... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Temorandulm on the Battle of Iukermann. i bI-- iA} . - I (From the Times.) We learn from numerous communications by the last mail from the army that the account of the battle of Inkermann contained in Lord llaglan's public despatch has excited strong feelings of surprise and dissatisfaction among an important part of the forces engaged in that memorable action. The accounts already received ...

... The Town Council met, according to the provisions of the s Municipal Act, on Monday last, when, previously to the V commencement of the public busines, thie Mayor (C. J. d Sadler, Esq.) wished the members a happy new year, 0 prosperity during its continuance, and many joyful returns Ii of, it. Thefollowing business was then transacted:- a RAILWAY LAKE. I The: subject of redeeming the land-tax ...

... THE flRUIDS' A;NNUAL DINNER. On Monday last the members of the Oxford Lodge of i Ancient Druids, No. 69, held their annual festival in their tl Lodge Room, at the Wheatsheaf Inn, High-street, when 01 the spirited host, Br. Wright, placed before his guests a si dinner, which, for its excellence and abundance, has rarely el been surpassed in this city. The whole of the dinner, with e some few ...

... T - a8- n-- aT - M I i> I . .1 - The ,Rev. G. Babb, ?? A., to the Vicarage of iast Halton, ;1incolnshiro. The Rev. Canon Barrow, Chaplain to the Bishop of Glou- cester and Bristol, ?? of St. John's and Vicar ofiSt. Nicholas, Bristol, to ?? of West Kington. The Rev. E. A. Cooper, M.A., to the Rectory of Ludfeid Parva, With the Vicarage of.Ludford Magna, Linoolnshire. . The Rev. A. J. Deck, B.A. ...

... The Berlin coraespondent of the Inijwpendance Belge gives the following analysis of the Prussian despatch of the 19th ult., sent to Paris and Loudon, The despatclh: first alludes to the notification of the treaty which wae made on the evening.of the 16th by the three Envoys in. separate conferences. . M. de Manteuffel comnmunicated:.the treaty to the King, Prussia fully ap- preciates the ...

... HENLEY-ONDT-THAMiES. -n- t on - t - ?? .. . - I I DIED.-Dec. 229, at her residence, Bell-street, Henley, Mary, widow of the late John W. T. Sparks, Esq., 'of St. John-street, London, aged 58 years. : > -; j CHORAL SOcIETY.-On Wednesday eve'ing last this Society gave their seventh open night-a6ri'd although, from domestic circumstances, some meilber's of the orchestra were absent, yet the ...

... UXA A -1- - . .. - . . - - This School broke up for the Cbristmas holidays on Friday December 22, but the usual character of the occasion was changed out of respect to the venerable President, who was then within a few hours of his end. Alisinging and similar festive accompaniments were in .onsequence omitted, and the proceedings limited to the reading of reports from the Examiners (Rev. J. IV ...