Pub-, lie School Association, which assembled this week in the Poultry, can be regarded in no other light than that of an advertise- ment that the Association still exists. The...

PRECEDENCE is this week due, in our historical summary, to the proceedings in Parliament, not that they have been very important in: themselves,. but because nothing of greater...

Watford Spring Water scheme was first broached, a committee was appointed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Marylebone, to negotiate with its promoters. A scale of...

at the close of the public breakfast of the emigrants about to sail for- Canter- bury in New Zealand and their friends. The excellent Chairman spoke of the remarkable and...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. Horn OF LORDS. Monday, May 5. Mercantile Marine Bill; Petitions against, presented by Lord Stanley. Tuesday, May 6. No business of interest....

anniversary of the 4th of May, notwithstanding the anxious anti- cipations awakened by incendiary , manifestoes. Whether those documents emanated from bona fide anarchists, or...

THE Queen held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Monday af- ternoon. Mr. Rutherfurd, late Lord-Advocate of Scotland, now a Judge of the Supreme Court, was sworn in a...

At a Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday, the opinion of the Corpora- tion law-officers on the petition of certain inhabitants of Southwark to be allowed to elect an Alderman for...

The Harwich Election Committee has determined that Mr. Prinsep, the sitting Member, was incompetent to be elected from the nature of his qualification, which consisted of income...

Fitaarce..—The fate of the 4th of May passed off without any of the disturbances which were last week anticipated. Indeed, enough rain fell on that day in Paris alone to...

The Belfast Newsletter announces that " Sir James Emerson Torment has formally resigned the Governorship of St. Helena." " Domestic con- cerns originally had the largest share...

An opinion by the Law-officers of the Crown, Sir John Dodson, Sir Alexander Cockburn, and Sir W. Page Wood, in favour of the legality of the Oxford University Commission,, has...

SATURDAY.. The chief discussion in the House of Commons last night was upon the resolutions proposed by Mr. UntinnAar as an amendment to the motion that the Speaker do leave...

WAR-OFFICE, May 9.-2d Drags.—Cornet T. P. Gratrex to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Hozier, who retires. 4th Light Drags.—Cornet and Adjt. G. Ellis to have the rank of Lieut. ;...

Bel- haven to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The appointment of James Douglas, Esq., to be Governor and Com-...

The Opera season being now in full career, and his company complete, Mr. Lumley has introduced one of his promised novelties—Alary's opera buffs Le Tre Nozze which was produced...

Hope, with news from the seat of the Caffre war. The position of things had little changed, and it certainly appears doubtful whether a vague and incon- clusive struggle may not...

a man dissatisfied with the courtesies and usages of his time ; and, consistently with this object, all the characters grouped around the principal figure served to elicit his...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arraromox. The English Stock Market has evinced more vitality during the last few days than for some time before, and prices have advanced from 1 to 1...

Bataille de Dames. Mrs. Stirling, who is the aunt-countess, can feel the finesse and quiet sentiment of the original; but generally the English actors appear to sad disadvantage...

the slightest kind at Punch's Playhouse; but Mr. Copeland need not encourage absolute trash. A thing called Taking the Census has nothing to recommend it in the shape of plot,...

respectable but not a showy debut in Hoffman's petite-comedic of _Le Roman d'une Heure.

HOW JOHN GETS THROUGH THE SESSION. "I Am afraid you are not strong enough for the place, John," is a well-remembered phrase ; and in practice it has proved to be true so far as...

"FIDEI DEFENSOR." Stit—The origin of the above title is one of the foremost facts in history, yet in measuring the amount of Royal supremacy over the Church little use Is made...

RETRENCHMENT becomes not merely fallacious but mischievous when it takes the form of the paltry sham which Lord John Rus- sell put off upon the House of Commons on Monday last....

" Toniormsprets, that is our motto," says M. Jules Janin, speaking of the French; and he appeals to the Exposition for his proof. What peculiar views people may take ! He visits...

is a great school of practical education. Public men, like private individuals, are always learning some- thing from experience. When it does not teach them to amend their ways,...

TEE Foreign Secretary is the cleverest man at official business in her Majesty's councils, and one of the most active, with the widest range for his activity; but, in the long...

TEE founders of the Canterbury Settlement proceed steadily with their work. Their first body of colonists sailed in September last, and news of their safe arrival has just...

DEATH was inflicted in six instances during the collision in the tunnel near Frodsham, from causes that might have been pre- vented by ordinary care ; indeed, the causes were...

interest of the public in the Great Exhibition of Industry, the daily press is putting forth its expansive energies in de- scription and explanation. The Times has set forward...

HARTLEY COLERIDGE. * HARTLEY COLERIDGE was the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge ; and was born at Clevedon, near Bristol, in 1796. Shortly after his birth, his father...

an account of an enterprising tour, for a lady, made by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley in 1849 and 1850, through parts of North and South America. New York was of course her...

Norton appears again in the field of fiction, with a story that will not add to her reputation. "All is strange, yet nothing new " ; much is essentially common, yet there is...

Boons. The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Re- verend William Mason. Now first published from the Original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by the Reverend J....

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. A SECOND visit to the Royal Academy has confirmed our impression that this is an exhibition of more than accustomed interest. Works in the highest...

A further and more extended collection of works by the so-called "Sketching Society" is on view at Mr. Hogarth's in the Haymarket. Our readers may remember that this body...

If ever publication professing to meet a demand of the time contained truth in its assertion, this is it. Mr. Paxton is, par excellence, the man of 1851. Protectionists and...

This diorama, the third connected with Jerusalem opened within two or three months, has been painted under the direction of Mr. W. Beverly from sketches taken on his travels by...

Here again we have a reminder of the great feature of the year. Mr. Baxter has applied his process, several specimens of which he contributes to the Great Exhibition, to the...

On the 23d April, in New Street, Spring Gardens, Lady Harriet B. Hamilton, of a son. On the 1st May, at Marston Rectory, the Hon. Mrs. Richard Boyle, of a daughter. On the 1st,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices ) Satan'. Monday Tuesday. Tredues Thurs. --- 961 96/ 963 96 1 97 971 96i 96/ 97 971/ 951 94 96 EMI 951 951 974 971 971 971 2101 - 2102 210...

Tuesday, May 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Young and Co. Wolverhampton, edge-tool-manu- facturers; as far as regards J. Young-Bradshaw and Knowles, Birmingham, plumbers-Hayman and...