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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1829.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.

In consequence of the paramount interest at-

tending this Election, we have made such ar-
rangements as will enable us this evening to give,
by Express, in Second and Third Editions, the
entire proceedings of the day at Oxford, together
with the close of the poll.

By extraordinary exertions we were enabled to
give yesterday, in a Third Edition, the whole of the
day's proceedings at the Oxford Election, and by
dispatching expresses after the mails at a late hour,
to convey the intelligence to most parts of England,
Scotland, and Ireland. Another express was sent
oil at past 10 o'clock to Oxford, the Members of
which University will thus be able to read at their
breakfast-table the fullest accounts of what took
place there only a few hours before!!

There is one peculiarity about the Oxford Elec-
tion which cannot fail to astonish all those who are
in the slightest degree acquainted with the religious
leaning of that University. A strong party has
been formed there for the purpose of ejecting Mr.
PEEL, because, forsooth, he has compromised the
Church by his recent declaration in favour of the
Catholics; and yet this same party, the staunch un-
compromising advocates of High Church doctrines,
have thought it expedient to propose Sir R. Nous,
A gentleman holding Evangelical tenets, and:of course
opposed in many of his opinions to the Ultra-
Toryism of the Protestant Hierarchy. We must
confess we are wholly unable to see our way through
this glaring inconsistency : it seems to us a paradox,
put forth merely in elder to display the full excellence
of Oxford logic : it is one, however, which Oxford
ingenuity alone can solve.

As far as mental and theological qualifications are
concerned, no comparison can, we conceive, be
possibly instituted between the rival candidates. Mr.
PEEL is a gentleman who, in all those varied classical
acquirements which extort such homage at Oxford,
has long since pre-eminently distinguished himself.
He is an accomplished scholar, an enlightened
statesman, attached to a rational and temperate
constitutional form of liberty, zealously devoted to
the interests of the Protestant Church, and so far
removed from any grovelling notions of self-
aggrandizement, that he has not hesitated to
descend from his station, as leader of the High
Church party, because he could no longer con-
scientiously support an impolitic system of in
tolerance. With regard to Sir It. Iscate, his
qualifications as a representative for Oxford arc yet
to be ascertained. He has indeed put forth a few
bulky pamphlets, distinguished by their hostility to
the Catholic Claims ; moreover, he has from time to
time delivered himself of divers orations in the House
of Commons on the same trite topic; but as the
trunk-makers are the best judges of his pamphlet•,
and chow. few Members who wet e awake and could
understand them, of his speeches, we shall hazard
no further comment on the subject ; " Come then
expressive silence, muse their praise."
Such being the qualifications of the two Candidates,
we most earnestly entreat the Members of the Con-
vocation to do them proportionate justice. We en-

eat.. them to call to mind Mr. PEEL'S. twelve

years' devotion to their intereAts, and to consider
whether such experience ought not justly to out-
weigh the printed and - spoken lucubrations of
Sir -RonEaT INGt.ts. We entreat them also
to consider th.a by supporting Mr. -PEEL they
are, in fact, supporting themselves ; that his
interest is closely bound up with theirs; that the
present constitutional measure, which it is his policy
to adopt, it is equally theirs to sanction ; and that
if they now think fit to reject him, they are rejecting
a friend able and willing to assist them, in favour of
one who lacks the ability, however strong may be
his inclination.

The Debates of last night in both Houses of Par-
liament were more than usually animated. In the
Upper House, Lord PLUNKET, in reply to some
aspersions which had been levelled against him on
a former occasion, with reference to the Bill for
suppressing the Catholic Association, made a
vigorous and masterly defence, in the course of which
he glanced at Lord LONGFORD'S prophetic faculties
in a way that must, we conceive, have occasioned
his Lordship a few uneasy sensations. He also did
justice to the character and abilities of the Bruns-
wick Clubs, and observed, that if there were mad
Priests at the Association, there were still madder
Parsons at the Orange Lodges—a remark which,
without any impeachment of his discernment, 'his
Lordship might very safely have extended to the
Dublin Corporation. In the Lower House a fine,
but peculiar specimen of eloquence was developed
in the oration of Colonel WILSON, member for York.
For wit, point, discrimination, aptitude of expres-
sion, and singular beauty of pronunciation, this
delightful speech has seldom, if ever been surpassed,
and will, we have no doubt, prove the source of as
much entertainment to the Gallant Colonel's "Royal
Master," as it did last night to the House. What a
pity he is not an Emancipationist !

There is little news of any importance in the
French Journals. The Message,. des Chanthres
quotes an Official Bulletin from the Berlin Gazelle,
respecting the taking of Kali by the Russians, and
states that the English Ambassador at Paris has tlis-
patched an extraordinary courier to Corfu.

Accounts from Berlin state, that NICHOLAS will
not go to the army before the middle of April, and
they do not expect the campaign to be opened be-
fore the beginning of May.

Accounts from Lisbon state, that the King of
SPAIN has decided with his Council to grant a
general arntistice to the Spanish Emigrants.

We receired this morning the Hamburgh Reporter
to the 21st, and Dutch Papers to the 26th inst.,
from which we extract the following :

lIAMBURGII, FEB. 20.

BoRBEN-HALLS, FOUR O'CLOCK.—The return of the
frost seems likely to prolong the inactivity which has for
some weeks past reigned in the cern market. The trans-
actions during the week have been trifling, and many of the
amtexed prices must be considered merely nominal. Not a
single cargo of corn passed through the Sound during the
last 10 days of February —Discount, 2 per cent.
Weight. Rix dollars.
Dantric Wheat 124 to 130 185 to 200

Pomeranian '25 to 13-2 175 to 180
Anhalt, red 122 to 132 183 to ISO
white llB to 128 185 to 190
Dantzic Rye llB to 122 98 to 92
Magdeburgh Barley 100 to 108 '7o to 80
Upland Oats
End of February.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan 924
Ha,nburgh-Russian Loan
Anglo-Prussian Loan of 1618— ......... 994
Austrian Bank Shares lllB
Austrian Metalliques 97%

STOCKHOLM, FEB. 10.

On the 3d inst. there was a general meeting of all the
four Estates of the Kingdom, in which the Chancellor
presented a rescript of his Majesty, signifying his wish to
the Estates, that the motion for presenting an estate to the
young Prince (the Duke of East Gothland) might be with-
drawn. The Diet having stood sponsors to the young
Prince, it had been intended to purchase an estate as a
present to him on the occasion.

CHRISTIANIA, FEB. 6.

M. N. H. Knudtson, in Christiania, has published the
papers relative to his dismissal from the office of British
Vice-Consul in that city. It appears that M. Knudtson,
notwithstanding the King's proclamation of the 7th May, had
taken an active part in the celebration of the anniversary
of May 17, (that of the Constitution of Eidsvold.) In a
letter to Mr. Durie, the British Consul at Drontheim,
who, after a conversation with Count Wetterstadt, after
his suspension from office, enquired respecting the report
of his having kept the 17th of May, he replied, that he
had done this, not as a British Consul, but as a Norwe-
gian, that nothing improper had taken place, but that in
all that had passed, the toasts, &c. the celebration of the
day was accompanied with expressions of the greatest re-
gard for the existing Constitution, with due respect for
the King, and for the union with Sweden. M. Durie
replied, that Lord Aberdeen was 'of opinion that M. K.'s
statement ought not to induce him to refuse the applica-
tion of the Swedish Government to dismiss him. Mr.
D. declines giving an opinion of the propriety or impro-
priety of this resolution; only be regrets on his own part
the loss of an agent who has for 12 years given him so
much satisfaction, by his activity and zeal, in every thing
relative to the British interest.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 14.

The commercial treaty between Denmark and Brazil,
concluded at Rio de Janeiro on the 26th April, having
been ratified by both the contracting parties, the ratifica-
tions were exchanged at Rio on the sth of November,
last year. _

HAGUE, FEB. 24.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has given notice to the
merchants and ship-owners that the report from Ports-
mouth of 7th Feb., according to which all the Barbary
States had sent out cruisers, with directions to capture
(among others) ships under the flag of the Netherlands, de-
serves no credit, as, by the last accounts from the Medi-
terranean, the Barbary Powers and Morocco were on the
best terms with the Netherlands.

We understand, that in consequence of the large
number of voters who are expected to be present in
Oxford, at the ensuing election for the University,
Mr. PEEL'S Committee have felt it necessary to de-
tain coaches for the conveyance of his friends in all
the principal towns, especially at Bath,Exeter, Chel-
tenham, and Birmingham.

The Cabinet dinner, which was to have been
given by Earl Bathurst on Wednesday, was postponed, in
consequence of the Ministers attending the King's Court at
Wind For on that day, and having received invitations to
dine with his Majesty.

Mr. Secretary Peel entertained a select party
to dinner yesterday, at his residence in Privy-gardens.
The Legal Commissioners of the West India
Islands had a conference with Sir George Murray, at
the Colonial Office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon.

The following is one of .the numerous squibs
circulated at present in Oxford, and its neighbourhood :
" Lost, on Sunday last, somewhere between the Wes-
leyan Ch ipel and All Saints' Church, a bundle of Sermons
on the Advent of the New Jerusalem, a book of Hymns,
and a list of voters who are unable to attend the election.
Whoever will bring the above articles to Sir Robert
Inglis' committee room, shall receive a handsome copy of
the Four Evangelists bound in calf.
" Angel Inn, High Street."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS I)AV.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEB. 26.—Wind E. by S.—Saile 1 the Sophia
Anne, for Antwerp. .•
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2.6.---Wind E.—Sailed his Ma-
jesty's ship Ferret, for the Mediterranean.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Diaea, Melville, from St. Aoil-ro; Edmund, Netherwood,
from St. Sebastian. Oil not, the Adventure, from
Lisbon.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
New Manly, Tyock, from Genoa; and Merton, from
Bilboa. Sailed the Sphynx packet, for St. Domingo,
Jamaica, &c.
SCILLY, FEB. 24.—0 n the 21st inst., about 1 p. m.,
a violent gale from N.N.W. commenced, which continued
all night, but moderated in the morning. The Cornwallis,
Henderson, bound to St. Helena and the Cape, during the
gale, drove near a ledge of rocks in old Grimsby harbour,
hut, with the assistance of two boats, was prevented
striking, and is now in safety.
HOLYHEAD, FEB. 25.—The Solon, Kelly, from Deme-
rara to Liverpool, is arrived here leaky, and her cargo
damaged, having experienced a hurricane on the 2d inst.,
in lat. 45 long. 33, in which both topmasts and mast-
heads were carried away.
LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 28.—Wind
water 54 minutes past two.--Arrived the Wm.
Thompson, , from New York ; Wm. Neilson,
White, from New Orleans ; Liverpool, Howes, from
Boston; Mary Ann, Taylor, fro►n Marseilles; London,
, from London ; Margaret and M'Culloch, from

Wigton.
Sailed—The Andes, Tomkins, for Savannah ; Briton,
Baxter, and President, --, for Charleston ; Westley,
, for Lisbon ; John Hale, Thompson, for New
Orleans.

The llewatd,-Anderson, from Newcastle to Oporto, ran
on shore near the Start Point on Wednesday morning, but
was get off with damage, rudder broken, and carried into
Dartmouth.

The Hope, Kyle, from St. John's, N. B. to Belfast,
was lost the 24th of December, near Cranberry Island ;
crew and passengers saved.