The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Joss 23.

The Paris papers of this evening contain the
following :—" After the capitulation of Puebla,
Comonfort retired towards Telspon. He declared
to the troops that it was impossible to sustain a
regular conflict, and disbanded his army, at the same
time calling upon the offioeas and soldiers to form
penile corps and commence partisan warfare. It
is asserted that Mejia and Tobar have captured the
town of Queretary, and raised the banner of foreign
intervention."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Jon 23.

PETITION AGAINST THERE:LIMOS Tari RI:NOVAE
BELL.—The following is the petition from the Uaiversity
of Oxford against the Religions Tan illessomil Bill :—" Te
the Hooonnible the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled :—The
Humble Patina of the Chancellor, Master, and Scholars
of the University of Oxford, cibeweth,—That your pal.
Omen have learned with pain that a bill has been intro-
duced into your honourable bona enact' that no fellow
or tutor of any college, ball, or house of shell be .
required or enjoined to make or subscribe the
declaration of conformity to the liturgy el the.
church of England, contained in the Act of Uniformity.
That the removal of the only test sow by law required of
tutors sad fellows of colleges generally would reader ad.
minable to collegiate government sad instructioa pawns
of divergent. religious creeds, or of no religious creed what-
-0•11f. the universities are eilaillAnt• of the church el,
England, sod owe their greeters chiefly to the church ;
and that the church could not wifely atria her future
clergy to persons who had even se annuity for their sound-
ems in the faith. That the relations between fellows of
alleges are v ryq intimate, and that the harmony and con-
fidence now ewbeiaiisgmust be destroyed by differentiae on
the moat important of all subjeal ; and that open
antagonism in the religious belief of their teachers sad
governors most have • tendency to teed students to
regard religious truth as a matter of indifferane.
Your petition s'therefore implore your honourable bouae
theirpees into law a bill of which the aliens wall, is
opon, be Weida. te the WON, imisevais of am
taiversity, the coentry, mad the aura. And your peti-
tioners will ever pray, he. Given at our Home of Conven-
tion this 2nd of June, in the year of our Lord God MA"
This petition, it will be remembered, wee carried on the
above day by 182 (may nomasiciente being amongst the
number) aping 51 votes. The list of the nos-reddest
members of convocation who have *sprained their
concurrence in the prayer of the petition num-
bers 1,935, and is beaded with the following :
C. T. Canton, D.D., Christ Mora ; W. Ebor, D.D..
Queen's; B. Dublin, D.D., Oriel; Caesarea, D.0.L.,
Christ Church ; A. T. Caesar, D. D., Braman ; S. Oxon,
D.D., Oriel ; S. Carlisle, D.D., All Soule ; Harrowby, M.A.
Christ Church Ikbester, M.A., Christ Church ; Selkirk,
M.A., Christ Church ; H. Exeter, D. 1)., Magdalen ; T. V.
St. Aaaph, D.D., Christ Church ; J. Lincoln, D.D., Pem-
broke; Redesdale, M.A., New ; Chariton, M.A., Oriel.
Amongst the many distinguished prelate; and noblemen,
members of convocation, whose names are not appended to
the petition are the Bishops of London, Durham, Norwich,
Salisbury. St. Andrews, and Brechin ; the Duke of Marl-
borough ; Lords Teeterden, Rasa*, Mahneabury, Says
and Sete, De la Warr, Stanhope, Elgin, Bathurst, Lennox,
Dartmouth, Kenyon, Kildare, Cowper, Warwick, ho.