... oA LONDONzq' Saturday, July 29, 1854. - FRANCE. The Emperor Napoleou loft Biarritz on We'dnesday for Bayonne,' vhere he reviewed three battalions of the line, and afterwards returned to the forimer place. The Navarin screw line-of-battle shilp, of'100 guns was launohed at Toulon on Wednesday last. A heavy storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied ey rain, burst over Paris on Wednesday. ...

... = a-- WaR ': . 0 .1,,Hg - I (Pi-on the Unites.) T Wo are now approaching the sixth month of actual durit hostilities, and as yet not a, shot has been fired by the press land forces -of England. The 'troops dispatched on the whien expedition to ths East~ took up positions successively provi on the Dardanelles, on the Bosphorus, and at Varna ; vices but, though the enemy lay within a few days ...

... 0 - HOUSE OF PEERS. TnE VOTE OF5 CREDIT. MIONDAY, JunY 24.] The Earl of ABERDEEN moved that Her Majesty's gracious message as to the expenses of the war be taken into consideration, and said that, whatever doubts there might have ?? as to commencing the war, there could be no difference of opinion as to the necessity of vigorous measures for carrying it to an early and s ccessful termination.- ...

... THE SEA-BORNE XAILS. 11rn1 .r- , T AT , -nAHl A v POST-OFFICE, LONDONj FRIDAY. - t Mails Next Paoket c DESTINATIONS. despatiehd Due. r from London. . 1 SOUTHAMPTON STATION. (lly Day 'Mli) lisbon,Spain, amd Gib- 27th, octhry Ang. 6. i raitar ?? oonth r t nnonth.( Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt 4th e 20th Au. 4. Ceylon, India, & Ciia A month.4 4th of Nov. t Australia (via ?? aerd alter- f Aug. 4. B ...

... WIN-EST , . - SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1B64, . ?? .''MERCANTILE GA&ZETTE..! - ?? -- Fridry :Eveinag.: Theprospectsfor the hatvest hhvegreatlyimproved within the last tbree weeks, and cutting ialikely to be commenced earlier than wae in, the begn of the present mouth deemed probable thie will make a:great difference, inasmuch as the new wheat is likely to ha- come available ten days or a fortnight ...

... HOUSE OF PEERS. FRIDAY, JuL-f 28.] On the question that the Beer Bill be read a third time, the hours during which public houses shall be kept open on Sunday were finally settled. The Earl of HtLOwBy moved the two amendments, of which he had given notice, extending the time during which public-bouses may be kept open on Sundays- namely, from one to half-past two, and from five to eleven ...

... * ?? vs - - TH'EX CURcU SERS O~q AND PIRITUAL FUIOTONSOYTHE CY.U41VH. e thctwiomes.) The two Hiouse'of: c Cvocatio -iere ?? at aWestminst'er'onTbursdiy' Nint; 'to ioceivb'reeovts'fros' .t their own commfitee n certairl questions''aec'tiig thW sgeneral interests of tbe-'Churbh. -Thithese reports'tug-, r gestions are offered; of Very i'oibiderabi' eli On two a points especially we think the ...

... FoBEmor-OrFCE, JULI 25. t The Queen has been plF ased to approve of Mr. Chas.n Stoess as Consul at Liverpool for h's Majesty the d King of Bavaria. WHITEHALL, JULY 28. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. J Roderick Macdonald to the church and parish of South ] Uist, in the presbytery of Uist, and shiro of Inverness, vacant by the death of the Rev. Roderick Maclean. t The Queen has ...

... SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1854. NEWPORT, The Queen has made a communication to the Mayor, the Minister of St. Thomas's Church, and the Committee, by Col. Phipps, that she should be pleased, if agreeable to them, that some convenient place in the New Church should be reserved for a memento, to be erected at her cost, to the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I, whose place of burial in St. ...

... PROOTItONS & APlOINTENTS.- - ~ ; 1. n; 1r I JROMOTIONS.. ' Con rn ilhmH. 'twrt(48); of th - doste to the rank of, daptain- and tobommand the ,Ffireorand, vice Hyde Parker, 4iled in abtion - APonrMs Captain.-Henry Chads, to be principal 'Agnt for Tran- sportsain the Baltito. : :: . Liotenaits.-Ed vard F; Lodaer, to the vaender; John P. Luce, to the ,ynz'. $eco?; Mfastor,-Ae6xanuder : Boxerz to ...

... Ti, t V I E . . X e ,DITON. . ,..RET.TSW- EXPEDITIONS, ~ CAMP, NEAn DEVN.O,;-BUJLARIA, JULY 13. W Since tho despatch of' my last Iktter Lord Cardigan hosti rhas returned. to camp with ,the detachments of Light land Cavalry,, ?? he effected au extendedrieconnais- 9 ex sance-along the banks of the -Danube, towards Rustchuk on tl 1and Silistria.' It. is. reported that at, one point of the but, ...

... THE. CONDUCT OF THE WAR. The Queen's m6ssage. to Parliament, reqesting the grant of a vote of credit to defray the expenses of the wSar, was made the subject of a very important and interesting debate in' both houses. The sum of 3,OO0,0001.was that asked for and granted, but it is, perhaps, necessary that we should state that this will -not iinvolve a neW tax: nor necessitate a loan being eon- ...