... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 SATURDAY, FEB. 17, THRuc ?? Rents has been tolerably firm to-day, but without much business being done. The Four-anda-.Half per Cents. are unaltered, at 94f. 75c.; the Three per Cents. have fallen l0o., at 66i'. 10c. The various bank shares are almost unquoted. In the Foreign Funds, Roman has deelined if., and Belgian Four- and-a.Half per Cents. Y8. Railway Shares ...

... REORGANIZATION OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY DBPARTMENTS. To TEN EDITOR Or Till MORNING CHRONICLE. BIR-Bwefetring to a letter in The Morming ChrOsi&e of this morning, signed 1 RB. R R,,, I may be allowed to state that, if Lord John Rursell's opinion on the matter could be learned, I fear he ,Oold be found less grateful for the comn- 1munication itself than for the motives which prompted it. In ...

... XDINBURGtH UNI'5SI'5TY. A member of the Associate Societies of the Edin- burgh Uuiversity, who, in the name of a section l of the constituency, communicated with Mr. Thack-! eray regarding his nomination to the office of pre- sident of the association, has received a reply from that gentleman, in which he says :- The office I to which a body of the members of the Associate l Societies of the ...

... I TRANSPORTS AND PRISONERS OP WAR. An estimate, separated from the navy estimates (of which an abstract is given above), but prepared by the naval department, states tile total amount required for the transport service of the year 1855-66 to be 5,071,0321., and for the expense of prisoners of war, 100,0001., making together, with a sum of 10,4331. for superintendence, a grand total amount of 5 ...

... (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The following appeared in a portion of our impres- sion yesterday: PARIS, TEURsDAY EVENING. Military movements of considerable importance are 2' announced to-day by the Moniteur, and the private 2 telegraph. Omer Pacha has definitively left for the a Crimea. General Pelissier has arrived at Pera, on his way to Sebastopol. A despatch from Admiral Bruat mentions the ...

... 1st A BILL ur TO EXTEND TO IRELAND THE P1OvISSNG OF Ts TH to EIGHTEENTR SUCTION OP THE COMMON LAW PrsCE- DUAE ACT, 1854. Oil Prepared and brought in by Mr. Isaac Butt and Mr. Napier Ut In Committee, Wednesday, Feb, 21, 1865. he We shall not usually examine, in this series, the a, Irish Bills. The legislation for Ireland is, in peaceable Ls- times, for the most part, an adoption, as in the case ...

... On Wednesday evening a fatal collision occurred on the Barton branch of the Manchester, Sheffieldi and ?? Railway and on the following day another fatal ascident occurrei about three miles from the same apot, by which a naval coast guardeman, in her Majesty's service, received injuries which he survived only a w minutes. Both these aceidents are to a considerable extent connected with the ...

... FRIGHTPUL SUICIDE. A painful sensation was caused on Saturday morning amongst the various officials atid passengers at the terminus of the South-Western Railway, in the Waterloo-road, in con- sequence of the following determined suicide - From the information given to Mr. Adamson, the chief constable of Lambeth, and which he has since forwarded to Mr. Carter, the coroner, it appears that a man ...

... TREMEN4VDOUS CONFLAGRATION. At sbout eleven o'clock last night, , serious fire broke out on the extensive premoises belonging to the Messrs. Rutland, timber merobants, Holland-atreet,'Blackfriars-ronad. It commenced in the tialber-yard, and extended with such fearful rapidity as soon to ernvelop several adjoining houses in the flames. Many of the inmtropolotan engines were spee- dily on the ...

... I Q9NOTII~ATIA j bIA ?? OIMEA CAMP BEFOE iBASTOPOL li~Axu~y, 30 -The aswpect adito oftrnsot m hij&h ptidm, U h he eq `64l.? 1 ?,f ?? been reeiyd' tas t ~at ar~eW ~i~ tiuple and 3- a appy to tait'`,' am o zeboard? th iron `rftiijr, nder Igat ?? antIeuiht1 so rala ofse 'ty a 041 ir'~i .~ none ite'ierlee Ausrliafon has iaf'broi gwu6tld, mpoe ?? 4111ic 6 rbWi,A t-tefat Uh 1d n~s~~ma rq I 't ...

... R2iL WA YAS. GREAT LUXEMBURG. A general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- street, preparatory to the general meeting to be held at Brussels on the 24th inst; Mr. William Reed in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. Coxbead) read the following report: - The whole receipts for the year 1854 wore £332,082 2s., and there has beer expended ...

... I COFFINS IN THE 'FLOWERY KINGDOM. We have already noticed Father HuE's most interest- ing work on China. The subjoined extract is, however, soe trange aand carions in its import, that wve do not think oar readers will deem it an incumbrance to our. columns:- In ne other country than China, perhaps, could men be heard exchanging compliments en t e subject of a coffin, People are moosty shy ...