... THE HOSPITALS AT SCUTAARI. The Tines correspondent, writing from Scutari, Feb. 1, says:- Since the date of my last letter the mortality here has decreased somewhat, and I hope that it may never again rise to the height at which it stood on the four preceding days. It is still, however, fearfully great. On the 29th ult. there were 53 burials; on the 30tS, 45 ; on the 31st, 52; making in three ...

... A.iBINGDON. DIaD.-Jan. 28, deeply vegretted by a large cirdle of e-A latives and friends, Mir. John Wbiitehorn, of prajtorii;Berks, in his 73rd yenr. INQoEu.si-An inquest was held by E. Cowcher, Esq. Coroner, at the parish of Aston-Tirrold, on Saturday last, on the body of a labouring man named William Pope, aged 38. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had been profes- sionally attended ...

... AB I NGD 0 N. BIUTIIS.-Feb. 17, the wife of Mr. Charles Cox, auc- tioneer, Abingdon, of a daughter.-Feb. 18, the wife of Mr. J. M. Davis, of Rndley, of twin-daughters. TEE PATRIOTIC FRUND.-This fund has been enlarged by the sum of £28. Bs. from the parish of Cumnor, which sum has been paid into the bank here by the Hon. andrRev. C. F. 0. Spencer. Inquestse bqefore B. Cozeher, Esq., Croner ...

... - , -a - T -..A1 ?? -. 1 VALOVR's REWARD.-Lord Cardigan has come home* and-says the Alorning Uhroeicle-now not the vulgarest demagogue would reproach him with the black bottle. Very true. We forgive and forget his Lordship the black bottle, seeing how gallantly he has stood the grape.-Punch. A Texas paper says that the earth is so kind in that State, that 'just tickle her with a hoe and she ...

... VARITETIES. A CAu3NeaT VIRTUr,-When a Minister can stand no longer. he meets his fete With resignation.-Punch* TOAST FOR ALL PARTIEs.-TO tkiss Nightingale, and all the ladies in the Crimea, except Miss LManagement .-Puncls. Cooxeay FOR THE CRIT4eA.-The m~ess in the Crimea appears to be owing to divided responsibility, the work-i being distributed over a number of departments among too many ...

... RL E ADIN CG. DIED.-Feb. I, at Huungerford, Uerks, Mr. Alfred Hunter, late of Castle-ttreet, Reading aed 31 years-Feb. 5,: in Victoria-square, Reading, Thoinas Rickford, Esq., aged 72. -Feb. 4, at Sunning Hill, Berks, after a short but severe illness, deeply lamented, Fiances Almeria, the wife of John Stables, Esq. MECTIANICS' INSTITUTION. - Tine lecture on Tuesday evening lust was by the Rev. ...

... . BUCKS INFIlIMARiY.-Patients admitted during the last pO week, inpatients, 2.; out-patients, 6. Wednesday, Feb. 21, patients in the house,.24.ie out-patients on the books, ke 68. Feb. 28, Mr. Rt. Ceelr, receiving surgeon. House. Co visitors, Rev. A. Ishaml iiudJi2.Sfono, Esq. m BUCKSS INL'RMA&R'.-Oos notioe last week of a donation of 51., per Joseph Rose, Esq-, should have appeared, a a ...

... BA:WBURY. . I\ .. . . i MARnREn.-February 9, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Banbury, Mr. Edwin H. Rouse, chemist and druggist, Chipping-Norton, to Louisa Tabitha, daughter of Mir. T. ?? Plumb, of Alkerton Cottagc.-Fcb. 19, at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. IV. N. Chipperfield, surgeon, H. E. I. C. S., to Elizabeth Susan, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Hlirons, formerly of Wardington, in this ...

... OXFORiD ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY. The first meeting in this Term was held in the Society's Rooms in Holywell-street, on Wednesday the 14th instant, the Rev. the Rector of Exeter College, President, in the chair. The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society :-Mr. G. E. Meihuie, Merton; Rev. W. R. Normal,, Exeter; iIr. C. W. Sandford, Christ Church; Mr. Wr. Stephens, Queen's. The ...

... BtTUOKINGHAM. DiED.-Feb. 14, at Tingewick, Mrs. Sarah Hinson, aged .73 years. The Mayor having invited a few of the principal inhabi- tants to meet him in the Town Hall, to raise a subscription to enable the poor to get eoals at a reduced rate during this inclement weather, a sufficient sunm was soon contributed to allow eanh family to have 2 cwt. for Wd., and they have since had 1 cwt. as a ...

... A A-t- -AAS1.- A l ,L 1- d Another cause cjldbre, in which the character of a well. known nobleman has been seriously called in question, has come before the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Mir. Joil Stratford Flandcock, the uncle and heir-at-law of 1liss n Honoria Handcock, who died intestate in 1853, possessed of the large estates of the family, on coming to take possession of his property, ...

... PARtLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENC E. HOUSE OF LORDS. t MONDAY, FEB. 5. i The Earl of ABERDEEVf, in moving the adjournment of t the House, said he thought it right to inform their Lord- t ships that his noble friend the Secretary of State for the t Home Department bad been commissioned by her Majesty I to propose to her Majesty a new Administration; and he d being engaged in that work at that moment, ...