... LIECT.RNS. AT THE iAjROHICZqTURAL MU. I a.{, M.CA, ON~)~ tWRS'M;INSTER. ; ?? ooi~icun2 iqfre it ttaumu Series was deiliveredi by J't? FA. Skidai'rf,- on uoniiay eienirg 'last, before a well-attendtd meeting,: at ti6e Atchtectutral Museum; the subject of the lecture belng Architectural Metal Work. - . The lecturer confined his remarks tothe practice of metal work of the Christian era. He ...

... EXPLOSION ON BO4RD TEE BRITISH SHIP I ABBOTTS READING, AND LOSS OF LIFE. Yesterday Captain HaIsted, R.N., secretary to Lloyd's, received the following communications from the Admiralty, reporting a shocking catastrophe on beard the English ship Abbotts Reading, of Liverpool, while lying in Valparaiso Hlaibour, on the 12th of Sept. last, ?? with loss of life. Admiralty, Oct. 31, 1856. Sir, ...

... 8UNDERLAND, Nov. ?? strong galesl rain; see heavy. We have had no arrivals during the ?? four tides, and no vessels can sail, on account of the weather. The storm previously reported continues. The report sent yesterday of a vessel having been seen to sink on thia coast appears to be too true. She is said to have been a small vessel, with no mest standing. Intelligence has ben re- ceived here ...

... TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE CRIMEIA. HOW TEE BRITISH AND RUSSIAN GOVERNSMENTS KANAGE THESE MATfIRS. it TO THU EDITOR O0 THE DAILY NEWS. a 81R,-Tbe following letter was addressed to tbe t editor of the 2Tmes, but as the conductors of that in newspaper will allow nobody to censure the govern. it ment but themselves, it hes not been inserted in their e, columns. May I ask the favour of ...

... EVENING CLASSES AT CROSBY HIALL.-These classes were estab ished a fevv years since by the Rev. C. Mackenzie, many years heai master of the St Olave's Grammar School, and a num- ber of other liberal clergymen of the Church of England, and have attained a ?? commnensurate wiih the sanguine expectations of the founders, the number who attend amounting to nearly 1,200 members. We learn that ...

... NIL COBDEN ON THE ARMY AND THE] WAR. I TO THE EDITOR OF TIE LEEDBS OHROVtIY. My dear Sir,-I beg to invite your attention and that of the public to some censiderations of grave moment relative to the state of our army, as connected with the policy of the present war. The people of Ragland ean Sever Thave been aware of the eate in which our Army has bee left, from the first moment of its landing ...

... rF.ii' io1~y obF sbUirWAitK.0 Sir Ch~ttles Napibr. On Wednesday evening a public meetihg, convened by Sir dharles Napier, to give him the opportimity of addressing the electors of the Bermondsey district of the boroucgh of Snuthlkark, *ai held ht Mr. Richard Walker's, Corrugated Iron Works, Grange-road, Ber- niondsey. The building-a very large one-was filled to over'fowisig, some 3,000 or ...

... The following is a letter from an officer on board one of her Majesty's ships forming part of the expe- dition to Kinburn and the mouths of the Duieper and Bug:- Kinburn Fort, nearly 30 miles north-east of Odessa, Oct. 20, 1855. Dear Brother-We are now inside, and of course victorious. The above-named fort mounted about sixty guns in all ; another, inside, about thirty and a sand battery ; and ...

... M B MO I R I OF THE LATE | FREDERICK LUCAS, ESQ., M.P. i Mr. LucAs was the second son of Mr. SAMUEL HAYHURST LUOAs, formerly o( Croydon, and a ma-l gistrate of the county of Surrey, who has now for many years resided at Brighton. He was born in London on the 30th March, 1812, and died on the 22d unc., and was therefore in the 44th year of his age. His family on both his father's and his. B ...

... AUqSTRIAN, ATfROCZ.-TI~B S 1WEE tNN~ - -PAWIES:'.- .The Pa-,ie corrspondentt.ofth imes gmvesthe following particular0of- various: b t cliles Committed -by.;the the ; trjausa in th¢~ Priaoipaiitiesc. ?? *, ,~t 4* ,. 'the ollwing facts ?? be designated by -the Austrian -press as brutal invectoves. but their ?? aod,.tlke ;onrea3s givaen. illi howj their a uthent iciy.' M~y itformanteaz[e direct- ...

... LETTB R WRITEJI THE BEAKPt[,Y TESTIXONIAt To nm Enrtron.-Sr.-In your last week's pappe appears, parportitg to come from One of the peoplealt rhich a` Poherm Is bmached far raising a tastleon it preeented to ir. Berkeley, for his disinterested o e carrying his retrograde measure through the last as eo a parliament, and In which the writer states hia intenl 0f contributing tke sum of 5l. New, ...

... (ENOX OUS Owe CoSSBBsF9!DM;T.) ?? EL, OCr; 31. The homeward-bound ships of the' feet are nOW making their appearance here. The Ajax,, Captain Warden, and the Hogue, Captain Ramsay, anchored l in the bay this morning. Their crews are reported to be in- a healthy state, but the ships appear to have suffered from the series of gales which they have let-. terly encountered, and if their services ...