... STREET COOMMISSIONERS' .MEETING. - a ?? .zI -- 1 . . ?? The Monthly Meeting of the Street Commissioners was held on Wednesday last, Mr. Tarry in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, the Junior Proctor begged to be allowed to bring a subject under the notice of the Meeting, which had forced itself upon his attention during his year of office. le alluded to the ...

... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... T-Et PRESENT PRICES OF PROVISIONS. (From the Times.) The late rise, not only in corn, but in sugar, tea, and most articles of daily consumption, is attracting serious attention. Its influence upon the entire mass of the popu- lation at the approach of winter will be such that no pains should be spared to make them acquainted with its true causes, since there is nothing that could be more ...

... WIT J E Y. DIED.-June 29, at 1instr, Daniel Basson, blanket- weaver, aged 37 ?? 29, at Witney, Sarah, widow of Mr. George Hathaway, aged 76 ?? 1, Elizabeth, widow of the late Mr. Johln Jonesaged 73 years. AN; INQUEST Was held oln Saturday last, by F. Westail, Esq, Deputy Coroner, on the body of Edward, infant son of Edwin Crosswell, of Witncy, aged 14 days, who died that day from small-pox. ...

... B RILL. MAhRIMD-Nov. 11, at Brill, by license, by the Rev. J. S. Baron, Mr. Jessop, butcher, of Oxford, to Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, of Kirtlington. On Saturday night last a teg sheep, the property of Mr. Parsons, brewer, of Brill, was lost (supposed to be stolen) from his fields; as yet no trace of it has been discovered. MAGISTRATES' MEETING, Nov. 9. Present, the Rev. J. S. Baron, the Rev. ...

... We have been favoured with a copy of thle Report of this Committee, which we understand will be presented to the next council, and to which we invite the attention of the freemen of Oxford, and our readers generally. It appears from this report that the Committee held mectings on the Sth, 13th, and 21st of February, and on the 24th of the present month. The report then states that- The ...

... 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 ...