... A NI\W PLEA FOR SPA.\UNO RUSSE.1 te Thou h we do not, with the Times, think. it is the duty gu a journalist to couiiulnt fieqllultly Iupon Mr. Henry Drommind's exhibitious of the e ridiculous in his ovin person, ar long as it is the id pleasure of the ooustituouicy of West Slliey to return hiun to Parliament, still he is such a queer 3t public characier that it woald not be fair to oiw . ...

... A despat i [FROM PRIVATE CORRESONDRENT. Capltai er- FRANCE.- lhe PARSt, JULY 22.-Diplomuaey is silent, but it is ?? artheless very active. I1 aim told, from Sa very good source, ,he that an umderstanding between France and Naples is15 d to being attempted, in order to counteract the iinfiuence of, Bret to Austria in Italy. Another ohjeet is to bring about an 17th, est understanding between ...

... A meeting of electors Of this ward favoumable to the return of ,jThomas Chaimer, Esq., to the town council, wmn held ?? g evening, at 'Mr. Itocklici's, Vau'chall-road. Mr. Williams Roth. y bone, Jun., was coied to the chair. onl taking the ichair, the olaiorman Intimated tliat be haod o received a note fres Mur. NV. ?? Maecgregor. It woo to the effect that in ?? of a dontcatic calalifty M1r. ...

... I Loot evening, the usu41 muonthly mocting of this board was held at the public olfice, FEgreloelt, Mr. Poolay in the chair. 'rue nthcr ascasbers prc~elt wore 3tesare. Ii. Lilttled'le, MsIlli Penoy, Hill, S. W. Coulburn, Ball, Wilson, Neval, 'Callow, Flshwick, Cahic~, anid J. Cossihero.1 The preceedings of the vortis ad health cenmlittce were sub- mitted for cooliresalien. In the coureo uf a ...

... The following correspondence is published in thellforn- ily Advent i~scn of Saturday. The editor informs thu pub- lic that Sir Janes Grahlam's letters are marked private. Pill SIRt JA7105 GRABAI1 TO SIP. CHIARLES NAP'IER, whl No wil Atimiralty, Octobor 17, 1854. [Reed. 22nd.] the MY dear Sir Charles,-YOU refer to my letters at the end of mna August as contemplatilg thenaths early termination ...

... CORRESPONDOCE. SEA FOG-SIGNALS. TO THE EIDITORS OF THE iIVEDOOI MEIRCURY. Gentlemen,-Havitig read In the Eaoeniner of the Saturdy before last avery instructive letter by Mt. Blackburn, on ses' fog-signals, wherein he clearly demonstrates the superiority of llgbt over sound for.-sguals in a fog at se%, I beg to state that some time agoe 1. recommended for an allarmlsin-16i to warn a following ...

... A. ., . ?? . :: - i, 0i-e 'nal f6 iniglt, 11ecoting of tho ielect Vostryto Wasi It yetedyte Rev Mr. Campbell in the' Phar l te ism espee,,eet were Messes9- WodrEV iarto ?? Is .t. tlohei, %V. jees; Dintee oven, BradleOY, Bold. Melter. Luff,' Ntt ailey,SIbkil, Clarkte, Gada~ l ty Btawlc, Chesney M TT ADDING A MEMBFPS havML Taon A ed AOirTf. Dno The minutes of the hsoitiestitghv,,. en ed r.Dao ...

... SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWE EN EUROPE, AND AMERICA. JUJUAViri AriNJ AlUffli.VIA. (From the New York T, ibune.) at We are now about to witness something which our old- pi fashioned historians would dispatch in a line or a note, E though worth a volume, or library, or many libraries. We mean the telegraphic communication between America ii and Europe, precedent to its extension round the globe. in ...

... I -l -va ?? ?? -. Yn r Cal The various clauses of the Liverpool and Birkenhead ml detl Amalgamation Bill have now been considered in ha detail by the select committee of the House of Commons, ml 'and the promoters of the measure have successfully a resisted the attempts made during its progress to place hh 3 the corporation of Liverpool at a disadvantage on, the . question of the town dues. We ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. ab PAntS, MAY 20.-The Mioniteier pislisheB addresses WI~ which have been received by the Emperor from the lord 19 mayor, aldermen, and common counoil of the oity Of I London, and the mayors and aldermen of Cambridge, shb Bmingham, and Bristol, congratulating his MaPsy no his late escape from the tep falsasn a SPAIN. ab MADID MY 1.-heCoreeyeterday voted the ne ...

... SEBASTOPOL-ITS DOCKS AND BATTERIES. 0a SDXXT'I iil110. i Iho Mr. Thomas Milner, in a letter to the Tines, gives the led following particulars - in- The plan for the Sebastopol docks, the most costly laie and difficult of its public works, was devised by M. Rau- ert court, a French engineer. But his estimate of the ex- ost pense, 6,000,000 roubles, startling the authorities, they gas accepted ...

... ?? ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? - - .1- .1 - - - - - ?? - - - . ?? [B3Y T~EE BaITcSEV AMDO~ SUBMARINE TLEGRAPH1.] ?? BOMBARDW1~NT OF SEBASTOPOLW c it was said in Pgris thus evening (Monday)that'a, 'A iopatoh, dated the-9th instant, from General Clarobert;, .announced that the bomlsardment of Sebastopol, bad L coommenced on the StisIand that it wasstill con',inued en .0 te 1th, henthe despatch was sent off ...