30 OCTOBER 1852, Page 8

An Oxford communication in the Morning Chronicle mentions that a

letter from the late Duke of Wellington was read at a recent meeting of the Hebdomadal Board, requesting the University authorities to take into consideration the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commis- sion. " It is reported that a disposition exists to take the report into con- sideration, with a view to the adoption of some portion of it by the Uni- versity, so as to anticipate the Parliamentary discussion of the evidence, which is, it is said, impending; and that the present Chancellor of the University is not unfavourable to meeting the question of University re- form by such an expedient." But grave doubts are expressed as to the efficiency of any reform contrived without the intervention of Parliament.