... IROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTEC- j - - - 0N OF LIFK FROM FlR. * -4- The annual meeting of this society was held yesterday, in the council-chamber of the Guildhall. Mr. Alderman Moon, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, presided. i ThaGCnAiRtIAN having briefly opened the proceedings, The SECRETARY read the report. It stated that the chief aim of the committee was so to complete the fire-escape ar- ...

... UAIV7ERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, JUrsE 24. Tli COMMiEMR0ZATION. The proceedings connected With thle comwieiorl it year, although unmarked by any peculiar featur, ?? sess oil the whole considerable interest. The most attractive feature in the proceeodifl'5 Of will most probably be the bazaar, which will be hell ir bhelm-park, in aid of the Woodstock Natiolml)inl heii Palace will also be open to ...

... CANADA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] QUEBEC, MAY 6. On the 3d inst., at night, the church and other buildings of the Sisters of Charity, which had been taken for the accommodation of Parliament, were discovered to be on fire, and by midnight (the 1 flames having been first seen at nine p.m.) the whole was a heap of ruins. The usual speculations are afloat, of course, as to whether the ...

... ?? rA EDITOR OP THE MORNING CHRONICLE. as SIR-I can have no reluctance to continue a correspond. en ence marked on your part by equal courtety and candour. rot To your observations on my last letter, with your permission, nyI will reply, without the repetition of those arguments which ne I have before advanced. in The special prerogative of founder's kin consists in ed theirexemption from a ...

... NAVAL ANVD MILITARY NERW.. APPOINTMENTS. Captain-Hon. Keith Stewart (184'2),to co unaud the Ter- maganii, 24, screw steattinrigatc of 620 horse power, co1mmis- sioned yesterday at Portsmouth. Lieutenant-John P. Palmces (1842). to the Termagint Jobn Nott (1854), recently promoted from mate of the Tra- faigar, 120, on the Black Sea station, to the Termagant. Master-Joseph ilitclhirgs (1853) to ...

... PARLIAMENTARY BIUSAE'Sq' I HOUSE OFCommoNST!8DX NoTICKSe OF MOTIONS. ' Air. Archibald Hastie-Tbat the Paisley Waterworhl r be re-committed to the former committee. That sO 1:e shalln bergdens to. 20,s parovides that three fori :;1 3 staldineorders No.th clerks in thle Priyate-bill office e1 heur appointed for the nieeting of the coflhinittee, _11 e That, the eomnmittee have leave to sit and ?? ...

... APPOINTIMENTS. The Rev. Sir Charles Macgregor, Barb., late vicar of Caboirn, near Caistor, has been instituted by the Bishop of Lincoln to the rectory of Swallow, Lincolnshire, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. George Marshall Holiwell, M.A., on the nomination of the Earl of Yarborough, The Bishop of Rochester has instituted the Rev. George Murray, M.A., to the vicarage of Dedham, near ...

... LFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.I DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. Mr. Commissioner Longfield sat yesterday in the Encumbered Estates Court, and disposed of four properties, situate respectively in the city of Dub- lin and the counties of Tipperary, Mayo, and Gal- way. The court was crowded throughout the day, &nd the biddings proceeded with considerable brisk- ness. The total amount of the day's sales ...

... A. KOSSUTrH AT SHIFIELD. Yesterday a public demonstration in favour of the ns- tionality of Poland and Hungary took place at Sheffield. Alderman Solly presided over the meeting, which amounted to about twelve or thirteen thousand. Several resiolutions, having been adopted which were in accordance with the spirit of the meeting, M. KOSBUTg, who was received with protracted cheering, said :Mr. ...

... It would certainly appear as though there were some pecu- liar law, meteorological, magnetic, or otherwise, under which a flower show and a rainy day were made to have some mysterious influence of cause and effect upon each other. The first exhibition of the South London Floricultural Society was held yesterday, in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and, as a matter of course, it was a wet day; ...

... ASCENSION DAY IN THE NOllTdl IRELA ND. To THe EDITOR OF T'rw MORNING CERONICLZ SIR-I wish to call the attention of your readers t manuer in which Ascension Day is observed in the neol Ireland. Having always been accustomed in EngbeG full service and Holy Communion on that day, I madei- ries in the early part of the week as to whetherD;Vine; would be performed on that day in any of the neigh;;; ...

... [FROM OUR OWN 0OItRESPOND151:T.1 PARIS, MONDAY. The Paris papers of this morning are filled with telegraphic despatches from different quarters. The most imrortant news brought by these de- spatches is frotm Vienna, the 18th of June, which announces that on the 13tb a battle was going on at Silistria, which, when the messenger left, had lasted four hours, and was still undecided. General ...