... The St. Petersburg Jouerrnal, of the 5th inst., contains a long report complaining of and detailing the bad treatment of Russian prisoners belonging to the Balaklava battalion, shich were captured oa the 10th of May, on their passage frotn fort Novo- rossisk by our cruisers of the Black Sea. The re- port and comments are founded on assertions made before the authorities at Odessa by a Greek, ...

... ECCLESIASTICA L. O- ka APPOiNT]NXTfS. ad The Arobbishop of Work has licensed the Rev. W illiam ly Melburne, B.A., curate of Gilling, near Ricinmonid, to the incumbency of Reicar, Yorkshire, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, M.A., on the noinina- is- tion of the Earl of Zetland. e. The Rev. Philip Menzies Sankey, B.A., of Corpus Cbristi [r. College, Oxford, and curate ...

... rHE ORIGIN AND cuLTiTz4 I WHEA T. TIo' x 0p A good deal has been written at different eiosr ing the origin of wheat ; and it has bee Phisd ep, many scientific mten, that the grain eu s improved type of the Tri~icordlee, a seiso ro under thle names of ?? ovata an Tro in abundance iii Sicily and thle south o rcs ?? a celebrated Frenchl naturrdist, has rentyla0. experiments upon the seeds of ...

... EAST INDIA HO VSE. A quarterly courtof the directors of the East India Company was held yesterday at their house, Leadeuhall.street, for the transaction of the general business of the company; Major Oliphant, the chairman of the court, presiding. d The minutes of the last meeting having been read and con- firmed, the meeting was trade special, for the purpose of submitting for adoption the ...

... METROPOL12AN COMMISSION OP SiEWERS. The following is an explanatory report by Mr. Bazalgette of the aode of conducting the works of the commissioners in building and repairing sewers and covering open sewers, the ordinary precautions taken for the prevention of nui- sance and danger to the public health, and the special pre- cautions taken at the present time, prepared in obedience to an order ...

... LONDON: WEEDNESDA J, SEPTEMBER 6, 1854. Future historians may, perhaps, deem it not un- profitable to compare aud contrast the respective positions of the illustrious personages whose visits to Boulogne have attracted so large a share of public attention. In the Imperial host they will see a Potentate elevated by the free choice of his people to the most powerful of Continental thrones-in- ...

... THE CIIOLERA. jyl DO iGENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, he On entering upon the duties of this office, the president of at the board at once addressed a letter to the metropolitan lie boards of guardians0 with respect to the arrangements for pre- d venting, wheu possible, or mitigating the visitation of epi- o- demic cholera, now so widely prevalent through London, n. I offering the co.operation of the ...

... BATHS AND WVASH-HOUSE'S. The committee of the Society for establishing Publie Bath I and Wash-houses, and for cleansing, purifyinL and ventilat- ing the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, George-street EBotonI quare, in presenting their seventh annual report, have much gratification in informing the supporters of this intitution, thiat during tbe preceding year the establiihment ha3 beeu ...

... THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDA Y, SEPTEMBER 22. Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Peebles. .The Right LIon. AlexanderOliphant Murray Elibank, Baron Elibank. Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart. James Wolfe Murray, Esq. Commisslons signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the City and Countv of Edinburgh, and liberties thereof. The Right lion. Duncan M'Neill to be Deputy.Lieutenant ...

... KING'S L YNIV BLEBJTIOY. KING's LYNN, SATURDAY.-This morning the election for this borough took place at ten o'clock, at the T wn.hall. There was a total absence of any excitement, and the whole proceedings were of n dull and formal character. The ball was fer from full, indeed at the commencement of the pro. ceedings not more than twenty persons were present. Of course there was quite an ...

... 0 OXFORD, SurT. 28. REGSTRsrrt OF M3EMBESI OF CONGREGATION QUALIFI3ED AC- Ci nCORDING TO AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT PASSED IN THE 17TH AND kBTH VICT., CAP. 51, FOR THE YEAR EilD- M ISW ON THg 24TH BAT OF SEPTEMBER, 1856. th Ir The Earl of Darby, ?? Christchnurch, Chancellor, R d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,.O ;r The Rev E. . PIurptre, D.D., Th 11ev. B. Jones, M.A. Haster The ev. Peter Meddl, M.A. Es ?? Rev. ...

... VA VAL AND MILITARY NEWS. red APPOINTMENTS. ;we Lielritsnants-William B. Elphinstone (1848), from the re- Deuntless, 33, screw steam-frigate, to the Royal Albert, 121, is1 screw steam ship, at Sheerness;- Richard S. Bateman (1854), *ir.- to tire Dauntless, vice Elphrinstone, tire Mate-Chiarles H. Smith (1851), from the Salamander, the paddle-wheel steam sloop, at Woolwich, to the Swallow, 8, ...