THE struggle of the Tory Ministers against the hostile majority of the House of Commons was brought to a close on Wednesday. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S resolution on the Irish Church...

In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into a Com- mittee on the Irish Church. Some conversation ensued...

On the previous day, the House of Representatives, after an un- usually long de'rate, unanimously passed the following resolution, proposed by Mr. ADAMS- " That, in the opinion...

MARIA assumed the title of Prince AUGUSTUS of Portugal, died, unexpectedly, on the 28th of March. He was in good health a few days previously ; but took cold on his return from...

de- termined to resist an ordinance of the Chancellor Peatste com- manding them to plead before the Chamber of Peers on behalf of such prisoners as the Chamber might assign to...

French some trouble. The Messager des Chambres says- " The Arabs present themselves simultaneously at all the points where the French have establishments. The colonists seek a...

new Cabinet. Earl GREY was summoned to the Palace immediately after the resignation of Ministers at the Levee on Wednesday. He visited the King twice on Thursday ; and held...

to Malta; Lord PONSONBY having ascertained that there is no proba- bility of any disturbances in Constantinople.

At a Court of Aldermen, held at Guildhall on Saturday, among other subjects adverted to was that of Sir John Campbell's Bill for the Abo. lition of Imprisonment for Debt. Mr....

THE King and Queen have been residing at St. James's Niece during the week. The King gave audiences on Sunday morning to the Indic of Wellington and Lord Wharncliffe, and passed...

in anticipation of another dissolution, have formed an association for the avowed object of securing, by every means in their power, the return of Conservative candidates. Their...

generally found to be correct, that the Church Commissioners have already been induced to revise the decision to which they had at iirstinclined re- specting the diocese of...

The election of Mr. Carew O'Dwyer for Drogheda has been dea clared void by a Committee of the House of Commons, on account of a trifling informality respecting his...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th April 1884 and 5th April 1s35; showing the Increase or Decrease on each head...

[Po in the C, brier, Mardi 30.] The General Report of the Corporatien Commissioners was delivered to Mr. Getl - e burn on the 24th of Match; and on the 30th, when laid before...

Mr. A 'drew Skene, one of the most distinguished Advocates at the Scottish bar, toed last week, of a !mein fever. AD. Skene was the Solicitor-General for Scotland under Lord...

caries, the latter are not to be allowed to compound medicines, but will be entitled to receive 10s. fees, or as low as as. if they think fit, for each visit. The medicines they...

We omitted to mention last week, that the cause of the absence of Sir John Hobhouse and Captain 1‘'ernyss from the great division on Lord John Russell's motion (though both...

of a coalition between Sir Roulia . r PEEL and the leaders of the Whig party for the salvation of the country. It even goes the length of suggesting that Sir ROBERT might waive...

GREY bad been reappointed to the Premiership. The more ardent of the Irish Liberals were very naturally alarmed and angry at the prospect of his Lordship's return to office; and...

SATURDAY. It is understood that Lord MELEOURNE has received the King's commands to form a Alinistry. We trust that his Lordship will not be unmindful of the deceit that was...

THE published lists of the Divisions of Monday and Tuesday last were very incorrect. Mr. BEAUMONT was put down in the majority. and among the pairs also ; Mr. Coamerr was said...

STOOK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Time resignation of the Ministers has produced a favourable effect upon the put ; •t. of the English Funds. The Consul Market has evinced...

harbor. The choice of the title is not a fortunate one; for it will call to mind the contrast between the consistent Whig and sound constitu- tional lawyer, who formerly held...

Tae season really began on Thursday night ; and we have seldom Nvitoe,-sed a more att , picious commencement. The opera was La Ltrifiar ; supported by OHNE, BRAMBILLA,...

HAVING witnessed the representation of Lae, eta l'Amant pretil, at the French Theatre on Monday, we profited by the opportunity for a corn- imam-isms and attended the English...

THROUGHOUT the third season of the Vocal Concerts, which finished on Monday itight,• the Directors have pursued a course of unrelaxing vigi- lance and sound musical taste....

THE fourth concert of the present season, though containing some of the finest instrumental pieces that can employ the talents of an orches- tra or engage the attention of an...

THE NEXT MINISTRY. THE forming of a new Administration, at the present time, will be a task of great responsibility and some difficulty. The Mi- nistry must be thoroughly...

THERE are few real friends of social order, national prosperity, and monarchical institutions, to whom the recent political struggle has not occasioned serious alarm ; and there...

THE Tories have not found "another PITT in PEEL." It would have been strange if they had ; for even supposing the ability of the two Ministers to have been on a par, the...

No rational person imagines that the mere passing of a Tithe Bill, in which the principle of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S resolution should be embodied, would of itself work the miracle...

IT is edifying to remark the grand air with which official gentle- men disclaim the possibility of being moved, in the exercise of their functions, by the feelings and...

AN appeal from the judgment of Lord ABINGER to that of the public lies before us, in the form of a pamphlet issued by BoosEY and Co.* The facts are these. AUBER composes an...

we will not ven- ture to describe, said to have been committed by a noble lord on board and in the command of one of his Majesty's ships in the Mediterra- nean; but we have...

" THE object of this poem," says Mr. HUNT, "is to show the herrors of war, the false ideas of power produced in the minds of its leaders, and, by inference, the unfitness of...

IF the reader merely desires an edition of POPE'S Poems, admi- rably printed, well got up, and illustrated by notes sometimes learned, sometimes acute, and sometimes...

Captain Sword and Captain Pen; a Poem. By Leigh hunt. With some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen Knight. The Works of Alexander Pope. with a Memoir of the Author. Notes....

(yr Cromarly is a very pleasing and interesting book; when we look at the condition of its author, it may be pronounced an extraordinary one. Mr. MILLER is, or was, a...

THE judgment which Mr. MOORE has passed upon the Round Towers of our ingenious friend Mr. O'BRIEN, may be truly applied to the first volume of his own History—" clever, but...

THE name of YRIARTE has been extended beyond Spain by the translation of his poem of La illasica; and, we think, by a ver- sion of his Fables. It may be surmised, however, that...

TILE best features of this novel are the goodness of its style, anti a certain elevated tone of composition, apparently caught from a careful study of the best modern fictions....

THIS compendium of the Count B ARE) AC OV I is a judicious abridg- ment of the early part of the great work of Tiasuoscirt. It opens with an account of the philosophers, poets,...

The Musical Library, Part XIII. The materials of the present number of this valuable work are selected with the same good taste that the editor usually displays ; the...

the Whig leaders of the Opposition in his pouch ; and this week he pictures him as the Wolf in disguise, cajoling Lord John Russell as Little Red Riding Hood. Next week H. H....

last week, Part IV. of the Landscape Illustrations of the Bible deserves par- ticular notice. HARDING'S View of Mytelene resembles TURNER, and has equal space and atmosphere,...

Is a collection of desultory papers, written or supposed to be written during a visit to Italy and a campaign in Greece. These are various, at least in mode. Some arc merely...

TURNER has entered upon a task which will determine the quality and degree of his imaginative faculty. He has, to adopt the courtly phrase Of the prospectus, "consented to...