... IN our obituary of this day is recorded the death of Dr. Archi- bald Arnott, H.M.'s 20th Regiment of Foot, in the 84th year of his age. Dr. Arnott entered the army upwards of sixty years ago, and retired from active service in 1826. For a few years he was attached to the 11th Dragoons, but for a much longer period served with her Majesty's 20th Foot, shar- ing the perils and exploits of that ...

... CITY OF CARLISLE. THE proceedings of the Royal Agricultural Society in the North of England were commenced at Carlisle on Thursday the 19th, by the partial opening of the show ground to the public. The admission, however, was confined to the trial-yard, where ex- periments were made with various steam engines and other machinery of large dimensions, to afford the judges the oppor- tunity of ...

... THIS ancient city, which appears likely to become the scene of important events in connexion with the present war in the East, is situated on the Arpa chain of mountains in Asiatic Turkey, about 168 miles to the north-east of Erzeroom. Kars was for- merly the capital of the pashalic of the same name. It is re- markably fertile. A part of it is walled in, and there is a citadel, which, however, ...

... THE sortie illustrated in the subjoined engraving, is thus vividly described by an officer Between eleven and twelve o'clock, on the night of June 16th, a column of Russian infantry came suddenly upon the men in our advanced trenches, and rushed in upon them on the right with the bayonet ere we were quite pre- pared to receive them. When they were first discerned they were close at hand, and, ...

... MARK LANE, JULY 23.-The supply of English wheat was moderate this morning, and the arrival of foreign wheat and flour, during the past week, liberal. Under the influ- ence of fine weather, millers would not purchase unless at a reduction, which factors were not disposed to submit to, and consequently the stands were not cleared at a late hour. The improvement which took place on Friday may be ...

... TOWN HALL, JULY 25th, 1855. Before the Rev. G. W. Gabb, and the Rev. J. Farquhar. Sarah Morgan v. John Perkins, charged with non-pay- ment of bastardy order. Ordered to pay 8s. arrears, and 9s. 6d. costs. Martha Hughes, William Morgan, charged with being the father of her child. Defendant admitted being the fa- ther, and was ordered to pay 2s. per week from the date of her affiliation. USK ...

... ON Saturday the Leeds coroner was engaged in investigating an extraordinary case, which resulted in a verdict of wilful murder being returned against two boys, about ten years of age —John Fitzpatrick and Alfred Breen. Their unfortunate victim was James Fleeson, a lad about seven years of age. The principal witness was an intelligent boy named Hawkins, who said that the prisoners and the ...

... FRANCE. It his been arranged that the Queen of England will arrive in Paris by the Strasburg railway, the approaches to the Northern railway station in the Place Lafayette being crooked. narrow. ugly, and inconvenient. On reaching La Chapelle the royal train will branch off by the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture, and, in order to spare her Majesty the unseemly annoyance of being turned round in her ...

... USK. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings last, two Lectures were delivered by Mr. Mackintosh, at the Writing school, under the patronage of the Usk Mechanics' Institute. G. R. G. Relph, Esq. gua- ranteed a certain sum to the lecturer, and the num- ber that attended each night, fully answered the expectations of the promoters. On Tuesday even- ing about 50 were present. The subject of the lec- ...

... THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. The M.oniieur confirms the news of a sortie of the Russians on the 18th inst. It announces that the Minister of War has received the following telegraphic despatch:- CRIMEA, July 18th, 11 p.m.—The Russians made a small sortie last night against the Inkermann line of attack. It is needless to say they were repulsed. To-day I visited our works at Kamiesch; they ...

... Wednesday, 1,-Soiree in Piercefield park. Party on Usk Railway Bridge Thursday, 2,-Monmouth Assizes, business to commence at nine. Excursion train from Newport to London returning on the 9th. ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY. The General Screw Steam Company's transport Hydaspes, No. 87, Captain Baker, has arrived at Spithead from the East with passengers and invalids:—On nearing Cowes, her Majesty and Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, and both royal families, went alongside her in the Fairy, and the Queen was pleased to inquire minutely of Captain Baker into the state of the gallant ...