... I -,4 .:I The election of Representatives in the Town Council for each of the five Wards of the City took place oil Monday last. The presiding Aldermen and places of polling were as follow :-Nortli Ward (Ald. Hughes)-Its the Boys' School Room, Gloucester Green; South Ward (Ald Hauley)--Coru Exchange; East Ward (AId. Spiers)- F A booth on The Plain, St. Clement's; West Ward (Ald. in Carr) ...

... BIOESTER. I ?? - SioK VISITInG Sooncrx.-Tho usual aunual balance-sheet I of this Society for: 1873 has been issued to the subscribers. 'res The subscriptions amounted (with 1s. 74d. balance of pre- kiu vious year) to 371. 17s. lbd., and the expenditure to 371. l8s. 6d., leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of Is. 4Jd. Subscriptions for applying relief during the ensuing winter I ,are being ...

... HYDROPHOBIA. To the FDITORs of the OXFORD JO UJRNAL. Sm,-With referenoe to the case of hydrophobiamat Great Barrington, mentioned inl last week's Journal, I beg Ace to inform you that, after the dog was buried, I exhumed it, and f rom the appearances presented by the post-mortem 11 examination, the history of the case, and the symptoms 112! exhibited by the animal, I am perfectly satisfied ...

... I THE OVEIRLLANTD MAIL. The Overland Mail has brought news from Calcutta to the 9th, and from Bombay to the 12th of October. The chief event of the week had been the opening of the Hyderabad State Railway, which brings the great Mahommedan city of the Deccan into direct communi- cation with Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay. The Viceroy has recovered from his attack of Assam fever. His visit to ...

... On Tuesday afternoon an explosion occurred at Messrs. r Curtis and Harvey's gunpowder mills, near Hounslow, by r which four men ware killed and a man and boy injured. Amongst the numerous buildings on these extensive works is a brick and slated structure called the mixing-house, l and it is here that the three ingredients of which gunpowder is composed-charcoal, seltpetre, and brimstone-are ...

... LATEST INTELLIGEMCE. GREAT BRITAW. AND THE PopE, ROME, No't. 5. The Voce della Verita denies the news that the British Government has; recalled Mr. Jervoie The Pope has declared that he 'will never copnsent to hold intercourse with the British representative at the Cburt of Victor EmmanueL T1 IE CARLIST WAR. MADRID, Nov. 3, The ?? of the North commenced operatior£ againsJ the Carlists ...

... Oxford Working Men's L~rid r 7xiety. The 14th annua meeting of ths Ithe 27th tilt.. Mr. (4 r-- M t?- Too glin uLr., a1r. L*. quelch (Chairmi 'G`i h8J The Secretary (Mr. W. Woodwrnh prea5d 5 which stated that the Directors met the rineithe 1 same satisfaction that they had hitherto d5ere%: they felt that in working out the intention0 doe t to their satisfactiou they must also Work foretrb te ...

... BAWBURY. BnnIsss-Oct. 31, the wife of Mr. T. Simpson, chemist, &c., Bloxham, of a son.-Oct. 31, at.71, the Lawn, Win. chester, the wife of G. E. M. Knight, of a son. WARossnD.-Oct. 29, at Turweston, by the Rev. W. K:eox Little, assisted by the Rev. G. Willes, the Rev. Sydney R. Little, to Edith, daughter of 3. L. Stratton, Esq., of Turwestisa House. DIED,-Oct. 24, at Balscott, Thomas Gilkes, ...

... SO I A meeting rf the members of the Central Chamber of in ;ricalture was held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, iisbary-square, under thepresidencyof Mr. G. F. Muntz, a .P. Amongst those present were L~ord Hampton, Sir at assey Lopes, M1.P., Sir G. Jenkinson, 21.P., Major Paget, a P., M~r. WV. Egaerton, MI.P., :?lr. C. s. Read, M1.P., Mir. gt Pell, ?? Mr. G. S. Storer, ?? &o. in After ...

... LIBERALISM IN OXi-ORD. ~ibemD-frost Liber-free, largonss of mind, generous of Iso'ul, not Eand orscelfsh, not-squandering 51s6s resources oftothers. To thre EDITOR of i'ho OXFORD: JOURINIAL. Sir,-The arrogan ce dislayed hy the f LseliberaIlism7 oone of your contenporaries of late proves that for a long period our City bts keenu governed bsy thosea who calo claihlm no title to the word, muah ...

... On Sunday last sermons on behalf of this mission were preached by Dr. Steere, the newly-consecrated Bishop of the Mission, in the morning at St. (Liiles's Church, in the afternoon at St. Frideswide's, and in the evening at St. ge Philip and St. James's. Collections were made at each a service, and realized a substantial sum. On Tuesday Er. eveninag a numerously attended meeting was held in the ...

... .I , : GARDNER'S MAN=~~ ComprsANY.-A meeting of this Corn- E pany was held in ?? Exohange on the 8thutlt. There suet were present Mr. 37. Roberts, of CaswellF Farm (in the chair), the and Messrs. J. and W. Worley, VT. Mountain, C. Gillett, WMn jun., H. Batsean, D. C. Hosier, H. Cook, G. Timmag, E. larg ~Ure ch, W. Cook, and J, Watts. After a few resnarks A from thes Chairman, Mr. Hosier ...