29 M ROYAL CHARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. FEBRUARY 27TH, 1858. of Incor Dictoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom Recites Act of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the poration. Faith, to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting: WHEREAS under and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of our Colony of New South Wales, passed in the fourteenth year of our reign, No. 31, intituled "An Act to Incorporate and Endow the University of Sydney," and to which our Royal Assent was granted on the 9th day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, a Senate, consisting of Sixteen Fellows, was incorporated and made a body politic with perpetual succession, under the name of the University of Sydney, with power to grant, after Examination, the several degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine, and Doctor of Medicine, and to examine for Medical Degrees in the four Branches of Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, and Pharmacy. AND whereas our trusty and well-beloved Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight Commander of our most honourable Order of the Batb, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers, our Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief C Senate. Soliciting conferred by sity. Petition of in and over our said Colony, has transmitted to us the humble Petition of the Senate of the said University of Sydney under their common seal, dated the 9th of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven, wherein is set forth a statement of the establishment of the said University, the appointment of learned Professors of the Faculty of Arts, and the provisions adopted and to be adopted in respect of the faculties of Laws and Medicine, and the course of Education and discipline for the Scholars, Undergraduates, and Graduates of the said recognition University, and in which it is humbly submitted that of Degret the standard of acquirements which must be attained by the Univer- Graduates in the University of Sydney is not below that prescribed by the most learned Universities of the United Kingdom, and the direction of the studies in the said University has been committed to Professors who have highly distinguished themselves in British Universities, that the rules under which the high standard in the University has been fixed cannot be altered without the approval of our representative in the Colony, and that there is invested in him the power of interference should the rules laid down be unduly relaxed in practice, and that, therefore, the Memorialists confidently hope that the Graduates of the University of Sydney will not be inferior in scholastic requirements to the majority of Graduates of British Universities, and that it is desirable to have the degrees of the University of Sydney generally recognised throughout our dominions; and it is also humbly submitted that although our Royal Assent to the Act of Legislature of New South Wales herein before recited fully satisfies the principle of our law that the power of granting degrees should flow from the Crown, yet that as that assent was conveyed through an Act which has effect only in the territory of New South Wales, the Memorialists believe that the degrees granted by the said University under the authority of the said Act, are not legally entitled to recognition beyond the limits of New South Wales; and the Memorialists are in consequence most desirous to obtain a grant from us of Letters Patent requiring all our subjects to recognise the degrees given under the Act of the Local Legislature in the same manner as if the said University of Sydney had been an |