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than quarterly payments, as salary or wages, or superannua-
tion allowance ; or beneficially entitled to a yearly income
of not less than 101. from Govenuneut, East India, or
Bank Stock, including Government life annuities; or
charged to the assessed taxes, or income tax, " or to any
duty payable in respect of any annual certificate or licence,
or to all or any of the said duties," not less than 40s. a year ;
or being a graduate of any University in the United King-
dom ; or being a depositor in a savings-bank in the county,
borough, or place where he shall reside, to the amount of
not less than 001., is to be entitled to vote for the county or
borough (as the case may be) in which he shall reside,
but he is not to be registered in any year unless he shall
have so resided for twelve calendar months next previous
to the last day of July in such year; and no person is to be
so registered in respect of income or liability to tax unless
he shall have been in receipt of the income fortwelve calen-
der months next previousto the last day ofJuly in such year,
or charged to a year's duty within such twelve months ; and
no savings bank depositor is to be so registered unless he
shall have had a 501. deposit in such bank for three years
next previous to the last day of July in such year. No
person having two or more residences is to be registered
under this enactment for more than one place; and no per-
son is to vote in respect of income tax which he is entitled
to be reimbursed, as a tenant, trustee, or otherwise.
Several sections are taken up with the provisions for re-
ducing the occupancy qualification. In the counties a
vote is given to the occupier of any building, without or
with land occupied under the same landlord, of the clear
yearly value of not less than 101., provided he has occupied
those or other premises in the county or division for
twelve calendar months next previous to the last day of
July in the year of registration, and been rated to the
poor rate during that time, and has resided within the
county or division for the last six of the twelve months ;
but the occupation of any building (other than the occu-
pier's dwelling) jointly with land is not to confer a
right to vote in county or borough, unless such building be
of N. clear annual value. The right of voting in boroughs
is extended to inhabitant householders within the borough,
or seven miles thereof, who on the last day of July shall
have occupied for the former part of that year and the
whole of the two preceding years a house, warehouse,
counting-house, or shop (not necessarily the same pre-
mises during the whole period), in respect of which he
shall have been rated for that time to the relief of the poor
on a yearly value exceeding 61.
The old rate-paying clauses are repealed.
Freemen hereafter admitted are not to have votes as
such, though admitted in respect of birth or servitude.
The constituency of the Inns of Court is to comprise all
barristers; of the University of London all who have its
degree of M.A., 8.A., LL.D., M.D., or M. 8., and every
B.A. in such University of three years' standing.
The returning officers for the new boroughs are to be
appointed by the sheriff of the county ; for the Inns of
Court, the treasurer of the Inner Temple is to be returning
officer ; for the University of London, the Vice-Chanoellpr.
The polling of the University and Inns of Court may con-
tinue for three days.
County voters, upon whom a right is conferred by this
act with residence as a condition of the qualification, are not
to vote out of their own polling districts.
The requisite certificates of title to property are to be
given at the Bank, East India-house, and savings-banks
on request; and so in like manner by the collector of
taxes.

The register of voters is to be final ; but an election com-
mittee may inquire into alleged incapacity arising subse-
quently to the time when the name of the voter might have
been objected to.

Unitrasitg

OXFORD.

THE ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE SONO in lauda-
tion of Brasenose College ale was promulgated on Shrove
Tuesday, and presents an admixture of spice and spirit
very appropriate to its subject-matter. From some apposite
allusions to the politics of the day we may cite the fol-
lowing:—

