... M B MO I R I OF THE LATE | FREDERICK LUCAS, ESQ., M.P. i Mr. LucAs was the second son of Mr. SAMUEL HAYHURST LUOAs, formerly o( Croydon, and a ma-l gistrate of the county of Surrey, who has now for many years resided at Brighton. He was born in London on the 30th March, 1812, and died on the 22d unc., and was therefore in the 44th year of his age. His family on both his father's and his. B ...

... the The following important letter from an Irish priest, the ied pastor of Easton, Pennsylvania, his been published:- r a Eust'il, Pennsylvania, Unted States, We August 18, 1855. iu Rev. Sir-I regret that it is not in my power to send so you any satisfactory information as to the man about whom you wrote to me - . He did live here for some time, ur and, I remember well, had a short but ...

... We have on previous occasions pnblished this &at at different ptages in its progress through the House of Commone. The provisions of the not, after the introduction pf the Lords' amendments which were assented to by *he HIouse of Commonis, are as follows Whereas it is expedient to enable mentbers of joint-stock companies to limit the liability for the devisA and engage- ments of suoh companies ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL I2VTBLLIGENCE. it APPOlSTM5ENTS. t Tue Bishop of London has presented the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, M.A., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and principal of: St. M11ark's College, Chelsea, to the vicarage of Northolt, | y rendered vacant by tie preferment of the Rev, W. G* i H nflmphry, BD., to the vicarage of St. Mlartin-in.the-Fields. e | The followine curates have also received ...

... ?? NVO TICE OF INTENDED VIS 2'RIB UT1U-N If 0F NA VA L PRiZE MOSTE Y. [FROM LAST NIGOUTS GAZETTE.] Department of the Accountaut-(}enral of the .Navy, Admirqlty, Somerset House, Areg. 16, 1855. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and marines, and to all persons interested therein, ?? the distribution of proceeds arising from the following Russian prizas, tao captured on the 13thi ...

... METROPOLITAN AND LOCAL LEGS8- !,A TION. - .a I T| THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-Pending the investigation of Sir Benjamin Hall's bill for the amendment of our metropolitan parochial legis- lation, through the medium of your valuable journal allow me to offer a few observations upon one important fact which appears altogether to have escaped public notice. The bill In question ...

... The royal mail steamer Africa arrived at Liver- pool on Saturday, with advices from Boston to the 28th ult. She brought 678,715 dollars, and £12,012 specie on freight. The Atlantic arrived at New York on the 26th alt., and the Asia at Halifax on the 29th ult. The great topic of excitement in New York was an attempt that had been made there, and at Phila- delphia also, to enlist men for the ...

... VICTORIA. The arrival of the Great Britain enables us to bring our intelligence from Melbourne down to the 27th of October. An outbreak at the gold fields, and an anti-convict demonstration in Melbourne, had thrown the colony into an unusual state of ex- citem ent. The riot which took place at Ballarat arose out of the acquittal of a man named Bentley , upon a charge of murder, alleged to have ...

... c- The royal mail steam-ship Tay, Captain Sawyer, a, | Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Hay, R.N., arrived us at Southampton on Monday evening with the South ?? mails. Her datea ?? Ayres, ut September 1; Monte Video, 5; Rio de Jareiro, 14; be Bahia, 18 ; Pernambuco, 20; St. Vincent's, 27; a, Teneriffe, October 1; Madeira, 2; and Lisbon, 5. ld The'Tay brings eighty-three passengers, among as whom ...

... UNIVEBSITY REIORM. It is stated that tile Board of Trinity College, Dublil, have, after a gentle pressure of the screw, avsiled tbemiselves of their powers, and decided E a oi Plrcing the Rhegius Professorship of Greekl U ll the same footing as the Professorships of d lath~einatics and Natural Philosophy. Hitherto C th rize was ouly open to the fortaunate holder of t] R ?? fellowship, and no ...

... I @ I DANTZI, FBIDAY. The Gayser, 7, Commander B. Dew, arrived in 1s the roads yesterday afternoon with the weekly mails from Nargen, at which place Admiral 'Dandas orstill remains, with a portion of the 'fleet; the other ad sqadron, under Admiral- Seymour, has '(with the exception of two vessels, which rernain behind) left m the anchorage off Cronstadt, and is now stationed 10 at Seskar ...

... I -- Yesterday there wad a private view of the picturee, &a., seleoted by the prizesoldere in the Art Union of London for the year 1855, which have been arranged for exhibition in the gallery of the Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East. The %valls of the gallery were or this occasion hung with pictures of various degrees of merit, estimated at prices varying from £250 to ...