... THE FRIEND OF IRE CLERGY. ?? The amsiversary festival of this society was celebrated yes- terday with the usual ceremonial observances. In the afternoon a large number of the patrons and supporters of the society attended at St. Mary-le.Bow Churols, Cheap- side, where, as usual, a full choral service was performed. The Right Rev. Connop Thirlwall, D.D., Lord Bishop of St. DAvid's, preached the ...

... H10USE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twvelve o'clock. The Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Bill, ant the Bristol Gas, and Bristol and Clifton Gas Coempanie Amalgamation Bill, were read a third time and passed. WHICHWOOD FOREST. The following members were appointed a select coasmitte on the Whichwood Forest Bill-M1r. Wilson, Colonel Noctih Lord Seymour, hir. ...

... FHR TWO LANDS OP GOLD. Amongst the several entertainments, part panoramic, part musical, and part literary, with which the town has lately been amused, that of Mr. Lee Carter is entitled to take a foremost place. The locate of this gentleman's performance is the ancient Adelaide Gallery, and more recently the Marionette Theatre, in the Lowther Arcade, where every evening he linstructs and ...

... [FROSS OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 COPENHAGEN, APRIL 15. The famous and magnificent Norwegian mother- cathedral, the church of Tronyem, that glorious production of Christian art under English artists, has just been treated and illustrated at large in a work of lasting merit, written in German :- The Cathedral of Drontheim, and the Middle-age Chris- tian Architecture of the Norwegians, &c. By ...

... TiHE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: THIIURSDA Y, APRIL 21, 1853. In the HousE of COMMONS, yesterday, The CHIANCELLOIR of the EXOnEQuER called atten- tion to an inaccuracy in the resolutions, which made it appear that the soap duty was not to be entirely removed. It was his intention that the duty on the importation of foreign soap should cease altogether when the excise duty was remitted at home. ...

... HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION'. -4 The nomination of a candidate for the borough of Hd-. dersfield in Parliament, vacant by the unseating of Mr. W. Rt. C. Stansfield on petition, took place yesterday. The candidates were-Mr. Joseph Starkey, of the firm of Starkey Brothers, woollen cloth manufacturers, and chairman of the late member's committee, and Lord Goderich, the recently unseated member for Hull ...

... HEA . Tll of LONDON D UIING te TWEP7'K. [FnOM THE REOISTaIAR-GENERAL'S RETURN.1 A declining rate of mortality affords evidence of a gradual improvement in the public health. Since the weekly mor- tality rose to its maximum at the end of March, the nnmier of deaths fell in the first week of April to 1,340, and in that which ended last Saturday to 1,243. Since the week ending March 26, in which ...

... [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, ONE A.M. The United States steam-ship Franklin has just arrived off Cowes, and brought 120 passengers and 200,000 dollars in specie. She left New York on April 9. The steamers Webster and Philadelphia had arrived at New Orleans with two weeks' later news from San Francisco to the 15th ult. The route oc- cupied only 21 days. Illinois boat has two ...

... ARCHAOLOGWCAL INSTITUTE of GREAT .IBRITAIN.I At the ordinary meeting for the present month, held at the apartments of the society, 26, Suffolk street, Sir John Boilean, Bart., in the chair, a communication was received from Mr. a. Clarke, of York, relating to the recent discovery of a tesselated pavement in that city. It is singular that amongst the numerous vestiges of the Romans there ...

... The Countess of Clarendon held a reception last evening, at the official residence of the Foreign Secretary, in Downing.etreet. The invitations comprised the whole of the corpa dipto- iseotique, and almost all the members of the aristooracy at present in London, to the number of upwards of 800. The r2itnion ewas by far the most numerously attended party ef the season., The company began to ...

... i ! Io I MORNING C'HRONICELE OFIFICE, 2'iu6spsd, 11 a.m.! EXPRESS FROM PARIS. [Fnom OUR OwN CORPBE5ONDENT.] PARIS, WEiDNESDY EvNimnG. M. Schneider has been appointed by the corm- mittee on the budget to draw up the report. The labours of the committee were not very serious. It determined to accept the budget just as it was pre- sented, and the report will be to that effect. I mentioned ...

... [FROMI OUR OW-N CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, WEDRESWDY MORNING. t But for the extension of the income tax to Ireland, the financial statement of Mr. Gladstone would have produced universal satisfaction in this country. The only intelligence regarding the Irish fportion of the budget that reached Dublin yester- fday was the very imperfect'version supplied by the electric telegraph. A strong feeling ...