PRACTICAL questions of social economy have occupied a pro- minent place in the Parliamentary discussions of the week. The newest, and in some respects the most important, is the...

present Ministry. Its Colonial department has in :general not been very creditably conducted ; but la the matter of the Sugar- duties all are implicated—Colonial Office, Foreign...

COMPENSATION FOR TENANTS IN IRELAND. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord STANLEY introduced a bill to provide for securing compensation in certain cases to tenants in...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday for the despatch of business. A repdrt was presented from the Gaol Committee, which recommended that a third court should be provided at...

Tiaz Court has passed the week at Windsor. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Duke and Dutchess of Nemours and the Prince of Leiningen, attended as usual, left Buckingham...

Ascot Races began with auspicious weather and a rich programme, on Tuesday. Several alterations held been made in the arrangements, all tending to theeomfort of the visiters and...

procession, at Cork. He set out from Dublin on Friday, and slept at Carlow; sleeping on Saturday. at Fernley. His "progress," it is said, was a continuous triumph s —immense &s-...

We are informed by a correspondent, that Messrs. John Bartholomew and Co., Calton, have reduced the labour of the workers in their factories one half-hour per day, with a...

The Emperor of Russia has just sent, as a present to Prince Albert, three Rus- sian carriages and four fine horses of the Orloff breed; which arrived last week. The present was...

Frikscc.—The Minister of Marine presented to the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, the demand of a credit for reinforcing the squadron stationed on the Western coast of Africa,...

On the 25th May, at Florence, the Lady of George Vivian, Esq., of a son an eir. On the 30th, at Naples, Lady Parish, of a daughter. On the 3d June, at Romford Vicarage, the...

arrived at Liverpool yesterday. The most important political news from the United States, is the report that either Mr. Mason of Virginia, or Mr. Charles Ingersoll of Phila-...

interest. According to the Reforme, alarming accounts of the Due De Montpensier, who was cam- Reigning in Algeria, had been received by his family : "the young Prince, of a...

SATURDAY. The interest of the proceedings in Parliament, whether we look to the personalities in the Commons or the professional wrangling in the Lords, lay not so much in the...

STOCK EXCILLNOP, FRIDAY AFITINOON. The operations in the English Funds have been unimportant; and we cannot notice any change in prices. Exchequer Bills are heavy, and the...

vehement let- ter from "John Archbishop of Tuam" to Sir Robert Peel; beginning—" Sir, The infidel, and slavish, and demoralizing scheme of academic education, which Yon scruple...

Company to make another Proposal. "Dowaing Street, 231 May 1845. " My Lord—I have had the honour to receive your Lordship's letter of the 5th in- stant, written on behalf of...

in the Afercharit of Venice, with Wallack as Shylock; and Meg Merrilies in Guy Afannering. We did not see her in the latter character; but there can be little doubt that her...

TIM Brussels Opera Company are attracting the general public to Covent Garden, by their lively, excellent, and varied performances. La Favorite of .Donizetti was given on...

the long list of her male characters. In Friends at Court—a two-act trifle of French in- trigue, by an English dramatist, Mr. Taylor—she plays a young Gascon fire-eater,...

aaarvini— At Gravesend, 7th inst. Malacca, Shutter, from China; Camatic, Ilyne, from Bombay ; and Regalia, Affieck, from the Cape. Off Portsmouth, 9th ditto, Eleanor, M`Farlane,...

THE NEW ZEALAND QUESTION. "THE renewed negotiations between the Government and the New Zealand Company terminated pretty much in the way that was • generally anticipated—by...

THE agitation set on foot by the Times in the North of Scotland has already told in the House of Commons. An Irish gentle- man representing an English borough, and an English...

CHURCH. Tan Maynooth grant we hold to be defensible on its merits : but from such arguments we are precluded, as well as from the cor- responding arguments against it ; for it...

To those who remember the Cameronian antipathy to ecclesiastical adornments that used to pervade the West of Scotland, "Free St. John's Church" in Glasgow, recently opened,...

IN this country, collegiate and academical or university educa- tion are apt to be used as convertible terms. In England, the Colleges are so numerous, wealthy, and powerful,...

DteLoltAcy, A Residence at the Court of London; comprising Incidents, Official and Personal, from 1819 to 1825; amongst the former, Negotiations on the Oregon Territory, and...

SO far as the first volume of Mr. Anderson's work is in question, The History of the Church of Ely/kind in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire is less a...

Tam eighth volume of Miss Strickland's Lives of the English Queens does not greatly differ from its predecessors in general character. There is the same agreeable research and...

.APPEARS to be a dual work ; the traveller furnishing the "notes," and Miss Plumley contributing the "remarks, reflections, or opinions." Whether the lady accompanied the party...

from June 6th to June 12th. BOOKS. A Residence at the Court of London; comprising Incidents, Official and Personal, from 1819 to 1825: among the former, Negotiations on the...

SIXTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT—MONDAY JUNE 9. PART I. Slufbnia in C sharp minor G. A. Macfarren. Ballade, "Dee Wringers Finch," Herr Pischek, Pianoforte E Gbligato, Mr....

Tuesday, June 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Baker and Young, Gravesend, butchers—Busterd and Rhodes, Hahne, brIcklayer*.- Davis and Tuckett. Bristol, tea-dealers—Cocksbutt and...

WAR-OFFICE, June 13.-15th Foot—Lieut. G. Towel', from half-pay of the 8th Light Drags. to be Lieut. vice Sewell, appointed Adjt. • Ensign W. D. llague to be Lieut. by purchase,...

B B. I T I El IC FUNDS. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account . 3 per Cents Reduced 35 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 Exchequer Bills, lid....