... 9 8 The following letter, received by a gentleman of Edin- burgh, gives some information regarding the state of the 1 hospital at Scutari:- 2 Hotel del'Europe, Pera, Constantinople, April 16, 1855. 6 My dear Sir-When I left Liverpool, you desired mue to 2 write you, giving arty information about the state of the hospitals here that I might be able to acquire. As the Jura is at Genoa ...

... 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, ...

... TITH MORPNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: | ~FRfDAT, Af.Y II, ISG5, In the HorsF of TLoni)s, last night, Earl GI=v gave notice of his intention on Mon- day week to move that an humble address be pre- sented to her Majesty, to thank her Majesty for having ordered the protocols and other papers con- nected with the recent conferences at Vienna to be laid before their lordships, and to inform her Ma- ...

... MARRIAGE LA W AMENDMENT BILL . I HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate ou amendment pro. posed to be made to question (25th April), That the bill be now read a second time, and which amendment was to leave out the word now, and at the end of the questien to add the words upon this day six months. Question again proposed, That the word 'now' stand part of ...

... IMIPERI &L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-TnURSDX. Lord CAMPBELL presented two petitions from Worces. tershire in favour of the Marriage Law Amendment Bill. The Birmingham Water Bill and the Jedburgh Railway I Bill were read a second time. The Rotherham Gas Bill Was read a third time and passed. Lord BERNERS presented petitions from Somersetshire t for the better observaieo of the Lord's day, and ...

... ITHE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL a PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. to ffjlm TY-SXTM DAY.] ie The committee met again yesterday, at twelve o'clock, and ib resumed the inquiry. Mr. Roebuck in the chair. -. Mr. Wood, secretary of the Board of Ordnance, was next d called: He said, in reply to Lord Seymour, he had been 51 years in the Ordnance, and bad held his present office 18 10 months. The Lieutenant ...

... - [FROI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The news from the Crimea is becoming every day more interesting. General Canrobert, in a letter to the Emperor, which appears in to-day's Monitour, draws the following flattering description of the English army. The letter is dated April 28, and runs thus:- I have the happiness to announce to your Majesty that the English army, always ...

... The papers relating to the negotiation at Vienna on the Eastern question, which have now been pre- sented to Parliament, fill eighty-five folios, and are confined to the official protocols and memoranda of these celebrated Conferences; but these papers con. tain a full and authentic record of the propositions made by the several Powers on this occasiou, of the arguments by which they were ...

... ITHE SIEGE OF' SEBASTOPOL. he [FROM OUR OWN COBRRESPONDENT.J es CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, n. APRIL 27. es The felt difficulty of clearly and accurately un- derstanding either the topography of Sebastopol itself, or the relative positions of our own and the French forces and siege-works, from any written or illustrated descriptions that have yet fallen under I my eye, induced me, after the ...

... NAVAL AND MILITA RY AVEWS. APPOINTMSNT. Naval Cadet A. G. A. Tait to the Orion, 91, screw steam- ship, of 600-horse power, at Chatham. SHEERNESS. The Pylades, 21, sorew, Captain D'Eyncourt, and tile Vol- cano, paddle (engineers' floating factozy), were to leave yes- terday for the Baltic, with the screw gunboats Badger, Thistle, Starling, and Redwing. The Dapper, Lieutenant Grant, is in the ...

... TE CL.Ehay PiO VWIIN7 SOCIEFY. b ?? C plie I' ieotiliR of tie fG i11 of lho Q %140a suciety. rabicl vat;foutineti iik ie 4li ?? Ma 4, j vahleid at WVilli,'s Rooms, Ki r.streeto St. Janies's. The ,Bishop of London prcgtdI.d., and ?? lhose present we observed thie .vshop of Oxford, tile B3ishop of Sedor and AMwn, ?? 1ahopot Ripon, tile BTsh'p of Chichester. Lord John Maunners, 91.P., Bev. T. P. ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y BUSINESS. HOUSE OF COMM1IONS-TIIS DAY. ORDERS OF Tae DAY. Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill-Adjourned debate on third reading. Spirit Duties (Scotland and Ireland) Bill-Committee. Customs Duties Bill-As amended, to be considered. Stamp Duties (Drafts on Bankers) Bill-Sacond reading. Metropolis Local Management Bill-Committee. Testamentary Jnrisdiotion Bill-Adjourned debate on se- cond ...