ONE thing appears to be settled in the opinion of all parties on the eve of the general election—that Lord Palmerston is to have an increase to his former majority. The...

PRINCIPAL IIII2liNE210 OP THE WEEK. , . Ironic or Lonna. Monday, March 9. Royal Assent to Marine Forces Bill, Chief Constables Bill, Ionian Subjects Commissions Bill, and...

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the second reading of the Income-tax Bill. This gave rise to a long and desultory conversation on foreign policy and taxation. Mr. Manama...

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved for returns respecting the observ ance of the supplemental treaty by the British. As we are so strict with the Chinese, it behoves us to...

Immediately after the second reading of the Income-tax Bill, the House went into Committee of Supply. Sir Charles Wood was about to make a statement, when Mr. GLADSTONE said he...

When the report of Supply was brought up on Tuesday, Mr. GLADSTONE, in a very thin House, moved the resolution which, he said, Sir Charles Wood had compelled him to postpone....

In Committee on the Income-tax Bill, Sir Frrzaoy KELLY, "making a stand in favour of the act of 1853," moved that 6d. in the pound should be substituted for 7e1, After a speech...

The Committeeof Supply, Mr. PEEL moved that the number of men for the ensuing flnanical year should be 126,796. This, he explained, gives an apparent reduction of 120,000 on the...

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, on Monday, exposed the evils attending the trade in opium, and explained his view of the state of the law on the subject. He condemned the trade, as...

Early on Thursday evening, Mr. J. EWART inquired whether the Government intended to make any further recognition of the services of Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch in the...

Earl STANHOPE called attention to the report of the Select Committee on the Minutes and Journals of the House of Lords. The Committee recommended and the House adopted...

Arran her brief sojourn at Windsor Castle, the Queen returned to Buckingham Palace on Thursday afternoon. Prince Albert had already, on behalf of her Majesty, held a levee at...

A special meeting of the Court of Common Council was held on Monday, to express an opinion on the commercial consequences likely to arise from the vote on Mr. Cobden's motion....

Mr. Ellice, the senior Member for Coventry, and a voter in the minority on the 3d March, issued an address to his constituents explaining his reasons for giving that vote. "I...

Great electioneering activity of course shows itself in Ireland ; but it will probably not be found so profitable an investment as formerly for enterprising place-hunters. The...

ABINGDON. Major Reed retiree, as he intends to contest Finsbury. Mr. J. T. Norris, a London Common Councilman, is a Liberal candidate. Mr. H. D. Burr, late High Sheriff of...

ITIIIIIT—The Government has met with a check from a quarter where it mi g ht have been least expected—the Council of State. At a meeting of that body on the 6th instant, the...

The Earl of Elgin has accepted the office of Plenipotentiary to the Court of relit', and will proceed on his arduous mission as soon as he has been made sufficiently acquainted...

SATURDAY. In the House of Lords, last night, the Earl of CLANRICARDE moved for some correspondence connected with the Persian war. This gave the Earl of MALMEABDRY an...

The playgoing world of the West-end is at this moment occupied in rubbing its eyes, that it may recover completely from the dazzle of Thursday last, when, amid the acclamations...

THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. NEWER since the Reform Act has a general election presented to the constituencies an issue in one sense so simple, in another so obscure and...

MR. &Enna LEFETRE will stand conspicuous in the list of Presidents of the House of Commons, for the very high position which he takes on retiring,—a position undoubtedly...

A PARAGRAPH in the papers tells us, on the authority of "a letter from St. Petersburg," that the Count de Willy, who is quite domesticated in the country of his Russian bride,...

WHEW Lord Shaftesbury proposed to arraign the East India Company before the Judges of the United Kingdom, asking whether the cultivation of opium is not a breach of the East...

Tim Chinese are a wonderful people for the exquisite good sense of their propositions and the surprising results in practice. In a letter to the Registrar-General, published in...

A num, tract,* one of a series giving an account by Mr. John Frost of his experiences as a convict in Van Diemen's Land, forms a remarkable appendix to the blue-books on...

FROM THE LONDON 0AaRTTE, MARCH 10. WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, March 10.-Cocafry--Royal Regiment of Horse Guards -M. B. B. Adderley, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sir S. P....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARGIN 10. Partnerships .1)188o:red.-Norton and Co. Sheffield, iron-founders; as far as regards '1'. Ward jun.-II. foal T. Croseley, Manchester...

MARCH 14, 1857. BOOKS. GOODRICH'S RECOLLECTIONS OP A LIFETIME.. A PERUSAL of these bulky volumes does not sustain the expectation which a cursory inspection raised. There are...

Booxs. THE circumstances of the time render Sir John Bowring's book on Siam the most remarkable publication of the week ; and the most attractive part of that book is the...