... Yesterday the Camp at Cboblam was to be seen in its holiday garb; but if any of the officers or men of the various regiments on the ground ever entertained the idea that they were merely going out upon a kind of gipsy party on a large scale, the delusion is now being quickly dissipated. The note of preparation is still going on actively withinlthe camp, and much yet remains to be done with ...

... THE AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MA IL STAsAMEIR ADBLA IDB. 0 - [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] DnvoNtornT, JAN. 2.-At an early hour this morning the passengers on board the above vessel were made acquainted with the fact that Captain Jackson and the first officer of the Adelaide bad given in their resignaticns, and were do- termined not to proceed to sea with her. The fires had been lighted some hours previously ...

... LONDON : FRIDAY, AiY 13, 1853. In the HousE OF LORDS, last evening, The Exchequer Bills Bill, the County Elections Polls (Scotland) Bill, and the Chimney Sweepers'. Act Amendment Bill, were read a second time. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a petition from Christchurch, praying for a revision of the poor laws with respect to the assessment of real and personal property. He complained of the ...

... The half-yearly general court of the governor and com- pany of the Baak of England was held at the Benk yester- day, to consider of a dividend; Mr. T. Hankey, governor of the court of directors, in the chair. The minutes of the last general court having been read and confirmed, The GovERNoit said: I have to acquaint the Court that this is one of the quarterly general courts appointed to be ...

... A crowded meeting of this society was held on Monday last, at the Theatre of the Royal Institution, Albemarle- Atreet. The president, Sir Roderick I. Murchison, in the chair. Among those present were the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Marquis of Camden, Lord Gifford, Sir B. H. Inglis, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., Mdr. R.Mosackton Milnes, M.P., Sir Thomas D. Aclaud, Bart., M.P., Mr. W. B. Hamilton, ...

... -I- [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. lA year having elapsed since the wreck of a vessel, in which Sir Montagu Chapman, Bart., had been a passenger from Melbourne to Sydney, and all efforts to discover any traces of him having failed, the members of his family have published an an- nouncement of his death as having occurred on the 17th of May, 1852. His brother, now Sir ...

... FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY . I Yesterday the hundred and ninety-ninth anniversary fes- tival of this charity was celebrated, at St. Paul's Cathedral, with all the forms and ceremonies usually attending this interesting occssioD. There was a full choral service, in which the choirs of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. Paul's, Westminister Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, as- ...

... _. ., .. ?? .AORXVING CIIRONICLE OFFICE, Saturday, 3 p.ma. THE MONEY MARKET. CITY, THIS DAY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Money, 100 J. Console for Account, 100 A. SPAIN. [FROM OUR OW COORRESPONDENT.] MADRID, MAY 1. The railroad question is disposed of for the pre sent, the Ministry having resolved that the whol subject shall be submitted to the Consejo Real. The Gazette contains a royal decree on ...

... TBE BERW ICK PET TION. The select committee appointed to inquire into the cir- cumstances attending the prosecution of the petition against the last return for the borough of Berwiek-upen- Tweed: have considered the matters to them referred, as well as the allegations eontaided-in a petition bearing date the 6th of May, 1853, presented to this house by Mr. Forster, touching the said return, ...

... SVCECS#S1ON DUTY BILL. I - HOUSE OF COMMONS-MoNnAY., In the Committee.-Clause 21 (In estimating the annual value of liuds used for agricultural purposes, houseB,,buildinms, tithes, teinds, rentcbargces and othdr property yielding,, or capable of yielding, income not of a fluctuating character, an allowance aball be made of all necessary outgoings; but there shall be in. cluded in such estimate ...

... CAMBRIDGE BRIBERY COMMISLION. The first witness called yesterday morning was George Riohardson, a butcher and publican, who stated that he in- tended to have voted for Adair and Mowatt, and should have done so if a man named Gilbert, also a butcher (since dead), had not promised him X10to vote for Astell and Macaulay. He waited till one o'clock on the day of election, and seeing the Whigs bad ...

... RAIL WYA YS. ?? MANCHESTER, SHIEFFIELD, AND LmNaOLNsHIRE It REiLwAY.-A Meeting of about thirty shareholders in this railway was beld iu the council hfall, Sheffield, on Friday' t anticipatory of the general meetitig of the company at Man- cbE>ter, next Wednesday, to consider the proper steps to be t' taien in the present crisis of the company's affairs. Mr. C. tl A!. ...