... MESDICITr SOCIETE. ~l~Satniday afternoon, the forty ~frat annual mneeting of tho edaMendicity- Soolety 'wasl held at the 'society's. rooms; Red .Ion-sqnuare. all Th-aiusof Westminster p resided, and among the~ sly noblereh eedl lmgentlembn ~in attendanca y'i~re~ar1Gros'ven~or, lid Lord.Egerttn of Tatton (one of the receifily created peer) ith Lord Caithorpe, Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Sir ...

... NAVAL AND MiLrTAiY Izy'TmaoIG.aN the Horse Guards, addressed to all commanding officers, directing increased efforts to be made in obtaining recruits for the army:- ' His Royal lfighness the General Commanding-in- Chief desires that commanding officers whose regiments are below their establishments will send their bands and drums to one of the nearest towns on all market days, or on such ...

... THE 'MORNING CHRONICLE. LON'DON FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1S59. Wonderful are the triumphs of surgery. In journals specially devoted to the Faculty, most astvunding accounts are given of patients whose bodily frames, having been damaged by accident, had been repaired by science so skilfully as to have become actually better than before. In narra- tives, all most respectably attested, we hear of men ...

... LONDON: FRIDA F, MAY 20, 1Si;. TYe General Election is now over, and, although a terrib¾e outery has been raised about the waste of ijue occasilued by it, the whole process has oc- cupie-l baut a dlay or two more than is usually con- suaed by the Easter adjournment. In three weeks all has been accomplished-speech-making, polling, ind thanksgiving-from one end to the other of the United ...

... LI.EUT..COLrOE.L M'DOUGALL ON TEE ) W4l IN ITALY IN 1796. Yesterday an exceedingly interesting and instructive lec- ture on the French war in Italy in 1796, was delivered in the lecture-hall of the United Service Institution, by Lieut.- Colonel M'Dougall, commandant Royal Staff College, Sandhurst, The hall was crowded by a very select attend- ance of ladies and gentlemen, and amongst the ...

... |THE A(CIDNT ON THS CO.NWALZ I RA IL WAY. PLYMOUTH, SIToRDoY. Aninspectionof the scene of the unfortunate accident which occurred on Friday evening on the eastern side of the Grove Lake viaduct, which crosses a small inlet fronm the river Lyuher, gives no clue to the cause. The perma- nent way is straight and level, and there does not appear to have been anything to turn the engine from its ...

... THE HOYOURABLB ARTILLERY cozfp~aZT. - To THf EDITOR or THrE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sin-Mr. E. S. Creasy, in his work, 1' The Invasions and projected Invasions of England, calls attention to the im. portance of the Honourable Artillery Company, and the valuable assistance that eorps has from time to time rendered the State, The services of this admirable body of volunteers at the time of the ...

... SOUTH ZSSEX BLECTIOA'-CONSERVA- TI RE D1EOXST~d TIOX AXT STJATFORD. On Wednesday evening the Conservatives of South Essex gave a dinner to the recently-elected members for that divi. sion: of the comty,; in.celebratioh of their return, at the Swan Inn, Stratford-le-Bow. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Davis, who was supported by Mr.. Bramston on the right, and Mr. Perry Watlington on the left. ...

... LONDON: MONDAY, AAY 16, 1S.59. The times are somewhat changed since 1790. The youthful adventtuer, who by a series of for- tunate accidents had risen from obscurity to the 'comIM1and of the French army of Italy, had many things in his favour when he hastened to meet the Aiitrians on the soil of Piedmont. His genius, the fauatical enthusiasm of the day, the martial ardour of hii soldiers, and ...

... At ?? Polioe-court yesterday Andeew BJeitblm- It Hespbur, aged 44, and described as a public lecturer, ofNo. 31, York-street, Comrnercial-road, Avga.qs 'Yilkijesoa, i 14, of Cecil,street, Mile-end, confectioner; Jo.ephi Lefz/tJdi, 23, oi' No. 29b Trling-street, St. George's-in-the-East, en biscuit baiker; 'f leaaanler -Reeel, 54, of' WNo fr1, Clmrlottc- court, Whitechapel, eooper; and James ...

... THURSDAY EVENING. There was not much business transacted in either light or heavy shares, but prices were generally better, and in some cases improvement was fully maintained. North British Stock advanced about 4 per cent., and Great Western, South-Eastern, and Caledonian about j per cent. London and North-Western were done during the day at .85i to 86 ; Great Western, 50.1 to 51J; Midland, ...

... THE SUEZ CANAL To Trn EDITOR oF TRE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIRIf it can in any way interest yoer readers to know ho1W the Suez Canal is getting on, allow me to intrude u4oh you with an account of a great event for us, 'witnessed on the shores of the Mediterranean on the 25tb of April. On the morning of thatday, after five days' ?? on die sw ip of bank that separates the Lake Allonzaieh from the ...