debated in the House of Lords, on a motion by Lord Normanby calculated to draw out the strongest expression of opinion. Lord Normanby proposed an address to the Queen, praying...

OUR Government has taken the initiative in a proposal, which ought to place the Italian question in a fair way for immediate solution ; the responsibility being cast, most...

week, coin- pelled the postponement of the Budget, from Monday night to last night. Over acute journalists at once discovered that this illness of Mr. Gladstone's was a stroke...

shows that the Government is determined to pursue a bold and firm policy. Lord John Russell's despatches to Mr. Bruce leave no doubt upon that head. Our Minister in China was...

waited upon Lord Palmerston, specially to urge the use of his influence, in procuring exemption of private property at sea in time of war. Lord Palmerston avowed his total dis-...

for remark. The total is big-12,802,2001., or 1,026,4821. in excess of the estimates of last year. But then the return is big. A strong navy, a channel fleet, naval coast...

of Representatives, at Washington, seems likely to result in a reconsolidation of the Democratic party. And we observe, that as all parties return to sobriety, they seem to be...

stacies. Pursuing the safe line of action which he initiated at Ceuta nearly three months ago, Marshal O'Donnell secured his communications with the sea on his arrival in front...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Horn OF Loans. Monday, Feb. 6. Volunteers ; Lord de Grey's Answer to Lord Vivian. Tuesday, Feb. 7. St. George's-in-the-East ; Lord Derby's...

The course which the Government have determined to pursue in China, is described in the following despatches addressed by Lord John Russell to Mr. Bruce, and just presented,...

A deputation from Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Bel- fast, and Gloucester, waited on Lord Palmerston, on the 3d, to present a memorial, asking exemption for...

THE QUEEN has walked, ridden, and driven out this week, as usual. On Monday, her Majesty and the Prince Consort were present at a juvenile party given by the Duchess of Kent....

The testimonial to Mr. Russel, editor of the Scotsman, originated last year, was presented to that able journalist, on Monday, in the Waterloo Rooms, Edinburgh, in presence: of...

Mr. Thomas Fairbairn has proposed that a permanent Art Gallery and Museum should be established at Manchester, and the scheme is much talked about. In the long letter which he...

The revival fever is not, it seems, quite removed. Dr. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, is at direct issue with a portion of his clergy upon the subject of...

f ram .—In obedience to the orders of the Archbishop of Paris, the encyclical- letter of the Pope was read in all the churches of Paris, on Sunday ; and the Archbishop has...

Palmerston, on Wednesday, to urge the necessity of commencing the construction of harbours of refuge on the North- East coast. A large number of Members of Parliament attended,...

has been one of expectation, the public looking out daily for the promulgation of the Treaty of Commerce, and also for the Austrian reply to the Anglo-French propositions. In...

SATURDAY MORNING. Soon after the House of Commons met last night, Lord John Russell laid the French treaty on the table; and the House resolved itself into a Committee of the...

10th _February, 1860. Sut—Among the many remedies against bribery, that suggested by Sir Francis Goldsmid, I think, will be found worth the especial attention of town readers...

and Wardens of the Livery Companies, preliminary to a meeting of the Livery convened this day. The resolutions against the Government bill were calmly worded, but direct and...

A REMONSTRANCE. February 1, 1860. Sui—One of your able articles of literary criticism has caused me much regret. It is not because, being a sincere Roman Catholic, I cannot...

Cannon Street, February 1, 1860. Sea—The " Mercantile Evil," as you truly designate Insolvency, has been well examined in a learned notice in the Spectator of the 21st ult. You...

STOCK, EXCHANGE, FRIDAT AFTERNOON. The English Market has shown great depression since the opening on Monday, and Consols from 941 941 for the account just arranged were...

Inner Tenipk, 31st 'away, 1860. Six—The West Indians did not require to be told by your correspondent B. that the sugar duties press heavily upon them ; nor have they failed to...

STE — Having waited some weeks to see if any one else, in the great cause of correctly diffusing scientific knowledge, would give a good solution of this question, I venture to...

THE PALMERSTON PLAN FOR ITALY. Loan PetarensTox's Government has assumed a position in re- gard to Italy alike consistent with the interests of Italy, of Eng- land, and of...

