... LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1853. In the HOUSE of COMMONS, yesterday, On the motion for the secondreading of the Gi London Drainage Bill, the metropolitan memb Sir B. Hall, Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir De Lacy Evt and Mr. Williams, took objection to the clat whereby the company were empowered to tax inhabitants of the metropolis at 3 per cent. in - the speculation did not yield its promoters a st ...

... RAIL TVA YS. WEST LONDON. The half-yearly generfn meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Mr. S. Bird in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that- Thle directors, in their previous half-yearly report, lcd the pro- prietors to expect that judgment would be given by the Exchequer Chamber in the long penling proceedings against the London and North ...

... ROM OUROWN CORRESPONDENT.] OWN OOPTRETT QIP- - ?? oiONDAY ALORNING. Athtiugh notices of evictions are still served Occasionally on boards of guardians in Galway and other western counties, it is certain that in many cases the relations between landlords and tenants are placed on a much better footing than hereto- fore. There is an account in the Galway Packe' of an entertainment given by Mr. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. The Lord Chaseellor took his seat upon the woolsack at five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the guardians of the Eastbourne Union, in the county of Sussex, praying that copies of the general orders issued by the Poor. law Commissioners may be sent to each board of guardians for their consideration before the orders are put in force. The noble ...

... MORNING CHRONICLE OFFICE, Wednesday, Five a.m. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] PAUtS BOURSE, MARCH 8.-Closing prices: Rentes, Four ?? per Cents., 104f. 70c.; ditto, Three per Cents., 80f. 75c.; Bank of France, 2,765f. ARRIVAL OF THE FORERUNNER. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, ELEVEN P.M. The African Steam Navigation Company's steamer Forerunner, Commander J. B. Atkins, arrived this ...

... I 71E LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDA Y, ns Jr.RCIT8. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, M.Atcn 8. Orders for the Court's going into Mourning on Thursday next, the I0th instant, for his late Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg; viz.:- The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and earrings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. The Gentlemen to wear black, full ...

... THE FATAL ACCIDEAT ON TlE B3OLTON RAILWAY. -10 On Friday afternoon, when our parcel left, Air. James Nasmyth was giving his evidence before the jury onrpa- nelled to inquire into the accident which happenedr that day week, near the Dixonfold station, on the Bolton Railway. Mr. James Nasmyth's examination was continued. He aid : I have made an examination of the eagine and also of ?? line ...

... On Friday evening Professor J. Phillips delivered a lecture, entitled Geological Sketches round Ingleborough ; and though the local character of the subject was not very pro- mising, be contrived to make it generally interesting to a very crowded audience. Inglehorough is the highest hill in the elevated range that separates Yorkshire from Lancashire. Its height is considerably less than ...

... THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL SA VING BANK. A deputation of the promoters of this projected institu- tion, which has for secondary names that of Assurance Banking Friendly Society, waited on Saturday, by appoint. ment, on the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, for the purpose of explaining their project. Having been introduced, Mr. BENTLEY, secretary and founder of ...

... IMEMORIAL T0 THE LA TE BISHOP OF SYDNEY. To TII EDITOR or THU MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-A letter has appeared in Vize .lfol-ing C/sronicle of the 28th ult., suggesting a, collected effort to complete, as the gift of England to Australia, and in memory of its de- parted founder, the Cathedral of Sydney. The letter bears the signature of A. J. B. H., and refers to me as a person qualified to ...

... HOW 1 INDIA IN FUTURE TO BE I I 0 GOVERNED I e T THlE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. e SIR-This is a momentous question but it is a questiO which must soon be answered. The present govorntment a 'rIndia expires in 185L. It must either be continued, or anc 3 ther must be substituted in its place. l Two Blue Books have embodied the information alread e obtained by Parliament; more of these ...

... ARCMbEOLOGICAL IA'STITUTB. The monthly meeting was held on the 4th of March; Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The subject of the remarkable early Christian monuments existing in Ire- land was brought before the society by Mr. H. O'Neill. The sculptured wayside crosses in the sister kingdom are very numerous, presenting remarkable variety in their orna- meats, and in the subjects of ...