A petition has been presented from the Warden and officers
of New College, Oxford, to the Bishop of Winchester as Visitor, praying him to institute a special visitation. The College declares itself ready to submit to a thorough investigation, and anxious to effect an practicable
improvements. The Bishop has signified his assent to the prayer of the petition. A paper is in private circulation containing a statement of the grounds of such proceeding on the part of the College. It refers to the specific statements and recommendations of the Oxford Commission respecting the college; adding, that the only course for setting the College right in pub- lic estimation, and to preserve the integrity and independence of the founder's institutions, is to refer themselves to the Visitor.
We are informed that another College under the same visitation is pro- posing to take the same course ; and that several others will moat likely be drawn into the current.
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