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The members of the University of Oxford arc beginning to look about for a successor to Lord Grenville in the Chancellorship of that University. Various persons bare been named, including the Dukes of Beaufort and Wellington, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lords Eldon, Sidmouth, and Carlisle.

The Earl of Lonsdale has, at his own expense, supplied the town of Whitehaven with water, and erected public fountains for the use of the inhabitants.

Lord Boscawen has taken up his residence in the borough of Truro; for the purpose, it is understood, of qualifying himself to become a capital burgess.—Coraubian. [Perhaps for the purpose of ingratiating himself with the electors and unseating Mr. Tooke ; who ousted Lozal Falmouth's nominee last year.] Thlie Duke of DevonAfire has" become a large shareholder in the and Derbyshire Provincial Batik, which is on the eve of . com- Fiction.

Earl Talbot has at length purchased the Tixal estate by private con- tract for a sum littla short of 320,0001.

The question having arisen, whether or not freemen, as well as 10/. householders, are required by the Reform Act to pay Is. for registra. titer, Mr. T. Frith, one of the Overseers of Stafford, wrote to Lord John Russell ;• who replied as follows. wohurn Abbey, 28th October. "Sir—Any opinion that I can give you will be naprollssional, and therefore worth very little ; but it appears to me that the Overseers are. by the Act, to collect from every elector whose name is on the register ; but what he collects is to he in addition to the poor-rate. I should therelbre say, that the Overseer ought to collect from every freeman rated to the relief of the poor, but he cannot originate a rate for those who are

not rated. Your obedient servant. "J. Ressm.t."

-Brighton has been selected by the Committee of the Agricultural Employment Institution to hold their first meeting out of London. Several noblemen and distinguished visitors have signified their inten- tion of honouring the meeting with their presence.

Till within the last two years, the out-parish of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol, containing a population of sixteen thousand souls, was destitute of any place of public worship, either in connexion with the Establish- ment or the Dissenters ! It is said that a great proportion of the in- habitants were absolutely in a state of practical heathenism.

A subscription has been commenced for the purpose of erecting a tablet to the memory of the late Hannah More, and also for the esta- blishment of a school to bear her name, in connexion with the new church of St. Philip and Jacob, at Bristol, to the endowment of which she has bequeathed the residue of her estate. Nearly 400/. have been already subscribed. The names of the Bishops of Salisbury, Lichfield and Coventry, Bath and Wells, Lincoln, and Sir R. Inglis, appear amongst the pecuniary supporters of the undertaking.

The pavement lately taken up and relaid in the nave of Exeter Ca- thedral, • is Bohemian marble, which stone was much used in our churches during the middle ages. It resembles the verde antique of the Egyptians ; being of a gray-green colour, varied by black and white spots, called ophites and tephria ; but this contains petrified antedilu- vian remains, which the Egyptian marble does not possess. In a similar marble in Derbyshire, are discovered parts of the starfish ; but this stone is of a whitish-brown colour. It may appear surprising how the beauties of this variegated testaceons marble should have escaped observation ; but, like the pebble that contains the madrepore, its shades and figures could only have been seen by polishing.-1Vestern Times.

The proprietors of the Clarence Vase (manufactured and now ex- hibiting in Birmingham, the cost of which has been enormous, and the loss to its owners proportionately great), are attempting through the medium of Mr. Joseph l'arkes, the solicitor, to negotiate a sale with

Government. It is thought that a native invention of such splendour ought to grace the national galleries of the British Museum. The proprietors are desirous of obtaining in exchange for the vase grants. of certain Government lands in the Canadas ; to which settlements, if granted, it is said several of the proprietary intend to emigrate. The proprietors arc for the most part members of the Birmingham Politi- cal Council.—.73baiiingham iii.ertiser.

The cotton-spinners and silk-throwsters of Manchester have had meetings to consider what is to be done; and one and ell of them declare that they will turn out of their employment, as far as it is possible, all young persons liable to the school clauses, and have their places sup- plied by persons of such ages as will enable them to werk their mills twelve hours a-day, as at present ; young persons will be brought in from Ireland, Wales, and out of the agricultural districts. The poor- rate for the township of Manchester, for the year ending Easter IS:3:1, was a fifth part of the annual value of all the visible property, or four ehillings in the pound upon the rental. If the mill-owners turn out of their employment but two-thirds of all now in work who arc under thirteen years of age, unheard-of suffering will be the consequence. To the silk-trade the Factory Bill is a ten-hours Bill ; and as soon its it becomes law, the wages of every one employed in sill: mills will be reduced one-sixth or one-fifth, and the value of every silk mill is also reduced one-fifth.—Morning Chronicle.

Owing to the traffic produced by the railway and mw collieries on Whitwiek waste, land, which twenty years ago would not have fetched 20/. per acre, is now selling in lots at front 400/. to ;XII.. for building. The high chimnies, and numerous other new erections upon the spot, give the neighbourhood quite an improved appearance. It is intended to call this new colony " Coalville."—Leicester Chronicle.

the Post-office charges Sd. for the postage of a letter from Margate to Broadstairs—three miles and a half. The postage for one hundred miles is only ninepence.

A person from Romford traversed the streets of Chelmsford one day last week, with a locomotive carriage, which is said to be his own in- vention. It has three wheels—one in front to steer with. The pro- pelling power is applied by the feet; which work upon two foot-boards connected with the axletree of the vehicle, and on the right side a wheel worked by the hand furnishes the additional power necessary to get up a bill or over a rough road. Some idea may be formed of its simplicity, from the price asked by the inventor—forty shillings. The maximum speed appeared to be about .?even miles an hour, which rate he accom- plished with apparent ease. As a plaything, it is not like the veloci- pedes which appeared some years since, calculated to injure the tra- veller. The man said he was making one to enable his wife to ride with him.—Ipswich Journal.

An extraordinary pedestrian feat was accomplished. at Maidstone on Thursday last, by a man who undertook to walk seven miles in sixty-three minutes. He performed the task in goOd style, having taw minutes to spare.