... ROYAL OXFORDS3M1RE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. PIte - ?? - . s ~ - ^ ' * ?? ?? ' - The fourth shoo for this season was holden in tbe Town Hall, in this city, onl Thursday last, and was well attended, tise hall e being crowded the greater part of the afternoon. The plants exhibited were not numerous, but some of them were very supe=ior, especially some Aehimenes, shewn by Mr. Baxter, . Curator of ...

... TIIETnIEAT RICAL PERFORIANCES ATWINDSOaOASTLE -ShaksvearO'S jiaV. TiM -- Mrl f tE At - - - - : I AS Il 5FLATE -Shakspeare's play, T'e Merchant qf Venice, was performed by coiimuand in the Castle last evening. The stage for the performance was erected in the Rubens Room. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, aud the Duchess of Kent, and the ladis and geatlemen of the Royal suite in waiting, sat on a ...

... (From the London and Paris Ladies' M~apazl~ae of Faeslien. KAll silk materials now assume a lighter tint, announcing the approach of spring, and suitable either for day or candle light- many are of green glace and broclid in a paler shade, light blue Iplaids on narrow grounds; checkss of grsiseille colour on grey Iglacd, with white shaded taffotas figured in sprigs and large Ichecks in white ...

... ?? s e__ __ As soon as itw~as publicly announced that Jenny Lind would appear in Oxford, and sing in the Theatre, the most lively in- terest was manifested throughout the University end City, enti the concert has been, during the week, thea topic of conversation in all circles. -It was announced in the ecleertisenient which appeared in our iset lisper, that the tickets would be sold at the ...

... 0 - ADDRtSSED:To ante OLD YEAR. io, rest thee, now thyiaskc is o'er, Where Mem'ry holds her sway, Go to tbut shadowy peopled shore Of all that's pass'd away. Thy pulse is beating faint and slow, Thy flow'rs have lost their bloom; J o. rest thee with the dead below, - Who slumber in the tomb. But. Pro thy pulse shall cease to beat! Give back these flow'rs to me; Those flowrs of Hope which once ...

... LDefects in tile practice ofL /,e Assuc-ance, and ate gqe~tienas/or tieir remerdy, twit/ olise7rot ions on I/is uses rend adnanfaqes ot Lift A sour- aonee, and file co~st it ~e7 of '1 (.J))tces. London, W\. S. Outs and Co. -This is a very useful pamphllet on the subject of Life Assurance. The obxject of tile author is to point nut one great defoct in the conetittation of Life Offices, namely, ...

... 1.7, I. - - borA, July 14.-Ycsterday the general dinner of the Society took place in a pavilion erected for the purpose, between the Castle and the Ouse. The number of the company could not have been less than 1,200. The appearance of so large an asssmblage when rising to do honour to the toasts proposed on thc distinguished guests present, was particularly striking and fine. The whole ...

... ARIA -k- ?? . -1 -L r c t . - Under the able stewardship of M.r_. Lorwndes Stone and Mr. ?? In consequence of the diabolical outrage which was perpetrated a month ago upon the commodious and substantial barns belong- ing to Mr. George Davey, where the fair has usually been held, but of which not a vestige now remains, except the bare walls, the wool was pitched in the barn and close adjoining, ...

... F^ASHIONS FOR JUNE., (From the Loadoax a F Paris Ladies' M~agazine of Fasdien) l\laterials of slight texture are nlow much in demand. M\ousse- lines de scie of every colour, barege9, Falmyrienines, and a new material partaking of the poll do cheyre, with jacunots and or- gandys in Persian patterns; sillk dresses of fancy stripes of the palest colours sre made with three flounces en blais, ...

... [ThdfolTowihg tianslation of a Danish Song has been made and sent to us by Mr.-JoHN MACRAY, of Sir R. Taylor's Institution.l le says:- Jens Baggesen, the author of this song, was a most ditingruished Danish Poet; he was born in 1764, and was in2 Paris during the most stormy period of the first Frenob Revo-. lution, whose excesses he so strongly condemns in the present production. Baggesen was ...

... TATERARY NOTICES. .? -w- -i ..An Popular Natural History, or the Ckaraetevistics of Animals, pop- traied in a eeries of ?? by Captain Thonas Brounn, . F.L.esle.. A. Fullarton and Co.LondonEdimbura h mnd Dublin. -This 1sone of the most interesting popilar Natu.a Histories-thatE we have met with; the author describestth habits and characteristics of beasts, birds,'and fishes clearly and ...

... LITERlAR.Y NOTICES. dcltj~uarqhE Londond bv Dtlle~icbd}n.-Sn~ce o~url l~at nlotice ot~thia invalu- ab~le work, Parts13 and 14 avo been publishled. They cocoplize an intinite variety of subjects, ranine ?? the article Gelts to thiat of -tellebore, all abl7y written, anld of great value to thec a -riculteriat. We caninot speak too highly ot the work, whichl ougyht to iars ea plalce in the ...