... LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1853. The question of the Income-tax, although in itself neither abstruse nor doubtful, has become so much complicated by the various theories which have been devised to justify popular error, that the only chance of bringing the controversy to a conclusion seems to consist in the exhaustion of all the falla- cies which can possibly be made to bear on the subject. ...

... UNIVERSITY IITELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 27. In a Convocation holden this morning, the proposed grant of £500, from the University chest, towards the Wellitlltoe subscription for educational purposes, met with a strong opposition on two grounds ?? The shortness of the notice (the paper announcing it was only sent round to the Comm0on rooms on Tuesday) ; 2. Tche desirability of applyoin the money ...

... jg?Lo~DON &(AZETT ~- I D0Nd fZETTE OF FRIDA Y, 0 ?? XVARY 7.. couriatWjaor, the 4th day of January 186S; ?? ?? Excellent Majesty ini Council : ih Qen CoSi eathis day pleased to appoint ~e ut jwo the Lord President of the Council for the Sib ?? Nble the Duke of Argyll, Lord 'rYSel; the Most Bon. the Marquis of 0~Feo e lion, thle Earl of Aberdeen, First , ~iwoncr herfajesty's Treasury; the Right ...

... The Madrid Gazette of the 14th of December last publishes the followiig Royal Decree (Translation.) ROYALDECREE. In conformity with the proposition of the Ministro de Hacienda, and the advice of the other Ministers, I decree the following:- Art 1. Merchandize coming from Gibraltar, Portugal, Algeria, and ports situated between the rivers Gironde inclu- sive and the Bidasoa, and from the ...

... THE ROYAL NE UJ' YEAR'S GIFTS. The distribution of the royal new year's gifts among the poor of the parishes of Windsor, the Holy Trinity, aud Clewer,will take place this mornicg(Saturday), in the Riding' school of Windsor Castle, which will be tastefully decorated as usual with banners, flowers, and evergreens. Efer Mvje5tY and the Prhice Consort, with the royal family and the meet bers of ...

... I ,H. fOLEY'S STA TUE OF LORD! ^V; BHARDIiYGE. have had tile pleasure of examining the mag- t colossal statue of Viscount Hardinge, ahow c f execution by the eminent sculptor, c ou rsley. This work, to which the epithet of 1J0a d ore properly applies than to any modern ifie ith which we are acquainted, is designed for a ud will be the great Indian memorial ( the Satlj battles. It is worthy of ...

... |BELFA, ST ANNUAL |COMMERCIAL REPORT.I [FROM THE NORTHERN WHXI.J Unaided by patronage, unassisted by bounties or public grants of any kind, writh few or none of those natural ad. vantages so largely possessed by the towns and cities of the south and west, depending solely upon. patient in- dustry and honest enterprise, Belfast has risen from humble beginnings to be the aeknowledged commercial ...

... THE BANEING INSTITUTE. The usual monthly meeting of the members of this institu- tion took place last evening at the Hall of Commerce, Thread- needle-street; Mr. B. Oliveira, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Leone Levi, author of The Commercial Law of the World, read a paper on the state of the Mercantile, Ma- ritime, and Bankruptcy Laws of the United Kingdom, in which he observed on the great want ...

... D UTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.* There are many compilations, from Burn's Jus- tice downwards, which treat of the law which jus- tices of the peace are called upon to administer, but hitherto no professional writer has dealt with the practice by which that administration is regulated, in anything like a comprehensive manner. The little work which now lies before us will therefore supply a ...

... [-7RoM OUR OWN REPORTERS.J Thursday evening a meeting of the Peace Conference was held in the Corn Exchange, Hanging-ditch, Manchester; Mr. George Wilson occupying the chair. Before commencing the proceedings the secretary read letters of apology for non-aitenrlance at the conference, but expressive of cordial sympathy wilh the movement, from M. Carnot, formerly Minister of Public Instruction ...

... COURT CIRCUL.AR, WINDSOR, JAN. 25. |There was -no addition to the Royal dinner party yeq. d His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended hy Cold^¢ the Hon. C. B. Phipps anm Lientenant.Culole, p . P ey moar, left Windsor this morning by a special train oft South-Western Railway for London, and returned I the Castle at ten minutes before three o'clock, o b His Royal Highness Prince Albert ...

... i At the meetiog of the society held last night, Dr. GlaY, V.P., in the chair, the Secretary read a letter from Mr. L. Frazer, her 3lojesty's Vice-Consul at Whidah, written fronf Clarence, Fernando Po, and addressed to Dlr. Cuming. It contained some noticeof the existence of a ?? antcts animal in the interior, called by the natives Tasp-parl )o l)r whiclh is supposed by them to be a chimpanzee ...