... 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 ...

... || I SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1854. SATURDAY'S EDITION. THE PARLIAMENTARY DUEL, BETWEEN LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND MP- DISRAELI. The monotony of the session was agreeably diver- sified by the fierce encounter which took place, on Monday night, between' those two redoubtable cham- pions of the parliamentary ring, Lord JoiN RuSSELL and BENJAMIN DISRAELI. The interest with which *the combat was witnessed was ...

... I . The young midshipmjan, son of the recorder of 'New. castle, reported to have lost his legs, escaped the cdnffict at Odessal withoutijury, and, is now a prisoner at war. The state apartments at Windsor Castle are closed until further orders; The Oxford public library was formially opened to the publiec on Thursday week. The Montecina, from Liverpool, was wrecked on Rockaway Beach, May 17; ...

... I I Some excitement prevailed last week on the southern division of the London and North-western railway, in consequence of the dissatisfaction existing amongst a portion of the engine drivers, respecting the new sys- tem of working the trains by contract, having embo- died itself in the form of a threat to strike without notice, unless the system in question were given up. The ...

... The announcement of the burning of the Eurpa transport. ship, with troops and horses for the east onu board, which was communicate& to Lloyd's on hurs ay, at noon, by telegraph from Liverpool, created much sensation throughout the shipping interest. It took place en the night of the 31st ult., in the Chops off the Ch el, not far from the spot where the lfl-fated Amazon steamer was destroyed, ...

... I 0FF;':N . ,No~lL IDGtf . : . . 'For' wlongfime past it has sppstred £vesry bwrbarous to Ianyrthbinkqrs, *hsA >ei should grpw so deeply enaiumureilof their Iown strong reason, as to believe it may properly sp'eak the doomito whishlv'e are all sub- J~et, making bfat deo in ithe eyes of aounmion men, a cure-th Christin teaching them theswhile that this doom is a, blessing accorded out of the ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL c eW- FORtEIGN AND COLOINIAL N\EWAS. PRANCE.-The ' 'Ionlitrur de l'Arne&I annonullces tht division of infantry for the army of the East is being orga rat, a fibth the orders of General Le Vadlat. Its two brigades are to be Cn, meaded by Generals de la leotteroucs and Couston, anid to be coo1. posed of the 21st, 42nd, and 46thl Regimlents of the Iine and te i Regiment of ...