THE aspect of the Parliamentary sky has changed. The formidable clouds which hung over the Ministerial fortunes have been replaced by a gleam of sunshine. The storm which...

PRINCIPAL BI7SINES5 OF THE WEER. HOWIE or Loans. lifonday, Feb. 9. Courts of Reconcilement ; Lord Brougham's Bill read a first time—The Principalities ; Lord Lyndhurst's...

family, arrived at Buckingham Palace, from Windsor Castle, on Thursday afternoon. In the earlier part of the week, her Majesty entertained a distinguished company at Windsor...

The Court of Common Council held a special Court on Thursday to discuss the recommendations of a Committee appointed last year to inquire into the municipal constitution and...

There have been several English elections this week, caused by the appointment of two Members of the Government to higher offices, the appointment of two Members of Parliament...

Mr. Hope Johnstone - was returned for Dumfriesshire on Thursday, without opposition. He sat for the county before 1847. The Solicitor-General was elected for Buteshire on...

The Downpatrick election on Wednesday took a singular turn. Mr. Johnston, the Ultra-Tory candidate, raised an objection on a point of form, which the assessor stated could only...

/tau r.—The article in the alfoniteur on the union of the Principalities has caused some discussion at Paris. The Pays and the Oonstitutianad, both influenced by the French...

It is not intended to send out any troops from England to Persia. This announcement we make with the most entire confidence that it will be found to be correct. We believe we...

SATURDAY. There was a full attendance of Members in the House of Commons last night, eager to hear the financial statement which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, early in the...

STOCK EXCILLSOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have advanced 1 per cent since the closing of last Saturday. Consols opened good on Monday at 93} a for 5th March, and...

Mouday, February 16. Committee of Supply. The ATTORNEY-GENERAI, for IRELAND—TO move the Expulsion of James Sadleir. The CHANCELLOR of the Excuarivro.—To move that Mr. Wegueliu...

If we did not know from our own personal experience, or the reports of our travelling friends, that a rage for speculation had penetrated far more deeply into the Parisian than...

The Marquis de Belloy has written a "pastorale," in three acts of verse, entitled Le Tasse d Sorrente. Tease, having quitted the court of Ferrara, is supposed to be staying with...

II,ITAHE ECONOMIES. Lesketh How,Ambleside, 9th February 1857. SIR—There is a very apposite query in the leading article of the last number of your paper, relative to the...

have to make great complaint either of you or of Mr. Colnaghi. (Spectator, p. 155.) If a gale of prints of Mr. Turner's works is desirable, cannot it be accomplished without...

THE ESTIMATES. THE tactics of "the two great parties in the state" gauge the assumed incompetency of the House of Commons to perform its duties. The Opposition rested the...

SIR GEORGE GREY'S new Secondary Punishment Bill scarcely professes to deal with the subject theoretically, or to rest upon fundamental reasoning. It accepts authoritative...

THERE is every reason to expect that the exhibition in Westminster Hall at next Easter, of designs for the improvement of Official Westminster, will be copious, interesting, and...

TICE question of uniting the Danubian Principalities, or not, is so complicated by a curious transposition of advocacy, that it neces sarily is obscured to the English public,...

THE grand difficulty of the Government moves the sympathy of its ',friends, and it has called up a rather curious speculation. The apparent necessity which lies on a Liberal...

THIEVES may be divided into three classes,—domestic, external, and intermediate. The garotter or the pickpocket is found in the streets ; the burglar visits you at home ; the...

TILE great Rogers question has been solved. The Court, it appears, does not mete the allowance of the individual actors, but takes them in the lump. The manager is paid a round...

KINGSLEY'S TWO YEARS AGO. * WE are glad to meet Mr. Kingsley once more on contemporary ground. Admirable in all the essentials of an historical novel as were " Hypatia" and...

re g ards desi g n and g eneral ob j ects, is a confessed. imitation of the Oxford and Cambrid g e University Essays. The peculiar discipline or no-discipline of Edinbur g h...

BOOKS. The History of the Bailie Campaign of 1854. From Documents and other materials furnished by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier, H.C.B. Edited by G. Butler Earp, formerly Member...

THE BRITISH , INSTITUTION. Foremost among our annual exhibitions, the British Institution opened on Saturday last its collection of works by living artists. The display is at...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 10. Wes OFFICE, Pall Mall, Feb. 10.-Royal Artillery-Lieut.-Col. H. J. Morris to be Col. vice Higgins, removed as a General Officer ; Capt. J....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 10. AninnataT, Feb. 2.-Brevet-Corps of Royal Marines-With reference to her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th of Sept. 1854-Col. Second...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 10. Partnerships Dissolved.-Gurney and Haynes. Maidstone, ironmongers-Farmer and Pearson, Nottingham, linen-drapers-Edisbury and Co. Wrexham,...