... RAIL WA YS. THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY. Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- street, to consider and approve a bill now before Parliament, authorizing the abandonment of a portion of the under- taking of the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company, and the reduction of the company's capital and enabling the company ...

... ZNELSON BEFORE TRAFALGAR, Mr. Charles Lucy has painted a semi-portrait, semi-historle picture of Lord Nelson in the cabin of the Victory immedi- ately before the first guns of Trafalgar opened fire. The work is to be seen in the show-rooms of Messrs. Squires, of Cockspur-street, and will repay a visit. The great admiral is represented as sitting inadeeply musing ?? face,natu. rally harsh and ...

... INDIAN FVRLOUGHS. To Tnn EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIBI-I gather from the newspapers that it is supposed at home that the furlough question occupies little attention amoug the officers of the Indian army. This impression is decidedly erroneous. No subject is so much in the thoughts of all ranks. Itcomes home to each of us. The man on the staff and the man with his regiment, junior and ...

... 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 ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. I MADRID, APRIL 30. The Ministers held their usual weekly council at Aranjuez last evening. It is said that the only change that will take place in the Cabinet at pre- sent is that General Lersundi will take the Fo- reign-office definitively (he has hitherto held it ad interim), in consequence of Senor Ayllon's refusal to accept it, and will give up the War-office, ...

... In its sitting of the 23d, the Piedmontese Senate voted the budget of 1853. The ordinary expendi- ture is laid at 127,019,837f.; the extraordinary ex- penses at 23,907,538f.; total, 160,927,376f.; to meet which, the budget of receipts only shows an amount of 109,223,934f., including extraordinary receipts, leaving the heavy deficit of 41,703,441f. It must be remembered, however, that the Pied- ...

... TEE NA VrY. APPOlNTMENTS. Lieutenants-Edward Barkley (1853), to the Coomus, 14, sloop, at Sheerness ; Charles A. Wise (1847), to the Vulture, paddle-wheel steam frigate, at Devonport. Naval Cadets-C. Townshend and Henry Philipps, firlt nomination. Clerk-George H. Shepherd (1851), from the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship at Sheerness, to the Nerbudda, 12, brig, at Chatham. SHEERNESS, MAY 1. ...

... THE MORNING CHRONICLE, LONDON: SATURDAY, MAAY 28, 1853. In the HousE of LORDS, last evening, The Earl of MALMESBunY asked the noblee0rl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether it was true that Prince Menschikoff had, on the part of Russia, demanded of the Ottoman Porte the sigua ture of a convention securing to all the Greek subjects of Turkey all the privileges alnd in, demnities which had ...

... PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTIIEA?'N r The Rev. John Lawrell, M.A., preacher of ArJbihL Tenison's Chapel, to the perpetual curacy of St. Matide', City-road. Patron, the Bishop of London. Rev. George Langton Beckwith, M.A., to Chorhou wit, Hardy curacy, Lancashire. Rev. Alan Brodriok, B.A., to Baydon curacy, i't i Rev. Johin Denis Boowne, vicar of Braintree, to be ;Vu rogate, diocese of Rophester. ...

... THBGCRA MBERLAINSHIP OF THE CITY J I OF LONDON. I To TUex EDITOR op THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sim-I am anxious to lay before my brother citizens, through the medium of The Xofwoing Chronicle, a few observations on the approaching election for the im- portant office of Chamberlain, which offers some singular features. Hitherto a senior alderman, coteria paribus, has, with scarcely any exception, ...

... GENERAL ORDINATIONS. The Bishop of Chichester held au ordination in tb cathedral church of his diocese on Sunday last, when tU following gentlemes were admitted into holy orders, viz.:- DEACONS. Charles Harwick Marriott, Literate. William Henry Walrond, B.A., Trinity College, Deibiin. Henry C. Watson, B.A., Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridic. Digby Walsh, B.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Thomas ...

... WYA YS AND MEANS. HOUSE OF COMMONS-MONDAY. (In the Committee.)-Question again proposed, That it is tho opi- nion of this committee, tlat towvards raising the supply granted to hier Majesty, there shall he raised annually during tho tersus here- inafter limited, the several rates and duties f'llowv.ug (that is to say) :-For and in respect of the property, in any lands, tenc- . nents, or ...