... 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, ...

... ; P1pNCE ALBERTS VISIT TO BIRMINGHAx | On Thursdy Prince Albert visited Birmingham, for the pwrpose ot aying the foundation stone of the Mid. and institute; awl preparations were made befitting the ocecsion. The pneg erive1 at half pat twelve, and the stone was tid i Iely ater his arrivaL A luncheon followed at tbe town-hall, at which the pricewasprset. AMaongttheinvitedweretheDlike 0l *r ?? ...

... AL&RMING FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE. On Wednesday morning about tena o'clock somealarm was cansed ia the immediate neighbourhood of Lime. housee in consequence of a fire breaking out in the ex. tensile ship yard of Massrs. Young and Son. The acci. dent was occasioned by a copper of tar, &e., boiling over, and the liquid becoming ignited speedily spread to two other coppers filled with the snme ...

... TEIN C830 OR Tna Ex.Pnovosa oP LiXT11. -We have referred, says the Scottish Prest, more than onee to this case, expressing an opinion of the excessive severity of the sentence passed on this man. whether as regards the particular charge with its concomitant cir cumstances, or tbe age of the individual-and that through this severity the law has driven sympathy away from itself and into a ...

... *ISIT OF THE KING OF SARDINIA. I A _ a .: - - I a unesday morning the king enbarkedirom Genoa for Marseilles, with a brilliant military suite. The Duke de Grammont accoempanies his majesty. His majesty arrived at MarseillesouThursday. The king made his entrance into the town in a bus- sarniforw , a caompenied byt anumeros staff. All rge Crowd ufd assembled to witness his arrival. All the ...

... AUSTRA'S CONCORDAWGT THE WPO I The shameful 6onordit j;steected by Atiriswith' the pope is r. volstiry act of degradation justified by no state necessity, enforced by no Overpowering co6. juncture of circamstances. Itis a pbftaneou £act of self.spaliation and self abasement (says the Timis), a. voluntary betrayal and surrender of the niost sacred rights of the crown, the clergy, and the people ...

... I 61- M!i''- -. ARMY. .WAR.OFFICE, Nov. IS. rh:B i EvE~r aleor general Sir William John Codringtoll, KGCB., who has at pre ent the local rank of Lienteitant gcneral in Turkey, to have the local rank of General in the Crimoea and Turkey. Colonel Lord William Paiulet, CB., rizadier-seneral in Turho!:, to have the loma rank ot Msior-general in Turkey. Coloncl Duneon Cameron, C.B, 42nd Foot, ...

... Men, money, provisions, and transport are said to be wanting in Russia. As yet, however, those brought inte contact with the Russian armies have observed no deficiency that may not possibly be only temporary. As other opponents have said before, the allies may say now, that the Russian hosts are like swarms of insects, which, when brushed away, return as numerous and obstinate as ever. But we ...

... UM GAUD1-BA, Es. GusyX I We do not haveS a seagon like the PTO-eat ones In three or four yeers. We have been tired of oer dahlias these three weeks, and out bshe down In fial o blioo, for Rome of I he Irosts had iajred the foliagre, and there was evory disposition tb ITOOF oQ growting. The wet prevents Scet; opeartions, but wel .drsixed ground gets Ila ood order ia two daO days, and Iman hings ...

... : ?? jb THi TUSSIAN ACCOUNT. We read in the Invalide Ruese of October 20 a tele graphic despatch from Nicolaieff, forwarded by order o the emperor, en the 17th of October. Owing to the situation of the fortress of Kinburn, which rises at the extreme point of the peninsula, of the same name, on the left bank of the limau of the Dnieper, and at the very entrance o1 that water, the communications ...

... The .Morninr Posf of Satarday says:- We can state Wathoritatively that.kbere are no prejent prospects of a Swedish alliauce, and that the statements which have meea published respecting a military convention, and ststersao, are purely imaginary. 'lhe sobjeet of the mission of General Caurobert to ftcckolm was the presentation to King Oscar of the drand cross of the Legion of Honour, and t'e ...

... INCIDENTS FRJM FRANCR. A convict named Vincent Peracatti, eonfiaed at the bagne at Brest, was seen some days ago sharpening a file so as to convert it into a stiletto. On the sub- adjutant illault being informed of the fact, he sent for the man, and told him that he should look him up for doing so, no one in the bagne being allowed to have sharp weapons without permission. Without replying a ...