... ROYAL ASYLUM FOR POOR, AGIDE Decayed, and Maimed Freemen of the Company of Watermen and Lighterini. The annual dinner for the benefit of this benevolent society was given on Thursday evening, at the London Tavern, when upwards of two hundred gentlemen were present. The objects of this. excellent institution are fully expressed in the title, and nothing can be more praieeworthy or more cheering ...

... THE NlEW POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS. Since the report of the Commissioners appointed by the government to inquire into the state of the Post-office appeared, the Post, master-General, Viscount Canning, has been actively engaged with Mr. Rowland Hill and the heads of the several departments, in the arrangement of the necessary prelininaries. The Money order Offlce has been placed upon an ...

... L OND ON, SA TURDA Y, OCT. 7. LOaD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFrE'S despatch of the 30th ult. leaves a gap of a whole week in the history of the operations ot the Allied Armies in the Crimea. His previous despatch left them on the heights above the Alma on the 20th September, just after they had driven back the Russians. His present despatch takes them up at Bala C lava, on the 28tb, just after they ...

... RUSSIAN EXCHANGES AND PRUSSIAN 1 PROFITS. In the Presse of yesterday we find the following _ article on ' Russian Exchanges, by Mons. Lauvray: E ,We saw, some months ago, the natural effect v produced on the finances of Russia by the rupture q of the Emperor Nicholas with the western powers. The Czar was obliged to make fresh issues of paper a money, and prohibit the export of specie. The ...

... ! WHAT AN UNITED -GERfMANY MIGHT DO. I - . - . Some asys since a pamphlet was published by G. Remmelmann, of-Leipzig, fromi the pen of a Ger- man officer, from which we extract the following particulars regarding the comparative military and naval strength of the European powers which are both directly and indirectly engaged in the present war. Russia commands 540,000 infantry, 80,000 ca- ...

... THE BAND OF THE FRENCHI 1MpzPrA BEGIMBNT OF GUIDES. 4 1 - WINDSOR, MoNonsy N1q, M. de la Verdiere, Capitaine ?? Major atd Baron Videl, an officer of the French Regimento G after dining with the royal circle last night, slett Castle as the guests of her Majesty. Th t breakfast they were conducted over the Stote apertuech At 11 e'clock they proceeded on horseback, accomp Idi Lord Alfred Paget ...

... THE LOSS OF THE LADY NUGENT, WrrM HALF A REGIMENT ON BOARD. TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NSWa. SIR,-I have been roused by the admirable arUi4 in your columns, upon the fate of the Arctic steamer, to try if you would admit a letter of similar import upon th unfortunate Lady Nugent, lost in the Bay of Bengal, wih (as is supposed) the whole of her crew and passengers, on. sisting of above 400 human ...

... TEE WAR. INVASION OF THE CRIMEA. Letters from Constantinople by the City of Lon- don state that on the 10th the fire had not been opened against Sebastopol, but that the operations would go on rapidly, it having been found that the south wall is not banked up on the inside. The besieged begin to be in want of provisions, in conse- quence of the reinforcements introduced into the place after ...

... Wjejt court. WINDSOR, OeT. 26. The Dinner Party yesterday included his Excel- lency the French Ambassador and Countess Walewska, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl and Countess Granville, Vis- count and Viscountess Hardinge, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lieut.-Colonel H. Vise, Commanding Officer Royal Horse Guards, and Major Spitty, Commanding Officer Essex Rifles. The Band of the Royal Horse Guards ...

... e . sulses Yesterday a special meeting of the shareholders of ad t thiocompanywas he~ld at the London Tavern, to receive from time( the directors an accouct of the proceedings of the company act w since the report issued in July, 1853. General Sir F. SMITH, of th the chairman of the board, presided, and i The directors' report, which was read by the SECRETARY, house stated that 1 The further ...

... A LETTER FROM QO'.JNSTANTINOPLE. (FrROA OUR O',fx voRRvsrONDENT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 6. We are still in anxious Suspense, and awaiting hourly intelligenctr. respecting the fate of our armies in the Crimea ard the fall of Sebastopol, which is an event firmly anticipated by all naval and mili. tary authorities5 General Goginoff, who died here of his wour ds, and was interred at Scutari with . ...

... ASKING FOR THE SOLDIERS' WIDOWS AND CHILDREN-A £20,000 FUND. (tOoa A COnRESPONtDUNT.) MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, JULY 20. a The Queen of 'the South arrived on June 21,) with our new Governor on board. He landed the follow- a ing day, and a grand day it was. Great things are ex- 1 peoled of Sir Charles Hotham. Poor La Troba (the harm- d lesg and useless), ex-governor, left very quietly; we scarcely t ...