ANOTHER impediment to the resumption of the proceedings in the Congress at Vienna has occurred : early in the week it was under- stood that the Russian plenipotentiary would not...

the past by a memoir issued, under the sanction of the French Government, in the Moniteur. It is to a certain extent a plain account, very con- sistent with the less perfect...

in the fashionable West, and again the church of St. Paul's Knights- bridge is the scene. There have been two acts to the new tragi- comedy. First, under the auspices of Mr....

Russian pleni- potentiaries receive their instructions to proceed for peace or war, our ally the Emperor of the French will pass by Boulogne and Dover from the Tuileries to...

THE Court newsman records nothing beyond the usual out-door exercises, riding, driving, and walking, which Queen Victoria and her husband de- light in, away from the smoke and...

The annual Easter banquet at the Mansionhouse, on Monday, was attended by the Duke of Cambridge, but only by one Cabinet Minister, Sir George Lewis. The other guests included...

The Kilmarnock reelection of Mr. Bouverie, the new Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on Saturday last, passed without opposition. Mr. Bouverie was proposed by Provost Donald...

The Liberal electors of Northampton entertained, on Wednesday, their two representatives, Mr. Vernon Smith and Mr. Rallies Currie ; and Earl Fitzwilliam presided on the...

There has been a sharp contest for the seat at Cavan, vacated by the appointment of Sir John Young to the Viceroyship of the Ionian Islands. The candidates were Mr. Hughes, a...

FRANCE.—The Moniteur of Wednesday contained a long memoir, ap- parently published with the view of justifying the operations of the Allies in the eyes of the French nation. It...

Any uncertainty which existed last week regarding the position of Lord Harrowby in the Ministry has been removed by his presence at each sitting of the Cabinet Council. Mr....

intelli- gence has been received here. Nothing new had taken place at Sebastopol up to the 4th instant inclusive.' " " Vienna, Friday Evening, April 13.—Considerable difference...

SATURDAY. The announcement of a Government Loan, made yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has taken no one by surprise ; it has only satisfied the expectation and...

Royer and Mr. Edington the Master of the Tiger, for the loss of that ship near Odessa. All the other officers have been acquitted. The case for the prose- cution closed...

The Royal Italian Opera opened on Thursday, very quietly, and with little of the stir and bustle which wont to attend the commencement of the opera season. It was like the...

"common things." He addresses it to the Schoolmasters and School- mistresses of Hampshire and Wiltshire ; and illustrates his teaching by the deficiency in resource and...

to this country, definitively fixed for Monday next, will continue during the ensuing week. The Imperial visitors will pass from Boulogne to Dover in the new steam corvette...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A settled belief amongst the operators in the Public Funds that the ex- penditure for the current year is to be met by a new Loan has...

Business will be resumed with the Miscellaneous Estimates, eighteen Ministerial Bills and thirty-two Non-Ministerial, to discuss and dispose of. This is exclusive of the six...

The Earl of Harrowby, Chief Baron Pigot, Dr. Mountifort Longfield, Dr. Travers Twiss, and Mr. James O'Ferrall, were the Commissioners appointed in 1853 to inquire into the...

or less comical than heretofore, yet they live on, and whenever the season of winter festivity arrives they are sure to find a good handsome stage fitted for the demon- stration...

have at length arrived at a stage in our doings, or rather mis- doings, and reflections thereon, which has brought men whose opinions in other matters are of the most varied...

London, 11th April 1856. SIR—In a letter inserted in the Spectator of the 7th instant, Dr. John Davy makes some remarks on the evidence given by Dr. Andrew Smith be- fore Mr....

CHARCOAL POWDER AS A DISINFECTANT. Oxford and Cambridge Club, 6th April 1855. Sin—Since I wrote to you on the letter of Dr. Davy, which stated that quicklime intended to be...

Newcastle, 10th April 1855. Sin—Whatever Mr. Baron Alderson chose to say to the jury the other day at Warwick Assizes, there is no doubt that Mr. S. C. Hall occupied the...

BRITISH ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEY. SHOULD the Conference at Vienna proceed, the settlement will be slow work; and the hinderanee in that final settlement will come not from...

TEE clamour raised just now for " promotion by merit" as a sub- stitute for promotion by several of the other means now in use, which are the object of particular...

TEE sound of the cannon in the East, and the dilatory pleas of diplomatists at Vienna, have not been able entirely to arrest the progress of improvement amongst ourselves; and...

THE appointment of officers for hereditary reasons or for personal favour is not peculiar to this country. We find an admirable spe- cimen of it in the practice of an ally for...

THE notice given by Mr. Adderley for Monday . next is one that re- quires grave consideration both of the reasons in furtherance of his proposal and of the objections that may...

THERE is no word used in so many senses as " gentleman," or in so many non-senses. Lord Palmerston fell into a lax use of it, while professing to use it very accurately, in that...

M'CIILLAGIE'S MEMOIRS OF BREIT.. RICHARD LeLoit SHE was a political adventurer, , of the elm which Dryden described as " haranguers of the throng, That sought to get...

THE Reverend Robert Everest is a democratic parson, who having a strong natural turn for liberty, equality, and fraternity, has acquired that freedom of comment which the East...

THERE is as much of matter, thought, and variety of subject in Philip Lancaster, as is often found in half-a-dozen novels or vo- lumes of sketches. It stops short of being a...

Boon. - • An Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History. By the Right Honourable Sir George Cornwall Lewis. In two volumes. Essays on the Spirit of the _Inductive...

Easter is signalized at the Polytechnic by the commencement of a nar- rative, Joe-Millerized, and dioramic entertainment called "Sam Slick at Home and Abroad, with Sparks and...

ORIENTAL PICTURES BY MR. SEDDON. Mr. Thomas Seddon, an artist whose name has been known within the last two or three years by pictures of some mark exhibited at the Royal...

On the 10th March, at Port Royal, Jamaica, the Lady of Commodore Henderson, of a son. On the 3d April, in Marmion Place, Southsea, the Wife of the Rev. Charles Rich- mond...

WAR-OFFICE, April 10.-Royal Regiment of Horse Guards-Regimental Corporal- Major E. Hay ward to be Cornet without purchase. 2d Dragoon Guards-Lieut. J. H. King, from the 1st West...

Tuesday, April 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Garton and Stewart, Rotherhithe-Shield and Co. Langley, Northumberland, lead-ore-smelters-Tayleur and Co. Liverpool-Crowdy and...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Solara. Monday. Faraday Wedges. Thum Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 93 1 921 921 91 911 911 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 921 921 91...