... Since CAIRO, FEB. 12. bion, Snedespatcl-ing my letter of the 6th, the day on which the Prince and Princess of Wales started on their n to tour up the Nile, intelligence has been reeeived here of coal their safe arrival on the evening of the 9th at Minieh. tact Delays had been experienced in consequence of; two Of Deal the steamers having for a short time got aground, and 3ae' because during ...

... I I The Mark Lane Express of Monday last gives an estimate of the yield of the.crops of 1868 in England, supplied by its own correspondents to the 16th instant. We extract the returns from this county, as well as those from Berks and Bucks .- OXFORDSHIRE. BAxpToN,-Wheat, considerably over average and very good; barley, very much under average; oats, under average; beans, under average; ...

... ' I ,, - I CONsvteATION.-The Bishop of Oxford hold a Confirmis- tion at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, in this town, on Friday the 12th inst., for the Abingdon parishes, tio andi fur Iladley and Dreyton, the candidates numbering O3 nearly 250, antidespite a cold, drencihing rain, the church we was crowded. Owing to the inclemency of the weather wit the arrangements had to be ...

... I : . l This Institution, which is situated in Friar's Whad',' ~a thev now been sucessfully carried on forl10years. The avei'age int attendance of boys from February to Juxie last was 30 ,ai gIrs, 21 ; and, from September last to the present month, Ital 83 boys and 30 girls, making a total of 114 young people th, ofboth sexes who have been. receivingteavnae fca itit instruction and training. ...

... A GR I C U LT UR E. I MR. RANDELL'S FARM AT CHADBURY, The following account of Mr. Raudell's farm is extracted and condensed from Mr. Clarke's Report on Steam Cultivation, in the Journal of the English Agricultuxal Society:- The farm of 430 acres arable, and 220 pasture, con- sists for the most part of stiff blue-lias clay, some of the surface presenting very steep acclivities; while a ...

... I - AGRICULTUJRAL PROSPECTS. -- AGI - I~~ The past reek opened with a dry boisterous day, and ryblowing a gale at night. Heavy rain had fallen early d on Monday morning, and the day proved showery and is, stormy. The gale cortinued to blow throughout the night, -and Tuesday proved very showery with the wind i, strong from the S.W. -to W. Thermometer, 62 degrees; L5, barometerdownto29.80 inches ...

... EMIGRATION CIUBS. .Ilh±tS=bfl..L JX '4±, VUD0. To tf/e EIITOR of t/e OXFORD JO UR NAL. Sir,-In Clerkenwell and elsewhere, such Institutions are carried on with marked Euccess. Each member is recguhied to subscribe Nveckly, with the understanding that should he wish to withdraw, I he can' -o1ly forfeiting the entrance fee, which goes for expenses. At each meeting the President reads or spookcs ...

... AI3DRESS TO T OO tO F ACELLOR BY T. I I -CORPORATION OF OXFORD. I rer On Mondasy afternoon a deputation of the Mayor and in Corporation of this City waited upon the Lord Chancellor iat at his residence in Great George Street, Westminster, to ire aesenta congratulatory address on the appointment of ofas Lordship to the highest judicial pdsition under the ily Crown. en The deputation was ...

... I _ COUNTY MAffISTRATES' CaURx's Orrica, FEB. 3.-Before T J. Dalzell, Esq.-John Deadman, of Cholsey, corn pornter, tl 'was charged with threatening his wife, Hannah Deadman, ir who said that on the evening of the 1st inst. her husbaced at! came home and put half a-sovereign down on the table; - r they had some conversation about the money, and the' E defendant made use of very bad language, ...

... THE OXFORD JO-URNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRuAry 27. The Queeii did not return to Windsor on Friday the 19th inst., as was expected, on account of the sudden illness of Prince Leopold, and all the arrangements were countormandod at the clevcnth hoour. laor tho mono reason her Majesty could not go to London on Monday, as had been arranged, to receive both Houses of Par- liament with the Address, which ...

... THE SEWAGE QUESTION. (From the Agricultural Gazette.) Our correspondents have once more brought the sewage question prominently before our readers. The season of growth is approaching, and the manure of the farm is again the leading agricultural subject. Is it not strange that one of the most abundant somnces of fertilizing matter should have been so long neglected-that the house-waste of ...

... I On Tuesday a meeting of Deputies from Chambers of Agriculture throughout the kingdom was hold at the Salisbury Hotel, Fleet-street. Mr. C. Si Read, M.P., presided. Those present were Lord George Hamilton, M.R, Sir George S. Jenkinson, M.P. (Glon- cestershire), Sir Massey Lopes, M.P. (Devon and Corn- wall), the Hon. F. Cadogan, M.P., Hon. G. Milles, Mr. A. Pell, M.P., Mr. J. W. Knight, M.P., ...