... THE ENCAMPMENT AT CHOBHA.M. There will, as a general rule;, if the weather be C~m good, he a field-diay on Tuesdays and Fridays, though hills there will hardly be a day in the week on which some vance evolutions will 'not be gone through. Last Friday the 50th, weather was ag-ai unfavottrable at Chobbam. It rained three heavily at about, eleven in the morning, and between c~a two and three, ...

... FRANCE. m PARIS, Monday.-The question of peace or war seems te now to be definitively settled by the public-of course cc in favour of the former. It may, perhaps, be going too ju far to assert that the matter is definitively settled, hut it 6i is certain that it is in a fair way of being so; and there at is a fixed conviction that, whatever be the exact nature cc of the propositions submitted ...

... Ebt loboirb flournal. SATURDAY, APRIL IC, 1853. ?? Canada Reserves Bill passed through the House of Commons on Monday. If this measure proposed to place all ecclesiastical endowments in Canada upon the same footing, there would be less objection to it, but as it leaves the revenues designed for the support of Protestant churches entirely at the disposal of the Canadian legislature, while those ...

... IPdhSWICHe , 'SateNrdfty, ?? At 1g5 t CSRISTMAS LIBERALITY.-Sir Fitzroy Kellv, M.P., has given £10 to be distributed among the deserving poor of Ipswich, and £10 for a like purpose in the parish of Sproughton. EAST SUFFOLK HOSPITAi-..The Committee have much pleasure in announcinog the handsome and grati. fying legacy of 501.. which has been paid over to the Treasurer, J. B. Alexander, Esq., by ...

... CI)t jpoWirl) gottroal. Never has it occurred of late years, we believe, that the prorogation of Parliament has not stifled the ex- istence of many projects of intended legislation. Not only have the exertions of individual members of the House of Commons been arrested, but the Ministry of the day have had to announce a long list of mea- sures deferred or abandoned. The slaughter of the ...

... The Royal Mail Comranys steam-ship Orinoco, Lieutenant Philip Hast, R.N., commander, arrived at Southampton on Wednesday. The news from Jamaica is important. It announces the rejection by the Council of the Import Duty Bill as sent up the Assembly, and the subsequent prorogation of the Parliament, by his Excellency Sir Charles Grey, for six days. Upon the expiration of that time the House re ...

... HOMlE INTELLIGENCE. WAIN DSCR, Dec. 29.-Her Majesty held a Privy Coun- - a cil at 3 o'clock this afternoon. At the Council Parlia- bad moent was ordered to be further prorogued from the 3rd hon of January until Tuesday, the 31bt of January. 1851. and as proclamation wavs issued sraromninif Parliament to n.eet on that day for the despatch Of public business. vl a ra HER MAJESTY'S NWtii'5GiFts. ...

... The dispatches from Calcutta of the 5th, Bombay the 13th, and Madras the 10th of Jan., together with the papers from China of the 28th of Dec., were received on Monday. By an alteration in the postal arrange- ments they are not of so late a date as they otherwise would have been, the present arrival only supplying us with about 10 daysadditionalfnewstto thatbroughtby the last mail. The ...

... T HE LEMMON SLAVES. A FAMLY SKETCH. (From the New York Tribune.) The Lemmon slaves, orrather freemen, are now safe in Canada. We say safe, whatever decision the Supreme Court may arrive at upon the appeal from the judgment delivered by Judge Paine in their case, and, though, in the event of its being adverse to their freedom, Lem. mon and his wife should refuse to carry into effect their ...

... COMlUSIPOWDEN1E. To Ihe Editor of the 1prieich Journal. Agaicitilrild PTabltx. No. VL. I shall conclude my brief description of agricultural plants with an account of those cereals which owe their origin to natives of our eastern district, as Suffolk, Nor- folk, and Essex; and first, as to wheat, 1. The Spalding, or Spalding'e Prolific, is a very productive, though coarse, red variety, which ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, June 24. The Bishop of SALISBUaY entered into an elaborate vindication of his character against the charge that he had been guilty of ?? rdalvbrsation of funds dedi- cated to the highest purposes, and of receiving and retaining a large sum of money not rightfully his own. The Earl of CARDIGAN enquired if it was the inten.- tion of the government to prosecute the ...

... The papers and letters from India, China, and Aus trals, were received by Extraordinary Express on Tues- day, Their dates areas follow :-Calcutta, February 5; Bombay, Feb. 12; Madras, Feb. 9; China, Jan. 28; Syd~ney, Dec. 28; and Adelaide, Jan. 10. The news from Ava is of course the first point to which our atten- tion is directed. The former mail announced the flight of his Majesty, and the ...