... PACGTICAL AGRICULTURE. STEBAN CULTIVATION. 1ii0re eat be no doubt that steam culture is now qr:f e mrtical Agriculture ; and a good thing rn esi rI ,l long continue to be, for practical tlti;rilto that the steam engine has been at flly npphied to the cultivation of the i 11i~e :here must affect the whole s ' lt..wdalturiul p'rocessesandproduce. Improved Cl.ti5.jtli uli tactlive use the ...

... -UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL IXTELLIGENCE. 'Viea THE THREE DIOCESAN SOCIETIES. elder The usual Quarterly Meeting will be held, D.V. (by Ben1 permission of thle Magistrates), at the COUNTY HALL, A Oxford, on TUESDAY, May 6th, at Eleven o'clock. Thle St. b business wvill be transacted in the following order :-ist. daill Church Building. 2nd. Spiritual Help. 3rd. A Education. ?? Aprtil 23, 1862 ...

... DANBURY. MIA 111 ?? r il 91, art thc Pariah Churil ch, 0l cat ?? Iof Mr. IDavid Endill, jesweler, fifth son of' Mr. Jamnes Endlil, | a of fllbiluy, to Maly ln.l, vdldont dau'dlitel of Mri. 'I'hoimas I Botilr, ?? Great 1larlow.-Aril226, it St. Mi'ohaol's |if Church, Oxford, by the Rev. C. Riddino, flenry William J. Clmrke, to Annic, tlird dailighter of ?? Fite J. H. Durran, jew oiler , &e., fli ...

... SIXF~h1 OXottsutWniU RIFLEcS.-Orders for week eon- mencing Mloncidy, Mlay 12.-Tuesday, Company drill in the 3~lorletplalce at 7 p m. ; march out. Wednesday, Target practice at the Schools at 5.30. Friday, Position drill at the Schools at 7 p.m. -Orderly, Color-Sergeant Aostinl.-T. LESLIE MEZLVIL.LE CART WRIG nc, Lieutenant Commandinlg. INQUESTS OUFOiLE J. CnluitcflhiL, Esq.-At Adderbury, on ...

... Since the brief report last week the full extent of this awful calamity has been revealed 49 blackened and bruised bodies have been found. Cethii colliery is situate d about twvo miles fronat Merthyr Tydvil, and is an extensive and well- mansged boalaice pit, extending in its furthest direction to about a mile andI a-half below ground. The shaft is 126 yards in depth, ani the workings sire so ...

... AMTIERICA. IMPORTANT BATTLES BEFORE RICHMOND. NEW YORK, JULY 3, EVENI1NG. Events of the highest importance have taken place before Richmond. A series of severe and bloody battles, extending over seven days, have been fought betbre that place, resulting in the defeat of General MOlellan's army, with heavy loss during four days' fighting. The Federal armv retreated 17 miles. The accounts ...

... Address of Condolence to the Queen. It a sopecial ineeting of the Council of the Rloyal tt!ritul dI Society of Ejniland, on Wediesday, Dec. 8. . inrl ,f 'owis, who hadtl been requested to take tho u ei0 1t1,imiocd the prooceedeilgs by observitig that wheln in N itter ?? his jiovali li ?? the P1rioce Consort had 1'old it Was little thought by any thlen presenit that tli!t W-41H b il is last a ...

... THE SATALL POX IN SHEEP. Ott Wednesday at meeting of the, ?? tleclollnaatersl inl this county was hield ait the Cross Hotel, Oxford, in order to consider tlbeprepriet1, of establiatibng, some Mutual linsurance Society ag~ainst, loss~ from1 the disease in sheep. Tim: meeting wa :s meoiieii-l at thle instance of tlio Oxford Plenro-Psico- mnonsa Association, and was attended by Mr. W,. ...

... SOUTHIAMPTON, Feb. 4. This beadi.g, which for the last three or four weeks has al so repeatedly been encounterel in the columns of Thek Toises, appears, it is to be hoped, for the last time to slay. , The small blockade has been rmised, and both 'saecoroert B and Aeashvtille are low fsee of our waters Notwithstandinig r the close ?? which, since the 5th of January, the Y first-named vessel has ...

... Charles Lamb, in ae liter to Coleridge, asks, by the way, may not the Oyles of Somer setshire be remotely descended from Kigg Lcae. Talie oasv my first letter, talkeaway my second letter, take assay all my letters, and I nm still the same-the postman. 1tREcD D VIT.-The Rev. Dr. M11'Lood %%as proceedingfrom the mnarse of D-- to church, to open a new place of worship. As he plassed slowly and ...

... (Fromu the Tbidms.) Ita The Oxford University meeting for the relief of the j fo d isti ess iii Latncacshire had ?? very approepriate co rmIlian- fo ship of the ltegius Professor of Divinity. It wns a symnbol th of the union of ftaith aodt worlks that tbe dignitary who aif Nwitches over the faithl of the Uoniversity sio old also direct the charity of the University. ?? ?? be better 0t TI than ...

... iAND cLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. lIE T11REL DIOCESAN SOCIETIES. . U'Utuily Meeting of the above Societies will be ?? k etY PMissioin of the Magistrates), it, the . if UxtIjid on Tueseday Morning, Au gust t, at ?? ck. lhe ordet' ot busiless ;vill be first, 'r id liritual lielp, 3rd, Church Building. .,U ted that dl applications to the latter Society ' it1 the necessary Papers, &c., to the Secre- ...