... THE VIENNA OONNUEMNCES. The papers rospeeting the Austrian proposals for a settlement of the Eastern queslion,.haveloeen laid before parliament, and were nublished on Fiiday. The fol- lowing are two or three of the most intereating of these iwportaut documents::- (No. 6:) Lord John Russell toathe Earl of Clarendon. Vienna,. April 16, 1865. My Lord,-The Russien essengser will arrive to- day ; ...

... NEWCASTLE, JULY 20, Considerable excitement has prevailed, both in and out of parliament, since our last publication, arising from Loed John Russell' yienna missicll, and his lord- ship's relinquishment of ofce. The embarrassments occasioned to the ministry, by this affair, will probably be got over; but, at the end of last week, and on alon. day, almost every variety of rumour was afloat, and ...

... THE SAILE t W BEER ACT. Good service is being done just now by the select committee upon the New Public-house Act, which is pursuing its inquiries under the presidency of Mr Henry JBerkeley. The witnesees hitherto examined are mostly gentlemen of extensive -experience in the administra- tion of the law, and -eapecially cognisant with the working of those otatutes which circumscribe the free- ...

... DESTRUCTION OF FORT SA-ARTHOLMI Wi'ThI THlE BARRACHS AND STORE6S OF LOVISA. Despatalhe, of which the following are copies or ex- tracts have this day been received from ?? the lion. R. S. Dancas, Commander-iL-Ohief of her Maeest)'s ships end vessels in the B:Altic:- .Dukc of Wellington, Tolboukin Lighthouse, July 7. The hl- gieienue returned this morning from Lovisa, and I annex a report ...

... DESTRUCTION' OF TMWENTY THOUSAND TONS OF RUSSIAN SHIIPP]ING(. Extract of a Ictterfrom Rear-Admiral lHon. R. S. Dundas, to the t8ec:etary of the Admiralty, dated Duke of WAllington, Tulboukin Lighthouse, July 7. I cannot Cozeludd thi3 letter without calling the particular attention of their lardsbivs to the active exertions of Capt. Storey, ofh i r Mvjesiy's ship Harrier, which ld a few days ...

... TIRiES.-The papers which have just been laid be. fore parliament, for the purpoes of elucidating the aom- munications of the Western Powers with the Austrian government, are by far the most curious and important documents published in the whole series of these trans- actions. They demonstrate with precision what the views of the British cabinet were on the fulfilment of the Third Point as ...

... TRA-NSMISSION OF THE O COURNT BY I POST, The attention of our renders is directed to one of the requirements of the Newspaper Stamp Anmendment Act, as to thle transmission of stamaped newspapers by post. The red stamp, or distinctive die, on the corner of the sheet, hithierto used, and bearinig the -words ?? Newveastle Courant Nowspaper, wvill, in future, be retained only on such part of ...

... She eccastlle Co(rtInt ispresented to itsreaders -once more without the kgal necessity of being impressed with a newspaper stamp. It was established in 1711, the very year before the fiscal regulation of newvspapers came into ope- ration; and-untaxed, taxed, and now unl- taxed again,-it has existed for a period within six of one hundred and fifty years. The circumstance of its long duration ...

... A return wvas printed last weok, giving a list of all pensions granted to the widows of officers who have lost their lives in any breni*h of her Majesty's during the present war in the East. As regards the navy and ma- rines, the following sums were granted to tho widows of the officers named:- Captain John Foote, 120; Captain H. W. GiO'ard, 200 ; Captain Henry Smith, 90; Commander Ben- jamin ...

... DEPARIMP FROM THE CRIEA OF THE I | REMAINS OF THE.LATE LORD RAGLAN. Camp before Sebastopol, July 6.-On Tuesday after- noon, Lord Raglan's remains were borne away from the Crimea. At 4 p.m., the cortege slowly defiled from the broad quadrangle in front of head-quarters-a-minute guns firing as it moved away. Detachments from our regiments, composed of one field officer, a captain, sub- altern, ...

... 1ICUnIE OF LORDS, FMIDAY JULY 13. In teply to Lord 2lonteagle, Earl GLANVILLE stated that tho gularwitco of the Turkich loan by i'ngland and F1iaAce %vould be a joiut guarantee of the who lcamount of X5,OWl,0OO. OUt the motion of Lord Bitovii.o&Ar the Bills of Ex- chainge and Promissory Notes Bills were read a second tlime. The Dwelling Housel (Scotland) Bill passed through committee. 'lho ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SLOW POISONING A protracted inquest, the particulars of which, in its early stage, were temporarily suppressed at the request of the coroner, has just been closed at Burdon, near Darlington. The inquest was held before Ur W. Trot- ter, on the body of hirs jine Wooler, the wife of a gen- tleman of considerable property in that parish. It appears that the deceased was ...