... GLoUcEsrzTER ANDX ERBORD.-The fine weather has wonderfully ripened the grain, and operations have been commenced on large breadths of wheat and barley. Should tine weather continue, an immense quantity of grain and spring corn will be secured in the course of a fortnight. The rep will be about an average one in these districts- perhaps slightly deficient as on all the clay lands the wheats ...

... HEALTH of LOVDON DVRIzG. the WBEE. I --I IFMOM THE BEGISTRAR-013NERALS RSEtrRN.] 96 deatlis from all causes were registered in London during the week ending the 24tb September. In the corresponding week of 10 previous years 1843-52 the average corrected for increase of population is 1,163. The deaths ranged from 808 in 1846, to 1,611 in 1849, at which latter period the mortality was much ...

... VISIT OP THE EMPEROR TO TEE YORTS OF FRANCE. LFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN(T.]. CALAIS, SEPT. 26. Shortly after the arrival of the Emperor and Em press at St. Omer they proceeded to visit the caml at Hlelfaut, and to witness the manoeuvres of tb troops on the plains of Bruyeres, about midwa; between the town of St. Omer and the plains o Helfaut, upon which the forces are encamped Their Majesties, ...

... T1l8 NEfW HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT. a Or, Sarirday the new Hackney Carriage Act ?? taken into consideration in the committee of aulenrmen, held at Guild- lil. Tiie Commissioner of the City Police laviig been re- quctred bv tbo committee, at a meeting held on the 9th inst., to slatD ihe best nreans of carrying out such parts of the act aidrrobedl no the City magistrates, sent in a report upon the ...

... ELECTOIOV SA TURDA I A T ETON COLLEGE. ; Thc last Saturday in July has usually been marked in the Chllege caletidar as the daly on which the pupils complete t1 ci studits previous to tile long vacation, and the period wilere the exaninatione of candidates for the foundation, and fir li'olarsolips at King's College, commence; but this yeas, the list Saterday being the last day but one of the ...

... TEE GOOD WOOD PLATE. We often hear complaints urged by artists in precious metals of the difficulty of obtaining a continuous supply of subjects at once novel and fitting. In the present case, however, Baroa Maroohetti, who designed and modelled the work which will be carried off by the winner of the Goodwood Cup, has been fortunate in hitting upon a story new in itself, appropriate in its ...

... LORD JORN RUSSELL'S PROPOSED EDUCATIONAL BILL, and RAGGED SCHOOLS. 0 To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Bia-The introduction of a new educational measure by Lord John Russell calls for an earnest consideration of the principles which should guide any such bill, and of the degree in which it is calculated to carry them out; the tem. porary postponement of that proposed by him fortunately ...

... .ECOL BSIAsTI CAL. PtEfMM S AND APPOINTHBNtT5. The Bishop. of Salisbury has instituted the Rsev. T. Duekk 4 ley, M.A., fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Sopworth, near Malmesbury, rendered vacant by I the death of the Rev. Robert Trotmran Coates, B.D., on the I nomination of the Duke of Beaufort.. The Bishop of Hereford has licensed the Rev. H. Cooper, 31)., to the ...

... ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN DRA IrAG. On Saturday an aggregate meeting of the schoolmasters and mistresses of the various metropolitan, parochial, na- tional, and other schools, was held at Shaftesbury Hal, I Aldrgate-atreet, for the purpose of taking steps for cffec- tally introducing the rudiments of art and science into elementary schools, with the view of rendering them or. Idinary branches ...

... RAIL WA YS. SEVERN VALLEY. The first ordinary general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday at the company's office, 31, Parliament-street, Mr. Jonathan Thorp in the chair. After the usual formalities, The CHAIRMAN said that the directors had called the first ordinary meeting of the shareholders at that early period, in order to give the proprietors the option either of ...

... LIFE ASSURANCE-MODES OF VALUA- TION. To nii EDITOR or Tax MORNING CHRONICLE. SrI.-I have to express my concurrence in the observation of J. A. H. (in his letter to you of the 10th inst.), that we are quite agreed as to the necessity of ensuring the main- tenance of a sufficient reserve, but differ only as to the means of effecting it. J. A. H. now observes that, as respects the bonus, he ...

... The MASTER of the CHARTER HOUSvfI TO TEE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE SIR-It is well known to old Carthusians that the UV remains of Good old Thomas Sutton, their ancient bt factor, used for many years to lie, wrapped up it sheet I? on the top of a pile of coffins in the Charter ?? Tal The present master, to avoid the removal of the foull body whenever a new burial took place, has set uP ...