14 APRIL 1860, Page 9

A French mail steamer coming from Messina to Marseilles brings

the news that severe fighting was going on there on the 8th and 9th. One of the sailors who rowed the French postal agent from the shore to the steamer was wounded.

Omer Pasha has been recalled from exile, and appointed by the Sultan to command the army of Roumelia. The metropolitan of Moscow, Philaretes, has carried in the Russo- Greek synod a vote for the immediate translation of the New Testament into the common language of the people, and a general diffusion of the Gospels among the poor.