The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

THE NEW PEER.

We were the first to announee tbet Lord Fitzroy
Swerve would receive a peerage emd the Master-
Generalship of the Ordnance, as a Wee for his dis-
appointment in not being cede Cemmeader-in Chief.
Last night's Gazette maga. tli Ibibswies notifi-
cation : .

Oct. 11, 1852.—The Qom Ms been
pleased to direct letters patent to be rid who
the Great Seal, granting the dignity o a lases of
!he United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy James Henry
Somerset, Knight Grand Crew of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, and Master-General of the
Ordnance, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten, by the name, style, and title of Bares
Raglan, of Raglan, in the county of Monmouth"
It will be seen by the same Gazette that Lard
Cumbermers succeeds not only to the sinecure Om-
stableship of the Tower, but also to the Lord
Lieutenancy of the Tower Hamlets—both "in dm
room of Field-Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington,
deemed"

ELECTION OF

OxFoRD, Ocr. 12.—A Convocation was holden
morning for the purpose of clouting a Chancellor
ot this Cniverift, in thereon of the handed Plaid
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Dean at Mkt Mink the Wades of Melia Nl-
lege, the Prevent et Woreseter Osage, the Pro&
den; of St. Jobe' Collme, the Principal of Bt. Mary
Ball, the Warden of Mradham College. the President
of Corpus Christi College, the Prins etMegdalen
Hall, the Master of Balliol College. the Raster of
Lincoln College, the Principal of Alban Hall, the
President of Trinity College, the Principal of Jens
College, the Principal of St. Edmund Hall,
the Principal of Brannon College, the Pro-
vost of Oriel College, the Warden of All '
:vela College, the Rev. Dr. Bull, the Venerable
Archdeacon Cerke4Dr.' Bloxham,Dr. Whorwood, Dr.
Ashhorsr, 0. It. H. SoMerset, Esq., B.C.L, Fellow of
Ail sod,: College, the Senior and Junior Proctor,
the Hon. Horace Courteney Forbes, Oriel College;
the Rev. H. 0. Con, Corpus Christi College; and
about sixty resident and non-resident members of
Convocation.

The Vice-Chancellor opened the proceedings in s
t.hort Latin address, in which he declared the object
for which Convocation was assembled on the present
(cession.

Ur. Miss, the Registrar of the University, then
rtad the Act against Bribery and Corruption at
Elections.

The Senior Proctor (the Rev. W. C. Lake, of
Italliul College) rue and having reopened pawn
bon of the Nice-Chancellor to read ben a paper the
observations which he desired to sake. awl behq
panted, he delivered a Latin alarms of enolderabki
length in a most spirited and user* miner. Its
purport was that, without desiring to &resat* from
the high claims of the Earl of Derby to the honour
poptsed to be conferred on him, and while anion
Miring the virtues and abilities which redeolodinetre
!ipt. his lordship's byteaary re*, at the eons time
it could not be said the hie korinilio had ever shown
Intl particular loitered In the andintiol albino of
the aaieersity. He ales anoillend dist the univer-
sity had proceeded too hastily to di tip the vacant
01m, seeing that they were still is the long van-
tion, and the members of convention were for the
most part absent, and many of then dimponed over
see and land.
"'his address, at intervals, was received with •
rind deal of applause.
'l6 Vice Chancellor then rose and spoke in reply,
xprerwing himself falso in Latin, but not to neer
t;.t same length as the preceding speaker. He said.
io substance, that the statutes of the university re-
quired that they should proceed to the election u
*..on as poseitle, and lie justified the coarse
uti,ch had been taken by reference to precedents
Aldine the last eighty years, observing that it was
n..t unusual to proceed to the election in the long
and that this step had been taken even
earlier than on the present occasion. On one oreas-
siNn the Chancellor died in September, and his nor
ttioof was elected on the 3d of October following;
on another Jecabiun the death of the Chancellor took
place in August, and his successor was appointed in
thy coarse of the following September. For these
reasons he submitted there was no cause for dimmed&
fiction in the course taken in the present can.
The voting then commenced (nomination of ennoli-
date* being unnecemary), the heads of how= neord-
in-t their votes that, followed by the other atombere
of convocation, when, after the usual three prods-

nations bad been made, the Via-Chancellor and
Proctors named up the votes, and the paper on
which such person had written his name, and for
whom he had voted, wee burnt in the convocation-
house, according to custom. The Vice-Chancellor
declared that the Earl of Derby was unanimous)]
elected Chancellor of the University of Oxfad
The whole of the proceedings occupied rather more
than an hour.

The statute of the university, on this subject,
says: "It is enacted, that whenever the officer of
Chancellor of the University- shall be kaown for cer-
tain to bo vacant, the Vice-Chancellor (on whom
during the vacancy in the officio of Chancellor the
whole of the duties shall devolve) shall proceed to
election of a nor Chancellor, as soon as convenient
may be, by way of scrutiny. Immediately upon the
completion of the Chancellor's election, an linden-
ment of election under the common seal of the Uni-
versity shall be exhibited by the Vice Chancellor and
Senior Proctor to the Chancellor so elected (if he is
present in the University) at • solemn convocation
of the Doctors, Masters, regent and non-vegeta,
as soon as may be, together with the ensigns of
the office of the Chancellorship, that is to say, the
statute-book, keys and seals of office, and the faces
or mace, of the hi-dela; or if he is in distant parts,
an instrument of election among the other solem-
nities to be observed, sccordiug to usage, shall be
presented and delivered to him by the same officers,
together with other delegates to be appointed by the
university, at • solemn convocation of the doctors
and masters of arts, regent and non-regent, which is
to be holden, as the custom is, away from the uni-
versity. Also the vice-chancellor shall take from
the clianeellor on his admission to office an oath of
the following tenor:—" Most Illustrious anti llon•
ourable, &c.,—You pledge your faith to defend
and observe, during your office, all and every of the
statutes, franchises, customs, rights, and privileges
of the university, all partiality. apart, indifferently
well, and faithfully, KU fur as in you lies, and they
shall come to your knowledge. In like manner that
you will execute in good faith whatever regards the
office of high chancellor of the university. So help
you God, "&c.