The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF OXFORD.

TO TNT 'MOW Or TVS DAILY MAWS.
Ste,—The Yice-Charicellor of Oxford has fixed the
12th of October for the election of a new Chancellor.
Little can be said in excuse of the indecency of such
so pot. The late Chancellor but lately deal and not
yet buried, is utterly forgotten. No expression of
regret, no fond expressioos of regard, hardly a do.
cent allusion to the loss the university in common
with the whole country h.ve sustained, bass emanated
from that body of men over whom he was as much
commander-in-chief as ho was over the army. Alan!
o,6ed o Pons" sustain their well-known character.
Hardly had the breath left the body of the great
man before an obsequious and servile crew of sy-
cophants, fearful of their sinecures, trembling
at the idea of common room disclosures,
impotent for good (I will not say ready for evil, but
certainly no willing reformers of it) threw themselves
at the fret of the tory l'remier, as a last effort to
avert the coming day. What can be thought ()flinch
a body' What can be thought of their object in
thus prostrating themselves, in the very spirit of
atieet dunkeyism ? Was it with a view to self-
agrandisenient ? or was it with a sincere desire to
preserve their university intact from the horrible re-
torivis who were looming in the distance!" This,
however. is not for me to say ; but 1 do ask, and I
think the public have a right to know what Lord
Polo's claims are? Why, is the days of church
and University reform, a converted wing, a turn-coat
reclite, and now a—Disraelite-tory, should thus be
set ortr one of the greatest universi.ies in the world ?
The mends rs of the university likewise have a right
to know why the Vice-thancellor has fixed
the che.ion tour days before the great bulk of
the uni..n.ity return. when none hut a few dons and
interested 'members of the university will be on the
spot to 'tote. it is easy to say that the notice is
moth lent. and all who wish can come if they choose,
but I know very well from my own experience that
there is no time so difficult at which to bring men
together as the two or three days before the end of
the keg vacation, when they are obliged to assemble.
They feel it is too late to come up and go back again,
too soon to come up and remain. It is worthy, how-
ever. of the spirit by which the whole proceeding in
reference to this miter lies been actuated. A dread
of liberaibm. the horror of hearing the merits of the
Duke of Neacastle. Carlisle, Ellesmere, and other
men discusisd, before the final vote was given, has
driven them on to this Louis Napoleonite and
cowardly ••••up ,r•bil as a chillier resort. I have so
far troutiod you in hopes that a trick on the part of
the University of Oxford may not escape detection,
and remain. Yours, &e.,
Temple, Monday. Oct. 4. M.A., OXON.

HEALTH OF LONDON DCIUNO THE WEEK.

The ettieial report says :—ls the week that
gnarl ,set ',away, 1,2.51 deaths were registered in the
rarttopriktin districts. It is neeemary to state that the
bccrla, which this return exhibits over previous weeks is
sot the t of an increased rate of mortality, bet is pro-
ducal by an accumulation of eases, principally violent sad
sadden deaths. on which, nitrate have bra previously
held. but which here not been formally registered till the
aloe of the quarter.
la the tea e.irresponding weeks of the years 134161, the
amaze number of deaths was 1,000, which, with the addi-
tion of a tenth for increase of populating, and for the eke
et c imp irison with last week's fe.11:11, would be 1300.
The following are the fatal eases r esurnersted in this
week's table, under the several kinds of symotic direr ;
gely eases. two or which were in the Small. pox Hospital,
earned from small-pin, 5 from measles, 13 from heaping-
nub, S firs croup. 2 foam thrush, 2 from influenza, 4
best purloin, one from ague, 2 trim remittent fever, one
be. filVtlttLitie fever, 4 from puerperal Ryer, 51 from ty-
phus, from erysipelas, 2 from ayphi,is, 72 gut director
end dysentery, 2 (rim choler*. while 81 were mimed by
marlatins. *the fatal effects of this bat complaint in pant-
melu instances am noticed both by ngistran and Medieel
men.
Last week the births of 307 boy! se!! Mirirts, is all
Lest childrea, were registered is tirades. Me average
lumber of seven totrespostlist weeks in the years 1346-31
was 1,335.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Mum twists
of the barometer in the week was 29.403 is. The mead
temperature wee 52.2 deg. The wind blew eras thaw*.
tut on the ant three days, sod from the eirth-wont
afterwards.