... The above society held its annual benefit at Mr. Holder's Concert Hail, Coleshill-street, Birmingham, in aid of their widow and orphans fund. The entertainment, which was underthe patronage of Sir John Ratclift; the mayor, William Scholefield, Esq., M. P., and Eeveral members of the town council, was of a rmost attractive nature, and appeared to be highly appreciated by the very respectable ...

... , MUL TUM IN PARVO. lV On Wednesday niglht, the extensive premises of 21, Messrs. Keiller and SoDs, the celebrated marmalade 0 manufacturers, DIundee, were destroyed by fire, X'r. W C. 3lacteady, the eminent tragedian, is Ueri now, v uinderttand, conducting a school at Sher- 7 borne, in DorsotAhire. -MiddlC OCass Repotefr. SI the differences whith have arisen in the Glarrick a.- club out of ...

... I IREVlEW. I/lstreriens sR So an4 Londlot. By Charles Roache Sollith, ?? author of C Colleutanes Antiqua, kc., ac. Mr. Smith has added another leaf to the laurels which he has co of ten won by his antiquarian re- searches, especially as regards tihe Roman occupation of Britain ; and to aU interested in historical research his present volume will be received with. thanulfa- ness, not only by ...

... INAPOLEON-I1 -AND TILE Po)p±- MA1L3E1Lt1M TVJZDAS, JULY 5, a :i 3P.M.. eour r- adere wills carcely requil.e to be told th t if th lrinnai party is ktuumeroej wath- s afllliliin)us-. Alles, the lle1?1-ritst thj Q~i L ~Churoh form no i1rs nificaist portionl of the popu1,.- t:ho e; consequently, Whiloi tit cirst are so ?icmg, a thl mohmmuiquJ mddres.wai+, the Sc!c for itWIbstrio. tares onl the ...

... | A fire broke out, the other night, on board the whaler Narwhal, lying at Aberdeen, doing damage to the extent of about £1500. On Saturday, a small sailing boat upset on the Thames, near Milwall, when two young men, named Harris and Carver, were drowned. On Saturlay morning, as Richd. Wheeler, drover, was driving some cattle from Barnet, to be ready for the metropolitan market, a cow, having ...

... The loss of this noble vessel, with upwards of 400 persons on board, including passengers and crew, and a cargo of many hundred thou- sand pounds in value, is one of the most deplorable events in this year of disaster and death. By this melancholy wreck, upwards of 400 persons have been hurried through a death of agony to a grave beneath the waves of the ocean, at the moment when they supposed ...

... The weekly meeting was hold yesterday; present- Messrs. Dover (chairman), Shoil, Beckwitb, Cros- thwaite, Anthony, Avison, Bowring, Gladstono, Crellin, Barton, and Stitt. The borough engineer, building surveyor, and inspector of nuisiueces reported various particulars of the operations in their soveral departuientl during the week, fronm which it appeared that 122 nuisances complained of by ...

... .YLI - ?? ljiYLERPOQL INSTITUTE. This institution has taken the first position in this district in the number of its pupils who passed the recent Oxford local examination, as the following table of passed candidates shows:- Seniocs. Jnsiors Total. Liverpool Institnto e. .. 4 . . ' . 13 Collegiate Institution ?? ?? ?? ?? 9 Royal Institution ?? ?? 0 .. 1 1. liev. W. C. Greon's school 3 6 ?? 9 Dr ...

... 1 CO MIESPOND:ENCE. ~~ - I OUR BOULEVARDS, TO THr EDITORS OF TICS LIVE.PtOOL MERCUSRY. lejitlemns ,-Th'It groattown iinprovoinents gerie- rally work oat advantagoe to health. aud uoralh, an(d eonsequonily pecuniarily also, 310 ono /iti even a superihlial lkniowlecdge of the progress of great cities will attemipt to gainLsay. If we are to liave batulevards, lot thom be on a set phnii, and thus ...

... SECOND EDITION hV By ?? AN)D SAGNMrtO TrErLRAP. I lie The Bombay mail will be delivered ic London on m-t Friday morning. he Coruet Augustus Fellowes, of the 1st dragoons, 1. stationod at Canterbury, shot himself through the ott head on Wednesday. A pressing writ for £9 was til the cause. Verdiot- Temporary insanity. 3r- The Mdrningj Star snums up the results of the nygeneral eleotiou, and ...

... ' Mr. Hamitont, now at Athens, is to be secretary of legation at Frankfort; and Mr. F. Norton, now paid attaohe at Paris, is to be secretary of legation a' Athens. A nest of white sparrows has been discovered in tbe neighbourhood of Fenrith by a bird fancier, and on Tuesday he had the good fortune to secure one of the newly fledged birds. It is entirely white. It is said that the royal ...

... ICE S In THE WAR IN ITALY. The Paris correspondent of the Times learns on good authority that the real loss of the French at Solferino wvas 16,000 in killed and wounded. BERNE, JULY 5-The Austrians have withdrawn from Bronio, abandoning provisions and cattle. The Piedmontese ate advancing to the Stelvio Pass. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] OFFICIAL MESSAGE. VALLEOGIO, JULY 4, 1859. The French army, ...