... The following letters and extracts of despatches have been forwarded by the Horse Guards to Lieutenant-General Butler as the most appropriate condolence upon the death of his lamented son Horse Guards; JTuty 17, 1854. Sir,-I have heard with the deepest regret of the loss which you and the arny have sustained by the death of your distinguished son, Captain J. A. Butler, of wounds and fatigue at ...

... - M AODALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL. ' On Monday, Juy ,24th, the usual distribution of Exhi- g bitions and Prizes, proviously to the breaking .up of the Y School, took place ihythe school-room of the college. The Y attendance of visitors was unusually large, and included the .s Junior Proctor, thoe Rev. Dr. Jelf, the Rev. Sir F. G. Ouse- ley, Bart.,the Rov. W. &3well, Warden of St. Peter's col- of loge ...

... RE ADING. I.. I MARMrcIVD-July 25, at All Souls, Maiiylebone, Mr. W. W Hodges, jun. of the Queen's-crescent, Reading, to Frances 1! Myra, the only daughter of George CharPts Jones, Esq., of the Royal Navy, Sherries, County Dublin. .: DieD.-J-UlY 20, aged 2fli Henrietta, daughiterof Mr. T.- Bowlder, bricklayer, &c., Coley-stret.-Jely 21, aged 5-, e Mr. Thomas Philbrjnck tanner, &c., of ...

... ON Tll PlRROPERl CARE, AND TRlTATMENT I 01F J U VE NILL 0 iT' E Nl) E' I. LPrEnc 11. 'dlen tile pltinful spectacle of a child's laine, aged eight yearn, upon a Sessions' pmaper, lately distressed the foeliurgs of the public (and the more sobecauscethc infanlt's hinnoeelic determined the Grand Jury to ignore the bill), r, in common with the wvorthy Magistrate rl, in tder the circulnstianees ...

... A NeEW PIAN T.-At 11.45 mean time on Sunday night, MIr. J. R. Hin(l discovered an object shining like a star of the tenth magnitude, or rather brighter, which proves to be another new memnber of the group of minor planets. It is almost exactly on the ecliptic, aboutniidway between two rtars of the fifth nmagniLude-29 and 32 of Flamsteed in 'Ctpricerunas. VIr'RETUAL INSURxNCF.-In Philadelphia ...

... A WlOL IN SEIrxp'S CLO'TssxNG.-Our fellow-townismen j have recently been taken in by a smooth-tongued follow, t who styled himself Dr. Welch, lecturer on America and t Americans. He announiced that he should deliver two lec- I tures, and, after having sold tickets to various persons, for r both lectures, he delivered one, and then took his departure, c leaving the bill at his inn unpaid. He is ...

... T II A X E. On Saturday ihight last a fat sheep was stolen from the grounds of Air. Hedges, of Shabbingtorl Bush, the property .of Mr. Castell, butcher, of Thamb ; the offenders have not *yet been discovered. PETTY SuESIoNS TuFSPAY.-Eminuel Tollicot was conm- mitted for six n onihs, for stealing cabbage from the garden of S. Cook, a neighbouring labourer. THE SOUTH OXFOR>DSHIIlE HUNT. On, ...

... CONSECRATION 01 THE PARISH CHURCH or I Ohalfont Saint Peter, Duoleinghamnshire. e On Friday the 21stinst. the Bisbop of Oxford consecrated the above Church. The chancel of tire ancient Church had been re-boUt, and a new south aisle added, and the Church S otherwise enlarged and re-modelled The werk has been e successfully executed under the auspiceof Mr l. Street, of ' U Oxford, the diocane ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-TkunaDAY, JuY 27. I The Merchant Shipping Bill-vwas read a third thne and ?? Beer Bill passed through. committee.- Several other bills were fowarded a stage, after which their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMIIONS.-THURSDAY, JULY 27. A considerable portion of the morning sitting was taken up with the discussion, at the time of private bushiess, of'.the Finchley-road Estate ...

... A3n extraolN OF LUNACY- - I rnfl. ; I ?? 1ar tentio of B4Y' nquiry dte 1lmtjCe occupied tleo at- th . P rvw, Esq.,; one of the Matters in Lunacy, and a, Special Jury, ?? days digteps ek the. defendant being Mr. j. Chitae, formerlyh PasCatai inec the ?? Lancers , Several Couns e forlnerlyd n Captdin in Bides tbe o m mi sion eing aupp rted by S ir F . T hesiger for Captaitwjn M and ano the ...

... ,- - - . (From TiePreae8) The sixth annual report of the Poor Law Board is before. Us, and we propose to supply our readers with a short analysis of its contents. The amount expended on pauper relief in England and, r Wales during the lastyear (1853) amounts to 4,938,0641., t or, in round numbers, a little under five million sterling., 1 This sum exceeds by 40,0001. the expenditure of 1852, r ...

... OXFORD JOURNAL Saturday, JOURNAL, ;. -.JaW : e - .CIE CE IsL 0Q2Ivk/~ - I 'sIcuiE AND AkRICULTUItE I FARMI BUILBINGS.-No I, THlE BARN ANDuIS MACHINERY THER. is scsict any Species of agriculture, 'or df pstoratl pursuit, in a thu 'than tohe torrid zone or its vicinity, whichi can'be:'oarried on withoutotlha raid of farm bldinre the uidings 'also descrition. They are needed for the shltrer 'of ...