... 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 ...

... ftr Court. 3BALUOEAL, JuTnE 25. | The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess Lrribe, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attusedll Divine service in the parish church of Crathie yt stc lay ilorling. Thu 1,kv. M1r. Middleton, of Ballater, officiated. Tlhe Queen leaves the Castlc this miorning for Windsor ('Cstle, aeconpanicld by the royal famnily, anld attended by the Lidlies anti Gentlemen ...

... TO COItRESPONDENTS. No communication can receive attention unless accomparied by the irnne and addrews of the wsriter, not ntecessarily flr insertion, but as a gguarantee of good faith. Rejected contributions can on no aecount be returned. Accounts of prncntatiti:s, ainomncesmcats as to admuissi' us to professions, dencriptions of growing, crops, and mlatters of a like charactcr, thc interest ...

... 2'hc following appeared in only part of ofur impra.. >Ioa of Yestaerdav THE CONTINENTAL WAR: IREDTEWB TZIXGaAMS I MANIFESTO OF THE KING OF ITALY; Florence, June 20. The King of Italy has addressed theipfollowing manifesto to the Italian people:- Seven years have already elapsed since Austiai attacked my States, because I had supported the common cause of the country in the counsels of Europe. ...

... SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. FROM all quarters on the Continent we hear a war sound: at present there is an ominous still- ness in many of the German States, which will, we fear, break out shortly into thunder. The two great Powers, Prussia and Austria, are now in battle array, the old principle of those who are not for us are against us is at work, and notwithstanding some of the lesser States ...

... FLORENCE, JUNE 16. The Ministry is nearly constituted. Baron Ricasoli is appointed President and Minister of the In- terior; Signor Borgatti, Minister of Justice; and Signor Broohetti Minister of Marine. Signori Petti- nengo, Scialoja, Jacim, and Berti retain their portfolios. General La Marmora is named Minister Adlatus to the King at the camp. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been offered ...

... GRKENOO? Rrss rrzn Pares oe BE5sn.?.Theb&ke?.int0,? have advanced the price of bread one penny B? quality [snow Selling at Sit; second qnalityz? Laness' SAluTARY AeSOcn&TI0R?The ? of the GreenockLadies' Sanitary 5ae.?sn Mi57 us to acknowledge receipt of £2 from k5qtt? MP., of Elderelie. Captain 3psie Bassos or Cou??s?? AND 115 COESEQtJfl-? Some time ago son ad;'ertisemene 1PPesre? columns ...

... TELEGRAMS BY SPF5OLA WIRE. THIE MINISTERIAL CBISIS. L~ondon, Jnune 24. (Prom our Special Ctorrespcnrlsnt.I In thea absence of any definite information as to ths M~inisterial crisis, all kinds of speculations &se still aloat, For Instance, the Sunci cy Gece ?? an article on the subject yesterday, BaSp the town is focl of r~umours, some of them ot the mnost absurd c haracter, Before ths ...

... The eighth annual report of the General B3oard Of Commissioners in Lzunacy for Scotland, just pub- lished, states that of insane persons in Scotlanld, of whom the Board has official cognlsance, 107d are supported by private frunds and 5392 by parochial rates. At the 1st of January, 1Sd4, the correspond. ing numbers were 1039 and 5320. There was thus in 1S64 an increase of 37 in the number of ...