... ,J.u - inh To TOE EDITOR OF TrE MORNING CHRONICLE. en SiR-Thie valuable collection, so intimately connected with Is, the early history of our metropolis, being at the present time iw brought especially to tle notice of the public, induces me ck to trouble you with a few lines on the subject. e. It is now more than a century ago that the son of the illustrious architect Sir Christopher Wren ...

... I The following' letter gives a most interesting account of this attack Camp before Sebastopol, June 22. My dear coauin Kate-You have beard about the action on, the 1sth ; it was a most sanguinary one. On iace1unt of our staff situations. neither the paymaster, myself, nor the regimental clerks ware allowed to go intO action with the regiment, so we were ordered'to take charge of the camp, ...

... /S UTHWARR ELECTION. Au anonymous plocard was posted yesterday on the Town. ball, calling upon the electors to reserve their votes for a towtismlan. Whether this document means anything or jbothiug, it is impossible to conjeaturo, as the printer's name was not attached to it, and consequently no indication afforded by which inquiries could be instituted respecting the source from which it ...

... .W. t Cout; OSBORN4, JZVLrY 21. Princess Alice has been attacked with searlatira. Prince Asthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Louisa are convalescent. The Queen and Prince, the King of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and the Dachess of Kent, cruised in the Royal yaeht Fai yesterday afternoons and returned to Osborne about 8 o'clec. JULT 22. ...

... The following is a translation from an official copy of the Provisional Convention signed on behalf of o France, England, and Turkey: t Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor of the French 2 engages, under the ratification of the Legislative I Corps of France, to guarantee, conjointly and in d mutual responsibility with her Britannic Majesty, 1 and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom li of ...

... After sixteen years' service Mr. Justice Manle has retired from the Bench of the Common Pleas. Dis- tinguished in his youth-for he was SeniorWrangler at Cambridge, in 1810-he has been eminent as a judge. For largeness of mind and subtlety of intel- lect combined, he w~as unequalled amongst his ermined brethren. Failing health alone is the cause of his retirement. The Lord Chancellor has ...

... Our Paris correspondent writes: i n reference to Mr. J. William Wallack's letter in the Daily N.Ces of Saturday, I have no occasion to dispute that gentleman's statement, that he was not responsible for the distress of the ballet girls belonging to the English company here, because I never said, or supposed, or left it to be inferred that he was. But having made further in- quiries, I ...

... NA VAL AND MILITAR Y. ADMIRALTY, JuLT 20.-APPOINrTsENTS.-PaV. master RI. Batchelor (1854) to the Impregnable, 104, fla alcip, at Devonport. Assistant Paymaster in Charge C. J. Webb (1849), to the Juckall, iron paddle-wheel stenom-veisel, of 150-horse power, for particular service. this t Acting Clr C.3. Nash to the Glatton, 16, floating last- ?? L. A. Fesbery to the St. George, 120, at ...

... Yesterday Captain Disney performed some expert- ments illustrative of his war projectile, in the old Ranelagh grounds of Chelsea Hospital. There is nothing new in the projectile itself; the invention consists in a fluid-well named by the inventor infernal fluid-with which any hollow projectile may be wholly or partly filled. The nature of the fluid is such that within a few seconds of being ...

... The ?? mneeting of the shareholders in the Alfred Home and Foreign Life Assurance Association was held at their offices in Lathbury yesterday, the Hon. ELIOT T. YolxE, M.P., being in the cbeir. He observed that the financial state of the association was such, that the body of shareholders and the assured might continue to afford the directors their approbation and support. They had nO ...

... REPULSE OF RUSSIAN SORTIES. The ' Moniteur' announces that the Minister of War received the following telegraphic despatches from General Pelissier. The first is dated the 15th: * The night has been a successful one on the side of the Malakoff Tower. About one o'clock the Russians made a sortie with three or four battalions, and made vain efforts to carry an ambuscade on the glacis of the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Mondacy, July 2. THE LATE LOBD RSAGLAAN. Lord PANMURE brought down a message from her Majesty, recoomendinhg ihe house to take steps towards making a provision for the widow and csildren of thelate Lord Raolasn.- The message having been reail by the LORD CHANCELLOR, was ordered to be taken into consideration the following evening. TUE TICRET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM. Lord ST LEONARDS ...