... NEWCASTUL, JULY 6. The prominent events of the week have been-the death of the e mmmder-in-clief of the British army in the crimes, and the speech of the French emperor, in opeuiig tbe Logislative Assembly. Lord Raglan died 1 from cholera on the evening ot Thursday the 2Sth ult.; and such is the rapidity with which the telegraphic wires now flsah intelligence, even across the hngth and breadth ...

... . The convocation of the clergy for the provines of Canterbury resumed their adjourned sittings at West- minister on Thursday. Besides the Archbishap of Can- terbury nine prelates-the Bishops of Oxford, Exeter, Wiochester, Salisbury, Lincoln, St Asaph, Bl4th and Wells, London, acid Glouncster-assetnbled in the lower house. In the foeimer, the Bishop of London brought up the report of a ...

... RUSSIAN POLIOY IN 1783 AND 18,5. The ? Paris Hfonitimr of Saturday last, publishes do- oumenlB of a highly interesting charaeter. Th'.y Con- sist of deqpatchce that peed between M. de Vergennes, minieter of Louls XVI., and the French Ambaseadors at the courts of Vienna and London. The firet bears date January 6, 1783, and the laot July lb, of the same year, Thme state papers present a wriising ...

... ThE OPERATIONS OF THE FLEET. (From a Correapondoit of the Morning Herald.) Rear-Admiral Sir E. Lyons returned with his fleet on the 16th to Kazatoh. On the evening of the 16tb, the night attack by the steamers on the sea defences of 8ebmatopol began, all the steamers going iu and dis- charging their broadsides, so that some eight or nine vessels thus harass the -Russian vessels very much. The ...

... DAILY AND PERIODICAL PRES. i TIME1S.-The Quarterly Return of the RevenUe in these days is a very different affair from that document which in the times of retrenchment and peace was the barometer of commercial prosperity, and afforded some scope for the ingenuity of friends and of foes. We can no longer hail the buoyancy of an exchequer which rose in spite of continual remissions, nor can our ...

... LONDON, Wednesday Evening.-It is scarcely neaes- eary to state that Saturday last was a gloomy day in the city. Only the previous day, Lorda Paumure and Palmerston, in their respective houses, gave hopes of the reocry of Lord Raglan, and denied his intended resigngation; and then, the next day brings with it the intelligence of the noble and gallant commander's demise. It is worthy of notice ...

... The following despatches have been received ?? Stockholm, 29th, Evening.-Aecounts from Finland state, that when the ?? of the failure of the attack made against Sebastopol on the 18th reached Abe on the 23rd there was a grand military parade and a Ti Debum, at which the Grand Duke Nichol&s was present. The St. Peteraburg journals publish the following despatctla from Prince Gortsohakoff:-.. ' ...

... No later Crimea n news. T., LATE SUNDkY TRaDING BILL Rioos.---At the Marlborough Police Court to-day, a number of trades- people living in the neighbourhood, applied to the magietrates to know how they wore to get recompense for the damage done to their windows on Tueiday night. Mr Hardwick was afraid the expense would fall upon themselves. The county would have been liable had the riot act ...

... (i ? I! ?? mmmjb? ? MUME, I) it Couran't Ofe, Fridays HOUSE OF LORDS., THURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsa ek at ftie o'clock. THE EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Lord BaoUGHma, in presenting some petitions against the Education (Scotland) Bill, appealed to the Duke of Argyle to withdraw it for the present session, on the ground that, owing to a considerable portion of it ...

... WANT OF GUN-BOATS IN THE BALTIC, Every post from the Baltic brings us Complaints more and moreurgent of the want ofthatlight fltilla, without whose services the wholo affair ia little better than a pompous demonstration and an empty pageant, appal- ling from its size and ridiculous from its clumsiness What is being done we know not. What might be done we learn from the memoiable example of the ...

... TRA-NSMISSION 03 F THE COURANT BY I ?? , . POST, The attention of our readcrs is directed to one of the requiremxc its of the Newspaper Stamp Amendment Act , as to the transmission of stamped newspaj jers bypost. The red stamp, or distinctive aie, -on -the corner, of the sheet, hitherto i ised, and bearing the words - Newcastle Cc rnrant Newspaper, will, in future, be retai ned only on ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT IHING'S - ?? - -COLLEG E. On the 30th ult. the annual general distribution of the prizes, in all the various classes of study (except the medical), took place in thes great hall of this col- legs, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. The hail was thronged on this accasion with an unusual number of dietioguished visitors and persone connected with, end interested in ...