... Revel and Riga now pocsess telegraphic communication with St. Petersburg, On the 17th there were as many as 312 cases of cholera at St. Petersburg. DESTRUCTION OF CUABIOUNIX BY FIRE-On Friday morning a fire broke bot in the Hotel d'Angleterre, and, despite every exertion, 22 houses had been consumed. No lives have been lost, but there have been sad accidents. An eye-witness describes the scene ...

... o We are very much gratified itn observing that the arrivals ofthe or fair and fashionable in this favourite ivatering-place, to inhale ec e its bracing and renovating breezes, are daily iscreasing tli in number anld distinction. Few places can boast of such a fa- t e shionable assemblage oF visitors as leaumaris. Thegreen, rhere JC the air breathes health, and every sound is but the echo of ...

... RUSSIAN SORTIE REPULSED. WAR DPAERTMaNT, July 16.-.Lord Panmure has received information that a Russian sortie took place against the French Rie-pits in front of the Malakhoff on Saturday night, which was gallantly repulsed. The army is healthy. The Mfoniteur has the following telegraphic despatch: C-criaA, July 15,16 ?? nighthas been a success- ful one on the side of the MalakhoffTower. About ...

... OFFICERS LEAVING FOR ENGLAND. BErORE SEBASTOrOL, July 3.-The following officerse have quitted the Crimea for England during the last few days, in addition to the two lieutenant-generals comnmanding the Light and Second Divisions:-Lietenant-Golonel Johnstone, 33rd Regiment; Major Pack, 7th Fusiliers; Major Villiers, 47th Regiment; Major Armstrong, 49th Regiment, Captains Colthurst, 48th ...

... DR. BARTH, THE AFRTCAN TRAVELLER.-A Malta cor. respondent advises the arrival at that island, on the 24th of P June, of Mr. Gagliuffi, the British consul at Monrzouk, who 0 left Tripoli (in the west) on the 22nd; up to which date, in P consequence of the non-arrival of any caravan from the interior, no ulterior tidings had been received from Dr. Birth, who-e tI return from Bornou was hourly ...

... CARNARVONSHIRE AND ANGLESEY INFIR~IARY. . - I . . .. Lt Report of the week ending Saturday, July 21. In-ratients remaining by last Report ?? ?? 4 ;- admitted since ?? ?? I ,discharged cured ?? e, ,, re lieved ?? , .. 1 ?? ,O remaining in thehouse . ?? . . 4 Out-Patients remaining by last Report . . 751 ,, admitted since ?? 25 Surgeor for the week ensuing, Mr. Hughes. Visiters, Rev. D. Evans, ...

... e pl. ir There is no intelligence from the Crimea, this a week, of decisive operations; but it is satisfactory to on e know. that the general ascendency, acquired of late Di d by the Allies, has not been damaged by the check 'II of the 18th. The latest despatch from General ge if Simpson is dated the 9th; it notifies that, on the I' 'e following day, it was his intention to open a ex s. heavy ...

... RAILWAY SHARE MARKET. There has been rather a heavy market for Railway Secur.5:ES throughoat the week, but unattended by any serious difference in prices as compared with those current last week, The busine s done has been of no mragnitude. Tbere has beer moderate dealing in the foreign investments, and among those that continue in favour are the Antvwep and P. itterdam, Paris and Lyons, and ...

... HONOURS AT HOME AND PROMOTION ABROAD.-LORD GEORGE PAGET. The following letter has been addressed by a Corres- pondent to the Edilor of the ITimes:- Sir,-I read with no little surprise in the Globe 'of Saturday night last that a pension of £100 a-year had been granted to Lord George Paget for distisguished services. I had previously seen his name early in the week in the list of those who had ...

... WAR IVISCELLANY. Sal t ?? _at owing to the blockade, and the many small ships cap. I ured, was excessively scarce and dear. d 'The Dake of Newcastle passed through Vienna on the 13d n iton lila way to the Criirea. t Gee ?? has threatened to have the telegraphic P .~oCut if the continual questioning were not to cease. r General Todleben, the Russian chief en~gineer in Sebastopol, b promises to ...

... PARLIAMIENTARY PROCEEDINGS. The Lords, on Monday, did not sit long. The royal assent was given, by commission, to a number of bills; on the motion of Lord Monteagle, the cor- respondence between the late Chancellor of the Ex- cheqner, and the Governor of the Bank of England, on the departure, in April, 1854, from antecelent practice, in paying the dividend, was ordered to be produced; and the ...

... Why are the stare likely to be the best astronomers?-Be- cause they have studded the heavens ever since the Creation. My dear, what shall we name our baby? said Mr. Smith to Mrs. Smith the other day. Why, huz, I have settled on Peter. Peter! I never knew a man with the simple name of Peter who could earn his salt. Well, then, we will call him Salt Poaer. A Eailor, the other day, in ...