... 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 ...

... AN A F A, .. . I . I *~ ~ ~ ?? tre mos JmS- o; afmaitA This town, which is the last;is also the most important of..the towns and fortresses on the littoral of the Black Sea abandoned by Russia since the commencemenit of this war. The town, situate on the north-east coast of the Euxine, at the northern termination of the Caucasian range, forty-seven miles south-east of Ycnikal6, is xinhabited ...

... OXFORD )WORKHOUSE. The newly-elected Board of Guardians met on Thursdav afternoon, and proceeded to the election of a Chairman and two Deputy-Chairmen for the year. The Rev. J. Sewll, of New College, proposed the late Chairman (k3l. J. IB. Carr), and adverted to his unwearied attention to the duties of the office, his great experience, consideration for the ratepayers, and kindness to the poor ...

... MISCELLFANEOUS. -- ?? LOcD RAGLAN AND TWIE SPANISH CORTES,-In the Cortes, on July 2, Senor Gaminde proposed that the Chamber should declare it had learned with grief the death of Lord Raglan, who, as the Duke of Wellington's a a Secretary, had rendered important services to Spain during 81 the War of Independence. At the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the vote was postponed until ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THIE WAR. TFi FALL OF SEBASTOPOL. TTIE OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. the Leandon Gazette Estraoetdinarcy of Saturday, (Fro'l the Scptember 22.) WAR DEPARTMENT, Sl&temnber 22. Major the Hon. Leicester Curzoii arrived this ;;1lg with a despatch from General Simpson to ,ord panltiure, of which the following is a copy:- BBEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Scptentoncr 9. My Lord,-I had the honour to apprise your Lord- ...

... PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMIENTS. 1Mr. David B. Norton, BA,, of Oriel College (second class in classics and first class *in mathematics, 1854), has , been appointed to a AMathematical. Mastership at Broms- grove. School. o The Bishop of Oxford has instituted the Rev. Edward g Hill, M.A., to the Rectory of Little lVoolstone, Bucking- 1 ham.hire, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor; and has ...

... 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. ...

... ?? {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. ...