... I PORTSMOUTH, Ave. 1. On the fact of this ship being quite fast on the stocks becoming quite apparent, one of the Assistant-Sar. veyors of the Navy was telegraphed for from Somerset. house, togive his advice as to the b.at meats of getting her afloat, and Mr. Watts was sent down by mail train for this purpose, and he arrived at the Dockyard at half-past 12 at night, just in time to hear the ...

... L ATEST FROM ABROAD. HANOVER, WEDNESDAYZ The Second Chamber of the General Diet of the Kingdom is dissolved by royal vroolamation. DESPATCHES FROM GENERAL 61SPSOX, (FROM A SUPPLEMENT TO TRHB GAZTTlt.) War-Department, August 1, 1865. -Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, Of which the following are Copies, addressed to his lordship by Lieutenant-General Simpson, ...

... I LONDON: SA TURDAJ'I, A UGUST 4, 1855. In the HOUSE of Lon's last night. In answer to a question from the Earl of ELLEN-, BOItOUUj Lord PANMURIt said h- had no reason whatever to beliuve that there was any truth in the report of the assassiuation of Geueral Beatson. There had been a rumour ofas miulous ?? on the part of the Turkish irregtflar cavalry under his comu- i mand, but he believed ...

... I -- Yesterday there wad a private view of the picturee, &a., seleoted by the prizesoldere in the Art Union of London for the year 1855, which have been arranged for exhibition in the gallery of the Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East. The %valls of the gallery were or this occasion hung with pictures of various degrees of merit, estimated at prices varying from £250 to ...

... | 6I - a TO THE EDITOR Or Tng MORNING CHRONICLE. I Sea-A volume has been published within the last few D years entitled The Mormons; or, Latter-day Saints, a r contemporary History, the writer of which states in his preface that three letters, forming the basis of his larger work, first appeared in The Morning Chroizicle. It is on thi account that I venture to request the insertion in your ...

... DWPERIA.L P&LIE. , .. oUSE O' LORDS-Monday. CRIMINAL LAW,-Lord BROUGaAR, in moving -for the criminal law returns took occasion to ask the noble, lord on the woelsack whether there would be any prospect of the Summary Jurisdiction, Bill passing during the present session of Parliament? lie also wished to know whether, if the Assize Session Bill were not passed this session, the noble lord would ...

... RIOT AND LOSS OF LIFE AT I IHaslemere. I A sensation, which it would be impossible to describe, has been created, not only in this town, in consequence of the perpetration of probably one of the most cold-blooded murders as has ever occurred in this part of the county of Surrey, but for miles distant. It appears from those who were eye-witnesses of the affair, that at twelve o'clock on ...

... NAVAL AND'MILITAR&rY NEWS. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty yesterday:- Lieutenants-C. S. S. Stanhope, to the Havannaih H W. Fox, to the Encounter; J. H. Thomas, to the Prasident ?? W. H. Cumming, to tile Rogue, for service in the Badger; | tender; J. B. Butler, to the Indefatigable. Naval Instructors-George Foster, to the London; and' James ...

... LIMITBI) LIABILITY BILL. This bill, as amended in committee and on re- commitment, has just been printed. The bill, which has already passed through the House of Com- mons, is entitled A Bill for Limiting the Liability of Members of certain Joint-stock Companies. Whereas it is expedient to enable members of joint-stock companies to limit the liability for the debts and engage. ments of such ...

... TiHE HA R PAST Sate UV UI TEBD STATES. I We have searched the western journals in vain for the first note of alarm from the great wheat fields of the western prairies, indeiating any falling off in the farmers' prospect of reaping a most abundant crop. We are, therefore, satisfied that the largest wheat crop ever grown in the United.States is already gathered, or is in such a state of ...

... LETTERS FROM THE OCAP. The following letters from non-commissioned officers in regiments now serviug in the Orimnea, have been published: The following is extracted from the letter of an artillery. man, dated Balaklava, July 17:- 1 will now endeavoir to give you some account of what is going on in this quarter of the globe. In the first place, there is a series of little soruies going on in ...

... TO TUE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. SIB,-The new French loan bids fair to rival its predecessor in popularity, notwithstanding its in- creased 'amount. One establishment, the Credit Mobilier, in addition to its original subscription of ten millions sterling, and to the amount subscribed in London through AMessrs. Baring, has been compelled to forward a supplementary list to meet the requisi- ...