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REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN LEGION BY HER MAJESTY

... : al- I- - - -- - I . . The troops recently enlisted into the English service in Germany and Switzerland, and who have for some time past been encamped on Shorneliffe Downs, near Folkestone, were reviewed on Thursday in person by her Majesty, who, for this purpose, besides travelling a ceonsiderable distance by sea and land carriage, made a journey of upwards of 200 miles by railway. The Swiss ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1082 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE MASSACRE AT HANGO

... Admiral Dundas has received the following letter from' the Comimander-in-Chief of the Russian troops at Helsing- fors, in refeience to the recejit massacre at Hango Helsingfors, June 5 (17th). Monsieur ?? replyingto the letterof your Excellency of the 3rd (15tli) of June, 'I must observe with regret that the vessels of the English fleet hoist Russian colours the more easily to capture any ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL

... THE AR'MY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. The correspondence from the camnp received this week conies down. to the l1th of January, and the accounts of the sufferings of our brave fellows there continue to be, as Lord John Russell well described thein in his speech on the 26th ult., horrible and heartrending.' We select the following from the letters which have been published:- (FaoM AN OFFICER.) Jan. 8. ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4498 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

WOODSTOCK

... ?? {n- a. O.- ?? COUNTY COURT.-On the 29th Ultimo there were 24 Causes on the list ; several of them were, however, pri. vately arranged, and the others were of no importancv. The next Court is to be held Feb. 26, at 11.30. CHARLDURY. DIED.-Jan. 26, at Brighton, Ellen Sarah, relict of Captain Thomas Goldie Silver, 20th Regt. Madras Native Infantry, leaving three orphans to lament their loss. ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Thursday

... ROUSE OQS QOXDTQNOS-Thursday. r VIPVAICVT' f-6sl Fan.1- :. - rem - ' - The SPEAKrIt took the chair a few minutes before foUr. o'clock. In consequence of ?? interest excited by the Miinirterial S crisis the House Was. much fuller than on ordinary occa, slolls. Lord PALNIBMTON. and the bother Members of the Aberdeen Governument present took their places oil, the Ministerial benches as n sual. 01 ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

ABINGDON

... L -- -1-,; .Alv.lL4U *UA DIED.-On the 7th mist., -inthe .78th year of her age, Ann, relict of the late Rev. Andrew Hamilton, Rector of Knaptoft, Leicestershire, daughter of the late John Travis Esq., Recorder of Scarborough, and mother of Andrew Hamilton, Esq., surgeon, of Milton, near Abingdon. APPOINTMENT OF CiiuacuwAmoDaNs.-At vestry meetings held on Tuesday last, the following ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2275 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... ?? ?? ?? .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 ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1928 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

UNIVERSITY & CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

... Mr. James Bowen, Commoner, has been elected Mathe- matical Exhibitioner of UniversityCollegge. At a Congregation held at Cambridge on Wednesday last, Richard Harris Dalton Barham, B.A., of Oriel college, Oxford, was admitted ad cisuncm. The Committee appointed to propose Regulations for con- ducting the business of Congregation have agreed upon the following, which will be submitted to the ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1483 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY

... -. i - I - . I . A Special General Court was held at the Radcliffe t Infirmary on Wednesday last, for the purpose of con- s sidering the propriety of constructing a building for the a reception of patients suffering under cholera, smallpox or other epidemic disorders. e This question, which arose out of a suggestion of the Weekly Board on the 24th of last month, has excited considerable ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4178 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

TOWN COUNCIL

... A Meeting of the Town Council was held on Monday last, when the following business was transacted PROSECUTIONS. The account of Criminal Prosecutions for the half-year ending 30th June last was certified at the sum of 861. 9s. 4d. COMMITTEE OF ESTATES. The following Report from the Committee of Estates was read and agreed to:- 'The City Surveyor, having had the platform erected by 9essrs. ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1858 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

STREET COMMISSIONERS' MEETING

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1084 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1855
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1777 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News