... OPENING of t1de BRISTOL and EETEJllI RAIL WA V. ust be Tue opening of the entire Ille of this railway was cele- brated on Wednesday. In Rxeter all business Was ens- ith pended, aend thsusands and tesisof thousands flocked in lainu ton thle country, anid the streets, paraded by bandsa of' music, wereA ndoeesly thronged. with people In holiday attire. Anieo'clock the members of the Temperance ...

... SOCIETY FOR THE EMANCIPATION |OP INDUSTRY. : Au op reeing of the committeeof tbis society took il place on Tuesday evening, at ate rooms in Parlitment-street, I ter tbe subject diecue-ed being the Standard of Value. At he seven o'clock the chair was taken by A. Spottiswode, Req I rk and the business of the evening Immediately commenced. I The CNARUtAr; said that the qusotionfo*theeveningwas ...

... To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. $Ir-It appears from Lord Beaumont's statement in the House of Lords, and from your remarks on it, that a strong feeling is growing up against the present system of Christian protection in Mahom- medan countries. I cannot deny that it is attended with manv inconveniences, and that in some cases acknowledged criminals may escape with impunity; but there ...

... MADRID, MAY 9. [FROM OUR OWN CORREBPONDENT.1 There appears little doubt that the Queen's journey to Barcelona is now decided on, and that It will commence about the 2W itb iut. Tho Corresponsal of this evening con- firms the report. It is expected that several members of the government and the diplomatic body will go with the court on this excursion. Senor Mon's disinclination to remain in the ...

... IMP REAL PARLIAMENT1 HOUlSE OF Jl.0 nS--FouDAY. I.6 l VITY WILLIAM presented it p atition from certain Q Qu.,1m' in Irfiland, for the abolition of the punishment of nb.t:tol;1 a petition f oin, nd and n lud Dunbar in fit- vour )' tte North Biritish Railway. Tim 1I,;ke of BIJUCCLEUtCH presented several petitions from Svotland in favour of thou atuignltation of tho salaries granteted ' l ...

... :.- $PAIX, MADRID, M1AY 10. I-- .5O~f OVRt OWN CORRuEPONDPWNT.1 T be people ner el a CU u o * -'- e l . 41, )Iorocco affair, and the large preparations making by the gruperox Abdsebumale, Who, if the accounts received lately are true, seems disposed to adopt the offensive, and to have mean for doing so, whicl the Spanish government eosld scarcely have anticipated whab they allowde their organs ...

... RESTRAINTS ON ADULT LABOUJP TO CHARLES BULLER, EsQ., MP. Slt-It is impobsible not to admire the ingenuity of the 'arguments by which you have lately supported the prin- elple of legislative interference with the right of every adult member of the community to dispose of his own labour in the way which seems to him most to his advantage. That I cannot assent to your reasoning I must attribute ...

... .Iforn ing Chronicle Office, Hcdf-pastFive. : SECOND EDITION. (BY EXPPRESS.) FIFTEEN DAYS LATER NEWS. LxvznrOOL, TUBSDAY EYENMNG.-Tlte royal mwail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Judkins, with the mails froin Boston and fHalifax, passed Holyhead at nine o'clock this morning, butt owing to fog, was pot telegraphed until one. She sailed from Boston on the 1C6tb, and Halifax on the 18th inst. There ...

... HlOUSE OF LOll1S-)-THURSDAY. The Ma lauequse e' NORMANBY said, lie liad intended to put a question to this noble duke opposite in reference to the production of eertain papers connected with the recall of the (overnor.General of India,but lie underetood that it would be more ennver. eut that he SUeOl4l postpone the questimt till to-morrow (ltsiq day), in consequence of the absence of the noble ...

... NATIONAL ANTI - CORN-LAW LEAGUE. red cbe The National Anti-Corn-law League held its weekly meeting yesterday evening, at Covent Oarden Theatre. of Every part of the house was full. Among the gentlemen the present were:- ear John Bright, .Esq., M.P., (ia the chair), the 11 a. C. tWe Pelham Villiers, M,P,, Major-G5eneral Briggs, James Wil- 300 ta esa, E~q , Rev. J. Burnett, John Travere, Eeq., ...

... TRE PHILRAIIAIONIC SOCIETY. to m Last night MENDBLSSO}IN assumed his post of con- )r ductor of the Philharmonic Concerts, the duties of which he la to perform during the remainder of the season. We hopa that this will be the commencement which we have often expressed a wish to see realized-this appoint- ment of one permanent conductor, with all the au- thority and powers belonging to the ...

... IORTH AMERICAN CLONIAL A4SSO I NTCIATION OFJRBLAND. | A meeting of thise association evas held yesterday, in pur- snaucea of the following notice - 11rile directors of the association hereby give special tc notice that out extraordinary meeting of' the ehareholdere I will be held at No.,7, Broad-street Thuildings, in the ctitv ofto Londou, on Thursday, the 23it inestnst, at twelve o'clock at ...