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taining a good many practical hints, conveyed in an
easy and unassuming tone, which such readers would
be likely to listen to. Here and there is a taint of
Claphamite cant which we could well spare ; but on
the whole the book may be recommended.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVE'
DOORS.

Letters of Horace Walpole. Vol. V. Bentley.
The Oxonian in Norway. Rev. F. Metcalf, M.A.
Hurst and Blackett.
,Chicol, the Jester. Hodgson.
Aladdin; or, the it ondeful Lamp. J. W. Parker.
2'he Ethics of Aristotle. In Two Vols. Vol. I.
J. W. I'arker.
Lectures on Roman Husbandry. J. H. and J. Parker.
Torchcster Abbey; or, Cross Purposes. Catherine Sinclair.
Simpkin and Marshall.
Adeline. A Tale of the Mysteries and Reality of Jewish
Life. Ditto.
'The Metropolis of the Water Cure. Ditto.
John If. Steggalls. A Real History of a Suffolk Man.
Narrated by Himself. Ditto.
'Brenton. Georgiana M. Craik. Three Vols.
Smi'h and Elder.
The Home Affections, by the Poets. Selected and Edited by
Charles Mackay. Routledge.
Debit and Credit. A Novel. Gustave Freytag. Bentley.
The Prince of Peace ; or, Lays of Bethlehem. Selected from
the British Poets. Illustrated. Seeley and Jackson.

A Sermon preached by the Rev. IL Sulivan, M.. 4., on the
Day of Humiliation. Hatchard—Preacher's Duty. T.
Shann. Hatchard—The Bank Charter Act of 1844. Ed.
Norton. W. Skeffington—The Bank Charter Act of 1854.
E. Skeffington—Oar Life Boat. E. Stanford—A Bsrd's-
'eye View of India. Partridge—. 4 Lecture on India. Wm.
Vansittart, Esq., M.P. Brown—Memoranda relative to the
Intermediate Convict Prisons in Ireland. Thoma and Sons.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD.

The election of a Clinical Professor in the room of
the late Dr. Ogle, who held the office from 1830 up
to the time of his death, a few weeks since, took
place in the Convocation-house on the 27th, and
resulted in the return of Dr. Acland, F.S.A.,
of Christ Church and All Souls', by a majority of
248 over Dr. Jackson, D.M., New eollege, the
numbers being—Dr. Acland, 470 ; Dr. Jackson, 222.
In a Convocation held on Thursday, Count
Aurelio Saul was unanimously reappointed Italian
teacher in the Taylor Institution, for a period of five
years.
CAMBRIDGE.

The Vice-Chancellor has given notice that the
place of a professor of the university in the council of
the senate has become vacant by the resignation of
Professor Sedgwick. The election of a professor to
,fill the vacancy will take place in the Senats•house
on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The professor elected will
held office as a member of the council till Nov. 7,
1858.

MR. EDWIN ARNOT.D, M.A., has sailed from Eng-
land for Poonah, having accepted the appointment of
principal to the college in that city.

THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY held a very success-
ful autumn exhibition of fruit, at their grounds, at
Chiswick, on Saturday last. The fruit exhibited was
divided into eighteen classes ; one class was devoted
exclusively to fruit shown by fruiterers, and the
remainder were for grapes,pineapples, pears of home
growth, and pears from foreign countries, apples of
home and foreign growth, oranges, peaches, necta-
rines, melons, plums and prunes, figs, Alpine straw-
berries, currants, raspberries, and, lastly, one special
class for the new description of fruit called the
'4l Eugenia Upni." The grspes of the Duke of
'Sutherland and of ➢lr. Sneyd, and the pineapples of
Lord Lansdowne, and the pears of Lord Evesley,
were very tine. The " Eugenia Ugni" attracted
much attention. The fruit is a small red berry,
somewhat resembling in appearance the well known
'" hips and haws." The berries are juicy, and have
a pleasing acid flavour, but, however recherche they
may he considered, will certainly never prove for-
midable rivals to the better known classes of English
fruit which are not favoured with so lofty a name.
One of the results of the show has been to inflict an
unmerited slight upon one of the most favourite of
English apples—the old fashioned " Ribston Pippin"
has been supplanted by " Cox's Orange Pippin,"
which has carried off the highest honour as a dessert
apple. It is, no doubt, a remarkably good apple,
handsome in appearance, and excellent in flavour.
This fortunate " pippin" is grown by Lady Moiyneux,
on her grounds near Windsor. The finest American
dessert apple is not the " Newtown Pippin," as all the
world supposed, but it is called after the name of an
Englishman, who a few years since took the fruit
over to America, " the Baldwin."