... TI-tl, MORNING CHRONICLE. - . I LONDON: 3MfOYDAY, MA Y1 28, 1855. Uncertainty and suspense have been the l1t of the British people since the commencement of the dispute which led to the present war with Russia; and they have not been relieved from their diffi- culty by the debate which was adjourned on Friday night. During the earlier portion of the quarrel, reticence and apparent hesitation ...

... Ifj.,,N ~tET TO MR. DZtISRABLFS ,,~cis Baring has given notice of the fol. Sir gr015 amendrent to MIr. Disraeli's motion ,t this I1use having seen with regret that es of Vienna have not led to a termi- tbei f ities feels it to be a duty to deolare, j it *ill continue to give every support to her majestl the prosecution of the war, until her sha,11 in conjunction with her Allies, ob- for this ...

... I ROYAL LITBRARY FUND DINNER. | The annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Oxford presiding ou the occasion. The company present numbered about five hundred persons, among whom we noticed the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of St. Davids, Mr. Buchanan, the American Minister; Sir Denham ...

... THYJE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: SATURDA Y, MAY 26, 1865. In the HouSE of LORDS, last night, The debate upon the recent Vienna Conferences was opened by Earl GitEy, who moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, returning thanks for having ordered the protocols of the recent negotia- tions to be laid before the House, and inform- ing her Majesty that the House deeply deplored ...

... GRAND TR UNK RAILW VA Y of CANADA. I -4- In resuming to-day our notice of Sir Cusack P. Roney's report addressed to the London board of directors of the Grank Trunk Railway Company of i Canada, we complete for the present the subject to which it refers, but shall take an early opportunity of returning to it with a variety of useful and iL: structive information, calculated to afford a more ...

... le bh The following Order in Council has been issued of for the purpose of establishing rules for the exami- sh nation of candidates for the civil service P- PRESENT, ,e The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council. - Whereas it is expedient to make provision for testing, I according to fixed rules, the qualifications of the young men It who may from time to time be proposed to be appointed n ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWES. ive ry- A!POINTXXNTS. a Lientenants-James A. Poland, to the Meteor; R. Daw- kiis and G. S. Nores, to the Glutton ; G. J. Malcolm, ad, ditional to the Pembroke, for service in the Stork; N. B. Beale, to the Neptune. Chaplain-The Rev. G. C. Williams, to the Retribution. Second Master-Dover Farrant, to the Cossack. ed AMiddhipmen-C. G. Fane, to the Euryalus; Hon. Ml. K. ...

... 8COTLAND. THE SCOTTISH MILITIA. It is nearly three months since the majority of the Scottish Militia regiments were embodied and called out for active service, yet in what cpndition of efficiency do we find these sole defenders of the country? They have not yet got their arms I Guns, belts, cartouche-boxes, side-arms, and swords for the artillerymen, are all wanting. We believe that the Perth ...

... BUWLDIrG SOCIETIES AND STAIMP I 'UTIRS. I a e To THR EDITOR OF THH MORNING CHRONICrX. id SiR-Of course you are aware there is a Friendly So- cieties Bill at present before Parliament ; it has gone or through committee, and will shortly be read a third time. I am not now about to enter into the merits of that measure, but upon a clause which has been engrafted upon it at almost its last stage ...

... INE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDA Y, | tMAY 22. j LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 7. Notice is hereby gives, that her Majesty will hold a Draw- ?? at St. James's Palace, at two o'clock, on Thursday, the 14th of June. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 18. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry James Meller, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate for the county of D'Urbsn, in the district of Natal, in South Africa. ...

... FESTI VAL of tho SONS,of the VLERRG Y- I. Yesterday the two hundred and first anniversary of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy (established for assist- lo, necessitous clergymen, pensioning their widows and aged single daughters, and educating, apprenticing, and pro- viding outfits for their children) was celebrated in St. Paul's Cathedral, when a full choral service was performed, in ...

... IRELALND. 0 I111SK PROSPECTS. The high price of grain, though transient and accidental, seems to have made the landed interest indifferent about the fiscal changes of a permanent character, which threaten it with great loss and discouragement. The passive assent which our re- presentatives gave to the increase of spirit duties proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his late Budget ...