... ffl, _ a ?? ___ot THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1866. WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM 25TIl WaRz-186. In the week ending last Saturday, 3,524 births and 2,343 deaths were registered in ton large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births were eight, and the deaths 179) below the average weekly numbers in the ten years 1351-60, corrected for increase of ...

... OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, [Times] Lord Russell's Government hag breathed its last with more dignity and consciousness than some of its friends had cxpected. Another course was open to it ten days ago, but the choice once made was not one to be spontane- ously recalled, averted by officious interposition, or inflamed into the calamity of a Dissolution. The Leader of the Commons has spoken his last ...

... | EFORM MEETING AT WEDNESBURY. CEINSURE OF DIESSRS. FOSTER AND FOLEY. A mneeting in aid of the Liberal Government, and wills thle view to adept reenhstiosn in favour of the prising of a large and ceom- preheneive oseasure of Reforsn,,sas htold yesterday evening, lath, Public IHail, Wednesbhnay. 'Mr. Sampson Lloyd presided, and three were also on theisleplaform tls 11ev. J. Taner, the Rey, j. ...

... LATE ST NEWs* [rnUTnRsS TELEGRAuMu S. SKIRMISH BETWEEN AUSTRIANS AND PRUSSIANS IN SILESIA. NEISSE, JtNa 2°:3. Hostilities have been comneenced by the Prussian army corps in Silesia. Early yesterday morning three Prussian detachiients were sent out to reconnoitre towards Zuckmautel, Friedberg, and Freiwalden. The last of these detachments between Breitenfurt and Sandhubel, came upon an Austrian ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. E. R. H.-No. Runner.-Apply at the Aston Cross Grounds, Constant Subscriber.-,Yea, F. N. T.-The object of the contradiction was clearly indicated in the letter. E. B.-We see no reason why the bill should be published. Enquirer, Tipton.-Oovermnmnt blue books may be ordered through any bookseller. R P., Wilenhsll.--llhe houses numbered from 146 to 25 in ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. -Oriesondents who set any Wyecctv value upon their com. m~u ationa must leep cpens of the, a: we cannot under- ta/e to reurny unused con1tribtions. 4ff Uteters intended fo~r publiction natee be a~ccomanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessar;ily jOT publication, but for the inf renat son of the Editor ' T. DI., Tipton -Ten or twelve years. ' ri. `. ...

... LORD ELORO AT THE REVIEW. The Timca says that In the Park lord Eloho was warmly cheered in his capacity as commaunder of the second brigade of the first division. But on leaving the enclosure there were manifestations that persons had assembled whose houghts ran not by any meansexolusively upon volunteer- ing. Hisses and cries 'of Reform, What about the working mani &e.. were raised at ...

... The washerwomen at Workington, in Cumberland, are now on strike for higher wages. Letters from Italy mention that the flags of the volun- teers bear on one side the Roman she wolf and on the other the lion of St. Mark. At Lloyd's the list of arrivals from the Black Sea is larger than it has been for a considerable period. These vessels are chiefly laden with grain At a meeting of the London ...

... DUDLEY PORT. ASSAULTING RAILWAY OrFFrCAMS-At the Wednes- bury Police Court, yesterday, a man named Joseph Blen- bow, a strilker, living at Handsworth, was charged with having assaulted Samuel Stanton and Barnabas Downes, two men in the employ of the London and North- Wvestern Railway Company, at Dudley Port, Mr. Motteram prosecuted. It seemed that on Satur- day night tho defendant travelled by ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FALSE LIBERALS. [Front ?? Nievs,] HerMajesty's Ministers have declined the counsels of those familiar friends who are not always very easily dis- tinguishable from enemies in disguise. No one who knew ever so little of the character and career of the chiefs of the Government could have had a moment's doubt that neither Lord Russell nor Mr. Gladstone would listen to ...

... ST. ALBAN'S Cfflance. The recurring festival of the Anglican Promartyr, Se Alban was duly observed in this mission house, dedicated to that saint, yesterday, the day in the ecclesiastical calendar set apart for his special honour. The first service of the day was the celebration of the Holy Communion, at seven o'clock, the celebrant being the Rev,. W. R, Rat- cliffe, M.A., assistant priest of ...

... | .. .- .- . - . I a [From Mte New York Nation.] The bill which continues the Freedmen's Bureau Act in force for two years after next April will undoubtedly pasa 0 the Senate. That it will not be vetoed is hardly to be ex- t pected, although those features of the former bill whioh provoked most opposition have been considerably softoned, Thus, in providing for the education of freedmen the ...