... Tes lMORINING CHRONICLE. LONDON: TlURSDAY, APRIL 30, MM40, The llousn of ComumoNs met yesterday. The report of the select committee appointed to try the petition against the return for Cambridge having been broughtt up and read, Mr. WAAnaURToN moved that the evilence taken before thq connmlittee be printed. Sir.JOHN WAIsn having asked the honoiiralde member for West Cornwall (Sir CHA RLEr ...

... EXTRAORDINARY OCCURIuJECE'. It will b:- rtcollected by our riaders that a few weeks ago Foam par'iculars were given of the death by starvation of ant eccentric character, whove narne wne eupposed to be .Jump Foote, and who was found in an emaciated and dying Canb dIhion, in a celebrattd cave, near Farnhann, formerly the re- pated residence of a noted waitci, 11lother Ludlamr, and which was ...

... IMPERlIAL PARILIAMEN 1 HOUSE OF COMIONS.-W EDNESDAY. The Sti&k-r ?? k the choir at icur ,'clsek, MIr IAt 1K ES (URRIE prc'entcd a petition fromn North- 813ptoln 11igsuRt war with China and the opium trade; and fffitionq front Protestinit dlissentere at lleviordt,NVeston, ,,,id ltnlihro)ko, Northaniptons-iire, against grants of public, mn'n'y Itr chl,'rch exteu8ior. Sir K. WILMOI' presented a ...

... CAMBRIDGE ELEClION COMMITTEB. . CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY, AND UNSEATING OF THE TORY MEMBER. The committee met yesterday at twelve o'clock; Sir C. Lemon, Bart, chairman. Mr. BiggsAndrnws said that he had tile pleasing infornm- tioa to ceovey to the committee that tile address, in answer to the very able and eloquent speech of his honourtable artd I c arued friend (Mr. Cockburn) would bs of very ...

... A7i')-B HIDGB TOLL ASSOCIATION. A public meeting was held yesterday at the London Tdve:n, Blibopagate.street, to take into cousideration what mn'asures ebonhl be adopted to induce the governmert, or the corporation of the city of London, to throw open, free of toll, the metropolitan bridges, by a purchase of the same, or a reasonable compromise with the shareholders. The Lord Alayor took the ...

... LANCAbST'ER1 PROT'JESTA NT ASSOUCLA- TIQN. [LFYROS TIHE LAN(Ae5rElt GUARDIAN o0 sATrunDAY LAs'r o On Tuasday evening last the first meedtinzf this Asqocii- 1ation was held in L'neaster, in tbe B)vs' National Setool, a Green Area. The principal speakte s on the occesion were Ythe lRev. Hugh Stowell, of Wauchester, and the R1ev Hugh M'Neile, of Liverpool. So great was the curiosity to h ar these ...

... FRBNCH SLAVE TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE; MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-In your paper of the 19th of Mrtrch last you pub- ittsed a letter from our firnt, giving an account of the re- rewatl cf the slave-trade by the French on the west coast - - Afriel, under the authority of the French goverr- - Oar statement vas founded on informatiore - . recent. Oar a correspondent at the Rio N- ' t the ...

... SUGGES7'f10 OF A NEW PLAN FORi C(U NTY REGJIS'PRA TOAI. The evils of the prcsent system are so decply rooted, they commencec 'i tile very beginning of the process, they attend it through every step, that nothing short of a total alteration of the machinery of county rcgistration can ma- tlrially improve it. The clerk of the peace-tho high csnstal-les of each hundredthle overseers of parishcs- ...

... ST. SEBASTIAN, APrIL 22. [PRIM OUR OWN CoRRrFSI'oND'ENT,) The civil and military authorities of these provinces have not in the least abated their activity, although our late advices from the army of the Duke de la Victoria might satisfy these functionaries that there is now little (Inger to be mpprehenled of the threatened revolutiot, ot rnl her invasion, of tile BaFque provinces by Bslmacede ...

... ('OURV' CUIR IILJA . The QUeen and the Jlerodilary l'rinec of 811XO Colerg Go'ila rode in the parks yesterdei ftternuor in a pony obtiron. IHer Majesty and ia S9erdne Ili'h!'oa visited til Duchireie of Kent at lagestre-hourle, Fligrave fequare. Ilfi lloynl iitzharua P'rinee Albert, attended hry the IIon. ( b ryle3 A. Arr-ray and Colonel Bouu. rie, rode on h:roebtiaat in the pnrhic yet'-rday. ...

... TBACHJING TRlE B1 IND TO IlIAD. A notmerois meeting in support of tie London sociciy for teatdlivai the bliod ts read, 1oAk pluce yestwfrlay ai tilt RIli )ver-squwar rooms, which were crowded, chi fly by ladieq. Altera hymon rom the childretn, which vi3 ?? Well sung, The Bisbhp otLONDON, who wesp in the chair, opened Lhe proceedirgs by an appropriate aldresq, and stntea that the society had ...

... TIME NEAPOLITAN QUESTION. Some of our contemporaries published yesterday, at a I ite hour, what appears to be a very exaggerated account -if, indeed, it be not a fictitlun one-of the proceedings of Admiral Stoprf^'r The following is all the intelli- genc( Ujion the subject which we received by our Paris express The Sentaplore of Marseilles, of the '25th instant, which we have received by ...