"The Iniquity of a Protective Tariff" is the subject of Capt. John Codman's lecture next Wednesday evening before the Finance Club in Sever 11.

At Michigan University the doctor's degree is hereafter to be conferred only on persons who have made special proficiency in some one branch of study and good attainments in two other branches, and upon presentation of a thesis that shall evince power of research and of independent investigation.

Jarius Lincoln of Northboro, Mass., the oldest living graduate of the class of 1814, died last Friday. After graduation be studied for the ministry, but pursued the profession of school-teaching. While at college he showed marked musical talent, and composed several pieces. During the war he was very pronounced in his anti-slavery opinions.

The college base-ball games this week are as follows: Monday, Princetons vs. Dartmouths, at Hanover; Wednesday, Dartmouths vs. Harvards, at Cambridge; Yales vs. Stock Exchange, at New York; Thursday, Dartmouths vs. Browns, at Providence; Friday, Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton; Saturday, Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton; Brown vs. Yale, at Providence.

FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot; Boston.