... UNITED MEXICAN IINING ASSOCIATION. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held In the bosrd~room of the company, Fiasbury-oirtus; Sir JOHN EAST- 1 Pops In tile chrair. The advertisomenst convening the meeting having been read, and the minutes of the last meeting confirmeed, the following report wits I presented: 1 ,The Directors, in placing before the proprietors their half ...

... (FrOM 0UB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NAPLES, JuLY 7. We hear of demonstrations in Messina, and of civi- 1ianq and military volunteering for the Crimea; we bear of disturbances in the provinces and of discon- tentamongst the troops; in the midst of persecution and iunder the moat rigorous surveillance, we observe the great and universal interest which is felt and ex. ressed for the cause of the allies ...

... NAVYAL AND MJI.ZITABy. ArnIRALTY, J1LY 18.-AP'P,02NTMENT. _ taptain J. McDougall (555) to be Super et4atnt of the Prcket Service at Southampton, vice Davis. PORTSMOUTH, 3VLY 18. The screw steam trsqpzrt;8 Harbinger and Witley PsrK have arrived at Spithead tt,'A! Thefiret named left Malta, July 2, and thealattrigd bef1 T'o Harbinger brings home ii seamen from the Naval Brigadc befoe Seb,,ftopo ...

... AUSTRIAN REPLY TO THE FRENCH ENIPEROR'S SPEECH. The official IFiener Zeitneeg has an article, taking notice ot the reterences made to Austria in the speech delivered by the French Emperor before the Senate ana legislative body. The following is an extract: Since, however, Austria has been more than once alluded to in the last French speech from the throne, it may be nei- ther inopportune nor ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Si&,-1 was glad to see Mr. Corrie's remarks upon the vexatious alteration in the law compelling public-houses to remain closed until 6 o'clock instead of re-opening as befere at 6. But I think in the discussion of this question attention has been directed too exclusively to the hardships and incoaveniences inflicted upon travellers ; and I wish to speak a ...

... (ROMS OUR OWN CORESPONDENT.) MALTA, JuLY 16. On Saturday the St. Vincent transport, Captain Young, arrived from Sardinia, whither she had gone to purchase mules. None, however, was to be had there, so her people purchased about fifty good strong hardy horswa from four to six years old, and from 14 to 16 hands high, varying from 101. to 121. each. Some 300 or 400 more might be had from Sardinia ...

... In our late edition last week we announced the fetal termination of Lord Raglan's illness, in a communication received from the War Department, on Saturday afternoon, which ran as f hlows: ?? Until four p.m. on the 28th his Lordship had been progressing to the satis- faction of his medical attendants, when alarmigasymptonis developed themselves, attended with difficulty of breAthing, wlhich ...

... Tuesday, July 3. War-Office, July. t-41st Foot: The promotion of.Surgeon J. E. Scott, MiD has been antedates to the 9th of February-68th Foot: The appointment of As- ?? G. Evans on the 29th of June.has been cancelled-71st Foot: As- ?? G. Evans, from the Staff,;towbe Assistant-Surgeon. - Brevet: Brigadier-General R.J. Daeres, of the Royal Artillery, to be Major- General in the Army, in ...

... CRYSTAL PaLAcE.-Saturday, July 21. Admissions on payment, '33; by season tickets, 3,731: total visitors, 4,464.-Monday, July 23. Admissions on payment, 10,842; by season tickets, 546: total visitors, 11,388.-Tuesday, July 24. Admissions on payment, 6,703; by season tickets, 434: total visitors, 7,137.-Wednesday, July 25. Admissions on payment, 8,361; by season tickets, 618: total: visitors, 8 ...

... : TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, JULY 22. 1855.. THE 3ATTLE OF PARTIES. For every sortie of the Russians, for every attack directed by the Allies against the strong works of Sebas- topol, we have at home a corresponding series of opera- tions. If the vigour, animus, and fury which are exhibited at home were brought to bear on the Malakoff and Rddan, we should by this time have penetrated within the ...

... ADULTiBRATIONS OF FOOD. -XOr. Scholefield's Committee. The Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquird ?? the subject of the adulteration of food, assembled at one o'clock on Fridy afternoon, in Committee-room No. 13. Mr. Seholefield was the cbairman and there were also present Mr. Alderman Cubitt, Viscount Ebriaglon Viscount Goderich, Mr. Gregson, Lord Claude Hamilton, MIr, ...

... LATEST FO RE I G N. We have a very recent despatch from the Crimea. It is dated at six o'clock on Friday evening. General Simpson says: ' Cholera is decidedly on the decline. The siege operations progress favourably The Moniteur of yest eray contains a despatch from General Pelissier, dated Thursday, which is equally satis- factory. Letters from Dantzic state that one portion of the fleet ...