... mS EASTERN QUESTION. ♦ The following particulars of current events have been transmitted during the week by Correspondents of London daily papers, through Renter's agency, &c. :— THE BERLIN CONGRESS. IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS BY RUSSIA. BERLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT. England has achieved a most signal victory, the greatest since Russia agreed to the holding of the Congress, and even more important in its ...

... Mr. Henry Nottleship, M.A., fellow of Corpus Christi College, formerly of Lincoln College, has been elected to the Corpus Professorship of Latin, vacant by the resignation of Professor Palmer. The weather has been again favourable for the Commemoration, the flower show in Worcester College gardens being very numerously attended. In the evening New College gave a concert, and later on the ...

... CARDINAL MANNING AND THE LATE POPE. Cardinal Manning presided on Tuesday fit a crowded meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence League at Exeter Hall, London. There were four processions to the hail, headed by bands of music. At the com- mencement of the proceedings an address was pre- sented to the cardinal, congratulating him on his recovery and safe return from Borne. His Eminence replied ...

... RUSSIAN PRIVATEERS. The Russian Minister of Finance has issued a circular to the governors of the Russian provinces, informing Them of the permission accorded to the Moscow Society for the Development of the Russian Marine to open subscription lists on behalf of the establishment of a fleet of privateers, and ordering them to further the project by every means in their power. Every month the ...

... fFROM THE TIMES.] It is obvious that the present acoession to our military strength is numerically slight as compared with what it would be if the system had been longer in existence and were in full operation. Bus even immature as it is, the in- stitution now gives us an addition to the com- batant portion of our army the timely and solid value of which in the event of war is not to be ...

... At a Board of Trade inquiry at Hull, on Saturday, into the stranding of the steamer Cossack, the captain's certificate was suspended for fonr months. ...

... A Tavistock correspondent, writing on Satur- day, says:- There is strike among the miners employed at Devon Great Consols, which strike, if carried out in its entirety, will throw over 700 hands out of work. Five hundred and sixteen came out on Saturday. ...

... FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—On Thursday morning a French sailor named C. Hervie, while at work at the mainmast on board the French vessel Havre, lying in the West Dock, Cardiff, fell from the same a distance of about forty feet, alighting on his hands and face on the deck, fracturing his skull severely, damaging his face, and breaking his right thigh. FIRE IN BRIDGE-STREET.—At a quarter ...

... Since the present French Ministry came irto office upon the 14th of December last 30 decrees have, at their recommendation, been signed by Marshal MacMahon for the free pardon or reduc- tion of the sentences passed upon 1106 persons concerned in the Communist insurrection. In 500 cases a full pardon was granted, and in the 606 other cases the sentence was either reduced or commuted. During the ...

... On Saturday afternoon, the monument to the late Lord Lyttelton, erected by public subscrip- tion, was handed over to the custody of the dean ancl chapter of Woraester, in the cathedral, with some ceremony. The monument is a large ceno- taph, nine feet long, four feet wide, and six feet high, and occupies the centre transept. The design is by the late Sir Gilbert Scott-an altar tomb of the ...

... TWO LIVES LOST. A disastrous fire £ which took place in Ennis on Tuesday morning. It broke out in a r-rr. Brady's seed warehous in which there was a considerable storage of aetroleum. The flames spread with fearful rapidity, and the occupants of the house, being driven to the second floor windows, were obliged to jump out into the street, there being no fire-escape or ladder sufficiently long. ...

... SYDNEY, Dec. 21.-AOttlition Ministry has been formed, which is reposed as follows:— Sir Henry Fackes, Preier and Colonial Secre- tary; Sir John Robe-son, Vice-President of the Executive Counc, with a seat in the Legislative Council; IJr. James Watson, Colonial Treasurer; Mr. Francis Batliurst Sutton, Justice andPablic Instruction; Mr. William Charles Wirever, Attorney-General; Mr. James ...