gave a general outline of his bill mo st Consolidating- the Ecclesias- tical Courts. It will e ff ect a most useful reform of an enormous abuse, the extent of which may be...

with- out decisive advantage to either party. The accounts last received mention the murder in cold blood of five British soldiers and two officers, captured by the Carlists...

the King of the French to reconstruct the Ministry, as a majority of the Standing Committees had declared in favour of re- ducing the Five per Cents. It was uncertain, when the...

1. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord John RUSSELL, moved that the paragraph in theKing's Speech which referred to the distress of the...

arrival of Mr. BARTON in the United States, with the news that the French Government would not pay the Indemnity-money. He recommended a prohibition of the entry of French...

the trial of as action for damages brought by Lord laingford against as Mr. Barrett, for criminal conversation with his wife, Lady Langford. Bar. rate had been a tutor in Lord...

Mr King took a ride to Windsor Castle on Monday, attended by Sir Benjamin Stephenson ; and on Tuesday their Majesties and suite returned to Brighton. The King's birth-day is to...

The Common Council had a meeting yesterday ; when it was resolved to wait for the Report of the Corporation Commissioners, and the Ministerial measure founded on it, before...

Distressed Irish Clergy was held on Wednesday, when nn additional 20,000!. was directed to be remitted to the Archbishop of Armagh. The receipts up to that day were 109,4001....

Ilutt, Scholefield, A glionby, Sir William Molesworth, Colonel Thompson, and several other Members of Parliament, with Dr. Birkbeck ut their head, visited Lord Melbourne and Mr....

ignored the bill of indictment against the Reverend Mr. Campbell, minister of Tottenham Court Road Chapel, for an a5s:iiiit, which was alleged to have been committed on another...

Lord William Bentinck has accepted the invitation of the Glasgow Reformers, and is now a candidate, with the certainty of being elected, for the representation of that city. His...

Tues- day, under the direction of the Lord Chancellor, to inquire into the state of mind of Viscountess Kirkwall, mother of Lord Orkney and Captain Fitzmaurice, who instituted...

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has been elected Recorder of Oxford, in opposition to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, by a majority of 10 to 16. On the night of the 8th instant, at half-past ten...

was to have been the Tory candidate for the representation of that borough, has cut the connexion, and refused to have any thing to do with " the faction," whose proceedings...

mander-in- Chief of the Islands of Dominica, Antigua, and St. Kitts ; seat of Government at Dominica. The Standard is indignant at the (rumoured) appointment of Dr. Hampden to...

of the Liberal leaders, is rapidly filling up its ranks. Many hundreds are already enrolled.

to learn that Mr. WARD, the active and useful Member for St. Alban's, has been obliged to leave town, in consequence of the severe illness of Mrs. WARD and three of his children.

on Friday night from the Carlton Club, he declared that he would not return to it; and we know that he immediately set off for Strathfieldsay, and that on Saturday his domestic...

and other matters. at the last hour, has occasioned the omission, we may specify the conclusion of the Review of Mr. Surrioa's Political Economy, and several papers on Music and...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. It appears from the Paris newspapers, that the angry message of President JACKSON is brought to bear on the negotiations in progress for forming a...

STUCK EXCHANOS, FRIDAY AFTF.RIVOONt. The adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the proposition of M. Gouzw for the reduction of the French Five per Cents. has led to the...

chant, Lord Brougham's Secretary, to the Secretaryship of the Board of Trade ; and of Captain Maitland to the command of a flag-ship. We join in the disapproval of both these...

King against the appointment of Dr. HAMPDEN to be Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, has been signed by inure than seventy Tutors and Fellows of the University, and...

The names of General Sharpe, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Copeland, and Mr. Sanford, were omitted from the list of Members who voted on the Address last week : all these gentlemen supported...

at Freemasoe's hall, Lord Manias in the chair. But it is said that all is not har- mony among the expected guests, many of whom are disgusted at the leading part which the...

month, of a bilious fetes. A greater loss to the world, Madame Schrceder-Devrient, the only and never-to-be forgotten Fidelio, is dead. We are glad to find that Lord Melbourne...

failures : Miss HELEN FAUCIT has been forced to prove, what any one who has seen her act must know beforehand, that she has not the power to redeem the mock sentimentality of...

THE prolonged career of music and spectacle at Drury Lane has at last been varied by an interregnum of the tragic drama, that bids fair to be of no brief duration. The Provost...

THE Government, it is understood, has acceded to the request of the architects that the Designs for the New Houses of Parliament, for which premiums have been awarded, shall be...

Arrived-1n the Clyde. Feb. 9th, Northumbrian, Tait, from Manritins. Sailed—Prom Gravesend, Feb. 6th, David Scott, Reeves, for Madras ; and Guiana, Tait, for Van Diemen's Lana;...

ROBBERY OF THE CHURCH BY THE LANDLORDS. Tau Church of England is about to lose a portion of its super- /Mons revenue. Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes that in future the claims of...

Timm is no longer any question about Lord STANLEY'S position. He bad leisure to ponder his future course during the recess, apart from the heat of Parliamentary contention, free...

OUR Colonial empire extends over some forty communities in different parts of the world, of different races and languages, having each of them peculiar institutions, habits, and...

Court of Peers, " drags its slow length along." Boireau, one of the prisoners, has confessed his guilt, and told all he knows or pretends to know about his accomplices; but...

Memoirs of the Life. Works. and Correspondence of Sir Wilnim Temple, Bart. By the Right Honourable Thomas I'eiegrine Courtenay. In 2 vols. Longman and Cu. FICTMN. The...

TEMPLE. Issa person has but a scanty acquaintance with Engli,11 litera- ture, he is - familiar with the name of Sir WILLIast TEMPLE ; if he is in the habit of looking at...

THE author of this novel tells her readers, in a postscript, that it is the first essay of a lad)', and that it depends on them if it be the last. Should her future course...

PERIIA PS the old notion of the supreme power of Chance or Fate might have been the result of long and profound observation, which, looking upon life, and seeing that the...

Medical books, to which we will endeavour to pay due attention ; together with Dr. DAVY'S Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy. In 2 vols. Sketches by " Boz," illustrative of Every-day...

Botany, (LARDNER'S Cabinet Cyclopsedia, No. 75,) is a well-arranged, learned, and scientific treatise, alike useful to the superficial reader or the botanical student. By...

Evenings Abroad, by the author of "Sketches of Corfu," is a .charming little volume,—a eery agreeable mixture of prose and verse, description and reflection, narrative,...

of New York in the current volume of the Family Library, with four capital illustrations by GEORGE 'CRUIKSHANK. As regards text, the volume is as neat as could be wished ; but a...

the youthful mind, and which tend more to foster our national spirit for the sea, than the narratives of the voyages and adven- tures of the old navigators, ere science and...

us. The most important of which is a second edition of the Reverend T. S. Geterseawe's Life and Works of Cowper ; " more than twenty thousand volumes" (meaning, we presume, 2500...

Tracts are before us; all of' them being reprints from American publications. Their titles are No. 10. VelteLascx's Discourse on the Right Moral Influence and Use of Liberal...

together with a Plan to Pro- vide Seamen for the Navy without Impressment, is a tract, not without ingenuity, and some of the remarks display the results of experience. But the...