... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... RO YAL INSTITUTION. At the last meeting of the Royal Institution Mr. Carpmael delivered his third lecture, which was prin- cipally devoted to the progress of the invention of the needle telegraph by Messrs. Cooke and Wheat- stone. In the state of telegraphic invention as they found it, all attempts to apply electricity to transmitting signals were rendered impracticable by the number of wires ...

... LORD JOHN RU.SSELL AND LORD LONDONDERRY The following additional correspondence between Lord Johin Russell and Lord Londonderry has been published:- Chesham-place, May 21, 1858. My Lord-I am deeply conoerned that the passage to phich your lordship alludes should have been published by isis. My first impulse on reading it was to strike it out, both as extremely improbable ib itself and as ...

... 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 ...

... a CORK (CITY). At the meeting of the committee yesterday moraine, Jeremiah Murphy stated that the day before the election he met five men about two miles from Cork, with sticks in their hands, who asked him if he was going to vote for Murphy and Fagan, and upon his stating his intention of voting for Colonel Chatterton, they told him he would pay for it if he did. Went with them somedistance, ...

... oIORNING CHRONICLB OFFICE, Thursday, Five a.m. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] I PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The .onitcur announces that yesterday the French Minieter of Foreign Affairs and the Bava- riau Minister in Paris signed a special convention for the service of the electric telegraph between France and Bavaria by Strasbourg, Wissembourg, and the circles of the Rhine. By this treaty the tariffs are ...