... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... BRIU ISH SLA VEHOLDERS. The following petition was lately presented to the House of Lords by Lord Brougham:- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE PEERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIADMENT ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, Humbly Showeth-That your petitioners have learnt with deep pain that there are at the present ...

... 0 ,I MR. azlizzy. St'~fiONA~LES} ?? The heavy rains elbhet very aceepi1bl0 to the erops, ?? M ,i-d Jiversleo'. withl fl oers and strawberries: form srrti PlaSe the petals of the formC -1ero forced off ndtheisatt ,ere tleaeea to the groaud and the mad washed over thed. yeere taey were sulueda it saved hetm, a ittle bat snhers her. wan neither etraa uorlittet to prohtet thesn, they reerO a& tilf ...

... ?? Intelligence. - I SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 28. The ' Moniteur' of yesterday contains the following tele- graphic despatch from General Pelissier, dated the 25th, at three in the morning. 3 After a brisk artillery fire the Russians made a sortie, about midnight, on the left of the Little Redan. As we are now quite close to them it took the enemy only an instant to reach our gabionnades. They ...

... . Tsrkish Loau,--considered in Committee:-(In the Committee.)- Motion made, and Queetlon plut, That it is the opinion of thla Committee, that her Majesty he authorised to guarantee the peyment of the interest oa the loan of ive millions sterling, to be contracted for by his Imperial Majesty the Sciltan, in pursuance of the Convern tion signed at London on the 27th day of Jaun, 1855, between ...

... FRO.U the L ONDON GAZETTE, Friday, J7ug 27. FOREIGN-OFFICE, J rY 24. Tho Qucen bus been pleased to epprove of Mr. Georgo Adim 'Wiener as consul at Hong lioag for the Emperor of Austria. WAR-OFFICE, JuLY 27. BREtVET. Major-General James Simpson to be lieutenant.general in the army; Lieutenant-General James Simpson to hove the lecal rank ox general in the Crimea, aad in thedominion3 of tbo ...

... NAVAL AND MILI1ARY. WAR PRIZES. (Prom last night's Ga.eCte.) BY THBE QUEtN.-A PROCLAMATION. Victoria, R.-'Whereas by our royal proclamations dated the 29th day of March, 1854, after referring to oar order in council, bearing date on the said 29th day of March, 185l, whereby we ordered that general reprisals be granted against the ships, goods, and subjects of the Em. peror of all the Rupic as, ...

... /S UTHWARR ELECTION. Au anonymous plocard was posted yesterday on the Town. ball, calling upon the electors to reserve their votes for a towtismlan. Whether this document means anything or jbothiug, it is impossible to conjeaturo, as the printer's name was not attached to it, and consequently no indication afforded by which inquiries could be instituted respecting the source from which it ...

... .NA VAL AND M2ILITARY IEWQ. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTME~NTS.l The following appointments were made by the Admiralty yesterday:- Commanders-W. A. Fellowes, to the Rattler ; G. Blare, | to the Grecian R. Jenkins, to the Comus. E Lieutenant J. E. .dontgomerie has been promoted to be t commander; and appointed to the Rapid. f Captain John M'Dougall, C B., has been appointed addi-u tional captain of ...