... IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-TurSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the ?? at five o'clock. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the congregation of Southgate-road Chapel, 1Kingslaud, against the opening of the Crystal Palaoe on Sundays. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petidoin from a place in Ayrshire, against the grant to the Roman Catholic College of .Maynooth. ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-FIIDAY. The following bills were read a third time and passed Allendale Road Bill ; Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, and Portrush Junction Railway (No. 2) Bill ; Edinburgh Water- works (No. 2) Bill Hnslingden and Rawtelistall Water- works Bill; Limerick Corporation Bill ; Lundonderry, Cole- raine,,saed Belfast Junction Railway Bill ; Waveney Valley Railay Bill. The following ...

... THE COMMITTEE ON DOCKYARD APPOVUMENTS AND PIROMOTIO0NS. NINTH DAY. Yesterday the committee, Lord Seymour (chairmian), Lord Hotham, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir F. Davie, and Mr. Beckett, re-assembled for the ninth time. Some new and important evidence was given by Mr. J. Beer, solicitor and election agent, of Devonport, with re. ference to the existence, at evory election since the passing of the ...

... UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENOB. OXFORD, MAY 24. THuI PROPOSHD NEW MXsuux.-A meeting of Convoca- tion was held this afternoon in the theatre, to receive the report of the delegacy upon the projected new museum and lectare-rooms. There was a considerable attendance of the Heeads of Houses and resident Masters of Arts. The Vice- Chancellor presided; and amomgst those present we observed the Dean of ...

... The ceremony of distributing the scholarships and prizes for the last session to the students in the r edical department of King's College took place on Saturday. His Grace the Arch, bishop of Canterbury presided. Amongst the nnunber of visitors present were the Marquis of Cholhuondeley, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, Lord Radstock, Sir R. R. Inglis, ...

... ICANV LERB UR Y BRIBERY COM4MISSION. II [FROM OUR ONw E nPORTER.] e CANTERBUtRY, WREDNEsDAY NIaFhT. ?? commissioners met again this morning at ten o'clock in the Guildhall, and continued the investigation. Mr. Wm. Elumptre Gipps was recalled, and stated, in reply to questions put by Mr. Commissioner Anstey, that rthe £500 farnished to him by Mr. Forbes Mackenzie came to him in two sums through ...

... THlE NA V Y. AP'POINTMlNT- PIvnnaster-Ttiohnas C. J. Dryden (1843) to the Vulcan stemit-frigate at Portsmouth. Acting Aosictant-S ?? W. Brown (1353) to flaslar Jdospztal, P'ortsmoalh. PWOOLWICH, APRIL 20. The Rihadaina uths steam trorip-ship, Master Commander B-fam, arrived vrsterday from Portsmouth and Slteeruess, and ?? froli the former port a num ber of volunteers to join the Pttemnix screw ...

... TV QUOQUE. To TER EDITOR OF TBE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-The recent disclosures before the Dockyards Committee having conferred upon everything con- nected with the accomplished ?? to the I Admiralty a sort of Ldventitious interest, I think it way not be altogether inopportune to reproduce a poetical effusion which emanated from that gen- I tleman's pen about four years since, and which was at ...

... US. VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 7. BRASENOS COLLEOE.-This day Tlessrs. John Rogers, conunoner of this College ; Arthur William Saunders, trom the Cbarter House ; King Smith, from King's College, London ; and David Mason Gardner, from M4erchant Tailors' School, were elected scholurs of this society. Cu13 RT Cruucu.-The insitallation of the Rev. E. Bicker. steth, M.A., into the ...

... i HOUSE OF COMMONS-THUISDAY. The house meit at four o'clock. NEW MEIMBER. Sir John Rameden took the oaths and his seat for the boiough of Taunton. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Te He S lingdell and It witenstatl Waterworlks Bill, the Leeds as (No. ?? Bill, 'Price's Patent Candle Company (No. 2) Bill, thc Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Bill, and the 2igan Waterworks and Police Bill were severally read ...

... At the last meeting of this society, Joseph Locke, Esq., M.P., vice-president, in the chair, The first paper read was On the Caloric Engine, by Mr. C. Manby, Mi. Inst. C.E. (secretary). At meetings of the Soci&t6 ?? pour ?? Nationale on the 26th January, 1852, and of the Acaderie des Sciences, on the 2d February of the same year, M. Galy-Cazalat entered upon an examination of the principles ...

... I MORNING CHROXJCLE OFFICE, Friday, 11 aan. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. [FaOU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. One of the first acts of the Provisional Govern- ment, which came into office on the 24th of Febru. ary, 1848, was to abolish the punishment of death for political offences. On the 26th of February it was announced that the Provisional Go. vernment, having remarked with ...