... the BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY. The second annual meeting of the friends of the oneainstitution established at Saltley for the reformation of I juvenile criminals, was held atthe Royal Hotel, in thistown, rds yesterday afternoon, the Right Hon. Sir JOHN PAEceGTON, ,or M.P., in the chair. From the report on the subject, read ?? by Mr. William Morgan, the hon. secretary, we take the cht following ...

... Why should the Czar publish any report about his imperial domains at all? Why this simulated dee- rence to popular opinion where there is no popular voice P-this pretended frankness of revelation where 4 there is no power of criticism P It is certain that only such things as suit his Imperial Majesty are suffered to appear in any Russian publication whatsoever. We cannot, therefore, give ...

... C~o v .- dl I (rOX OUR OWN CORAZOPONDENT.) ti PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. E Some details, which I believe to be correct, have 0 been comnunicated to me of the recent negotiations p at Vienna. On Jan. 6, as you are aware, Prince si Gortchakoff suddenly declared, that he had orders to p accept thq four points (which had 'so recently beent declared iscompatiblewith the dignityof Russia)and d that he ...

... BRUTAL HUSBAGDS: ro TExE EDITOR OF TilE DAiLY owa OW to SIz,-Amjdest the absorbing interests and ascent, muentof the wrar, I would still fain hope thtat noatter, a OrTbere national s~ocial moment will not be entirely overlooked ren5 the comixng eseajon of parlianment. Whilst batclisR witbtr , of his enemy abroad, it sbould not be forgotten that tas to be enemleel at home to be conquered and ...

... WIND AND WEATHER REPORT,~ |(PROM mai ?? GF Tfl ELECTRIC TrBLEGRAPHi COMPANT.) SATURBDAY, JAN. 20. Stations. ourse of Wind. Esiae ol Weather. Greenvwich *. ,, .. N.PE. Overcast. ?? N.N.E .. Hlard frost. fitsgue , ,, , 2 .. ?? .Eard trwat. Brighton ?? N.N.E. ,, Frost. ?? B ?? B,..E , .Iard frost. Lanucaster . , ?? . , N.E . ..,.Cloudy. ?? , , N.. .N . Frost, 6toke.on.Trent,,..,NNh.E. ,,Frost, ?? ...

... its STO THEB EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. SIt,-The new year has indeed ushered in new hopes and fresh expectations for the universities, and there seems to be now a fair chance at last that the vast field of enterprise which has been so long closed against us in our Indian possessions will be thrown open to those of that portion of the community who would be most likely to ad- vance its interests ...

... THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PRO- CLAIMED IN ENGLAND. De taicef iiniured Yesterday was read in the churahes and chapels ,remedly included within the Roman catholic arch-diocese of West- aere, the Iwere of Minster, a pastoral letter from Cardinal Wisemnan, dated at a up the Rome, and promulgating the doctrine of the immaculate sither he conception as an article of faith. Weerenoe The message is ...

... TEE~ :WA - ?? BERLIN, JAN. 25.. The Premier's peculiar orcan, the Zeit, has an artiele entitled sEurope and Prussia, mnaintaining that Prussia has no interest either'way' in the pre- idpmninanc6eoP Russiai in the Block Sea t that is simply the affair of the maritime powers. Prussia' has a IEuropean dutyr to perform in 'opposirlk'tbe seizure of ,a part of the 'Sultan's territory' by Ruspia a9 ...

... ,EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM Af OFFICEFR OF THE LIG HT DTIVISION. I-- I anuarv 10, 1855. I wasted a day yesterday in going to 'Baiskiava. I will give you the particulars;* it will show you how matterstare managed here. We got atn order that t: two vessels, the Niagara and Colombo, having d arrived from Varna with horses-one vessel also-lbav: r ing.50 bfttnlen, the other 87, namues ...

... LONDON, MONDAY, JAZN 15. A GENERAL European Congress begins to be talked a of in diplomatic eircles. As yet it is little more than o vaguely hinted at; but it is certain that the question has been mooted. The time has not yet come for a o Congress, but it appears to be rapidly approaching. I Sardinia is understood to have drawn nearer to the t Western Powers, though in what manner, and to I ...

... (o'uoasOu own owncaRs~rolDwzcv.) 1 . PARI1S, SATrU5D10 EVENINGe. There is a reanonr this evening, so, well- accredited as to deserve -notice, that the Frankfort Diet, con- trary to all expectation, has voted the mobilisation of a federal army of' 280,000 meen, jang.that Prussia voted with the majority. . The great rise at the Bourse, difficult to explain in the face of the threaten- ing aspect ...

... SIR GEO. BONHAM AND THE SHANGHAII I DUTIES. CU TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILt NaWn. to &R,-In your issue of this morning you publish a 1 In letter from Mr. Joseph Hume upholding, as it appears to i le me, Sir John Bowring, at the expense of his predecessor, Sir George Bonham. I do not think Sir George is, from what I know of him, at all likely to take up the cudgels, in and I therefore enclose for ...