29 SEPTEMBER 1855, Page 11

The Gazette of last night contained the following paragraph. "Brevet.—Captain

and Brevet-Major the Honourable Leicester Curzon, of the Rifle Brigade, the bearer of the despatch announcing the brilliant and important successes achieved by the army under the command of General Simpson and the capture of Sebastopol, to be promoted to the rank of Lieu- tenant-Colonel in the Army."

Intelligence reached Oxford yesterday morning that her Majesty has conferred the Regina Professorship of Greek, vacant by the death of the late Dean of Christchurch, on the Reverend Benjamin 7ovrett, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Ballot College.