... | ~rg. (Frons the Picss4) emj The Minieteriai Whitebait Dinner, which ueually preceiles th' ~ coseof~he essontook Place cii Wbdneoday weele at Hart's em Trafalgor, Grewc.Forty 'ceonviisos -were present. Thd banqet its n oexceptisnable one, and went off amid thle utmost good fiufiouir. The elat6 it the6 Thames water was one, of thettopics of convereation, and much, innocent mirth was Ire. ...

... SEBASTOPOL-ITS DOCKS AND BATTERIES. 0a SDXXT'I iil110. i Iho Mr. Thomas Milner, in a letter to the Tines, gives the led following particulars - in- The plan for the Sebastopol docks, the most costly laie and difficult of its public works, was devised by M. Rau- ert court, a French engineer. But his estimate of the ex- ost pense, 6,000,000 roubles, startling the authorities, they gas accepted ...

... .-BRRaO ACCOMMODATION. + f tho official committee on 6-rt L- The - S of theoffcial committeeonbarracl k a e, eashsmel nthe sam no binac cchheseps n ThE l P -m r the army has been Published The commtteeom mende an opinion that the accommdhatioel couitledt poviedr hib -racks has been greatly inamdeo hfithaerto provided in th 5 rakrom b COton both for the comfort end &:Tnvenience of the soldiers ...

... {litA.A. BO A BA ?? - - f.- I w Wu U (From the United Servie' easCette.) 83 0 CORRECTED TO TlE 3STi JULY, 1855. 87 0 40 ?? are mentioned, the last-named is that at 40 0 ' whichthe ?? of the reelent iestationed.1 lestLifeGuards, Hyde-park. 40thN.S. Wales; Galway. 48 0 2nddo, Windsor. 1 ?? ; Templemore. 85 aRoyalHarseG'rdsRogent'sPk.S42id Turkey; Stirling. ?? G'rds, Liverpool,143rd Madras; ...

... - ?? -.I Queen 'Victoria is constantly evincing her interest in her soldiers end saillots by acts of kindness likely to prove very grateful to the feelings of her warriors. She has seat hand. kerchiefs anid neckties for thirty sick or wouodtid soldiers now at P~ortsmnouth, the articles having been hemmed by herself sond the ladies of the court. --There is now in the Crimes an efhective force ...

... I The Mornidy Heral of Monday makes an anmusing error vwith regard to 1 General Read, ivivse death in the battle of , the Tschernayas i0sinnoliliced in General Simpson's despatch of the 17th. Thi Herald says- We have to deplore the 1 loss of another of our brave offlcers; tile name of General I Read is added to the list of those British commanders who e have fallen in this war. General ...

... 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 ?? at 'court* * OSBORNE, AuGcaS 16. The Queen and Prince, attended by the Countess of Dasart and the Hon. Beatrice Byng, droveoot yesterday. Lord Panmure and Sir Benjamin HaU arrived from Ln- 1 don on a visit. Mr. Preosly, of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chanceller of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-stteet. Despatolas were sent yasterday ...

... LONDON, FBIDAY, AUG. 24. Two items of news from Ireland, appearing toge-l t they the other day, suggest thoughts and feelings as I strange as they are cheering. The most vigorous mea. f sures are adopted in Dublin fur realising the inten- tions of Parliament in regard to communication c between London and Dublin. In a little while there t will be two mails per day between the two capitals ...

... DlVISlON~ OF MgTROPOLITAN PARISHES The provisions of flall's Act for the Bette L~ocal Management of the Mletropaolis necessitating the division of the whole metropolis into distriots or wards, the representative vestry of t. Panorne, et a recent sitting, appointed a commnittee to aeitat the commissioner, to b named by the government to set out such wards. The Same body also called a public ...

... Prince Albert has consented to lay the foundation stone of the New Midland Institute at Birmingham early in November. Lord J. Russell has purchased Hill House, Rodborough, near Strolud, until lately the seat of Sir J. 1D. Paul, Bart., and intends snaking it his country residence. By some, says the ' Gloucester Journal,' political motives are attributed to the noble lord in fixingL his ...