_The Earldom of Oxford._--The following is so remarkable a coincidence,
that I am sure many of your readers will be obliged to me for bringing it
under their notice, particularly those who are interested in heraldry.
The same individual who has been for many years the nearest heir _male_ to
Aubery de Vere, twentieth and last earl of Oxford of that family, who died
in 1702, has become, by the recent death of Alfred, sixth Earl of Oxford
and Mortimer, the nearest heir _male_ to that race also, which title is
likewise extinct.