... This annual exhibition of fruit, flowers, &c. was held on Wednesday last. Gee. Nelson, Esq., very liberally gave the use of his garden and ground for the occasion, which answered the purpose in an admirable manner. The weather, although a little shlowery, was still very propitious, and the number of visitors was very large. The array of fruit and fldowers was exceedingly fine and beautiful, ...

... VARI i ETI ES. An old bachelor observes that he looks under the marriage head for the news of the wveak. JVHIICH IS THE MOST PERFECT POPULAn GovERNMIIENT? ?? That, said Bias where the laws have no superior. -That, said Thales, where the inhabitants are neither too rich nor too poor. That, said Anacharsis, the Scythian, where virtue is honoured and vice detested. is That, said ...

... A monthly Council was held on Wednesday the 4th of July. The following members of Council and Governors of the Society were present :-Colonel Challoner, trustee, in the chair; Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart., M.P., Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., M.P., Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., Sir Charles Gould Morgan, Bart., Sir Montague John Cholmeley, Bart., Sir Robert Piice, Bart., M.P., Mr. ...

... VA RI ETIES. EFFECTS OF EXcEssivE ANXIETY.-Sydney Smith, I writing to Lady Holland at the time of the Reform Bill, 1 1831. says I met John Russell at Exeter. The people along the road were very much disappointed at his small. ness. I told theml he was much larger before the Bill was s thrown out, but was reduced by excessive anxiety about the t people. This brought tears into their eyes. t ...

... PROCEEDINGB OF THE RUSSIANS IN THE WHITE SEA. The ln dependsance Betgc contains the following: HAMBURG, JULY 6. Our merchants have received news from Archangel, dated the 26th ult. The foreign vessels in the port at that date have happily been able to leave with their -cargoes. Amongst the vessels are some from the United States, and these, after discharging their cargoes, took an eastern ...

... A telegraphic despatch from Stockholm, dated Tues- day, states that news has arrived that the British have destroyed Nystadt. This despatffh has been followed by another from Berlin, dated Wednesday, viz. :- The town of Nyotndt, situated at the entrance of the Gulf of Eothnia, has been bombarded and destroyed.A squadron of seven steamers passed Botaldavik on thde 25t of June with six ...

... THE OXFORD JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1855. DEEP CULTIVATION-(Continued). WE concluded our last article, on the subject of deep cultivation, by pointing out in what particular soils and under what circumstances the desired end could best be attained by trenching-that is, by such a mode of mechanical action as should bring up the subsoil or a portion of it to the surface. In the same cases, ...

... JULY, 1855. OXFORD, WORCESTER & WOLVERHAXPTON. Dowm.-From LONDON to OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVERHAMPTON. TRAINS LEAVE Euston-square ?? Paddington ?? Oxford ?? O~rford ?? Handborough ?? Charlbury ?? Ascott ?? Shipton ?? Addlestrop ?? Moreton ?? Shipston ?? Stratford-on-Avon Blockley ?? Campden ?? Iloneybourne ?? Evesham ?? Fladbury ?? Pershore ?? Worcester Arrive Worcester ...

... ! P-UO3OTIONS & APPOINTMENTS. I - I I w he i PraOsOTIONS. by . C~ommnders.-p. T. Brown (1840); f.,M. Hayes (1841); in he and the Hon. G. 1). Keane (1846), to the rank of c0' Captain. INPuo~N~.0 0Taptain8.-S. C. Dacres, to be CapenSuperintendent of ?? the Royal Clarence Victualin Yard, and Haslar n U Hospital, vice Smith, promoted to flag; the Hon. he of J. R. Druxmiond, from the Tr'ibune, to ...

... Arrangements have been submitted to her Majesty's ' ti Government, and it is said have been agreed to, for the erectiou of four out of the twelve new bishoprics pro- posed by the commissioners. The seat of the first will be at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and will comprise the whole of the archdeacoary of Northumberland * including amongst others the. towns S of Tynemouth, Nortb and South Shields, 'Wark ...

... -SUSSEX, -BATURDAY, JULY 21, 18.5. e On Sunday-evening last, a new and fine toned organ, built by Eniland, and furnished by Grai and Davison, erected by a subscription raised amongst fhe parishioners of St. Andrew, Chichester, in the Church of that parish, was opened by Mr. W. Mitchell, assistant-organist of the Cathedral. .The choral portions of the service were sung by the choir of the ...

... THE OERLIND-MAIL. Despatches have been received by the Overland Mail, The dates are Bimbay, June 10 ; and Calcutta, i June 4. INDIA.. (From ther Bombay imes, June .10.) This is the season at which no intelligees ?? . is te be looked for, and though scarcely a drop of rain . has yet reached usi a -fertoight of the rainy season is i just as much hold to be past, so far aM. the suspension of I t ...