... - To Trit EDITOR OF THa MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-Perceiving an error made by the correspondent of the Times of the 16th of April, allow me to request you will have the kindness to correct him through the medium of your widely ciroulating paper. In remarking on the state of the Kulalu Hospital, lie goes on to say, This pare of the building has beeu constructed upon a singular principle by the ...

... The following are the articles of capitulation for the formation of a Foreign Legion for the service of her Britannic Majesty:- Art. 1. Each recruit is to be enlisted for the duration of the present war, and until one year after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. No man otherwise engaged will be passed at the depot at Heligoland, or at that at Shorocliffe. Art. 2. The recruits ...

... I THB PBARL FISHER Y IN CB YLON. After a failure of nearly half a century, the pearl fishery in Ceylon for the present year will, it is estimated, present a return to Government of more than £10,000 sterling. The scene that has taken place this year at Ceylon in the last month is an extraordinary one, as the reader will see from the following interesting account extracted from the Ceylon ...

... ORPHAN WORKINGG SGHOOL. Yesterday a public examination of the orphan children educated at this old and valuable institution took place at its commodious establishment on Haverstock hill. The chair was occupied on the occasion by Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P., a liberal contributor to the school, who was supported by a numeroas and respectable audience. The examination was ably conducted by Mr. ...

... '.YR1sRAELsI RiESOLUTVION. foljowing is the resolution which Mr. Dis- h ,,19 laid Oi the table of the House of Cora- a s ,O be discussed to-morrow (Thursday) - a this ITouse cannot adjourn for the recess hoist expressing its dissatisfaction with the am- joQ5 ligaage and uncertain conduct of her inisters with reference to the great . , of peace or war; and that under these oir- qUOS59 this ...

... LFROM OUR OWN CORlRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDAY. The attitude intended to be adopted by Austria at the present crisis is an object of as much anxious speculation in Germany as in France and England; and every public document issuing from the tienna Foreign-office is eagerly examined and commented on, with the hope of discovering come certain indi- cation of Austrian intentions. The Cologne ...

... STA TISTICAL SOCIETY. The seventh ordinary meeting af the Statistical Society for the session 1854 55 was held on Monday evening at the rooms of the society, in St. Jamess-square, Colonel Sykes, V.P., in the chair, supported by Lord Overstone, Sir John Boileau, Bart., Sir Charles Trevelyan, ?? &c. Six candidates were elected fellows of thesociety. The followink paper was then read, viz., On ...

... HEALTHIL of LONDONDURINGthe WEEK.I +4- [FROM THS REOISTRAR-GONERAL'S IBTURN. I In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths of 1,143 persons, namely, 620 males and 523 females, were registered in London. Though the figures show a small reduction on those of the two previous weeks, they still imply rather a high rate of mortality. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the ...

... MAR YLEBONE REFORMA TOR IE. The first public meeting of the Preventive and Reforma- tory Institution for St. Pancras and Marylebone, was held in the school-rooms, St. Pancras, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. An exouse was handed in from the Bishop of Lichileld. After an opening address from Lord ERInaTovoN, The report was read by the Rev. W. NORMAN, stating that the institution was ...

... I ?? -IBII:T GO UNCIL- A 0vbinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, D0llz 1 streetj on Saturday. The Ministers pre- Pont ere 'Viscount Palmnerston, the Lord Chan- 011, lrl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, tpoke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl| the Duk tf jDdou, Lord John Russell, Lord Paunmure, ° cbuccllr of the Exohequer, Sir Charles Wood, glon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William ...

... THE RO YAL HOSPITAL. The second election of this charity took place yesterday at the London Tavern, Bisbopsgate-street, for the purpose of electing six patients for admission to the above institution, established for the permanent care of those who by accident or disease are entirely disqualified for the occupations of life. The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by the Hon. Edmund Phipps. ...

... ENGLAND AND IRELAND iMPROVED COMMUMICATION. The committee met at twelve o'clock on Friday, but no business was done till half-past, at which time the room was cleared for the committee to consider their decision on the preamble of the bill. At one o'clock the public were re- admitted, when the chairman announced that the committee had decided that the preamble was proved, but required the ...