... e On Monday afternoon the beautiful park and grounds of v1 Wilton Abbey were thrown open, as is usual every Whitsun- qh tide, to thousands of persons, who thronged the picturesque tj borough of Wilton, in celebration of the several anniversaries c of the local provident institutions. The dinner of the ti e Wilton branch of the Wiltshire Friendly Society took place tl at the Wool-hall, in the ...

... LONDON: TUBSDAY, MARCH 1, 1853. In the HousE of LORDS, last evening, The Earl of DERBY presented a number of peti- tions from various bodies in connection with the Church of Scotland in Canada, praying their lord- ships to preserve inviolate the arrangements entered into in 1840 with respect to the Canadian Clergy Reserves. He admitted the justice of giving the colonial legislatures the right, ...

... FESTIVAL OF THE TIRER CHOIRS. GLOUCESTER, FRIDAY.-We are now in a position to in- dicate the principal features of the forthcoming Festival of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, the programme having been settled by the committee of the festival, and from the interest which is already excited in the event, there can be little doubt that the meeting will be one of ...

... WHE HARVEST. TnE LANCASHIRE CORN CRoPS.-We have had a succes- sion of fine weather, every way suitable for filling and ripen- ing the grain, from the 2d to the 17th August. The corn orops have made great progress towards maturity, and have also greatly improved in appearance. Many fielde of oats have been out, not only on the light sandy lands to the north of Liverpool and about Nlew Brighton, ...

... ~~iTI~ADE TRA TIES. ?? Th e ertrom ittee appointed to inquire hito the tren. 'a 0e1elet no~ between Great Britain, Spain, and tieA II ~oectig the sieve trdadthe suinas allowed Or Bianto those Gvrmnsfrtheiras sed~ai byscerrecetoabolish that trade ; also, to inquire trees or have beern carried out by the (3o- ht~~ t0fpei 5ai ortugal ; have completed the in. let th wt~r rferred to them, and brave ...

... MORNING CHRONICLE OFFICE, Saturday, Fire a.m. - I. _ _ [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) V PARIS, FRIDAY. 3 The Assenzb le Nationaie announces that Aot only t have the good offices of Austria with respect to i the Eastern question been offered, but that it has - been already agreed to, at least implicitly, by the r two contending parties, and has already produced e some preliminary results. ...

... V . s s;- INDIA AND CHINA. We have received files of papers from Calcutta to the 17th of May, and from Honuk-Kong to 'the 5th of May. By this mail we have received no Botubay papers or correspondence. CALCUTTA, MAY 17, 1863. The steamer Berenice from Moulmein and Ran- goou, 13th inst., is coming up the river. She, has just telegraphed that all was quiet whenshe left-. The Moozuffer was under ...

... UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 18. WORCESTER COuLEOE.-The Rev. Edmund James Smith, M.A., scholar of this college, has been elected a fellow, on the foundation of Sir Thomas Cookes; and Mr. Alan Mar. maduke Alington, from Bromsgrove School, has been elected a scholar on the same foundation. SOCIETY POR PROMOTING WHE DUE OBSERVANCE OF THU SABBATH.-The twenty-second annual meeting of this ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDA. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. Tbornhill took the oaths and his seat for North Derbyshire. PE TITIONS, The followivg petitions were presented:-by Mr. Duncan a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Edinfurgb, preying for the amendment of the Pas- ge3nger Act; by Sir C. Lemon, a petition from Crewe, against the Savihgs Bank Act; by Mr. ...

... THE COLLISION ON THE GREA T NORTHERN RAILWIAY. IOFFICIAL INVESTIGATION BY CAPTAIN WYNNiB -Yesterday Captain Wynnei of the Board of Trade, accom. panied by Mr. Archibald Sturrock, locomotive engineer of the Great Northern Railway; Mr. John Denniston the *auperintendent-of-he line; Mr. Leech, the solicitor of tbe company; Mr. Badge, the locomotive superintendent, and other officials, made a ...

... LIVERPOOL BLECTION. THE NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates took place yesterday on the hustings erected in front of the Town-hall. There were four candidates-the Hon. H. T. Liddell and Mr. T. B. Horafall, brought forward by the supporters of the late representatives, Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner; Mr. John Bramley Moore, a Liverpool merchant, the chosen candidate of a large num-. ber of ...

... GREAT NORTHERN. The balf-yearly meeting of this company was held on Sserdav in the London Tavern; Mr. E. Denison, N.P., Cirillean of the boanl of directors, presiding. The directors report, of which an abstract has already weared in Tote Morning Cluhronicle, was taker as read. The CiaRMwx said that the report of the directors Wired it such great length into their proceedings during iii Post ...