... BRECH-LOADING RIFLES. A series of experiments took place at the Governmant grounds at Aston, on Saturday last, in firing Brand's pa- tented breech-loading musket and carbine, with perfect sue- aess. In the first instance three carbines were respectirely fired at the ranges of 200 and 300 yards, with an exactitude which astonished every one present. From six to eight bull's- eyes were made out ...

... TO THE EDITOR o0 THE MORNING -CHRONICLE. 81a-I trust you will permit me, as one whose name is not unknown in connection with the extension and im- provement of free libraries, to offer a few suggeations on the right understanding of which the vote for or against the adoption of tbe act in the City will very materially depend. Should the enlightened and humanising proposal of found. ing a rate ...

... This personage, if we are not mistaken, was in- troduced to the English Courts of Law a few years back in the evidence produced in a divorce case arising out of circumstances occurring in a lodging- house in one of the thoroughfares leading out of Regent-street, in which his Highness occupied the first or second floor back-or the garret, perhaps- for the injured husband never thought it worth ...

... Pol AST COMM[SSION O OFFICE I of bioe issued under the great seal has been ?? . N..aD for the Purpose of iqquiring what property 4ilel; Y e lte John Wildon. EAiq., formerly eaptain in ,elY Dbytilen Dublin as, and also if he left any lawful issue. Soelte CuItas a Wilso o who reoided near Deuboyno, in f11 e died in Februsry last, leaving landed estates to eof teigst and nine thcsaaad a year, of ...

... To TiHE EDITOR Or THIS MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR-Permit me to forward you the enclosed suggestions respeoting Imperial money-a liberty which I take fromi the perusal of some admirable artidles which have lately ap- peared in your columns:- 1. That an uniform description of one pound, paper cur- rency, be legalized by aet of Parliament, in the United Kingdom, consisting of Imperial notes. 2. That ...

... TilB BANK CHARTER ACT. In the absence of any action by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Goddard has sent tho following petition 3 to the First Lord of the Treasury. He thinks the Chamber should have sent a petition of the kind, instead of spernging - its time in the discussion of abstract propositions. r to THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, FIRST LORD, OF THE TREASURY. ...

... THE FEMALE IMPOSTOR AT WOL YEa- .I4MpToN. . The Chief Constable of WIolverhampton continues to re- ceive letters from all parts of the kingdom, throwing further light upon the very extraordinary career of the accused. That she came from Flintahire, and had there lived in the capacity of a nursery governess, as she statod, is true; but the particulars cennected with her residence are not very ...

... The following is the last quarterly return of nmar- riages, births, and deaths, throughout Eugland:- This return comprises the births and deaths regitered by 2,196 registrars in all the-districts of England during the summer quarter that ended on the 30th of September, 1855 ; and the marriages in 12,145 churches or chapels, about 3,658 registered places of worship unconnected with the ...

... r PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. . The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty LIEUTENANTS. I C. E. K. Brett, to the Hawke. B B. F. Scott, to the Salamander. MASTEB. 'Edward C. Bull, to the $alamander. CHAPLAIN. DBartholomew Ring, to the Havanns. SCnsoON. Ed ward Adams. LIBUTINANTS. Arthur K. Forde, Charles Crowdy, W. T. Sterne, Charles E. K. Brett, Theodore B. Hollingworth, ...

... JIBTROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SB Wens. A court of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers was held at the oAice, on Tuesday, Mr. Richard Jebb in the chair. The available balance in hand, after deducting for the cheques drawn but not yet presented, was reported to be £31,693 18s. f5d., besides the amount of the deposit account, £80,000. Out of this suma payments were to-day ordered by the court ...

... THlE LORD-LIBUTHNANT'S VISIT TO BELFAST. The following will be the order of the proceed- ings of this week, in connection with the visit of the Lord-Lieutenant to the north of Ireland:- His Excellency remained on Tuesday with the i Primate, in Armagh, and yesterday was to leave R Armagh for Belfast, where his arrival was expected about four o'clock in the afternoon. At the Ulster Railway ...

... The Madrid journals of the 25th state that :- The Queen had received M. Olozaga. New assemblages of workmen had taken place, but though some men appeared in them in arms, and endeavoured to excite disturbances, they after l while peaceably dispersed. A number of men alsol assembled at the Ministry of Public Works, hub the minister caused their leaders to be brought to him, and he told them ...