... DREADFUL SHIP WRECKand INH UMANI CONDUCT. e MELBUOURNS, MAtAOn 8.-The barque Rio Grande arrived us here last evening with Captain Penny and fire of the crew of ad the wrecked Peruvian ship Grimenems, which was totally lost be with nearly 640 Chinese emigrants, who were passengers on ri. board for Callao, on the 34 of last July, on a shoal lying in at the mid-channel between New Caledonia and ...

... The French fleet, under Admiral Penaud, con- sisting of three line-of-battle steamers and a cor- vette, steamed out of Kiel harbour on Monday evening; the English steam-frigate Pylades, with two steam gunboats in tow, had left the same morning. The hospital ship Belleisle, Captain Hosken, ar- rived at Copenhagen on the 18th inst., six days out from Spithead. After taking in fresh water and ...

... I' Y SUPP4 Y of WA T GR ins the CRIMEA.I i, To THE EDITOR or TiU MORNING CHRONICLE. E0 Sia-Public attention has of late been much directed to i. this important question, rife with the very existence of the le allied armies in the East; and various suggestions have iesteen made for supplying with water during the ensuing Iu smmer the camp established on the plateau above Sebas- 3e topol. It ...

... THE REPRESENTA TION OF BATH. I The Liberals of this city, having broken off negotiation with Sir Culling Eardley, held a meeting the other night at the | rooms of the Liberal Association, which were crowded with I voters. Mr. W. Tite, deputy-chairmar. of the Administra- tive Reform Association, was introduced by a deputation of gentlemen, and was cordially received. The proceedings were then ...

... The mail-steamer Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with advices and letters from New York to the 16th iust., and with a freight of $1,900,000 in specie. The grand council of the Know-Nothings of the State of New York, assembled at Syracuse on the 8th inst., agreed on the following as their plat- form until the meeting of the National Council 1. Americans shall rule America. ?? The ...

... The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs has, under date of the 10th inst., issued the following circular to the representatives of Russia The Imperial Ministry for Foreign Affairs has jL 5t received the following official announcement : -In the forerloop of the 16th (28th) of April an English officer, with a bag of truce from the fi- gate l'Itnp6rieuse, Captain Watson, notified in Port ...

... ECCLBSIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. I The following preferments and appoitntments have been recently made UONORARY CANONRY. The Rev. H. J. Barton, to be au honorary canon of Peter. borough Cathedral. RECTORIES. The Rev, F. Aston, to the rectory of Toddanham, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh. The Rev. R. IV. Beauchamp, to the rectory of Wollerton with NVickmere, Norfolk. The Rev. N. B. Curry, to the rectory ...

... - - . MEOBRISTOUN CASTLE BURNED DOWN, Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, Merchistoau Castle, near Edinburgh, the property of the heirs of the late Dr. Chalmers, and ococpied by Mr. Gibson as a boarding-school for young get- tlemen, was discovered to be on fire. Intelligence was immediately forwarded to the main office fire brigade, when, in an incredibly short space of time, the ...

... 1 ?? I MORNING CHRONICLE OIFlO'. |Tusaday, 1 p.m. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. ([IrOx OUa OWN COERESPONDRNIT.1 iyPARIS, MONDAY, MAY 28. The following deootcnes from General Pelissier are published in the Moniteur of this day )f CRIMEA, MAY 25, TE P.m. It To-day we have occupied the line of the a Tchernaya. The enemy, who were not in force, *doffered little resistance in disputing the ground, o and ...

... THE M1ORNING CHRONICLE. I LONDON' TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1865. --d. While we are enjoying a brief respite from Parlia- mentary strife, it may be well to look back a little way into the past, and to sum up the present prospects and position of the Country. The Mi. nistry of Lord PALMERSTON, less by reason of its own merits than by the forbearance of some of its severest critics, has escaped a menaced ...

... I In addition to the statistics of edueation which already have appeared, two blue books have since been published on the subject. The first contains copies of all minutes of the Privy Council on Education, arranged in chronological order, extending from the 3d of June, 1839, to the 19th of January, 1855. The second, a thick volume of 765 pages, contains minutes of the Committee of Council or ...

... VICEIREGAL FESTIVITIES. A private full dress ball was given by his Excel- lenoy the Earl of Carlisle, at the Viceregal-lodge, on Friday. The attendance was numerous and fashionable, upwards of 1,200 being present. iROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea- sury have approved of the plans of the society's proposed Museum of Natural History, and have authorised the ...