... BOCLESIAST1CAL. APPOINTMENTS. Tho Rev. Joseph B. Owen, M.A., vicar of St. Mary's, Bil- ston, Staffordshire, has been appointed to the ministry of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. T. Nolan, M.A., to the vicarage of Acton, Cheshire. The Very Rev. Dean Jeraryyn, incumbent of the Episcopal Chapel in Forres, has been eppointed Archdeacon of St. ...

... THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THB CIOYDON STAtiOY. ?i Several days will pass over before the whole extent of in- jury done to the passeengers by the ezouraion train Cosat met with the serious accident at the Croydon station. cast be 3r asoertained, and no doubt there are A numl:oer of per- nat 'one at present suffaring from their wounds and injuries of Sie, whmneither the rajilcay company nor ?? ...

... MORNING CEiRONICLE OFFICE, Friday, 12, Aoon. THE EAST. [BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.] LFROM OUR CONSTANTINOPLE OPRRESPONDENT.] CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 14. On the JOth inst., at seven o'clock in the even- iug, a great fire broke out at Varna.- One hundred and eighty houses were totally de- stroyed, with a great quantity of provisions belong- ing to the French army. All the English and ...

... ARMYAND NAVY PRIZE MO-VE Y. lok I I [FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETiE.I BY TILE QuEaN-A PROCLAMATION. a VICTORIA, R. sr Whereas by our Royal Proclamation bearing date the oh 29th day of Alarch, 1854, we have ordered and directed, that 015 the net proceeds of all prizes taken during the present war c;- nd with Russia, by any of our ships or vessels of war, after the .p- same shall have been to us ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE ALPS. LIVERPOOL, TnunsDntA. The British and North American steamship Alps, E. Moodie, commander, arrived at 9 a.m. this morning, from Now York, having accomplished the distance in Ill days. She left New York on the 12th, at noon, down to which time she brings dates, as well as 287,891 dollars in specie, but no pas- sengers. The United States steam-ship Hermann sailed in company ...

... MILE&NK PRISON.-Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bedford held two more inquests on view of the bodies of prisoners who died of Asiatic cholera. The first was respecting the death of Thomas Brestow, aged 49, who was a siugle man. Mr. Samuel McIntyre, clerk co the prison, said that deceased was received from Swartham gaol on the 30th December last, under sentence of ten years' transportation, having been ...

... LONDON: SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1854. We appear to be at length attaining something like certainty asregards the great expedition pre- parinig in the Black Sea. The earliest day named, on any trustworthy authority, for its sailing Was the 15th instant. We afterwards learned that, on account of the violence of the cholera, it had .been postponed to the 28th; and now we are informed that the 20th ...

... 1 - I lomn heir LFROM OUB OWN CORR3SFPONDVNT.1 egi- DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNINQ. set I It is only the prospect of a very good hatrvest ity's that prevents the further advance of agricultural the produce beyond the very high prices current for t o in ome months past ; but the demand is becoming tes, so active frons varions sources that a speedy eyes rise ir provisions is anticipated. The exportation ...

... ICHANGBS IN THE POST-OPFICE DX. I PARTMDNS. For the future the Poet-office department will be presided over by a Postmaster-General, with a salary of £2,500 a-year. One secretary, with a salary rising from £1,500 to £2,000 a-year. There will further be two assistant-seore- taries, with salaries rising from £700 to £1,000 a-year. One chief clerk to secretary, withl £650 a-year. Three head ...

... THB LONDON GAZE7'To OF FRIDA Y, AUG UST AZ. FO (EIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 16. The Queen bas beens pleased to aprv o. d. ae Ducnan Thomson as COnsul at Cape Town for hida Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves. poeo r e~ The Queen hats also been pl eased to applel fM. ee Petersen as Vice.Counall at Hull for the Grand Duke of Meclitertburg Slb weriaii - in purianesO of the directions of an act, ...

... TUIE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: I FRZ1DAY, AUGUST 25, 185&. As we gain experience of the resources of Rus- sia, and of the mode in which they are wielded, we certainly have no reason to feel increased dread l of her power. The numerical strength of her armies, her means of putting them in motion, the solidity of her granite walls-in all these E particulars she has, when tested, been found defi ...

... To TIMo EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sit-A correspondent of one of your contemporaries sug- gests that the immediate cause of cholera may be some fungoid matter floating in the air. Dr., now Sir Henry Holland, in his work entitled Medical Notes and Reflec- tions, proposes and supports very acutely the hypo- thesis of insect life as a cause of disease. Tue idea is the same in both ...