... I TO THE EDI-TO O- THE DAILY NEWS. SIP,-Will you allow me in your columns to revive a scheme for a general education bill, the leading points of which I brought forward once before in 1846 ? It has, I t conceive, this advantage over the other place at present t before the public, that it does not in any way interfere with existing schools, and avoids flinging the enormous burden of the entire ...

... A TRUB BRITISH SOLDIBR. A correspondent sends us the following particulars C of the military experience of Sergeant James Hill, of the ( 23rd Regiment, a gallant Scot hloo has just left Fort Pitt General Hospital. This brave, determiped man escaped unhurt amidst the 1 terrific shower of round, Mi;iD, 24 and 32 pound shot, until EB within siX yards of a battery, when one entered the lower I ...

... I !E. [FROM A YOUNG MEDICAL OFFICER AT TIE CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, .AND ONE OF OUR OCCASIONAL le- CORRESPONDENTS.] Mlay 14, 1855. ng The weather for the last four days has been truly ld- miserable, raining in torrents, and mud over your ankles ; there is, therefore, some considerable trouble in walking. Living in a tent here is very he different to when at Suntari, where we had good ...

... EXPRES,3S FR OM.I CONST ANTINOPLE. LFaO.I OU.R owN CORRSESrONDnENT.] CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 11. It has turned out as every one expected: the Vieuna Conferences have ended in a bottle of sir Eke, and the great quarrel between the North and ?? W0est remai)s to be settled by the only effectual peace-maker-the sLword. And that it is so, few far-seeing men will regret. War is at all tinves a dire ...

... Wye have received our despatches by the overland I quo mail. The dates as advised by telegraph are _Oat Bombay, May 1; Calcutta, April. 22 ; Hong Kong, ?? April 16. and The Vonmbay Tzimemcs of May 1st savs: r ao There has not been a sirgile foray on our borders, T nor squabble anywhere. From the northwest we Wet learn that Brigadier ChIamberlAnin accompanied by In,.( %sjorEdwardey, with aforce ...

... WHIT-AMONDAY. HAYMARKET. bivo instead of a dramatic novelty for the holidays, the the ?? manaigemlent replaced an old favow ite on its wt ,Whitson biords, ito the Person Of ?? Helen Faucit-s a s 5scbsitucien of which the public ec.rtstnly' will not ctomp~lain,5 Mdl Tile theatrical profession has too few members of tbe, style rp Of art to whic't Ittiss Fececit-to call her Still by her best and ...

... TO THU EDITOR op Tan MORNING CHRONICLE. SIoR-The interest excited as to Russian supplies to the Crimea, by way of Azoff, and the evidence before the SBe bastopol Committee of official ignorance of that route, may justify a notice of its actual use a century and more ago, when it contributed essentially to the Russian conquests of the Crimea. At that time the Black Sea was in the possession ...

... CO UR T CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MAY 29. Her Mnjesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert at. tended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon). Mary Seyn.our Major-General Buvkley, and Captain Du Plat, embatked in the Fairy yesterday afternoon for Portsmouth. The Queen and Prince, on arriving at the harbour, went on board the Cormorant transport screw steamer, and ali- nutely inspected the arrangements ...

... Vgyp^,CI FROMA LORD RAGLAN.I I-4- lFlE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE. War Department, May 30, 1855. Lor3 pamiuro has this day received a de. epatch and its enclosures, of which the following cpies, addressed to his lordship by Field- MIarshal the TLord Raglan, G.C.B. Befor; Sevastopol, May 19, 155. * Lord-I do Anyself the honour to enclose the 0f castialies that occurred between the 14th ...

... The journals from the Cape of Good Hope brought by the last arrival furnish us with the speech of Governor Sir George Grey, at the opening of the second session of the Cape Parliament, on the ]5th March. As a matter of imperial interest, the most important part of the speech is that de- voted to the great question of Border Defence, and the means of locating on the frontier settlers ...

... 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 ...