... RAIL WA YS. --4. LONDON AND NORITH-WESTERN. Yesterday morning a special general meeting of the pro. prietors of this railway was held at the Euston-square Station, Mr. Benson, deputy chairman of the board, pre- siding, for the purpose of considering and approving the provisions of a bill now pending in Parliament, for making a railway from the London and North-Western Railway at Dunstable, in ...

... oiRGANJZATION OF THE WAR 1)EPARTMENT. ,llow'ing will be found a correct statement teorganlizationl of 'the several civil depart- linister of War:- stets futde the clerk of the Ordnance will have a 0f .£2,000 per annumn. He will be the chief s c civi l staff of the War Department, and the ti ficer of the Minister of War, directing all the ordinary businesd of tile Bubordinate depart- There will ...

... The advices from Mexico, brought by the United States steamer, come down to the 2d inst. They report that Santa Anna has taken possession of Zamora, the insurrectionists leaving on his ap- proach. The fugitives were, however, pursued, routed, and 2,000 taken prisoners. Santa Anna returned to Morelia on the 21st of May, and left on the 23d for Aria, where Comonfort was posted with 2,500 men. ...

... PRoGRESS OF THE WAR. A second expeditiet to Iaertsela has been made by. the eies, with a most successful result, and achieved wtbhout a singlecasualty. Fourteen steamers of the allies leave enteredthesea of Asnfl Kertsch and YenikaIle have beon taken ; thirty Russian merchant ships, with their cargoes, have been captured ; thirty, more uisilan merchant ships and three Russian war steam- ers ...

... ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN PRISONER!. Lord Panmure has received the following returns re. lative to English and Russian prisoners:- Camp belore Sebastopol, May 4,1855. Nominal return of o eerr of the 'mry, ervisg under Field. marshal Lord Reglan, taken peisonert by the enemy. October 25.-5th Hessare: Cornet G. Clowes. 17th Lancero: Cornet J. Chadwick. Nov. 6-23rd Foot: Lient. J. Doff. Dee, 209-35th ...

... TESTIMONIAL To THE MEMORY OF rHTE LATE LORD DUDnaEY STUART.- A special meeting of the committee appointed to carry into effect the resolutions adopted at a public meeting held at Willis's Rooms, under the pre'idency of Lord Shaftesbury, was convened on Tuesday, at 10 Duke street, St James's, for the purpose of coming to a fdnal decision on the nature and character of the testimonial to be ...

... OLD INNS; THEIR ROMANC-C.E, REVELRY, HISTORY, and TRADITIONS. By fO1NIPACE. : CHAPTER VII. In the seventeenth century coffee was introduced into England from the East, and led to a brief temperance movement in the national habits. , Beer had preyiously been the common breakfast draught, or wine amongst the richer classes; and a remnant of this fashion is even still traceable in some of our ...

... (PnOa TFu .TIMES' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JuIN 9. The heat at noon on the 8th instant was very intense, and the guns from the siege were completely quiet, the camp was in perfect stillness, but it was all the dreadful calm that precedes a storm, for we heard that wve again were to open our heavy fire on the town at three o'clock. At that hour it did commence, and is ...

... TzE WECK a OW - HgO. 0DEN AGRL Thismorning, about ?? Otcloch, considerable excite. ment was caused by observing a steamer coming up the Bay, whiehwas soon discovered to be the John L. 8tephens which left here on Monday morning last. As she neared her anchorage it was seen that she was crowded with pea. sengers, and the conclusion at once arrived at was, that she had picked up and returned with ...

... MqORE GIBERaM JOBBEBRY. To THEx zDrrOR OF REYOiLDs'S eEWSPAEEa. Dulwich Vale, Surrey, May 30, 185.5 Smr,-In' the. last number of your paper one of 3,r correspondents gives ssme very pungent remarks reardin the appointment of. Sir Charles Eastlake and M,. Worn i as Principal directors of the National GaJly at a coaeet 1,8001. to the country; in reference to-wlsiel it may be remariked,'that tlis ...

... THE, INOMESKOF I o114 CALL ! FAMILY. - .,The annual tpublication, of the fipance1 Iaecounts ?? Pnd. painfully reminds 'thc'Britishyeopilcof the heuvy burdens ?? ,poitlyecn by tb .main- tenance of the Royal Fani .yf. In addition ty o the Queen's-roiarageolsly.enormoos incoms', of l. a year,' ,the' fpl~lig penseinsi'are charged on the Con- solidatcd.,nisd.,' f thej I nite4 K'gdom:-LeIpold ...

... FOREIGN flTELLIGEN? :BRum.ur~s were cu~rrent at the heinnisg' of the wesk ini anis that the -Emperor was r ot in hismenual state of health. It was announcedt oi Tuesday that he -iaa- bteii bled, but .tha~tn'nothingeseriousisi to be appreheude4. Thie, nan'the want of newsfrom the Crimdeaa-ic the P .ris and, tae as they lately~ were toa frtsh iuiserydh lectric~ telegraph, re diectitented'sat the ...