" This Coalition' of which I now sing,
As all may observe, is a different thing
From that to which scorn is for ever affixed ;
(I allude to the porridge the Scotchman has mixed)
And which, though he'll probably burn himself soon,
For the present is stirred with the Autocrat's spoon :
Yet points of resemblance there may be between
Prior's leer, and the ' cauld kail' of old Aberdeen.'
For instance, this liquor, without any doubt,
Is kept by the tankard from running about;
And Aberdeen's porridge, 'tis equally clear,
Were Palmerston absent would soon disappear ;
And thus, as in him all their fortunes are anchored,
I humbly submit that he's like the tankard.
The sharp acid lemon again will afford
A simile fitting for Palmerston's Lord,
Who the fat Oxford Dons from their slumber has woke,
And has made the rich citizens swallow their smoke.
As a real useful compound, it may suit the bard well
To find in the malt a resemblance to Cardwell:
But the man (or the compound) who always must fill
The proudest position is Exchequer Bill ;'
Yes l Oladstone's the hop plant who twined himself long
Round the hop-pole at Tamworth so sturdy and strong ;
With the farmers of England he cannot condole,
For he, like the needle, is true to his pole ;'
He rides a high hobby with dangerous speed,
And Anglican Church' is the name of his steed,
Yet the ' seat,' strange to say, was constructed to carry
The ' Protestant Bulwark,' good old Sir B. Harry—

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But the pace was too killing, and lately we took a
Final farewell of his blue coat and bouquet—
Next little John Russell, that prizefighter rare,
To the nutmeg or ginger we well may campare ;
When laid on the shelf he's an innocent thing,
But let a tongue touch him—and out comes the sting
If you grate him he bites you, but who can refuse
To laugh when he annually barks for the Jews?
' Give the devil• his due,' we admire his courage,—
Next, whom shall we find to resemble the burrage ?
Bernal Osborne's+ the man, that political pickle I
His use, like tle burrage, is only to tickle;
First-rate on a platform, but when he has spoke
He leaves no impression beyond a good joke.
Let us shake up the tankard, you'll see for a while
A sediment rising,—like youthful Argyle,
Whig Grace of Newcastle, bet let it remain
And the sediment sinks to the bottom again.
Now a certain resemblance I think you will own
'Twixt some compounds of each coalition is shown;
There are many besides, but for fear of their wroth
I will only just add, that they make up the froth;
While floating about on the surface is seen
A great piece of dry toast—and that's old Aberdeen."
• A mere proverbial expression--of course his lordship is not
like a devil ;= of coarse siot:—Printer's Devil.
+ Mr. Osborne cannot be altogether like the burrage, which
has no taste, whereas Mr. Osborne has shown several instances
of bad taste.

THE FIRST ELECTION took place on Saturday in g
John's College to four fellowships founded under the will
of the late Dudley Fereday, Esq., of Ettingehall-park, in
the county of Stafford, by which a preference is given in
the first place to the kin of the founder, and next to natives
of Staffordshire. Frederick Smith, 8.A., of St. John's, and
Alexander Staveley Hill, 8.A., of Exeter—the former u
" kin," the latter as " county "—were appointed senior fel-
lows ; and James Stevenson Cattlow, a native of Stafford-
shire, and Arthur Pearse Howell, both scholars of Trinity
College, Oxford, were elected to the two remaining fellow-
ships.
MR. CHARLES SUMNER HARINOTON, Bible clerk of Oriel,
has been elected to the vacant exhibition on the Rutland
foundation, and Messrs. Nathaniel R. A. Cooper and Jack-
son Taylor exhibitioners on the Ireland foundation.
AN ELECTION TO Two FELLOWSHIPS, now vacant in Uni-
versity College, will be holden on Weduuday, March 28.
One, on the foundation of Henry Percy, Earl of Northum-
berland, is open to persons born in the old diocese of Dur-
ham, Carlisle, or York, with a preference to natives of Nor-
thumberland. The other is on Sir Simon Benet's founda-
tion, open to those only who are or have been scholars on
his foundation.

Mai Muuma, Esq., Hon. M.A., of Christ Church, has
taken the oaths and been admitted Professor of Modern
European Languages to the Taylor Institution.
Ter: following degrees were conferred :
M.A.—ltev. Thomas Fitsarthur Ravensbaw, Oriel ; Richard
William Cotton, Student. of Christ Church ; Rev. George Cruddas
and Rev. William Hooper, Lincoln; Rev. William Bell, Brass-
nose ; Thomas Hewitt Campbell, Rev. John William Hammond,
and Rev. Edward Coupland, Fellows of St. John's; Arthur
Ducane, St. John's; Rev. Simon James Gordon Fraser, New Inn
Hall.
B.A.—Rev. Anthony Francis Thomsen, Lincoln