... Yesterday the Camp at Cboblam was to be seen in its holiday garb; but if any of the officers or men of the various regiments on the ground ever entertained the idea that they were merely going out upon a kind of gipsy party on a large scale, the delusion is now being quickly dissipated. The note of preparation is still going on actively withinlthe camp, and much yet remains to be done with ...

... LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY, ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRESTON BRANCH. the forty-first anniversary of the Preston Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society was celebrated during the early part of the present week. On Sunday last, sermons were preached in Grimshaw- street and Cannon-street Chapels, by the Rev. J. Sugden, lately missionary in Bangalore, and the Rev. J. Raven, B.A., of Salford; and at ...

... COMIMUNICATIONS F.ROM LOCAL EMIGRANTS. Mr Robert Feniwick cabinet-maker, SundIrlond, who went out in the Emigrant, writing from Melbourne, on Feb. 3, says:-I was not long in learning that I had acted wisely in bringing out my wooden hiuse with me. for I found that for one of the same size hero I would have had to pay fifty shillings per week for house-rent, and the valne of it when fixed, ot ...

... TOWN AND COUWMY TALK. Sir Charles Douglas, formerly member for Warwick, is the liberal candidate for Durham. Mr. George Hammond Whalley, unseated by the select committee, has again become a candidate for the repre- sentation of Peterborough. A marriage is arranged between the Lady A. Fitzwil- liam, youngest daughter of the Earl Fitawilliam, and Mr. F. Vernon, eldest son of the Right Hon. V. ...

... TM BEAR AND THE TURKEY: Will the bear eat up the turkey?. Will Bruin swallow the Crescent, even as a bear would swallow .a moon, if a moon purposely manufactured of .green cheese? We incline to believe that, finally, the bear will bethink himself: for though bears have a great swallow, ancient turkeys have tough bones that may stick even in a bear's threat, to something more than tl e bear's ...

... roURTR E1DITroN. PUBLISHED ON SUNDAY MORNING, CONTAINING THE LATEST NTLLIGENCE. LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. The hot season, it would seem, is dangerous to the Christianity of the House of Lords. The reli- gion of that solemn body, like mackarel in sultry weather, will not keep. Otherwise, why should the Earl of Derby, in his pious horror of the Jews, and in his profound devotion to the ...

... TBE BERW ICK PET TION. The select committee appointed to inquire into the cir- cumstances attending the prosecution of the petition against the last return for the borough of Berwiek-upen- Tweed: have considered the matters to them referred, as well as the allegations eontaided-in a petition bearing date the 6th of May, 1853, presented to this house by Mr. Forster, touching the said return, ...

... SVCECS#S1ON DUTY BILL. I - HOUSE OF COMMONS-MoNnAY., In the Committee.-Clause 21 (In estimating the annual value of liuds used for agricultural purposes, houseB,,buildinms, tithes, teinds, rentcbargces and othdr property yielding,, or capable of yielding, income not of a fluctuating character, an allowance aball be made of all necessary outgoings; but there shall be in. cluded in such estimate ...

... CAMBRIDGE BRIBERY COMMISLION. The first witness called yesterday morning was George Riohardson, a butcher and publican, who stated that he in- tended to have voted for Adair and Mowatt, and should have done so if a man named Gilbert, also a butcher (since dead), had not promised him X10to vote for Astell and Macaulay. He waited till one o'clock on the day of election, and seeing the Whigs bad ...

... RAIL WYA YS. ?? MANCHESTER, SHIEFFIELD, AND LmNaOLNsHIRE It REiLwAY.-A Meeting of about thirty shareholders in this railway was beld iu the council hfall, Sheffield, on Friday' t anticipatory of the general meetitig of the company at Man- cbE>ter, next Wednesday, to consider the proper steps to be t' taien in the present crisis of the company's affairs. Mr. C. tl A!. ...

... THE IRISH MEMBERS OF THE Go ERNMIENT. TO THA EDITOR OP THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Mr. Monsell presents his compliments to the Editor of The Morning Chsronicle, and would feel obliged by his giving insertion to the following correspondence, which explains the reasons that have induced Messrs. Heogh, Sadleir, and himself to withdraw the resignations which they forwarded to Lord Aberdeen on Thursday, ...

... THE BRiJTPH IN7I7TUTLON. On Saturday theannual exhibition of paintings by the old masters and by deceased British artists was, opened to private view at the rooms of this Insti- tution in Pall-mall. We cannot compliment the directors too highly on the judicious selection of chefs dwere of various masters which they have been able to make from the galleries of the noble contributors, for we do ...