... * OXFORD UNIVERSITY. SECOND DAY. WEDNESDAY.-The polling commenced this morning at ten o'clock; and, although no statement was given., out at eleven o'clock, it was generally understood that Mir. Per- ceval's friends had reduced his minority of yesterday to - five, the numbers being at that hour- Gladstone ?? .. . ?? . .. .. .. 85 Perceval ?? o80 In another hour the friends of Mr. Gladstone had ...

... 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 ...

... LIFE ASSURANCE-MODES OF VALUA- TION. To nii EDITOR or Tax MORNING CHRONICLE. SrI.-I have to express my concurrence in the observation of J. A. H. (in his letter to you of the 10th inst.), that we are quite agreed as to the necessity of ensuring the main- tenance of a sufficient reserve, but differ only as to the means of effecting it. J. A. H. now observes that, as respects the bonus, he ...

... aOR ICLR WVINDSOR, JAN. 18. f,*uawing had the honour of dining with her Majesty Tile e Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Loiningen, te, Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to stt Pr'le of Kient, and the Baroness de Speth. tilcler diesty'5 private band attended in the erening, and ?? the following selection ~ierilrr ,, L, Part du Diable' ?? Auber. vertIourO, and March, .Midsum- ?? . Otta ...

... CO UR T OF BANKR UP TCY-YESTERDAY. [REfiors S1/. Coeoaaisis7er EvtAs.] IN RE C. S. VOULES. The bankrupt was a solicitor of Windsor. This was the certificate meeting. 'Mr. Lawrance supported, Mr. Depree opposed for certain creditors, Mr. Linkilater, far the as- signees, did not oppose. The bankrupt, examined, said Ire had been sued by Mr. Duck arid couseslted to ?? him £200, of which sum £1D0 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... |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 ...