... -t o - ?? -1- , - ,, .. 1nd A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 26th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says :- Promotion in the army takes place at present so rapidly that there are many lieutenants I who have been only 18 months in the service. In times r of peace a man remains usually three years in the sameV grade, so that it requires twelve years to become a staff officer. A passenger by ...

... A benefaction of 100QZ. Three per Cent, Consolidatted Bank Annuities having been offered to the University, the interest to be given as a prize for an English Poem on a Sacred Subject, which shall be awarded, under certain regulations, once in every three years; and the same having been accepted by Convocation on Feb. 15, 1848, thefollowingauluject is proposed for the year18557:- The Death of ...

... PRESENIIArTION OF A SWORD TO SIR DE' LACY EVANS. rill, ?? ?? T-T-.I ?? -3. A1 The inhiabitants ofFolkestone, IHythe, Sandgate, and the neighbourhood on Monday last presented General Sir De lacy Evans with a sword, in commemoration of the courage, devotion, and generosity exhibited by him in the mnemorable actions of Alma, the heights of Tobernaya, and 1nkermann. The gallant General in ...

... JA N UAR Y. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN. From Oxford to Batbaury, London, Bir-ming7ham,1 c/ester, Liveirool, C/tester, Edinburglt, &c. Leaves OXFORD ?? Arr. at Islip ?? Bicester ?? Launton ?? Claydon ?? Winslow ?? Arrive W (Winslow Dep. S | Buclingham .2 a Brackley ?? Farthingboe.. ?? ?? Swaanbourne ?? Bletchley ?? LONDON ?? Bedford ?? Northampton ?? Peterborough ?? Cambridge ?? Rugby ?? ...

... ?? ?? ?? .y ?? B3URGInxous io osirY.-Q. What bar is that which Often opens, but never shuts ?-A. A crow-bar-.Panch. Lord JohTn Russell says that there is one bit of treth in the Austrian treaty, and that is at the end, where the name of the represenitativre of England is coulpled With the words Done at Vicnina.-paach. A PRAitcULK's R[r,e1LcrzIoN.Rowland Hill once said, on observing some ...

... STREET COMMISSIONEES' MEETING. M L- A A I -1 - - v e, The Jmonthly meeting of the Street Commissioners was held in the Town Hall Committee Room on Wednesday t last, Mr. Green in the chair. r On the minutes of the last meeting being read, the Mayor f said that it appeared notice had been given to determine the contracts for cartage and for cleansing the streets, and he thought that a ...

... The following telegraphic despatches have arrived this week: qon-stantinopld, Dec. 20.-It is confidently asserted that the resolution has been adopted to storm Sebastopol as c soon as the Turkish reinforcements come up. The I French, it is said, are to storm, whilst the British anid Turks attack Menschikoff. There is a reuort that Otnar t Pasha has written to the Sultan, making it a.condition ...

... THE CRIhIEAN ARMY FUND. d The Committee have issued the following announce- ment:- ie On the 1st of December ' The Crimean Army Fund' was le commenced, with a view of rendering some assistance to the e British army while exposed to the many privations and 9i hardships of a winter campaign. y On the 7th of December the Committee were enabled to dI despatch from Portsmouth the Royal yacht ...

... (From the Correspondent of TVi Ties..) Lisbon, Dec. 31, ]S54.-In respect to tho saltpetre re- cently shipped from this port for Hamnburg, aid taken to Oran by the French steamer of war Plaenix, I can now give you full particulars. Mr. John Esken shipped in London, and cleared out for Lisbon on the 22nd of September last, 973 bags of saltpetre by the Danish galliot Jalius, Capt. Peter Thompson, ...

... Mit. LAN.GS.TON'S PRIZE FOR BOOT CROPS. 7o the Editor of the Oxford- Jourizal. Sire,-I perceive in your last week's fowalnl another letter from an unsuscces£;l competitor, Mr. Gibson, wherein he presunies to have great cause of comnpthint against the de. cision arrived:att by m'yself and colleags!e in reference to the £ 20 prize givers by J. H. Langston, Esq., M. P., for the cleanest, bust, au ...

... THE OXFORD JOURNAL, SATURDAY, TAN. 6, 1855. SCOTCH FARMING. OBSERVATIONS MADE IN A TOUR THROUGH THAT COUNTRY. (Continaedfroa our' last weed's Joui'aal.) THE IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY; Anad a Coomparison of them withi ttose used in Englat.& HAVING ill former papers described the barn ma- chinery and motive power commonly employed in Scotland, we now proceed with what may be termed the field ...

... -- -1 0 - ~ IABIUuD.-Dec. 23, at St. Mlary's Church, Banhby, c Mr. James Prince, to Kezia Catherine, daughter of Air. e W. Malsbury.-Same day, Mr. William Woodhull; to ' Sarah Smith, Banbury-Dec. 27, at the Abbey Chuinh, f Great Malvern, by the Rev. George Downing Bowles, of F Farthinghoe, brother of the bride, Capt. Richard Strachey, e of the Bengal Engineers, HEICS., to Caroline knne, only ...