... Still we linger on, with hope deferred. There has been nothing decisive yet; though our brave Allies successfully repulsed a sortie of the enemy on the night of the 15th inst., in which they made vain efforts to carry an ambuscade on the glacis of the Malakoff Tower. The Russians were received by a brisk fire at close quarters, and by the fire of. the batteries, 15 and 16; and retreated, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Archbishop of Toledo has pretested against the execu- ih] tion in his diocese of the law for the sale of ecclesiastical sia property, but the government has disregarded the protest, and Sv has placed an armed force at the disposal of the commissioner WE charged to effect the sale. mt HIELIGOLAND.-A Hamburg correspondent of the Indepen- is dance, writes:- It is now positively stated that ...

... * TlE METROPOLIS. The Commrission~rs ?? rtsolved that the health el and welfare of the metropolie require that the sewage and h drainage, instead of beivg allowed -to flow with daily increas-. ni ing pollution into the bed of the Themes. should ba trans- vi ferrsd north of the river to Barking-coreek-, and south thereof or below Plumstead- narehes. ?? PRINCE 3S OZARTORTSKY'S CONCERT FOR. THE~ ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. lasl The Hlouse of Lords sat for a short time on Friday night, did but the business before it wae entirely ofa otn descrip- x tion.ob HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. Ib The Roman Catholic Charities Bill was withdrawn. cl In reply to a question from Mr. Knox, ins: Mr. MOccSELL said that information had been received not by the authorities at Woolmich as to the alleged failure of ...

... AGRICULTURE AND XORTIOULTURE. The clouds which had for some days looked promising have at length burst, and copious showers have descended with the Titer, most beneficial effect. The excessively hot and dry weather from E was beginning to tell most injurionsly on all the garden crops. Peas5 fri The potatoes were showing symptoms of premature ripening, Scotech and in many soils the crops of ...

... BOY KILLISD By LiolsrTsaccG.-On Sat-urlay, during a stir thunderstorm, A boy named Samuel Stopherd, aged 12 years, wil residing at Abbey Hey,, Gorton, Lancashire, was killed by to I *lightning whilst closing a bedroom window. His; body was inti afterwards found in the room much ecorched, and it is sup- wa posed that his death was instantaneous, tbe BOILER EXPLOSION AT HAxAmaaasmrri.-Shortly be ...

... 2 Mr. Henry Stacey, the Liberal candidate, was on Tuesday le elected without any opposition for East Norfolk. I The Duke of Cambridge is to be immediately appointed Generaliesimo of the Foreign Lsgion. PC Miss Nightingale is at Therapia, and does not intend to St return to England unless obliged by the state of her health.. ul l Sir George Brown is on his way home in the Nabla, so- If eriosly ...

... REM!AINS OF LORD RAGLAN. is The remains of the late Lord Raglan are expected to arrian ce in this country some time this week; they will be landed at r- Bristol, and will be deposited in the Beaufort faimly-vanit at ;h Great Badmington. It is thought that the body will lie ir to state for two or three days in the great hall of Badmiriton e0 House, and that, besides the members of the noble and ...