OF one of the evils of war, for us who live at home—its tendency to obstruct the progress of social improvement—we had a foretaste last week in the virtual loss of the new Re-...

last Sir Charles Napier took leave of the London public in a banquet at the Reform Club, distinguished among such banquets by the occasion, by the union of the French and...

somewhat changed since our last survey ; Prussia from her position as one of the Five Powers, Denmark and Sweden from their geo- graphieal position, attracting peculiar...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. House or Longs. Monday, March 6. Criminal Law Consolidation ; Question by Lord St. Leonards. Tueadaz i March 7. No business of importance....

A Party of the Reform Club, nearly two hundred in number, gave a farewell dinner to Sir Charles Napier on Tuesday, in the coffeeroom of the clubhouse, decorated with British,...

THE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. She gave audience to Sir Hamilton Seymour, on his return from St. Petersburg ; and to the Honourable John Duncan Bligh,...

Mr. Bright addressed another meeting—a thin one—of his electioneer- ing committee, in the Town-hall of Manchester, on Monday. His argu- ment was, that Lord John Russell was in...

Captain Maxwell, Member for Cavan, has informed his constituents that he has been ordered to join his regiment, the Fifty-ninth, under orders for war service in the East. He...

All the seaports are anticipating a complimentary visit from the Rus- sians. Leith harbour is undefended ; but by the erection of a battery on Inchkeith Island, at a cost of...

FRANCE.—M„ Bineau, the Minister of Finance, has presented a brief report to the Emperor, showing that the charges on the treasury having been augmented by the armaments ordered,...

Throughout the week the greatest exertions have been made to put the first division of the Baltic fleet in readiness for * sea; the mild weather and the reports of the...

Further examinations have been made before the Committee investi- gating the charges of corruption against Irish Members. Mr. Kane, soli- citor to Mr. Howley, has been again...

was to have been the Government plan for University Reform ; but in consequence of the indisposition of Lord John Russell, that business did not come on, and the House made a...

SATURDAY. The first division of the Baltic fleet is ready for sea—indeed, may have sailed before these pages reach our nearest readers. Portsmouth is crammed to excess, and the...

While voluntary communications continue to grow upon us, we experience increas- ing difficulty in making room for any but the shortest, during the session of Parliament. " E....

in the re- presentation of Westmoreland. The Alderman was not only a Conserva- tive, but a Protectionist to the last-one of the "fifty-three old iron can- non-balls" of November...

English Tories, that Ministers were fully aware of the views of Russia at an early period preceding Prince Menschikoff's mission. The Emperor Ni- cholas had spontaneously...

STOCK EXCHANGE ' FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions in Government Securities have been more numerous during the present than the preceding week, and prices have taken a wider...

DURING THE WEEK ENDING MARCH IL House of Commons. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. By whom introduced. Stage arrived at. Exchequer Bills ri l , e i50,0001 Mr. Gladstone. Read a first...

After sundry little attempts at originality, our managers find them- selves driven back to their established source of novelty—the theatres of Paris. The trifling splutter about...

THE TWO FLAGS. "IT is best," says Mrs. Malaprop, "to begin with a little aver- sion"; and from an nn pleasing commencement it would appear as if France and England were about...

; which exhibits a prosperous condition of affairs. The number of sub- Scribers continues progressively to increase : in 1851 it was 642 ; in 1862, 750 ; in 18.53, 838. The...

An event has occured in Paris which shows the anxiety of the French Government to maintain a friendly understanding with this country. A military spectacle, just produced at the...

that the Society are adhering to the plan they have generally followed, of confining the selections to the classic works of the great masters when there are no new productions...

Vsnsors historical parallels have been drawn to illustrate the pe- culiar position of our present Chancellor of the Exchequer in pro- posing his first war budget,—parallels...

FATE seems perversely bent just at present upon exciting without satisfying the curiosity of the British community ; and the ques- tions which are insinuated into the public...

IT has been considered an advantage that her Majesty should pos- sess an Opposition in the House of Commons, for the purpose of keeping the Government up to its duty; and,...

GIIIZOT'S HISTORY OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH. * Tins work forms the second part of a series designed to embrace the English Revolutions of the Seventeenth...

opinions about Russia contained in this volume are the result of time spent in the country and of travelling through it. There is, however, a vein of exaggeration in the...

characteristic traits of this volume is the applied tion of chemical discovery to an inveitigation of the cause of dis- ease and its subsequent treatment. The principle, indeed,...

Boors. Evenings im my Tent ; or Wanderings in Baled Ejjareed. Illustrating the Moral, Religious, Social, and Political Conditions of various Arab Tribes of Sahara. By the...

On the 2d March, at Elmore Hall, the Wife of Henry I. Baker Baker, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th, at Podington Vicarage, Bedfordshire, the Wife of the Rev. Adolphus Frederic...

the Official Return.] Ten Weeks of 1844-'53. Week of 1854. Zymotic Diseases 2,064 .... 215 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat,. 502 .... 51...

WAR - OFFICE, March 10.-2d Regt. of Drags.—Sergt.-Major N. Mills to be Cornet, without pur. (Riding Master,) vice Hunter, prom. 13th Light Drags.—Lieut. the Hon. J. W. H....

• Tuesday, March 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. — Evan and Bixley, Worship Street, coach-joiners- Roxburgh and Co. Liverpool, general-merchants—S. and W. Whitworth, Ashton-...

BRITISH FUND 8. (Closing . Prices.) Satord. Monday. Tuesday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 901 9CA shut :14 all all 31 per Cents 921 921 93 Long...