, EASTER closes the first book of the Session, leaving it fuller of work chine than many an. entire sitting of Parliament. The coun- try is in a sound, position at home and...

Baltic and the Euxine, still supplies no more than food for expectation. The appearance of a Russian fleet off Gothland, and the departure of Sir Charles Napier from Kioge Bay,...

everybody's mouth ; but there is so little either from the Baltic or the Black Sea beyond the advance of ships or soldiers, that the question really most important is the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WBER. House OP LORDS. Monday, April 10. Sir H. Seymour's Property at St. Peters- burg ; Lord Lyndhurst's Question—Real Property ,Conveyance ; Lord...

lities of a powerful enemy on account of the support which she gives to a feebler ally, those who are enemies of their country, in the desire to injure her Government, gleefully...

THE QUEEN and the Royal Family left Buckingham Palace on Wednes- day afternoon about half-past three o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle at half-past four. Her Majesty held...

At a meeting of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, on Wednesday, thanks were unanimously voted to Mr. Russell Ellice Chair- man, and Major Oliphant, Deputy...

The reports of -the state of agriculture, as given by the journals, are very favourable. ' The value of land is mounting up towards the old war standard : to meet the demand for...

The reelection of Sir Alexander Cockburn for Southampton took place on Wednesday. The proceedings were entirely formal. In returning thank. Sir Alexander entered into an...

At a meeting of the United Presbyterian Presbytery at Glasgow, on 'Tuesday, -resolutions expressing a qualified approval of the Lord -Advo- cate's Bill..on Education, but...

FRANCE. —The incidents in the intelligence from Paris are two ; the reception of the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Raglan by the Emperor, and the departure of Prince Napoleon for...

The news from the Baltic is brief, but important. Some time last week, Admiral Plumridge was despatched, with four or five steamers, to the Gulf of Finland ; and on Tuesday the...

The three new Directors of the East India Company, nominated by the Crown, in accordance with the provisions of the India Act of last session, are Lieutenant-General Sir George...

Good Friday, which is a day of solemnity to many and of leisure to all, reflects itself next day in the scantiness of domestic news. The multi- tudes who crowded the sunny...

day the combined fleets were seen, and so great was the terror, that the inhabitants were preparing to quit the city for the interior. An army of 20,000 Russians were stationed...

with the Emperor Napoleon, and after dinner went to the Grand Opera. In the course of the evening, the orchestra played "God save the Queen" ; and at the close of the...

wages by a revocation of the 10 per cent, struck on Thursday, to the number of 15,000 or 18,000. The authorities, in imitation of Preston, forbade meetings in the town, and the...

during Passion-week is emulated by Mr. Albert Smith, who stretches his legs for those few days before ascending Mont Blanc for the thousand-and-second night ; and by the...

55,2251. Last year it was 55,840/. In the Great Exhibition year, the number of visitors WEB 2,527,216; for the year ending Christmas last, the number was 661,113. The increase...

STOCK EXCHANGE, TH17RSDAY APT/MI.400N. The several events which have influenced Government Securities this week have been important, producing rather extensive fluctuations...

The managers of the French metropolis have signalized the approach- ing termination of Lent by a burst of novelty in every direction. At the Vaudeville, there is _Lc Vie en...

I. THE LORDS, Ministerial Bills, and tlos Stage arrived at Law of - Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) To Select Committee.. Powers of Leasing (Ireland) Ditto. Tenants...

POSTPONEMENT OF THE REFORM BILL. Conarrn or sectional interests, added to the apathy of the public, have prevailed; and if Ministers have adopted that one of the "three...

Isr giving up the scruple which had almost to the last prevented him from postponing the Reform Bill, Lord John Russell per- formed an act as pure and as distinguished for...

privilege of always agreeing with Reformers at the wrong time. In this fidelity to Reform he has ever been consistent. While he was in Opposition, he was a Colonial Reformer; in...

FOR some years the House of Commons has been like an old lady in a fluster, bustling herself into a heat, fanning herself into cool- ness, trembling at the idea of catching...

Loan BROUGRAM is now fairly installed charge d'affaires in mat- ters of justice until the Minister of Justice be appointed ; and cer- tainly this session, if in no other, he has...

LIE Hindoo cosmogony represents the world as resting upon an elephant, the elephant upon a tortoise, and the tortoise upon some still more profound support, not hitherto...

TICE UNIVERSITY AND THE COLLEGES IN RELATION TO DISSENTERS. Oxford, April 1854. The question of the admission of Dissenters to our great Universities is one which can only be...

FREDERIC TENNYSON'S POEMS. ° Ma. FREDERIC TENNYSON comes before the public under serious dis- advant,ges. He has to contend agahist his more celebrated brother's reputation,...

Dublin, 5th April 1854. Sim—Will you allow me to correct some errors into which your correspond- ent "An lrish Reader" has fallen in last Saturday's Spectator, in his at- tempt...

American volume has an interest apart from any quality it possesses as a book of travels, owing to its indications of Ameri- can ideas touching the "settlement" of the banks of...

THE end of Mr. Fullom in this novel is to show the obstacles which, he alleges, the world as now constituted .interposes to the advancement of educated and conscientious ability...

by the present appetite for in- formation about Russia, and owes its attraction to the same cause. It is, however, more readable, and not less useful, than a work of greater...

Boo's. On the Severer Jams of .Heartburn and Indigestion, especially those which arise -from -constitutional -causes. By Henry Hunt, M.D., Member of the Royal College of...

On the 4th April, at Hartley Rectory, near Alton, Hants, the Wife of the Bev. John Taylor Plummer, of a daughter, stillborn. On the 4th, at Stanley Park, Gloucestershire, the...

Tuesday, April 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - Youle and Co. Sheffield, saw-manufacturers-Leach and Knowles, Over Darwen, stone-masons-Southam and Co. Cleobury Mortimer,...

Orrice or ORDNANCE, April 10.-Corps of Royal Engineers-Lieut.-Col. H. J.' Savage to be Col. vice R. Jones, deceased; Capt. T. H. Rimington to be Lieut.-Col. vice Savage ; Second...

[Front the Official Return.] Ten Weeks of 1814-'53. Week of 1854. Symotic Diseases 1,889 .... 264 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 514 ..• ....

BRITISH PUND8. (Closing Prices.) &Hurd. Monday. Tuesday. Trednes. Thurs. IFriday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank...