... GEOLOGICAL SOCIEZ Y. At the last meeting of this society, Mr. Hamilton, presi dent, in the chair, Mr. W. Foster White, Mr. C. S. Mann, Mr. . Barrett, and Mr. J. D'Urban, were elected fellows. he followving communications were read I. On the Anthracite Shales and Fucoidal Schists of the South of Scotland. By Professor Harkness, F.G.S. The lower sihirian rocks of the south of Scotland, ...

... PARLIAMENTARY BUSlNZ58. HOUSE OF COMMONS-Tnis DAY. NOTIOSN o0 MoTloNS. Sir Henry Willoughby-To ask Sir Benjamin Hall if he can place on the table of the house a plan of the thirty-six districts proposed to be created by the Local Management Metropolis Bill. Mr. Hadfield-To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he intends to propose the vote of £331,921, for the pro= motionof public ...

... DIPERI RL PARLIAMENT. - V- hlOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. Tthe Eiml of EGLINTON preseuted a petition from a parish in Ayrshire, against the Maynooth (Grant. ?? Earl of SHIAFTESBURY presented petitious to the sanile eff-t from vatious paris!ies end ciogregatious iI Eug- land and Scotland. Lil BERNERS presetted pet tions from Leicesterilsire and Sumersetshire, a19ainst ?? sale of spirituous liquors on ...

... NEWSPAPER ISTAMP DUYIES BILL. HOtSE OF COIMMONS-FRIDAT. OV Order read, for resuliling adjourrioel dlebitto ol ameneidnielit pro- by pesed to be ?? to question (,thi May), That the bill be vi ne read the third tihe, and which anieidinent, was to leave out the word now, and at the end of the question to add the a, wordi upon this day six mouths. Quetion again proposed, o1 t1h1at the word ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY NBWS. 0- APPOINTMEiiTS- Acting Master-C. E. H. Farrant, to the Prospero. Second Master-R. Gilpin, to the Dee. Assistant-Clerk-E. T. Boys, to the Athol. SHEERNESS, MAY 6. P The Dapper gun-boat, Lieutenant Grant, we are happy to report, was picked up by the Lizard, paddle, Lieutenants Christopher, and arrived in this harbour at 1 a.m. on Batur- 0 day. It appears she has been ...

... TIiTEEN MORNING CIHIRONICLE1. LO NDON: TUESDA Y, MA1 Y 8, 1855. In the HoTUSE of LonRs, last night, The Earl of El LEXBonouGH gave notice that be would move, on ilolnday nest, thit an humble ad- dress be presented to her Majesty to assire her M.,ijesty of the support of this House in the vigor- ous conduct of the war; to congratulate her Ma- jesty on the happy alliance between this country and ...

... s i E. G E OF S BASTOPOL. Lord Paumure presents his ?? to the Editor of The Aforning thronicle, and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligeuces which ha3 this day reached him from Lord Raglan. ?? Department, May 7, 1805, 2.45 p.m. The enemy assaulted the advanced trench of our right attack last night, but were repulsed promPtly. ?? Our loss was three killed and twenty ...

... IMPERIAL PABLIAMEN'T. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRADAY. The Torquay Markitr Bill Was read a third time and passed; as also the Great North of Scotland Railway Bill. LEGAL REFORS.A. Lord ST. LEONAADS rose tQ Ask aquestion of Govern- meiut as to certiin importatt measures now before Parlir mnent. The first to wbio'n he wished to advert was the Testa mientary Jurisdiotion Bill. That measure had been intro ...

... APPOINTMENTS. The Bishop of London has instituted the Rev. H. W. P. Richards, B.A., curate of Strathfieldsaye, to the vicarage of Isleworth, rendered vacant by the resiguation of the Rev. H. Glossop, M.A., on the nomination of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have presented the Rev. Nathaniel P. B. Lathbury, M.A., late rector of Brad. field Combust, Suffolk, ...

... We have been favoured with the following letter fruln a young medical officer to his relatives at Bati Camp before Sebastopol, 4th Division, Apiil 16. Since I last wrote giving Xou an account of the callp and tbe bombardment of Sebastopol having COMImeluced, the firing hllas continued very vigor- ously. A few of the Russia:n batteries have been ?? AUeuced, and they only fire a gun now and thet ...

... RAILW A Y TRAFFIC RTURNYS. The following are the gross receipts of railway traffic for the past week-that is to say, up to the date to whioh the respective returns are made miles Opened, Receipts. Name. - 1815 1854 1865. 1854. Aberdeen, April 28 ?? 72k £2,2210 0a£1,790 00- Belfast and Ballymena, 8 5 0 .May ?? 37i 87i 920a00 3 0 Birkeuihead, Lances., and Cheshire June., May 5.. 82 82 4,211 00 2 ...

... OXFORD, MAY 8. TRE NEW MUSEUM. The museum delegacy having resolved that it was desirable that the University should accept the tender of Messrs. Lucas and Son, of London, amounting to the sum of £29,041 foi the erection of a museum according to the plan of Messrs: Dean and Woodward, approved by convocation on the 8th December last, modified in some respects with the approba- tion of the ...