... RAIL VA YS. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. A special niecting of this company was held yesterday, at the Euston-square station, to consider eight bills read before Parliament. The Marquis of Chandos in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that out of the list of bills there was only two bills which could be submitted to the share. holders on the present occasion, the others not being suffi- ciently ...

... T[LHI MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: MONDAY, JMA Y 14, 1855. This evening the Peers will be asked to pronounce judgment upon a question of vital interest to the country. It was not lightly that one of the most determined demagogues of modern days exclaimed, Thank GOD we have a House of LORDS I The time is gone by when popular prejudice and passion could be concentrated against that estate of the ...

... The journals from the Cape of Good Hope brought by the last arrival furnish us with the speech of Governor Sir George Grey, at the opening of the second session of the Cape Parliament, on the ]5th March. As a matter of imperial interest, the most important part of the speech is that de- voted to the great question of Border Defence, and the means of locating on the frontier settlers ...

... TEB VIBNNA CONERRENOES. To THU EDITOR oy THU MORNING CHRONICLE. Sin-Some of your readers, perhaps, will be surprised, when I state that, for my part, I am perfectly satisfied with the result of the conferences at Vienna, and the conduct of that Jack of-all-Trades, our late ?? John Russell. When I consider the fruitless results of almost all treaties between this great country and foreign ...

... DREADFUL SHIP WRECKand INH UMANI CONDUCT. e MELBUOURNS, MAtAOn 8.-The barque Rio Grande arrived us here last evening with Captain Penny and fire of the crew of ad the wrecked Peruvian ship Grimenems, which was totally lost be with nearly 640 Chinese emigrants, who were passengers on ri. board for Callao, on the 34 of last July, on a shoal lying in at the mid-channel between New Caledonia and ...

... The French fleet, under Admiral Penaud, con- sisting of three line-of-battle steamers and a cor- vette, steamed out of Kiel harbour on Monday evening; the English steam-frigate Pylades, with two steam gunboats in tow, had left the same morning. The hospital ship Belleisle, Captain Hosken, ar- rived at Copenhagen on the 18th inst., six days out from Spithead. After taking in fresh water and ...

... THE WRECK OF THE EMIGRANT SnIP JOHN. - The following is the report of the magistrates on the loss of the barque John, as delivered at Fal- mouth on the evidence before them:- With reference to the melancholy circumstances attend- ant with the loss of the barque John, and which you will find fully detailed in the accompanying copy of the evidence taken before us, we have to report that the said ...

... LORD ELLWNBOROUGh'S MOTION. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MoNDAY. MAJORITY.-PRESENT. Lord Chancellor Careorvon Yarborough Congleton Archbishop of Clanwvilliam Zetland Dacre Canterbury Cottenam VISCOUNTS Do Tabley Cowvper Bolinghbroke Dulferin DUKES Craven Canning Foloy Cambridge Clarendon Enfleld Gardner Argyle Devon Falkland Gleneig Buccleuch Ducie Hardinge Hatherton Neweastle Do Grey Midleton Kinnaird ...

... I ST. PETERSBURG, SATURDAY. Prince Gortschakoff writes aa follows on the 7th inst.:- From the 5th to the 6th the enemy has been principally occupied in increasing his batteries and strengthening his approaches against Bastion No. 5. His heaviest fire was directed on Bastions 14os. 4 and C, and on the Selinginsk and Volhynia re- doubts. We replied to it with success. On the night between ...

... THE RJFF PIRA TES. Another instance of the piratical seizure of a British commercial vessel on the coast of Morocco, by one of the numberless boats which are ever on, the look out for any merchant vessel that may ap- proach too near the shore, has just been announced. The particulars as given are as follows:- The Lively, Napier, from Hartlepool to Malts, with coals, was abandoned on the 2d ...

... IRELA ND. I i l SH PAUPEBISaf. There are 868 paupers in the Tipperary V being a decrease of 359 from the same Pe'riODI, year. The expense of provisions, d&c., for the dla was £81, and the average cost of each Week Is. 9d. The uncollected rates amounted to Daupet and the guardians have to their credit a, s£, £277 18. Ai master weaver at a s Ia Of per week was elected at the last meetin f th ...

... EUCLESIA STJCA L. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, TULSE-HILL, NORsWOOD. For some time past the residents of Tulse-hill and vicinity have greatly felt the want of cehuich accomondation, so much 6,° that a niovemetit has been miade, and a really beautiful edifice having been commenced (the expenses being defrayed by public subscription), Thursday was fixed as the day on whieh ...