... LONDON, I . Friday, *arch 24, 1854. - ger MajOstC will hold on Thursday, the. 30th, the first, I prawiug-roorh of the season at St. Jameas's alace , The election of President. of Cbsrist'll toaspital took t, place on Thursday. There were two candidates-, the 1i Lord Mayor of London, and his Royal Highness the a DLeo of Cambridge. The numbers at the clos's ofithe L poll stood as follow :-For ...

... ±T[ tit- ' i ]. 0i. i:. r~i |_ _ _ _ I alairn of Lord i-ilin bt i'> ?? fi-ghtened, he has not eesggeted', and possibly may Lud it very difficult to suggest, any remedy for this inroad' d' into the domain of her-ditary government and exclusive Iarty influence. much were it, no doubt, to be deoired .that the press shlold be what it once was,-thatf content g with registering births, deaths, ...

... 1M1:PERIAL PARLIAMENT. HO'USE OF LORIMD-FRIDAY, FEe, 24. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Lord B~EAUMONrT, in a lengthened sipeech, reviewed the ,,rduet of itrasia in the Turkish dispute, and after citing eunrerotlia authorities to prove tirit lrer'ourso had been one cfcontinuald aggression, which AMinisters had failed to perceive, conpcluded by oroving a resolution to the effect that itmmediate ameans be ...

... THE PR&BSTON STRIKE. PRESTON MO.Ds Spectlation was rife on Saturday night with reopet to th movements of the borough magistrates, who were Sititnf* some hours with closed doors. The meeting (id not t i place in the Town-hall, where tite petty scssiwos are hold but in the adjacent courncil chanaber; and h was oha rie that during the proceeding3 a numiber frcniarr i igrts were broght up in a cab ...

... RAI LWAYS. - 0 LYONS TO THE MEDITERRANEAN. The annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company took place on Saturday, March 25, in one of the large rooms connected with the offices of the company in the Rue Laffitte; M. Dusnon, the president, in the chair. The meeting having been declared duly constituted, M. Talabot, the managing director, proceeded to read the report. It may be ...

... ECOLBSIASTI CAL. 0 A!POINTKENTS. The Bishop of London bas licensed the Rev. Samuel Arnott, curate of St. James's, Westminster, formerly curate of Romford, to the iucumbency ef St. Luke's church, Berwick-street, rendered vacant by the ?? of the Rev. ER. Jones, M.A., to the incumbency of St. Peter's, Croydon, on the nomination of the Rev. J. E. Kempe, MU.A., rector of St. James's. The Bishop of ...

... This conference has continued its sittings from day to day pdariog the veek at the People's Institute, MaNchester, the de Iembers assembling on Tuesday and every morning after- ct qwards at nine o'clock, adjourning froam one o'clock to three, ie ad generally finishing business for the day at five. It may di ot be uninteresting to know something of the locale in hich the Parliament sits, and ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MADRID, MARCH 18. The negotiation on foot with the Bank of San Fernando, which was to endorse promissory notes drawn by the Treasury to the amount of 60 millions of reals, and be guaranteed for the responsibility it incurred by holding bills on the colonial revenue to cover that amount, is stated to have come to an end. It was considered at one time as quite ar- ...

... INS TI TUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. At the ]ast meeting of this society, Mr. James Simpson, president, in the chair, The first paper read was A Description of Martin's Im- proved Jacquard Machine, by Mi'. Edward Laforest. After stating the very general application of Jacquard machines to all ornamental weaving, the paper described the old mra- chine, and the manner in which the patterns were ...

... 0 The Queen, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, Viscount Torrington, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess ef Gloucester yesterday after. noon, at Gloucester-hlouse. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out in the fore. noon, attended by Viscount Torrington. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Majesty. Prince Arthur and Prince ...

... UNIVERSITY INTELLIGEUNCE. OXFORD, MARCH 17. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLE02. The vacant Sanscrit scholarship, under the will of the late Colonel Boden, of the ainual value of £50, which under cer- tain regulations may be held for four years, was yesterday afternoon awarded to Mr. Frederick William Walker, B.A., scholar of Corpus Christi College. There were four candi- dates. Mr. Walker. in Easter term, ...

... LONDON: SATURDAY. .11APIC1 11, 185. In the HousE of Lorns last night, Lord BaouGHAcm laid on the table a bill, which was read the first time, for the assimilation of the bankraptcy and insolvency laws of Scotland in cer- tain respects to those of England. The noble and learned lord stated that this bill had met with general approval in Scotland. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved for papers, in ...