9 DECEMBER 1865, Page 2

Signatures of ratepayers are being appended in Oxford to a

requisition to the Mayor, calling upon him to convene a public meeting to consider the recent events in Jamaica. The day for this meeting is to be the 19th inst., that being five days later than the day on which the next West India mail is due at Southampton. Oxford seems to be casting off its academic superiority to politics, under the influence of Mr. Goldwin Smith and others of the younger lecturers and professors.