... (Front tie Dc fi .Verey of Ts'snrs/ap.) Mr. Ro-buck's motion stands on tho order book far th is evening, and proposes the appointment of a select commiet-o to inquire into the condition of our army before Sebastopol, and into thc conduct of those depart- ments of the government whose duty it bras been to minister to the wants of the army. The notice of this motion has fluttered the official ...

... LONDON, Wednesday, January 21, 1855. ?? A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Wed- nesday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were-tha Earl of Ab-rdeen, the' Lord Chun- c¢Ilor, the Marquis of Lansdovwne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Sir James Graham, Sir ...

... / ;1.A. - -. r' (Fror' the Olofse.j ti The following comprises all the Ministerial changes i Lord' Palmerston First Lord of the Treasury, vice the Earl of Aberdt en. Earl Graiville President of tho Coincil, in tho roon ?? Russell h Mr. Sydney Herb-rt`' is appointed a Secretary of ' State, but whethef the right hon.' gentleman is' to be a signe the Elomre Department 'o the Colonial, we n ...

... -o inf HOUSE OF PEERS. all FRIDAY, JuNE 15.] On the motion for the re- Hi commitrment of the Religious Worship Bill, 5.5i The Earl of DEmnY moved as an amendment that a ho, aselct committee should be appointed to inquire into inl t-e actual state of the law on the subject, and into the tio expediency of relaxing or abrogating the existing enact- OX mentes. He believed that no practical ...

... -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 ...

... The monthly meeting of the Oxford Farmers' Club was held on Wednesday last, at the Three Cups Hotel, when there wvas a good attendance of the members. Among those present were the President (Mr. IV. Thomson), the Vice- President(AIr. Middleton), Messrs. MIein, G. Long, Williams, Watson, G. Osborn, Mr. Alderman Towle, Messrs. Bates, Woodford, Marsh, J. Wickens, Bruton, Scott, &c., &c. The ...

... 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 ...

... A correspondent of the Times in the Crimea thus writes on the 16th ult. - Although attached to the fleet, I had a very good opportunity of seeing a good deal of what was going on on shore, and I am therefore delighted to see that you took the lead in denouncing the real cause of our failure in the Crimea-namely, the want of leadership. You know that at all times a more than ordinary man is ...

... k-n Ir ,, -a A ROGUE AND VAaA/BOND.-On Wednesday last a man who gave his name as John Smlith, of Witucy, was brought sip in custody by Hurd, the officer, before B. J. Whippy, Esq., charged with going about gathering contributions under fraudulent pretences. It appeared that the prisoner camie to Charlbury on the previous day, and, by the assist- ance of a person in this town, obtained most of ...

... THE FRENOH ACCOUNT. it The Mlloniteui publishes the following despatch from ir General Canrobert, to the French Minister of War, dated March 23 Monsieur le Alardcbal,-1es, had last night a very hard- e rontit d, and, for our troops, very glorious combat on our right worliq of attack-, in front of the Malakchoff Tower. At about eleven o'clock at night the enemy attempted a general sortie on ...

... THE OXFORD JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1S55. LIVE, STOCK. CIEIITAIN domestic aninmals are called stock, from the circumstance of t'ieir being part of the requisite material and furnislhing of a ftrn ; and live steck, to distinguish them fromn the inplements, seed, ma- nure, and stored produce of the farm, which are called dead stock. 'Iln an article on farm horses, whichl ...

... THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOI. The latest despatches from the Crimea, via Vienna, come down to Feb. 4, up to which date nothing of im- portance had occurred. The firing was well sustained in the daytime by the batteries of the Allies, whose position and number of guns opened were daily improving and increasing. The movement of the Turko-French force from Eupatoria, to manwuvre upon the north of ...