... * 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 ...

... LFRoM OUR OWR CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. | The note which appeared in the .Moniteur of yesterday, by which a dementi is given to several fauz bruits attributed to those impenitent sinners, the foreign newspapers, has excited great surprise in diplomatic circles here, not on account of the importance of those contradictions, but,, on the contrary, on account of their apparent ...

... ECCLESIASTI CAL. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. William N. Andrews, M.A., to the rectory of Chilton, Suffolk, diocese of Ely; value, £208; patron, W. .H. Wyndham, Esq. The Rev. J. T. Walker, M.A., to the rectory of Ashdon, tEssex, diocese of Rechester; value, £691; patrons, Gonville and Cains College. The Rev. E. B. Baylee Salisbury, to the curacy of Thaxted, Essex. The Rev. D. ...

... LINNEAN SOCU1TY. A meeting of this society was held on the 1st instant, Mr. Robert Brown, president, in the chair. Mr. Daniel Oliver, jun., and Mr. William Thomson were elected fellows. A paper was read, On Venation, as a generic character in the Ferns; with observations on the genus Hewardia, J. Smith, and Cionidium, Moore; by Mr. Thomas Moore, ?? curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea. ...

... ELBCTJOZ9 COAMJITTIT7ES. CIRENCESTER. Thle committee re-assembled yesterday morning, when Mr. Merewether stated that, in consequence of the opinion expressed on the previous day by the committee with regard to the agency of Cousins, and from the difficulty there would be in establishing the other oases, from the fact of their depending upoin the evidence of hostile witnesses, he had adapted ...

... 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 ...

... LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1853. In the HOUSE of COMMONS, yesterday, On the motion for the secondreading of the Gi London Drainage Bill, the metropolitan memb Sir B. Hall, Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir De Lacy Evt and Mr. Williams, took objection to the clat whereby the company were empowered to tax inhabitants of the metropolis at 3 per cent. in - the speculation did not yield its promoters a st ...

... . ECULESIASTICAL. The Bishop of Ely has instituted the Rev. Plumer Rooper, M.A., to the reotory of Abbots Repton, near Huntingdon, rendered vacant by the resignation of tbe Rev. T. R. Rooper, M.A. Tne Rei. William Benjamin Philpott, M.A., late curate of Great Cressingham; Norfolk, has been presented to the rectory of Walesby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, ren- dered vacant by the death of ...

... HEA . Tll of LONDON D UIING te TWEP7'K. [FnOM THE REOISTaIAR-GENERAL'S RETURN.1 A declining rate of mortality affords evidence of a gradual improvement in the public health. Since the weekly mor- tality rose to its maximum at the end of March, the nnmier of deaths fell in the first week of April to 1,340, and in that which ended last Saturday to 1,243. Since the week ending March 26, in which ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-FIIDAY. The following bills were read a third time and passed Allendale Road Bill ; Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, and Portrush Junction Railway (No. 2) Bill ; Edinburgh Water- works (No. 2) Bill Hnslingden and Rawtelistall Water- works Bill; Limerick Corporation Bill ; Lundonderry, Cole- raine,,saed Belfast Junction Railway Bill ; Waveney Valley Railay Bill. The following ...