The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.

A Convocation was held on Saturday, at 12 o'clock, for
the purpose of electing Burgesses to serve in Parliament
for the University. After the legal forms had been gone
through,

The Dean of Christ Church nominated Sir ROBERT
HARRY INGLIS, Bart., of Christ Church.

The Provest of Oriel then nominated the Right Hon.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, of Christ Church ; and
The President of St. John's nominated ROBERT BUL-
LOCK MARSHAM, Christ Church, Warden of Merton, as
fit and proper persons to serve for the University in the
Parliament next ensuing.
The polling was then adjourned to the Convocation
House, and proceeded for an hour or two with great
activity, but after that time the voters came in very
slowly.

At half-past six the poll was adjourned to half-past
❑ine on Monday morning. The numbers are not given
out publicly, but we believe the following to be quite cor-
rect :

Sir Robert 11. Inglis - - 286
Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone - 236
Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq - 124

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The meritorious efforts of
the spirited proprietors to provide entertainments of an
unusually attractive character, we regret to state, were
rendered abortive last evening, by the failure of Mr. Bell,
of London, to effect a generation of gas on the premises.
Mr. Durandu, in order to convince the public of the purity
of his own engagements, insisted upon Mr. Bell's appear-
ance in the Concert-room, personally to apologize before
the assembled multitude for the non-performance of his
contract. Judging from what emanated from Mr. Bell,
we are of opinion, that the failure could only have resulted
from Mr. Bell having miscalculated his ability to generate
the requisite quantity of gas. This being the case, it was
his duty not to have entered into arrangements with the
proprietor of the gardens, unless inspired by a confidence
on this matter, based upon practical experience. It is
due to Mr. Durandu to state that he immediately an-
nounced an extra display of fire-works and other attrac-
tions, for which the gardens are deservedly popular ; and
made an offer to return the admission money to any per-
son who was dissatisfied with the proposed arrangement.
We are happy to add that the public seemed so entirely
satisfied with the evident integrity of purpose displayed
by the proprietor, that only about 20 or 30 persons avail-
ed themselves of the offer.

SCREW STEAMING7gOUTH AMERICA.—The Fosforo,
a small screw-steamer, built by Mr. Laird, of Birkenhead,
for the coasting and river trade in South America, was
tried in our river on Thursday and Friday last, and at-
tained a speed, by actual observation, at a measured dis-
tance, of ten knots per hour. The Fosforo is 100 feet
long and 17 feet beam, and was constructed to carry
thirty tons dead weight of cargo in four feet water, in ad-
dition to her machinery and stores ; this weight she had on
board on her trial trip, o❑ the exact draught she was de-
signed for. The engine is a " vertical trunk engine," of
40 horses, nominal working to 120 horses effective power,

and was made by Messrs. Nasmyth and Co., of Patricroft,
from the designs and under the immediate superintend.
ence of Edward Humphreys, Esq., late chief-engineer of
Ler Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich. Some idea may be
of the simplicity of this vessel's machinery by
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