... MORNVlyG CHRONICLE OFFICE, Satarday, 12, Noon. EXPRESS, PROM. PARIS. LFROM OUR OWN COtRRESPONDL.] PARIS, FRIDAY EVBNINE. The hopes entertained of the maintenance of Deace are rapidly diminishing. Hitherto people have imagined that the Czar would ultimately give way when he found that all Europe disapproved of, his policy and was determined to resist it ; but it is now evident that the object ...

... lifE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDA Y,. JULr 26. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 25, The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Fre. derick W. Clark as Consul at Sydney for the United States of America. CROWN OFFICE, JULY 25. .MEMiBER ESTURtED TO SERVE IN THIS PtESEiNT PARLIAMENT. County of Derby (Northern Dlvision)-William Pole Thornhill, Esq., in the room of William Evans, Esq., who has accepted the office ...

... I FALMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING. The Swedish brig Hilding, Captain Mallm, which has just arrived from the River Plate, brings ad- vices that the ships belonging to the Buenos Ayreans, and those belonging to Urquiza, had an engagement on the 1st of May, when the former were defeated, with the loss of two ships and many officers. Urquiza was strictly blockading Buenos Ayres by land and sea, and was ...

... No. II. [FROM A CORDSPOINDE1iT.] The clause in the India Bill which diminishes the total number of Directors from 24, or more pro- perly 30, to 18, or (excluding the six Government nominees) to 12, forms no essential part of the measure, and is liable to such serious objections that its omission wold not only not impair, bat would greatly improve the Bill. A reason has been assigned for the ...

... THBE REAVY RAINS AND FLOODS. -4 Intelligence arrives fronm all parts of the country of un- usually heavy, and, in some cases, disastrous floods. At Reading the fall of rain has been such as is without parallel at this season of the year. The low lands have been covered with water, and in the parish of Swallowfield it has been found three feet deep. Damage has been done to the barley and other ...

... BRITISH ARUHXOLOGlCAL AS8O- CIATIOX. I Yesterday afternoon the members ef this association andI their friends assembled at Crosby Hall, for the purpose of making their third inspection of the antinuities of the city of London. The places appointed to be inspected on this occasion ?? Hall, St. Helen's Church, and St. Botoiph Church, Bisbopsgate-street ; the Church of St. An- drew Undershaft, St ...

... MORIAING CHRO1VICJ E OFrIC.E, Friday, 12, Noon. THE LEVANT. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] We have received the following telegraphic de- spatches from Trieste, under date of the 7th inst.:- CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNH 27. Prospects of a peaceful solution are held out through the joint mediation of England, France, and Austria. The Russian demands will not be admitted in form, but in tenor. The Porte has ...

... TEIE MORNING CHRONICLE. LON ID ON; MONDAY, JULY X, 1868. Notwithstanding Lord DERBY'S menace of defeat- ing the Succession Duty Bill, there is reason to hope that wiser counsels will prevail with the majority of the House of Lords. A successful resistance to the Ministerial measure would only convert a busi- nesslike fiscal project into an angry popular de mand; and it is evident that a more ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, July 25. THE SUCCESSION DUTY BTLL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Lord ST LEONARDS said, that the question raised by the bill was not a partyI question, and he called on noble lords on both sides of the house to remember that the time would come when the tax thus imposed' would punish them, and when they would remember his present warn- ing. It ...

... TilHE STRIKE OF THE CAB-OWNE RS. LONDON WITHOUT CABS. of Yesterday the metropolis stood, as -ir Charles in Wetherellonce phrased it, in a parenthesis of vehicu- larity. There wasnot only a dearth, but an absolute 12 famine of locomotion, and never, since the days of Charles the Second, when hackney coaches were first invented, have h the sight-seeing and out-going public been reduced to such ...

... I TIOUSE OF LORDS.-ThIIUSDAY, JUNE 30. The LORD Cr1.sNcEI.LoR took his seat at 5 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. TR1ai:.S LS OF CoaiSi:iicx.-By Lord BEAUMONT. from Gloucester, in favour of the establishment of tribunals of commerce. The noble lord hoped that a committee would be appointed to inquire into the subject next session. ABtOLITION. Or O.vors.-By Lord CAMPBELL, from Relso, in favour of ...

... DIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORD S.-MONDAY, JULY 25. The LoRD CILANCELLEJIL took his sent at 5 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Astss~rtctv n WAGEas.-By Lord BROUGHAM, Aro ctitoMNT pnerinGlasgow, in favour of the bill for the albolition of acrestmnent of wages for debt. P.t-,sspCloris ACT.-By Lerd BRtOUGHAM, fromrh Chamber of Commterce, in Edinburgh, against the billfo the alteration of the ...