... UEPE IAJESTY'S STATE BALL. The QueOu last evening gave a State Ball, to which a party of betweefl sixteen and seventeen hundred were invited, and for which the whole of the State-rooms of Bhckingham Palace were appropriated and brilliantly illuminated, The three entrances were arranged as foilows :-The Royal Family aliilted at the garden entrance ; tile Foreign Ministers, Privy Councillors, ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert went yesterday to the Exhl- bition of the Royal Botanic Sooiety in the Regent's-park, eccormpanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, and the Prineese of Hohenlohe Laugenburg, and attended by the Countess ofsGaineborough, theHou. Eleanor Stanley, Major-General Buckley, Captain Dn Plot, sod Mr. Gibbs. Baron do Treskuw was in attendance ...

... VION-RNOAL KOVEMHNTS. l The Lord-Lieutenant will visit Cork on the 21ati instant, to inaugurate the opening of the Athenseum in that city. On Monday ?? inspected, in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle, another party of Crimean invalids, whohadjust arrived fromEugland. One man, with the melancholy interest attaching to such relics, exhibited the bullet by which he had been struck; and another ...

... The fifth concert of the Harmonic Union for the present season took place last night at the Hanover-iquare Rooms, before a brilliant and crowded assembly. It may be remem. bered that last year the society brought out, for the first time in England, MOZART'S accompaniments to the Acis and Gala'ea. At that time doubts existed among some profes. sionals as to whether the symphony played at the ...

... . ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 28. For the last five weeks the Emperor has been engaged in passing in review the 4th and 6th bat- talions and the artillery of the reserve, which are immediately marched off. This is not the only movement taking place in the Baltic provinces, for much greater defensive preparations are going on than last year. The six mouths gained in negotia- tion have given the ...

... TUE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. [ThiinTY-rFIFT DAY.] .The committee re-aseembled yesterday at twelve o'clock, and continued the investigation; Mr. Roebuck in the chair. 4 The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., was called, and, in reply to the chairman, said he was Secretary-at-War at the breaking out of the war, and a member of Lord Aberdeen's rGovernment. On LoMd Aberdeen's ...

... HEALTH of LONDONDURINGthe WEEK - [(RO TrIE REGISTRAn-GlXmRnAL'S RETURN.| The present return discovers an increase in the deaths of the week that ended last Saturday on those of the two pre- vious weeks. Having been in these weeks 1,087 and 1,132, they rose last week to 1,185, of which 597 were deatha of males, and 588 of femlales. In the ton corresponding weeks of the years 1845 54 the average ...

... To THIF EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sia-The varied letters I find in your estimable paper, on the subject of rejected coupons by the Government of his Excellency Baldemero Es artero, give additional testimony of the philanthropic spirit that governs your journal, and that meet readily lends itself to alleviate that misery that neither courts of justice nor of equity, nor even the well- ...

... LONDON: THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1855. In the HOUSE of COMMONS, yesterday, The SPEAKER, on taking the chair, thanked the House for their kindness to him on the two former days, aud expressed his regret for the incon- venience to which any honourable member might have been put in consequence of no house having been made on his account on Tuesday night. Mr. HEADLAM moved the second reading of the ...

... NORlZINSf CERONICLR OJFJOR, Thursday, 12, Noon. , TE LEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. TRIESTE, WiDhESDAY. The mail steamer that arrived yesterday brings news from Constantinople to the 30th April. Shocks of earthquake were again perceptible, I and the cholera bad reappeared In the suburbs. The Piedmontese contingent will temporarily encamp at Maslak, and will form the left wing of the French army, in ...

... 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, ...

... NA PAL AND AILITAR Y NEWSS. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant J. Packwood (1850), to the Retribution, 28, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, of 400-horse power, Meditern a mean station. Acting Clerks-J. Hasler, to the Horatio, 24, screw steam- guard ship, of 250-horse power, at Sheerness ; and W. W. B- Cayney, to the Volage, 22, at Sheerness. WOOLWICH. The Indiana, screw steam-trausport, has come round from ...