A large body of the resident members of the Oxford
University has signed a declaration in favour of the nomination of the Duke of Wel- lington to the vacant Chancellorship. Among the names affixed to the declaration, are those of the President of Magdalen, Provost of Wor- cester, Master of Bohol, Principals of Brasentiose and St. Edmund Hull, President of Trinity, Provost of Queen's, President of St. John's, Warden of Wadham, Magdalen Margaret Professor of Divinity, Bod- leian Librarian, Registrar of the University, Vice President of St. John's' Senior Fellow of Bohol, twenty-seven Fellows, and twenty- nine other members of Houses. A considerable number of the gradu- ates had determined to support Sir Robert Peel, but it is supposed that he will not be a candidate in opposition to the Duke of Wellington.
A meeting was held at Windsor, on Friday last week, to consider the propriety of forming a rail-road from London to Windsor, which may, if respired, at a future time constitute a part of the line to Bris- tol by way of Reading. Captain Forbes,R.N. took the chair. Many gentlemen addressed the meeting ; and the advantages of the I:two:red undertaking were fully considered, and resolutions in favour of the proposed plan unanimously adopted. The tin-works at Carmarthen, which for seventh years have been shut up, have been taken by a company of gentlemen from Liverpool, and will shortly be put iu full work. The Derby operatives and their employers, who have been so long at variance, are now, it is said, on the point of settling their disputes about the hours and wages of labour. 'The Duke of Cleveland has reduced the rents of his estates from l'O to 15 per tent. upon the reduced valuation taken three years ago.
The Brighton Gazelle mentions, that whereas formerly that journal was frequently lost or abstracted on its way from the publisher's to the subscribers, since the Duke of Richmond has been Postinaster-Gene- i rid, " a change has come over the spirit of the 1 ost.office, and that I the papers reach their destination in safety. AVe wish that the Duke of Richmond would take as deep an interest in the safe transmission of the Spectator as of the Brighton Gazette, or that his myrmidons would con- ceive it to be their duty to forward it as punctually: as if the DA-s- him:elf delighted to read our luceb -aim's. As soul as see End that in our own case " a change has come over the spirit of the Post-of- fice," we will not fail, is Justice to his Grace, to proclaim it to the world. In the urea No hale, we request attention to the following extract froin the Tithes of rl 'dale ; which will remind the Thin/aye Gaz.site that all have not so notch reason to be pleased with the chahges
by the Duke of Richmond in " the spirit of the l'ost•odice," as the conductors of that journal appear to have.
" Another glaring instance occurred yesterday of tine ineonvenience, expo me, and vexatious' delay, to which parties in London are put by the rigour rein which the absurd Post-office regulations with regard to Foreign ircwspapers ::re enforced. Four parents of newspapers from the (hilted States of A1110.11,1 were brought to the Not Of and South American Coffeehouse from the lanitlum Post. office, weighing 561 ounces. 'fhey arrived by the pi irate ship Susque- hanna at Liverpool. Tine thanand of the London Post- bifiee fits deter erp wee 211 5s. The Captain of the American ship charged nothing fir bringing them from Philadelphia to Eorrl Ltd. Bail the Post office regulations permitted the comuteleial agent at Live: and to send them Iry mein, Au would hare (+frit:Ed iu Latobta ta'alre boars +:botter, and the whole charge would hare beet( :Is. th.L. Snell farts fur..ish their own colon:cut. The importance of intelligence from the United States was never greater to commercial men that it is at Chic Moment ; the dispute bt•tween the !tank and the Govetnineut there having re- duced a species of panic in the mercantile and money transactions of the country." TI._ Leeds Alerotry has the following remarks in an article on the probable consequences to British manufacturers of the cominercia! league rote forming in Germany under Prussian auspices.
" we fear both the present 3Iiiristers and their predecesssars lr :we been crap:it:1y indifferent to the negotiat Mos which have been going on fin years inn I:ennui:Iv. For tb sthgMinisterston-t account to Pan lianicat ; but undoubtedly the most yet; - °us attention ought now to be given by them On this Anti-Anglican Confi:dera- tion ; , rul all that negotiation can do should be done, to obtain the most favour- able terms for English commerce. Little, however, we f.ear, can be done is this way, to move a Government like that of Prussia. To same nand, the idua of retaliation may oceor. But this would be to revenge the injury upon our- selves, as we receive next to no manufactured goods from tiermany, and it would he suicidal to tax the wool of Saxony, and the other raw materials of our manufactures. A policy the reverse of retaliation seems to us to be the wise, and indeed the only course for England to pursue."
The Reverend Mr. Scales of Leeds has received the following let- ter from Mr. Macaulay, to whom the memorial of the Leeds Dissen- ters had been transmitted for presentation to Earl Grey.
:olden, Jan. 7. " Toalay I had an Interview with Lord Grey, who returned to London Ins; m'eek.
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