Tar rejection of Mr. M'Mahon's suggestion for a Court of Crimi- nal Appeal is calculated to prolong, for an indefinite period, the settlement of a question, which was forced...

THE uneasiness continues in the City, notwithstanding the fact that clear-sighted men on the summit of Cornhill see, as distinctly as possible, the causes which have led to the...

Maxus once sent us mantua-makers, and gave its name to a craft; it now supplies a new chapter to the philosophy of clothes. A lady seldom obtains the honest opinion of a man on...

WE cannot inform our readers that the Ministry of Lord Palmer- ston is about to justify , the apprehensions of the old school, and abolish the practice of buying and selling...

FEW events have caused us more thorough satisfaction than the very decisive rejection of the bill, proposed by Lord John Man- ners, for the enabling of Judges of the Divorce...

VEGETATION ON THE MOON'S SUBPACE.—On the surface of the moon are seen numerous streaks or narrow lines, about a hundred in number, which appear, perhaps, more like long narrow...

YONGE'S LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. * A minicar life of Britain's most illustrious Captain has not yet been written. Much material, however, has been collected, and the day...

the attention of the public, cannot fail to command the interest of those who study the sources of national greatness, and concern themselves with the many changes which belong...

Lethelter is written to illustrate two theories, the one social, the other literary. This fact we gather from the conversation of two persons who" fulfil, in the novel,...

OLD FRIENDS AND NEw ACQUAINTANCES, by Miss Agnes Strickland, is a collection of tales of rural life in the Eastern counties of England. Some of the tales are new ; others have...

It is rumoured that a new work from the pen of Lord Brougham is in course of preparation ; nothing less than a " History of the British Con- stitution." Mr. Murray announces as...

Mr. Leslie's new operetta, Romance, continues, with the pantomine, to fill Covent Garden Theatre every evening. Our readers, who have al- -ready enjoyed this pretty music on...

At the present day, we cannot afford to be too severe on the deficien- cies of a little comedy, called Caught in a Trap, which has been written by Mr. Hell, formerly principal...

A work of the thoroughly , French school, called Le Roman d'Elvire, has been produced at the Opera Comique. The music is by M. Ambroise Thomas ; and, in the composition of the...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 7. Bankruptcy .Annulled.—DAN - 1D Rignsatis THEDEGAR, Monmouthshire, grocer and draper. Bankropts.—AuDon CHARLEN Avers, Ramsgate, surgeon—Gomm...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prleell.) 3 per Cent Console Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101...

On the 14th of December, at San Josd, Costa Rica, the Wife of Allen Wallis, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul, of a daughter. On the 24th, at Bagdad, the Wife of .1. M. Hyslop, Esq., her...

On the 3d instant, a lecture was delivered at the Royal Institution, by Mr. Frederick Field, " On the Mineral Treasures of the Andes." A description was given of various kinds...

of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Joazim CLAY- TON. 17, Bouverie Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London; and Published by the aforesaid Ioszez...

CERTAIN incidents have just come to our knowledge which would charm Darwin as evidences of development. We are just about to develop our wine-trade : the cork-trade springs into...

FEBRUARY 11, 1860.

FRO)[ A CORRESPONDEST.] V. THE question which the present letter—the last of its series—proposes to consider, resolves itself into the following form :—How may we reason- ably...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE collection at the British Institution this year, is unusually varied and interesting. There is, indeed, a small allowance of the very best pic-...

The Society of Female Artists has removed to the gallery, at 53, Pall Mall, known as the abode of the New Water-Colour Society, and the long room is filled with a diversified...

This is a work of art rather than of literature, although the portion done by the pen is in no way to be despised; it is strictly what it is intended to be, auxiliary to the...

On the 1st of January, Mr. Lovell Reeve began the issue of a work, ar- ranged upon a plan suggested by the stereoscopic machinery. Each num- ber is an envelope, containing three...

Mr. Phillips, the inventor of the Fire Annihilator, has shown us Wil- son and Field's patent apparatus for the manufacture of "night lights and every description of candle"...

In the Spectator of the 3d of September, 1859, we mentioned a machine for cutting corks, invented by a Mr. Seithen. We have now to notice a machine for a similar purpose,...