AGAIN a vast amount of business has been pressed forward in both Houses of Parliament; the legislative activity extending over a great range of subjects, amid which, however,...

PRINCIPAL BEEFINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF LORDS. .31091day, June 8. Mr. Sheddon's Case ; Earl Grey's Motion negatived. Tuesday, June 9. Mutinies in India ; Lord Ellenborough's...

Tree QIFEEN held a drawingroom at St. James's Palace on Saturday. The attendance was very large ; it is estimated at two thousand persons. In the evening, her Majesty and the...

A very large deputation of English and Irish Roman Catholics, including many Peers and Members of Parliament, waited on Lord Palmerston on Monday, to urge on him the propriety...

Apropos to the publication of the Life of George Stephenson, preparations have just been made for the preservation of a memento of his skill—the first locomotive engine...

Irantr.—The activity of electoral France seems to have been rather stimulated than checked by M. Billault's circular. There is a very considerable amount of opposition, with...

The date of the Queen's visit to Manchester, and other details, are now published on "authority." "The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Prince of...

SAT17RDAY. In the House of Lords last night, there was a considerable discussion on the well-worn question of secondary punishments. It arose on the motion for going into...

The performance of lion Giovanni at Her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday, did a great deal more than furnish "the agreeable change" that we anticipated last week ; for the...

THE POLITICAL STAGNATION. For.rrremes anticipated uncommon activity at this period of the present year. It is usually a time of movement in the political world, because...

SMILES'S LIFE OF GEORGE STEP]IENSON. * Lrgn many men of robust and manly character but humble origin, the great railway engineer had a turn for talking of his early poverty and...

History of Civilization in England. By Henry Thomas Buckle. Volume I. Memoirs and Adventures of Felice Orsini, written by Himself; containing un published State Papers of the...

9111 June 1857. Sni—My attention was directed a few days since to the review of "The Unprotected" in your pages; but being a deesernaker as well as the writer of that book, my...

THE TuRNER GALLERY. With a very few exceptions, the whole of the oil-pictures bequeathed by Turner to the nation are now hung in Marlborough House,—mostly in the upper rooms...